Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — England’s Highest Tribunal. [ARTICLE]

England’s Highest Tribunal.

Here is an interesting description of the highest tribunal of England by a recent writer in the Baltimore Sun: The lord chief justice wears a dark blue silk gown with a wide black facing in the gray from the wrist to the elbow. Over bis shoulder and across his breast is wound a wide, bright red silk scarf, while from his neck hang two white •starched ties. On his head is a wig, with a red spot in the crown, all except the crown being done up in little curls. On his nose are gold spectacles, and from his pocket he draws a large red silk handkerchief of brilliant design, aud occasionally he takes a pinch of snuff. Altogether the lord chief justice is a picturesque spectacle. The other judges are attired in a very similar manner. The sixpence seeking doorkeeper ass’wed me that to see the five judges sitting together was the grandest sight in the world. The ca9e on trial was an appeal from a criminal case in which the article stolen was a small quantity of milk, of the value of two pence, which the prisoner, being thirsty, had drank. The judges cut off the arguments of counsel in short order, and took oceasion to say that, although the case was so trifling in itself, it involved a question of great importance in preserving the system of trial by jury in criminal cases. Damariscove, Me., has now no inhabitant but a lighthouse keeper. Two hh«dred years ago, in arranging for the In. dian campaigns, Damariscove could Iqrnish a company of men.