Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1890 — How the Russians Rob the Chinese. [ARTICLE]

How the Russians Rob the Chinese.

Admiral Shufeldt tells how the Russians are filching territory from the Chinese on the boundary between Siberia and China. The means of communication are so poor in China and the avenues of news are so few that it is impossible for the Chinese to keep traok of the goings on in their provinces. The Russians send a regiment of Cossacks, with their families, about ten or fifteen miles into China. The regiment will settle down, take up the land and cultivate it They take up the boundary stones as they settle down, and put them at the edge of their settlements, and the next year another regiment oomes along, takes op the land below, and moves the boundary stones further on toward Pekin. These encroachments have been going on for years, and the Chinese cannot understand the perpetual shrinkage of their northern frontier.

Pigmy Ofamto. The western part of Persia is inhabited by a species of camel which is the pigmy of its kind. They are snow white, and are on that account almos) worshiped by the people. In return for the kind treatment accorded the Shah while in Berlin he has presented the municipality with two of these little wonders. The largest is twentyseven inches high and weight sixtyone pounds. The other is four inches Jess, but the weight is not given.