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Show $50,000,000 FOR PARIS. The city of Paris has borrowed $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 in New York, tho bonds being placed by Kuhn, Locb & Company. The French government is behind the mtT-nicipality, mtT-nicipality, which is to be reimbursed for the heavy expenditures made by it for the alleviation of suffering caused by the war and to provide for other similar simi-lar expenditures. It is said that the New York banking lirm does not regard Jhe French negotiations as savoring of a war loan. However, the difference, if it exists, is so very slight as to Ije almost imperceptible, and it really does not make any difference how the loan is, regarded. The fact that this country has put out an additional fifty millions for five years at a good rate of interest is all that need be known about the transaction'. We are getting used to these fiuaneial transactions in which eight or nine figures are used to represent repre-sent the sum borrowed, and when a million mil-lion or two is handed out over tho counter coun-ter to the agents of some foreign city or country we consider it a trifling matter indeed. Where the people of the United States used to think in thousands their minds now run to hundreds of millions and even billions, and all on account of the war now raging iu Europe", |