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Show Whllo tho possiblo Indemnities to bo paid by tho vanquished in the present pres-ent war aro being discussed, tho Rlvls-ta Rlvls-ta Politico e Parlamentare entertains Its readers with an estimate of the weight of a milliard tho unit ot all speculations as to tho war debt to bo paid by one great power to another. A milliard francs, says the Rlvlsta, wolghs In silver 5,000,000 kilogrammes, In gold 322,500 kilos, in bank notes ot a 'thousand francs each 1,680 kilos, and In notes ot a hundred francs each 11,600 kilos. To carry a milliard, assuming as-suming that ono man can carry 100 kilos, would require: In banknotes of a thousand francs, 18 men; In notes of a hundred, 115 men; and In silver, 60,000 men. A milliard, in thousand-franc thousand-franc notes, would form . library ot 2,000 volumes of 500 pages each. |