Shortly c after Nail 'em wiissed a heifer pf his own, and, mounting

a horse,- gave chase to. the drover,.care fully examined the mob, but failed to ; find the missing beast. If then. dawned on him that ho had slaughtered one of. his own herd, and on fishing up the hide discovered his own mistake.- Hiscup of bitterness did not overflow until his nephew ignored his melancholy explana tion and refused to refund a side of excel lent beef.". .., ,: ,■ ' The English shot Admiral Byrig " pour encourager les autres," as a witty French writer put it. It appears that Cetaway'o has similar ideas of encouraging his troops. Says an exchange,: — "The latest news from. Zululand is that history hasbeen reproducing itself, and Cetewayo has been imitating Xerxes in his mothod of numbering his troops. Before he started his ipms on the Isandlana expe dition, he put pogs into the ground tp measure off his men by the- yard? When the regiments returned, two of them, the Umcityu and another, did, not come up to the original measure by a consider able space : in fact, they had been nearly exterminated. Whereupon the leaders were put to death for having lost too many men. Again, when Colonel Pear 7 son' defeated the Zulus, tho leaders com plained to the King that, though they could face cavalry and cannon, they could make no way against the '"'running fire" of the white men. (Whether this was Martini-Henry or Gatling guns does not appear.) But Cetowayo, unable to understand the details of the engines of destruction which they had described, put them to death for ' frightening the rest of the soldiery by their stories.' " While the transports with soldiers for the Cape were coaling at St. Vincent, says a recent English paper, the troops were astonished to hear of further large 'reinforcements having been sent after them. 