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Show An I.'pronr In Court. One of tho most astonishing features of the running of the civil courts of this city is the excitement which a harmless citizen can cause by walking into the court room with his hat on. Of course no one is f,o ignorant as not to know that it is not tho proper thing to keep his luit on in the presence of a judge holding court, bnt it frequently happens that a miin who is utrolling about the corridors of a court houso will step Into a court room and absent mindedly fail to remove his hnt. Now there may be a court offieer within two feet of him. Ho taps the offender on the shoulder and whispers to hitn to take off his hat. That is the curious feature of it. He doesn't do any such thing. Instead, he shouts at the top of his lungs, "Hals off!" Tho officer in the corner, who has been dozing, wakes with a start, also shouts "Hats off!" and the third officer, who has had his back turned toward the offender, in the act of handing a paper to the witness on the stand, wheels around and likewise shouts "Hats off!" Judges, lawyers, witnesses, jurymen, nil are startled at the sudden outcry, ami tho offender against court room etiquette eti-quette sneaks out of court, abashed and wondering why he couldn't have been asked to remove his hat without so much attention being attracted to his offense. Now York Times. |