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A PHYSICIAN once called on Sergeant Murphy to consult him about calling out someone who had grossly insulted him. " Take my advice," said Murphy •• and instead of calling him out, get him to call you in, and have your revenge that way; it will be much more secure and certain.'' A GKRMAX had been accepted as a juryman. He desired to be released on the ground, '' I no understand good English." "That is no ex cuse," said the judge. "You will not hear any good English during this trial." IN THE West of Ireland on a certain circuit a judge was wont to doze during the speeches of counsel. • On one occasion counsel was addressing him on the subject of certain town commissioners' rights to obtain water from a certain river, water being very scarce at the time. During his speech he made use of the words : "But, my Lord, we must have water — we must have water.'' Whereupon the Judge woke up, exclaiming: "Well, just a little drop — just a little drop! I like it strong."

at a late hour he assembled all the guests once more and unmarried the couple charging another fee. Some of those present objected to this sin gular ceremony, but the justice insisted as he had right to marry the couple he saw no reason why he could not unmarry them, it was a poor law that failed to work both ways. I ONCE spent an afternoon in a pleasant little villa on the banks of the river Marne, with the former chief of police in the time of Napoleon III., up to the proclamation of the republic. No one would have thought, to look at the peaceful fig ure of the proprietor, a little man in sabots, with gray beard à la Millet, absorbed in cultivating the magnificent hortensias that covered his ter races, reaching to the water's edge, that his head had been a storehouse for all the machinations and turpitudes of that period of decadence which ended in a disastrous war and a revolution. It was on that afternoon that I learned how the fatal Ollivier ministry was decided upon by M. Thiers and his political friends one evening in the conservatory' of a beautiful French woman, living not far from the Opera. Two brothers, well known in the best Paris society, meanwhile distracted the attention of the guests in the salon by slight-of-hand tricks and gymnastic feats on a Persian rug. And when I asked the old man how he knew all this with such precision, •• From a femme île chambre" he answered, tranquilly, "All personages of importance at that time, at their own request, took their servants only from my hand." — Harpers Weekly.

NOTES. To the suggestion of counsel ir. Pearce v. IN WASHINGTON county, Iowa, not long ago, a justice was called in to perform a marriage cer R. R., 124 N. C. that the court could not under emony. After the wedding feast and the health stand and properly determine the case unless of the couple had been drunk, it developed that the action were translated into one of the old the groom had a wife living in the state of New common-law forms of actions, and that when that York much to the chagrin of the relatives of the was done it would be seen that the action could bride. The justice thought over the matter a not be maintained, Clark. J., observes, "this minute and finding nothing in Conkling's justice suggestion has its precedent in the physician practice he was sure it was common law and so who, in a difficult case, proposed to give his