appear in a more splendid
condition among those who have known him in his obscurity.

A case in point is a lawyer of prominence in one of the Western
States, who soon after his appointment to a seat in the Cabinet
revisited his early home. Meeting an acquaintance upon his arrival
at the railway station, the visitor, with emotions akin to those
described by Gibbon, ventured to inquire what his old neighbors
said when they heard of him being appointed to a place in the
Cabinet.

The unexpected reply was: "Oh, they didn't say nothin'; _they
just laughed!"_

ALL IN HIS WIFE'S NAME

The late Colonel Lynch was for many years the recognized wit of
the Logan County Bar. His repeated efforts, upon a time, to collect
a judgment against a somewhat slippery debtor, were unavailing;
the claim of the wife of the debtor, to the property attached,
in each instance proving successful. Immeasurably disgusted at
the "unsatisfied" return of the third writ, the Colonel indignantly
exclaimed: "Yes, and I suppose if he should get religion, he would
hold _that, too,_ in his wife's name!"

A RETORT BY CURRAN

The stinging retort of the Irish advocate Curran is recalled.
At the close of his celebrated encounter with one of the most
overbearing of English judges, the latter insultingly remarked
to the somewhat diminutive advocate: "I could put you in my pocket,
sir." To which, with the quickness of a lightning flash, Curran
retorted: "If you did, Your Lordship would have more law in
your pocket _than you ever had in your head!"_

Fiercely indignant, the judge replied: "Another word, and I
will commit you, sir." To which Curran fearlessly retorted: "Do,
and it will be the best thing Your Lordship _has committed this
term!"_

REMITTING A FINE

About every courthouse in the "Blue Grass" still linger traditions
of the late Thomas F. Marshall. For him Nature did well her part.
He was a genius if one ever walked this earth. Tall, erect,
handsome, of commanding presence, and with intellectual endowment such
as is rarely vouchsafed to man, no place seemed beyond his reach.
Having in addition the prestige of family, that counted for much, and
being the possessor of inherited wealth, it indeed seemed that
to one man "fortune had come with both of her hands full." The
successor of Clay and Crittenden as Representative for the Ashland
District, a peerless orator upon the hustings, at the bar, and
in the Great Hall, his life went