Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Capable of Anything. [ARTICLE]

Capable of Anything.

A pert young Scotch advocate, whose case had gone against him, had the temerity to exclaim that “he was much astonished at such a decision, ” whereupon the court was about to commit him to jail, when John Scott, afterward Lord Eldon, the counsel on the other side, interfered in his favor: “My lords, my learned friend is young; if be had known your lordships as long as I have done, he would not have expressed astonishment at any decision of your lordships”—an apology which seemed to satisfy the court.—[Argonaut.