AN ECCENTRIC SHERIFF.

An action has been raised'in Edinburgh Court of Session to reduce the will of Sheriff Thomas, who was sheriff of Orkney and Shetland. Various eccentricities are attributed to him. The sheriff ordered in his will that lie was to be buried in a wicker coffin, so ac to be " handy for the scramble at the resurrection." He made extraordinary bequests, and in his lifetiiuefined his servants for slight offences. He also fined hie cat if it disturbed the p*wo of the house. He had strict, rules for himself, and if be broke any of them he fined himself. Hβ kept a "laughing waistcoat" with elastic sides, -which he used to go to dinner in.