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Show IN SOUTH AFRICA. The lUmnv.rv nf (iolil Id (he Ti-n- I tal. Klyda K. Sieepc. writing- of South , Africa in tiic .inifc St. Nicholas, tells j of the discovery of gold in the Transvaal, Trans-vaal, and the grow ill of .Johannesburg. A Herman named Mauch was the Brsl. to discover evidences of gold in the Transvaal, but. failing t interest his fellow countrymen i" mining in so ditlieult and distant a couutry. nothing came of his discovery. Not until an Knglishman. Striibcn by name, found the gold on the Transvaal again, was any special interest taken in the matter. mat-ter. He spread the news, and in a year's time from the first opening of the country, twenty thousand people had arrived on the spot, eager to make fortunes. |