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Show - France in a Nutshell. ! . . ' 1 ' The debt of France is 40 milliards; a milliard i 1.000 millions. - i , . -The last vear's deficit in France was 153,000,000. With such a debt, and such management, France , is surely doomed. ' The - French revenues; are decreasing rapidly, and the finances are in bad condition. The leaders of the French government are socialists, so-cialists, free-masons and Jews. ! . .- The expulsion of religious orders, the closing of Catholic schools, the persecution of priests," and the fear of civil war, caused lately an . immense loss to the credit of the land. . . . Brisson was elected president of the -chamber.-. He is one of the most bigoted free-masons.. .-.'.. . j Five thousand priests and seminarists had lately late-ly to join the army. The Catholic, Captain' Msg-" niez. who was cast out of the army. on. account .oif, his religious convictions, addressed an excellent letter let-ter on all these clerical recruits, in which he reminded re-minded them of their chances to instill in the soldiers sol-diers good principles and to do much .'good among them, etc. . . Poor France! Those whom God wishes to destroy, de-stroy, .He first makes mad! |