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"The news, says the Paris correspondent of _The Times_, in itself is
serious enough as showing the dangers of letting the Adriatic
settlement continue to be at the mercy of a coup de theatre or coup de
d'etat, whichever one may like to call it."--_Evening Paper._
We fancy the Paris correspondent of _The Times_ would prefer the former.
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[Illustration: EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE
(_As dispensed by the LORD CHANCELLOR and a predecessor_).
INJURED PARTIES (_simultaneously_).
"OH! TO BE SMACKED BY THOSE WE LOVE DOTH WORK LIKE MADNESS IN THE BRAIN."]
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[Illustration: FRENZIED BOXING FINANCE.
_Master of the Ceremonies._ "LOOK 'ERE! 'FORE MY MAN FIGHTS HE WANTS TWO
POTTIES, THREE GLASSIES AN' A BLOOD-ALLEY; AN' I WANTS A PACKET O' FAGS FOR
MESELF."]
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