Criminal Practice

Mr Austin, QC., was one of the most popular lawyers of his day. He had an immense practice, aqd usually succeeded with slight assistance from the jury, in acquitting his clients, no matter how at rociout their crime or overwhelming the evidence of their guilt. One day Austin's little boy, Tommy, was asked by his Sun day-school teacher ; “Tommy, thd man who is good in this world goes to heaven. Now, wiiat be comes of the bad men who disobey tho laws of God V “ Papa gets them off," was the res pome,

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A single swallow, according to an au thority, can devour six thousand dies in a day. Tha Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany takes great interest in all the occupations of country life, and has lately turned her attention to bee-keeping, which she considers a most useful indus try for the peasant population. In order to encourage bee-keeping, she has become the honorary president of the Wiesbaden District Bee Society, The piiea of old London Bridge, driteu 800 years before were found to be in good condition when the new bridge was erected in 1859.
A female codfish will lay as many as lorty-flve million eggs during a single season. Piscatorial authorities de clare that were it not for the work of natural enemies of fish, they would in time till all the available space in the seas rivers, and oceans.
