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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 168, 21 July 1908, Page 7

According to French law, upon the expiration of the franchise of an electric railroad company, the entire .line, all power stations, becomes the property of the State. In spite of the closest espionage, the diamond mining companies of South Africa have stolen from them during the year £1,000,000, of which they recover about one-half. A man has invented what he calls an " aquatic glove," which is intended to be worn m swimming. " The fingers of the gloves are connected by a web, . like the toes of a duck. - ' A tax of sixpence per head is levied on all passengers landed m /the Isle of Man. 'Tt is collected from the steamship companies who carry the passengers. All gold is [not alike when refined. Australian gold is distinctly redder than that found m California. The gold m ' the Ural Mountains is the reddest m thei world.