A Nominal Duty.
A Correspondent of the Post, signing himself Hopeful, proposes to avoid any addition to the Income-Tax by the expedient of imposing “a tax of 5s. On every name but one a child of Her Majesty’s subjects receives at its baptism or registering.” The aristocracy are requested to observe, that the adoption of this proposal wold involve the impost of five Bob for every extra Reginald, Hubert, Bertram, or other proper name of a noble boy.
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Arguing in a Circle. – The Pope’s Encyclical Letter.
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