Court-room "sass."

A quick a ml ready wit in 1111 ahnost indispensable endowment in a good crossexainining counsel, Imt the quiokeet and readiaei aometimee Boda hiw match. " Olí, you sfty this gf-ntleiiuin wafl about 55," lid Canning to n pertjotingwoman in the witneu-box, "and 1 supppse now yon oonsider yourself n pivtty good judge oí ages, eh ? Ah ! jiwt o. Well, now, liow oíd áhdtild yon take me to be ?" "JnYlgitig by j'ottr ajipearanee, ir," replied Ene witnes's, "í shottld take fáñ to be about 69. By your question I should suppose yon were ftbout 1(. " Whether counsel had any more questions lor the lady is not reooided. "Now," began another leariied gentleman, risiug slowly from amoug Iuh ■ professioiial brethren, and looking very profound, "now, are you prepared to smette that this mare was 3 yenrs old '." " öwenr ï" returned the stubleman in the box, "yes, 111 swear she was." " And pray, sir, npon what autliority are you preparexl to swear it t" "What autliority?" echoed the witness. "YeH, ir, upon what autliority ? You are to give nle an aimwer, and not repeat I my qiiestio)]." " 1 don't see as a man cnil bfi espected i to answer a (urstion before he has had i time to turn it over. " ' ' Xothing can be simpler than the (jnestion put to you. Upon what autliority, 1 repeat, do you swear to this i animid's e :" " On very Rood autliority." " Then, why this cvnaion ? Wliy not stille it ut once?" " Well, if you must have it" - "MtWi have it?" intemipted the man I of law, "I will have it. " "Well, then, if you must and will' have it, ' Baid the ostler, with delibérate Í gravity, " I had it from the mare's own mouth." A particulsrly vitty reply was once made by n well-kuown English architect, ; who had been giving nn important ion, and whose professionnl statiis Mr. Sergeant Garrow, the opjiosing couiihcI, was anxioiis to deprecíate. "Yon are a builder, I believe," begnn the Sergf'ant. " No, sir, I am not a builder ; I am an architect." "Ah, well, builder or architect, architeci or builder, they are pretty niuch the same, I suppose." "Ibegyour pardon, sir; 1 can't admit that ; I eonsider them to be totally different." "Oh, indeed; perhaps you will state wherein this great difference consists ?" " An architect, sir, conceives the design, prepares the plan, draws out the spreifientions; - in hort, supplies the niiud. The builder is merely the machine ; the architect the power that puts the machine together and Hets it going." "Oh, very well, Mr. Architect, that will do ; a very ingenious distinction without a dijïerence. Do you happen to kimw who was the architect of theTower of Babel?" " Th ere was no architect, sir," replied the witness, "henee ÜA confusión ; there."