The Editor's Bag "But the difficulty with my brother is that it is not original. I have taken pains to find the original, and I am sorry
to rob my brother of the only glory he has got in the case, but I am going to read the original: —
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thrymsaa; an archbishop or earl at 15,000;
a bishop or alderman at 8,000; belli imperator or summus prwfectus at 4,000; a priest or thane at 2,000, and a com mon person at 267 thrymsa.
A CARD GAME IN COURT "He killed the noble Mudjokeewis With the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the skin side outside, Made them with the fur side inside. He, to get the cold side outside, Put the warm side fur side inside; He, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side outside. That's why he put the fur side inside; Why he put the skin side outside; Why he turned them inside outside.
“There is the inspiration of the cross
Adolph
Bouchnik, of
Cleveland, 0.,
sued
Abram Auerbach of the same city for recovery of money lost while playing "vingt-et-un" with a marked deck. A. E. Bernstein, attorney for Auerbach, played a game with Bouchnik in court to show that marked cards could be of no advantage in "vingt-et-un." — News Item.
ES, many games
are
played in
court, But here we have a new one.
The Judge and jury had fine sport When Bouchnik played vingt-et-un.
examination in this case." We do not know who lost, who won
SAXON COM PENSATION HE Anglo-Saxon tendency to place
In that peculiar contest. But that game of vingt-et-un Did liven up the inquest
a money value on accidents and injuries, even when the latter are of a
Into the mysteries of luck
wilful nature, is of pure Saxon stock.
And whether rogues could do one
The Saxons had a well-established scale
By marking cards and all such truck
of pecuniary compensation for injuries, the amount being more or less according to the time and place of the crime, and
the part of the body injured. The cutting off of an ear involved a penalty of thirty shillings; if the hearing was lost, sixty shillings. To strike out a front tooth cost eight shillings; a canine tooth, four shillings, and a grinder, six
teen shillings. In the time of King Athelstan the notion of money-compensation reached such a degree that every man's life had a fixed value, called a were, or capitis estimatus. Under the law fixing the
were of every order of person in the
In the game of vingt-et-un. Smws Smmcus.
THE JEST THAT MADE A LAW 0 STATUTE ever enacted in Eng land is of greater importance than the Habeas Corpus Act, yet the passage of this enactment, at least at the particu lar time when it finally came before the House of Lords, was due entirely to a jest.
Lord Grey and Lord Norris were named as tellers when the vote upon the bill was to be taken. Lord Grey was heartily in favor of the bill, which,
occasion was distinguished only as a
however, seemed doomed to defeat. An immensely fat lord declared for the
superior person, was rated at 30,000
passage of the act, and
kingdom, the King himself, who on this
Lord Grey
