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with emotion, he said: "Well, I have given so much away this afternoon that I guess I'll keep the old home for myself." NOTES. THE names of habitual drunkards are posted in public places in Kenosha, Wis., and the other day the common council passed an ordinance providing that habitual drunkards who have been posted " have tintypes or photographs of themselves attached to the poster, and that un less the parties so posted are able to pay for said photographs, then the relatives be required to stand the expense. In case there are no relatives, then the city is responsible for the cost." THE American Bar Association, at its August meeting, 1899, adopted the following resolutions : "The special committee to whom was referred the resolution of the Illinois Bar Association re garding "John Marshall Day," also the pamphlet entitled " John Marshall Day," containing en dorsing responses of eminent judges, jurists and bar associations, also a letter of President McKin ley and of the Hon. David B. Henderson, of Iowa, member of Congress, offer the following recommendations : "First — That Monday the fourth day of Feb ruary, 1901, be observed by the bench and bar of the United States as " John Marshall Day," in the spirit of the resolution of the Illinois State Bar Association. "Second — That a committee of fifty-one (rep resenting States and Territories and the District of Columbia) be appointed by the President from the membership of this Association, charged with the duty of publishing an address to the legal profession of the United States, setting forth the purpose of the observation of " John Marshall Day." Said committee is charged with the further duty of preparing suggestions for the observance of said day on the part of State, City, and County Bar Associations and other public bodies in the United States. "Third — That thesaid committee be authorized to request the good offices of the President of the United States in recommending to Congress the propriety of observing " John Marshall Day" on the part of Congress and other departments of the Government of the United States.

"Fourth —That Congress also be memoriali/ed to observe such ceremonies in honor of the great Chief Justice, who was himself a member of that body in 1799, as ш tne'r judgment be deemed proper. "Fifth — That said committee are further au thorized to request colleges, law schools, and other educational bodies of the United States to observe public ceremonies on said day. "Sixth —That said committee be authorized to adopt such other measures as in their best dis cretion may be deemed appropriate for the furtherance of the project., "Seventh —That said committee be given full power to act in the premises and report progress at the next session of their association." The movement for an observance of " lohn Marshall Day " is awakening a lively interest throughout the country, and not only the legal profession but citizens generally will unite in the effort to make its celebration worthy of the great jurist. BK;.MISTS in Hungary are compelled to submit to a queer punishment. The man who has been foolish enough to marry two wives is obliged by law to live with both of them in the same house. THE queer names given to tracts of land by the owners in olden times are illustrated in a conveyance encountered by a clerk in the Balti more record office recently, while engaged in re organizing the indexes. The deed in question is recorded in Liber W. G., No. 60, folio 57. It was executed in 1799, and conveyed from Joshua Stevenson to Richard Gittings, five tracts of land in Baltimore County, the consideration being $1,000. The name of each tract and its dimen sions are as follows : " My Sweet Girl, My Friend and Pitcher," 62 acres; "Here is Life Without Care and Love Without Fear," 41 % acres; " The Unexpected Discovery," 262 acres: " Hug Me Snug," T5>/( acres, and "Stevenson's Cow Pas tures, With Little I Am Content," 22 acres. some IT was strictures Horace uponSmith, barristers who, as at athe class, close qualiof fied his remarks by saying, "All briefless barris ters will please to consider themselves excepted from the previous censure, for I should be reallysorry to speak ill pf any man without a cause."