Professor:—“Imagine you were engaged to be married. On your wedding day your father-in-law says, ‘I shall give my daughter 50,000 thaler.’ What would that be?” Candidate:—“That would be great good luck for me.” Professor:—“I fully agree with you. Now translate for me this mandate from the Codex. Read the introduction.” Candidate (reads):—“_Sancimus hac lege in perpetuum valitura_——” Professor:—“Stop! Translate these words.” Candidate (translates):—“Read this—and then farewell forever!” Professor:—“Good, very good! I also will say to you: Farewell forever!” Saving in Vain Professor:—“Well, candidate, which seems to you the better, that the present generation should save for the future generation, or that they should leave debts behind?” Candidate:—“I believe it would be better to leave debts behind.” Professor:—“Why; what are your reasons?” Candidate:—“We can’t be expected to save for a generation, of which we do not even know whether it will exist. If the judgment day should come unexpectedly, we would have saved for nothing.” No Criminal Professor:—“What is a crime?” Candidate (stuttering):—“A crime is—is, when some one—does—something!” Professor (laughing):—“Then candidate, you are certainly no criminal.” A Modern Solomon Professor:—“I will put a law case before you: Mother and daughter slept with their two little boys, in the same room. As the children were dressed exactly alike, the nurses changed them, so nobody could tell which was the mother’s and which the daughter’s child. How would you decide the case?” Candidate:—“Are you sure that the children were exchanged?” Professor:—“Didn’t I tell you so just now?” Candidate:—“Very well, then you simply exchange the children again.” Direct or Indirect “Is the dog tax a direct or an indirect tax?” “An indirect one.” “Why?” “Because it is not collected directly from the dog.” Mortgages “Candidate, what do you know about mortgages?” “Nothing at all; so far, I have always been able to borrow without one.” Her Age “You are thirty years old?” asked a magistrate of a lady whose deposition he was taking down. “No, twenty,” she answered. “But I was born in the same year you were.” “Oh, well,” said the lady, snappishly, “you probably lived faster than I!” It Makes a Difference “What is the matter with this woman?” “She fell on the slippery sidewalk, because there was no sand put on it.” “Where was it? I’ll put the landlord’s name down at once!” “It was before the town hall, policeman.” “Oh, before the town hall! you should have been more careful, my good woman!” Don’t Go Professor (complaining):—“For the past two weeks a student has occupied the room below mine. The impudent fellow plays the piano and sings every blessed night, ‘Come down, oh Madonna Theresa!’ What can I do about it?” Police Sergeant:—“Is your name Theresa?” Professor:—“No.” Police Sergeant:—“Well then you need not take any notice of it.” An Acquired Interest