Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-15
THINGS
HEARD
and SEEN

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| to go into personalities in this matter, but
| this think will be shown that the suicide
| is generally an extremely pleasant kind of
] person and belongs to class that the or
| binary person would never suspect of hay-
| ing any tendencies toward self-destruc-
| ton"
During the last term of the Supreme
| Court of the United States there were ad-
mitted to practice before that tribunal
ABOUT 300 attorneys That is about the
number of attorneys who have been admit
ted annually to the supreme bar for several
years. The requirements of the court for
the bestowal of this privilege is that the
applicant shall have practiced at least
three years before the highest court of his
state, and be introduced by member of
the bar. Every Monday after the decisions
OF the court have been announced appli-
| cants for admission are introduced, and are
! at once sworn in by the clerk of the court.
No previous notice on the part of the ap-
plicant or the attorney introducing him is
required. and after taking the prescribed
oath the applicant has only to pay a fee Of
| SO in order to enjoy all the privileges Of
/ all the other 1900 attorneys who have gone
| the same way before him. While about
1000 attorneys have been admitted to prac-
! llCe, IneTe Is no record snow IlOSe WHO
| have died. so that it cannot be known posi-
| lively just what number of attorneys con-
| stitute the bar of the United States Su-
| preme Court.
| The method of practicing before the Su-
| preme Court has greatly changed in recent
years. 1t was formerly the custom Of law
| yers with offices in this city to make
! speciality of practice before this court
/ Gases came here from all over the coun-
| try, and those attorneys who had known
| nothing of them previously would read the
/ briefs and so gain necessary familiarity
| with them when the time came to present
| them to the court. 1t was then unusual to
] have an attorney who had tried case In
/ a lower court to follow it here. The advo-
| Gates of this method of handling legal bust-
| ness claimed that the great familiarity OF
| IN attorney with the methods of procedure
] of the highest court in the land gave fim
| an advantage as an advocate that could
! not be attained by men only coming here
/ now and then 1t was also claimed that
| such special attorneys knew various details
concerning decisions of the court and the
| settled views of the justices on Tarious
| questions constantly coming before them,
/ so that they could better judge the probable
! outcome of a case Now all this has
! changed. and perhaps partly because Of the
! improvements in transportation. 1t is now
/ the rule for lawyers to follow their cases
| from state courts to the Supreme Court of
| the United States, and this change in prac-
! tice is partly responsible for the greatly in
| creased number of attorneys who yearly
| apply for admission to the bar of the high
! est tribunal. This method gives the attor-
| ney who presents the case the advantage of
| his very great knowledge of every detail
| concerning the interest of his client. 1t
! also is looked upon as a help to the attor-
ney in his state practice, as the knowledge
he gains here allows him to more perfectly
conduct his cases in the lower courts. In
other words, having practice in all the
courts makes him broader lawyer.
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That western chivalry to women makes a
I Il I'D
somewhat confuses the mind of the oriental
as TO what is the exact status of the gentler
sex in America, was curiously illustrated
the other day when a diplomat of the celes-
tial variety made a most careful and scru-
tinizing inspection of the statue of General
Logan recently erected in Iowa Circle, in
! this city.
After scanning for some time and with
| evident satisfaction the mounted figure of
the general. the Acknowledged gentleman
with the black silk skirts and skull cap
drew closer and ScrutniZed the smaller
| figures in the frieze around the base of the
pile. A large figure of Minerva seemed to
fascinate and hold his attention for some
time What was going on in his mind was
soon apparent, for he hailed an intelligent
looking woman who was passing and d.
recting her attention to the figure in re-
lief, said in pigeon English: "Ess ices
Madam LOgan?'
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Mr.. Herman Holereth, inventor of the
tabulating machine used in the United
States census, is laughing over a letter he
received a couple of days ago from dear
| old England. At the first of the year Mr.
| Holereth sent out to numerous friends and
! acquaintances blotting pad with a celIu-
| loid cover, the latter bearing photo en-
! craving of a tabuIatng machine and the
| calendar Of 1901. One of them was sent
70 al6 q
ants. of % Colmore row, Birmingham
| Here's the letter dated May %:
Dear Sir: We have received a small
! plotting pad. with sketch of calculating
machine on the front. But how you ex-
/ pect people to understand anything about
| the machine without any written descrip-
4 tlun We fail to understand, and should
thlhk yoa are throwing your money away
! by this form of advertisement. How many
| other people do you suppose will waste
2l2d. upon you? Yours faithfully.
BAYFIELD & BAYFIELD,"
| President Arthur was the best-dressed
man 1 ever saw" said one of the attend
I ants at the White House who has been
there thirty years or more. to Star
/ reporter HE changed shirts three
| times day and suits almost as often He
! never Wore the same suit all day, and dur
! ing the social season changed as often as
| three or four times each day. In the sum-
rner he was fond of low-quartered shoes.
and always tied them with a wide silk
| string. 1 have bought him hundreds of
! pairs Of silk shoe strings. He had NOT
| less than nifty pairs Of good shoes at all
| times. and l know he did not have less
| than 100 shirts at a time. He had more
| Gnan hundred pieces of neckwear. too
PRESIDENT Arthur was a mighty fine man
| and was good to all the servants and 9th
ers connected with the White House
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