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Show PICKED UP ABROAD, At Weis, in upper Austria, natural gas fit for illuminating and healing has been discovered. Alma Tadema and Sir John Millais received diploinasof honor, and lUirne-Jones lUirne-Jones a first-class medal, at the Antwerp Ant-werp exhibition. An Indian carpet, weighing three tons, and made by the prisoners in the Agra jail for Queen Victoria, has just been received at Windsor eastle. Slummtng in Loudon has its dangers. Canon Fremantle, while spending a few days at Toy n bee- hall, was knocked down and robbed of his watch and chain in a street near by, in sight of a police station. l,onn Petrr'h ti lie dates back to 1003. Lord I'etre himself undertook to drive a eab through the London streets the other day and ran into another eab, for which ho was fined twenty shillings and costs in the police court. |