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enn&ut expired!. shout. zn hour
b*1f &fter, the'tregie eent.
en -the Ateroesut -
height et more then'500 feet the
is ors were aniased to see small
tongues of flame issuing from under
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the bftg.
One* felt withAtte:Irani, e of los'
Lura &nd;when the spectators
reachecl him he was lying under_it
1.44 a.viarter of * mile from the
fair grounds. The gaS beg, which
fell 'nearby, was completel$ destroy-
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CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
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RAPPENING'S FROM ALL OVER
TIIE GLOBE.
'44004.4ik- ",000!;';
Telegraphic Betas From Oise 0 a
• and -Other Couatrice of
Recent Events.
CANADA.
Mr- I. A. Cummings *Talked off'
tritin in his sleep at Kama and
killed.
. Milton Hersey of Montreal
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The" Railway Conimissiort is con.sidernA regulations for carrying
explosives on railways.
Swift & Co. of Chicago aro said
to be interested in an extensive
etoekYard and abattoir scheme at
Winnipeg.
In a row among drunken Italians
Fenelon Falls one Man was slaah-
iter0e$ the abdomen, and his al-
leged assailant was arrested—;
AT hortiAtiiief is alleged to have
stolen a horse and buggy from By-
ron Boomer of Lincoln township,
and tet fire to the barn to (ewer
tho theft jt,, Beamer lost Ids bun
machinery, horses and other stook
and crvs.
$
GMAT IlltITAIN.
. -Prince Bolotoff,
sttemptsteetreesstheeE
nel with an Aeroplane.
The British hark Amazon was
eked - .tosff..,,, Welsh coat and
1 of her crew re drowned.
he Berl of Bosse, one of Ire-
land's representadve Peers in the
Mouse of Lords, is dead. .
Great damage has been done in
Viiglifid'ind *Ions the coast b
terrific storms•during the last two
• A Mielmaii caused a panic on the
• London Stock Exchange on Wed-
reiday by firing three shots from his
revolver in the building.
-John E: Redmond, the Irish Na-
Aimilitialleader, has debbired the
Irish University act to be one of
the greatest emaneipatipg measures
or the century.
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UNITED STATES.
The people of the northwestern
States are agitating for the ftee-44-
sion__of_Careidoin lumber. -
Four -Seamen on the British bark
?uHtan were �uEocateJ in the hot
ef the vessel near Boston -
Eight trolley cars loaded with ex-
rinonists were stalled by potato
on the rails near Bristol,
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GENERAL.
An edict issued in the mimeo of
the Emperor promices the Chinese
cople a constitution in nine years.
The Japanese steamer Bankoku Sorne men, seem to extend
lifprirsirts$ sunk or Plitha Prefecture stending offer to the public to sit
with a Logs of twenty-eight lives., cloven on them. ,
•wiclespreed politiesd conspiracy
including plans to murder Lord
to and other high offieials, lies
e revealed in India.
The rat Oil Are, near, Pmmpi-
co which.' burned for two
months, consuming $3,000,000 worth
of oil, has been extinguished. ,
LAND POR WAR VETERANS.
oommeriol
Militia, Department Has Issued
Form of Application.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The Militia Department has• issued
Aletatfintslesettet
°unties under the Act of last ses,
Bien.- The forms provide -for the
cases of officers, for non-commis-
sioned officers and men who were+
enlisted in Canada, for men who
were not mentbers of corps raised
Canade, but who otherwise servs
esi in South Africa, &lad for officers
and men- who served in the eerie*
which did not reach South Africa
before the those sre the war. The
epplieanteehstvtssinsthererireisisf-nons
..cseniesandspervatess-to-sensl-instheii
discharges, which will be returned.
All the applicants have to be sworn
to before a coniroissioner. The
forms of applieation can be obtains
e4 either from the Militia Depart -
went or from any district officer
commanding. Early application es
advissble Lin order that the appli-
cations may be p43sed upon by the
Militia Department and forwarded
to the Departmeret of the Interior,
which wilt iestieethe-warrentio to the
individuals concersted.
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BRAKES TAMPERED WITH;
Rubber Tubes Under The •Car
Found to -he Cut.
A despatch from Montreal esys
A trimmal attempt to interfere
with a railway, tram was made ,o
ue niOt_by--jokrt"
Ail a train of freight ca s was pull-
ing out of the C. P. R. yard in
liochelaga it was noticed by a
brakeman' that the pneumatic
brakes were 'licit working properly.
The train was stopped, and it wass
found that about 50 rubber air
tubes had been maliciouely cut un-
der the Cara. If this had not been
noticed in time the train crew be-
lieved it wduld have been the cause
of a serious.wreck, with loss of life.
Detectives have been notified, and
airests are likely to folios?.
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SECTION HAND WAS SHOT."
Boy Carrying Ride Accidentally
Diseharged It: '
A despatch from Kingston says:
James Ferguson, a section hand on
the Grand Trunk, was accidentally
shot in the left arm on Weduenday
morning by a boy named Henry
nox, -Knox, was itrineitpr, a rifle
into the city to have repairs made.
p..wss-varrying-it with -thesbarrel
wards the tracks when it Accidents
ally exploded, hitting Ferguson
the arm. The bullet, tuthred just
above the elbow, passing through
the muscle and entering his side.
Fortunately the force of the bullet
was spent when it entered ,:thes
man's side or fatal ieeults might
have followed.
Mistress (angrily) --'"How dare
you talk back to
mein that way /
never *air such impudence. You
'have a lot ofnerve to call your-
self a lady's maid." New Maid-.
1,1 don't cell myself that now
mattitti i• but 1wan 'a lady' S inaid
before, I got this job." .
If •
unitg the,
B. C.,
ofthe post
ave aorkedable
but extrissesi the
hue for weeks
Oowklion dis.
ward the litert
ouser laland.The fire ten.
f the Mount
hero all save
British Oolnt
Season
!irked up bv the fires, and the.
B., the Ykt& and 'Chetnnut-
US Lumber Cornpany,and the Cowl'.
chart and Ladysmith Limber Coins
'ponies are heavy sufferers, their
losses running far into six figures.
It is estimated that forest fires
thus far this season 'throughout
British Columbia have eenied less -
et approximating 425,000;000. The
heaviest Of thee lo.v witt1' the
's Nett Sectitin, where the 4'
AND
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the
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,
i*ttcking caged bird
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*rkin
i.f 40,000 psaseugers at
the cther day, WAS * recrd
, he ielAhd. -
.,Several 00444 Egyptian quidlo
worth about $8,00, were •biirut to
death iu it"fire at an aviary &VI/V.0d
Green. •
Another unsuccessful attempt ha*
recently. been made to raise the,
sunken cruiser 'Gladiator off Yar-
mouth, Isle of Wight.
For sleeping in th.e -open air at
Stowuplaud a man was sentenced
to A InOntiegi hard labor at Stew -
market on Friday.
Much damage has been done to
larch trees on, the Manchester wat-
plague of saw' 0lei,
sof/0011'
-At present more thirissmomsesies
men' are engaged in factories and
workshops in London, 8,000 of them
in the clothing, and allied trades.
Rats collected in Sunderland for
the period ending with July are
$40,000 lower than the amount re-
ceived in the corresponding period
ef Istet year:
The Nottingliani City Council has
- .-iirtTrAtIte
r tsavorks4esigitedstosat-
leviate the. unemployed may be
proceeded with.
General Booth says he is going to
South Africa in search of a new
Canaan, in which the unemployed
of this country can receive a- wel
come and a home.
Over sixty members of the Dr:s-
tol Crimean and Indian Mutiny
Veterans' Association were enter-
tained by the Duke' of Beaufort ut
Ilarhninton on Friday. •
* The winning bunch of wild flow-
ers in a, petition among the pupils
ttra Thomlinsoz-Chist:„. Grammar
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C('flt Patents,
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Aorthey at , °IA No, 2 at
. and old 2 at Eat, Now
No. 1 Northern, $1.13, .v1
itt $1.11, leke' ports. -
Wheet---No, 2.white anil
red ted at 48 8.0%c. outside.
Oats --Ontario,. - new, No. -2 White,
390 ontruk; liountoba 2o. 3 quot.
ed At 4430,. and reiect90, 43.1(se to
-tee lake port*.
Rye ---Buyers at 73e outside.Peas-8.c outsido.,
Corn -Price; At 88e -for No.
American yellow, and at 87c for No.
2 American OR track, Toronto.
Barley -No. 2 barley quoted- a
SS 9
-Brim re -are -quote 18,in
bulk *outside. Shorts quoted at 421
to $22 in bulk ovitsioie.
COUNTItY PRODUCE.
Beens-Primo, $2 to $2.10, and
hand -Picked, , $2.20' to 412.24. *
Honey -Combs, No. 1, $1.50 to
$1.75sroor dozen, And No. 2/. in 60-
1)estni-tilletsegei No. .1sfilletk,41),
"
ti a o to'
ton en..track here, and No. 2 at
$0.50 to $7.
Straw -'--$0 to $7.50 in car lots.
Potatoes -New Canadian quote 1
at 55 to. 05c per bushel inlarge
lots; New Brunswick potatoes, $1
per bag, on track.
Poultry -Chickens, spring, dress.
ed, 13 to '14c per pound; fowl, set
to 12c; ducks, dressed, 1.0 to 'tic;
turkeys, dreeeeds..._13 te_sittespAr
pound,
THE DAIRY
MARKETS, ,
School, Wigton (Cumberland), emis Btitter.'"?°und Panto*. 22 to 230*
1
tamed 229 different specimens. tubs, 20 to 211.6rct5erinierior-,
A party of Liverpool motorists leo. Creamery rolls, 25 to 240, and
passed through the village of Ast-
ey, in South Lancashire* Where
reckless motoring is causing/much
elignatien,,:wero pelted with see -
•ten
-During the last few months lour
cases of cattle maiming have been
reported to the Grimsby police. In
each instance the outrage was com-
mitted atnightin mysterious cir-
cumstances.
A Fulham mother, to keep her
baby safely in bed, tied a band
round the little one. The child must
have moved or fallen as the band
tightened round its throat and
strangled it.
The Phoenix Assurance Company,
Limited, of London, recently' re-
ceived $260 "conscience money."
"The money was sent in an old mus-
tard tin' and there was not the
slightestclue as to the identity of
the sender. .
At an inquest on the body- of
Thos. Hooper, 73, a greengrocer,
cf Beth street, City road, London
it was stated that he lived for 10
cows after breaking every rib and
his *collar -bone .in fell down the
stairs. -
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QUEENS' AND IICLLFIGATING,
Victoria of Spain Mopes to Win
Even If Others Did, Fail.
Queen Victoria a Spain is, it is
!Aid, anxious to 4'6°114 in he cairn -
try the enormities of bullfighting;
she has hitherto consented to at-
tend at this favorite national *port,
but the last time she went, shortly
before Don Jaime's birth, what,the
eitnessed filled her with horror
said grief.
"So shehas caused t& be revived
the memory of the fact that the
great Queen Isabella?, when she re-
turned from conquering the Moors,
deelared that it was her wish to
bolish bullfighting as a cruel sport
Which, she asserted, had been in -
reduced by the kaynint Moors ad
*fah was unworthy of a Christian
It the Spaniards of today are rel.
incled that the Queen whose' likes
ory they' adoie *se only preient-
by her death front putti down
e Cruel sport it it he the
ins allow 'their )reaent Queen tt.
a eat at le*At nnfaJajonable to
lisdie1`10 attend on sub sights.
Queen Christie*, tried todo so
n the early days of her rule.**
widowed Regent, says the London
Illustrated New*, but she haa so
uch else to otnitendotith tbat she
sa to abandon this unpopular re.
orm.
It seemed impossible not *4o.
for duelling ever to he abohidied
* Meth* tot mottling personal dis-
pute* and wiping out inmate among
gentlemen. but Quiron "letotilit
i
*thieved t. Acting 'through her
*USA,. *lie so arranged that duel-
Ishould never again be restorted
to by men in the srzny to end their
4 defend
solids at 24 to 2440.
Eggs --20 to 21 per dozen in case
lots.
Cheese
pound, and -twins 3 to I
cheese, 15 to 15,4c.
V,
ROG PRODVOTS.
Bacon, long clears, 113i, to 11%e
per pound in ease lots; mess pork,
*19 to $10.50; short cat, $23 to
ittf4liats--Light to medium, IA% to
15c s.do„, heavy, 12 to 12c; rolls,
10% to 1134e; shoulders, 10 to
1034e; backs, riy, to 18c; breakfast
bacon, 15 -to 14.0.
tard-Tiertest, 12,Y ; tubs/ 12340
pails, ISric.
BUSINES• S AT MONTREAL.
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Montreal, Sept. 8. - Grain
Manitoba NO. 2 white at 48c, No. 3
at 47c and rejected at 480 per bush-
el, in cur lots, ex /Store. Flour '
Choice spring wheat patents, $6 to
$0.10; se0Onclo, '0 $5.50; Winter
wheat patents, $5; straight rollers,
$4.30 to $.4.50; do., in bagsss$2 to
$11.75. MM -
fed -Manitoba bran, $22 to $230
• is; lo25-,---Ontsrify-branr$21--to
422; middlings, *20 to $27; *bort*
$20 per ton; including hags; pure
-stein mouille, $30 to $35, and mill -
cd grades, $25 to $28 per ton. Fin-
est westerns isg to 1$34e, and east -
erns, .12!,4 to 12ge. trutter --- 25e
foi finest creamery, and round lots
are quoted at 24c. Eggs -Sales of
selected stoek Were made at 24c,
I at 900 and No. Vat 150 Per
dozen. • Provisions -Petrels 'short
cut mesa 422.00; belt 411,50;
:clear fat' becks, $23; .dry salt cleat
backs -01e; barrels plot"' betti $17.-
50; half Wit., lo., *9.
00; compound
lard, ey.; eXe;., pure le
rd,21„;*e
to 13e; kettle rendered, 13 to 13%03
hems, ;12% to 14e; breakfast bacon,
14 to 150; Windsor bacon, 15 to 10c;
fresh kilied abattoir dressed hogs,
$0.75; live, $7 to $7.10.„
LTNITEI) MAUS MAI:MET, S.
fluffalo, Sept. $- -.Wheat--Sprrig
higher; Witer ier; No. * cod,
trs ked, e7'e; No. $
0. k muted 96e. me
Pirzner . 3 yellow, 84c; No 4
yellow, 830; No. 2 white,'830. O,s',
-Esaier; No. white, 53 tfltz;
white, 52 to 330; 41`1`6, 4
▪ 1$”4 to
to malting, Mt to
Minneapolis, Sept. !test -
Dec., $i; May, $1.03,24, *A No,
hard, $1,03%4 NO. 1 No-thp'i.
.ft'; No Northern. WI to
.004; No. $ Northern; 31 to 0t4e.
at. -414 hulk, Es fo 0814 !PI ir
irst patents, $5.05 to 154/5; sec
-
a petonts, $6.50 to .00; first
$4.0$ to $4.46; -stet ord clear'
.50 to 3.00.
AY
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t
inufaen n*
t': e projeeturigi
he Trade and Patett ('oflgrt
0
lro4n u
delegates ongress,':insittd;
fr thoe from the LTnited StAtei,
04PreAtted. theopinion that. radical
measures were necesearYs to 4r1,11$
Great Britain to terms. It was lae;
Cidea that this could . be "attained'
by the • vioriouit nations passing
te,c re restrictive patent laws, and
Dy isegotiating patent treaties be-
tween nations which will waive the
o
*Pi
*tent !sws
sock
enAeuts 'fir
UulOn m i.ongre ,s
Pot A!. rie.an Patent tet
wilL iso. an.
e , ter t I
n ,
,
o ,
ter *ill by Sprig vprogresed
pmt wheze Great Brit*iu will
be cffectually itobeted., It is b&hev-
ed QUA Dtiti!gt nAlienntatetUrerti will r.
t en be isempelled to press the Govs
ernmentlo repeal the Act, or make
/treaties With other countries, Ger..
many intends to repeal her present
i
p$tent law, which s not enforcthe
rigidly. She will then be in & po-
sition to combine with other nations
egitinst Great Britain.
TIlE FUTURE BATTLESHIP
seSS
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Two Meister Sbipa BegiaT
Tear, One of 12,200 Tons Witk
Turbine Engines.
The coming of the Dreadnoughts,
4 all the world knows, has :neap
naval officers the future is to tiu
Power whichpossesses'. most of
these ships and can use them well,
writes It W. Wilioon in the Londoa
Daily Mali.
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ItwillOf intere.st, then, in
view of the pause which has been
made during, the present year in
shipbuilding, to examine how the
'British navy stands in this latest
ttpe of ship and what are the de-
minieresifuttouerielt.hetri°18"trgerAelldopted letsvhIps c4onmhe'd-
t will scarcely AO bait*. tier w°1414
it, be wise to do so in view of the
t that almost all foreign Powers
arefoltitta, g British de-
signs.
For the present year two mo
ships -a battleship and a cruiser -
g t
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11 such on experimental ship is to
he built with great speed to obtain
experience the orders for her guns,i
bzirbettes and machinery will bre
gi*-ssieltellevlebTalece
d t e may be,
plaeett
m t e s
he IMYSEnt-"Yelits-slarnem,raltz_=-------
AS followed in the ease
Dreadnought.
The new ship will not improbably
carry a new monster gun, the 13.5
'Mete -eight or ten of which may be
mounted, and will 'thus carry out
the s'licy
of "out-Drze.adpsn, ughting
Wive been building for some months
and the employment of them in the
St Vincent class is known to have
keen considered and only reluctant-
ly abandoned. All the details are
confidential, but the German naval
handbooks will supply the nubile
witli what is certainly an intelligent
guess and poseibly accurate Infor-
mation. According to them the new
13.5 inch gunawillore_weittn86 tons
ottl tho
ex-
iting 1 inch weapon; will be about
52 feet long, and will fire a shell
.eeighing about .1,300pounds or 1,.
400 pounds, as against the 12 inch
sbell'e 8.50 pounds. Such huge pro- -
jectiles would pierce five feet of
iron and tear their way through the
modern arrnOr at battle range.
T7$ Ufl5 of the en'sn
T'iV,r‘r‘
es'
-,A6?"..st 4•144"CV, C.
t'tf
contrary to the reports circu
will be similar. in all important re-
spects to the St. Vincents. That
se to ease she will displace 19,209
tens or thereabouts, will carry ten
or twelve lirinch guns, and will he
propelled by- turbine engines actu-
ated by steam. Thus she wilt anake
up the group of four St. 'Vincent!
and when she is completed for se
the British navy will possess two
groups, each four strong, of all big
gun battleships. The other veseel
will resemble the Invincibles, with
improvements and will complete
-the group of four 24 -knot cruiser
battleships.
SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENT.
It will be seen that there is no-
thing soussitional in the design of
the ships for this year which aro
meant to fill gaps in the existing
organization. But next year it is
jiosaible that there may' be new and
startling departures. Froin hints
which Ministers - and, - others have
Tiro- ped, the Admireltrwill be corn -
f.
five monster battleships. More
may he, needed, but this must nec-
essarily depend on the progress
whieli foreign sbips, make in the
next,few months:
Germany it Inuit be remeinbei*
hes to- ay building or auctiou-
cd seven battlesliips o res
nought type (against the British
and two, or, possibly thiee;
cruisers of the Invincible type
(against the British four);. And un-
der her fixed programme she will
lisst down three inore,moneter bat -
y WI
ftr� on * r broa.
of extreme • damenity SO long zet
funnels remain. But there is some
here of getting rid of them an 1
thus giving
A CLEAR FIELD OF FIRE
The Belleville company is said to
be essighing a boiler which needs
o funnel above water to discharge._
le waste pFoducts pf combustion
and there Is the hare possibility
that producer gas engines might be
adopted. The firm of Vickers -Max-
im has prepared designs for battle- ,
ships driven by producer ge•s, and
it is undieetood that it is ready to
turn out a Dreaduought using gas
forthwith if it finds any. power Ads
venturous enough to try such an
experiment. The Admiralty, how-
ever, is not at all likely to install
the gas engine in battleshipsuntil
it has been thoroughly tried in
merchantmen and smaller cruisers-.
But that it will finally eonns may
be taken as certain.
• 'rher British battleship of 1010 may
htet-be--ss--veseels-of--25s000-tonr,-
mounting eight or ten 80 ton guns,
Which will be 60 arranged as to fire
on either broadside. She will re.
seinble the -new Brazilian ship!: in
carrying twenty.,4.7 inch or 0 inch
gotta for defence sgainst torpetlo.
atteck, and will thus be exempt
from the most serious tailing of the
original Dreadnoughts -the entirs
absenet of s niedium battery.
IMMIGRANTS BARRED OUT:
4.010.11
*ships and more monster cruis .222 Were Itch/sled Admiesion Ur:
ser.belrt year, the battleships, it is, Catadn.
btlieved,, displacing 21,00(3 tons or
eveii. more. A British programme
oi five • battleships and one truiser
would bring the Brinell, total of
Dreadnoughts upr toonly eighteete,
at agitinst the (lerms,ra total of
thirteen or fourteen. The Etritish
triarssin of -four or five *hips. vrhith,
it would. give, WoUld be les*
then what the, Lltrict two, "P. owei
'standard tlen10400.,
11, then, we .a,ssuzise: that tbe
Brtish programme consists of lis-
battleehips and One, iroroved
vintible-And nothing-fras will
isfr the clairria of rkati)ital seettri't
'it is prebable thet the Admiralty
ill las' down one group flour im.
proved St. Itineents-four battle.
ships, Oust is to rty. nth tarrying
twelve 12.inch "runs. But the fifth
bettleship,m‘y (vitt rpssilily he
MT EXPERIMENTAL Slin),
WSW type, 'built rapidly and test.
with the, °Nett, of gaining experi.
enei for * new tlese whit+ willJ
figure in the prgratmenes (4.4010
and 1011. Here teneh will obvioris.
ly depend ort.th etion of foro_iga
Powers and whether the rei.lprt*
o which ert.lit the tie.
si
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A' despatch. from Ottawa says:'
On.the first of April last inspe.ptors
were placed along the international
Loundary and for the three nionthe
ceding 30th jiine last 323 pcOple
were refused admission „into Cam...
*id* from the United 'State*. FrOm
at 3anhary to 20th lune ,4*.t lan
nira,nt3 were Aeltised landing' at
r.trtr,„ awl during the triirfie
r • " s
-87a Werc retnri0 to 'the , •
es whence,they tateel by the 1
*Limy Depart.thent,
B RIM ALSO MINX %V
Witte it 39 Pitntirtil At the pre-
rit moment on the sh5res of14ket
Maggiore from the +village of 'Sri..
one to 0;seline, Switzerland, °lot
111* given- freely to, tramps
or a drink. The poorest p' 0
si",--e a, bowl of wino on .,the win
1 U3x. 411 routers. It is freqUent.
isnil 'even the birds 'harts
th»Ite.Titeltty. The tariiiiere, la
order ralk* voont for the, e,tteleer
vittsge, are totting rid of their' tors
einsire seine at nosetinal price.
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