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Show FRENCH AS INVESTORS. According to Neymarck, the FreBe statistician, the French people hold stocks, bonds and other like securities tt the amount of $18,600,000,000, the iaereasaS. . since 1890 having been about 24.000.000.000. DeposiU in savings banks increased &f t twenty yean by $200,000,000; the numbers of depositors by 2.100.000. Mutual relief societies increased their holdings in thai period by $21,000,000. The deposits of the great banks of France in 1905 were $i79.-400.000, $i79.-400.000, against $182.400.0W in 1885, The Bank of France's deposits last year were $164,600,000. The habit of investing in . Government and other bonda la more widely prevalent among Frenchmen, it la said, than among any other people. The peasants find euch securities very eoa-venient. eoa-venient. Baltimore Siin. ' |