, 1890-05-31
(Spsesator 2esk AprjO

Paris correspondent et@S@S' CnaS M. 'I|w0w
de ROsny, - Professor Of the S~OTb0OEes
has recently announced his conversion to
Buddhism, not s'esote riC" Buddhism bat
the genuine AsiAtic creed. he declares
that Buddhism 10 Of Hll CrOetlS the one
which it is' least difacalt to reco4scfle with
s~ciSDce: that the ViCe.P President Of the
Academy of Medicine has becouHc % Bald.
hist that One.third Of the crew Of . French
Frigsts recently stationed in the East kavW T
adopted the creed and that he could not :
have believed in the hold which he knew
il TO be obtaining in France. LIS dGVOtes&
would speedily hold o Congress- whiCb 4
would he attended by thirty thousand per.
SONS, only u part OF whom were believers
in the s'OcCultiSna," OF modern magic
which had mixed itself up with true BndAe
hism. but which for himself he TnteCtetl.
We suspect e~xaggeratiOn in this account
80 far aS it refers to true Buddhists. Paris
contains at all times a crowd Of believers
in all kinds OF CaglioStFisn tOaChfBg, who
row call themselves BHidbiStS; but EhOrS
may be something In it, nevertheless. IL
il quite certain that the in1taeTGse develop
nent of intercourse 6etweea Europe and
Asia must produce u reflex e1oct upon
Western opinion, and Buddhism has @
charm for minds which are 40 Osrcs pessS'
mistiC and sCeptieSl Of q futuFs state.
The Standard OF Tuesday publishes @
curious account ut th0 experiments whlC1
are being made In She FrelSsl Army tOT
training dogs to- act rs scouts, nIeSseBgeTHs
and sentineis. When o dog is on naesssrSe
ger duty. two men are detached from Ne
OUTPOST and walk about a mile, their COMP
panion being led by his collar. OnU Os
the men then returns to the starting pOints
and the dog, whenever he is let ROses runs
back to the outpost with q message Ia .
bag tied to his back. The sentinel dogs
are said to scent strangers q hu1dTe1 yArd&
OF, and directly they do so, begin to bark
and grOwl. The training necessary for the
scouts is more elaborate, GN they have to be-
taught to search helds and thickets, IN which
soldiers dressed in foreign unifOTuas are
living in ambush. AS sOOB as tue aniu1als
Rnd tho enemy, it is their business to run
back to their own friends, and 10 to report
what they have seen. 1t is further hoped
that tire dogs will prove useful FOR sending
~anunitiOn and food to patrols and detaCh~
rnents OH ont post duty, The spectacle Of
these FOurfOOted recruits at dEHl muSt D
very interesting one, especially as all the
ours OF the neighbOnrhoOd turn out to watcu
their fellows at work, regarding them ap-
parentlY with no little envy and admiration.
On the whole, however, We cannoC feel much
satisfaction in this new Development of mi
litary science. TO make them useful. the
dogs will bavs to DO kept 90 savage as
wolves; and this being the case. they 8
not unlikely to attack the wounded.
On Wednesday, in the course Of o trial
before the Judge of the WeptminsteR
Oountgy.C Court, sOme curious revelations
were made ~ regards the number Of 3prooss
OF popular Cd 9raviug occasionally issued.
a Mr.. Muir subscribed for IN "artisA1'
proof Of Sir John ;Millais's "Buhbles,'''
published by Mossrs. Tooth and Son nc
So 6s.; but ON bearing that Ave hundred
artists proofs had been issued. 10 we'll -
ave hundred ~ssletser proofs" be refused 20
to take the pictureY alleging that t 10 nnEs.
Der wac excessive. After expert evidences
had been called on 10th siies, the Jsdgs
decided, on 4 grounds which appear tie
TO Dis perfectly reasonable that .Messrs.
Tooth had no ease. The public. he held
considers that by s.astists proofs'' are
meant early impressions ; and. therefore,
when Ave hundred copies are is*usd 81 Q
particular 4.State,n the words s-arttats
proOfs'' are u misdesciiptiol. We frnsi
that in future there will be . gene raj %. %
rdSnt tu t'ade that there shall never be
u re than two hundred asad nfty proofs,
including VII fllr stages. and thal escn
impression shall have . number astAcneO
90 il, a. has each example Of o mO9sSU