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Evening Star, Issue 12926, 24 September 1906, Page 4

The honorary treasurer of the Public Art Gallery Building Fund acknowledges receipt of the following subscriptions: Mr W. T. 0. Price, £5; Mr W. H. C. Foster (administrator estate of H. A. Foster), £5. A French nobleman, the Vicomte Kaoul de Grand, who has jnst completed, for a wager of £12,000, the feat of making the tour of the world on foot, has arrived in Paris. It has taken him ten years to do so, and in the course of his eortraordiiiary rambles the vicomte- has passed through Europe, America, Africa, Spain, and Portugal, supporting himself, in compliance with the conditions of the wager, by the proceeds of sketches executed oy himself en route. Stockholm and Buda-Pesth are the towns possessing tie best telephone system in existence.