Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1914 — YOUTHFUL DOCTOR GOT EVEN [ARTICLE]

YOUTHFUL DOCTOR GOT EVEN

Lawyer With Hypothetical Questions, Receives Unexpected Reply From Witness on Stand.

"Not long ago," said a' Washington lawyer, “I attended a trial In Baltimore, during the course,of which there was summoned as witness a youthful physician. “It was natural, of course, that counsel for the other side should, in cross-examination, seize the occasion to utter certain sarcastic remarks touching the knowledge and skill of so young a doctor. “Are you," demanded the lawyer, “entirely familiar with the symptoms of concussion of the brain?" "Yes, sir.” “Then,” continued the lawyer, “I should like to ask your opinion of a hypothetical case. Were my learned friend, Mr. Reed, and myself to bang our heads together, should we get concussion of the brain?" "Mr. Reed might,” smiled the youthful physician.—Atlanta Journal. Easily Classified. Hemmandhaw, who was writing a letter, looked up to inquire: “Is it permissible to apply gender to volcanoes?” “I don’t know,” Mrs. Hemmandhaw returned, “but if it is they are surely masculine?” ~ “Why?” ■ f “Because sputter, grumble and smoke.” . Sport and Coin. “Why didn’t you get K up before the referee counted ten?” asked the disappointed packer. * “I was a little confused,” confessed the vanquished pugilist? “I thought he was counting up the gate receipts, and I was waiting for bigger figures.”* —Judge.