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Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 6

__The yearly income of "Queen" Bertha Knrpp, who inherited the famous iron ! works at Essen, Germany, is steadily iu'creasing, it having amounted in 1905 to about Miss Krupp (says 'Leslie's Weekly') manages her great properties- with remarkable ability. Her business is expanding, and the number" of those dependent' on her for employment and subsistence is now fully 300,000. To protect the works she has a small army of 900 men, armed and under strict militant discipline. _ She also Has a - police and a •secret service. The Mxtnieipality of Nice has organised a troop .of dog scavengers for tie cleaning of the sewers. Some of the sewer pipes are too small to, allow of the passage- of men.; The dogs have been trained to°dra-w a .cord with a brush at the end of it from one ebd of the pipe to another. is meeting wth complete success.