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Show A Rome correspondent says it is proposed pro-posed to convene an international con-lcrenee con-lcrenee seme time next year to deal with the question of the meridian. The siig- gestion is to select Jerusalem instead of Greenwich or Paris as the meridian line. A proposal will also be made to hx a universal standard of time. Yachting is annually growing more and more fashionable with French women. Tho yachts of tho Baroness Adolphe dc Rothschild. Princess Bran-covau. Bran-covau. Princess Gortschakoff and lb,. Marquis de Loy Cltandieu attracted great attention in the defile that was one ot tho features of the recent regatta at lhonon. The chief industry of Zanzibar and Petnba is chore growing. The tree was utroduced in 1830. and the harvest of mSn8!111 JTar 'Pected to be 13,-000.000 13,-000.000 pounds, at an average local t alue of ten cents a pound. - Aten-year- noLnf C?pable of yiel(lin twenty pounds of cloves; trees twenty years pounds'. "PW8rd f ne liundre A good and cheap protector against destructive msocts which attack smal garden plants, according to a gardening garden-ing journal, ,s to place bottomless flower pots over the plants, admitting light :S!.aJrrU1 ab,,v'' m,t eluding the depredators at the sides. A short piece of p.pe tde. several inches in diameter answers the same purpose as well |