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JUDICIAL SALARIES. MR. C. D. MERRICK of Parkersburg, West Virginia, has made up a statis tical table showing the salaries paid to judges of the higher courts in the different States. Each amount given below is the highest judi cial salary paid in the respective States, if Mr. Merrick's figures are correct. According to these figures the highest salary paid to a State judge in this country is that of $17,500, paid to the New York Supreme Court jus tices, elected in the city of New York, and the lowest-salary in this list is that of $1,800 paid to the West Virginia Circuit judges. New York leads all the States, paying in addition to the foregoing handsome salaries, a salary of $10,500 to the chief judge of the Court of Appeals, and $10.000 to the judges of that court. For second place New Jersey and Illinois appear on almost equal terms, the former paying to her chancellor $10.000 and an equal amount to her Supreme Court judges, while Illinois pays her Cook County Supreme Court judges either $7,000 or $10,350, just which appears uncertain from Mr. Merrick's figures. Then follows Penn sylvania, with a salary of $8.500 to her Chief Justice, and salaries of $8,000 to her Supreme Court judges. It is a close matter between Massachusetts, with a salary amounting to practically $7,000 to her Chief Justice and $6,000 salaries to her Superior Court judges, and Michigan, with salaries of $7,000 to her Supreme Court judges. Next comes Cali

fornia, with a salary of $6,000 to her Supreme Court judges. Rhode Island and Missouri are about on equal terms, the former paying her Chief Justice $5,500, the latter her St. Louis Court of Appeals judges and Circuit Court of St. Louis judges $5,500, and appar ently expenses in addition. In a class by themselves are Colorado, with a Supreme Court salary of $5,000, Minnesota with a Supreme Court salary of $5,000, Kentucky with a Court of Appeals salary of $5,000, Wisconsin with a Superior Court salary of $5,000, Nevada with a Supreme Court salary of $4.500, and Indiana with a Supreme Court salary of $4.500. In a class a bit below are Connecticut, Ohio, Montana, North Dakota, Iowa, Texas and Washington, each with a top salary of $4,000. In another class, with top salaries ranging from $3,800 down to $3,000, are Delaware, Alabama, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oregon, Maine, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas and Georgia. Finally, with top salaries ranging from $3,000 down come Vermont, Wyoming, Utah. South Carolina. Kansas, Idaho, Virginia, Nebraska, North Carolina and South Dakota. West Virginia apparently brings up the rear with a Supreme Court salary of $2.200, but the term of office is twelve years, considerably longer than that in many of the States which pay larger salaries,—"Modern Instances," in Boston Transcript.