Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1858 — Western Court Etiquette. [ARTICLE]

Western Court Etiquette.

The Judge of a Western Court recently decided a point adverse to'a certain lawyer. The lawyer was stubborn, and insisted that the court was wrong. “I tell you that I am right!’’ yelled the court,, with dashing eyes. “I tell you, you. are not!” retorted the' counsel. * “I am right!” reiterated the court. “I say you aint!” persisted the counsel'. “Grier,” yelled the judge, “I adjourn the j court for ten minutes.” And.jumping from 1 the bench, he pitched into the counsel, and; after a lively little tight, placed him hors du combat; after which, business was again resumed, but it was net long before another misunderstanding arose. “Grier,” said the court, “we will adjourn j this time for twenty minutes.” And he was • about taking off his coat, when the counsel said: ■ “Never mind, judge, keep on your coat — the p’int is yielded—my thumb’s out o’ jidt, and I've sprained my shoulder! ’^—lllinois , Whig. QsijrTherc are thirty-two pounds of blood i in the human frame, and two hundred and , forty-eight bones. This dona not include whalebone! «