ale by it."

    A stranger

   to law courts hearing a judge call a sergeant "brother," expressed his surprise. "Oh," said one present, "they are brothers—

    brothers-in-law

   ."

    It

   was the habit of Lord Eldon, when Attorney-General, to close his speeches with some remarks justifying his own character. At the trial of Horne Tooke, speaking of his own reputation, he said: "It is the little inheritance I have to leave my children, and, by God's help, I will leave it unimpaired." Here he shed tears; and, to the astonishment of those present, Mitford, the Solicitor-General, began to weep. "Just look at Mitford," said a by-stander to Horne Tooke; "what on earth is he crying for?" Tooke replied, "He is crying to think what a

    small

   inheritance Eldon's children are likely to get."

    Jerrold

   one day met a Scotch gentleman, whose name was Leitch, and who explained that he was not the popular caricaturist, John Leech. "I'm aware of that; you're the Scotchman with the

    i-t-c-h

   in your name," said Jerrold.

    The

   government, having threatened to proceed rigorously against those who refused to pay the assessed taxes, offered to them a remission of

    one fourth

   . "This at least," said a sufferer, "may be called, giving them some

    quarter

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