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Drsttrlng Drafts on the Future.
• [Foreign Letter.]
A man in China endowed with much
bought can make some provision
his own future comfort-. The priests
considerate * y organized a bank tor
spirit world. lo tins the provident
remit large sums during ilieir life
and t au draw on the bank as soon
they reach the dark country. The
periodically announce their certain in¬
of remitting money on a
and invite ail wso have any to de¬
to bring it. All who feel doubt¬
ful of the generosity of their next heirs
tome and buy from the
as much as they can afford of
tinfoil paper money wh ch is cur¬
* excel¬
among the spirits. It is an
investment, as .or a handbill of
brass cash, altogether worth about one
they will receive syeee, i. e.,
ue boat-shaped blocks of silvery look¬
ing tinfoil, bearing a spiritual value of
Ftiprr houses, furniture and clothes
mav in like manner be purchased and
stored beforehand in the happy security
that neither moth nor rust shall corrupt
them, neither shall thieves break
through and steal. When the depositor
(probably a poor oioley or an aged beg
gar) has invested his little savings in
this precious rut>< ish in the e el *sia$t
ieal bazar he delivers it to the priest,
together with a sum of real money as
commission. For this The priest gives a
written receipt. All this din is thrown
into a large boat. It. is a framework of
reeds with a bamboo mast, and its sails
and planking are of paper, When all
the depositors have made their pay
ments, the priests walk several times
around the boat, c anting some incan
ration, then simultaneously sets tiro to
both ends, and the paper fabric vanishes
in a Hash of tlame. The priests bid the
depositors keep their certificates with
ad i are, and."give them to some their trust- de*
worthy person to burn after
cease. whereupon the said
will resell them safely.
cea. Duller’* Kicce at ship island.
I Chicago Herald, j
“I’ve heard a good deal about miners
gathering rounu off,” a stage marked touch to old see sol- a
woman get re little an of that
dier, “but I saw a scene
kind once during the war that beat era
all. It was at bhip island, near New
Orleans Gen. Butler, you know, was
in command. There were *,000 or 10,
oOJ men camped there. The soldiers'
tents were on botli sides of a plank walk
laid down in the sand. That wa.k was
iutiy 3 roue and a half long. island, W eil, sir,
there wasn't a woman on the not
even a colored woman. Most of us
hadn’t seen a woman for three mouths.
“One day it was rumored Gen. Butler’s
niece, blanche—Blanche—Wliatsher
name—-anyway she married toe gov
ernorof .Mississippi—was coming to visit
at the island, dou never saw such ex*
eitement among a lot of men. If we’d
been told a Confederate cruiser was go*
ing to sweep the place with shells before
daylight it wouidn t have caused so
mueh eo emotion. Sure enough, next
afternoon ihe landed. Escorted by
some odicers^sTio started up fhat plank
walk. The news of her coming traveled
faster than she did, though, b mg p sssed
from mouth to mou.li a oug the tents.
Well, if there wasn’t a gittin’ up and
dusting in that camp. Every man of us
able to move tarteu tor the plant* walk.
The Line walked up, some crawled on
the sand, and the sick begged to be
carried.
“The young picture—walked lady—and she that wa3 mite as
pretty and half rs a of gaping,
a between two rows
admiring men, each row twenty men
deep. The men were well behaved,
kept still, and most of them dotted then
hats But, do you know, I've always
thought we en oyedit tetter than she
did.”
Problem of IuMtaataneons Photography.
[Cor. Chicago Journal.!
It was under ‘ex-Govermr I.elan 1
Stanfords suggestions and direction*
that the problem of instantaneous pho
tography as applied to the study of the
horse, Was brought into use. tie con
ceived an idea that tue theories o horse
students regarding the positions and
movements of horses in trotting and
running were erroneous. So he sent foi
the best photographer in San Francisco,
“Mybridge,” he said, “can you take a
picture so quickly as to when catch he the is posi
tion of a horse’s feet trot
ting?” Mybridge shook his head. “Fm
afraid not,’’he developed answered. “Fbotogra- that yet.’
phy isn’t s,o far as
“Then go down to my farm and develop
it,” said Stanford. “You sha.l have all
the money you want well to experiment
with, anil I’ll pay you for your
time, I want to know how a horse trots
and runs.”
bo Mybridge went down to the farm
and experimented for months, The re*
suit was a system of instantaneous
photographs that have not only startled
the scientific world, bat they have
turned over many of the most important
theories of horsemen, and showed that
Stand fords ideas were correct, Tilt
photographer arranged a couple of do/.en
cameras in line, after ho had the system
perfected, and, by means of threads
stretched across the track, which opened
and closed them as the horse succeeded passed the
point covered by them, he in
getting photographs of the po ition oi
the horse at every stage of movement,
Stanford was delighted, and My bridge
was famous and wealthy at once.
The Arab’s F tal sm.
[D.*tro t Five Press,]
Tue wild Arab of the desert is as fe
roeious as the Aortli American Indian,
In place of the Indian s delight m war
fare, he has a prolound faith in “.as
inet ~ d ’ s Fate. ^ ,n days, n>
Emerson puts it m one* of ms poems,
ic is useless to fear d ath—the day on
which you are appointed to die and the
day on which you are. balm not appointed.
On tb© first, neither nor phy»i
cian can save; on the second, do power
can send one to the grave.
^ i** 1 this creed for an armor, and the
further conviction that it fate decrees
ids death he will awake in a Moliam
rnedan paradise, formidable the followers ot the
prophet are enemies.
MADAME
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