ROBUST IMAGINATIONS.

SOME VERY ABLE STORIES ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN TOLD IN NEVADA. Yesterday afternoon, when the lawyers in Justice Gary's court were waiting for the verdict in a petty larceuy case, Attorney Soderberg related an iucident of his early childhood in Minnesota, illustrative of the peculiar customs in vogue in that state : " I knew an old farmer there who owued ten acres of timber land where millions of pigeons came each year to roost. They devastated the whe it crops, and the old coon used to catch the bird 3in nets and thrash them out on the barn fi )or. Each bird had three ounces of wheat in his crop, and it was a bad year for ' Old Thompson ' when he couldn't ship 1000 Uushels of wheat to market at 260 dols. a bushel, aud it ranked A JNo. 1 when it reached the Chicago elevator. If there fcfod been a few millions more of pigeons he would havo come pretty near getting a corner on the Minnesota wheat crop." "I know a planter down Jin Alabama," said Kittrell, "who was fully as sharp as that. He trained an alligator to work up and down the river and catch the little picaninnies that played along the bank. The alligator would take the little kids in his jaws and swim back to the plantation. It was a dull day that he couldn't corral three or four. The planter raised 'ein carefully, and when they got big sold 'em in New Orleans at prices ranging from three to ten thousand apiece. He was rolling in wealth when Lincoln's emancipation proclamation was issued, and after that the alligator never did any more work. The man is now barely keeping body and soul together in Washington, clerking in one of the Government bureaus at eight thousand a year." Judge Gary evidenced the greatest interest in these weird tales, and edged up to the group. " These are ourious ya/as, gentlemen, but I believe them all. J had n dog twice, b*ck in Nebraska, that I kept to herd lumber," "Beg pardon, Judge ; did you s.\y the dog herded lumber ?'' "Yes, sir, cottonwood boards. We always kept a dog there to bring the lumber in at night." Everybody now paid the closest attention as they knew that the boss was at work. "It was this way. Cottonwood boards warp like thunder in the sun. A board would begin to hump its back up about 9in the morning, and in half-au-hour it would turn over. By 11 it would warp the other w*ay with the heat, and make another flop. Each time it turned it moved a couple of feet, always following the sun toward the west. The iirst summer I lived in Brownville over 10,000 ft. of lumber skipped out to the hills the day before I Lad advertised a house raisin. I went to the country seat to attend a lawsuit, and when I got back there wasn't a stick of timber left. It had strayed away into the uplauds. An ordinary board would climb a two mile hill duriDg a hot week, and when it struck the timber it would keep wormiu' in and out among the trees lib-, a garter snake. Every farmer in the Sbate had to keep shepherd dogs to follow his lumber around the country, keep it together, and show where it was in the morning. We didn't need any flumes there for lumber. We sawed it east of the place we wanted to use ifc, and let it warp itself to its destination ; men and dogs to head it off at the right time, we never lost a stick. Well, here comes the jury," continued the ,

Judge. " The witnesses lied so I guess they will disagree."