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Show Brazil's Anniversary. The recent celebration of the anniversary anni-versary of Brazilian Independence brings to mind several interesting facts concerning this growing nation. Brazil, with the exception of Cuba, is the youngest of the Latin-American republics. Unlike Cuba, however. Brazil enjoyed Independence long before be-fore the change of government came. Again, most unlike its sister republics of Spanish America, Brazil effected the radical change without bloodshed. Dom redro was a wise, as well as a lovable, monarch ; when he saw that the majority opinion favored a republican repub-lican form of administration, he graciously gra-ciously abdicated and retired from public life. If only certain European monarchs had possessed similar foresight fore-sight and common sense , but a few years ago ! |