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LEGAL PLEASANTRIES.
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They originate more than half the cur rent wit of the day in the Great West - There is raey freshness, moreover. about the pleasantly of that region, that is quite delightful. From the late Missouri Jour> nal we have clipped the following anecdote of an eminent legal gentleman of that Sta te. If it be as new to the reader as it is to us, we will guaranty his favorable suffrage. Being once opposed to Mr s, late member of Congress, he remarked as follows to the jury, upon point or disagreement between them, Here ny brother s. and dif1er.- Now this is very natural. Men seldom see things in the same light-and they may disagree in opinion upon the simplest prin- ciple of the law, and that very honestly while at the same time neither can see any earthly reason why they should. And this is merely because they look at different sides Of the subject and do not view it in all its bearings.

 Suppose for Illustration, man should come in here, and boldly assert that my brother S.'s head (here he laid he his hand very familiarly upon the echuckle head ot his opponent,) is squash! l, on the other hand, should maintain, and perhaps with equal confidence, that it is head. Now here would be difference-undoubtedly an honest diAerence-of opinion. We might argue about it till dooms-day, and never agree. You often see men arguing upon subjects as empty and triAing as this. But a third person coming in, and looking at the neck and shoulders that support it, would say at once, that had reason on my side; for if it was not head, it at least occupied the place of one, and stood where a head ought to be-" All this was uttered in the gravest and most solemn manner imagina- ble, and the effect was irresistibly ludi> crous.