A piece of old wrapping paper was the material recently urod for her will by an American ladv, who disposed of an estate of 590.000. According to a statement by the British. Secretary for War, 3,249 commissions have bo'en granted in the British Army (hiring the last five years. sixteen hundred pounds were found hidden in an old garret at Troyes, France, where Josephine Viard. an old beggarwoman, died of starvation. The suggestion that heavy gun firing causes rain, and consequent damage to farmers, was contained in a question lately a6ked in the British Parliament. Leather cannon were used at the battle of Leipsic (September 7, 163 L)
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Evening Star, Issue 14575, 25 May 1911, Page 1
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108Page 1 Advertisements Column 7 Evening Star, Issue 14575, 25 May 1911, Page 1
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