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 The Legal World to the authorities a certiﬁcate showing that she is competent in the arts of cooking, sewing, knitting, and embroidery. Germany has an intelligent and practical method of dealing with men who ill-treat their wives. Instead of sending them to jail for a continuous period, as is done in this

country, and thus depriving the family of the man's wages for that time, the German

oﬁender is arrested on Saturday afternoon, as he leaves his work, and held in prison until time for work on Monday morning. This plan is followed until he has served the number of days of his Sentence. This is a scheme worthy of serious considera tion by authorities everywhere. During the period which the German oﬁender spends the week-ends away from his home, his earnings are handed over to his wife.

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In Belgium they place a premium on marriage by allowing a married man two

votes at an election, as against the single man's one. In Madagascar, one must be a father or pay for the default. If a man is unmarried or childless at the age of twenty-ﬁve, he must contribute annually $3.75 to the support of the state, and each woman who has remained single or is childless at twenty-four is taxed $1.80

per year. In Austria a heavy ﬁne is imposed upon any actor who wears a military or ecclesi astical costume on the stage. In Ger many such costumes may be worn, but the actors will ﬁnd themselves in a serious situation if they are not ab solutely correct down to the last loop and button.

USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING Iudgr-“Why didn't you seize the thief when you found him?" Policeman-“How could I? I had my club in one hand and m revolver in the otherl" — icgende Blaetter.

The case concerned a will, and an Irishman was a witness.

"Was the deceased," asked

the lawyer, “in the habit of talking to himself when alone?" "I don't know," was the reply. "Come, come, you don't know, and yet

"Say, w," queried little Sylvester Snod grass, "w at's a test case?" "A test case, my son," replied Snodgrass, Sr., "is a case brought in court to decide whether there's enough in it to justify the lawyers in working up similar cases." —Lippincatt’s. A long-winded, prosy barrister, caslays a contemporary, was arguin a techni case aecentlylliefore one fof theljgudges of the High ourt. e was dri ting a ong in a desultory way when the judge 1yawned suggestively. "I sincerely trust that am not unduly tres passin on the time of the Court?" said counse,“with a_suspic_ion of sarcasm in his voice.

There is a diﬁerence,

replied the

judge, "between trespassing on time and encroaching on eternit ." N (LO d ) — aw

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you pretend that you were intimately ac quainted with him P" "The fact is," said Pat, dryly, "I never happened to be with him when e was alone." -—Pittsburg Observer. A colored man was brought before a police judge charged with stealing chickens. He pleaded guilty and received sentence, when the judge asked how it was he managed to lift those chickens right under the window of the cpwner's house when there was a dog in the

yar. "Hit wouldn't be no use, judge," said the man, “to try to 'splain dis thing to yo’ all. Ef you was to t it you like as not would get yer hide full 0 shot an’ get no chickens, nuther. Ef yo‘ want to engage in any rascality, judge, yo' better stick to de bench, whar’ yo’ am familiar." —Human Life.

TIn Editor will be glad to rzicn'wfur this department anything hklly to entertain the nadir: 0f t/u Grnn Bag m til: way of legal anhqudin,fautiz, and anndotu.

‘The Legal World The United Slates Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States convened at noon on Monday, Oct. 11, important changes having taken place in its membership in consequence of the death of Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justice

Brewer, the resignation of Associate Justice Moody, and the a intment of Associate Justice Hu hes. Th: oath of ofﬁce was administere to Mr. Justice Hughes on the second day, reducing the three prospective vacancies to two. The docket at the opening of the term