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Show THE WORLD'S MILITARY. The Simplon road, from Switzerland to Italy, was built by Napoleon's engineers engi-neers in 1807. Over 400,000 workmen were employed at one time. In breaking up the Volta, an old wooden cruiser of the French navy, a loaded shell was found in her timbers. It is believed the shell was fired into her at the bombardment of Foochow, nine years ago. J. W. Thomas a union veteran, of Weeping Water, Neb., has set out for Texas to recover from a confederate veteran there the pocket Testament which was taken from Thomas when he lay wounded on the battlefield at Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Landing. Pagxieb, the first French soldier killed in the war of 1870, has now a handsome monument erected to his memory in the cemetery of Neider-bronu, Neider-bronu, near Strasbourg, on the initiative initia-tive of the patriotic association called the "Souvenir Francais." DriiiNO the campaign in Dahomey the French soldiers found the Dahomeyan women much more redoubtable than the men, and what amazed them most was that the amazons not only carried repeating rifles, but also had cords a. round their waists for the purpose of binding any Frenchman who fell into their hands. I)it. Charles Okawfokd, a leading surgeon in the Jiritish army, warns the Knglish people that their army is losing its power because the stature and physical endurance of the soldiers tire being materially lowered by drink, lie says drinking is now so general in England that the race is being seriously serious-ly deteriorated. A new standard for recruits for the I.ritish army has been set in regulations just issued. A recruit will be accepted if he stands five feet four inches in his stockings, measures thirty-three inches round the chest and weighs one hundred hun-dred and thirty pounds. If any candidate candi-date does not reach this standard, but appears otherwise promising to the recruiting re-cruiting officer, he may be accepted. |