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Show r A ROYAL INDIAN. The Vrlnce or Wales UelODgs to the Ma-hawk Ma-hawk Tribe. There is living in Europe a middle-aged middle-aged gentleman, who, many years ago, was elected a chief of the SHohawk tribe of Indians. This gentleman, ays the New York World, not only comes from ancestry both old and powerful, but he is also heir-apparent to one of the mightiest thrones in the world. He is Albert Edward, more familiarly known as the prince of Wales. When he becomes king of England he will doubtless be called Edward VII. In 18G0 he visited the United States and Canada, and during that year occurred his election as an Indian chief. He was probably present at this interesting occasion oc-casion and perhaps an Indian name was given to him. The Mohawk Indians, who thus honored hon-ored the prince of Wales, are one of the famous Iriquois nations, and as a nation na-tion their home is now in Canada. Their proper name is Agmegue or Gagmegue. The celebrated Joseph Brant was a ! Mohawk. Does it not seem like fiction to read that a tribe of North American Indians can claim among those whom it has elected chief a man who not only comes from distinguished European ancestry, but is himself the heir apparent to a m'htj E-wrnii thron-'' " Australian Photography-f Photography-f Some very interesting exhibits of 'photography are to be sent to the Columbian Col-umbian exposition from Sydney, New South Wales. The collection is being; prepared by the government printing office, and will consist of some four hundred views measuring forty by thirty thir-ty inches. Some of these pictures, when arranged in panoramic order, will finally measure forty feet in length. An enlarged en-larged view of the moon, from a negative nega-tive taken by Mr. Russell, the government govern-ment astronomer at the Observatory, is r;a tr, bp one of the. gemsof the.col- |