One Of The Paine Anecdotes

A volume could be inade of tho gooc Btories in which the venerable Henr' W. Paine, who ended hls long life here, is the central figure. Mr. Paine nndoubtedly knew more law than inany of our judges. He himself had declined a seat on the supreme bench of his native state of Maine and again when Governor Bullock tendered hira the succesbíoii to Chief Justice Bigelow in Massachusetts. But he was not arrogant of his learning, and it is only as illnstrating his perennial humor that the story is told of him, how, when seen reading a lawbook on a street car, a friend said, "What! Mr. Paine, you reading law?" "Bless your soul, no!" was the reply; "this is not law; it is a volumo