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Show WORLD'S STRONGEST BANK Highest Financial Distinction Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly Must Be Awarded to the Bank of Genoa. Almost every one, if asked to make a list of the strongest banks in the world would put down first the Bank of England, and probably as a second tne tsanK 01 trance, several omei great institutions, including two or three in the United States, would be added, and then the maker of the list, especially if he happened to be a banker himself, would be astonished if told that he had omitted, as in all probability he would have done, to name the strongest bank in the world. That is, unquestionably, the Bank of Genoa, which as been in existence hundreds of years, and the administration adminis-tration of which has been as permanent perma-nent and unchangeable as that of the unfortunate republic of Genoa was agitated and fluctuating. No change ever took place in the mode of governing and regulating the affairs of the Bank of Genoa and two sovereign powers, at war with each other, have simultaneously had their armies within the walls of the city without causing the slightest shock v- ; to the bank or causing it to take the H slightest precautions by secreting any f of its books or treasures. |