e people.

If a general gets popular with his soldiers he at once plots to overthrow
the government, and with the help of the army become president himself.

Every man who is either clever or ambitious gets up a toy revolution to
depose somebody, and take his place.

The present revolution appears to be of the usual kind.

The President has become unpopular, and it is said that one of the former
presidents, Dr. Soto, thinks he would like to have another term of office,
and so he has incited the people to revolt.

A new government has been formed to take charge of affairs until they
become more settled, and things seem to be shaping themselves to suit the
doctor's wishes.

San Salvador and Guatemala, though by their new ties they are bound to
assist their sister republic, have declined to interfere, and it looks as
if the life of the Greater Republic of Central America would not be nearly
as long as its name.

* * * * *

On page 134 of Vol. I. we spoke about the unfortunate Russians who are
exiled to Siberia, and of the thousands of miles they are forced to march
across the continent before they reach their place of punishment.

It has just been reported that the Czar has issued a decree that persons
who are exiled to Siberia shall, from this time forth, be carried by train
to the convict settlements.

In the days when the poor unfortunates had to make the journey on foot it
took ninety days of steady marching to reach the journey's end, and women
and children as well as men took their places in the long, sad procession
that wound its way across the dreary steppes of Russia.

This decree must have caused much rejoicing among the Russian people, and
if the Czar continues to rule his people so mercifully and kindly, we may
all live to see the day when there will be no more Nihilism or hatred
between the ruler and the ruled in Russia, and when it will no longer be
necessary to send anybody to Siberia.

* * * * *

The boys of the Cambridge Manual Training School have a new lesson which
has become very popular with them.

This is a fire drill.

The pupils are taught to go through the whole process of fighting a fire
in the same way that the firemen do.

Before the boys are allowed to join the fire battalion they have to be
drilled, taught to march, and are obliged to attend lectures on surgery,
and how to help injured people until the doc