Investigation of the sun's heat proves it to be a variable star, and a,n expedition to the cloudless region in South America is to be made to gather further facts.
This is the prize story from KussiaY —A platoon of Russian soldiers, advancing across the ■shell-swept, battlefield, suddenly halted and gathered in a' clump. We saw hands going up. "Have they surrendered 't'" I asked ■the Russian officer. "Oh, no," he replied, " they are Bol.sheviki, and are voting as to whether they should advance or retreat. They vote on everything."
The widow of Edward Morris, the Chicago packer, who lately married Mr Francis Neilson, ex-M.P. lor the Hyde Division oi' Cheshire, is one of the wealthiest women in the world, her fortune being estimated at .£12,000,000. Colossal as is that figure, however, it is exceeded by the fortune of Mrs E. A. Hsirriman, estimated at over £30,000.000, and I hat oi' Frau Knvpp yon Bolilen, which was assessed at £.14.000,000 in .January, 191-1, and must have been considerably inflated by the war. Next to Knui Krupp, Europe's wealthiest woman would seem to be Madame Lebaudy, who controls £8,000,000, but lives in a. modest oneservant flat at VersailleK and devotes most of her income to charity.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9212, 5 February 1918, Page 7
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