SOLOMON IN MODERN LIFE

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 362, 11 February 1876, Page 3

SOLOMON IN MODERN LIFE

Sometimes a good rule does not work. Two women came before Alderman Dobbs, in bur village, the other day, to settle a dispute about a child. Mrs. Murphy claimed the boy as hers, while Mrs. Doolan insisted that it was hers. As the Alderman could not obtain any decisive evidence bearing upon the case, it occurred to him to try the plan once, used in a similar case by Solomon. He sent out to the kitchen and got a carving-knife, and then, placing the boy on the desk, he said to the women, while he sharpened his knife on his boot, " I'm a goin' to cut this yer youngster in half and let Mrs; Murphy take the body, while Mrs. Doolan can go home with the legs." It was a clever idea, but it failed. Mis. Murphy stepped up to him, and doubling up a fist that looked like an under-done leg of mutton, she Bhook it close to his nose and said, "Efyedo, ye shalpeeu, oi'U murther ye with me own hand;" and Mrs. Doolan seized him by the hair, .threw him to the ground, and exclaimed, while she brandished the knife over his prostrate body, " Gimme the legs ! Be mo sowl, oi've a miud to kill ye and ate ye !" Then Squire Dobbs adjourned the case, and while Mrs. Doolan retired with the boy he went out to hunt up a Bible commentary, in order to ascertain if there was not something about Solomon's proceedings that he didn't understand.—'Max Adeler, in Danbury News.'