Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — His Peroration. [ARTICLE]

His Peroration.

The following was part of a young attorney's peroration on argument of demurrer in one of the courts recently: "May it please your honor, this is a stupendous question. Its decision by you this day will live in judicial history long after you and 1 shall have passed from this scene of earthly glory and sublunary vanity, when the tower of Pisa shall be forgotten. when Waterloo and Borodina shall grow dim in the distant cycles of receding centuries. when the names of Eugene, Marlborough and Napoleon are no longer remembered, when the pyramids of the Pharaohs shall have brumbled into dust, when the hippopotamus shall cease to inhabit his native Nile; even then yopr ruling on this demurrer will still survive in tin* antique volumes of legal lore, as fresh, green and Inqierlshnble. The case, your honor, originally coniyrns tin* cost of two new hats and an Magazine.