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Show The ' Umpcror" of Abyssinia, the Negus Menellk, Is slid to b In for a Jiunt of Uitropc. This alleged descendant descend-ant of Solomon by the Queen of flhebi hnd belter sta) nt home If he doesn t want tn lose conceit of himself. Ills little population of three millions or so Is less than thnt of New York City, nnd tho peoplo are scattered over n region not much smaller than the combined arena of Colorado, W)omlng, Utah nnd Idaho It Is nominally n Christian couutr), Christianity of n, rather mixed sort having been Introduced Into the county in the fourth century of our ern, and It has not heen Improved since A gieat many curious legends were afloat In tho middle ages about Prcster John, tho Terrestrial Paradise, and various other subjects, that were supposed to relate to Ab)sslnla, which the natives there enll Illopla. Tho inhabitants nf that exceedingly rough country nro mostly of n low order of humanity, rruil, relentless, nnd fond of vvnr nnd bloodshed. They nre so backward, )et hav c such a high opinion nf thcmselv es, thut Menelek hnd belter not go to Uu-hope, Uu-hope, for fear that the contrist would causo him to die of thngrln, or else on returning home ho would be cutcn up with gall. |