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ligence. When a man stands up here and for an hour talks stuff to me that I don't believe in, he must not suppose that I consent because I don't interrupt him. Let the boy be discharged." The decision was so sudden and so uniquely ex pressed that it set Mr. Dana back for a moment, but as soon as he recovered, he joined in the laugh that followed, and we believe never afterward appeared in that r&le.

Here is a curious little story told by a solicitor. He had among his clients a few years ago a notorious company promokr, whose financial affairs came to grief. One day, happening to pass by a stationer's shop, his attention was attracted by a portrait of Mr., the well-known barrister. Mr. was attired in wig and gown, and in his hand he held a paper on which the solicitor's sharp eyes caught the name of his client. His curiosity aroused, he purchased the photo, and proceeded to decipher the words of Mr. 's brief, speedily discovering that they indicated that a warrant was " out" for the ar rest of his client. In a few hours the man of finance was out of England, to which he has not since re turned.

The Philadelphia lawyer is proverbially good in difficult cases. Recently he has devised a way of en larging the field of practical study for the law student, and at the same time of helping the impecunious liti gant. This has been done in the establishment of the Law Dispensary of Philadelphia, wherein a poor person having an action to bring can receive help much in the same way that people in the same con dition of life can obtain relief at the hospitals for their physical ills, and at the same time afford opportuni ties for the enlargement of the knowledge of the walker of the hospital. The plan of the Dispensary is to invite applications from poor people in need of legal assistance who have no means with which to pay for it. A committee sits at stated intervals to hear applications and accept cases; the latter are turned over to the students to be worked up until they reach the court, when the sympathetic assistance of some member of the Bar in full standing is obtained to ex amine witnesses and make arguments. So far the Dispensary has received about thirty applications, accepted twelve cases, and carried two into court — and won them. The improvement of this systemover the ordinary suit in forma pauperis must commend itself to litigants, however differently it may be re garded by the various legal professions that adorn the various nations of the world. — Pall Mall Gazette.

LITERARY NOTES. Hamlin Garland writes in the June number of McClure's Magazine impressions of a visit to the great Carnegie steel mills at Homestead, showing how the work and life there strike the eye of a strenuous and humane realist. Many pictures made from life drawings illustrate the article. Cleveland Moffett gives in this number some further account of the care and training of captive wild beasts, as unfolded to him by several months of intimate study; and the article is illustrated with some more of Mr. Hambidge's remarkable pictures of wild beasts drawn direct from life. A paper by M. de Blowitz, the famous European correspondent of the London " Times," on the chances for " The Peace of Europe," a subject on which his predictions are probably worth more than those of any other man living, is of great interest.

The complete novel in the June number of Lippincott's is "The Wonder-Witch," by M. G. McClel land. It is a charming romance of Virginia, beginning in war times, and happily concluded long afterwards. The title refers to a ring, which had a strange story of its own, and the supposed power of keeping its wearer constant to its giver. The other contents of this number are of unusual interest.

The June number of Harper's Magazine is es pecially rich in popular features. Besides " Trilby," Mr. DuMaurier's novel, which has attracted unusual interest, and the second and concluding installment of "A Kentucky Cardinal," by James Lane Allen, the number contains four complete short stories. They are : "In Search of Local Color," in the " Vignettes of Manhattan" series, by Brander Matthews; "A Waitress," the last story of the late Constance Fenimore Woolson; " Little Big Horn Medicine," a tale of Western life, by Owen Wister; and " God's Ravens," a study of the Middle West, by Hamlin Garland. The poems include "An Engraving After Murillo," by Marion Wilcox, and "Decoration Day," by Richard Burton. Among the contributors to the Century for June are Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton, Thomas A. Edison, Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Burroughs, Timothy Cole the engraver, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, W. J. Stillman, Brander Matthews, John Fox, Jr., Alexander W. Drake, Thomas A. Janvier, Will H. Low, Dr. Albert Shaw, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and eleven ex-ministers of the United States. The subject-matter of this number indicates a number of great variety. Among the the topics treated are Louis Kossuth, Edison's kineto-phonograph, Tissot's illus