Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — Joked About the Judge. [ARTICLE]

Joked About the Judge.

The late John S. Holmes being told, upon the death of a certain judge, that it'was proposed to ereet a monument to him, he observed that it ought to be a bass-relief. Another judge was holding court, and the sun shone upon the back of his head. Holmes whispered to the clerk: “A beautiful illustration of Scripture—‘the light shineth upon the darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.’ ” The deepening of the Hudson to twelve feet, as far as the State Dam, seven miles above Albany, will probably be completed within the next two years. The improvement projected and being carried out by the Federal Government calls for a channel twelve feet deep and four hundred feet wide to the foot of Broadway, in Troy, and a channel three hundred feet wide, but of the same depth, to the State Dam, at the head of navigation. The contracts for this work, let In 1893, cover the removal of 4,620,000 cubic yards of earth and 190,000 tons of rock, and the building of eight miles of dikes. The estimated cost is $2,500,000. Mail matter is sent from Paris to Berlin In thirty-five minutes by pneumatic tube. When we are grateful for our blesslugs, our trials look small.