Judge — March 29, 1884 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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AIL to f Long may’st thou spit and sing, my ca Terror to plunde Mouselet ai rat, Auld Lang Syne Legality. [Spectatly reps Tue Jevor) Iy the case of Arn et al, reported i Appeals) pp. “quaint rong et al vs Du Bois ’. Reports (Court of rs the followir ription of the premises in controversy, as contained in a deed made in 1780, from one Winant Benn to George Bennet, towit. * * Situate in the Township of Brooklyn, and bounded as follows, viz: Northwest upon Gowanus southeast against the land of Jacob Bennet, from Gowanns Bay to the foot of the hill called Long Hill; northeast against the land of Cornelius Duyne, dec ed, and Anthony Hol Bay alo 160 and so about owanus more or gular, hon orchi underwoods therec ing, runs, streams, pond hawki ment editame 3, out trees, lying or grow woods, mine wlings, f ndities, priviles d- appurtenances w ofits, comn unto the said ¢ and and belonging or in any way appertaining.” The Court of Appeals of that day in its official opinion in the case—Andrews, C speaking for the court description, thus remarked on this “It is impossible, we think, to maintain that the salt meadow was embraced in this deed. * * 'There can be no construction of the description in the include th it is deed, which w but, ‘on the contrary, cluded.” ow, although at this late day we personally know nothing whatever of the ‘salt meadow” mentioned in the learned opinion of Chief Justice Andrews (who has since gone “ where the woodbine twineth”) yet we respectfully disagree with the said opinion and decision of the court, on the ground that, in our It meadow, necessarily ex- comic opinion at and we should know more than the old fogies of that d the above description includes everything under heaven above and below ground, in the said locality of Gowanus Bay. And we ner assert that the old real estate lawyer who drew up the deed in question had a wonderful of legal phraseology at his command; and may his great le; soul rest in glor, 1, 0'D, oc vocabu A Goop DEAL—Thret pat. _The harmless, necessary Cat. The Perils of English Railway Travel. thee, mouser fir Brave cat THE JUDGE. 5 Sharp are those claws of thipe, Fatal to rat Swift are thy nimbl ‘osnateh the fish o Or secu meat, e thy retreat When we ery ‘5 Sleepless thy vigilance, Nor threats nor wiles Keep thee fra When D Shrill is thy melody, Awesome t Freely thy fur doth fly Out on the tiles p midnight dance n smiles; Cream reely sup isu : me home Tuesday eve- nit and when he met his wife Sngland, w she be ; out the flood and the | 7imes of April Ist. opera val, Witt ‘oom *eterboro! PeeDon't talk te mie about: Nooda’a station, on tlie Grent ates shee wal als.” hesnarled. ‘Ihave heard about | the scene on Saturday 1 last, of a me 1 til I wish Jupiter Pluvins, Geo. Ward, | distre ” occurrence. The room was Nichols and Henry Abbey were all tied to- | crowded with niting tho a and drowned in a tub of boiling soap | val of express, which was dn ¥ before that “What's the matter, Mr. Topnoody?” hour a man, ral appear- inquired his wife, surprised at the unusual was native of the outbreak, an nerald I rthe room, “Matter enough, I can tell you. The | go up tot king office, deposit the single clear up into my office, and getting | piece of b: which he carried upor the time. I | ot never swear, but I'll floor beside him, and purchase a ticket. then went out upon the plat Ile orm somewh t mmence now, Topnoody. You've | hurriedly, it was remarked, leaving the luc. isins to answer for without making | gage, which he hud apparently forgotten, any new entries, | behind him. In an instant every eye in the ** Well, don’t rile me. I won’t have it. | room was fixed upon the suspicious looking I don’t sco what women want to be n | tie ‘precise’ character ‘of which, a their husbands to death for, anyhow the light of tho re one of tho best, Mfernal questions.” it was ut first difficult to determine. In 's a pretty way for you to talk, I’m | minute or two however an old gentleman and Mrs. ‘Topnoodds’s eyes flashed and | her chin quivered just a little. j “‘T don’t care. Why don’t you talk to a hy man on a pleasant subject? 1 believe you i try to hunt up matters that are as disagre able to you as the home uihappy.” ‘Do you Well, I can tell ye To ‘sods there's one subject, I haven't men- tioned yet, which I can discuss, with especial pasure, and every time y break out in s manner I want to do it. I don’t beli “T don’t ask you t know what I know, of the subject alwa humor.” re to me, just to make but all the same I nd I know the thought ys puts me in a “Indeed? you are quite : | | humor, Mrs. Topnoody. be induced to tell me topic | cautiously approached it, editclosely || “Do you want to know | for a moment, and then ily exelaim | “Tf you will be so angelic,” and he bowed | in horrified t “Gracious heavens! sarcastically. portmanteau!” at the same time turt | “Well, Topnoody, it’s the subject of your | making for the door with frantic ha | funeral, and every time I see the undertaker | ‘The dreadful words had no sooner ese | I—” | his lips than there was a general stampede But Topnoody fled into the kitchen. upon the part of the other passengers. ‘The pushing and pullin Ing, which must inevitably b thirty or forty people | efforts to pass anderush- | theresultwhen. | ing frantic an aperture | are latonce, throu AN EXCLAMATION PoINT—The point of a bent pin, comicbooks.com