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Orphan Asylum

or ORPHAN- S. to the Seine and Loire. Though the AGE, an establishment in which orphans soil is fertile, agriculture is not in an are provided for and educated. In all advanced state. Apple and pear trees well regulated states the duty of taking abound, and more than 22,000,000 gal- care of destitute orphans was recognizlons of cider are made every year. Cat- ed at an early age, and it appears that tle and horses of the purest Norman the cities of Thebes, Athens, and Rome breed are reared. There are cotton and had establishments in which orphaned, hemp spinning, and cotton and linen deserted, and illegitimate children were weaving, dyeing, bleaching, and manufacture of gloves, iron, glass, etc. Fishing and bee keeping are carried on. Capital, Alençon.

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