His Mistake

The New York Recorder gives a storyof a yoxmg lawyer who evidently did not coiisider the yell-known learaingf of the judgeasufficientreason foromitting evidence of his om attainments. The judge was compelled to listen to a case that had been appealed from one of the pólice courts. The young practitioner who appeared f or the appellant was long and tedious; he brought in all of the elementary text books and quote.l the fundamental propositions of the law. At last the judge thonght it was time to make an effortto close the argument. "Can we not assume," he said, pompously, "that the court knows a little about law itself '?" "That's the very mistaka I made in the other court," answered the yotrag orator, "and I don't want to let itdefeat me twice."