Decided By Jury

It is uot uncommon for an English judge to try to raise a laugh - and strange to say he usually sncceeds - by affecting an infantile ignorance of all things but purely judicial matters. Sir Henry Hawkins not long ago asked in court, " What is hay?" A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says that in a recent libel suit a strange affeetation of judicial ignorance was evinced by Lord Russell. Sir Edward Clarke read, from a book óf the plaintiff's, a description of Chopin's "umber shaded head. " "Wbat shade?" asked Lord Russell. "Umber," replied Sir Edward. "Yes, but what is that?" persisted the chief justice. At this poiut the feelings of the jury were too much for them. With a unanimity reminiscent of the "Pirates of Penzance, " they chanted in expostulutory chorus, "Brown, ray lord, brown, " and the trial went on.