Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — Crows Hold Court. [ARTICLE]

Crows Hold Court.

Dr. Edmondson assures us that in the ShetUnd islands ■ the holding of crow courts is of very common occurrence. As a rule a hill or field is selected to act as a courthouse and the session commences. The proceedings are conducted in any way but silently, though as to the exact mode of procedure, whether counsel are employed or a jury Impaneled, no ornithologist lias been able to inform us. All Dr. Edmondson tells us is that after a great deal of cawing the whole court falls upon the unhappy prisoners, and they are promptly exterminated, after* which the court rises and the crows disperse, each to his own district Sh^— It must have been an awful storm to blow away the lighthouse. Cholly—Terrible, my dear! But it could only have been carelessness ; tjiat there was a lighthouse in sucb* an exposed place.—London TitBits. Madame—l have been charmed with your visit, baron. I shall forever lead a good life that I may have the pleasure of meeting you again hereafter. The Baron—My dear madame, do not, I pray you, be too good.—lllustrated Bits. Our idea of a smart woman is one who can go out and make a salad on five minutes’ notice.