Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-21

ing the peculiarly virulent abuse to which
schoolmasters are subjected while serving
with the colors. The younger Prussian
officers are accused of exnausting their am
pie stock OF billingsgate whenever a school
master comes before them for drill, and of
taking exceptional means of ofdegrading them
IN the eyes of other recruits. The organ of
the Prussian schoolteachers describes in its
last number the experience ot g school
masters while serving with the colors lasc
month. One day, in the presence OF the
Whole regiment, a young lieutenant ad-
dressed the % gentlemen as follows:
You lubberheaded schoolmasters will do
well to take special pains, now, or l will
stretch your sheepshEnks until the fat rams
out of them" Later on the same day the
same officer walked up to portly member
ot the schoolmasters' company and roared:
well, you fat beast, 90 you want to lounge
about and get fatter here
A few days atterward. during parade, an
other officer standing near the schoolmaster
recruits shouted to a comrade: To-day 1
met stupid brute of a schoolmaster, who
saluted and then stared at me like an OK at
a barn door" Then, turning to the school
masters. the officer added: 81 cannot drill
you, your snouts stick out so terribly You
can talk and talk, but you are the stupidest
lot of blockheads ever had the misfortune
to look at"
Rare List of Pet Names.
The periodical then gives a list of the cpl
thets which one of the unfortunate % pre-
served in his diary as specimens OF the
drill The list is arranged alphabetically.
and would do credit to Rabelais In it are
found the expressions "rhinoceros," "boar-
hound" "carrion," "SheepShead," devil"
and some SO or 90 more.
-Interesting experiments in training war
dogs are in progress on tile Tempelhofer
and Bri1. The work is done by non-com-
missioned officers, under the occasional
supervision - OF a Lieutenant at The system of
enough the results are utterly unsatis-
factory. But small percentage of the dogs
tried are accepted for military. service,
and of those accepted the majority prove
to be failures in consequence or the impos
sibillty of suppressing their natural tend
ency to bark whenever an enemy ap-
proaches. In the present work on the Tenn
pelhofer field the dogs are taught to regard
black or blue trousers as German and
friendly, and red trousers as hostile. About
half of the trainers wear French uniforms,
scoId the dogs in French and cuff them or
whip them. The dogs are taught thus, in a
short time, to distinguish between French
and Germans during daylight, and to give
the alarm whenever a French uniform
comes in sight. They are taught to give tine
alarm whenever anybody approaches at
night, the distinction between friend and
foe then devolving upon the nearest sentry.
Dogs Trained for Messenger Service.
Training dogs for messenger service has
been found to be much easier than training
them for picket duty. The couriers are
selected invariably from the females, as
they are quicker and less likely to loiter
along the road. sergeant at Templehofer
1ielu told a reporter that his dogs had
learned to hide behind hedges or to crouch
cut of sight in bitches whenever anybody
came along the road and then to continue
their journey with renewed speed as soon as
the danger OF detection was b7. The mes
SenGer dog wears a light iron collar with a
small bag attached for the dispatches.
The greatest difficulty the sergeant said,
had been found in accustoming the dogs to |
artillery. At the first discharge of cannon |
usually they bolt. After having once been |
accus ,onIed to the reports of firearms how |
ever, he said. the dogs were the most cour- |
agenuS soldiers, and ran without Quailing in |
the thlckest of the fight.
The German spitz has been found most |
for the service, on account of its /
and endurance. The best color |
fOr facilitating the concealment of the mes |
senger dog has been found to be gray, and /
therefore gray-haired dogs are selected /
whenever practicable A good many Scotch
collies have also been pressed into the serv-
ice. and a few ST. Bernards. This latter /
variety is employed exclusively by the Red /
Cross Field Service, and hence it is asserted /
that IN the next war there Will be no posi- /
Dilitv that anv wounded will be overlooked 1
on the battlefield.
A Fakir Rakes in Fat Fees,
The medical profession of Berlin is greatly |
agitated by the presence OF Golam Kader
an Indian oculist, who says he can make the
blind see. Golam kader has established
himself IN room in the Friedrichstrasse, |
and there he displays himself daily, amid
Oriental splendor OF apparel and furniture, !
10 great crowds of persons who have |
lrou.ht blind friends for treatment
,Tpiam hader says lie has 4 diploma from a
university in Singapore, but nobody has
been able to learn anything furthur about
the diploma or university. The physicians
oi the city and many newspapers demand
JGut the police arrest Golam kader as an
lmpustOr. Meantime Golam kader is re- |
cCIviuE fees as fast as ne can take them in.
IN the litigation betN cen the Northern |
Salvage Association and the North German |
liovu, a. regards the wrecked steamship
4 der, the court has ordered the steamship
company to pay over 257,3 marks, with in
terp~t at 10 per cent since last April. The |
Is imposed, however, that only |
the Elder and the gross freight can be dis
trained. Each side in the litigation must |
pay its own costs. The contention of the |
salvage Company was that the whole prop |
'rIy OF the North German Lloyd could be |
evled on for the money. The North German |
Lloyd cOntended that only the ship and
gross cargo could be touched The decision |
therefore, was q partial victory for the |
steamship owners. The wreck of the Elder |
Will lie sold at Southampton, proDa bly, No |
yemher 29 Nothing like the cost of salvage |
viii be realized.