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...Raynal's The Tomb Under the Arc de Triomphe was being played for the first time. The hero is made to "strut" across the stage sneering at all who did not fight. This annoyed the audience. Then came the inevitable bedroom scene in which the hero's financèe gives herself to him, because he has been recalled to the front before the wedding can take place...
...Bank system cannot last beyond the year 1907: Cong. Rec. Senator Sherman, p. 5381; Pres. Coe in Proceeding of Nat. Bank Ass'n, 1881, p. 30; Ingalls and Plumb in Sen. Journ. 48th Cong. 1st sess. pp. 1148-9, 1298. (b) There is need of more currency: Come. and Financ. Chron. May, 1892, pp. 781, 868; Cong...