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...Observatory is that at the Cape of Good Hope with an annual revenue of $33,000. In the relative values of their equipments the leading observatories rank differently. Washington has buildings and instruments valued at $856,500 but both the Yerkes and Lick Observatories have apparatus worth half a million dollars. Harvard is far behind in this respect. The estimated value of the buildings at Cambridge is $52,000; at Arequipa, $12,000; of the instruments at Cambridge, $20,000; and of those at Arequipa, $50,000--a total...
...eighteen claims to be decided by the Commission, sixteen are presented by the United States against Chile, amounting to between three and four million dollars, and two (one of which is the well known Itata case) amounting to about $250,000, are presented by Chile. Mr. Strobel is counsel for the Chilian government in all these cases...
...radiating from Leo. A watch was kept last night and will probably be kept tonight for the fourth and last time. However, it is hardly expected that there will be a shower, as the orbit of the Leonids is too far from the earth--about one and three quarters million miles. Moreover, the number of Leonids seen has decreased since 1898; less were counted last year than then, and less this year than last...