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(Elje Unbar fatmtn imtml 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 •' m NUMBER 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. 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