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Show Marble Cheaper Than Wood. A report to Washington from tho American comtnorclnl nttache in Rome Is to tho effect that American lumber line gono to such prlco holghts In tho Italian market that builders find It cheaper to put 'u marble staircases than to build them of wood. Such Is tho combined effect of mill cost, plus freight rates, multiplied by the ex-chnugo ex-chnugo premium ot four to ono that Italian buyers havo to pay to translate trans-late our money Into theirs. New Orleans Or-leans TImes-Plcayune. |