St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10
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mission OF the studs of the German gov
eminent is to propagate stations for the
string of cavalry borses throughout the
empire, and the duties of the chief
marshalS require that they shall hav
the studs supplied with animals which
are the best adapted to cavalry service,
as 1T is the aim of the emperor to have
his cavalry mounted upon the best
horses OF auy country. Speed, strength,
endurance and style are the chief points
which the marShalS are expected o de-
velop in the stock at the studs. Oct
t!ngen came over to attend the horse
show at Chicago.
but was considerably disappointed
with the exhibition of horses" said he
at the hotel. II cams expecting to see
American horses, which am led to be-
iieve are the finest in the world; but
instead saw mostly English and French
animals. There were very few Amer
lean horses at the show. l have seen
enough OF American horses 20 satisfy
me that they are greatly su perior to the
English aud French stock, / am greatly
taken with the specimens of American
horses have seen. [ am now on my
way to Miles City and Helena, Mont,
where am to see, as l believe, some
magnificent animals. l shall go from
there to California, and | am satisfied 1
shall see there a great number of fine
horses. am going to spend some time
in Kentucky looking over the great
thoroughbred breeding farms. You
see, L am not going to buy any
horses; l am here simply to
learn how you Americans managed
to breed such superior beasts.
Ii L can learn the knack of the thing |
Will in time have bred just as fine
horses at my stud in Germany. Our
cavalry horses must he SNOWY, speedy
Ill running as possible, able to endure
long races, marches, etc., and animals
which do not blemish easily. Our cav
airy is now equipped with pretty goou
horses, but there is room for Improve
nent. Russia has very fine cavalry
horses. and it is our aim to Guido that
country in this respect. My stud is the
chief one of Germany, and | have in it
now 500 pretty good stations. want
to go home prepared to correct every
fault i'll our cavalry stock. This is
learned here about horse breeding than
in all the rest Of the world put to-
Sether."
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AS an American thinks of Africa he
sees only dark continent inhabited by
black savages, lions, tigers, elephants
and huge serpents, and it it difficult for
him to realize that in South Africa. the
most remote portion of the mysteri Gus
region. the white man has driven back
the bushman and kaffir, the lion, tiger,
elephant and serpent. as he has driven
back the red man, the panther and buff
faio i'll America, and made the land to
TEEN with thrift and wealth. j. FL.
Akin. representative of the Remington
typewriter at Capetown, South Africa,
whose stay of number of days at the
Merchants terminated yesterday, al
though very modest man. wos induced
to talk little about his country.
''Oh, yeS,", said he in reply to a
query, there are soma wild animals
still in South Africa; but the lions and
tigers have been pretty much killed off, J.
and il is very hard to find any short of
thousand miles north of Capetown.
In the Knysna forest, about 800 miles
from CapetoWn, however, there are a
large number of elephants, on account of
the protection the law affords the ami.
NAL. And do you know the elephant Isl
most peculiar animal in some respects.
He is a quite timid beast, yet when
wild elephant gets it into his head to 60
in a certain direction he will walk right
over any obstacle, such as man or beast
A friend of mine last year was engaged
fntu oEfs,
minerals in the KnySna forest. One
night he pitched mis- tent for the night
i'll certain quarter, and went to beu.
In the night wild elephant mapped for
himself path on which happened to be
my friends tent. The elephant started
out, and Wien he came to the tent de-
clined to turn out for it, but walked
right through it, crushing the canvas to
The earth. smashing everything inside.
and Dearly stepping on tue men. The
beast could have more easily walked
around the tent than through it, but he
would not do that.
~
You wish to know something about
my country? Well, South Africa is di-
vided into four colonies, two of which
are English and two Dutch. The En-
glish are at Cape colony and Natal
colony. and the Dutch, Orange Free
state ana Transvaal. The Dutch beers.
contrary to the idea of Americans, are a
very good class Of people. They are
generally rich, pretty well informed,
civil and good-hearted. The people of
the cities aud villages of the two Dutch
colonies, and good many of the cuun-
try people dress we'll, and keep pretty
well up with the times. The English
colonies are pretty well populated with
high class of people. The sons of Eu-
glish lords abound i'll Cape colony. A
good deal of the country is mountain
Gus. but the Orange Free state aud a
good deal of Cape colony are fiat coun-
try-prairie lands such as are seen in
Minnesota. 1t used to be the case that
breadstuffS were imported for the colo
MES, but believe that enough wheat
and other small grains are now raised
to supply the demand. About the
greatest industry of the colonies is
wool-raisDg. We have sheep little
known here, called the cape sheep; you
probably call them the big-tail Sheep.
They produce an immense quantity of
wool per animal. Then the Angora
goat industry is another profitable one.
The hair of this goat is very Important
article of commerce. You undoubtedly
know great deal about our ostrich
business. l think that is the best I'M
ueTStOOu OutSiu6 OI ali our industries,
for much has been written about it in
American magazines. The craze for the
wings of small birds, aud for the smalb
birds stuffed, to ornament hats, which
has run in France, England and Amer
lea some years. has had damaging eff
feet on our ostrich farming; but ostrich
plumes have come again into fashion
and our business is looking up. 1t has
been greatly feared in South Africa that,
ostrich farming would grow into great
proportions IN California and cut off our
American trade, and am convinced
that there is good reason for the fear.
The ostrich seems to thrive as well Oh
your Western coast as with US. Is
"
"As you know, probably the greatest
diamond mines in the world are in
South Africa, mostly located in Cape
Colony. believe that very soon the
urpataSt pold mines of thn world will no