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Show A LITTLE OFF COLOR. A novel legal procedure the other day In New York was the calling of a juror from the box to testify for the defense. A middle aged Russian who arrived the other day from Europe on the steamer Elbe wore a long beard, one-half of which was pure white and the other halt brown. It was a strikingly curious sight. After living with his wife for fifteen years in their cosy home in Horsham township, town-ship, Montgomery county, Pa., without sneakhur a word to her in all that time. J. Henry Knott has mysteriously decamped. de-camped. The youngest litigant on record is Ill-hard Jones, of St. Louts, whoso age is six months and who is suing the St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado railway for $5,000 for the death ot his father, who was killed in a wreck. A Louisville couple were to have been married in the church and great preparations prepara-tions to that end had been made, but when the time came their timidity so overcame them that they stole away from their friends and were quietly married in a minister's min-ister's parlor. Upon learning about the sale of tho famous whipping-post of that city to a peculator who meant to exhibit it at the world's fair, the negroes of Wilmington, Del., went in a body to the yard where it was kept aud with axes and saws reduced it to a mass of kindling wood. The government's efforts to tax oleomargarine oleo-margarine into disuse have not proved very successful. Revenue flora stamp ales has steadity increased since tho law went into eiToct and during the ten months ended with April more stamps were sold thnn for any previous twelve months. A preacher at Fernnndiiia, Fla,, was forced to sue his church for nearly SH)i) owed him ever since February 1, 1SS", when the church clerk gave Uim a due bill : for tho amount, SHli.tiO. Tho church set ', up the singular defense that the debt was barred by the statue of limitations aud the !.aliuy was, therefore, uu-'olloL'table. ( |