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Thames Star, Volume XXXX, Issue 10514, 9 December 1902, Page 2

Now- then clairvoyants came along with science and divining orods. Show us the depressionsl in, or about the line of telegraph where water can, be got by, putting downi artesian, wellsi and Abyssinian pumpsi to obviate the Water bags the travellers must carry from his--last base. Recollect- Lake Tchad, where in winter a village is* on 1 the store of the lake, but mi summer is 15 miles distant from the water. There Rabah, a noted, slave dealer, was lately captured by a small British expedition tinder Captain Marland. The expedition: had to 1 drive night and day 150 miles' to the next dej>ot for watea-, with.the terror of the district in custody.

Mr Ohris Healy in "To-pay," tells some things about the Dreyfus trial tliiit will fill hi-;i readers witli astonishment. Among other things,, he says that when the jury, entered to deliver their verdict a dozen officers drew their swords 1 -and waved tliem. a.bove their headfe, a,ndi the Garde liepublicaine flourished their bayonet®. Tlie jmy had. but to u«.y "Kbni Coupable" and it wclu'ld haive. been the signal for, the Pretoriansi to plunge their bladies into Zola's breast in a fury of patriotic frenzy. Fortunately for him the jury returned a verdict, of guilty, .and so saved) his life. This faai> can bei s aittes'tedi by .any witness of tlhie dlcising scenes of the famous trial.