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Show AN9 SHIPS PAL POWERS Has Greatest Tonnage eships; Equals Ger-iv. Ger-iv. and America. jjjBcruard Fischer, sspondein-c Tribune. iOet. 20'. An official re-En re-En issued here showing, the 4touuao of ships of tho wcrs" now ami four years life case of battleships," vns-BlO.OOD vns-BlO.OOD tons, and launched iS, are excluded, and it is ircat Britain lias now liftv-ifof-800.G33 tons, equal in the United .States, Franco ft combined; but there is a fffour ships. Thus the es hns twenty-two vessels 'ns, France nineteen vessels qns, and Germany, twenty ;pns. Japan, which" conies ven vessels of 300,2-14 tons, tftof 330,030 tons. In con-estate con-estate of affaire four years German statistician takes sf the declared intention fs, and thus cannot include beyond those ovdered. Most ra have declared their pro-several pro-several years; not so Brit-battleships Brit-battleships as may be laid Ctiiin next year arc thus cx-yemgh cx-yemgh thc3- will be com- plcted by 3911. But. even so, she will be over the two-power standard. Eng- j land will have sixty vessels of !)03.-7(59 !)03.-7(59 tons, the United Stntes twenty-nine vessels of 451,828 tons, France twenty-five twenty-five of 3."1,292 tons, Germany twenty-eight twenty-eight of 358,499 tons, Japan fifteen of 23U.904 tons, and Italy ten of 134,-103 134,-103 tons. France and Germany com-binod com-binod will have fifty-thrco against England's Eng-land's sixtv, and their tonnage will be 7 09.(592" tons against her 903,769 tons. In cruisers the condition is still more striking. Great Britain has now t hirty-two armored ships exceeding 5000 tons and launched since 1SSS, nnd the tonnage of these is 37S.75S. In 1911 she. will have thirty-eight of 475.S41 tons. The United Stales has now thirteen thir-teen vessels of 176,519 tons, and four 3'ears hence will have fourteen of 199,-950 199,-950 tons. France will have an increase of three ships, Germany of four, Japan of five, and Italy of four, after allow ing for deletion "of ships when twenty years old and adding the now vessels projected. Raffles in Real Life. The Hanover police have at last succeeded suc-ceeded in arresting Franz Kirsch, the prince of German housebreakers, a ''Raffles" in real life, who has had a hand in every big robbery in Germany for many years. When not engaged in burglaries he hns played the wealthy gentleman so successfully that on the night after breaking open the strong room of a club he played baccarat with i the members, all of' them prominent I men, losing $1750 at one sitting. Kirsch was v.'ell known on most of the important im-portant race courses, where he betted freely. Quite recently the papers have given elaborate accounts of a great champagne banquet given by "a wealthy merchant" in a well-knqwn restaurant. res-taurant. The wealthy merchant was i Franz Kirsch. lie had a highly-trained and clever band of assistants, who carried car-ried out robberies already projected and prepared by their master. He hns sev oral times been caughi, but has a!was escaped, owing to his marvelous iinper sonation of a lunatic, which has on each . occasion effectively deceived the an-, thorilies and resulted in his inca-'ra ; lion in an asylum instead of a prison. The asvlum;.' however, had no unrs which could hold Kirsch. He nlwavs carried two pistols, but is only known to have used them, namely, when he escaped will) their help from pursuit ou nu open road near P.rrlin. On another occasion, when alroadv under police escort from Liclilenbery to Hr-r.-berg. Kirsch accomplices surrounded the escort on the road and forced them to rclaso their master. It is supposed that Kirsch was responsible for the recent burglary at the State treasury at Dessau, when only some ai-'.-idonMl disturbance saved the whole curreni moneys of Dessau from his hands. Soot Nulcanco. The general and complacent view according ac-cording to which tiio prime c:mo of tho evil atmosnhore of cities is "thorn factory fac-tory cliiiiiblies" has received a rude shock in the latest result of experiments experi-ments conducted bv the Royal Savon ; Hygienic Institute in Dresden, and placed on record for the benefit of the members of th Interr.ati-Mial Society of llvgirni.- and Demography rfccntlv in r-e'ssion in lterlin. The fiaxor. intitule mndo n scries of 1(50 experiment on forte dnvr. of last winter and summer, with' a view to determining the variation varia-tion Ji the v-rcenee of deleterious soot in the a?mopln:r. The institute was not, satisfied with the "fhom chim-blici;" chim-blici;" answer of pMpular opinion. They discovered and have placed on record the fact that the quantity of soot in the air is gveater in winter than in summer, and in the morning than in the evening, and is not less on Sundays and oilier public holidays than on week da vs. From these results the intitule concludes that the household chimney is the prime cause of the evil, and that the factorv chimney plays a quite subsidiary sub-sidiary role in the Vitiation of tho atmosphere. at-mosphere. Moreover, the institute ascertained as-certained that the air of eloBed rooms increases its percentage of soot in exactly ex-actly the same proportion as tho air outside. |