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Show GOSSIP OF. OTHER LANDS. Austria has only two works making cast or rolled plate glass. It is calculated that in ninety years, at the present rate of increase, Australia Aus-tralia will contain 40,000,000 of citizens. One million thbee hundred thousand thou-sand pounds worth of pickles and sauces are exported from England to other countries yearly. A postage stamp of the original value of about 10 cents was sold at auction auc-tion in London recently for $240. It was a Moldavian 61 paras postage stamp. A woman has offered to bequeath a very large sum to the French theater if she be ' allowed to place a statue of Mounet-Sully opposite the monument to Talma near the entrance to the theater. the-ater. At a recent flower festival given for charity in the grounds of the Villa Borghese, just outside the walls of Rome, the women students of the Roman university were present, wearing wear-ing the colored caps of their colleges, like their men fellow students. |