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Intelligent Judges

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Day
20
Month
February
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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on the English bench a judge who is accustomed to slumber or vacantly staro through a long argument, and after his more active brothers have delivered. their opinions, to rouse himself and sa y " I concur." There ia another who soems to have no other idea of the judicial duty than to look after dates, and concerning whom tuis dialogue ia aaid to circuĂ­ate in Westminster Hall : " Have we got all the dates Y" "Then let us have them, too, by all means." And still another, who, after a day's argument, has exclaimed to a counsel " Now, Mr. So-and-so, do explain for whom you appear, the plaintiff or the defendant." The London Eclto suggests that judgoa might be induced to relinquish their poaitions inore eaaily, after they had becomo unfittod to hold thom, if they eam the right to return with three-fourths of their salary at an earlier age than is possiblo now. Very blonde hair ia now called " tho light fantastic tow."

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Michigan Argus