The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-12
ar,AeTS IN FEW LINES


by the city.
Among the articles made in Philip
pine prisons are tables niaid with
pearl aud oyster shells.
England is going Go coin two pound
pieces In gold. They will be about the
size OF our ten Goliarcoius.
The birch srowS farther north than
any other tree. Next comes the Sibcri.
an larch and then the fr.
Nebraska was one OF the first states
to recognize the Importance OF kccp.ue
reliable records OF the dow 81 IT'S
streams.
II great cold turned cur atmosph ~
10 liquid air. it would make q sea thir.
ty-iNe feet deep over the surface of
the whole globe.
The mean annual temperature On Ga,
shade OF the city of Mexico FOR the pc
riod OF twenty-five years past has been
59.T9 degrees 4.
Or. Hayes measured an iceberg u
Melville bay which was nearly "a mit
long and SO feet above water. Ii WAS
estimated To weigh 2.OtOCO0Oo0 tons.
A live whale sixty. feet long has
been driven ashore at Juan les Pins.
near Antilles. an unprecedented occur
renee ON that part OF the Me,htcrraue-
an coast
An enormous rat has just been cap
turcd at BilNnghorouch. England II
turned the scale AT one and half
pounds and measured twenty inches
from the tip OF its nose To the end of
its tail
The boSrd OF the Metropolitan Rail
way company. London. has let "a COM
tract FOR their electrical power station
at Neasden 90 the British Wrestling
house Electrical and MANUFACTURING
company. limited
The area planted with wheat In Ben
gal this year is estimated AT only 1854.
1pO acres. total considerably below
the normal area. II is explained that
the falling on is due 90 the want az
rain 40 SOWING time.
The Russian ambassador at Constan.
tinop'c has scored -rUat success 10y
obtaining an trade from thc sultan au-
thorizins ci-hiy thrcc Russian schools
I'm Palestine which bad hitherto IS -
cd without pcrm's>ion.--
Since thc first eHtiircak If ,hc piacu,
in Sydney ~ years ago Mci6ouru,
'i''S V'. ----'-'- cen ''.N'S "H' 'No deaths
a. '7r" '". ".Nel~e- I'D, LAST d''in oce1r
ring in June. 1890. lu that yoar Their,
"e.e v''' cases ana i't -tths "t sgd
ncy.
At Newcastle I'n-'and' assi1es Jus
I uCc Ridley IN. UScd 81 fnU ot $50 on the
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he raising 10 thn instrument shelter
| OF thc weather '''t,an in New lorb
! '.'s ir'i' "N '.t'-'i'n 'l iro Iec'
/ above 'ie street SOB 500 elevation ot a's
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s "'''''S 'i sue" -''''o-p 10 "l"'Vv OF
,i"DSei cal ''i'-es H'! oe pr"1ucen
-""H. "''vli's are AIS" I" ne csta ID
''s'eu sn"ru9 Tor 'ie manufacture OF
'' MS
DOG collars are made OF an sorts OF
seinlprcclous stones Ia effective de
signs one tashionahle style Is oi many
rows oI coral beads with large clasp
OF riilhhnts- fantastic collar j. OF
imitation pearls with a large vampire
IKE buckle in front the wings being OF
ODD blue enamel aud the eye OF blazing
req stones
ne Royal Geological society or Ire.
land mas recognized LORD Roberts serV-
I ices 10 the empire by erecting and call
ing by his name cnrnivora house
which is aFil now lodged 70 De The finest