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Show NAP RUINS JUDGE'S DIGNITY "Is That You, Eugenie?" He Asks When Roused from His Slumber Slum-ber in Court. Paris. "Oh! sleep. It Is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole!" But people who Indulge in forty winks nt the wroner moment eet into trnuhlR sometimes. Two judges of the Seine tribunal are inflicted rather badly with the judicial habit of nupping, and the other oth-er day during a case in which they were on the bench in company with the president of the court the influence influ-ence of the heat wave combined with the tedious pleadings of an uninteresting uninter-esting case sent them into a profound sleep. ' According to a report that has aroused much merriment in legal circles cir-cles one of the judges, being roused by the toe of a colleague gently pressed against his calf, murmured. "Is that you, Eugenie?" and awoke to wonder why the court was dissolved in laughter. |