Then, if Silver plays mad tricks,
Or Gold is always changing,
So that none their price can fix,
From par to premium ranging--
Let us both together mix!--
Let us both together mix!
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FITTING FINISH.--The Portuguese financial agent wrote last week to
the _Times_ to contradict the report as to a "further issue" by his
Government of "tobacco bonds." So this ends in smoke.
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A BLUE "TIP" FOR THE UNIVERSITY RACE.--With GAME rowing and HOPE in
the bow, the Cambridge Eight this year ought to make a close race of
it.
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[Illustration: IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.