An Awful Moment

It is a mighty good thing for all concerned that the Monroe Democrat man located this iteni outside the county : "While a Lenawee lawyer n-as recently earning his fee by the sweat of liis Jaw in an assault-withintent-to-butcher case, court, bar and spectators were leaning forn-ard. rapt and breathless, and all was still save the eloquence of the attorney, suddealy a pair of feefc flew up in the ambient air, íollowed by a concussion like the shock of contending worlds. It wasn't. It -was the county clerk wlio had been sitting with his pedáis on the desk and whoee brains had overbalanced his heek. The judge was startled from his gravity and several of the jurore awoke with a snort . The incident banished enul from the court room for the rest of the afternoon."'