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Show Holilln; to Old U-airrs. It -ems somewhat strange that the usages of st mi-barbarous people, as the Kngli-h p-aple were when tlie common law was evolved, are all abandoned except those tliat lr-tain lr-tain to the administration of ju-tice. An Knglish piper, In calling attention atten-tion to the circumsttnee that judges in that country still wear wigs In trying catcSj-ajs that It furnishes evidence that there is less i regress In law than In any pursuit to w hlch men of Intelligence and learning devote themselves. A hundred years ago the members of all professions pro-fessions wore wig", but they are neer een now outside a court room. Our Judges do not wear wigs, but they hold fast to practices that have long been abandoned in Great Britain. Trials here are much longer than there-, nn J many muro appeals to higher courts aru taken. Jvngllsh courts, It Is said, are now not only jelf-ustaiuiug, but sources of reeuue, wjjiks the ruain-tainane-e of our courts imposes a heavy burden on the people. tY.tro po Time. |