They had what they call an awkward man on a jury down in Maine the other day. It seems the case involved a claim for money for building a cellar, and the number of perches of stone used were specified. But this awkward man, as it chanced, knew something by experience about building stone walls, aud this little item was not quite clear to him. So when the jury went out he took his pencil aud quietly ciphered a little while at tho table, and then, in the most matter of fact wav. told his fellow jurors that, as he made it, there was enough stone put into those cellar walls to fill the cellar completely up and have some three or four perch of stone left, and he was puzzled to know where they put their potatoes and garden saw.
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Evening Star, Issue 3357, 22 November 1873, Page 3
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141Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 3357, 22 November 1873, Page 3
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