Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — A Dignified Body. [ARTICLE]

A Dignified Body.

Washington special. There is quite a little ceremony for the new member of the U. 8. Supreme Court to learn. A Missouri lawyer, just after his first appearance in the Supreme Court, came out Into the hall saying, hi j a loud whisper, to the Congressman whe ■ accompanied him: “It beats the ’Pisco-’ pal Church all hollow. I thought they 1 ' never would get through with the rig-1 i. maruie.” ' . A At 12 precisely on the day of sitting ’ the justices come marching in from one I side. They halt in a row back of the red hangings which conceal them from the view of those in the court room. The crier, a tall young man, with bristling yellow hair, large eye glasses, and a j short chin, stands np and says in a eoK | emn voice: ’‘The Honorable the Chief Justice anq the Associate Justices of the Supreme, 1 Court of the United States.”

E very body imitates the crier in rising. Then the Justices step forward through the Turkey red hangings and stand in a long row facing the court room. They) wait a moment and then bow. Everybody bows. B- fore the bowing is over tbe crier is at hia song: ‘Oy*x! Oyerf Oyrri All persons having business with the Honorable the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw near and give at tendance, as tbe court is now sitting.” The crier stops a moment, and then, lowering his tone, says: ‘God save the United States and this Honorable Court.” Everybody si's down. The little pfay is over. Business begins. Small Margins in Gold Mining. The Minister of Mines in Victoria, Anntralia, Mr. GiliieSy has calculated that 4 ustralia mined t<? the value of £2,HUbh) was nnnwi iaat- ax an a* penne of £2,358,680. Tbe profit in goldmining is as small as the profit in othsi things.