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Show LOSINO NATION'S NAMC FinST. Wlieu War. Are Kn.ixn by III K.mra of lh Nalloni Intuited. Wirt are commonly known among third parties by the names of the two nations Intolved, and It la a serloui fact that the name ot the losing nation usually precede that ot tho victor. Considerations ot euphony snd not sentiment sen-timent obtain. In tht war between I'rnnro and l'riissla France was completely com-pletely cruifaed In a short time, but the ronteat. by general content, li known ni the Franco-l'msilin war Tho recent war In the far eaat, which led to the partition of China now actively ac-tively In progress, wo known ti the Chlntwe-Japancae, or. In Huropean phrsteology, tho Slno-Japineo war A atlll mora recent example li (he Orarco-Turklsh war, In which Oreec wat badly whipped To the superstitious supersti-tious the namo currently given to our conflict wllh Spain may. by analogy, ccm an augury of aurcesi for our arms. Kurope calls It the Spanlih-Ametiran Spanlih-Ametiran war An objection to thti name It that It glvet rlao to ambtgn-Itle. ambtgn-Itle. aa the term Hpnnlih-Amerlcan I commonly tiled to detlgnato tho va-rlout va-rlout countries ot South America. rr-bap rr-bap for this reason there It a growing grow-ing tendency In Kurope to call tho war Hlipano-Amrrlran. Another objection objec-tion In the eyea of flu rope to either of theio namn It the Jealousy with which It regard our aatumptlon of the name America. America, It It contended, appllet to tho whole of North and South America, and Hit country It more often referred to at "thn Htatet," even by England, |