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A POLICE COURT OF NEW ERIN. By JOSEPH M. SULLIVAN, Of the Boston Bar. see. This question is a perplexing one. Ah, THE Police Court has always had a pecu I have it! Let me look into a book which liar fascination for loafers. At nine I am told contains the law on all subjects. It o'clock in the morning you can see the cor is called 'Every man his own lawyer, or the ridor shark, the police court attorney, and practice of law made aisy.' It contains 200,the unfortunate client, all engaged in earnest conversation. The Police Court shyster is ooo statements of the law, and 430,000 of invariably a shabby genteel individual who fences against the law and their remedies. Let me look under Tinaments and Heredit knows everything but law, but he is pos aments. These boys must be complained sessed of a very loud voice, which by the illit of for malicious injury to Paddy O'Rourke's erate and ill-informed is always considered tinaments. A tinament is something that ad the standard of a first-class lawyer. joins, and as his coat was adjoining his per The judge has ascended the bench, and the son, it is clearly a tinament according to my hearing of applications for warrants is in judgment." progress. His honor, with a good-natured "Officer Gillespie, what can the court do Hibernian accent, remarks, "What is the for you this mornin'?" "This woman, your throuble today, Officer McGrath?" "Your honor, wants her husband arrested for nonhonor, I've arrested a man for having four support." "Well, madam, what did your hus wives." "Ah, let me see what we shall charge band do?" "He forgot to give me his pay him with," remarks his honor. envelope Saturday night." "But this is only "Hould, I have it. The first marriage is Monday," remarked his honor. "It's the be called in the law 'matrimony,' the second ginning of a bad habit," replied the woman. •bigamy/ the third 'polygamy,' and the "Well.'' replied his honor in a sympathetic fourth 'ignominy.' We shall complain of him tone, "perhaps your husband had a bad for ignominy. Poor fellow, I may sind to memory; it may be pure forgetfulness on his the Grand Jury a recommendation for mercy. part." "Bad luck to him, your honor, he It wasn't his fault that there were any old remembers the day he first met me, the day maids in the country." he proposed, the day of our wedding, my "Officer Duffy, what can the court do for birthday, and the age of the baby when he you this mornin'?" "Your honor, some boys cut his first tooth. Do you call that a bad set off fire-crackers which were tied to the mimory?" His honor acknowledged defeat tail of Paddv O'Rourke's coat." "Let me and ^ranted the warrant.