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Show A Russian Law Suit. - The courts at Tiflis, Russia, have before be-fore them the suit of a man to recover from a professional assassin the sum of $163, The man hired the assassin for f 75 down to kill an enemy, and promised $73 more when he should receive proof of the death in the shape of the enemy's ar. The assassin brought around an ear and received the $73, with $15 added for a tip. A few days later the man met his enemy, alive and entirely whole as to his ears, upon the street. An investigation investi-gation showed that the assassin had also received $100 from the enemy as a reward re-ward for having betrayed the plot to him. Philadelphia Ledger. . , |