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'Sr*'' cafflMWs supposed to be a soldier. Most of the citizens are experts iu the use of the rifle. Such sports as cricket and football are, of course, common in the republic, but one of the chief amuse ments in the country districts is target practice, and, moreover, the old people have had to live gun in hand all their lives, fighting wild beasts and savages. Iu times of necessity the commandants in the districts call for their quota of burghers. “Ostensibly the reasons for the Jame son raid were that the outlanders had no political and representative rights, but it is my opinion that the promoters of this invasion were a combination of Johannesburg inhabitants and some members of the Chartered company, which controls Rhodesia, and their de sign was to influence the share market and value of other properties so as fur ther to enrich themselves. The govern ment has always done everything in its power to meet the requirements of the mining population, and further conces sions were under consideration when 1 left “A local committee in Johannes burg had been elected, which will see that the English language is taught in the schools where the English speaking communities predominate. Instead of the former government commissioner in that city, the people there have now the privilege of electing their own mu nicipal officers, and a mayor is appoint ed by the government. Notwithstanding the outlanders’ complaint that they have so far had no voting power, how ever, few of them seem to care to avail themselves of their right to become citi zens. Out of 60,000 in Johannesburg only 2,000 have renounced allegiance to their native land and have become citizens of the South Africamßepublic. ” —New York Tribune. A PET TROUT. It Feeds From the Band and hikes to Bt Tickled. Ia the rear of a little shoe factory at New City, in Rockland county, N. Y., there is a small trout pond, the fish in which have excited the wonder of every one who has seen them on account oi their extraordinary tameness and uu usual size. The trout is naturally one of the most timid of fish, but so tame are the trout of this little pond that one oi them takes worms from a person’s hand, and its latest accomplishment is to lie still while someone tickles it under the belly. A short time ago someone thought of trying if the trout would eat from the hand and held-a worm dewfi su the water. To his surprise, one of the trout, the largest, came up cautiously, and after a short time spent in getting up its courage made a dash for the worm and* bore it away triumphantly. This has been done quite frequently since then. The trout no longer dashes for the worms, but comes up gently, as a horse would for a lump of sugar. Nei ther is the fish now in haste to get away, and, indeed, has degenerated to an Oliver Twist, refusing to be satisfied until another .worm is offered.—New York Sun. . Gomes Is Stubborn. At last accounts General Gomez still exhibited a stubborn reluctance to being pacified during his absence from the place of the proceedings.—Chicago Rec ord. HERE AND THERE. A Welsh colony is flourishing in Ar gentina. Gerard Wallop, Esq., is the name of the secretary of the British National Society Tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Since the year 1880 the Paris police _h.aY£~ari£sted as many as 20,000 chil dren who were being trained for beg ging and vice. During the past few weeks there have been some of the highest tides ever known in the Thames. Thiers’ hundredth birthday passed unnoticed in France while Germany was;celebrating the anniversary of Wil liam - Mi.' oil' in triumph. A n< wsbny g..t Mr. White gathered up the went back to the hotel. A complete search of the neighborhood was made afterward by the small boys. No more snakes could be found. The wind was blowing from New Jersey at the time of the fall. In the country the fall of snakes and frogs during the progress of a heavy shower is not considered a rare phe nomenon. These reptiles were probably taken up in a waterspout or carried away by a heavy wind blowing over somo lake or river.—New York Herald. SEYEH LIKES TO KISS. He May Make His Penchant Popular In His Native Land. Seyoh, the 8-year-old son of Y tng Yu, the retiring Chinese minister, has been under the tutorage of Miss Ham ner for the past year or two and has made fine progress in learning not only English, but also our ways and man ners. He is naturally a very bright boy and has the inborn Chinese idea of po liteness and courtesy. Ho was devoted to his school, and when Miss Hamncr found that Mr. Yang Yu was to be transferred she told Seyeh that she would give him a fare well party, and accordingly invited his own two sisters and eight other little girls and gave them the most delightful children’s party imaginable. Seyeh felt the full importance of his position as guest of honor and devoted himself most gallantly all of the after noon in entertaining his small lady friends, and when it came time to go he put hits arms around each one and gave her a resounding American kiss in bid ding her goodby. Evidently lie related the circumstance at home, for the next morning he came back to school almost in tears. “Miss Sallyab,” said he earnestly to his teach er, “Seyeh is no going to be a Chinese. Seyeh want to be ’Merican. Chinese no kiss, no kiss at all, and Seyeh is going to cut off his cue and be Chinese no longer, for Chinese no kiss, and Seyeh he like to kiss. ’ ’ Perhaps Seyeh may go back to his own country some day and do somo missionary work iu this direction.—- Washington Post. TROUSERS AND A PIPE. A Young Woman Hum Addicted Herself to the l : se of Both. A pretty young woman, arrested fcl masquerading in mule attire on the Bowery at Coney Island, when arraigned before the police magistrate said she was Eleanor Penrose, 20 years old, a law strident, and that slnllivt-d in Plainfiold- Conn. She refused to say anything furthet than she believed she had a perfect right to wear man’s clothes and travel anywhere in them. “But smoking cigarettes,” queried the justice—“ is that proper for a young lady to do?” “Yes,” she replied. “I know the law. It is perfectly proper. I would smoko a pipe if I felt like it.” She was held in S2(JU bail for exam ination. Outside of the court she would only say that she would dress like a man and smoke cigarettes in the street as long as she felt like it. Mitring Fourteen Years# In 1883 Edward Pedersen, after a quarrel with his wife, left his home at Morlecau, Norway, and came to this country. lit* had given his wife nearly all his possessions for her own support and that of their four children. In 1880 the wife, not having heard from her husband, followed him to this country, bringing the ch j Iv en with her. It was her intention to effect a reconciliation with him, hut her death occurred while she was still searching for him. One of the children, Regina Marie Pedersen, has now resinned the search and will he greatly pleased to receive information about her father at her home at 1503 Fulton street, Brooklyn. An Awful Charge# j If jll the names in Hellas y * Were jammed into a Both projjfr and improper, Omitting nary onei And if the gun were A doted Right where the ' i !•< lit flies, ’CLwould blow the wBl . caboodle From Greece to paw jwe. Plain Deale j. . ~• ■; 1 ; r n t seems to be straightforward and sincere, frank and truth loving. Trickery and intrigue, diplomacy and politics he alike detests. His subordinates and those who see him moro intimately are very fond of him. “‘He treats us, ’ one of the aids-de camp said to mo, ‘not as a superior, but as a father.’ Edhem Pasha is very proud of his army. “ ‘The Greeks report,’ lie Raid, ‘that we have no cavalry. They should see our Circassian horsemen. ’ “A baud of Greek irregulars had crossed the frontier and fired on the Turkish troops. I asked him whether there was any chance of reprisals. “ ‘No,’ he answered proudly, ‘we do uot make war iu that dirty fashion.’ “Edhem Pasha understands war thor oughly, but it took him a little time to appreciate the functions of a war corre spondent. He seemed to think that the latter should be hedged about by many restrictions, tenderly fostered, and safe ly deposited during a battle among the baggage animals and knights of the hospital. It was some time before he realized that the expectation of witness ing and describing a battle was the one thing which procured him the honor of these gentlemen’s company in his camp. One anxious morning, at a time when war was thought to be imminent, on sending round to headquarters it appear ed that the general and all his staff had fled during the night and had gone no man would say whither. No orders had been left, and the guards would allow no one to pass. Here was a case of dire disappointment, but no man may run the gantlet of an Albanian guard with impunity. When the general returned, a joint representation was made, and he was entreated to allow this kind of thing not to occur again. Ho expressed his penitence and promised a timely warning of any unexpected move.” G. W. Steevens, correspondent of the London Daily Mail, has this to say of the Turkish army: “The first impression of the Turkish army on an ignorant mind is one of melancholy. The men axe so old. The Boers at Krugersdorp paid it went against the grain to have to shoot young men. But surely ti e spectacle of these middle aged privates is far more pathetic. As you ride down the long, dark coated, dusty gaitered, loose san daled liues, nearly every man must be the father of a family. Brown bearded, solidly set, almost stiffening into elder liness, steady eyed, but sober eyed and giuve, with faces speaking of the toils and dim perplexities of half a lifetime —who are these to bo called away from their sheep pens and their opium gar dens to meet bullets and shell? “I know nothing of war, but to me it seems natural that war should be for the young. Iu our own army it is differ ent. A man chooses to be a soldier; it is his trade, and he must live by it; if he ties himself up with wife and chil dren, he does it at his own risk and at theirs. But these men have come from the hills of Macedonia, from the Mar mora, from distant Angora and Trebi zoud, because they must. It is not their chosen life, yet they have no other. From 20 to 64—in war time even until 40— one month, two months, six months, eight mouths almost every year they must turn out on to bleak mountains to defend their race and their faith against disaffection at home and menace abroad. “Smart, it must be owned, the Turk ish army is not. I saw a battery start ing for the frontier the other day. The gun carriages and the horses were piled up with ragged bundles, beside which a bank holiday excursionist’s baggage is a model of trim ness. When a battal ion lines up on parade, you will see one man iu a blue faced uniform and anoth er in a green. Their sandals look like old list slippers, their gaiters like bad ly wound hospital bandages. They aro tied up with loose ends of string. In the marching regiments, and especially those of the reserve, the officers aro sometimes out at elbow and at knee. “The men move a little heavily at their drill, and their double gives an impression of rheumatism. What won der in a peasant of five and thirty? But all these are small matters. The uni forms me* be curious, but they are tin !i y vms ] -- ran iffiav fi. m-|-<k.!, vvlmH mastered the English a little money, made his way to Liver pool and came to this country on a cat tle steamer. All this Jacob told tho lawyer. The latter at first did not place much confi dence in the man’s story, but after giv ing it careful consideration for months he decided that there might be some truth in it. So he wrote to a counselor at Havre and received a reply that Ja cob’s rich uncle—unnamed, by tho way —had died several mouths ago, leaving an estate valued at #38,000. It was only necessary for Loesing to go there and prove his identity and the property would be turned over to him. What ever money lie needed for expensed would be advanced, but Loesing cannot be found. He stopped at an Eighth ave nue lodging house three weeks ago, it is said. If this meets tho eye of Mr. Loesing, will he please come forward and claim the $38,000? —New York Herald. BUSY WITH BEET SUGAR. WiscoiiHin Has Taken Up the Induntry In Farneat# The beet sugar industry has been started in earnest in Wisconsin. The plant at Menomonee f alls is now turn ing out the product in fairly largo quantities, having successfully passed the experimental stage. It represents an investment of $300,- 000 and has a capacity of disposing of 275 tons of beets every 24 hours. An es tablishment of this kind cannot fail to be of great benefit to the neighborhood. Practically all the material it uses is grown in the immediate vicinity, and nearly all the money it spends in con ducting the business stays in this one locality. It furnishes employment to men, women and children in the fields raising the beets and employment to hundreds of others in the factory, where the beets are converted into sugar. There ought to bo 100 of these con cerns in Wisconsin, and there ought to be hundreds of other factories erected in the other states which are in the sug ar beet region, such as Michigan, north ern Illinois, lowa, southern Minnesota, parts of Kansas and Nebraska and the rest in the fur west.—Chicago Tribune. High Winds In Kausas. Speaking of wind, a traveler down in Osage county, Kan., was astonished re cently to see a lot of farmhands walk up to the house at the dinner hour and place their hats against the wall. The wind held them in place as firmly as if they had been hung upon so many nails. —Kansas City Journal. Mexican Naval Academy. President Diaz of Mexico has issued a decree establishing a naval school at Vera Cruz, to bo opened July next. Youths desiring to enter the navy or adopt careers as pilots or ruarino en gineers will be admitted.—San Fran cisco Chronicle. PEOPLE IN GENERAL. Queen Victoria’s favorite novelists are Jane Austen, Charlotto Bronte, Mrs. Olipliant, George Eliot and Edna Ly all. Henry Russell, who was born at Sheerness on Dec. 24, 1812, is the old est living English composer. Lurene Rudy, 4 years old, of Hagers town, Md., is said to embroider beauti fully the daintiest fabrics. Governor Itamsdell of New Hamp shire appointed a day of fasting and prayer, not, as be says, that he believes the people will fast and pray, but sim ply because “my council has advised me to. ” The library of the late Sir Augustus Harris, the well known theatrical man ager, has been sold at auction in Lou don. Atlas Portable and stationary boilers, slatting, pMB belting, pipcing, injectors and tittings, sawdugJj coal-burning grates. Twenty carloads for m ' deliveiy. Get our prices. Come and se^W Lombard lion-works and Supply Cos, CAST KVFIIV I)AY. CAPACITY 3UO HANDS. AUgUSt3, USPH THE CHANCE OF YOUR LIFE! A few slightly damaged Man tels at one-half price. COME QUICK. 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