The late Associate Justice Gray o:
the supreme court wns very eccentric
Among his prejudices was a deep nm
lnsting aversion for n typewriter. Tim
mnchine did not come into general os*
until Justice Gray was an old man
and he never became reconciled to lt
It made him furious If a lawyer filet
with him n motion or other court pepe
typewritten. Ile invariably returned 1
with n brusque request that the matte
to be submitted bo written in loni
hand. He had a stenographer at hi
disposal, but never utilized his sen
ices, ns he wrote all his letters, as wo:
as his opinions. Ile notified tho der
of the supreme court not to send li 11
any typewritten paper, no matter Iioa
Important lt might be. He never ne$
lectod an opportunity to denounc
typewriters. Tho result of his hatre
for these machines was that he di
three times ns much work ns the othc
justices.
Quick Work In the Court*.
"The little plaintiff or defendan
who was promised a new rocking hon
when Jarndycs versus Jarndycs shoal
be settled, has grown, possessed Lin
self of a real horse and trotted uwa
Into the other world." Dickens migl
have come to look upon the court <
chancery as a model of judicial oxped
tion had he lived to learn of n lin
suit that has just been decided by tl
supreme court of Leipslc. This r
markable suit began its protracted c
reef as long ago as 1018, the matter
dis].ute being a right claimed by tl
communes of Dabo ami Engenthal, <
the border of Alsace and Lorraine,
cut wood In the forest of li?
nearly four centuries of litigation tl
claim of the two communes baa bet
established.?London Globe.
The Key to the Situation.
