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the title of the owner is perfectly good, the title itself may contain a sale restraining clause. In such instances, it is the custom to grant a. lease for a long period, say for nine hundred and ninety-nine yearsL’Iost persons are

an’ of thet’s the way they teach 'em

just as well satisfied to be in possession ‘ior nine hundred and ninety-nine years

ter talk in ther schools now-a-days why I’m fer eddication!”

since he got married some thirty years before, and in commenting on the celebration said: "Now I never was much stuck on book larnin’, but thet young chap did make a splendid speech,

as for ever. One of the longest

leases known to

NO DISPUTE IN THIS CASE exist was granted for a small section of meadow land, comprising some sixteen acres. situated in Surrey, England.

This lease was granted on St. Michael’s Dav, 1651, and is for the term of twenty

nine hundred years. The rental was ﬁxed at a "red rose ‘when demanded.”

Why this odd stipulation is not known,

ENATOR X

, who now spends

most of his time in Washington, was formerly a resident of a small town in North Carolina, and at that time was local justice of the Peace and was

continually opposed by a local politician who was inclined to be quarrelsome. This man was constantly involved

as there is nothing about the land in question to suggest. it, no roses growing

in broils which led to shooting aﬂrays

or having ever grown, so far as is known,

and was before the Justice about as regularly as the court sat.

on the sixteen acres.

The present holder of the lease may

The Senator passed through the town

remain in undisturbed possession for some time yet, as his tenure does not

recently on his way to Florida for a vacation, and when the train stopped he alighted and greeted several old ac

expire until

the somewhat distant year

quaintances on the station platform.

$551. A SPLENDID ORATION X the Pine Tree State of Maine the I celebration of the Fourth of July still partakes of features that have been obscured in other localities by boat races and baseball games.

After the usual hand-shaking one of the lot said: "Say Senator, your old oppo nent G is dead.” “Another dispute, I suppose,” said the Senator, “and somebody shot him at last.” "Oh, no," said his informant, “there

warn’t no dispute, he died unanimous.”

There was a large public meeting on the town square of one of the cities this

Year, and drove in

farrners from miles around

to

listen to the speeches and

see the ﬁrevvorks- 111 ‘the course of the exercises the Declaration of Independ ence was read by a Young attorney whose smooth-shaVﬁn face makes him aI? pear even younger reallydis is. farmerthan fromhesome Afterward

a

ﬁded to a bystander that he lance c012ng his ﬁrst visit to the city was ma 7 -

A N INDISCRETION NE Starr in an early day was one of the great lawyers at the bar, but he had one failing—he did drink. One morning he appeared before the Supreme

Court while motions and oral arguments were being heard, and got up and said to the court then in session : “I have only one case in your court

My client is poor, and I need fees which are not forthcoming.

I wish this case