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\ tiU',.'e' y" no WAS arrested IN Rome
lor S,eSnns le"''ry c"niesSed That he
sW""oWeu diamonds ANA other stones
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Ma "-u" ia''St purchase Tor her
navy i the ous"ie'e German war vessel
\ lil'''''uS' Nnich' htl"S twenty years
oid' was ABOUT I" Ice broken up at Ham
The largest copper refining works I'm
the world are that at Perth Amhoy. y.
=. Fifteen To eighteen million pounds
OF copper are rehhed 10y ei'riroiySiS ev-
cry month.
The Retirement of London aS>ocia-
ton mas presented a petition To the
county council requesting that it should
Zeal win the question "t street noises
throughout the metropolis.
CuNhaven instead of Hamburg is to
pe the future home port ot the Ham
purS-Amer'can hn'rs. The change is
eeins made on account OF The increa>-
ihs snaloWness or the river kibe.
The discovery OF gold IN Gazalaud
portuguese East Africa. proves 10 hc
Que OF extraordinary HchaeSs, and
mere Is general movement toward
N"~'' liioifue from oln'r parts az Al
''SS'
Fl Pals, which i pushing paper Of
BuenoS Ayres. offers To- give every sub
scriber for three months an equal value
III cigarettes 80 that the customer gets
- worth OF news ANA tobacco each ior
the one price.
John Dunfee Of Syracuse. y. y has
been awarded the contract 90 build ana
equip a railroad among The ford> ana
hills Of northern Norway lie WALL be
the hrst American contractor 90 cone
sTuct railway IN Norway.
Foreign comic papers are being sub
Jected 10 strict censorship in Ger
many Just now a spec.a. lookout is
being kept for those published JOB Amer
lea which contain pictures considered
diSrespectfui TO the kaiser
Vienna is experimenting with shake
speare.s less commonly acted plays.
Iroiius and Cresslda' proved success
tul. nllinS the Burg thCater two and
a .rrH Z
Measure was received coidiy-
According To- returns collected by the
India Tea association. the tea crop az
l"ol-O2 is : per cent less than that Of
the previous season In l9oO-0l the to-
tai production was 17T.G77.231 pounds.
ana for l3cll02 it amounts 10 lG5.263,-
4o3 pounds only.
The Harvard observatory has receiy-
ed an anonymous gift Of $4,000. half
OF which will Ice applied 10 the cularce-
ment Of the present building ia order
To provide for proper ARRANGEMENT
of the 100000 photographs OF the heav-
ems now owned by the institution.
a new giant geyser of Rotomahana
New Zealand, is attracting attention.
\ mass OF boiling water half an acre
IN extent rises in a great dome. from
which column Of water and stones
rises 10 800 feet. while immense col
umns Of steam ascend as far as can
be seen.
A curious strike is I'm progress ot
Rokewood, near Balmrat. Victoria.
where, in consequence of the refusal
of the local puhlicans 10 reduce the
price OF beer from sixpence 10 four
pence per pint, each resident has sign
Ell pledge to do without beer until
Melbourne prices are charged.
The Chemiker Zeitung describes
some experiments in making of artih-
cial diamonds. Carbon was heated in
an atmosphere of inner gas i'm an iron
flask raised To a high temperature by
the electric arc. Bits the size of pea
were obtained having the hardness and
. err. s.als nave gray unit that makes