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MERELY A QUESTION OF "CLASS." Harry Marks. ex-M.P.. founder and proprietor of the Financial News, the first daily financial paper in the world, has just died after an adventurous career. He was the son of a London rabbi, but came to America when a lad, and was driving a mule team in Texas at sixteen. A year later he was a reporter on the New Orleans Picayune, and eventually he found himself baek in England, due to beiome a figure of considerable importance in the financial world. He once owned a race horse called Fiddle and I. In the famous Riie Mine case he was cross-examined by Mr. GIB, then a rising barrister. Sir Charles Russell. Q.C., was counsel for the prosecution. The following dialogue took place: Mr. Gill — You own race horses? Mr. Marks — I own a plater. The Keeorder — Ami. pray, what is a plater? Mr. Marks -A plater, my Lord, bears the same ratio to a race horse as a fifth-rate attorney looking at Mr. Gill bears to an eminent Queens Counsel looking at Sir Charles Russell;. — Toronto Globe.
