"SIX HUNDRED SQUARE MILES. BRITISH GAINS SINCE LAST
YEAR."--_The Statesman_ (_India_).
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The _Berlin Tageblatt_ says that HERR MIHAELIS in the critical
passages measured his words "as carefully as if they were meat
rations." A wise precaution, in view of the likelihood that he
would have to eat them.
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