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!, STRIKING Court houses are ifeqhently the scene af occurrences which make Dame Justice herself relax her pro- Vlty and smile even from the bench. There IS often great difficulty in extortino nronar answers from sturdy and ill-grained witness ses. The lawyer exhausts his ineenu;tv and hls patience, in vain attempts to draw forth from his subtle or sulen subject. inc matter required; and often gets for his pains an insolent retort, which turns the lauoh of the whole court against him. One of the most provoking cases of this kind recently occurred Tn the Court of Quarter Sessions ot this city. \ lawyer, retained in case of assault and battery, was cross-examin- Ing witness, in relation to the force of the blow struck. '' What kind of q blow was giyen?' asked the lawyer. "A blow of the common lind.n " Describe the blow. ,, "l am not good at description "show me what kind of blow 1t was" q can't , You must" "I won'to The lawyer appealed to the Court. The Court told inc witness that ii inc Counsel insisted .non hls showing what kind of blow it was. he must do so. Do you insist upon it qn asked the witness. The Counsel replied that he dld. "Well, then, since you con- pei me to show, it was this kind of bow.n at the same time suitine the action 10 the word, and knocking the astonished discinle ot Coke upon Littleton over.

 [Pha LnteHigencer.

 A rather curious case is now pendinr in the Court of Common Pleas, now sitt;no Tn Boston, in which the plaintiff sues cap. tam of vessel for an alligator, which had been entrusted to his keeping and convey ance from the Mississippi to that port, but which died on the passage. The object of the plaintiff IS 10 obtain the value of the ani- nal from the captain.

 The news of tho election of Governor Foote, of Connecticut, was carried by Ex- press from New Haven to Hartford (dis- tance 34 miles)i in two hours and half. 4 CHEAT NIoLN.-Count Trantmans- dorf, who was an Equerry at the Court of Charles VII, Emperor of Germany, pur- chased violin from Jacob Stainer, on the following terms. Thirty-fye louis dor were paid down in ready money, and the Count moreover pledged himself to furnish Stain- CT every day with an excellent dinner, to pro- vide him eyrey year with newcoat, trimmed with god lace, andtogiye him two large butts of beer; to pay him pension of 20 francs per month; to send him l2 baskets of fruit evry year, and ar equal quantity for his old nurse. Stainer lived 16 years after this curious bargain, so that 1t is calculated the Count paid 10000 francs for the violn--an enormous sum of money in those days.

 "John,o said little fellow to his compan- ion, the other day, s'are you going round Washington Squarc?'' " No,' said he, "I am going cross it." Some people make strange expressions-a man a week ago, while speaking of the monument which is tor was) designed to be erected to the mem- ory of Washington in the cenfre of the square, remarked that t 'swotild look better, if it was placed in the middle. ."-PhI. Ob.

 Accommodation for three hoif pence.--A gentleman on a wet evening entered the bar of an inn, and while standing before the fire, called to servant girl who had come to receive his orders. Margaret, bring me glass of ale, clean pipe, spittoon, candle, pair of snufiers; and the newspa- per. And Margaret, take away my great coat into the kitchen, and hang 1t before the fire to dry, and dry my umbrella; also tell me what o'clock 1t is, and If Mir. Christo- pherson should come in, request him to come this way, for think t is near seven; and he promised to meet me at that hour. And Margaret, get me change for sove- reign, see that all the change is good, take pay out of it, and wrap the copper in a piece of paper. And Margaret, tell Jeni- ma to bring some more coals, take away the ashes, and wipe that table. And Margaret, pull down that blind, shut the door, and put to the widow shutters!o N. E. The gen. 1 tleman had his own tobacco in his pocket. -Iyne Mercury.

 Proof of the march of inteliect-The wife of farmer, upon paying visit 10 the ] ooyerness of her daughters, was anxious to hear the report of their progress in music. The governess candidly informed her that the instructions bestowed on one Of the pu- pills, was entirely useless, and urged the l good dame from a continuance of that branch of education, as her daughter had no capacity for it. This friendly advice, however, failed of its intended effect, for the sagacious advocate for good heddtca- tion, bridling herself up, and placing her arms akimbo, replied with great vehemence -" Cd Zimmermains madam, don't tell me about capacity when doesn't spare ex- pense p and, continues she, with conse- nnential nod, .' l desires you will gst her one immediately"

 THE MORMON WAR IN MissoURI IS about to be renewed. A fanatlcal leader, styled General Joe Smith, has sent forth, Fl f :, a:~a,,l,r b;s pretondad TO.