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before the local justice there was found in a pocket a roll of bills containing $25, and hidden in one of the boot legs was found a dirk knife. As there was no probate court within many miles of the town, the judge was at a loss to know what disposal should be made of the money. Finally he hit upon the solution. The court took charge of the money and fined the corpse $25 for carrying concealed weapons. — Boston Herald. A Tough New Hampshire Juror. — Possibly the civic conscience was less sensitive in times past than it is to-day, in spite of frenzied statements to the contrary. At any rate, the following story is told of a tough old citizen of Lee, N. H., who was drawn on the jury some decades ago. The case was a capital one, and when it became time for the jury to decide the old man was much puzzled. "Vote," exclaimed he, in great excitement, "why, I don't know how to vote! Who picked me, who picked me, anyway? Which side shall I vote for? " — Boston Herald. Curiosities of Law. — An Australian detec tive died in April, dividing a $35,000 property into six shares. These divisions were speci fied in writings, placed in sealed envelopes, the six heirs drawing them with no clew to the contents. Baron Rothschild was named sole bene ficiary under the will of a Nice miser, Abra ham Fidler, who left him $550,000 on the principle that " money must seek money." The baron hunted up' the relatives of the departed and gave each an equal share. "This, the last will and testament of me,

John Thomas," read a certain document in Montreal, last July. " I give all my things to my relations to be divided among them the best way possible. N. B. — If anybody kicks up a row he isn't to have anything." In a lawsuit at Aberdeen, Wash., over a horse whose death the owner attributed to a man who had hired it, the court decided the animal had committed suicide. Traced by the impression of his teeth in a half-eaten apple, left in a house at Basle, Switzerland, a burglar has confessed and been sentenced. In May the famous Stevens vs. Smith "Cow Case " was closed in Colorado, with a total of $2500 attorneys' fees, plus court charges. The cow, worth only $30 in the first, place, has been dead fifteen years. Rudolph Maher, a Xew York civil engineer, was uncivil enough to hug Miss Gladys Chap man, overlooking the fact that he did not know the lady. The magistrate thought the embrace worth six months " on the island." Because a revolver, which he had pur chased to kill himself, missed fire, Paul Schlardum of San Bernardino brought suit against the hardware company for the price of the weapon. Dying in poverty in a San Francisco hos pital, Luscomb Seares received word that the British government had just allowed his claim of 85,000,000 arising from losses during the Boer war. In October, Mrs. Ella Goltz of Portsmouth, O., swore out a warrant for a circus elephant which had eaten her gold watch and smashed in a brand new Paris hat. A Cologne dairymaid was arrested for bathing herself daily in the milk she later sold.