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Show It 13 but a comparatively short j time since tbe Crimean war, which is remembered by many men who have hardly yet reached the middle e( life. Yet in the abort space of time which haB elapsed since thnt war, it is estimated that wars have cost tbe world $12,005,000,000. Those who are inclined to doubt the accuracy of theso gigantio figures arc referred to the fact that the late American sectional sec-tional war is behoved to have coat the south $2,300,000,000, and the north $1,700,000,000. It ia estimated that the enormous sura spent in these wars would build two railways round the world at tho rato of $250,000 a mile, and that it would provide a freehold farm of 100 acres in this country to each ofthe 50,000,000 adult malos in Europe. |