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Show Lives and Characteristics of H People of the Rival Empires H Respective Admirals Have Both Seen Service and Are Skillful Seamen. Bitfrjest FlflhUnfi Forco In tho World Is at tho Command of tho Czar. JAPANESE SHOOTING FISH Tho beaked chaetodou Is a very sportive llsh, most popular lu Japan, nnd passes his time shooting flies. Ills muzzlo Is tho gun, so to spenk, nnd a drop of water serves him as a bullet When ho fools that his dinnertime dinner-time Is approaching hu moves slowly through tho water till ho reaches a bank overhung by foliage. Hero ho stops, with his muzzlu Just sticking out of tho water. Patiently ho waits until some unsuspecting lly or other dainty Insect settles on the foliage. Then ho takes aim, hard and sure, nnd tho drop of wntor spurts from his novel gun, hits tho Insect, and knocks It Into tho water, whero It Is gobbled up to form tho repast of our skilful chnetodon. Tho Japanese uso tho fish ns a household pet, and nmuso themselves by seeing him shoot unwary fllos. Ho Is generally "at homo" In tho Indian or Polynesian seas, and likes to bo near tho mouths of rivers, whero ho can get most files. Ills marking Is curious, several brownish bands encircling en-circling his body, nnd his boauty Is greatly onhanced by a circular spot edged with white, which Is stuck plumb In tho center of his soft dorsal fin. |