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IT is a matter of congratulation that the recent meeting of the American Bar Association, at Denver, was, if we may trust the newspaper despatches, the most largely attended meeting in the history of the Association. This was a fitting response to the hospitable efforts of the western members of the Association to make the occasion a success. The next annual meeting will be held at Saratoga; and favorable action was taken on resolutions proposing a congress of lawyers from all over the world to be held at the coming St. Louis exposition. CURIOUS bits of correspondence come to us. A not uncommon request, from a new subscriber, is that his name be added to the subscription list of THE GREEN BACK -r- a slip which is easily ex plained, if four " long greens " are enclosed. The only blunder of this kind to which we object seriously is that of the printer, when he sends page-proofs headed THE GREEN RAG. But what excuse can be offered our readers for such a slip as the omission of a line in an editorial in our last number? What was intended to be said there was that the Frazee bust of Marshall was presented to the Boston Athenanim " in March, 1835, a few months before Marshall's death, and some years before the death of Story, which oc curred in 1845."

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LORD LUDLOW, who was exceedingly mild when on the bench, saved a witness who was being badgered about a denial of intoxication. The Judge asked him kindly from the bench : "Did you say ' I was not drunk, sir? '" •' I never said anything about you at all," was the unexpected reply.

IT is related of Daniel Webster and Jeremiah Mason that they were once riding the circuit to gether in the winter season. The snow was deep, and the weather cold, and both were well muf fled in buffaloes. Mr. Mason was an uncom monly tall man, and Mr. Webster, it is well known, had a very deep voice, amounting at times almost to a growl. On the road, where it was not very easy turning out, they met a bluff countryman, with his ox team, who shook his goad at them and sang out " Turn out there — turn out 1 " They gave him half the track, but he insisted upon the whole, and began to threaten, when Mr. Mason began to rise, and rise, until he had got up six feet and more, and, to the as tonished view of the teamster, seemed to be going higher, when Mr. Webster growled out in his most bearish manner, " Turn out yourself, sir 1" "Gee, gee," cried the teamster, " why don't you gee? " putting the brad into his oxen as he cleared the track for what, to his astonished vis ion, appeared a brace of giants. This anecdote reminds one of the case of the gentleman who was riding with a span new turn-out, when he was saluted by a teamster he was about meeting with an imperative order — " Turn out, there! turn out? or I will serve you as I did the man the other day." The owner of the gay equipage, not caring to risk his carriage in an encounter with an ox-cart, took up a position on the extreme right, and waited patiently for the horrid despoiler of vehicles to pass. He could not, however, resist his curi osity to know what dreadful thing the cartman did do; and so, leaning his head out of the car riage, he accosted him with the inquiry, " How did you serve the man the other day? " " How did I serve him? " replied the teamster; " why, he wouldn't turn out, so I turned out myself." A TRIAL took place at a county assizes in which an alderman of a well-known corporation was plaintiff, and a tradesman of the same town was defendant. The action was brought against