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THE GREEN BAG

THE LIGHTER SIDE Why the Court Smiled. — A lawyer whose attainments were scarcely of the first quality was arguing in one of the Philadelphia courts before a patient judge. His argument was not without flaws, and at one point he fairly screamed out that if his client had done wrong then he, the lawyer, was equally wrong, for he failed to see that any fault had been committed. "But, Mr. Blank," urged the judge, " ig norance of the law excuses no man." "Your honor," shouted the lawyer, " I do not want any excuse; what I say is excuse enough." ..

"The soda water and lemonade to the value of 50 cents, with which Beach allays the thirst proper to his clime, were inexpensive refreshments, as innocuous as the ' cup which cheers, but not inebriates.' More debatable is the effect of coca cola. But his purchase of this mysterious elixir amounted to only five cents. The bar of soap, worth five cents, is without the pale of judicial discussion. It is true that there was a dressed doll, the price of which was more extravagant. This was $2.15. Beach testifies that it was ' for a present ' The evidence fails to disclose upon- whom this marvel of art and fashionable millinery was bestowed. It, however, appears that Beach Soothing Ruffled Dignity. — A lawyer who is a bachelor — ' old bachelor,' we may pre had been " jacked up " for speaking dis sume — and perhaps the ' dressed doll ' made • respectfully of the court apologized in the happy the heart of some tiny maiden, whose following terms: " Your honor, I retract what lovely face and graceful form brought back to I said, for I find that you were right and I was the veteran and hapless heart of the alleged wrong, as you usually are." This of course bankrupt the memory of features which ' love was entirely soothing to the ruffled dignity of used to wear,' in the words of Ossian, ' sweet the court. — Law Notes. and sad to the soul, like the memory of joys that are gone.'" What a Libel! — "Witness, did you ever see the prisoner at the bar? " " Oh, yes, very A Peculiar Will.— The books of law are said frequently. That is where I got • acquainted to be full of tragedy, romance and comedy. with him." — Ohio Law Bulletin. W. C. Rogers of the Cleveland bar has dis covered that the divine afflatus has found its Preference. — In the case of Macon Grocery way between the musty covers. Reported in Co. v. Beach, 156 Fed. Rep. 1009, it became 2 Ramsey (Scotch) is the following: necessary for the court to determine whether the payment of the sum of two dollars and The Marry Testament of Master Andro seventy-five cents by an alleged bankrupt Kennedy. When he was like to. die. while insolvent, and owing something like I, Master Andro Kennedy, thirteen thousand dollars, should be con A curio quando sum vocatus, sidered as a preference in contemplation of the Begotten with some Incuby, United States Bankruptcy Act. Comment is Or with some freir infatuatus; made on the smallness of the payment, and I cannot, Faith, tell redely, Unde aut ubi sui natus, the cases of In re Gilbert, 112 Fed. Rep. 951, this in Truth I trow trewly, 8 Am. Benkr. Rep. lot, and In re Douglass But Quod sum Diabolus incarnatus. Coal and Coke Co., 131 Fed. Rep. 769 are cited as also discussing transfers and pay Cum mihi fit certius morte. ments insignificant in amount as compared We maun all die quhen we haif done, Nescimus quando, vel, qua forte, with the property of the bankrupt. Nor blind allane wait of the Mone; An itemized account paid in this case Ego patior in pectore, showed that it was for lemonade, soda water, Throw Xicht I could not sleip a Wink, coca cola, a bar of soap, and a dressed doll. Licet aeger in corpore, Zit wald my Mouth be wat with Drink. The court says of it :