England continues to remain neutral.

Firing was heard yesterday in the direction of Blucherberg, and for a while the excitement was intense.  However the people reflected that the country in that direction is uninhabitable, and impassable by anything but birds, they became quiet again.

The Emperor sends his troops to the field with immense enthusiasm.  He will lead them in person, when they return.

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Fourth Day
the European war!

Nobattle yet!! 
The troops growing old! 
But Bitter Strife imminent! 
Prodigious excitement! 
The invasions successfully accomplished
and the invaders Safe! 
Russia sides with both sides
England will fight both! 
London, Friday.

No battle has been fought thus far, but a million impetuous soldiers are gritting their teeth at each other across the border, and the most serious fears entertained that if they do not die of old age first, there will be bloodshed in this war yet.

The prodigious patriotic excitement goes on.  In Prussia, per Prussian telegrams, though contradicted from France.  In France, per French telegrams, though contradicted from Prussia.

The Prussian invasion of France was a magnificent success.  The military failed to find the French, but made good their return to Prussia without the loss of a single man.  The French invasion of Prussia is also demonstrated to have been a brilliant and successful achievement.  The army failed to find the Prussians, but made good their return to the Vaterland without bloodshed, after having invaded as much as they wanted to.

There is glorious news from Russia to the effect that she will side with both sides.

Also from England—­she will fight both sides.

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London, Thursday evening.

I rushed over too soon.  I shall return home on Tuesday’s steamer and wait until the war begins.  M. T.

THE WILD MAN INTERVIEWED [From the Buffalo Express, September 18, 1869.]

There has been so much talk about the mysterious “wild man” out there in the West for some time, that I finally felt it was my duty to go out and interview him.  There was something peculiarly and touchingly romantic about the creature and his strange actions, according to the newspaper reports.  He was represented as being hairy, long-armed, and of great strength and stature; ugly and cumbrous; avoiding men, but appearing suddenly and unexpectedly to women and children; going armed with a club, but never molesting any creature, except sheep, or other prey; fond of eating and drinking, and not particular about the quality, quantity, or character of the beverages and edibles; living in the woods like a wild beast, but never angry; moaning, and sometimes howling, but never uttering articulate sounds.