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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1003, 19 December 1910, Page 8

Foreign battleships are frequently commissioned before their steam ' and gunncry trials; British ships generally afterwards. If an express train,-moving at the rate of 45 miles an hour were to stop suddenly, it would give the passengers a shock equal to that of falling a height of 54ft. The Stipendiary Magistrate of Pittsburg has passed the remarkable sentence of "90 baths" upon a frowsy-looking man who was brought beforo him on a chftrgo of vagrancy. •Tho French submarine Archimede. has just accomplished a voyage of 1400 miles at tho average' ralo of 12 knots an hour. Up till now the longest voyage of a submarine was that of tho American Salmon, which covered tho 750 miles between Quincy (Mass.) and tho Bermudas. A shoemaker of Edmonton, Canada, who 15 years ago purchased a plot of land 34ft. by 150 ft., in what now a ■leading thoroughfare of the city, for 375d015. C£"o), has' recently disposed of it to the Dominion Bank for 49,(W0d015. (,£10,070).