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Show No article sent out to tlie Congo State, where there are 40,000,900 of people, and any number of small potentates, Is so popular or sells so readily for a large sum as the huge gay umbrellas of which Brussels now produces tons cvery year. These umbrellas are, in a certain way, the In-lguia of royalty; that is, they are much prized by the black kinglets who sit beneath theirgratc-ful theirgratc-ful shade. What the canopy used to be to tho traveling monarchs In the time of the crusades, the umbrella is to the Innumerable feuual.chlef-tains feuual.chlef-tains of the Congo today. |