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Show A Berlin dispatch reports that a curious cur-ious ceremony has occurred at Eilsdorf. Two Japanese young men of noble birth were baptised, renounced their names, titles and nationality. Count Aimc of Yeddo now liecomcs plain Harr Curt and will studv at the military school with a view of becoming a Prussian Prus-sian officer. Viscount Kobayakawa of Tokio will Ixj known in the future as Heir Bruno, aud intends to study for the German bar. Tho cause assigned for this remarkable act on the part of the Japanese is that they have fallen in love with two sisters, daughters of a good old Brandenburg family. 'Ihe voting ladies declined to accept the addresses ad-dresses of the young men unless they consented to become christians and naturalized Germans. |