Mr. Hardfax: "So your son left us to go into a bank in the city? How did he acquit himself?"
Mr. Timbertop: "He didn't acquit himself. It took the best lawyer in the county to get him acquitted."--Boston Globe.
THE LEGISLATURE.
The 146th session of the New Jersey Legislature opened at Trenton on January 10. The Senate consisted of 16 Republicans and 5 Democrats; the Assembly of 45 Republicans and 15 Democrats.
There are two women in the Legislature, Mrs. Catherine Brown, Democrat, of Hudson county, and Mrs. Margaret B. Laird, Republican, who was reëlected from Essex county.
Senator William B. Mackay, of Bergen county was elected President of the Senate; and Assemblyman T. Harry Rowland, of Camden, Speaker of the House of Assembly.
GOVERNOR'S APPOINTMENTS.