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Show THE CITIZEN 12 In the Winter Palace, the Petrograd residence of the court, were the crowns of the Czar and the Czarina, and the renowned room full of diamond, emerald, and ruby ornaments. The royal residence outside of Petrograd Tsarskoe Selo, with its famous lapis lazuli room of which the floor was of ebony inlaid with mother-of-peawas a third treasure house despoiled by the pillagers. And the Serbian monarchs jewels treasures that no common eyes had even looked upon were looted as the invaders beat back the Serbian army late in 1916. In a secret vault within the grim wralls of the ancient monastery of Vesoki Dechani, fafr up In a mountain gorge, the jewels had remained hidden as they accumulated through the ages. The monastery, had been guarded by a superstituous reverence where the holy dead would take vengeance against any one daring to raise a predatory hand against it. The royal jewels of Germany their owners better able to take precautionary .measures against their loss have been secretly conveyed to places of security in Holland and Switzerland, and the jewels of the Hapsburgs are understood to have been preserved and in the hands of the government that has superseded the old regime. The Belgian and French governments have received claims amounting to millions of pounds from private persons, pleading the loss of jewels during the German invasion and seeking compensation from the enemy, into whose, hands they are supposed to have fallen. A huge amount of jewelry was buried in secret hiding places, many of which, it appears, have been rifled. . NOW PLAYING NEXT WEEK EVA SHIRLEY Engagement Extraordinary Ver-HiitlAsNlnted by Fid Gordon' '9lulcal Boyi and AL ROTH, Jnu Dancer In SONGS OF TIIR MOMENT COLLINS & HART P1IINA & CO. le RALPH DUNBARS SALON SINGERS In Momenta Miialcnl CHRIS RICHARDS 'MUSICAL HUNTERS INDOOR SPORTS A Comedy rl GERTRUDE HOFFMANN In n Serlea of DANCES AND IMPERSONATIONS With Special Setting Anginented Orchewtrn and FOX & WARP I1ERRERT WATTS & HAWLEY MEREDITH & SNOOZER THE IIEG INNING OF THE WORLD" JEROME fc THE VAN CELLOS SALT LAKE THEATRE Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 8, 9 and 10 Matinee Saturday First time here of the New York Princess Theatres Greatest Girliest, Gayest Musical Comedy Comstock Elliott Co. Present the Sparkling Musical Play OH BOY Not a moving picture but a very much alive cast and chorus from the Princess Theatre, New York, where Oh, Boy played for over 18 months. Seats Now on Sale. Prices: Saturday Matinee: 50c to Order Your Seats Now. 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. FATE OF JEWELS Never perhaps in the history of the world have there been so many gems loose as there are in the present day. The treasures of the Serbian kings, the royal treasures of Russia, the jewels of private individuals whose homes were Invaded are today in the hands of unknown persons in various parts of the world. Few or the precious jewels of the European monarclis have appeared on the market. Already the police of foreign countries are troubled with reports of frauds connected with these jewels. The imposter who professes to have a part of the loose loot is already offering to sell the treasures at a ridiculously low price if the purchaser will advance a certain sum as evidence of good faith. And the police of foreign countries are surprised at the number of people who are caught in the little fraudulent game (says uie Kansas City Star). The same fraud wras practiced when treasures were reported lost in the French Revolution, in the Peninsular War, and in tne Franco-PrussiaWar of 1871. While the political pot boils in Russia with such intensity that an outsider takes his life in his own hands to enter teh country, treasure seekers or their agents are already browsing around seeking the precious things that may come cheap among the suckers of the royal treasure houses. $1.50.- - Whispers have spread of the stealthy passing of the wondrous gems concealed in filthy rags in the vile drinking dens of the criminal quarters of Petrograd. The agents of jewel seea- ers who have ventured into these criminal haunts for jewels stolen from the treasure houses of Russia are many. Decrees of death against the thieves have failed to restore tne treasures. The contents of the Kremlin, the greatest Russian royal treasure house, were alone estimated to be worth more than one hundred million dol lars. In it were the thrones of the past emperors, the royal crowns, the collection of hundreds of years of Russias barbaric splendor. . . THE LIFE OF GUNS The life of a gun depends upon the progress of erosion, which sooner or later is certain to impair the accuracy of fire. Erosion is caused by the action of the explosive gases at high temperature and pressure. The hot gases cause a thin film of steel to absorb heat. The film expands and becomes set. Upon the release of the pressure it contracts, which action causes minute cracks that grow larger with every discharge. As they increase in size they form passageways for more hot gas, and that tends to enlarge them still further. The inner surface thus becomes roughened and the bands begin to corrode. Finally the bore becames so , enlarged that.it allows the gases to escape. The shell does not then acquire its proper rotation, and its flight incomes erratic. All guns except small ones are now constructed with, linings in the tube, which, when the bore is worn out, are removed and replaced by new ones. The cost of relining the gun is approximately 30 per cent of the cost of the gun. There appears to be no limit to the number of times that a gun can be relined. The small arms used by the United States Army are considered to oe worn out after 5000 to 7500 round.Ji have been fired. Small naval guns can be fired about 1000 times before they are regarded as worn out. Large twelve-incand fourteen-incnaval guns are considered to have a life, on one lining, of from 150 to 200 rounds. Low velocity guns, such as howitzers and mortars, have correspondingly longer lives than high velocity guns of the same calibre, because of the pressures they develop, and hence the lower temperatures. h h QUEER ADVERTISEMENTS. The following advertisements have at various times appeared in the United States: Bulldog for sale; will eat anything; very fond of children. Wanted A boy to be partly outside and partly behind the counter. Annual sale now on; dont go elsewhere, to be cheated; come here. A lady wants to sell her piano, as she is going abroad in a strong iron frame." Lost Near Highgate Archwray, a new umbrella belonging to a gentleman with a bent rib and a bone handle. Mr. Jones, furrier, begs to announce that he will make up gowns, caps, etc., for ladies out of their own skins. Wanted An airy bedroom for a feet long and gentleman twenty-tw- o eleven feet wide. Lost A green ladys leather . pock-etboo- k. For Sale A nice mattress by an old lady full of feathers. n n A CHORUS FROM THE NEW YORK PRINCESS THEATRE MUSICAL COMED Y SUCCESS" OH BOY WHICH APPEARS AT THE SALT LAKE THE A TRE JANUARY 8, 9 AND 10. |