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VOLUME
Another Inventor claim* to have settled
the question in regard to the prospective
exhaustion of coal fields; that is, as
olaiiqcd, he has perfected an engine in
which the stoara is returned to the boiler
and as is said, “used over and over
again," the saving in coal thus effected
being calculated at “80 per cent."
f The Invalid* Rh me, the official journal
of the Minister of War, gives the effective
forces of the Czar on the 1st of January,
1886. According to this account the
Russian regular army numbered at that
time 824,762 soldiers and 30,655 Gener¬
als and officers. The reserves amounted
to 1,600,815 men. And this without
counting tlie Finland regiments.
Bismarck and Von Moltko were i
•tackled the other day by an autograph
fiend. Von Moltke wrote first, saying;
“Luge vergelit Wahrlicit. bcstcht,” which
is translated thus “Lies pass away,
truth lives for aye." Bismarck wrote af¬
ter this four lines of German, which havo
been put into English as follows:
fn yonder world, full well I know
Truth will at last the victory gain;
But gainst the lies told hero 1h;1ow
A marshal e'en will fight in vain.”
When Charles K. Gaines, of Tiffin,
>hio ^vas a toddler he stole a sucking pig
in its dam and ran with it into the
house, so that he could play with it. The
sow nt in after the hoy and nearly
killed him. Both of the boy’s eyes wore
torn out. Gaines grew up the wonder of
|ho countryside. He was mentally quick,
so that every one liked him until ho be
gun to show the ugliness of a hard
drinker. Later he “reformed” and wore
♦ h »[ bon He backslid, and last
1 a hand in killing a man. Re¬
als sentenced to the Ohio
Pt tiary, there to stay the rest of his
I lid that a syndicate of capitalists
tired the right to introduce the
e into China. The Now York
says they don’t know what
trouble they are bringing on themselves.
In the Chinese tiuguauc delicate shades
of meanitur tit gt n to the same word
slight inflection of the voice,
ml loiibtful if the telephone will
ist* r or convey tht ■ inflections. “If,
instance, a <'bines merchant wanted
lit in to his place of
• the appropriate order
‘Wan ng through the telephone, it
er .. riiMidy disturb ids oipia
th telephone people thought
e«l a large and ferocious
V
I land, about two years ago, a
v of considerable wealth was
nd robbed in her summer res
Her man servant, a man named
, arrested, convicted
i idence and sentenced
Three efforts were made
Let and each time the rope
rnke. Tim hangman was horrified, and
ic other officials shared his reluctance
i.> pro ccd with the business. When the
fact* were reported to the Home Secro
tan Let 's sentence wiis quietly com¬
muted 4 1 imprisonment for life. Now
for the climax : Recently a woman w ho
Mtt I >'s fellow servant confessed on her
Ivi ' bed that she had killed her mis
t She declared that Lee had no eon
on with the affair, and stated facts
ntirmatory of her confession,
satisfaction to know that the
tOV rnment nt once ordered the release
of the i who had so narrowly escaped
an infamous death, and now proposes to
off in a pecuniary compensation for
his iniuri
According to Hradxtnet's, Great Brit
am couiin to he supreme in tho maim
facturc of tin plates, notwithstanding the
fuet that it no longer relics on Cornwall
for its raw material. Nearly all thc tin
tint d in the manufacture is from East In¬
dia or Australia. The latter ores are rich
in metallic tin. Cornwall ore only pos
Scsses from l to 2 per cent, of pure tin,
and is therefore but little used. Germany
is next in importance as a manufacturer
of tin plates. Wrought iron has been su
pesodeil by steel as the base of tin plate
manufacture. About 8,000,000 boxes are
produced each year, each box weighing
112 pounds, if of standard gauge. Each
sheet weighs one pound, and conse¬
quently there are 112 sheets to the box. i
In a box weighing 112 pounds 97$ j>cr
cent, of the weight is made up of steel
plates and 2$ per cent is thc tin coating.
Of the total British manufacture of tin¬
plates two-thirds—or about 5,300,000
boxes—ure exported. The manufacture
is centered in South Wales, chiefly in
Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire and
Caermartlienshire.
I
In Japan, newspaper editors are com
pelled to send their first proofs of every
edition to the Mikado’s Minister of Htatei
who draws his blue pencil through any¬
thing that is objectionable. Every paper
has a jail c<litor. He is a dummy. The
paper is often involved in suits, and
when a pro; ess is sued out, the officer ept
tent the saactum aad takes away witk him
the dummy editor, who aaswer. all pur
poses and whose absence does not de
prive the paper of any of its working
force.
The first 8uoday newspaper was pub¬
lished 107 year* ago.
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13,
TO-MORROW'S FORTUNES.
My dreams, like ships that went to sea,
And got becalmed in sunnier climes,
No more returned, are lost to me,
Faint echoes of those hojieful times;
And I have learned, with doubt oppressed—
There are no birds in next year’s nest.
The sped is sowed in balmy spring,
The summer's sun to vivify,
With his warm kisses ripening
To golden harvests by and by,
Got caught by drought, like all the rest—
There are no bird’s in next year’s nest.
The stock I bought at eighty-nine
Broke down nt once to twenty-eight;
Home squatters jumped iny silver mine,
My own convention smashed my slate;
No more in futures I’ll invest—
There are no birds in next year’s nest.
— Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.
LMELINE'S SCHOOL.
She was the dullest scholar who at¬
tended the school. The teacher said so.
The particular institution which she
attended was a little brick-red school
house in the Territory of Dakota. Per
haps there is more than one such cduca
tional edifice in the Territory of Dakota,
but I can’t be more definite because that
is about all I know concerning it myself,
Her name was Emeline Faneher, usual
ly called Em Faneher, or sometimes
Emma Faneher, or perhaps more fre
quently “old Fancher’s gal" and it was
agreed by all that she never would know
anything—not about her books—and the
teacher wns quite positive that that was
all there was to learn in this world.
Of course she learned other things
readily enough and she could learn he;
j lessons as well if she wanted to, but ske
didn't want to—only on very rare oca
sions. It was said that she was famous
to help her mother at home, and ths/t she
was somewhat better than her brothers in
helping her father out doors asd that
when if, came to going after the cows on
horseback or setting n trap which would
iuvariably catch a muskrat, or other
things of this nature, that she was en
| thusiastic and successful, but it didn’t
raise her much in the eyes of the com
She was always shockingly familiar
W’ith the teacher, a prim maiden lady
who had been a district school teacher
all her life and considered perfecting the
multiplication tabic the highest achieve
meat of man
During tile noon hour this wayward
scholar would sometimes take Iter seat on
topofadesk near t lie teacher's corner |
: and sit and swing Iter feet and ply her
prim instructor with ipiestions concern- .
ing the manners :in«l custom* and scenery
and natural products of different parts
of th*f country, and volunteer n bcwil
,
j ] doriug amount of information concerning
| the habits of the muskrat and the jack
rabbit and tin plospei ■t for a good erbp,
j and her latest adventure while bringing
home the cows •n her favorite pony. She
would thus eontinue to shock Miss
Bacon, the prim instructor, till at last that
lady would be obliged to send her away
in self-defense.
So Emeline went dong for a couple of
i j years in (he little luick-rcd schoolhouse,
j | Then she graduated. The exercises were
I j not elaborate—in fact they could not
I j have well been more simple, She piled <
j I up her books and taking them under her
j arm went home.
To the astonished Miss Bacon, who
i demanded an explanation of her sudden
I departure, she said:
“I’ve learned enough aud I am going
I to quit.”
“M lmt arc you going to do at home ?’’
“Help ma and pa, I reckon.”
“But doh’t you know you are only
fifteen years of age and need to go to
school more ?”
) i, s posf so that t s what \ou re :
always telling me. But 1 guess I’ll never
learn anything at school anyhow, so I’m
going to quit. Pa aud ma don’t care
aud , you’ll school
never see me ut any
good-by.” She '
more, so went out the
door, but turned and gave Miss Bacon a
parting shock by adding: “Comedown
to our house Saturday and we'll go a
fishing in Dry Lake—I know where there
arc some splendid young fro**-s for bait.”
But the worthy Miss Bacon could not
r eply_the idea of her adjusting a frog
on a hook ! So she did not go Saturday
and did not see her late pupil. In fact
two years passed and she only saw her
occasionally and then when going to or
from school she encountered her d ishing
wildly along on her perhaps’a pony
One day when little more
than the time mentioned had elapsed,
Emma entered the school-house after j
school had closed and as Miss Bacon was
preparing to take her departure. She ;
in her words, “full-fledged '
was, own a '
young lady now, "and was certainly quite
prepossessing in appearance, Miss Bacon
thought, com pared with when she “gradu
ated." She w;m 5 not large, though per¬
haps a little taller than the average
young lady, and was as strong and ac¬
tive as ever. She was dressed with mere
taste than formerly and evidently did
not indulge in her wild and wayward
habits to so gn at a degree, though siie
had thc old gleam in her eye which
seemed to tell that she could still ride
th, pony aa farautet fart, orectatrap b,
th , with the wme crumt, of a
catch.
“Miss Bacon," she said, “I’m going to
surprise you.”
“Well," replied that lady, “go on—
you have turpii*ed me before. 1
“ Justice to All, Malice for None 0
.
“Yes, I know," she said, laughing,
“but another way this time. You re¬
member how I graduated?"
“Yes, I believe that is what you
termed it."
“Well, there isn’t any use of gradu¬
ating unless it does you some good, is
there?"
“Certainly not."
“That’s what I thought, so I’m going
to teach school."
“You a teacher 1” exclaimed Miss
Bacon. “Why, Emeline, how can you
think of such a thing?"
“Don’t you think I can do it?"
“Why, it doesn’t really seem as if you
would be successful as a teacher. Where
are you going to teach?”
.
“Oh, over in the other county. Ms
reckoned I couldn’t get a certificate even !
if Iliad studied some since I left here, but
the superintendent was a nice young man
and I smiled at him and acted real sweet,
and he gave me one with a pretty good
standing. I tell you it made ma open her |
eyes.” •
“You will teach the coming winter, j
then?" ;
“Yes, have thirty got my scholars, school engaged. Going |
to somj big boys,
too, and I’m going to make them stand
around. If any of my scholars ever run
away and act like I used to I’ll make
them wish they hadn’t."
' “Well, I hope you may have excellent
success, and if I can do anything to assist
you at any time, pray let me knew."
“Oh, I’m going to get along all right
what I’m going over there for,"
and she gave her head a decided toss apd
walked away leaving Miss Bacon mining
on what might not happen in this vrorld
of constant surprises,
A few weeks after, Emma went to her
school. She found a boarding plaee j
determination near at hand and settled down with the |
to work hard and give the
best satisfaction that she possibly could.
The first morning she was confronted by
the usual array. They were all sizes,
from those so small that the experienced
teacher always put them down as
having been sent by strategic mothers I
to get them out of the way at
home, to the large boys she had spoken
of to Miss Bacon, some of whom wore not
only larger than herself, but several
years older as well; aud one of them, Mr.
Edward Comstock, even grew particu
iurly attentive to his teacher. !
Site was also met try the usual diversity
,
of text-hooks, those necessary auxiliaries i
to a successful school, ranging from ,i 1(S
late N. Webster’s able spelling book to j
the last work of some ambitious profes- 1
sor who hopes to teach orthography with
out labor on the part of pupil or teacher
with his new “system"—the former vol- j
umc having been the property of the
grandfather of the little urchin who
brought it and the latter having come as
a sample from the publishers to the dircc
tor of the district who straightway armed
his youngest son and heir with it, de
termined to give the work a trial before
recommending it.
Likewise there was the usual range of
studies. There was the little tot who
had yet to gain a speaking acquaintance ^ambitious !
with the alphabet, up to the
young man who aspired to algebra and
an ornate style of penmanship, which
ran to birds and spiral-spring O’s.
It must be confessed that in higher
mathematics and pen-strokes which
swelled out at unexpected places our
teacher was not altogether at home. ,
lint she argued that these ambitious
young men knew nothing about it either,
and therefore they could all, at least
start even,
Among the particularly bad boys was
little Johnny Dutcher, whom Emm*
found to be a particularly obstinate youth '
that no amount of moral suasion, ‘'keep- j
in in” at the noon hour or even corporal * 1
punishment . . could ., from , the , of „
woo error
w ‘ j
‘ W e ® kS ° f S ch ^ ?.° P as8ed ^ and j
Mr ‘ ® d '' an . Co “ stock . > lar S e8t bey, |
remHined atten f lve t0 Hmma-but not.
m .° TC attcutlve than R P u l nl could J udl ‘
cioUsly be to his teacher - ° ue d} ‘y wh en
tbe term wa8 R bout half over she found it
ne<essar y to order little Johnny Dutcher j
t0 sit Stdl in b ' 9 8Cat and make the ac *
. ^ atance of lesson during thc
^ ua noon
bour " bcQ ’ the ot H er children w’ere en- :
^ af?t ‘ d in a grand snow -H allin g match
outs,de much grief - Naturally to little Johnny this was the missing cause the of j
snow -H R Hing match was partly responsi,
l, Ie for the distress, but being forced to
COme 1R contact Wlth h »s lesson was the
direct ™use. dud ff in S *om ***** He.
recl ^ d hls k ‘ sson subsequently, it would
luW6 ^' en Hard to conceive how such a
V6ry sllght mtroduct,on to il as he must
Had could have caused him so much
But it did and Johnny went home
plotting all manner of schemes for re- i
' en 6 e -
The next day little Johnny's father,
Mr Dutcher, senior, called at the school
a » d expressed his great displeasure at
w ay his promising son had been used.
He was very awkward about it, and not
h R H so warlike as his manner at first in
dicated.
,
“Wot 1 want to say," explained Mr.
Dutcher, “is that you ’bused my boy, an’
as one o’ the .officers of this school dees
trick I'm goin’ to see if something can’t
be done ’bout it. ”
“I never abused your boy,” said Emma
firmly.
“But he says ye did. He says yc kep’ j
him in at noon an’ ree-cesscs, an’ it ain’t ,
good for his health—no, ma’am, it’s very
bad on his health—it’s wearin’ on him
now—he can’t stand it ’thout no I
exercise."
“I only kept him in a few times, and
it was because he never had his lessons.”
“But he says he al’ays has his lessons,
and that you al’ays keeps him hi. A n’
then he tells me ye pounded him with a
club."
“Then he tells what isn’t so, and you
know it!" replied Emma, w r ith emphasis, : !
her anger rising.
‘‘ One o’ my boys 1 ic? They don’t never
do such thing—I brought ’em i
no up
different from that I’ll hev you unner
«and! 4 They tell, ... the truth , every time .
and ye did pound poor little Johnny with
a club! Ye hain’t no fit teacher fer a
school an’ I’m goin’ to see cf I can’t get
turned ■
ye out and some’un in as can learn
the scholars pound ,
an not ’em.!" I
“ Sha’n't I put him out?" asked
Edward Comstock, coming forward,
“Yes,” she said in a tone which '
showed that she would have done it 1
, herself ........ if she had been able. ™ Then there . .
followed ft ver y lively though short ene j
count( 'd in which Mr. Dutclier got |
H* tdted up and dropped a couple of j
thnes, stepped on once and finally thrown :
out through the door into a large snow- j
Pushed ,)auk > °* which feats were accom- j
by Edward Comstock, the.
latest boy in school, who was also !
accused of harboring a tender regard for ^
the teacher herself. |
But though the valorous Dutclier had
been so artistically got rid of in th*
morning it was much harder to dispose
of him in the afternoon when he called
w. ..... i he remainder . . of . a the , intelligent . a |
■
Sch "° I iioar ? and ,llmou,,, ' t " 1 > hat ow ‘ n *
to the ( act tllat she 'P oun<1 «d one of
t ^ 1 e c ^Hdren of u member of that Board
wit . ^ * ul> ^°P ^ Him of needful
‘i f e clearly proved r * ve by the child
exer( se—1
llinisclf ~ that they, as a Board and u
P ursuance of their duties, must dismiss
hwr as teacher a,ld 8ecure ano,hcr who
no \ th * Health of the
children of the member, of that Board.
hmma had expected such an outcome
of the difficulty and although .he .up
pres,ell her feelings with difficulty, she j
managed to keep them ...Ihcicntlyund*:
co to " reephis trul to indicate seat, this to Edward young, gentleman Comstock |
indicated his entile willingness to j
i
conle forwardand throw the entire Board |
,,u i fhe door if she was of the opinion ^
1 ia ^ d " as or 11C '
nevei urt any o }our c lildren, j
exclai| ,irm ned’ “but and they put all her need foot it riewn and I j
' ur y y> ,
^ on * vvan ^ try to teach them any j
longer anyhow,” and she walked away j
and left them.
A few days later she returned home 1 I
:
and soon after met Miss Bacon. I
“I’m sorry to hear of your misfortune,
sa H^ that lady.
Oh, you need nt be I was glad to get
away, ” Emma replied.
“Is that so? I’m sorry you feel that
way about it. I m afraid the time you
j* ^ j It® 1 * 8 a || Heen T 1°. b f
1 l< *°> m 11x0 school ami hell
He twenty-one in thc spring, and we’re (
,
going to be married then I think that*
<loin ^ pretty well.” . I
And as Miss Bacon thought of it and
' omcm bered all the terms which she had
taught without accomplishing anything
c>f tha.t nature she admitted to herself^
^ iat P er Haps Emma had done more than
she had at first given her credit for.
Dakota Bell.
A Caterer's Profits.
“Where does the profit come in? It is
made on pastry and oysters and light
'
farinacooU8 fo d/ - , aid „ Ncw York ca
tcrer . to . a Mad .... and ... r.xpretu reporter. !
“Take , ™ chocolate , . . cclaire-, . . r for instance; . .
they can be bought for three and one
half cents each and served at five cents. ! |
Oysters arc bought at $‘J per thousand
and soU i at twenty-live cents a dozen, j
Eggs arc variable and sometimes bring in
a profit, but frequently >io not. Then
p ro Hts too often depend on seasons. Some
seasons we do not do any business, com
paratively speaking, and others the rc
verse j 3 the case. But even with a big
run 0 f customers, medium-priced restau
rants do not ma ke much money. Another
r j s k ] 8 run during the vegetable season,
Salads, lettuce, tomatoes and early veg
getables do not sell at all on cold days,
^s a rule, though, they afford some profit
during the season. The best article for
pro fif. is milk, During thc summer
months thc amount of milk sold is simply
enormous, aud at five cents a glass a
handsome profit is made. The profits,
however, vanish under such heavy ex
penditures as coal, rent, waiters, ice,
electric light, and hundreds . of other
items.
Chinese Play.
About three-fourths of the Chinese
aptor , s work h Iwu4oin i, ne . Thcrc ure
no waits between the acts, except those
occurring between the dates of presenta
tion. These are numerous, for some
plays require from one to Bix months to
finish. Chinese plays, dealing with his¬
torical subjects, consist of a represent*
tion of all the good and bad deeds of
certain rules, or dynasties, especially those
affecting the lower classes. It is this de¬
tail of portrayal that make* the play so
long,—#, Eaul Brest.
CHINESE MONEY.
A CHAPTER ON THE COINS AND
CURRENCY OP CHINA.
The Only Native Coin a Copper
Piece—Mints for Coining; Cash
—Foreign Money Used—
Ranking in China.
The only native coin of China is a cop¬
per piece called tsien; it is thin and cir¬
cular, rather more than an inch in diam
eter, with a square hole in the middle for
the convenience of stringing, This is
stamped with the Chinese word meaning
current, and the name of the province
^Here it is made. Mints for coining cash
a „ 8mal , m is caIled _ are estab .
lished in each provincial capital, under
the direction of the Revenue Department
the government. The coin should
consist of an alloy of copper, 50 parts;
zinc, 41$; lead, 6J; and tin, 2 parts;
and its standard weight should be 58
grains troy, but it has been reduced and
debased so that those pieces now
* n circulation are generally under 30
grains i n weight, and are mainly com
posed of iron; and in spite of laws and
penalties, a large proportion of the coins
now current are coined by private indi
viduals. The value of this coin, if pure,
j s a b old one and a tlxird cents of our
coinage, but the rate of exchange for the
d e k ased specimens usually current in
china varies in different provinces at
from 900 to j m {qt a silver dollar.
The curious fact that neither silver nor
gold have ever been coined to any ex¬
tent in China is accounted for by H.
Wells William# in his comprehensive
work on the Chinese Empire, “The Mid
die Kingdom,” h, the statement th^t the
Government 1. not strong enough to re
g t ra j n counterfeiters, and not honest
enough, on the other hand, to issue pieces
un if orm standard for a series of years
till it has obtained the confidence of its
subjects.” Dr. Williams thinks that the
extension of foreign relations will in time
lead to the issue of a sound national cur
rency There have ^ ^ at ' g
durinR this c(mt to issue si|ver coi
gome of th , vaI „ e #f a toel _ bou , $1 50
_ w „e coined at Shanghai in 1850, and
jn , 835 there a , c0 g o( na
live dol|arSi wci hi 4n 4 ain t
Pnhkien and Formosa to pay the troops
bu , these pieces were cither melted
or coun t er feited to such an extent as
Boun a s they appeared that in a short
time they were wholly out of circulation.
At present the medium of trade in the
open ports is the forergn dollar which is
imported in great quantities from Mexico
^ United States, and these are
U3ef j all of the important operations
of commerce throughout the empire, but
are soon converted into ingots, to suit
the curious national preference The
person paying them out stamps them
with a peculiar die, and after this has
been done several times the character of
co j n j s injured, aud the pieces are
then taken to be melted, refined and
cast into ingots of bullion, which weigh
from flve mace (about seventy . five cents)
to fifty taels (about $75) and the larger
are 8tam P od with thc rtistrict
magistrate’s title wdiere they are made,
aad the date> to verify them> Gold
bullion is cast into bars like cakes of In
dia ink in shape, each worth about $15,
or hammered into thielT leaves. The sll*
yer ingots, called sycee, in a pure state,
are from ninety-seven to ninety-nine per
cent, pure silver, but they are often de
based, and dollars are often counterfeited
w that all clagseg engaged in trade have
their money inspected by regular ex¬
aminers, called shroffs, who, by practice,
become so expert that by the sight alone
they can decide on the degree of
alloy in a piece of silver, though
usually they employ touchstone
needles to aid them, All taxes and
duties are paid in sycee of ninety-eight
per cent, fineness, and the revenue de
partment licenses bankers to receive the
money, and pays them a small percentage
for becoming responsible for the purity
of all the bullion that they take in. Bank¬
ing in China is carried on by private
parties altogether, since no charter or
warrant from the Government would in¬
sure any confidence with the people. Pri¬
vate bankers, however, pay certain taxes
to thc Government. All these banking
house* issue notes, but over-issue is
checked by the supervision of clearing¬
houses and by general lack of confidence
founded on long experience of the
trickiness of human nature—which re¬
stricts the circulation of notes always to
the town and often to the street or
neighborhood in which the bank is situ¬
ated. This curtailed circulation ferves a
good purpose in checking counterfeiting
of the bills, as in most cases a doubtful
bill can be referred directly to the bank
whose name it bears. Such is the general
apprehension of spurious notes, however,
that both law and custom in most cities
give the person receiving a bank-note a
claim for a full day upon the person pay¬
ing it to him, to be reimbursed should
the note prove counterfeit. Hong Kong
bills, however, circulate on the mainland
to rerj remote districts. In the
Southern province* of the eApire
dollars circulate generally, and bank
notes are quite unknown. Twice in
Chinese history the government has tried
the experiment of a paper currency. The
Mongol dynasty of the thirteenth cen¬
tury issued an enormous amount of paper
money. The greet Kublai Khan, who
Parted the scheme of buying treestft#
with money that cost hit* nothing,
thought that he had discovered the high¬
est secret, of alchemy and in his reign of
thirty-four years issued $624,135,500.
His successors continued this manufac¬
ture, but at last the people began to ob¬
ject to the schema and popular discon¬
tent waxed to such an extent during 100
years of “fiat money" that the Mongul
kings found themselves expelled from
their native land in 1368. The new
rulers were obliged to issue notes for a
time to carry on the business of the court,
but soon ceased to do so, and paper
money was entirely superseded by coin
about the middle of the fifteenth cen¬
tury. The Mautchu dynasty, which
came into power in 1645, never issued
any government paper until 1852, dur¬
ing the Tai-ping rebellion. This cur¬
rency, however, being known to have no
basis of credit or funds, never circulated
outside of the capital.— Inter-Ocean.
Japanese Newspapers.
Mr. Clarence E. Stump, the business
manager of the Electrical World , is mak¬
ing a collection which promises to be an
exceedingly valuable and interesting one.
It will comprise, when completed, copies
of every newspaper published in the
world. He has lately received a number
of Japanese papers, which the writer has
had the opportunity of examining, and a
most interesting task it has proved.
Every one is probably aware that Japan
has for some time been peculiarlly open
to the influences of western civilization,
and every one who has met individuals of
the race must have remarked the cosmo
politanism and quick adaptability which
distinguishes them from all other Orien¬
tals. Still, in spite of all this, few who
have never visited the country can have
any idea of the influence exerted there
by western ideas, as shown by this
bundle of Japanese newspapers. Here
are forty different journals, the majority
of them dailies, thirty-six of them printed
in the Japanese character.
Tokio alone has eleven daily and eleven
weekly papers, only two of which are
printed in the English language. Na¬
gasaki has a Japanese daily and an Eng
glisli weekly.
Eighteen other Japanese towns support
at least one daily paper each. They are
all large, handsome sheets, printed on
good paper, in type which even the
western eye, uninstructed save by the
casual perusal of tea chests, cau see is
good, bold aud handsome—for that kind
of type. Where the type is cast I cannot
say, but if the Japanese can cut the
punches for these intricate hieroglyphics
they must be wonderfully well advanced
in the mechanical arts.
They have their little peculiarities.
The title seems to have no particular
fixed place, except that it must be on the
page. I fancy they generally make up
the rest of the paper first, and then
throw the title in anywhere on the fourth
page, unless an “add" comes in at the
last minute, when they leave it out alto¬
gether. I am not sure of this, for I have
never seen a Japanese paper made up; I
only judge sq from the fact that there
are filways three or four immense hiero
, of a very tea chesty character,
raijR&tihg around these Jajianese fourth
pages, with a strong tendency towards
the where, upper I right given hand corner,• understands* tyijg^b is
am to the
Japanese paper commences. However,
I may be all wrong. These mammoth
characters may only be displayed “adds"
for aught I know. They occur in every
paper, and all look alike. A Japanese
newspaper doesn’t need a title anyhow.
They are all “shimbuns." “Shimbun"
means “newspaper" in Japanese, and the
Japanese are a plain-spoken race, and be¬
lieve in calling a “shimbun" a “shim
bun." They venture so far as to use a
qualifying word if there is more than one
“shimbun” in the place, or if the “shim¬
bun” is some particular sort of “shim¬
bun. " Thus there are Mainichi (morn
ingl, Nichi (daily), Etri (illustrated),
Daimos (official), and other “shimbuns,"
but the last title fits them all, and this,
though monotous, is sensible. You may
name a “shimbun" after all the lumin¬
aries of heaven, and, still it remains, in
truth and in fact, only a shimbun.”
The Japanese newspapers are a little
confusing to read until one gets use to
them, but generally their makeup is as
follows: The fourth page seems to be
devoted to news items and clippings.
They are a little careless about crediting.
I have not been able to find a single
credit unless, something Japanese, which
look* like a centipede in a fit and occurs
frequently, means “exchange." The
third page is given up to editorials and
the second to a feuilleton. I am not sure
of the editorials, but I am confident of
the feuilleton. The first (last) page,
though, is the most intelligible and in¬
teresting after all, for here are the ad¬
vertisements. Here we find the cuts
familiar to us from our earliest days. The
monster bottles of various bitters, beers,
and other liquids, medicinal and intoxi¬
cating; the man with two wooden legs,
who, presumably, is the only man- in
town who docs not get his shoes of
Katayama Seitaro, and others which I
positively decline to mention, except in
the advertising columns at the regular
rates.— New York Commercial Advertiser
Two hundjred aad sixty-two pairs <
twin* were born in Chicago during 188
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CITY" CROOKS. ‘
HOW NEW YORK'S ^RIMINlAIiS
ARE KEPT MOVING. ,
The Detective and the Chief of the
Bunko Men—The “Lady" in
Macy’s—A Visit td
Wall Street.
It is one of the boasts of the Nev/
York detectives that they are personally
acquainted with all the professional
criminals in and near town. The results
of this acquaintance are often peculiar.
You are talking with Dete.ctive Prior a
few feet from the door of the Fifth- Ave¬
nue Hotel, and he sees a young dandy
halt a few feet away. <
“Better keep right on," he says to the
dandy; “hurry up, now." :
“Oh, good morning," says the dandy.
“I am only going to set my watch."
That is Kid Miller, chief of the bunko
men, and the detective will not allow
him to stop in front of the hotel. You
are pushing your way into Macy’s shop¬
ping store, and a little ladylike body is
just ahead of you. Suddenly some one'
steps up to her and roughly orders her to'
“Get out at once."
“Certainly, sir," she says, very meekly.
“I was only goiug to match apiece of
silk." She lies. She shoplifter, and the j
is a
man who ordered her out is a detective.
Perhaps you are at the Arion ball with
its 5,000 dancers and lookers-on. You
walk in the lobby near the entrance for a
breath of air, aud meet Captain Williams
in full uniform, alert and handsome as an
*
eagle, lie darts from your side and
stands in front of a stout, elderly gentle¬
man so as to oppose his progress. '
“What do you mean by coming here?"
The man answers boldly: “My wife is
here and I have come to take* her home.” (
“That’ll do now,” says the Captain;
“there’s the door; get!” And as Arte
mus Ward used to say, “he gets.” The
man is a pickpocket.
A neatly-dressed, rather substantial
looking man of middle age sends in his
card to Inspector Byrnes at Police Head¬
quarters. The name on the card is that
of a burglar better known by an alias, 1
say “Red Leary," for instance.
“Well, what do you want?” Mr. Byrnes
asks, gruffly. He has an especial tone for
men of that class, aud it is a tone that
forbids familiarity and suggests mastery
—a very different tone from the quiet
and easy one for his friends.
“I would like to be in Wall street for
.fifteen minutes to-morrow, Inspector,"
says the burglar. “I want to see about
a personal matter."
“I will have one of my corps meet you
at Broad and Wall at noon, sharp," says
Byrnes.
The burglar thanked the official, for it
is a favor to such a man to be allowed to
go to the money center with a detective
at his should40&11 the time he is there.
To go without this permission and escort
means a certainty of being arrested and
locked up. The only known crooks that
get into Wall street under Byrnes are
men in business there whose offenses he
cannot punish; the only others are the
employes who default now and then.
This is not the only part of town that
shady characters are excluded from. It
has always been a favorite method with
Captain Williams to say to rascals of
various sorts: “If you ever put your
foot in my precinct I’ll send yoU up."
This may not be according to law, but
it’s according to fact, and they give thut
precinct a wide berth. Pickpockets like
the Allen brothers, who arc well known,
have a hard time of it in New York. No
matter how much they want to see a play
or a ball game, or attend a meeting, there
is apt to be some one to stop them at the
entrance with a “right-about face, now.
You can’t get in here." I have seen a
pickpocket hustled along like a bit of
down in the wind from one block to an¬
other, while apparently an innocent spec¬
tator of a street parade.— St. Louis Re¬
publican.
Pearl Diving.
The plan of operations in pearl fishing
is generally as follows: The fleet is dis¬
tributed over the fishing grounds, and
one or two of them see to the supply of
fresh water and stores. The mother ship
generally lies at anehor in the bay, and
the small boats leave her every morning
to go to their various grounds close by.
At night they return with their cargoes.
The decked boats go further afield, and
bring the results of their labor at longer
intervals. The open boats are very
small, and, in case of bad weather, they
get to leeward and have to lie out in a
heavy sea and take their chance of swamp¬
ing. Many a time, after a hard day’s
work, and all hands thoroughly tired out,
anchor has to be got up and sail made
after a boat being driven out to sea and
not able to reach the ship.
At onetime the divers, who are natives,
went below naked, and suffered great
hardships in consequence. They could
not stop below for a longer.period than
a minute and a half. A diving apparatus
is now used, consisting of a headpiece
and a breastplate, with the legs free,
which the natives prefer to the European
method, and they can remain under for
two or three hours. Sharks areatroubk
sometimes, but sees
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