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Show An amusing incident occurred in a court room in Keatingville, Montana Mon-tana territory. His honor was a man well stricken in years, yet he could ride a race, Bhoot a rifle, and ah utile and deal as well aa the best man in the mines, and he who presumed pre-sumed to trifle with the dignity of the court generally suffered. His honor was seated, and the cases about to be commenced, when, in a voice of thunder, the sherifF proclaimed pro-claimed eilence. There was a pause ; the judge looked over and saw the prisoner, who had not yet uncovered his head. The court could not brook such respect to its dignity, and his honor called out in an authoritative tone : "Mr. Sheriff, remove that gentleman's gentle-man's hat!" That functionary, who had until now stood in a corner, leaning upon a rifle, stopped up and politely 'knocked off tho offender's hat with that murderous instrument, whereupon where-upon the prisionex seized the hat, and clapping it upon his head, loudly exclaimed: "Judge, I'm bald 1 " " Mr. Sheriff," said the indignant court, "we instruct you to remove that hat 1 " The order was instantly executed, and no sooner done than the prisoner replaced the hat on his head again, insisting that he was bald. The offended judge now waxed; warm, and rising up in his seat, said: "I fine you five dollars for contempt con-tempt of court to be committed until un-til the fine ia paid," iuh piittuiiur wits uiuuuuisiruuifc.. He deliberately walked up to the judge, and laying down a half-dollar atamp before his honor, in a solemn manner thus gave his views: " Your sentence, judge is most un-gontlemanly, un-gontlemanly, but the law is imperative, impera-tive, and I will have to stand it; "so here are lour bits, and the four dollara and a half that you owed me, when we stopped playing poker this morningvjust makes us square." |