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"My Lord Duke," said Bushe, "though you say I am attached to the Catholics, at all events I never before assisted in the ' Elevation of the Host.'" IN an action of assumpsit for work and labor done, the plaintiff sought to recover on a quan tum met nit. The justice, who was as loquacious as Justice Shallow, and knew about as much Latin, undertook to explain the phrase to the jury. "The term quantum mentit," he said, " is com posed of two Latin words, and as you, gentlemen, have never studied that language, it will be nec essary for me to elucidate them. When a man works for another he ought to know what he is going to get, and if he does not it is his own fault, and he can only recover (quantum) as much as (meruif) the defendant thinks he de serves and no more."

RUFUS CHOATE once defended a blacksmith IN a contest over a will, the husband of the whose creditor had seized some iron that a friend had lent him to assist in the business after he deceased was on the stand. During the crosshad been through bankruptcy. The seizure of examination of this witness, a leading lawyer the iron was said to have been made harshly. asked the witness sternly : "Did the transaction take place before you Choate thus described it : " He arrested the arm of industry as it fell towards the anvil; he put married the dead woman?" The witness who was a small man with a out the breath of his bellows; he extinguished the fire upon his hearthstone. Like pirates in shrill voice, piped out indignantly : "No, sir, she wasn't dead when I married a gale at sea, his enemies swept everything by the board, leaving, gentlemen of the jury, her." not so much — not so much as a horseshoe to SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD was once engaged in nail upon the door post to keep the witches off." a case in which Sir Charles Russell (the late The blacksmith, sitting behind, was observed to have tears in his eyes at this description, and a Lord Chief Justice of England) was the opposing Sir Charles was trying to browbeat a friend noticing it said, " Why, Tom, what 's the counsel. witness into giving a direct answer, •• Yes," or matter with you? What are you blubbering about?" "I had no idea," replied Tom in a " No." "You can answer any question yes or no," whisper, "that I had been so abominably ab-abdeclared Sir Charles. " Oh. can you?" retorted bused." Lockwood. " May I ask if you have left off beating your wife?" AT a dinner given by a Dublin Orangeman, when politics ran high, and Bushewas suspected THEV are very proud out in County of holding pro-Catholic opinions, the host in dulged so freely that he fell under the table. of their new courthouse. The other day was showing the building to a The Duke of Richmond, who was then Viceroy, Judge S picked him up and replaced him in the chair. party of visitors, consisting of a couple of minis