The Russian Bible Society recently celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. Electric light in cakes of ice is a novelty for the illumination of ballrooms abroad. German soldiers are deriving benefit from discarding stockings and keeping the feet well oiled. There are upwards of 93,000 victims of leprosy in India. The American peach crop this year is estimated at 6,000,000 baskets. There are 30,000 Jews in London. The Jewish colony was first established in that city 250 years ago. . . Tho eldest son of King John of Abyssinia has just married Princess Maria, daughter of the Ethiopian King of Shoa. The bride wore a curious crown. It was made centuries before Christ, and is declared to be the famed diadem which King Solomon gave to the Queen of Sheba when she visited him at Jerusalem, lb is of gold and precious stones, and has been preserved through .nil the centuries by the,Kings of -Shoa. •
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXX, Issue 8623, 26 October 1888, Page 6
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