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Show SCRAPS OF THE AVAIL The harbor of Kiel, one of the few points of the North German coast, accessible ac-cessible to French iron dads, has been protected by an immense number of torpedoes, sunk at the mouth of the roadstead. ! All property .owners whose houses are in the military circle around Paris have received notice to move their ; household coods and stuff, as the buildings will be razed should military necessities require it- When the Ninth Cuirassiers charged at YVeorth, Lieutenant Billett, the colonel's son. charged four times afier his jawbone had been broken by a ball. His father had him carried oft" the field by force at the fifth charge, he himself being killed in the same. ; At 'VYeissenimrg the Marquis d'Es- pcnilles, colonel of cavalry, at the head of the Third Hussars, in order to give the Douay division time, charged seventeen sev-enteen times on the Prussian columns. At the last charge tke regiment was reduood to lifty men, but the colonel, covered with wounds, led his men again. The Prussian and German cavalry are splendidly mounted. The artillery hoities are, perhaps, not equal to the French teams, but the German privates are as well mounted as the French offi : cers. The hoi'es don't carry as much load either. The heavy cuirassier i chargers are said by some observers to ; iave a lighter load than the little African Afri-can horses. At Reichshofl'en, on the 6th of August, Au-gust, the station-master, M. Kossman, saw a convoy of munitions coming up by the train, which would have fallen into the hands of the Prussians. In the midst of the rain of bullets the station-master rushed forward and signalized signal-ized the coming train just in lime to enable it to reverse engines. The train was saved, but po?r Kossman fell, rid-: tiled with rifle balls. The war in Europe comes hard on Rosa Bonheur. She was engaged in Ireseoring a dog on canvas for the King of Prussia; but, before she had half a Jog made, the King went off to the war the dog following him. Now she has got to finish the picture with noth-ins noth-ins to look at but a muzzle, a collar, and Gome such things that the dog left behind when he gilded on the armor. The 3rd regiment of Zouaves at TVoerth went into action after a march of over forty miles in the rain. They fought from eleven until four. Then they retreated to Saverne by a march cf twenty miles. Five hundred and fifty men only are left of the regiment. Forty-five out of sixty-seven officers ' were killed or dangerously wounded. All the rest are more or less wounded, with the exception of Colonel Bocher, who did not receive a scratch. |