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Show Only One Weakness. About the paved inner court of the Kremlin In Moscow rise othtr churches, cathedrals and palaces, to rigbt and left. None of them can compare with the Church of St. Basil for oddity, but many are beautiful in more conventional conven-tional fashion, famous among their kind. In this court, too, Is the famous Tower of Ivan, holding up its load! of monster bells. After Its churches the Kremlin Is celebrated for its huge cannon and bells. The great bell of Moscow Is 68 feet in circumference and weighs 200 tons. The largest of tha mnnon has a bore of 3 feet, thus outdoing out-doing the 42-centlmeters of Herr Krupp by about 100 per cent. The only weakness weak-ness 'of the Russian monster is the fact that It will not shoot. Exchange. |