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Show WAT HI JIAME cH.isoen. A tirqn rltlrM Who Wanted Irlh foicooaieB. Sr. Lot I, 5lu, July 2.-One of Ihe most peculiar ea-s which hai ljeu Ik fore tlie court here in year occurred, when Maximilian Kdward Spar-am. a (iei man only a few month from the old country, asked to have his name, c hanged. Sparsain can scarcely apeak English and bis (ierman dialet U very rich. It can tasily bo imagined that a ! great laugh wa caused in court when I he asked Judge Dillon to change, hi name lo McHotev. because his friend ! were joking him about hi own uame, i which, when translated, signifie mg-i mg-i gardlin-The judge threw aside hi !d '.gnity for the moment aud nald he ' kiipixed Sparsam realized that he could not get on the police force with his (Jermaii nan:"., i be choe an Jriehcog-i Jriehcog-i uoiiieii. |