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Show Uncommon "Common Jury." (From the London Mail.) What is known as a "common" jury was empaneled em-paneled recently in Mr. Justice Bigham's Court. It was really a most uncommon one. Sixty-two jurymen named Clarke, or Clark, answered to their names in the fifth court of the King's Bench Division. The amazing number of Clarks and Clarices caused a loud laugh in court, and by way of selecting select-ing just enough for a jury the clerk associate called on "George Clark." About twenty of the sixty-two gentlemen answered ans-wered to this Christian name, so the associate clerk proceeded to select a few specimens, and a jury was ultimately made up of tho following: Benjamin Clark, plumber. George Clark clerk. George Clark clerk. George Clark cleric. John Clark, builder. John W. C. Clark, manager. Joseph C. Clark, ivory worker. Thomas M. Clark, clerk. George Clarke, stick dresser." Stephen Clarice, furrier. Swan Clarke, builder. G. H. Clarkson. This mass meeting of the Claries and the Clarices was generally regarded as being a carefully-prepared joke on the part of the Sheriff of Middlesex. The whole panel hailed from the neighborhood of Hackney. The only two remaining jurymen on the panel not named Clark or Clarke were both named Coster. In Mr. Justice Grantham's court the other day eleven Browns and one Browning occupied the jury box. Have the Smiths ever made up a whole jury? |