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ALWAYS FINISH YOUR SENTENCES CERTAINTY OP THE MEIA, SCIENCE. CERTAINTY OF THE MEDICAL ScIENCE. The answer of another learned member of the faculty pro- duced a hearty laugh in the Court of King's Bench. On a question of life and death, it became necessary to fix the precise tine at which a person had died; for which purpose, there was an examination of his medical attendant. "Pray state, as nearly as you possibly can, doctor, at what hour Mr.died." Let me see," said the doctor, " I attended him at eleven o'clock; then I was called to him again at two yes, the last time I prescribed for him was at two. Then he must have died, as nearly as possible, at six o'clock."-"I sce, doctor," said the opposing counsel, "You can calculate the exact time when your medicine produces its effect."Most certainly," said the son of Esculapius, with becoming gravity; and it was some time before he could be made to understand how he, without being mirthful himself, should be the cause of mirth in others. B. B-ㄧㄧㄒ· ALwAYS FiNISh YoUuR SENtEnCES. At the Surrey quarter sessions, a good-for-nothing appren tice was found guilty of robbing his master; when the chairman was about to pass sentence, the fellow muttered a sort of cry, in which there was more of dislike of punishment than sincerity of repentance. The chairman procceded to expatiate upon the aggravation of theft in this case, he being in duty bound to protect his master's property, instead of despoiling him of it; and remarking on his whimpering, he declared his disbelief of his having any remorse of conscience. 62