Moscow Illuminations
The following are the details of the method by which the fairy-like illuminations at Moscow at the coronation were produced : — The Tower ! of Ivan the Great and its side »al- | ler.es were lit up by 3500 small lOdison , lamps, fed by eighteen portable engines, which moved a number of dynamo-electric machines of every existiug system. The portable engines and machines were kept at the other hank of the Moskwa The sh.d communicated with the cower of seventy serial electric wires. On the ramparts of the Kremlin towards »he river eight large and ten einaUer electric suns threw their light over the river. The rest of the illumination-! consis'ed in 200,000 lamps and 30,000 coloured glass globes, 50.000 ianterus of Venetian glass, 600,000 'apers, aud 10,800 lb* of fireworks. —-Home Paper,
A new industry was developed by an Italian woman who was arrested in New York the other day for street begging; who was proved to be worth 10,000 dol. Since her arrival in that City some years Ago, she has made two trips to Genoa, Italy, her native place, and on her return thp last time brought a deformed child, with which she had been travelling about a pip* other Stook in trade as a professional beggar.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 43, 13 September 1883, Page 3
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209Moscow Illuminations Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 43, 13 September 1883, Page 3
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