New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-03-21
JUDGE MILLER's STORY.

JUDGE MILLER'S STORY.
An Old Dodge Which Member Of the
Supreme Court Broke Up.
From. a Washington Letter.
Speaking of wines and dinners, am
reminded of what l shall have to call
thS Old Mntielrn dodge. s. There 1s no
reason why Philadelphia should know
anything. about it, for there is no pre-
tense in Philadelphia. The Veneerings
do not live there. You must know, Mr..
Editor, that the Judges of the Supreme
Court are the highest of the high in
social life. There are only nine Of
them. They are in for life. and get
$4,000 q year apiece. They, Of course,
are invited everywhere generally in Z
body-a practice which they hate like
famine. You can easily see the reason
Each has his stock of jokes and stories,
his illustrations, his history, his recol-
lections and his big cases. Each one
has told these over and over again, and
they individually have heard the same
thing from their brothers of the bench
for SO many years that the thing affects
them like their thirtieth quail. But this
is Madeira story: remember hearing
MIR. Justice Miller recount his expert
ence with the old Madeira fiend. He
said that one of the first things he no
ticed in social life in Washington was
the existence of large amount Of fine,
rich old Madeira in this city. He would
60 with his associates to the house of 3
leading lawyer. Before the dinner was
over the host would say that he had
some Madeira he would like to have his
guests taste nothing like it in the
country-only few bottles left, the
present great occasion, and one bottle
quite enough to go round. Next, the
Court would dine with Cabinet officer
same old story-G Gentlemen. let me
beg you to try this old Madeira moth
ing like it in the world an old invoice
of my grandfather s-never got glass
full like it in your life, wonderful, gen
tlemen, wonderful beg you to try it.
The Court goes next to q Senator's
house. The dinner, gentlemen, has not
been worthy of the occasion, but Ishave
something that will make you feel glad
you came. 1t is a glass of old Madeira
100000 years old. / tell you how got
hold of it. Some years ago obtained
Tor young man an appointment in the
navy. He felt very grateful, and want
ed to know what he could do for me.
l told him, just as he was going to sail,
to get ne some good Madeira. Gentle
men, he was ten years getting me this
wine. He had to pay 5000 bottle for
it, and even at this price was only able
to get . few bottles. You'll find it
worth drinking, gentlemen. This sort
of thinS lasted for year or two. Every
house into which the Judge went had
some celebrated old Madeira. don't
know how it was with the other Judge9,
but Miller, who never pretends to ANY,
thing, and is noted for his level-headed
common sense, and is as great hater
of shams as [ ever saw, became very
tired of the old Madeira business, and
only wanted for an opportunity to pro-
claim his ideas. It came in time.
Andy johnson was President, and
0. H. Browning, of Illinois, was Secre-
tary Of the Interior. Browning was q
fussy old fellow with ruf1led shirts and
dignified manners. He lived very nice
~ and very quietly on Georgetown
Heights. He asked the Judges to din
ner. They came. Good dinner. At
the proper time old Browning demand
ed the attention of his guests. He said
that he did not often comment on the
things he set before his guests. He
thought it vulgar, but he had something
30 rare that he thought he might be ex-
cused. Then Miller knew that Madeira
was coming In fact, he wanted to
call tie attention of his friends to some
rare old Madeira he had smooth as oil,
and fit for the gods He had obtained
it from some bankrupt king or prince,
and there was nothing like it in the
world. Gentlemen, said he, let us taste
it. AS I have said, nobody in the world
hates a sham more than Miller, and he
could not stand the Madeira business
any longer, so he said: Nov, Brown
i'g, look here. We have had too much
. Il this ID Madeira business W.
have not been in house in Washington
for the last three years that the finest
glass of finest old Madeira in the world
has not been set before us, and the thing
is getting q little tiresome. Now,
Browning, you are from Quincy, ILL.,,
and | am from Keokuk, iowa. Neither
of us know thing about Madei-
ia, and both of US would rather have
poor whisky without comment than the
finest of Madeira with such fulsome,
commentator. Put your Madeira
aside, and let's have glass Of whisky. =
That little. speech was noised. abroad,
and, strange to say, it very properly
stopped hosts from reminding guests
what great attention was being shown
them, especially as to Madeira.
You Whistler, You!
''Sir!' said policeman the othe1
night to a young man who was whist
ling on his way home the music he ha9
been dancing to. ..sir7" responded
the young man, stopping in the middl,
Of a bar. THERE'S no law agains
whistling in the streets after midnigh,
any more than at any other time . sale
the policeman, half apologetically; ..bu,
really must ask you to stop whistling. :
.'YesP'' said the young man, inquiring
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