Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1913 — English Justice. [ARTICLE]

English Justice.

The readers will find in Dr. Goj> ton Hake’s "Memoirs of Eighty Years” an anecdote/related of Lord Bloomfield, Bishop of London about a hundred years ago, in which is to be seen a striking trait of the British character. Imprisonment for debt was not in accordance with the bishop’s sense of right He would not yield his principles even when he was in Italy, where he could not he held responsible for the Jaws. I was told by* one of the family a lingular anecdote of the bishop, writes Doctor Hake. When he was it Rome he was invited to a banquet by the cardinals, and while the company gathered he learned accidentally that the dining-hall was over the lebtors’ prison. His anger at once bunt forth and knew no bounds. He, a prelate of the Church of England, was insulted. He had been asked to dine over the heads of those wretched prisoners, who, during the feast, would be. pining in their narrow cellsl His hosts naturally explained that •uch o an affront was not intended by them; but he was not to be pacified. At last his course was determined oil He would remain where he was until a full list of all the prisoners* debts was brought to him. For this he waited sulkily, and when it arrived he wrote a check for the entire amount. The prison doors were opened, and he jut down. *

There Is enough gold floating In the sea to make everybody rich. This Information fa the result of an analysis of ocean water recently finished by M. Alphonse Berget of Paris, professor in the oceanographic instlr -tote. He has confided his discovery to the Paris correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, who makes baste to spread the glad news. "The analysis revealed about fifty milligrams (.77 grata) of gold in each ton of sea water,** explained the prefeesoc. “That seems little enough, but sonridering that it takes a line of fig ores a column wide to give the total number of tons of water in the ocean It is easy to see that an immense amount of gold fa held in eototton. If each of tho 1j00,0«9,fi09 Inhabitants of the world had his share it would equal $24,000,000 apiece.— Globe, Protecting the Men. "AB women of whatever age, ranlL profteslon or degree, whether virgins, maids oi- widows, that shall from after the passing of this act impose upon and beray into matrimony any of his Majesty’s male subjects by scents, paints, cocmotias, washes, artlficiaj teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high heeled shoos or bolstered hips shall incur tho penalty M tho lawn now In force against witchcraft, saroery and such like mfodemeanors, and that tho marrtagh open conviction. shaU stand null 4M void.*'—An act of Farliameat In fits stfgn of Chastas U In England. It fa estimated that over IAM aer» Wm*