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FRANCE is now clamoring for the digging of a great canal from Marseilles to the Rhone, for the canalization of the Loire, and for the creation of a ship canal connecting Paris with the sea.
CHICAGO'S board of fire underwriter’s has received from the fire patrol of that city its annual review, which says that the losses for the year, based upon actual figures reported to the insurance companies to the patrol, amount to $5,740,058.28, and the premium receipts to $6,104,323. These figures makes the loss ratio in Chicago for 1899 94.03 per cent.
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