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 The Legal World NOBODY'S SON N AMUSING incident occurred in a Southern court recently when a colored prisoner, about sixteen years old, appeared before the judge, charged with the theft of a ham. "Take off your hat!" said the judge. "What for?" asked the prisoner, with out obeying.

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'What for?" thundered his honor. "You are in court! Take off your hat!" "I jest don't have to," replied the prisoner calmly. At this juncture the judge turned to the father of the prisoner and asked angrily, "Is that your son?" "No yo' honor," replied the man, with an appreciative grin, "I guess she ain't nobody's son."

The Editor will be glad to receivefor this department anything likely tc entertain the readers of the Green Bag in the way of legal antiquities, faeeti*, and anecdotes.

USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING A West Virginia darky, a blacksmith, recently announced a change in his business as follows; "Notice — De co-pardnership heretofore resist ing between me and Mose Skinner is hereby re solved. Dem what owe de firm will settle wid me, and dem what de firm owes will settle wid Mose." — Virginia Law Register.

"In the early seventies, I was attorney in a replevin case for a colt before one Capt. C. D. M, J.P., in M County, Mo. The courtroom was in the esquire's dwelling. The room had a fireplace about five feet wide, with about seven bushels of ashes in it. "The jury, composed of six good men and true, were seated on a slab held up by two stones, one at each end. I was sitting in front, on the right

of the jury, and my opponent, one I. G, on the left. The witness box was immediately in front of the ash bed above described. "The jury was duly sworn and one B was on the stand. He testified that the colt was of a brown color, and in cross-examination I got him to admit that he was mistaken, that it was really an iron gray. "W. M, one of the jury, then raised up from the puncheon, rolled up his coat sleeve, and remarked that no could nor should swear to a lie before him while he was on a jury. And 'biff' he took the witness in his face, and knocked him over into the ashes. "B scrambled out, struck the door, jumped on his horse, cut the halter, and fairly flew through the woods. Then the trial pro ceeded in order, and I lost my case." — Case and Comment.

The Legal World Monthly Analysis of Leading Events No very noticeable change in public sentiment with reference to the Sher man act has appeared, but it is at least certain that the advocates of extirpation of monopoly have not been gaining

ground, and that any movement of public opinion which may have occurred has been in the direction of government regulation rather than suppression of monopoly. The hearings in Washing ton justify such a conclusion. The