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old Burton, of melancholy fame, says, that these latter have been known to prove but "evil spirits and devils are everywhere: not broken reeds. A gardener near Montreal so much as a hair breadth empty in heaven, got a judgment for $2,500 against a town earth, or waters above or under the earth." where he lived, and which had accorded to They come, too, these evil ones, in divers the Montreal Water & Power Company the forms; sometimes as grassypillars and eater- exclusive right of supplying the inhabitants hoppers (as the parson put it) innumerable, of the municipality with water. The com eating up the fruit of your vines and your pany failed to carry out its contract, and the cauliflowers. If you really want to know gardener had no water for his greenhouses how to deal with such enemies in a legal and 1 and nurseries, and thousands of his rose lawful way, consult the seventh, tenth and bushes died and numbers of other rose-trees eleventh volumes of that "entertaining and other plants nearly died, and it cost him magazine for lawyers," THE GREEN BAG, a lot of money to prevent the entire loss of and there you will find full accounts (pp. 323, his plants. The Superior Court gave him 540 and 33, respectively) of how they were judgment against the town; the town to be disposed of by legal process when the faith indemnified by the Water Company. of the world was stronger than it is now-aWhile talking about rain and gardens 'tis days: how they were summoned, tried, con well to remember that St. Swithin, who is so demned, banished. much thought of in England and Scotland Sometimes Jupiter Pluvius sleeps like Baal during July and August, was for many years of old and the clouds withhold their rain so Lord Chancellor of England, and probably iong that plants and flowers fade and fall, taught King Alfred ail the law that illus then becomes evident the great advantage of trious sovereign ever knew. the modern hose and waterworks: vet even

THE SUPPLANTING OF THE BREHON LAWS IN IRELAND. BY JOSEPH M. SULLIVAN. THE Brehon Code had existed in Ireland for ages before the coming oí St. Pat rick. Professor O'Curry, a celebrated anti quarian, in his great work entitled "Senchus Mor" or the "Great Law Compilation," tells us in his introduction: "What did not clash with the Word of God in the written law and the New Testament, and with the con sciences of the believers, was confirmed in the laws of the Brehons by Patrick, and by the ecclesiastics and chieftains of Erin; for the law of nature had been right, except as to the faith, and its obligations and the har mony of the Church and people." For more than a thousand rears this Brehon Code set

tled the social relations and governed the conduct of the Irish people. It was like the common law m this respect, it had no stat utes, but was composed wholly of the decis ions of the Brehons. Anciently the Brehons or judges of the several provincial kings de termined all controversies brought before them, and their general axioms were the "leges brehonicae." Whereof, says Bishop Nicholson, "There are several specimens to be seen in our public and private libraries." The most complete collection in his time was in the Duke of Chanclos" library, but not perfect; it contained twenty-two sheets and a half, close written, in two columns, not