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PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT $4.00 PER ANNUM. SINGLE NUMBERS 50 CENTS. Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, THOS. TILESTON BALDWIN, 1038 Exchange Building, Boston, Mass.

The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of interest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities or curiosi ties, facctiœ, anecdotes, etc. NOTES.

AN interesting programme has been ar ranged for the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the American Bar Association which is to be held at Hot Springs, Virginia, on August 26th, 2/th and 28th. Besides the President's address, by Francis Rawle, Esq., of Philadel phia, and the annual address by Hon. Le Baron B. Colt, of Rhode Island, United States Circuit Judge, there will be papers read by Sir Frederick Pollock, of London, and William A. Glasgow, Jr., of Roanoke, Virginia. The Section of Legal Education will hear, besides the address of Professor George W. Kirchway, Dean of the Columbia Law School, a paper by Professor James Brown Scott, of the same school, on ''The Place of International Law in Legal Educa tion," and a paper on "Examinations for the Bar," by Professor Samuel Williston, of the Harvard Law School; Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, of the Yale Law School, will de liver an address before the Association of American Law Schools, un "The Study of Elementary Law a Necessary Step in Legal Education," and Professor William S. Cur tis, of the St. Louis Law School, will read a paper on "Examination in Law Schools"; and at the sessions of the Section of Patent, Trade Mark and Copyright Law the speak ers will be Edmund Wetmore, Esq., of New York, Robert H. Parkinson, Esq., of Chi cago, M. B. Philipp, Esq., of New York, and J. Nota McGill, of Washington.

A WITNESS for the government had been er roneously given a discharge as a juror in stead of a witness, and when he presented the .discharge to the marshal, who pays the money, the marshal, not recognizing him as one of the jurors, said to him: "So you are a juror, are you?" "No, sir, I'm a Swede," replied the wit ness. SOME years before the Civil War, when this country was almost a wilderness, and when there was no town of Dentón in Texas, district court was held in a place called Old Alton, in Dentón county. John C. McCoy of Kentucky was prosecuting attorney, and Gustavus Adolphus (Everetts, of Illinois, was attorney for defendant. Charge, theft of a saddle. The jury found the defendant guilty. Everetts immediately filed a motion for new trial, whereupon court adjourned for dinner. Resuming labor, Everetts presented his mo tion, backed by an able legal argument, dur ing which now and then the defendant inter rupted by pulling at his coat-tail and finally said, "Stop it; they'll whip me agin." During recess the sheriff had anticipated final judg ment by inflicting the punishment. LAWYER A—— had a very precocious little girl whose chief fault was telling rather ex travagant stories. Her mother had tried to break her of this habit, and, in some meas ure, had succeeded. But one day the child came running into the house in great excite ment, exclaiming, "O, mamma, I just saw a lion in the street!" "Why, Bessie," returned her mother, "you know you did not see a lion. That is one of your naughty stories. And you promised me