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Show JOKE ON POMPOUS OFFICIAL. Judge Evidently Was No Admirer of Red Tape Methods. One of the secretaries to our embassy em-bassy at London relates how a question ques-tion arose as to the cost of heating one of the Irish law courts. A consequential conse-quential treasury official was detailed from London to look into the matter. When he Introduced himself to the Judge within whose Jurisdiction the , matter lay, the Judge, who, by the' way, frequently evinced a great scorn of red tape, smiled with suspicious bland-ness. bland-ness. "Certainly," said his honor, "I will put jou In communication with the person Immediately in charge of that department." Whereupon he scribbled a few words on a piece of paper and gave it to a messenger. In a short time an aged charwoman entered. The Judge then arose and, as he left the room, said: "Rosle, here Is the young man to see about the coal." Harper's Weekly. |