28, 1913. Smoking Postmen of Korea, A decidedly quaint character is the Korean postman, says a writer in the Wide World. You come ucross these gentry in the morning. delivering the letters They appear to recognize the dignity of their otlice and fulfill their duties in a very quiet and grmve man ner. In wet weather he dons his “rein clothes” to protect him from the heavy showers. Over his white kaftan he wears a light mackintosh, provided by a thoughtful government. while his head is covered with a waterproof hat made of ofl paper. He is further forti- fled against the wet by an umbrella. Like most Koreans, the postman could not possibly work without his pipe. and as he strolls from house to house he is invariably smoking. The letters are carried in a lenther satchel strap- | ped to his back. This individual may be taken ax a typical example of the physical characteristics of these inter esting people. They ure tall—over a head higher than the Japanese--well built and fair complexioned. When Critics Disagreed Professor Lounsbury tells a good story which seems to show that in the. matter of poetry critics hold diverse opinions and that one man's opinion is as good as another's. According to the professor, Aubrey De Vere. the Irish poet. collected on the same day the opinion of three of his brother poets on the poetical standing of Burns. One of these poets. who was Tenny son, said Burns’ songs were perfect. but that one had to forget his serious pleces to enfoy them. The second. who was Wordsworth, said that Burns’ “se- rious efforts” showed great genius, but that his foolish little amatory poems were worthy only of oblivion, The third was Sir Henry Taylor, who said that he found Burns’ songs and his se- rious poem: alike—tedious and disa greeable. Spoonerisms. Even history has its charms. As one follows the events of the day start echoes from the past, and sometimes laughter, Example: Here is a qudint fellow in Tay Pay's Weekly revealing marvels about the signs and names of English inns Creditable performance. doubtless. though drowsy withal But we have conned the pages of history, so remem: ber Spooner—the great. great Spooner —he who got run over while “boiling his icicle” at the side of the road. yet recovered und went home by “the town drain.” To Spooner we owe a criticism —by deeds. not words—of the names they give inns. Surely you recall his agreeing to meet a friend at the Green Man, Dulwich, and. with his usual ap- titude, hunting all afternoon for the Dull Man, Greenwich.—New York Trib une. Nothing Like System. “There's nothing like system,” said a New York official. “System will ac- complish the impossible. “The director of a recent art show was a fine chap for system. One day he arrived ut the show without his pass and the gateman. a stranger, held him up. “‘I have no pass nor ticket,’ said the system exponent, ‘but I am the direc tor of the show.’ * ‘You'll have to produce your ticket, sir. “‘But | tell you I'm the director— high mucky-muck—boss.’ “‘T can't help it, sir; I'm forbidden to let’— “ ‘Yes, 1 know,’ sald the director im- patiently, ‘but. my good fellow, as the director, 1 give you permission to let me pass.’ "— Washington Star. Scientific Uses of the Radish. An alcoholic solution of the skin of a red radish serves as an excellent indi- cator or test for acids and bases. In the presence of acids the colorless so lution turns pink, while with bases— alkaline solntions—it turns yellow. It is well known that many plant ex- tracts. such as litmus, and animal products. like cochineal, possess this property of developing marked colors with acids and bases. but no other in- dicator is so simply made. Ready to Take a Chance. “John, I've just heard where you may buy a fine new automobile for half price.” “All right. dear. Now, if you can hear how we may be able to keep It going for haif price I'll buy the thing.” —~Chicago Record-Herald. Giving Him Away. “Ma,” inquired Bobby. “hasn't pa a queer idea of heaven?" “Why do you ask that?” *'Cause | heard him tell Mr. Naybor that the week you spent at the sea- shore seemed like heaven to him."— Boston Transcript. Forebodes Trouble. When a woman rattles the dishes more than usual while preparing sup- per it's a sure sign that her husband will hear something drop when he comes home.— Atlanta Journal. Slim Sarah. In the days when Sarah Bernhardt's extraordinary thinness was the joke of Paris. Rochefort wrote, “An empty cah drove up to the theater, and Sarah Bernhardt alighted from it!" A Light That Failed. She—Did you marry that girl you used to say was the light of your life? He—No; I decided to live in the dark.— Cleveland Leader. rm mm— v———srnnmn vmr T] Curiosities of Korean Justice. The Korean judge dispenses justice In the open. and by etiquette only the judge can sit. Every one else must | stand, excepting the prisouer and his friends. who are forced to remain fm! a humble kneeling position with bow- ed heads. Until quite recently these trials were always very one sided and shockingly unjust When & man was | brought to a judge it was taken for | granted he was guilty, and if he did vot confess he was tortured and made & do so. Witnesses, too, were openly bribed. In fact. giving evidence for or against an accused person meant a and these witnesses naturally favored those who paid best. Punishments varied. If the prisons were too full and the condemned could not pay a fine they were often given a chance to escape or disappeared by some means. Though these are things of the past, Korean judges. like those of China, possess a poor idea of the sense of justice.—Wide World Maga- zine. Speeds of the Stars. Years of arduous research have re- | vealed that the stars nearly all move | with specific speeds of from ten to | thirty miles per second, our star. the | sun. moving about thirteen miles per | second. But the rapid stars, those | having large proper motions. say. of | eight or nine seconds of are per year, are flying at such terrific velocities | that they form a class by themselves. | Their speeds are between 100 and 500 ! miles per second. the latter being that | of the huge sun Arcturus. The attr o- | tion of the quantity of wiles in all | suns—that is. bodies that are visible | to the eye or to photographic plates— iis totally unable to cause these im- | mense velocities. This shows that the | quantity of invisible matter is far | greater than that in the {)0.000,000 | visible bodies The quantity of matter [ able to impart a speed of 100 to 500 miles per second is far beyond all im- agination. - Edear Lucien Larkin in New York American. ———————— Squared Accounts. | A dispute once arose between an English landlord and bis tenant. The latter had given notice to quit, but would not put a bill in his window to say this house was “To Be Let." To make matters worse, they went to law about it The judge, having heard the case. mnde un order for the de- fendant to put a bill up within four- teen days. The landlord was so overjoyed at his | victory that on the fourteenth day he took a friend with him around to the house to chaff his tenant. The bill was up in the window plain enough, but under it was another bill, which ran | as follows: “Cause of leaving—bad drains.” | Musical Plagiarist. Victor Herbert. the composer, once | said of a musician whose work he dis- | | Mked: “The prophecy that was made about | this chap in his boyhood has come true. In his boyhood his mother said of him: “*Oh, be's such a remarkable child— a perfect prodigy. in fact He remem- | bers every tune he hears.’ * ‘Well, well!" said a pianist who was present. *‘Isn't that a very rare and val- uable faculty? his mother asked. ‘It isn't rare,’ said the pianist. ‘but it's certainly valuable. It will prob- ably enable him to become in after years a successful composer.’ ” ————————— A Question of Degree. On a writ of error to the supreme court of one of the states counsel for plaintiff in error sharply criticized the rulings of the trial judge. When the counsel for the defendant began his reply the following took place: “May it please your honors, before I finish my argument, I think | can show you that the trial judge was not as crazy as counsel on the other side would make him out to be.” By a member of the court: “Let me understand you—you admit the fact of insanity of the trial Judge, but deny its degree?'—Case and Com- ment. } Dead Authors, Accepted handbooks and histories of American literature pay too much at- tention to doubly dead worthies, whose books are not interesting and miss or but timidly acknowledge con- temporary excellence. There is a way of accounting for fit. Every genera- tion, except the more independent spir- its in it, looks with too Chinese rever- ence upon its ancestors.—John Albert Macy in Spirit of American Literature. i Perilous Mining. r Quicksilver miners follow the most unhealthful trade in the world. The fumes of the mercury produce con- stant salivation and the system be- comes permeated with the metal: the teeth of the unfortunate men drop out, they lose their appetite, become emaci- ated and as a rule seldom live longer than two years, Corrected. Jealous One—So you screamed whén Jack tried to kiss you? Other One—I did nothing of the kind! Jealous One ~But | heard you Other One—Oh, that was not until after he had kissed me.—[llinois Siren. The Charm of It. Helen—Charlie. dear, | don't see why you should like me so much better be cause I'm changeable. Charlie— Why, darling, every time | kiss you it's like kissing another girl.—London Tele- graph. The manly part is to do with might a living to a portion of the community. and main what you can do.—Emerson. Tre Perfect Rose. vil ale like unto a flower.” war | «the German poet to his love. A certain exasperated old German florist “idl nurseryman who flourished bhaif a century ago in New York was accus ined to assert with equal positive. ness that s flower is like a woman. He bad many women customers whose trade he appreciated, but whose de- mands often drove him to rumple his | upstanding Teutonic brush of hair un- | til he looked ilke an angry parrot. He finally unbosomed himself to the hus- band of one of them. whose diary has preserved his words: “lI have so much trouble with the Coal and Wood. | — Shipp and C wii Merchant, and Dealer in ANTHRACITE asp BITUMINOUS {COALS ladies when they cooms in to buy mine | rose! They mundtly, they wants him fragrand. they wants him nice golor. they wants | him eberytings in von rose. | hopes 1 wants him hardy. they | wants him double, they wunts him CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS and other grains, ! | =) BALED HAY AND STRAW (— am not what you calls one uncallant | man, but 1 have somedimes to say to | that Indies, "Madam, 1 never often sees | , that ladies that was peautiful, that was rich, that was goot tempered. that | was voong, that was indelligent. that Builders’ and Plasterers’ Sand. FEDERAL STOCK FOOD. wis discreed, that was hervection in | one ladies Youth's Comunanion Thorp's Corpse. Testators® requests often lead to sirnge results Thorp, left all his worldly goods to his two nephews on condition that they erected na monument to his memory with at least one verse inscribed there- on These careful brothers searched long and ardently for a verse at once | brief and apt. but they found that the poets were inclined to run to words, | They asked the aid of the monument manson. who suggested that the follow- Ing couplet would admirably meet the case: Here lles the corp Of Thomas Thorp. The brothers thomght this apt, but wordy. The mason cogitated long and deep, and, to the satisfaction of ev- , ery one, the verse found upon the stone was: hel Thorp's gi Pe Corpse ~London Graphic. German Courtship, The form in which a proposal of mar- rlage is made has undergone great change in Germany during the past few years. At one time any young man who proposed marriage attired himself in his dress suit and carried a | bouquet as an offering to his chosen one. We must not seek to pry into the intimacy of such proposals, but if the disconsolate lover left the house carry- Ing his bouquet with him it was a sure sign that he was rejected. Nowadays proposals are less formal, but engage ments are no less binding. In fact. a betrothal Is regarded as almost as sol- emn and binding as the wedding itself. On every possible occasion German lovers appear arm in arm, and the cus- tom is not confined to one class alone. Peasants walk thus, and princes and princesses follow the popular custom.— London Standard. EE ———————— Horrible Dueling. A particularly terrible kind of duel was fought on one oceasion in Mexico, | The opponents were an Indian settler and a rich cattle owner. The weapons chosen were butchers’ knives, and it was settled that each combatant was to hold out his band in turn to have one of his fingers cut off. The first to show the least sign of suffering pain was to have a bullet put through his heart by the other. The Indian had the first cut and amputated the cattle owner's first finger at a single blow. The Indian's first injury was the loss of a thumb, and he likewise remained as impassive as marble. This horri- ble drama went on until each com- batant had lost fovr digits. Then the cattleman’s second became so fright ened at the ghastly sight that he shot the Indian dead and ended the fight A Golfer's Discovery. An enthusiastic golfer, one of those fellows who can speak on nothing else but golf, was one day taken by a friend to our local observatory to have a look through the building. The golf- er's friend, who was a keen astrono- mer, got him a look at the moon through the telescope and then asked him what he thought of the planet. To his amazement he answered back, “It's a' richt. but it's awfu' fu’ o bunkers.” World of Golf. EE ————————— Woman's Winning Way. “In all my life,” she said, with a sigh. “I have seen only one man that 1 would care to marry.” “Did he look like me?" he carelessly asked. Then she flung herself into his arms and wanted to know what secret power men possess that enables them to tell when they are loved.—Chicago Record-Herald. Taming Time Coming. “Charles seems to be very exacting.” said a fond mamma to the dear, demure looking girl who was dressing for the wedding. “Never mind, mamma,” said she sweetly; “they are his last wishes.”— Lippincott’'s Magazine. . Information Wanted. “They say that Cupid strikes the match that sets the world aglow. But where does Cupid strike the match? That's what I'd like to know.”—Cor- nell Widow Premature. Clerk (marriage license bureau) — Two dollars. please. Pete Possam— Lordy, man. how yo' s'pose Ab’'s gwine hab $2 when Ab ain't even married yit?—Puck. 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