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Show 'Impossible to Stop Wraant Tongue. A New Jersey Justice of the Peace rendered a 'decision recently that a woman's tongue is a concealed con-cealed weapon. Unfortunately, for the Justice, the decision was quickly reversed and set aside by a ihigher Judge. This particular Justice was called upon to hear the facts in a neighborhood row, and, as his salary is paid by the State and not by the fees he receives, he attempted to do a Good Samaritan act and smooth over the trouble by dismissing the case. All might have gone well had not. the dispenser of law and order tried to secure further peace by striving to induce the litigants to shake hands and kiss and make up. That was his big mistake. I There had been no objection when the complaint Vas dismissed, but to have any one, even a Justice, attempt to make the disputants shake hands. SEVER. With one accord, the two women took the same side and proceeded to tell that Jersey Justice where - ' to stop. They scorned his plea to kiss and make up, and told him so with all the power of their tongues ' and minds. So hard did they scorn that the Justice was at last aroused from his sweet dream that there were no mosquitoes in Jersey, and he proceeded to rule that a tongue is a concealed weapon when carried by disputing women and applied to a court. The decision cost each woman ?10. Then one of the litigants liti-gants hurried to her lawyer, who hurried to a Judge, and the decision was set aside and the money ordered or-dered returned. Dispatches do not say that the Justice is a mar ried man, but he at least has had some experience with tongues. |