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Show PRICELESS RELICS IN DANCE. I Vatican's Treasures of Art Threatened With Destruction by Flames. On tho night of Nov. 1 lire raged for a short tltiio In that portlou of tho i Vatican containing tho ball of Inftln- i lions, where thu 1'ope gives his audl-enco audl-enco and which Is ailjacent to tho fa-iiioiih fa-iiioiih pliKicoteca, or gallery of pictures, pic-tures, tireal elTortn were mado by tho Vatican force to control the flames und tho llrenion of Homo wero called to lend help. Therefore, for tho first tlmo slnco tho fall of the tompoml IKiwvr of the Vatican the mayor of Itoinu. tho prefect, isillco otncitils and oven Big. Itonclietti, Iho nowly ap jsilnted inlulKter of Justice, ontorod the Vntlcun In their olllcial capacltlon. They guvii orders directing the work of combating tho llainen and participated partici-pated personally In thu tight. Little damage wan done, but the threatened roomH contnlncd such bls-torlo bls-torlo treasures as tho piillinpsct of tho republic of Cicero, tho manuscript of Danto. thu original manuscript of tho (.reek new testament, dntlng back to tho fifth century. aulogrnpliH of I'otrarrh mid Tnnso and the love lot tire of King Henry VIII. of Knglnnd to the 111 fated Anno lloleyn. |