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to have some witnesses recognized to appear at the next ensuing term of the court. They were accordingly brought before his Honor, who scrutinized them very carefully, apparently puzzled as to his duties in the premises, and then called the next case. The attorney, thinking this an oversight, called the attention of the judge to the matter of recognizance. "Oh, yes," re plied his Honor, " that is all right; I am a good hand at remembering faces, and shall certainly know them again." A friend once urged Lord Shand to come skating. "It is not," he pleaded, "beneath the dignity of a judge to skate." "No," said the Judge, " but it is beneath the dignity of a judge to fall."

At a recent meeting of a board of Prison Commissioners the following suggestions were made : — "That the prisoners in the jail be locked in their cells as much as possible, that their food be diminished in quantity and quality; and that a minister of the Gospel should be employed, or otherwise obtained to hold frequent and pro tracted discourses in the jail; and all with a view of making the prison a place of punishment."

Many years ago, in one of the Western counties of Missouri, one Jackson Violet became deranged and tried to kill his wife. He had read that without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sins; and he was seeking to obtain remission. A jury was selected and sworn to try the question of his sanity. Col. A was fore man; and after hearing the evidence a verdict was drawn up and signed by the foreman as fol lows : " We, the jury empaneled and sworn, well and truly to inquire into the consanguinity of Jack son Violet, do hereby concur in the affirmative." One of the jury, giving him a nudge, said : "Colonel, that is not right." "Why not? " replied the Colonel. " You are not trying consanguinity now," was the answer. Then turning to another one of the jury, the Colonel said : " Squire E, is it consanguinity or insanguinity / " E replied, " It is neither." "Then," said the Colonel, "we'll put it tion compos mentis."

It is said this same Col. A, while acting as circuit clerk, made his record read : " The sheriff is ordered to adjourn court sina qua nan."

Professor. —" What is homicide se de/endendo?" Law Student. — " It is where a man kills him self in self-defense."

On one occasion, before Judge — of the N. C. Supreme Court, a lawyer, who had evidently before court met been " practicing at another bar," was addressing the jury in a rather excited way, and making rather striking gestures and atti tudes. A lawyer coming up to the bench said to the judge, sotto voce • " Col. A is rather theatrical to-day." " Yes," said the judge, after noticing him a moment, " He does seem a little dram-sXic." NOTES. Old Chancellor Walworth of New York was a lawyer who would no more have been suggested as capable of a jest, than a Blackstone or a Greenleaf. Yet Saratoga tradition hath this : A baker of that village, in which the jurist had his residence and chambers, undertook in the absence of his solicitor to make some remarks about his own case then pending. " Save your eloquence," said Walworth, " Mr. Baker, for it is legal tradition that a Master of the Rolls cannot instruct a Chancellor." John Anthon, author of a treatise entitled "Anthon's Nisi Prius," that, although seventy years old, has not lost its virility of comment or advice to students, owned a bust of Hamilton, to which he gave the post of honor on his office table. Shortly before Burr's death the latter, still engaged in practice, called on Anthon for a consultation. While Burr was talking, Anthon unconsciously and mechanically stroked the cheek of the bust with the feather end of the goosequill in his hand, and then seeing Burr gazing at the action, became somewhat embarrassed, re membering the duel, and threw down the pen. "Don't mind me, John," said the other. " I bear him no malice, and it was my pistol that added to his notoriety."