Show anecdotes of R afus choate rufus bufus choate and chief justice shaw of massachusetts often indulged in wordy combats and wit was generally freely expended by both sides choate cheate was once arguing a cause before the chief justice who was one of the homeliest hom eliest men ever elevated to the bench and to express his bis reverence for the conceded ability of the judge said in yielding to an averse decision in coming into the presence of your honor I 1 experience the same feelings fee linga rs the hindmo does when he bows before his idol I 1 know that you are ugly but I 1 feel that you are great it ia is said that choate bad a command commana of language and his hia brain teemed with a wealth of diction truly marvelous when judge shaw first heard that th there ere was a fresh edition of Worce die dic flonary tlona tiona tio nary ry containing 2500 new words worda he exclaimed for heavens sake dont let choate get gerhold bethold hoid hold olt 31 choate in an important assault and battery case at sea hal dick barton chief arte of the clip challenge on the stand and badgered him eo so for about an hour that dick got his hia salt water up and hauled by the wind to bring the keen boston lawyer under hla hia batteries at the beginning offis of iila liia test testimony 1 dick said the night was as dark as the devil devlia devila and tid hid raining like seven bellba 11 suddenly mr choate asked h him 1 M awas was there a moon that night hight 11 yea yes sir 1 ali ah yes a moon mo 0 0 1 1 t ii ti yeb y yes e a full moon SI js MO did y you yon ou see it 1 not a mite y then how bow da you know there was a moon the nautical almah almanac ac sal sai said sald so and ill believe that sooner than any lawyer lawser in the world what was the principal luminary that night sir binnacle lamp aboard the challenge 11 71 gail ah I 1 nou you you yon are growing sharp mr B barton arton what I 1 in n blazes have yo you been lefi grinding me this ha hour our bur for to make ma ke me mi dull IT be civil sir and now tell me ine lne 1 what latitude and longitude longi tuda you crossed the equator in sho youre youle jo jj oking klug no sin sir ai tin lin 1 earnes jand band I 1 desire you to answer me 1 sij I shahri aab gab ah I 1 you refuse do you 4 yes I 1 cant indeed I 1 jl you ard are the c chiet chief ma mate e of a clipper ship and are unable un abie able to answer so simple a question te yes itis tia the simplest question I 1 air ever 1 i had asked me thought e every v e ry fool tool of bf a lawyer knew that there aint no latitude at the destor e that shot floore floored jrufus ufus AND all AH our preconceive preconceived ed ideas in regard to historical characters are one by one being swept away by the new llew developments of the present a age ge that much maligned woman Z Zan an tippe lippe I 1 ppe isnow is now crowned with honor it is now asserted that she was beautiful thrifty and a good housewife that she ahe first won the regard of socrates by her wonderful conversational powers and the skill with which she refuted some of his arguments that in spite of the tha ugliness of ot socrates and his poverty and obscure origin 1 she married him discerning the bea beauty t Y of his bis mind and boul that her relatives disapproved the match and she herself soon found her husband hubband lacking in every essential quality for comfort com eom dortin forCIn in common life socrates is found to have given himself little concern about abolt the support of his family helian habad no legitimate call oali 1 ing he was a lounger in public places efti he had ad a habit of inviting persons to dine with him when there was nothing with which to entertain them moreover oven over helas he was waa repulsive in appearance i slovene slovenly in dress and aud very unsocial at home what bomler that if she ahe lost her temper while attempting to keep the house and rear the children of buch such aman a man the trials of poor Zan tippe are only just beginning to be revealed |