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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 494, 8 April 1881, Page 2

An attorney recently took exception to a ruling of the Conrt that certain evidence was inadmissable. '• I know your Honor," said he warmly, " that it is proper evidence. Here I have been practising at the bar for 40 years, and now I want to know if lam a fool ? " " That," quietly.replied the Court, "is a question of fact and not of law, and so I shall not offer an opinion upon it, but let the jury decide."

A Michigan boy ate a bar of soap on a wager, and then drank a lot of soda to take the taste out of his month, and the way he spouted suds and bubbles for the next half hour baffled the skill of fourteen docters, who madly performed about him, not havi.ng been informed of the cause of the lad's suffering. They are; at loggerheads now about what to call the case. The man wh'o 1 sat up all night weighing a ton. of coal with a pair ofstebl-yards, and by the pailful, to see that he had received full weight, thought he.;;was ahead a few pounds until he remembered that he had not deducted the weight of the pail, and had to do it all over again.

After an enthusiastic lover spends; two hours' hard labor over a letter to his girl and then mars its beauty by spilling a drop of ink on ir, he first swears in a scientific manner for a few minutes, and then draws a circle round the blot and tells her it is a kiss, and she, poor thing, believes it.