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Show Denounced Uaurer. Fortunately the dignified repose of the Bank of England is not often interrupted by the arrival of a gentleman who denounces de-nounces the assembled cashiers as "usurers "usur-ers and thieves." . Such au individual did yesterday enter the bank, and, besides be-sides uttering the above atrocious sentiments senti-ments with regard to the business there-' in transacted, distributed various pamphlets pam-phlets bearing upon "the infamous national na-tional sin called interest." Anybody who gave or took interest ought to be denied Christian burial, according to this compendium com-pendium of theolocico flnancial knowledge. knowl-edge. There are a good many sane people peo-ple who disapprove of usury, including Mr. Ruskin and most of tho philosophic Socialists, but they do not carry their theories into practice in the manner of the impulsive gentleman who bestowed a "piece of bis mind" on the astonished Bank of England officials. London Telegraph. Tel-egraph. ' " ' |