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Show Castro and the Attache. A Venezuelan military attache at ParU had turned In a report upon the French army. He praised its organization, organi-zation, and held It up as a desirable model for Imitation by Venezuela. Castro sent for the luckless officer. "You wrote this report glorifying the French army?" v "Yes, excellency. It was a part of 'my duty." "But was the French army never beaten?" "Yes; It was defeated by tho Gor-mans Gor-mans In 1870." "And did the English never get tho better of French troops?" "Certnlnly, excellency, nt Waterloo." Water-loo." "But who was It that defeated both English and Germans combined? Was It not I, Clprlano CnBtro? You may go!" Now York Tribune. |