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CUNNING OF CROCODILES. They Kscape the Net Spread for Them by

Harrowing in the Mud.

The following is a fair sample of how cunningly crocodiles, in common with all other wild animals, can conceal themselves in moments of danger, says the Westminster Gazette. After a happy week spent in the jungle with a friend of mine we halted for break-

GIANTS IN SWAMPS.

A MAN OF FEW WORDS.

The

Duo-Uiddea

Mastodons That Have Been Unearthed in Marshy Kegiona.

Novel Expedient of

Debtor.

Re was a man of few words and fewer

dollars, says the Chicago Post. Ue

1 didn't like to be disturbed, and ho

Ho,v scientific ne.earcl. IlB. Deen Aided di(lQ . t , ike enter lnto lcnffthy ex . by the Discovery of Extinct Dlrda I — ” J

and Animal. In Wot

l.and..

planation. When a man came in, took a seat beside his desk and asked if he could settle that little account it

It would perhaps he difficult to find ' wearied him to say: “Really, I’m sorry, anybody- who would speak a good but I haven't got the money to-tlay.” word for swamps. The man who And when the man suggested that it drains one and turns its marshy surface had been running a long time it into productive soil is universally re- wearied him still more to have to say-: garded as a public benefactor. So the “Yes, I know it, but I have been very projected draining of the Dismal short. I’ll try to have something for swamp in Virginia and the Okcfcnokee you next week." There was too much swamp of Georgia i> regarded only chance for a man to get pressing and with favor, and few could be found to annoy him by stringing out the interregret the disappearance of these re- view. lie tried keeping away from

A GREAT BEAR HUNTER.

Five Hundred of the Animal* Slain by Gen. Wade Hampton. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, in his “Wilderness Hunter,” speaks of Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, as the man who, “with hor-o and hound, has been the mightiest hunter Aratyica lias ever seen.” ili. special game has been bear and deer, but he has also had the fortune to kill some sixteen cougars— the panther of the east, the mountain lion of the west, and the lion and puma of South America. Of black be-»rs, according to Mr. Roosevelt, he has probably killed more than any other man living in the United States. Thirty or forty of these lie has killed with the

knife.

Ills plan was, when he found that t!ie dogs had the bear at bay, to walk

markable features of our American the office at the hour his creditors : U P close and cheer them on. They

landscapes, says Youth's Companion. usually came, but they changed the Yet, setting aside the strange hours of their calls, and he was still picturesquencss of such marshy regions bothered and annoyed by their imporand the curiosities of plant life which tunities just when he was busiest, they exhibit, it is easy to show that Then lie hit upon a brilliant scheme, swamps have been useful in a manner He put in a day- puttering around his that could hardly have been antici-1 desk arranging things, and the followpated. They have very effectually i ing morning was ready when the first

would instantly seize the bear in a body-, and he would then rush in and stab it behind the shoulder, reaching over so as to indict the wound on the opposite side from that where he stood. He escaped scathless from all these encounters save one, in which he was rather severely torn in the forearm.

served the cause of science by pro- creditor arrived. He never looked u]> Many other hunters have used the

Tl.v Moil See.Mile

ISSISTIIII10 SIGHT Isa pair of Oold Spectacles, anil the only place to have them correctly titled i. at lOs East Washington street. No one every sold glasses so cheaply in Greeneastle. Don’t trust your eyes to spectacle peddlers and

jewelers.

G. W. BENCE, M. D.

JiA 1L II A r TIM/:- TA liLi:

BIG- FOUR.

Here in America the skeletons of several mastodons have been found imbedded in ancient swamps, and so perfectly preserved that no difficulty whatever has been encountered in re-

fast, before making the last stage for . storing the bones to their normal pu headquarters and home, at a place | s ition, setting the skeletons on thei

serving the remains of some of the from ids work as the creditor began: most remarkable of the former in- j “Could you—” He simply pulled a habitants of the earth. | string and a placard appeared which

read: “No<" The creditor walked sadly away without finishing the sentence. He even forgot to ask when he should call again. For three weeks now no

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F. F. HUESTIS, Agt.

MONOIV ROUTE.

called I’oouarhyn—Anglice, garden of flowers—and while at breakfast were amused by watching a number of crocodiles, about eight or ten, sunning themselves on the surface of a small lake, or tank, as it is there called, of about an acre in extent. A sudden

thought struck me.

“I say-, Murray, what fun it would be to try and catch some of these beggars in a net.” “Bravo!” said he. "Let's try it presently. Appu, send the horsekeeper to the village and tell him to

12:44 p. m. | oring up all the men he can find and

some long fishing nets. We will give

a good santosum” (present).

The villagers scented some fun, and with the further stimulus of a santosum very soon turned up to the number of thirty. It was now eleven o'clock and scorching hot. the air quivering over the bare, sandy plain in which the pond was situated. It was breast deep, as we knew, including about one foot or eighteen inches of heavy mud.

their

feet and thus exhibiting to the eyes of

knife, but periiaps none so frequently. (.len. Hampton always hunted with large packs of hounds, managed sometimes by himself and sometimes by his negro hunters, lie occasionally took out forty dogs nt a time. He found that all his dogs together could not

COURAGE IN SURGERY.

Going North—1:27 a. m., 12:05 p. m.; local, 12:05 p. m. Going Bouth—2:47 a. m., 2:38 p. m.; local, 1:45 p. tu. J. A. MICHAEL, Agent.

VANDALIA LINE. In effect Nov. 5, 1893. Trains leave Greeucastie, Iml., FOR THE WEST. No. 21, Daily 1:52 p. ra., for St. Louis. “ 1, Daily 12:53 p. m., “ " “ 7, Daily 12:25 a.m., “ “ “ 5, Ex. Sun 8:56 a.m., " “ “ 8, Ex. Sun . .. 5:28 p. in., “ Terre Haute. Trains leave Terre Haute, No. 75, Ex. Sun 7:05 a.m., “ Peoria. “ 77, Ex. Sun 3:25 p.m., “ Decatur. FOR THE EAST. No. 20, Daily 1:52 p. m., for Indianapolis. “ 8, Daily 3:35 p m., “ “ 6, Daily 3:52 a. ra., “ “ 12, Daily 2:23 a. m., “ “ “ 2, Ex. Sun 6:20 p. m., “ “ “ 4, Ex. Sun 8:31 a. in., “ For complete Time Card, giving all trains and stations, and for full information as to rates, through cars, etc., address J. S. DOWLING, Agent, Greeneastle. Ind. Or J. M. Ohesbrocoii, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

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modern mau the monster animals placard has a discouraging effect that which were probably familiar sights to ( makes them leave the sooner. Ilis only our ancestors nobody- knows how many 1 mistake has been when u man entered

creditor has received a verbal answer hear, but they occasionand the young man says it is a great all y 1;ille ' 1 three-year-olds, or lean and

relief, lie can answer their questions poof bear.-

without stopping his work, and the! During the course of his life he has

himself killed, or been in at the death of, five hundred bears, of which at

thousands of years ago. In Ireland the ancient swamps were equally efficacious in preserving for us the gigantic elks which became mired

in them.

Swamps have proved no less useful agents of science in other parts of the world, and particularly in Australia, New Zealand and Madagascar. What could be more interesting than the bones of a giant bird which was in all probability the roc described by- SindbadV Just suclt bones have been discovered in the marshes of Madagascar and New Zealand,and there is plenty of evidence that the great birds which owned them were the contemporaries of men in the past history of those islands. But for the swamps we might have remained ignorant of the fact that birds with

hurriedly and began: “Would you like—” He pulled the placard into view and the man replied: “Oh, very well; 1 am in no hurry, if you are not.” He looked up just in time to see that it was a man who owed him five dollars, but it was too late to catch him.

Me tied two nets together so as to! legs larger and heavier than those of

make one long enough to reach across the tank, about thirty yards, and this was heavily weighted along the bottom and Arranged to be drawn with

long ropes from each shore.

Immediately behind the net came a line, and men about a yard apart, with long, pointed poles with which to prod the mud along the bottom of the net, and so drive the malingering gentle-

the largest horse once fidurished in the

southern hemisphere.

Lately- these Madagascar swamps have yielded other remains of extinct animals, hardly less interesting than the huge bird, the epiornis, itself. These are the skeletons of a creature resembling a lemur of gigantic size, but remarkable for the small quantity of brains which it possessed. It is said

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men into proper position in front of that man was responsible for the dcthe net. My- friend and his servant ■’— ” *

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(for all entered into the sport) fol lowed close up to the second line. At it wo all now went, splashing, shouting, stamping and hauling, but— a big but—not a sign did we find of a single one of the brutes that we had seen before us when we came to the edge of the water. M e dragged that water backward and forward more than once, but our only reward was a deadly thirst that lasted us till late

that night.

They had burrowed deeper into the mud than we could reach them, for nothing—I doubt if even a rat—could have escaped unseen out of the water. Groat Britain in Imlia. Great Britain has been stretching her wings over India. In is-ij she laid claim to 020,000 square miles of that country. She made additions to this every year except 1S4:), 1845, and 1863, down to 1850, when her possessions aggregated 350,000 square miles. Advances were made in ISCO, 1882 and ISSii, and now the area of India under British rule is 927,887 square miles. British India is larger than all that part of the United States lying east of the Mississippi river and its population live times as great as the present population of this whole country. Great Britain may not be able to acquire much fmorc of Irulin Indeed there is likely to r>e difficulty in retaining what she has, with native dissatisfaction and the watchfulness of her aggravating enemy on the north, who in the last forty- years has moved his boundaries over many degrees of latitude.

struction and disappearance of this creature. If so it was probably a simple case of brains against brute force. There is reason for thinking that still other discoveries remain to bo made in Madagascar—discoveries that will possibly bring to light even more interesting facts concerning the former inhabitants of that part of the world, Suppose one of our swamps, which we regard as utterly useless, should preserve to a remote future age the

SO DREADFULLY CANDID. Woes of the Writer or Artist Who ILit a Plain-Spoken Friend. Do you write? Oh, how your candid friena shakes his head over your last novel or play, or whatever it is, says All The Year Round. You are not doing nearly such good work as you did two years ago, and he mutters about decaying powers and writing yourself out, till, like Henry II., you groan: “Who will rid me of this man?’* Perhaps you fancy- you can paint, in which-case itangingcommittees,buyers, critics and dealers are not the most savage lions in your path if you happen to be blessed with a candid friend. The worst of it is, the man is a friend and will do you a good turn if lie can— of course without much trouble to himself, also to a certain extent he knows what he is talking about, so that you are bound to have some respect for his opinion. He begins by gently prancing around your work rather in the manner of the commencement of a Sioux

war dance.

You grow anxious, and losing your In ad, in a moment of temporary aberration you ask his opinion. Whoop! You've got it. Your shadows are opaque and your lights pasty, your drawing is weak and your technique bad; your color is crude and the whole thing out of tone, and at the end the sum and substance of it all is that if he — the candid friend — painted as

least two-thirds have fallen by his own hands. In the years just before the war he ha 1 on one occasion, in Mississippi, killed sixty-eight bears in five months. Once he killed four bears in a day; at another time three, and fre-

quently two.

The two largest bears he himself killed weighed respectively four hundred and eight and four hundred and ten pounds. Most of his hunting for bears was done in northern Mississippi, where he had a plantation. FREE MAIL DELIVERY. Curious Koault of an Experiment by the 1’oatal Authorities. The difference between city and country- ways have been illustrated in a curious manner by an experiment of the post office department, says the New York Evening Post. Under the last administration about fifty villages and small towns, ranging in population from eight hundred to four thousand inhabitants, were picked out for a trial of the system of distributing moil matter by carrier, as in large cities. At first general satisfaction was manifested, and the receipts of many of the offices for awhile showed an incrcasg, indicating that the convenience ostimulated correspondence, but as the novelty wore off the residents very generally tired of the change and returned to the old practice of going to the office themselves for their mail. A majority of the peo-

only remains of some animnl like the , ,, , , ,, bison or the tiger, now rapidly becom-1 ba ^' a , s J OU ‘ lo ’ he 1 would ,lu , vcr ouc 1 Inn. extinct men nf .cL.ncc then a br “' h a ff ainas as ho hv ed.

J. D. TIM, (MILL!, IML

BREEDER OF

Sixty of Locust*. The African Steamship compnrty’s steamer Wlnnebah, which lately arrived from West Africa at Liverpool, had a most unusual experience when steaming between the latitudes of Cape Verde and St Tonis, Senegal For sixty miles the vessel steamed through locusts, which were so thickly packed together on the top of the water that they completely covered the surface for miles around. Indeed, they appeared to be ly-ing on the sea as far as the eye could reach. The locusts had no doubt been blown from the Morocco coast into the sea. They r . ■ ! gi fanti xa ■ hopp<i ■. an ! or-' which was secured was five inches in length. Of course, all of the locusts had been drowned.

TBOKOIG3IBS:i:2:> Poland China Swine. Light Brahmn. Barred Plymouth Rock, Black Minorca, Mammoth Brown Turkeys, Touloo&e Geese, Pekin Ducks and mul Guinn

Fowls.

Reduced to the Hank*.

Ditterem ideas exist in England from those prevalent in Germany with regard to the attitude to be adopted by soldiers toward escaping prisoners.

ing extinct. The men of science then living would have the same reason for rejoicing that that swamp had existed that we have for being thankful for tlie revelations contained in the

swamps of ancient days.

A CLEAR CASE OF BUNCO. Artifice Adopted Sucee**folly by a Negro

Eeggur of I'anam r .

1 had just started from the hotel toward the market, place, when I noticed an elderly darky, standing on the opposite side of the street, looking from one to another of the people going in and out of the various entrances to the hotel. The moment his eyes caught mine his face lighted up, and with outstretched hand and a smile ho came hurrying across the way, says a correspondent of the New York Sun.

Why Expert.nrxd I-ractltlonem Are Cool While Operating. An old surgeon, engaged for the moment in dissecting a cold roast quail, and making, it must be confessed, only, an indifferent job of it, had been listening incidentally to the conversation, of his table companions who were discussing the calmness and nerve displayed by the average practitionerduring surgical operations, says the New York Herald. Both agreed that the poise and coolness shown by surgeons at times were extraordinary and hard to understand. "Now, friends, if you will permit me,” interrupted the surgeon at this point, "I would like to tell you that there is nothing extraordinary about it The ‘nerve,’ as you call it, of the surgeon under such circumstances is the most natural thing in the world. It is not a display of calmness which has been put on for that occasion, or an exhibition of courage summoned up for an unu oial emergency, hut simply the normal demeanor of a practical, matter-of-fact man who knows what he has to do and how ho is going to do

it.

"The trouble with many people who marvel at what they call a surgeon's courage is that they fail utterly to comprehend the conditions under which he performs his work. They imagine that he is experimenting, or that lie doesn't know Ins ground, or that he will cut something that he ought not to cut. Nothing could be further from the facts. No movement in science or mechanics is preceded by a more accurate foreknowledge of its results than the average operation in surgery. There is no such thing as guesswork about it. The operator knows lie is performing an operation which is based upon an exact science. He follows rules which apply to all cases, and is secure in the confidence that causes which have produced certain effects in given instances will do

so in all others.

"Why, then, should there he any need in his work for extraordinary courage? There are cases, of course, so critical or so unusual as to excite even the calmest and most self-con-tained operator, and when these are under treatment the surgeon's powers of self-control are frequently taxed to their utmost limit. To the man who, in such a case, can wield the knife without a tremor, when life itself depends upon the accuracy and delicacy of his touch, we must award the praise due to real heroes. But in the average case, say of amputation or of skull fracture involving cranial operations, the surgeon neither needs nor possesses more than the courage of an intelligent. sincere man, who knows his duty and lias learned how to perform it. Ilis technical knowledge of anatomy and its methodical habit of work ac-^ custom him to conditions which alarm and excite non-professional minds, and he goes about his task w ith a certain quiet, vigorous, assertive sonfldence in the result of las movements which the observer is quite likely to mistake for a r-.r-r-^lous iAvnpwaed up fof

pie would apparently rUbgr have their J t h at panieului' occasion. It is courage letters lie ia the office until they call . ,,f a certain sort, I confess—the cour^ for them and tints have an excuse for qijc absolute confidence in the in-

fallibility of the science he represents.” ’ 1 ALI-DEN-ALI, THE COBBLER. *

frequent visits to the center of local activity than have their mail delivered every day at their houses. The carrier in such places is really a foe to social activity, as "going to the post office” has always been a recognized means of mixing with men, and its occasional

. ,, , , ,, „ inconvenience is preferable to the loss Hope I haven t hurt you. old fellow, of what is oftcn oulv a pretext for but .von would ask my candid opinion, a break in the monotemv of a

so I was bound to give it to you, says. AN ELAbTIC CONSCIENCE.

The Sin of If. l.ny Only In Hnlnj; Fouad

Out With Her.

The penalty attendant upon being detected is the entire foundation of many people's honesty. A woman, says a writer in the New York Recorder, in whose company I found myself recently, was relating with pride an instance of her shrewdness. She remarked as a preface to her story that anyone who expected to get the better of her would have to be an early riser.

Said she:

“1 went to the theater the other night and after the play a lady who

1 o' ,*c ,.'...vrl, boss, I so glad to .,ee i sat in front, of me asked me if the

you. Use been lookin’ for you all this mawnin’.” There was no refusing such a cordial greeting. I shook hands and said: “Looking for me? 1 don’t knowj-ou. How did you happen to be looking for

me?”

“How come I look for you? Use gwine toll you. ’C.’o'rse you don’t know me. Use gwine toll you 'bout dat, too. Use been waitin’ fo’ you because I ain’t had er mouthful o’ coffee dis blessed mawnin’. Use on de beach an’ I'd jess like ter borry a dime.” It was a clear case of 1’anama bunco, but there was such a happy expression on his face—he so thoroughly enjoyed his little game and he worked it so well—that there was no refusing him. Besides he is the most artistic member of a great gang of peculiar negro beggars to be found on the streets of 1’anuma. They are, without exception, from the islands ruled by the British in the West Indies, and they beg only of English-speaking strangers. On every corner and on several blocks between corners, while walking to the market. I met negro men. Without exception they bowed and touched their hats and said: “Good mawnin’, boss. Use on de beach, sail. A dime, sah, if yo’ please." “On the beach” is

Whereas Emperor William some time; equivalent to the American “on his

ago aroused much unpleasant com rrmnt bv promoting a corpora! wVtn had shot at and lulled in a crowded street an escaping prisoner, at Woolrich a sergeant and a corporal have

uppers,” or "dead broke.’

A Hungarian Court.

The Hungarian prime minister has succeeded in reestablishing n royal

Hitherto, when

| just been reduced tc the ranks and j court in Buda IWJn

sentenced to a mouth's imprisonment j the emperor of Austria, as king of for having discharged their carbines, ‘ Hungary, came to visit the capital of without injury to anybody, in a public | Hungary, he tool: his Austrian housethoroughfare at a deserter who had hold with him. Henceforth the llun-

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broken away from them.

rilla is baaed iqion the corner stone of abso-

lute merit. Take

garian lords are to surround him upon all ceremonies in Buda Pesth, and they

The marvelous success of Hooml's Sarsapa- will also attend him at ceremonies in

Hood's throughout the 1 ' icnna, side by side with their Austrian

counterparts.

spring months.

umbrella under her chair belonged to me. “I said no, and as no one else claimed it she left it at the box office. It was a lovely umbrella with a silver handle. "Well, now the joke begins. About a week later I went to the theater and asked if such an article had been found and if they had 1L I described it ^-rfectly and told when it was lost. I didn't say it was mine, but just let them infer it. It was there still; the owner had never called for it—probably never knew whore it had been left. They handed it out when I had answered all their questions, and I'm that much in. "I had just as good a right to it as the theater people, and it looked, after a week, as if the woman who found it wasn't going to put in a claim. I’m going to get a hat with the money I saved by being wide awake, for I intended to buy a new umbrella.” Very Strange. The Somerville Journal has a story of little Dorothy, six years old, who, like other children, is a l>om egotist She went out for a horse car ride with her aunt. She had her new purse with her and was very desirous to pay her own fare, hut her aunt said no. “Y'ou are my guest,” she explained to Dorothy, "so I must pay your fare, but yoa --.-.j the tel. edits ,.».il i*<iili,i it to the conductor, if you like." So Dorothy took the dime and when the conductor came along she handed it to him in the most dignified manner, lie gave her a quick look, and estimating that she was under the five-year limit, he rang in only one fare, and handed back a five-ccnt piece, which Dorotliy took without a ward. "Wasn't it strange," she asked after she got home, "the conductor took my fare, but he didn't charge Aunt Alice any fare at all?''

making i

retired life. In view of the evidence that there is not “a long-felt want” to lie met by this system of free delivery in small communities, and of the fact that its general adoption would involve an annual expense of at least ten million dollars, the first assistant postmaster general wisely advises a suspension of the experiment. Mackerel FUlierle* In Kerry. A Kerry eorres pendent of United Ireland writes: Dingle, on the extreme western coast of Kerry, is now the center of very active operations in the mackerel fishery industry. Large takes of mackerel have been taken off the coast, and the recent trade which lias sprung up in the curing of mackerel during the autumn season for the American market has brought employment and money to the doors of the the Kerry peasant and shopkeeper. Dingle is, in fact, a hive of industry at the present moment, owing to the curing and packing of mackerel for the American market. Every man, woman and child i* employed, and thousands »*f casor, nro dispatched weekly to Liverpool and Glasgow for conveyance to American ports. The mackerel are found off the coast in great shoals, and a licet of boats is engaged in capturing them, landing the fish in Dingle, where they are cured ami prepared. I’hntoKi*H|>htui; u Train. “At a way station the other day,” said a traveler, "I saw an amateur photographer photograph the train. 1 dare say this has been done a million times before, but 1 had never happened to see it. When the photographer was through he waved his hand as he might have done to a sinrlo sittiw to let him know that he could get up and stretch his legs. In this case the engineer was practically the sitter, ami when the photographer waved his hand he opened the throttle and snaked the train out of that big open air studio almost before the photographer hail had time to turn around.” Cured by Heiug Foisoneri. The latest instance of crime bringing us own punishment comes, on the authority of Dr. Leonard Guthrie, from Italy. An Italian woman had a husband ami tne husband had the dropsy But the dropsy did not work quickly enough. The woman put a toad into her husband’s wine to poison him. But the poison which the toad’s skin secretes has an active principle—phrynin—which much resembles digitalis, which is the best possible remedy for dropsy pending on heart disease. So, instead of killing her husband, she restored him to health.

How Ho Lost Ills \Viv*-n and H16 Faith at the Caine Time. Ali-Ben-Ali was and is a renegade. He believes in three gods, and drinks spirits of wine, corn and rye. lie also believes that women have souls and that, while there are many houris in heaven, there are more ia hell. When the muezzin calls to prayer he puts his thumb to his nose and spreads his fingers out, which is his Turkish way of expressing derision. Once upon a time he owned seven slaves, four of whom were white. Great men were his friends. Now he cobbles shoes, says Vance Thompson in the New Y’ork Advertiser. He might have been a happy man to this day had it not been for that devil of an Alcibiades. Ali-ben-Ali was sitting on his feet, looking through the open dour out on the blue waters of the Bosporus and the low sandy shore beyond when the Greek came up. ID vias a iovr brotved Greek, ile was peddling slippers with long red points which curled over like rams’ horns. Ali was absorbed in thinking of his seven female slaves. He kicked the Greek in the back violently two or tin-ee times, but otherwise ignored his presence. Tiie subtle Greek departed. Under his low brow lie devised this revenge. He wrote a letter to the sultan. "We'll see aliout this,” said the sultan. "Mesrour, off with Ben Ali’s head and bring me his seven nice vvi ves. ” Mesrour returned in half an hour, the seven slaves, of whom four were white, trailing after him. ‘Tien All is dead," he said. Mesrour lied. Ben Ali. by bribes, had secured his escape and, disguised ns a hale of tobacco, was stored away in a hold of a vessel bound for New York. He is in New York now to prove that this tale is no lie. He cobbles shoes. At times he drinks strong spirits. Then he curses the commauder of the faithful and Alcibiades, the low-browed Greek. The sultan is i Mohammedan, and him Ben Ali curses; the Greek is a Christian and is cursed of Ben Ali.

In tlio Austrian Army. The polyglot character of the Austrian army was abundantly shown the other day when the ancient custom of solemnly swearing in the recruits in the presence of the troops was revived, after having been discontinued sinee 1868. In Vienna alone the formula „f oath to the colors had to be administered and road out in nine languages, to-wit: German, Hungarian, Croatian, Bohemian, I’olish, Kuthenian, Roumanian, Servian and Turkish, while the religious part of the ceremony was conducted by Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic and Greek orthodox priests, UroU-stant pastors, Jewish rabbis and Mahometan ulema.