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Show Daftle Sea :.eadi In Amber. The principal source of tho umber supply Is the const of the Italtlc sea more particularly In the vicinity ol Konlrsberg. Kven In ancient times Ibis district constituted tho "Kltnbcr-lev" "Kltnbcr-lev" of the sniber world. At Ibis place amber, which Is really n mill-ernllr.ed mill-ernllr.ed resin of extinct pine trees. Is freely washed up by the sen. especially espe-cially after a violent storm. The fifth-crnnii fifth-crnnii use nets, with which they trawl til lliullow water "Shlbboltth." Shibboleth hns the. meaning of "test" or "wntcliuotd" or dlstltigulsh Ing cry or phrase or a parly. It wns the word by which tbe (lllcndltea ills-tlngufshed ills-tlngufshed Ihe fugltlio Kphmlmltts at tin fords of tbo Jordan. The Kpb-rulm'tes Kpb-rulm'tes si ere nut nlilo lo pronoiiiii-o sli and cnll.nl the word "slbbolelb" (Judges: 0-0), whereupon Uicy weiu t:.iin. Vatican's Fine Printing Plant The Vatican possesses one of the finest printing t;KtnJllsinii'iits In the wrltt, It was founded In ISU0, and only ono yenr afterward already pes-.sed pes-.sed the rlinrncicra of "1 dUTirviit laiiguuipio. . . . |