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Show How the Stairs Ran. Judge Martin J. Keogh of the supremo su-premo court, Winchester county, Now York, while presiding at the trial of a landlord In falling to keep a certain stairway In proper repair, took occasion oc-casion to question one of tho defendant's defend-ant's witnesses for tho purpose of obtaining an accurate description ot tho location of the stairs. Judge Keogh asked tho witness, who in this Instance was tho Janitress ot the houso: "Madame, kindly explain to the Jury bow tho stairs run." Tho Janitress answered, in a loud voice: "Woll, yer Honor, whin yor up stairs they run down, and whla yer down stairs thoy run up." |