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...Gray, who followed for the affirmative, maintained that the world has outgrown large armies. Large armies are a direct encouragement to needless and exhausting wars. This was the case in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. We should live up to the high standard which William Penn reached when he made his great peace with the Indians, an event which Charles Sumner declared to be "the proudest sight which American history records...
...finds merely a repetition of the Franco-Prussian war with the circumstances and methods of battle slightly changed. Paris suffers a second capitulation...
...following is a brief description of the scheme: A general division into Foreign news and American news; the foreign news to be subdivided into political, economic, social, etc., as for example, the Congo Conference, the Soudan Question, the Franco-Chinese War, Dynamitism, Nihifists, Socialists, and Anarchists, etc.; American news to be subdivided in the same way, for example: The Nicaragua Treaty, Reciprocity Treaties, the Negro Question (including the Negro Scare following the last election), the Silver Question, Strikes, Trades-unions, Monopolies, Civil Service Reform...
...declining, although twenty or thirty years ago it was still very powerful. So powerful in fact, that when in 1848 Prince Louis Napoleon was nominated for the Presidency of the Republic, the mere magic of his name was sufficient to give him an overwhelming majority. The results of the Franco-German war, however, have greatly dimmed the lustre of the French arms under Napoleon, and many of the present French Republicans are exceedingly bitter towards the First Consul, charging that he took France with the boundaries of the French Revolution, and left it with the boundaries...
...oldest of Boston's art stores, is that of Williams & Everett; here can be seen three pictures owned by a Boston gentleman, who is said to have paid $25.000 for them. The largest one is a characteristic sketch by Detaille, a group of soldiers, a scene in the late Franco-Prussian war. The first feature that one remarks in the picture is the beautiful play of light. Although the coloring does not affect one favorably, yet the fine draughting and grouping of the figures show the masterhand of the man, who, with De Neuville, leads this branch of the French...