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JAY GOULD BUYS HALF A TOWN.

A THREAT TO DEAUVILLE.

(UNITED PRESS.)

Mr. Frank Jay Gould, having found gold in his first gambling venture at Nice, is looking for new worlds to conquer and has decided to buy up the ancient Normandy seaport of Granville and declare

War on Deauville.

With gambling casinos at Nice and Bagnolles, and with a scheme to build the most luxurious baccarat palace in the world at Granville,

TREASURES OF THE INDIA OFFICE.

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In any book où Unknown Lon- den " chapter might well beHE Undersigned have received devoted to the India Office, in Whitehall, and the treasures that it holds. A prosaic and perhaps dull place when work has to be done, it is also a museum in which are of historic interest, and it houses stored many documents and relics a library of 200,000 volumes, some of them extremely valuable.

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Mz. Gould will stand out 38 the world's greatest tycoon" of the green tables. His closest rival is Phanton Francois Andre, "Czar" f Deauville, with casinos at that rich resort as well as Cannes, Labearing an inscription by Nebu chadnezzar II., the grent King of Raule and Monte Carlo and shares Babylon, who fourished B.C. 60%- in the baccarat mint at Ostende

561. The stone, which was found When Mr. Gould decided to de among the ruins of Babylon, con. clare war on Deauville and M

tains the King's name and titles "O VIEW From WEDNESDAY, Andre, he studied the map of and a record of all his important France and discovered that while public works, such as the building Deauville is swept by-cold currents that pour into the English Channel from the North Sea, Granville, only 75 miles to the west, has constant Summer weather as it is swept by

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Sleeping as a Hobby.

"If Abraham wrote anything. Since the Deauville season is only this is the kind of cuneiform writ six weeks, it stands to reason, Mring which he used," said an offi Gould argued, that you can make cial. eight times as much gold from a casina where the season is 12 weeks. It was impossible to lease the most desirable site

on the Granville beach for his casino, so be dug deep in his pocket and bought the catire scafront and half

the town.

He is starting by restoring the old Norman fortifications and the narrow streets with houses almost meeting overhead. His Erst casino is barely worthy of the name, but million dollar palace is already on paper to replace it. The sandy beach, like Deauville, is expected. to prove to be gold-dust, and co Roman emperor, ever bathed in mare glory than will the paying guests of America's gambling baron, To make things complete, Gould bought all the hotels in Granville to make sure that he had no com petition, and is now building in other with a private, underground passage to the casino. In the casino is a gold vault with rein forced concrete" walls four feet thick and room enough to hold goldbars of total value. of $10,000,000.

library, 33,000 are volumes of manu- Of the 200,000 volumes in the script in Sanskrit, Persian. Arabic, and other tongues. Among them is Tippu Sultan's Register of Dreams, with interpretations in his own handwriting.

"Judging by the size of the book, sleeping must have been one of the Sultan's principal hobbies," "He lived about said, an official.

1780. We also have his Koran."

A wonderful Pali MSS. is written The writing is cut in with a knife. on hundreds of palm leaves of gold.

Oliver Cromwell's signature is attached to one "document, and there is an interesting letter writ ten by Nelson. The Court of Direc- tors of the old Enst India Company presented their thanks to "The Right Hen. Rear-Admiral Lord Nelson, for his very great and important services by the ever memorable victory chtained over the French Fleet on August 1, 9, and 2, 1798."

the 4TH Joxe, 1980.

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Nelson, whose, handwriting is Teak Hatstands, Desks, Electric bold and legible. replied in grace Table Fans, Chesterfield Couch an ful language, I am incapable of] Armchairs, Pianos, Gramophones, Gambling is a business, not a finding words to convey my feeling Records, Cameras, Chinese Hand sport, nor a weakness," is the for the unprecedented honour done Paintings in Blackwood Frames. Gould motta. He has often com-

me by the Company," pared his green table investments

Curios, Ornaments, Carpets, Rugi, On the walls are to Wall Street stock trading and ficent paintings, including a fine Oil Paintings, Pictures, etc., etc.

soine magni- Rattan Tables and Chairs, Clocks, sees the baccarat business finan-full-length portrait of Warren Hast cially and morally superior.

ings by Romney.

Charles Lam is depicted hold ing a pen which rests on a number BENEDICTINES RETURN TO of otheial documents but lovers, of Elia will, perhaps, insist that he was really writing an essay Bur reptitiously “in office hours.”

FRANCE.

TO MAKE NEW LIQUEUR FOR U.S. MARKET.

[UNITED PRESS.]

while each evening the old chimes telf out the Angelus.

The monks will not be able to return to their liqueur making, how- The Benedictine monks loug ever, for the stock-company bought exiled from France have come home front the state the exclusive manu- to the rains of their beautiful ab- factoring rights. For the present bey, and coincident with their ar-the monks will grow cider apples, rival, the holders of their old secret to produce the golden cider for formálae have announced that after which that part of Normandy is moaths of effort they have succeed- | famous.

ed in producing a refined kind of the "famous Beacdictine liqueur which can comply with the Ameri can prohibition laws.

The new liqueur, termed "Arome Benedictine," has but 6 per cent. alcohol, which is about half the alcoholic content of a light wine, but it has all the aroma of a stiff drink. The makers believe that it will solve the problem of circum.. venting the law, for it has all the colour, appearance and perfume of real liqueur without its after effects.

The Arome" is now being generally advertised, and home- bound tourists are approached by efficient salesmen who are dispos ing of many cases, shipped along with the tourists as baggage; like- wise, the export of the new product to America has started, a perfectly legal step since it complies with

the law..

The Benedictine monks, who found the recipe, and once made all the Benedictine, Chartreuse and "Celestine which France and the (world drunk, in-the stills which kept -ap-the-costs of their abbeys, no longer make the liqueur. With the separation of church and state, their abbeys and stills were seized, "and the famous abbey at Fecamp, where most of the liqueur · Was made, was sold to a stock company which still exploits the product and even goes so far as to put a cross, on the bottle just as the monks did.

The recent French law which allowed the religious orders to re- tura, permitted the Benedictines to

to the ruins of Sant Wandrile in the Beine There they will attempt to find living space amid the walls of the "14th century” cloister, over which

ivy has grown in profusion,

ley

Sixty monks have come home since Tearly May, and their "Gregorian ch sounds from the cloister,

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