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Show ORDERS TO SOLDIERS Called Out to Kill Rats and Sparrows and Capture Lion. The French Minister of War has Just Krantcd leave to certain of the host shots In .the garrisons nt Calais and Boulogne to put themselves at tho disposition of the local authorities for the purpose of destroying de-stroying the nianv seals that frecim-nt thr-sand thr-sand bunks between these two towns anu are a serious menace to the fishing In- ; dustry, Before now soldiers have been similarly employed A few winters since the province of Luxemburg was so Infested with wolves as to give rise to serious alarm among the Inhabitants, who by themselves, wore Quite unable to copo with the scourge. They therefore consulted the Minister of Agriculture, who. thinking maybe that the army would be better employed than Idle, organized hunting parties composed of soldiers, with the most satisfactory result. re-sult. Four years ago a vast horde of rats crossed the German frontier Into east Belgium Their depredations were whole-sals, whole-sals, and so audacious In many instances did the animals become as to attack 'ind severely Wound young children Psopll werr even compelled t" abandon their homes At last tho Government vv.,- applied ap-plied to for assistance, and from the Harrison" Har-rison" of the neighboring towns soldiers were dispatched to the assistance of the Inhabitants, who were with their aid enabled en-abled at length to 5tem the rodent Invasion In-vasion Sparrows wore the pest that the French troops v, re called upon to exterminate s,.me time- ago In Algiers During the maneuvers recentlj hi,i at Chartres a lion escaped from a traveling menagerie and went off at .1 brisk pai through tho town. iro.it was the ,,n- sternntion of the inhabitants, who called upon the soldiers for protection. For answer an-swer the latter bade the timid citizens keop within doors and scoured the stre, t - until the savage tieaat wns captured In August of IfJOO dnrmg the Joumcy Of 1 a companv of French engineers from the ! , ipltal ro Marseille, the- driver, by some unfortunate accident, fell from th n- Klne on to tho line, while the stoker overcome with emotion, fainted A couple Of soldier- however, at once stopped into the breach and volunteered to drive the I train which they did with such skill and ; nerve that It arrived at Dlpon thr,-,. mln-utes mln-utes before the advertised tlm. In February of lfX a terrible blizsard swept r.v.r southrrn Russia Hundreds of peasants' huts were burled beneath the snowdrift. while outside Odessa three trains were completed blocked Word was at once s,-nt t,, th.- neighboring hnrrarks and over (,i soldiers, arm,-, I with ahovels. promptly appeared upon the scene In a very short while the lines were cleared A more curious role however than am of the foregoing Is that ,.f acting as a living object lesson to the anatomy students stu-dents at Heidelberg university, whi, i, it seems, is expected f anv soldier who may chance to be quartered In that German Ger-man town -Tft-BKs |