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218 jestingly counted him for ten.

Lord

Norris, without looking up, set down ten votes. Lord Norris instantly went,

on with his reckoning, or misreckoning and in due course it was reported to the House that those for the bill were the majority, though, as an actual matter of fact, the majority of the lords had de clared against it.

AN ERROR OF RECORD T HAPPENED thus. Attorney Hall, In re Estate of Nancy Snider, Dictated this way: “In the fall

These are humbly to beseech your majesty, rather to remit your petitioner to their mercies that are discontented, than to let him live the subject of so great a discontent in your people against your majesty, for it hath pleased God to give me grace to desire with the prophet, "That if this storm be raised for me, I may be

cast into the sea, that others may avoid the tem pest." This is, most sacred sovereign, the petition of him that should esteem his blood well shed to cement the breach between your majesty and your subjects.

HIS NATURAL GOOD SENSE XASPERA TED Prosecutor (ad dressing stupid defendant in a law

She put her apple crop in cider." suit) — “Man alive! I should think you could see for yourself that you're a born

Which, when his secretary heard, Although her eyes grew somewhat

idiot.

I should think your natural good

sense would tell you!" — From Fliegende wider,

Blaetter. She wrote it down without a word: "She put her apple crop inside her."

THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK

Rov TEMPLE House.

GRADUATE from an eastern law A PATRIOTIC CRIMINAL HE criminal is generally regarded as an enemy to the state, and one would hardly look for much patriotism in a convict, but in one instance at

least, a convict gave evidence of a patriotism equal to that of any soldier who ever fell upon a battleﬁeld. In the year 1640 one John Goodman was tried and sentenced to death, but was reprieved by the King, much to the popular displeasure. Whereupon the

prisoner forwarded to Charles I the fol lowing extraordinary petition: — To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. The petition of John Goodman, condemned,

school decided that the road to glory in his profession was a somewhat long one in this part of the country,

and that there were too many other per sons trying to travel it. So he con sidered Horace Greeley's advice to "go West," and it seemed to him that Alaska ought to offer a new and promis

ing ﬁeld. He wrote the postmaster-s at several of the Alaskan towns, and the ﬁrst

answer he received showed Uncle Sam's employees to be acquainted with the

needs of their locality.

The letter read:

"In answer to your letter I have to

state that for a town of one hundred inhabitants we are very well supplied

Humbly Sheweth,

with lawyers, as every other person you

That whereas your majesty's petitioner hath understood of a great discontent in many of your majesty's subjects, at the gracious mercy your majesty was freely pleased to show upon your petitioner, by suspending the execu tion of the sentence of death pronounced against your petitionenl

meet calls himself one. If you are any kind of a tinsmith at all you might make a success of that as a side line to the law, and if you have money enough to start a small saloon in connection with the tin shop I would say to come on."