Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-12

GRIM COURTROOM HUMOR. seme Good Stories Collected From Various [ Courts Across the Ocean,
 Grim humor has often played a con- Bpicuous part in criminal trials, and of the notorious Irish hanging judge, Lord Norbury, some curious stories are told. A man was once tried before him for the awful offense of putting out his tongue at constable His Iordship ordered him to be whipped on three successive days from the jail to the market house. When his lordship had concluded, the prisoner exclaimed: '"Fhe devil thank you; that's all you can dot' Whereupon his 1ordship, re- suming, said: Hold your tongue sir: how dare you interrupt the judgment of the court?" and significantly added, and back again.
 Of the same judge it was said that he had never been known to shed a tear but once, and that was during the rep resentation of the ''Beggar's Opera, :" when Macheath got a reprieve. It is also related of him that he once asked an eminent special pleader at the din- ner table whether the dish near him was hung beef, because, if so he would try it. If you try it, nay lord" was the bitter reply, 'it is sure to be hung.
 Lord Braxfeld, Scotch judge, once said to an eloquent culprit at the bar You're vara clever ehiel, mon; but I'm thinking ye wad be none the waur O hangin''
 Unconsciously funny was the Irish. man who, on being placed at the bar, felt quite uneasy when arraigned and complained bitterly that he should be in such an awkward position so far from friends and home. The judge felt kindly toward him and said Be calm, young man. You may rest as sured that, although among strangers, full justice will be done you. Be me soul, yer honor" groaned Pat and it's the fear of that same that thrub- bles me. .''
 But funnier still, in it's unconscious humor, is the following: Lord Chief Justice Holt, when young was very extravagant, and belonged to club of wild fellows. most of whom took an infamous course of life. When his lordship was engaged at the Old Bai- lev, a man was tried and convicted of robbery on the highway whom the judge remembered to have been one of his old companions. Moved by that cu- riosity which is natural on a retrospec- tion of past life, Holt, thinking the fellow did not know him, asked what had become of such and such of his old associates.
 s'Ah, my lord, said the culprit, mak- ing low bow, they are all hanged but your lordship and 1. I."-Newcastle Chronicle.
 sNot y?orth shucks." About Lake George, where the speech of the people is rich in archaisms, find sshuclz'' used. not for the corn covering, but for the outer covering of l the hickory nut-called here and in some other northern districts wal. nut" But the Lake Georgians do not, i I believe. speak of "bean shucks, as people do in parts of England. Per haps, after all, the apparently Ameri can proyerbial phrase, mot worth l shueks,'' is older than Jamestown, foI the shucks of Indian corn are the only shucks that are valuable. But to .'shucls off ones coat in order to flick" a man tell his hide won't hold shuclks' smacks of those parts of the United l States in which man so threatened can take to the tall eorn7 for conceal ment Edward Eggleston, in Century