Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — Page 8

LEGAL ANECDOTES.

WU®, Witty, and Pungent Sayings of Bench and Bar. The writer remembers hearing of a Sntleman who, not wishing to pay the jal and recognized fee for a consultation with his lawyer, devised an expedient whereby he expected to gain the information he required without the usual cost. He accordingly invited the man “learned in the law' to (line at his house on a particular evening, as a friend and old acquaintance. The lawyer gladly accepted the invitation, and attended "at the house of his friend and client prompt to the minute. The conversation for some time was very general and agreeable, and by and bv the shrewd client, bv hinting and suggesting, at last drew the lawyer out into a learned and explicit dissertation upon ;. ic subject the host wished to be informed „,,on. The client pleased, satisfied, and .filing, chuckled in his sleeve, thinking now nicely he had wormed out the ad- . ice desired and pumped his lawyer free e. cost. The feast over, the lawyer departed, equally pleased, and, both being satisfied, all went as merry as a marriage bell. But a few days afterward the client recieved a letter from his lawyer informing him that the charge for professional consultation and advice was IS shillings and i ponoc, auil would he “kindly attend to the payment of same at his earliest convenience, and oblige.” The client was wild—caught in his own trap; but, being determined to outwit the lawyer and gain his own ends, he forwarded to the latter a bill for “dinner, wines, and accessories supplied” on the 16th inst., amounting to 13 shillings and 4 pence, saying that if he would settle inclosed bill lie should only be too {(leased and happy to settle the lawyer’s ittle bill. The lawyer retorted by threatening to commence an action against mine host for selling wines without a license unless his, the lawyer’s, bill was immediately paid. Do I need to say that the lawyer was victorious? When I was a boy, I heard of .a lawyer who was called up in the middle of a cold winter’s night to draw out the will of an old farmer who lived some three miles away, and who was dying. The messenger had brought a cart to convey the lawyer to the farm, and the latter in due time arrived at his destination. When he entered the house he was immediately ushered into the sick-

It was once reported to the notorious Judge Jeffries that the Prince of Orange was on the pointy of entering into the country, and that he was already preparing a manifesto as to his inducements and objects in so doing. “Pray, my lord chief justice,” said a gentleman E resent, “what do you think will be the eads of this manifestoP” “Mine will be one,” he grimly replied. An undoubted alibi was some time ago successfully proved in an American court as follows:

A Tramp’s Great Feat.

As the South-bound freight train left * this station Tuesday afternoon, a number of our citizens were eye-witnesses of a scene that made the blood in their veins run cold. A tramp was trying to “beat” his passage on the train ana attempted to get on a brakebeam. He missed his reckoning and his feet dragged on the track between the rails. The train was moving about six miles per hour. To let go was certain death. He struggled frantically to get his feet on the brake-beam, but failed. Meanwhile, the spectators •vyere horrified, and many turned their eyes away from the scene. At last, by an almost superhuman effort, he got both feet up between his hands against the brake-bar of which he had to hold, and, after swinging several times until his body had gained sufficient momentum, he let go with his hands and shot out from under the car head first, and landed on his back on the side of the embankment, down which he rolled into a mud puddle. His face was devoid of color when he arose, the palms of his hands were bleeding, and he trembled as if suffering from a severe chill. His adventure and marvelous escape aroused fbe sympathies of those who witnessed tine knock at “death's door,” and a collection of several dollars was promptly taken up and given him. He was a robmt young man of about 25 years of ty* and owed his life to his strength A&4a^iitr. — Ur alley ( Ohio ) Herald.

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A movement is on foot to erect a statue of Gen. Robert Toombs, at Atlanta, Ga. China has 563 books on behavior, 361 of which refer directly to the ceremonial of dining. At Penobscot, Me., a poster announcing a church festival had this postscript: “No flirting allowed.” Dan Rice, the one time noted circus clown, is lecturing in Texas, and is said to receive SSOO a week for his oratorical ground and lofty tumbling. Grace Hubbard, a graduate of the lowa University, has adopted the p. session of civil engineer and is employed by the United States government survey in Montana to make maps. A revolver in a glass case, surrounded by pictures of beats and surmounted by the motto, “Pay or Pray,” aids a Nebraska photographer in conducting his business on the cash plan. Ex-Senator Bradbury of Maine, who served with Webster, is 82 years old, but has a firm step and bears few marks of great age. He was a collegemate of Hawthorne and Longfellow at Bowdoin. Judge Noah Davis was asked to write an opinion in favor of a proposed mar-riage-license law. His answer was: “I believe true public policy requires that marriage should be made easy and divorce next to impossible.” Hereafter all the Chinese going over the southern division of the Grand Trunk Railroad will be passed in bond, and the conductors will be held responsible to see that none of the Mongolians are allowed to stop in Canada. Boston experts criticise Howell’s last story, where he gives a carefully elaborated scene in a police station, but represents the captain as asking the young woman who makes a complaint to him what her age, height and weight are. The cost of suppressing locusts in Cyprus since the British occupation amounts to over $330,000. But the government engineer states that, large as the expenditure has been, it is certain that it has already been recovered by the island many times over in the value of the crops saved. A discussion going on in Boston as to who is the oldest living member of the Masonic fraternity in New England has brought forth the names of several who have belonged to the order for more

years.” Henner, the Alsatian, is one of the few artists in Paris who sell all their pictures for good prices in hard times as well as good. To a friend who admiringly remarked to him that he must be making $40,000 a year, “Very likely,” he said; “I keep no account of it. But I might earn still more if 1 were not bothe. <1 and hindered. These bourgeois are such cattle.” Alexander G. Drake, a colored carpenter of Louisville, is coming into prominence as a temperance revivalist lie is fifty-nine years old, an ex-slave, and is said to be doing good. His plan of work is to secure signers to a pledge which binds them for three months, a year, or for life, as they may elect The pledge is unique, and reads: “I do sincerely hope that if I drink beer or whisky (date named here), without being considered sick, that bad luck may be mine the remainder of my life, so help me God.” Gen. Billot, the new French embassador to St Petersburg, has never before served in a diplomatic capacity. He is tactiturn, cold, and circumspect; he knows how to select those only who can serve him, and he neglects those who only seem of no use to him or who can not be dangerous to his purposes. He speaks fluently on subjects which he understands and maintains an impcrturable silence when subjects arc discussed with which he is not familiar. He is every inch a soldier, and his bearing in a drawing-room is all that can be desired. The old Duke of Cambridge, comman-der-in-chief of the British army and cousin of her majesty the queen, is fond of attending banquets and making afterdinner speeches. He is also fond of champagne, and sometimes mistakes the white shoulder of the lady next him for a pillow, to the amuseincut of the guests and the bewilderment of tiie lady. At a banquet given a few days ago to the retiring Spanish ambassador, the duke woke ap the courage of the late King Alfonso “amid the poo illation of Madrid and other o r ■. si aliens such as cholera ami earth quakes.”

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