The German Government are reported to have purchased for a million marks an invention for steering balloons for military operations. With the aid of science, even the desert of the Sahara is becoming inhabitable, and colonisation is encouraged: The Lower Sahara is an immense' basin of artesian waters, and the French are forming fresh oases with skill and success, so that the number of cultivated track's is increasing rapidly. After a'.period of thirty yean forty-three oases have 13,000 inhabitants, 120,000 trees between one and seven years old,- and 100,000 fruit trees.
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Evening Star, Issue 7410, 4 January 1888, Page 2
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91Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Issue 7410, 4 January 1888, Page 2
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