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Show A Legal, Bed ot Hosts. Tho justices of the supreme court are not to be blamed if they are vain. All day long they eit upon the grandest throne in the United States, surrounded by more show of deference and honor than even the President receives, with theatrical curtainsof crimson silk draped behind them and a great gold eagle over their heads, with page boys at their elbow, venerable lawyers bowing before them, velvet carpets to husli the fall of feet upon the court room floor, negro doorkeepers watching over noiseless doors, a dim religious light in the semicircular semi-circular room, and a never ceasing throng of awed citizens of this and other lands reverentially staring them out of countenance. coun-tenance. The Libyan lion at a circus excites very little more veneration and awe from the spectators. I should think that tho justices must feel sometimes how like wild beasts on exhibition tHy are. Perhaps they don't think of it at all, for one grows accustomed in time to anything, even to being a supreme court judge. Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. |