Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Caustic Wit of an English Judge. [ARTICLE]

Caustic Wit of an English Judge.

Lord Bowen, besides being a great Judge, was a great wit. How happy, for instance, was the amendment he proposed when the Judges were drawing up an address to the Queen on the occasion of her Majesty’s jubilee: “Conscious as we are of our shortcomings,” said the address; “conscious as we are of one another’s shortcomings,” suggested Lord Bowen. Not long ago Lord Bowen was called upon, it is said, to sit in the Admiralty Court. Upon taking his seat he asked indulgence on account of his inexperience in admiralty business. “And may there be no moaning at the bar,” he added, “when 1 put out to sea.” Sometimes his wit was very incisive—as, for Instance, when he remarked, “Truth will out, even in an affidavit.”—Westminster Gazette. Europe begins to fear that she is losing her laborers and will shortly resort to some plan of keeping them from coming to this country. Thia is the most cheering news that wt have heard in some time, and will save the United States the trouble o: erecting barriers at the ports of entry to keep out the labor that Europa worries so much about losing. Brown—-That will be a great debate between Yale and Harvard. Jones —On what subject? Brown—- “ Should the pitcher be placed back five feet?”—Puck.