Show HUMOR ON THE BENCH cowan the bagli h jurist the late lord bow en besides being a gi eat judge w as also a great w it and many interesting bon of his are being recalled just now on the bion of the queens jubilee hays household words the judges bere iere drawing up an address to the queen conscious as we are of our shortcomings ran the address conscious as we are of one an others shortcomings suggested lord bowen not long ago he was asked to sit in the admiralty court upon taking hie seat he asked indulgence on account of inexperience in admiralty business and may there be no meanings of the bar he added when I 1 ant out to sea sometimes his wit was very decisive as for instance when he remarked truth will out even in an affidavit not the least happy of his recorded witticisms was the remark he made when congratulated on his appointment to be a law lord he would he said find the work easy ills duty being to give his opinion after so many others had given theirs in fact I 1 only have to agree and might well have been raised to the peerage as lord con curry |