After hearing the evidence, the judge, in his fierce and harsh Hungarian-Finnish-Tartaric tongue, calls up the culprit and says: "You have been found guilty, and I fine you ten kreutzers and ten days' imprisonment for stealing the goose!"

Thereupon the judge summons the owner of the bird:

"I fine you ten kreutzers and ten days' imprisonment for allowing your goose to be stolen!"

STEALING A GOOSE.

Having thus disposed of the parties, the judge, turning to the witness, says:

"Sirrah! I fine you ten kreutzers and ten days' imprisonment for not minding your own business!"

Hilmi Effendi listens with interest to this story of Slavonic justice, and remarks that almost as odd a case recently came before one of the courts of Stamboul.

A creditor comes to the judge to have a note sued. It is for 1,500 piastres, and not due until three years after the complaint is made. The judge entertains the suit,

and condemns the creditor to confinement for three years. "For," said his honor: "How do I know where you will be three years hence, so as to pay you the piastres, unless I hold you?"

We agree that this is an improvement on the American custom of the imprisonment of witnesses in criminal cases.

A GREAT FIT.

BY ROBERT HENRY NEWELL.

ROBERT HENRY NEWELL, the Orpheus C. Kerr of every one's acquaint

ance, is a veteran editor and a prolific author. He was born in New York, December 13, 1836.

"He sorter kinder shut one eye, And spit into his hand,

And put his ugly head one side,

And twitched his trowsers' band.

"My boy,' says he, 'it's my belief,
Whomever you may be,

That I kin make you screech, and smell
Pertikler agony."

"I'm thar,' says Tuscaloosa Sam, And chucked his hat away;

'I'm thar,' says he, and buttoned up As far as buttons may.

"He thundered on the stranger's mug,
The stranger pounded he;
And oh! the way them critters fit
Was beautiful to see.

"They clinched like two rampageous bears, And then went down a bit;

They swore a stream of six-inch oaths

And fit, and fit, and fit.

"When Sam would try to work away,

And on his pegs to git,

The stranger'd pull him back; and so,
They fit, and fit, and fit!

"Then like a pair of lobsters, both

Upon the ground were knit,

And yet the varmints used their teeth,
And fit, and fit, and fit!!

"The sun of noon was high above, And hot enough to split,

But only riled the fellers more,

That fit, and fit, and fit!!!

"The stranger snapped at Sammy's nose, And shortened it a bit;

And then they both swore awful hard,
And fit, and fit, and fit!!!!

"The mud it flew, the sky grew dark,
And all the litenins lit;

But still them critters rolled about,
And fit, and fit, and fit!!!!!

THE REMAINS.

"First Sam on top, then t'other chap;
When one would make a hit,
The other'd smell the grass; and so,
They fit, and fit, and fit!!!!!!

"The night came on, the stars shone out
As bright as wimmen's wit;

And still them fellers swore and gouged, And fit, and fit, and fit!!!!!!!

"The neighbors heard the noise they made, And thought an earthquake lit;

Yet all the while 'twas him and Sam
As fit, and fit, and fit!!!!!!!!

"For miles around the noise was heard; Folks couldn't sleep a bit,

Because them two rantankerous chaps Still fit, and fit, and fit!!!!!

"But jist at cock-crow, suddenly,
There came an awful pause,
And I and my old man run out
To ascertain the cause.

"The sun was rising in the yeast,
And lit the hull concern;
But not a sign of either chap
Was found at any turn.

"Yet, in the region where they fit,
We found, to our surprise,

One pint of buttons, two big knives,

Some whiskers, and four eyes!"