He and Judge Hoar went over together the revision of the United States statutes of 1874, completing a labor which had been neglected by Caleb Cushing.

Judge Poland had a good deal of fun in him, and had a stock of anecdotes which he liked to tell to any listener.

It was said, I do not know how truly, that he could bear any amount of whiskey without in the slightest degree affecting his intellect.

There was a story that two well-known Senators laid a plot to get the Judge tipsy.

They invited him to a room at Willards, and privately instructed the waiter, when they ordered whiskey to put twice as much of the liquid into Poland's glass as into the others.