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...will be seen that, with the exception of a slight falling-off in the stationery department, every branch of business shows a substantial increase. Of the total business, $166,625.15, or 59 per cent., represents the amount of sales made to members, and upon this amount the annual dividend will be paid. The remaining 41 per cent, represents non-dividend-bearing purchases made by the general public. The amount of dividend, as noted by the stockholders, is eight per cent., so that the total disbursement for dividends will amount to $13,330.01, the largest annual dividend payment in the history...
...well as the comic. The action takes place in the time of Louis XI. At the opening of the play, the king is sitting at table with Olivier-Le-Daim, his barber and favorite, when a great commotion is heard in the street, and Gringoire, the vagabond poet, is seen without. Gringoire has incurred the enmity of Olivier, who summons him into the mansion and compels him to sing a ballad of his with which all the streets of Paris are ringing. The ballad is directed against the king, and Olivier hopes to bring about the composer's ruin...
Louis then summons before him Loyse, the beautiful daughter of Simon Fourniez, a rich bourgeois whom he has befriended. Olivier-Le-Daim has seen her and fallen in love with her at sight. The king promises Gringoire that he will spare his life if he succeeds in winning Loyse within the hour. When left alone with her, however, the poet forces himself, by a supreme effort, to keep silence on the subject of the king's command. On the latter's return, Loyse for the first time realizes Gringoire's position, and declares that by the subtlety and sweetness...
...that this rule places each College organization which may give an entertainment in the position of a man who cannot swim and is pushed out beyond his depth and advised not to drown. These organizations are told not to advertise--that is, not to use advertisements which may be seen--and yet to be sure not to get into debt...
...eternal beauties of light in terms of Spanish noblemen", and in styling Whistler "the poet of the dusk". So, too, though I disagree with Mr. Simonson's doctrine that Whistler is the single message-haven of a century of painters, I like his final sentence, "When we have seen the exquisite combinations of color silhouette which the hour brings, we shall have understood Whistler's message to the multitude...