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USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING Ascum-"I see there's some talk upon the question of abolishing capital punishment. Would you vote to abolish it?" L0gie—“No, sir; capital punishment was good enough for my ancestors, and it's good enough for me." -—- Presbyterian Standard

Old Lawyer—Young man, it strikes me that you are very much attached to Miss Plainwell. Young Attorney-She owns three hundred acres of land in Kansas. Old Lawyer-What has that got to do with the case? Young Attorney-Why, isn't that sufﬁ cient grounds for an attachment? —Chicago News.

A group of Scotch lawyers were met con

vivially at an Ayrshire inn one cold evening last December. The conversation turned upon pronunciations. "Now, I," said one of the barristers, “al ways say neether, while John, here, says nyether. What do you say, Sandy?" The hot tipple had made Sandy doze, and at the sudden question he aroused and replied, "I? Oh, I say whuskey." —Lippincott's.

Two lawyers before a probate judge recently got into a wrangle. At last one of the disputants, losing control over his emotions, exclaimed to his opponent :— "Sir, you are, I think, the biggest ass I ever had the misfortune to set eyes on." “Order! Order!" said the judge gravely. “You seem to forget that I am in the room."

Apropos of divorce, Judge Simon L. Hughes, of Denver, said at a recent dinner: “A marriage likely to end in divorce was celebrated last week in Circleville. A minister told me about it. "An oldish man-seventy or so—was led rather unwillingly to the altar by a widow of about forty-ﬁve. "He was a slow-witted old fellow, and the minister couldn't get him to repeat the responses properly. Finally in despair, the minister said: "‘Look here, my friend. I really can’t marry you unless you do what you are told.’ "But the aged bridegroom still remained stupid and silent, and the bride, losing all patience with him, shook him roughly by the arm and hissed:— “ ‘Go on, you old fool. Say it after him just as if you were mocking him!’" —Boston Traveler.

The Editor will be glad to rern'vefnr this department anything likely to mlrrtain the reader: of the Green Bag in the way of legal antiquities, faut‘irt, and aria-darn.

The. Legal World Importanl Litigation Following the death of J. W. Van Cleave

of the Bucks Stove & Rang? Company, who had so persistently fought t e “closed shop" polic of the American Federation of Labor, and ad carried on litigation resulting ﬁnally in the imposition of sentence of imprison ment on Messrs. Gompers, Morrison and Mitchell by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, his com any was ut on the market and purchased y a capi ist who decided to adjust the dispute with the labor union, and secured an agreement

through which the differences between the two conﬂicting‘interests a. ar to have been patched up. either Mr. an Cleave's death, owever, nor the surrender of the Bucks Stove & Range Company, can affect the contempt proceedings, which will be carried to whatever conclusion the dignity of the courts and the requirements of justice may dictate.

Imporlanl Legislation The amendments to the national bankruptcy act are generally considered to reﬂect credit