The result of the trial was, that the jury pronounced the plaintiff not to have been the property of the defendant, several of them crying out, "No property, no property.

A slave of the plaintiff had been deprived of his only eye, and thus rendered useless, on which account the court adjudged that the defendant should pay the plaintiff his full value.

Then he inquired who could blame the plaintiff for his confidence in the uprightness of a firm with such a name as Parfitts.

BUSINESS A Boston lawyer, who brought his wit from his native Dublin, while cross-examining the plaintiff in a divorce trial, brought forth the following: "You wish to divorce this woman because she drinks?

He does not knock one head against the other according to the old custom, but he hears both plaintiff and defendant, and having got the facts, he submits to the children themselves whether it was right in the one boy to take with violence What was not his own, and shews them which is the more to blame.

" In a state case the facts were that a man of wealth started a barber shop and employed a barber to injure the plaintiff and drive him out of business.

The accompanying photograph shows the plaintiff in the act of assisting to build a wall.

This man supplied the plaintiff with information as to what occurred in the regiment while Roger belonged to it; but he only knew what was known to the whole regiment.

This took the plaintiff by surprise, and when the defendant rested, he and his counsel were on the alert to meet it.

" "I told the plaintiff and her grandfather," rejoined Mr. Barnes, "that it was too late to bespeak counsel's attention to the case; and that the fee, all they have, with much difficulty, been able to raise, was ridiculously small; but they insisted on my applying to youOh, here they are!"

On approaching the plaintiff, however, he himself slipped a love-token upon the plate and pushed it towards her.

" "As far as I can follow the pleadings," said the Judge, gravely, "the case seems to be hardly one for litigation, and I approve of the defendant's course, while I strongly urge the plaintiff to accept it.

While the trial was yet pending a local newspaper printed his whole narrative that it might "assist the plaintiff to prove his freedom, or the defendant to prove he is a slave.