has been cropping up in the Isle of Man but after mature consideration it has been decided to put it on the shelf for the present, as merhbers there hope it may come law here during the present Session. They must be more sanguine than most people here, I think. I read a very "little tale in Mf-a.P. a few days of Dean Pigou on the subject. Te appears he married a couple and after the ceremony discovered that the woman was the deceased wife's sister. The verger, it appears, knew of the matter but when cross-examined on the subject he said—"Oh yes, I knowed all right; I knowed the parties."—'Then why didn't you tell me?" said the view, "I should have for-hidden them." "Well, vicar, it was just this way, you see—one of the parties was eighty-four and tether eighty-six. So I says to myself: Lord it can't last long, let Yom wed and Lother the laws" aK
24th February.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.