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"We are told that the maximum of the income-tax duty will be
reached at five shillings in the pound, a figure that will recall
the Budgets of the Neapolitan wars."--_Irish Paper._
When, as now, Vesuvians were so heavily taxed.
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[Illustration: LOVE ME, LOVE MY PIG. [Captured documents show that the
German Government had schemed to stamp out Mohammedanism in East Africa
both by force and by the encouragement of pig-breeding.]]