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CARDINAL WOISEY is, perhaps, the most not able person ever placed in the stocks. It is recorded that, at the time he was incumbent at Lymington, near Yeovil, during the village feast he had made too free with the glass, and the condition of the minister coming under the no tice of Sir Amias Poulett, a strict moralist, he ordered him to be put in the stocks, which was accordingly done. FACETIÆ.

THE law cannot be easily overthrown, and yet the general run of judges find little difficulty in laying it down. JUDGE (to witness) : It seems as if you were not telling the whole truth. VITNKSS : Excuse me, judge, I am telling much more than the truth. JUDGE RAY BEAN of Langtry, Texas, was once trying a Mexican for stealing a horse, and his charge to the jury was one of the shortest on record : " Gentlemen of the jury, thar's a greaser in the box, and a hoss missing; you know your duty! " And they did. "You wish to be relieved from jury duty, but you haven't given a good reason," said the judge. "It's public spirit," said the unwilling tales man, " on the score of economy. I have dys pepsia, judge, and I never agree with anybody. If I go on this jury there'll be a disagreement, and the county will have to go to the expense of a new trial." "Excused," said the judge.

SHE : " They talk about the vanity of women, but men are just as vain!" HE : " What makes you think so?" SHE : "Why, right in the account of this trial it says that the entire jury was padded. Just so they could appear fine in court! Humph!" SENATOR VOORHEES was an eloquent lawyer, and was justly noted for his influence over a jury. Sometimes, however, he met his match among the hard-headed, back-country lawyers with whom now and then he contested a case. A few years ago he was engaged in a suit be fore a justice of the peace, to defend a young lady in an action against a bank. The case was a weak one, but Mr. Voorhees endeavored to work on the feelings of the court. He depicted the sufferings of his client until the sympathy of the "Squire" was so aroused that tears trickled down the old gentleman's cheeks. But the de cision was a disappointment. "The plaintiff," said the Squire, " is a woman, and her counsel has for the last hour touched the sympathy of the court in her behalf. I am glad of it; but I think, under the law, that justice is on the side of the bank. I therefore will find in favor of the bank, and let the record show that Mrs. has the full sympathy of the court." NOTES.

THE wife of Captain Dreyfus, the French officer sentenced to banishment on a barren island for betraying secrets of the French army to a foreign power, has never ceased in her efforts to prove the innocence of her husband. An exhaustive examination carried on with the assistance of all European military departments gives color to the suspicion that Captain Dreyfus's sentence was the result of a fearful judicial error. A movement for the reopening of the case is going on, and there is some talk of sending the captain to Algiers, to await the results of a new trial. 323