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 Rh a matter of the highest personal privilege. In deed, if counsel have tears at command it may be seriously questioned whether it is not his pro fessional duty to shed them whenever proper oc casion arises, and the trial judge would not feel constrained to interfere unless they are indulged in to such excess as to impede, embarrass or de lay the business before the court. "In this case the trial judge was not asked to check the tears, and it was, we think, a very proper occasion for their use, and we cannot re verse for this reason; but for other errors indi cated the judgment is reversed and cause re manded for a new trial." An Iowa attorney advertises himself as fol lows: "Am the legal redheaded Napaleon of the slope. Have no Waterloos. Freckled some what, but temperature steady. Paradise to me is a lawsuit at white heat. Always legally armed and in the saddle. References given. A will ing payer is nature's noblest effort. "Practice in every court in the Western hemis phere; perfects titles, and buys and sells mort gages, makes loans and collections. Am the redheaded, scar-faced, freckled, begrimed Legal Napoleon of the slope and always in the saddle. Active as the wild untamed feline; fierce as a lion and gentle as a lamb, ' and with good advice make war.1 "' Brethren as much as in you lieth live peace ably with all men.' Give me stalled ox." INTERESTING GLEANINGS. FROM Russia comes the news, according to a note in Popular Science News, that Professor Norshew. eski has invented an instrument the principle of which is the sensitiveness to light of selenium and tellurium, both of which change their quality as conductors of electricity with a variation in the light to which they are exposed. " In stating that the blind can see by this instrument, a relative meaning only is indicated. While their actual vision will be unaffected, they will feel the various effects of changing light by its action. It is claimed that a totally blind man has been enabled to find the windows in a room, and after some practice to distinguish approaching objects. The inventor hopes to make the instrument so efficient that the blind will be able to tell almost certainly when they

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are approaching an opaque or transparent sub stance." LITERARY NOTES. EX-PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND opens the June ATLANTIC with the first of his recent Princeton addresses on '• The Independence of the Execu tive," which have been so eagerly awaited by the public. The present paper traces the history of the relations between the President and Congress, and prepares the way for the discussion in July of his own controversy with Congress in 1886. from which, as is well known, he emerged triumphant. C. A. Conant in '• Recent Economic Tendencies '' gives a thoughtful analysis of the changes now aris ing and likely to arise hereafter from the recent al terations in the relations of labor and capital, and discusses the future of combinations, either state, industrial, or by capital. GENERAL CHARLES KING, who. as Captain King, is known as one of the most popular novelists of the day, has achieved a new success in the complete novel published in the June NEW LIPPINCOTT. "Ray's Daughter : A Story of Manila," is second to none that he has written. The heroine is the daughter of " Billy Ray," famous among Captain King's past creations. She goes as a Red Cross nurse to the Philippines, where she is wooed by a gallant American volunteer, who has by no means an easy time of it. but whose perseverance bears fruit at last. A fine etching of General King, taken in uniform, appears as a frontispiece in this number. IN the department of pure literature, the current CENTURY is notable as containing hitherto unpub lished poems by James Russell Lowell, and new poems by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Governor Roosevelt writes with deep conviction of reform and reformers, putting in a plea for compromise or '• agreement," and warning practical reformers that they must not only fight the bad opposed to them, but ignore the quixotic good. Related to this article is one on the need of reform in the consular service, by Harry B. Garfield. The origin of '• the Lincoln Rail " in the campaign of 1860 is described by one who heard the story from ex-Governor Oglesby, its originator. Miss Doro thea Klumpke, the American astronomer, tells of her night ride in a balloon, last November, from Paris to the coast, in unsuccessful quest of leonids; Richard Whiteing writes, with Gallic lightness, of life on the boulevards in his series on the Paris of to-day; and Charles de Kay chats of Hubert Vos's