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IX>RD BACON, in his advice to Mr. Justice Hutton, says : " You should be a light to jurors to open their eyes, but not a guide to lead them by their noses."

ing treasury, and on the other side " (pointing to his client, who was seated in the bar), " there is my poor, simple, uneducated client." "Did you win your suit?" inquired a friend of the plaintiff a few days after. "Yes," was the reply, "I won my suit; but I shall never employ that lawyer again. He called me a fool, and the jury believed it."

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ONE of the grand jury lately in session at Belleville got off rather a bright thing the other day, though it was some time before his col leagues in the study of crime tumbled to it. They were coming through the back yard of the Belleville House, and stopped to watch a butcher, who was at work on a hog. One of them made the remark, " We've just been investigating the case of a man charged with assault with intent to kill, and here is a man who kills with intent to salt." "Он," said the lady lecturer, " I have had such a delightful conversation with the gentleman you saw bow to me as we left the train. He told me that the emancipation of woman had been his life work for ever so many years." "Yes," said the woman who had come to meet her, " that is so. He has been a divorce lawyer ever since I could remember." A LAWYER brought a suit against a rich corpora tion for a man of good standing in the commu nity, and of rather exceptional attainments. In the course of his argument, he declared in a loud voice, for the purpose of gaining the sympathy of the jury : — "Gentlemen of the jury, who are the parties to this important litigation? Why, on the one side there is a powerful corporation, with an overflow

THE bill providing a limited indemnity for the loss of registered letters has become a law. The maximum of indemnity on any single registry is fixed at ten dollars. There is every reason for supposing that the registered mail business will increase, as a direct consequence of this new law. FOUR Buffalo reporters atUnded a prize-fight in a professional capacity, and the " mill " being raided by the police, were promptly captured with the party. Judge King, of that city, before whom they were brought, released them, declaring that it was a principle of law, as well as of common sense, that three kinds of men were permitted to go anywhere without blame — doctors, clergymen and reporters. THE English Criminal Statistics for the year 1895 fortify the view which we have consistently advocated, and in which the majority now concur, that excessive punishment defeats its own object. Crime actually declines in proportion as the sen tences are merciful. These are the words of this interesting record: "This remarkable decrease in crime goes on pari passa with a still further reduction in the length of sentences. In 1895 the number of sentences of penal servitude has fallen from 956 to 803, and the sentences of im prisonment for one year and upwards from 765 to 762." Some curious facts concerning crime and suicide disclosed by these statistics may be mentioned. 283