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Show The picture by Romney, which was sent to a recent London exhibition by an old maid who feared she was presumptuous in asking that it be insured for $3,500, "because it was an old heirloom and much esteemed in the family," has just been sold, it is said, for fUVOOO. The rressoxe or ltm. The water a 5 very great depths is, in most parts of the world, near the freezing freez-ing point. Further, the pressure upon everVsquare inch of the surface of a body under three miles of sea water, instead in-stead of being about fifteen pounds, as In atmofpheric air, is three tons, or, in other words, 3,720 pounds.-Ed!nburgh Eeriew. |