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Leo XIII., an exceptionally intellectual pope, at eightyMaturity of Insolvents' Debts. — There has three, is felt in every corner of the world. The most inbeen and still is so much excitement in the New lelleclual and successful soldier of our time, the man who York Senate over political matters, that nothing has really thought out victories, Marshal von Moltke, was seems yet to have come — at least, nothing to our an unbroken man at ninety and more years. No men dare knowledge — of Mr. O'Conor's curious bill proposing compare themselves in literary power with Tennyson or that when a man becomes insolvent and suspends Carlyle, Victor Hugo or Von Ranke, and they all reached payment, all his debts shall be deemed immediately the age which the author of Ecclesiastes declared to be clue, without regard to the fact of their maturity or to marked only by labor and sorrow, as also did Professor any credit which may have been given on the con Owen, whose life was one long labor in scientific inquiry, and so has Sir William Grove, one of the most strenuous tracting of any of his debts. This would certainly thinkers whom even this age has produced. We might have the advantage of equality, and it would relieve lengthen the list indef1nitely, but to what use, when we all lazy lawyers from any consideration of the timeknow that the most intellectual among lawyers, historians, honored maxim, " Vigilantibus," etc., but we suspect novelists, theologians, physicists, politicians and naturalists that Mr. O'Conor might run against a snag of consurvive their contemporaries, usually with undiminished powers. In statistical accounts the clergy, whose occupa I stitutional law which prohibits legislation impairing the obligation of contracts. His bill would certainly tion is wholly intellectual, rank f1rst among the long-lived." 1 affect trade very seriously, for vendors would not be This might be corroborated by reference to this able so easily to seduce buyers by the credit bait. If country, especially in the ranks of the clergy and the a man should fail to meet one payment at maturity lawyers. It was only the other day that the Rev. he would inevitably be ruined, for there would be a Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, delivered a discourse general rush of his creditors upon him. On the remarkable for physical and mental power, at the whole, it is pretty safe to predict that the bill will not age of ninety-three, and a Troy lawyer argued a cause become a law. in the highest court of New York at the age of nearly eighty-four. Mr. Justice Field still sits with un A Correction. — A prominent member of the diminished powers in the Federal Supreme Court Virginia Bar informs us that in a recent paragraph we at the age of seventy-seven. Longfellow, Bryant, attributed the proceedings of the Virginia Bar Asso Lowell, and Whittier were shining examples of men ciation to that of West Virginia. This came about, tal power preserved to old age, and the beloved he thinks, and correctly, from the fact that the said "Autocrat" is as lively as his own " Katydid," at proceedings were held in the latter State, as has eighty-four. To the English list might well have usually been the case, for hygienic or epicurean been added the great name of Tvndall, whose life reasons. He also says that "no matter what the was prematurely cut off by accident at the age of president may have said." no such number as 439 about seventy-three. Browning died at nearly eighty, ever attended a meeting, but the largest attendance and Ruskin is almost seventy-five. Very few men was 162, and that the present total membership have ever worn out by simple mental work, and the is between four hundred and five hundred. An worst thing an intellectual man can do himself is to attendance of 162 lawyers is larger than was ever "shelve" himself. At the age of about sixty, a called out by the American Bar Association or that clergyman, the father of the present writer, thus ex of this State. pressed himself: — SHELVED. "I've toiled so long and in so grand a cause, I've learned to love the labor for itself, But in accordance with great Nature's laws I must ere long be laid upon the shelf. I have not toiled for power nor for fame, Nor to accumulate a hoard of pelf, But for humanity and in Christ's name; But still I must be laid upon the shelf. I feel approaching, stealthily and still, Old Age, the sly and frozen-footed elf; He saps the strength, but cannot crush the will, And I shall lie uneasy on the shelf." lint he is still writing poetry, at the age of almost ekrhtv-four.

Cred1t When Credit is Due. — As we are an habitual and careful reader of that excellent periodical, the " Central Law Journal," we are pained to observe an occasional neglect to credit this Chair with para graphs copied from it. The most cruel instance of this is its recent copying of a paragraph on " Widows not Favored," without credit, and putting it under "Jetsam and Flotsam." Of course this is uninten tional, but we hope that hereafter when the " Central" finds our writings creditable it will give us credit for them. Too much Latin. — We clip the following from the "Law Gazette " : — "There is something quite thrilling in the news that a