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Show A Kansas lawyer baa become so afllicted with the peculiarly diffuse style of the profession in minute description in legal papers, that he carries it into all his business writings. Tho following is the first paragraph ot an advertisement for a loat pig, sent by thegentleman to a localpaper: A cardinal (or as some- call it brindle) and white colored yourg hog (or as fomo call it shoal) nearly 7 months old, marked as follows: A email amount of cardinal (or brindle color) on his faco (or as some-call some-call it snout), near his nostrils, cxtondirg over his neck on his back, eonnoctirjg on each sido with tho whito on the undor, or ground, aide of the Bhcat, or voune hop and running thonco in a direct line east by southeast to a point two and a quarlor inches west of the central point of tho extremo southerly exposure of tho shout, or young hog, and thence west up the northern boundary ot tho animal afjre-said afjre-said to a point about midway between Ins nppetita and his tail, then bearing two dtgrees and throo minutes to thu east, and thence duo north to tho poiot of beginnirg, giving him a general ap pearance which mitat bo (but is not) do3cnbod as, or liko, a puil of twill had been carolcssly thrown upon him, and ran down a halo Jurthor on some ofthe less (or as scmo call ihcm limit) than othors. |