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A GOOD story is told of a couple of wagers in which Daniel Webster, Tazewell and Gen. Jack son's secretary of the navy were concerned, and of which the last named was the victim. The three were walking together on the north bank of the Potomac, and while Webster lingered a little in the rear, Tazewell offered to bet Branch a S i o hat that he could prove him to be on the other side of the river. "Done," said Branch. "Well," said Tazewell, pointing to the opposite shore, " isn't that one side of the river?" "Yes." "Well, isn't this the other side?" "Yes." "Then, as you are here, are you not on the other side?" "Why, I declare," said the victim, " so it is; but here comes Webster, I'll win back my bet from him." As Daniel came up, Branch saluted him with, "Webster, I'll bet you a $10 hat I can prove you are on the other side of the river." "Done." "Well, isn't this one side?" "Yes." "Well, isn't that the other side?" "Yes, but I am not on that side." Branch had to pay for two hats, and learned that it is possible to bet both ways, and win upon neither.

ONE of the possible effects of the rise and rapid progress of the new woman is indicated in a cer tificate of acknowledgment found in an Illinois case, decided in 1872 (Board of Trustees v. Davison, 65 Ill. 124). A justice of the peace, in certifying the ac knowledgment of a deed executed by husband and wife, after reciting the acknowledgment by the wife in due form, continued his certificate as follows : " And that said A., husband of said В., personally known to me, etc., and being examined separate and apart, and out of the hearing of his said wife, and the contents being made known and fully explained to him, acknowledged said instru ment to be his free act and deed; that he exe cuted the same, and relinquished his dower, etc., voluntarily and freely, without the compulsion of his wife, and did not wish to retract." The Court,

not being so advanced as the justice, held that the acknowledgment was wanting in all the substantial requirements of the statute respecting deeds of married women. IN the United States the names applied to law yers are usually attorney and counselor-at-law. In Great Britain there are barristers-at-law who are counselors, learned in the laws, qualified and ad mitted to practice at the bar; solicitors who are attorneys, advocates or counselors-at-law who are authorized to practice in the English Court of Chancery; serjeants-at-law who are lawyers of the highest rank and answer to the doctor of the civil law; only after sixteen years of practice at the bar can one become a serjeant. Queen's counsel are eminent lawyers who are given by the govern ment that title, and from their number all the judges are chosen. In Spain and countries set tled by Spaniards the name is notary. In France the name is avocat. In ancient Rome the name v/as juris consultes, or in English, jurisconsult.

CURRENT EVENTS. BAKOXESS HIRSCH has given twenty million dollars for the continuance of her late husband's labors for the emigration of poverty-stricken Jews from Russia to the Argentine Republic.

COMMENCING with January i, 1897, the city of Glasgow, Scotland, will cease to levy taxes of any kind upon its citizens. The entire expenses of the city will be borne in future by the income from its public works. The city operates water-works, gas and electric light plants, street tramways, sewage farms and other institutions, and all pay large profits.

A LONDON company, known as the Hot Water Supply Syndicate, has been given a charter for the very latest in the line of penny-in-the-slot machines. It has been granted permission to erect, experimen tally, a number of long columns and fittings for sup plying hot water to the public at the rate of a half penny per gallon. The apparatus ingeniously uses the heat given off by the gas burned in the street lamps. The idea is said to have worked satis factorily in Manchester, and for several years a sim ilar apparatus has been working successfully in households.