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Show Chinese Army Rolls. Now that China has Russia for a near neighbor, it remains to ho seen how successfully or othcrwlso tho Middle Kingdom will continue to practice prac-tice its favorite gamo of bluff. How it has reinforced Its nrmy Is shown by tho Swedish explorer, Hcdln. Tho Chlnoso havo n most extraordinary extraordi-nary way of enumerating their troops. Thoy aro not content with counting tho soldiers only, but reckon In also their horses, rifles, shoes, breeches, and so forth, so that the resultant total to-tal Is a long way abovo what it ought to bo. They apparently go on tho supposition supposi-tion that tho rlflo Is at least ns valuable) valu-able) as the man, nnd by nn analagous train of reasoning they arguo that a man is of llttlo uso it ho has to travel on foot, that ho cannot go about naked and so on. Hcnco they count the whole Kit, hoisc, rlflo, breeches, and all. By this peculiar process of arithmetic arith-metic they fancy they dccelvo the Russians Into bollovlng their garrisons garri-sons much stionger than they aro. |