CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.'
Tho butcher biril is said to imjiale
its victims on thorns and devour them
at leisure.
In Homo bankrupts wore condemned
to wear in public black lion nets of a
sugar-loaf form.
The short est verso i n't ho ltiblo is the
thirty-llfth verso of tho eleventh chap
ter of St. John.
The microseopo shows the hair to be
like a coarse, round rasp, but with the
teeth extremely irregular and ragged.
At a recent execution in Japan thir
teen strokes of a sword wore found
necessary to decapitation. Tho edge
of the instrument had been blunted pur
posely that the agony of the doomed
might be as great as possible.
In the eighth century it was a com
mon thing lor the peasants anil needy
persons living in the city to sell their
children. In Great Britain the evil of
this practice bo nne so great that a
special mission to aboiish it was sent
from Rome.
Among the Chinese no relics are
ruore valuable than the boots that have
been worn bv a magistrate. If he re
signs and loaves the city a crowd ae
companies him from his residence to
the gates, where his boots are drawn
off with great eereinonv, to tie pre
served in the hall of justice.
There is in Turin a tiny boat formed
of a single pearl, which form it assumes
ia swell and concavity. Its sail is of
beaten gold, studded with diamonds,
and the binnacle light at its prow is a
perfect ruby. An emerald serves as
Its rudder, and its stand is a slab of
ivory. It weighs less than half an
ounce; its price is #5,000.
There is a watch in a Swiss museum
only three-sixteenths of an inch in
diameter inserted in the top of a pencil
case. Its little dial not only indicates
hours, minutes and seconds, hut also
(lays of the month. It is a relic of the
times when watches were inserted in
snuff IMIXPS. shirt studs and linger
rings. Some were fantastic oval,
octangular, cruciform, or in the shape
•of pearls, tulips, etc.
t'hincso Temple* and Pagodas.
There are more than a hundred torn- i
pies of heathen worship in Canton, i
Among them we will mention four: 1. 1
The "Temple of the Five Hundred]
Gods," fminibsl in A. I.. .">2'k and r<*
built in 175.5. In this temple are .500 '
life-sired images, seated in long rows.!
and representing that number of noted 1
disciples of Buddha, now deified. Karh i
image is finely carved and richly gildisl
with gold. Some of these gods are in i
rich garments and some in rags. Some
are wearing shoes, others are shoeless.
Some are laughing and some are weep
•ng. 2. "Temple of the Five Genii."
According to Chinese tradition, away
lock 300 years Itefore Christ, one day
five genii came riding through the air
on five ranis. They stopped on the
spit where Canton now stands, and
said to some people who stood there: i
"May famine never visit your markets." ;
After delivering this Iwnedietion. the
live genu departed, hut the live rams !
were turned to stone. This temple j
contains the images of the five genii,
and preserves the five stone rams. The
old name for Canton is "City of Bams." I
3. "Temple of Horrors," so named from '
the fact that there are ten rooms in ;
which the torments of the Buddhist
hell are represented hv life-sized, eluni-,
y, horrid-looking figures. In one room j
men and women are !>eing transformed
into animals, a"cording to the Buddhist
doctrine of transmigration. In another
room the devil* arc grinding a man in |
a mill, while tho blood is (lowing out'
between the stones. And so on, from
room to room, some are lieing IK-- j
headed, others thrown into caldrons j
of boiling oil, with devils to stir them ,
round in the burning hath. Here a
man is being U aten terribly with !
bamboos, and there a man is lieing j
sawn assunder lengthwise. In one
room a man is pounded in a mortar, j
in another one is silting under a great \
nsd-hot bell. 4. "Temple of Ilnnain,"
grandest and most famous of all, with
its magnificent gateways, its grand
shaded avenues, its colossal Buddhas,
its vast monastery with fifty monks, its
beautiful gardens with dwarf trees and
rare flowers, and finally its cremation
furnare, where the dead monks aro
reduced to ashes. It is a doctrine of
the Buddhist faith that every ono
should do what he. ran to prevent the
Caking of any life, human or animal.
I Lace the monks have places on these
grounds w here they have for years pre
served sacred pigs, hens, ducks, fish,
aod goats, until they die a natural
drat h.
There are several pagodas in Canton,
til which two are quite noted. The
—FiTp-atory Pagoda" on tho city wall
give* a line view of the city and conn
itry. Ap its name indicates it is five
■sUffics high. These pagodas are always
aa odd number of stories in height,
rarely lens than five and seldom more
than el *vcn. Tho "Flowery Pagoda,"
in the Tartar sections of the city, is
i nine stories high, giving it a great ele
vation. It ha* windows and balconies
in each story, and a winding stairway
inside leads t he top. The pagoda is
a thing of >• ..xiity," hence its name. It
was erected in the sixth century of the
Christian era, and was thoroughly re
paired about st)o years ago. The Chinese
have a tradition that if ever this
pagoda falls, evil will befall the city;
hence they expend large sums of money
in keeping it in repair. Pagodas are
not erected from religious considera
tions only, but they are built to give
good lock. Where a pagoda stands,
the Chinese say business will prosper
and crops be more abundant.
PK tins OF Tuonan',
An obstinate man docs not bold
opinions; t hey hold liiin.
Time is Immeasurably long to him
who knows how to value and use it.
Labor is the divine law of our ex
istence; repose i* dcM fi ion and suicide.
t nder all earth runs water, if we
dig deep enough; under all life runs
grief.
The causes which start men npor
tlo ir careers are often seemingly the
most slight and casual.
There is fellowship among the vir
tues by which one great, generous
passion stimulates another.
' Good breeding consist in having no
particular mark of any profession, hut
a general elegance of manners.
Be courage .us and noble-minded;
our own heart, and no other men's
opinions of us, forms our tnn- honor.
He who can prevent a moment's
anger may suppress many day's sorrow .
Speak of men's virtues as if tlo-y were
your own, ami of their vices as if you
wi re liable to their punishment.
Beere.it ion is a see, iid| i reat ion, w lien
wearim -shath almost annihilated one's
spirits. It is the breathing of the soul,
which otherwise would be stiued with
• "litinual bu.sim *.
The true gentleman is courteous and
affable to h s neightiors. As the sword
of the best temp! red metal is most
flexible, so the truly general* are most
i pliant and courteous in their 1 ehavior
' to their inferior*.
The 'turtle Industry.
Few people have any adequate jib a
I of the quantity of turtles which are
i consumed in this country. New York
1 furnishes the chief market and they
! come into that port every year from
I I'HHM ito l*o, pounds. Philadelphia
! cornea n< vt after New York, and Balti
more stands third on the list, these tw o
' cities, taking t gcthcr probably ">•.-
i**'pounds, while Boston has never
developed any great fondness for this
article of foul, and is satisfied with
atmut J,'** 1 pound* a year. Turtles are
most plentiful during the summer, and
not seldom are drought to New York
in larger quantities than the market
demands, in which ease they are placed
in floating ears in the slip tietund
| Fulton market and f*l until they are
I wanted. While thus confined they are
! given cabbages, lettuce, celery-tops and
wati rmeloti-rinds. this latter article of
diet lieing the turtle's special weak
i nesa. They can only lie kept in the
' river, however, during the summer
j months and Neptendier, as a tempera-
I tore Irt-low forty degrees kills them.
I Turtles vary in s./e from a few pounds
to over a quarter of a ton. the largest
' ever brought to the New York market
■ having weighed SMI [Miunds. The sizes
most in demand, however, are from
fifty to sew-nty-five pounds, and the
customers are almost invariably hotel
! and restaurant keepers. In Philadel
phia there is ncre demand for small
turtles, weighing from six to twelve
] pounds. for family use. The price
I varies from twenty cent* in winter to
as low as ten cents iti summer.
The turtles sold in New York route
i for the most part from Key West,
j Another source of supply is the Ba
hama Islands, the turtles from which
j region are rather small but toothsome,
seldom weighing aliove 100 pounds,
and averaging about twenty-five. The
largest turtles are found in the Spanish
Main, hut their flesh is apt to lie coarse,
and they are, therefore, not usually con
sidered so desirable as those from the
Bahamas or Key West.
A party of Philndelphians recently
male a practical test of rat llesh as an
article of diet. The rodents had lieen
caught and caged while young, and fxl
carefully upon grain and green food.
At the meal in question they had leen
carefully prepared, and were serves!
with an appetizing sauce in company
with other viands. The flesh, after
eooking, was found to lie quite light in
color, much more so than either the
rabbit or the squirrel, and possessing a
delicacy of flavor entirely unknown to
either of the last mentioned animals,
i The experiment proved entirely sue*
i cessful, and a diet of rats, prepared
under proper conditions, was voted to
be both practicable and economical.
I
Indian .Itiio?l<'r)' #
* 1 A man is now in Calcutta, huiling
. j from Delhi, of tin; nnini; of Hurah
~ Klian, wlio bus intuitu*! a simply won
, derful excellence in tin- magical art.
* Wo ourselves )ia<l the pleasure of wit-
I ncssing some astonishingfeatsachieved
. I y this man a short, time ago at the
. hospitable resilience of thollutt family,
. of Wellington square. We shall men
s tion only one out of several feats por
formoil liy llurah Khan anil his coni
. ' puny, who consist of three females.
.Mine of these, a young woman, was
tied most securely. Ih r hands, feet
.land body were so fastened that she
•oiild only stir, and no more. She was,
r in fact, deprived entirely of the power
Ito turn her limbs to any use. She
I was then placed under aeoniral-shapisl
cover. People sat close round the
I I shirts of the cloth which had been
j throw n over the cover. No means of
escape was left to the young woman*
Hut yet, after the lapse of live or ten
minutes, th was removed and
the woman was found to have disap
peared altogether. When her name,
however, was called out by llurah
Khan, lor voice \va> heard .'*om the
veranda above. This performance
•ook place in the om|Hiund of the
family residence of our friends, the
Putts, and the veranda is in the lofty
i second-story, forming a part of tin*
female apartments. She was there
J
j found res|M>nding t > the call of llurah
| Khan, to the surprise of everylssly
present. The woman did not and could
I ten mow the topography of tin* house.
e.\i* t, mv s j lo extricated bers.ii and
made her way high above to the ver
anda from within the cover, surprises
us to sm ha degree that we cannot
account for the feat on any natural
grounds. Kven if she was furnished
with wings, it is inexplicable how she
got out of the cover, ÜBtHM'tl and iin.
perceived, except on die supprdtion
that soinesupcri.atur.il agency had
bis*n employ .si. Hut slu* h< r• !i as
sorted that she worked the feat by
Imm. W• • .j*- *ur< that if Ilnrali Kban
gives a few p> rformatici sat the town
hall in < 'ab lilt a, ti<* w ill draw bump, r
houses, and astonish the whole C.d
eu'ta public, especially tin* liurojs in
coiiimuriity. llut tl.csi pi-.q Vdo not,
unfortunately, know b**v\ to make
iic iiey, "in \bow to make tbeiu
si iv i*s .11.1'ptable to tin* Kurojs* m • un
iiiutiity thecity. llurah Kaim holds
very valuable cert bleats from tin*
Prm Wales, Karl d<* tiny, tin*
islit*.r of the I'i ifr. and many Kur >-
; pean noblemen and gentlemen who
have wit to dbis feat* in different
parts of India. —lndian Mirror.
London Swindler*.
An Ingenious mud has lately liecn
practical in l.ondon. A tall, woil
dr. ssi*i| man. apparently a < ity iner
• hunt on his way home from business,
is sis-n talkiiigoti the street t*. a man
in workmgmaii's dress, who carries a
basket and some tools. The "mer
chant" accosts sunc wcll-dressisl pas
senger. and tells him the "mechanic's"
talc of want and employment and
family distress. He adds that he has
satisfied himself of the truth of the
story, and is alniut to give a trifle; will
the gentlemen join in giving a small
sum to relieve deserving necessity?
The apparent r**|w*otability of the
voucher often sueceesls where a com
mon lagging petition would fall, and
the |M*rson accosted generally gives
something. A gentleman who had
given a small sum saw l>th swindlers
issue from a public-house some time
after, of course on seeing him they
dccailijtcd.
A clever dodge has lately come to
light, which shows how thoroughly the
swindler undcrstiHsl those on whom
he was to operate, and forms a curious
cuntnentary on the relations l>ctwi**n
servant* and tradesmen. A man hav
ing the appearance of a gentleman's
servant called on several tradesmen in
a fashionable part of London, asking
them to pome to a certain house for
orders for different classes of goods, at
i the -ame tin** tiirow ing out a sugges
tion that a small gratiitltv for himself
would le acceptable, and might ni>t le
lost by the tradesman in a distribution
of further onlers. In a numlier of
instances small sum* were given ; but
when the shop-men attended at the
place named they found their service*
were not required, and that the fees
had flowed into the pocket of some
i other rascal.
In Humboldt county, Cab, the whole
area of the redwood forest ha* been
inAp|>ed and plotted. There are some
thing over 500,000 acres of that timlier
1 in that county alone. Disinterested
ex|H>rts estimate 100,000 feet of lnmlier
' | per acre a* an average. If not a small
1 yield. At $lB per 1,000 feet, the red
' wood of Humboldt county alone would
1 just alsuit pay the present national
1 debt.
One vessel was lost at sea every
' four hour* during 1881, according to
' the Kngiish Nautical (kuett*. In
* 1870-80 there were 400 steatnlmnt
collisions in the North Atlantic Ocean.
COSTI.V f'ANKM.
I'lDcriwU r lliiuillra for I iiim'm rifiel I ttibrt lifie
Hamr ilurrr I iihn,
A paragraph has lieen going the
rounds of the press to the effect that a
Georgia lawyer lias a cane, the head of
which is curved to represent the head
of a duck, holding a ♦<• so sapphire in
its hill, and with two diamonds worth
♦7,100 each for its eyes. "It may be
true," the affable young man having
charge of the cane department in a
large jewelry house said; "but the
figures are pretty steep. It is not an
infrequent tiling for men to come in
here and order canes that cost ♦s<*i or
♦tMK), gold heads with jewel settings,
you understand; but a ♦ 14,750 cane is
ratio r beyond our experience. For
ordinary sale tin* cuuch we keep in
stock do not run over SI2O. We al
ways liav-on band a cord or soot' cane-,
that run from ♦•in to ♦ljo. **(• old
headed presentation earn* Y'-, we
soli a many of tliein, but hardly
ever to the out-of-town buyers.
t i.ir more expensive cam s ar<* those
in which artidie fancy . nban ■ t! *
value of tin* gold. lb re i* one, a ni**di
liol shepherd's crook of l.aiiimcr.sl and
"haoil Human gol.l, tb<* gr. it- t pi u
liarity of which is its prio ♦lls.
Tills hammered crutch head of
blended red and yellow gold i* worth
fl J". Here are a lot of new d> signs,
Indian and I'ersian fancies, unique,
I atul some of them pn-ttv, that run from
♦•'si to ♦lls. They arc mad.* of gold,
the beauty of which is that it was put
through certain chemical treatments
that brought it out looking hh>- almost
anything but gold. This one, for in
stance, that looks like i- gold,
and so Ls that one resembling a r.-d
enamel. Some of those, light ones,
w .-re mad.* up as cheap a ♦".<, but w
have none so low-prieisl on band now.
Thus.*\i-ry dainty little quar. rr.ok
gold-headi*l ca.'ie.s, or switches rather.
We I1!as . heap a- ist .♦;■ I.
From tin eb t us pass to the silver
a. ids. (if them we have a great vari
ety, from ♦'.< for a plain hatiiiiupxl
■
-ih. r ball up t" f..r a large ..ne ..f
j the new est fashion, which is a close
j imitation f an old fashioned buck
; horn handle, or ?75 f-.r one like this,
which is. as you can see, a combination
of silver, gold and cop|w*r that looks
lik< a -"rt of marble metal. Tb r>- i- a
wide diversity of stvb* in silver leads,
some of them, as von will notice, the
I tl.i ities' jm. -it.le a "door knob" or
simple ball and others full of fancy
nd exquisite workmanship. There is
; a novel and pretty thing, a jicrfectly
round I all of r>>' k • rystal held in place
ly silver clasps, that we sell for ♦J".,
\ inn i unc in here the other day
offering f>>r -ab* a couple of < uric- that
he had made, I beliew. They were
I romj~*sl of small, thin pieces of
agate, cornelian, and other stone*. in
alternate layers, set on ast<s*l rod and
highly polishisl. I should think there
i were J< pieces in each rane, and he
only wanted fJS each for the com
' pb*t<sl ones. I don't IMS* how they
eriiild Is* gotten up for the tnmey, but
we did not invest in them.
"The materials we generally employ
for the sti. ks are nialacea; l.atnl. and
1 ts.ny. There are somo very haml
some and costly canes made in Mexico
from some animal siilwtances, clarified
as the Mexb an Middle scats sometime*
are. and inlaid with silver. General
•lack Casement us.sl to have one that
he refiiMsl fl.Mi for. Then fine canes
are occasionally turn*l out of what is
representsl to us as hippopotamus
hide. In fact, gentlemen bring all
sort* of stieks to have fancy head* put
>n them. Whatever the stick may 1\
ti value is nothingcouipapsl with the
head we | .lit on it in most cases of that
sort. Diamonds, sapphires and other
precious stones are very often set in
them to order, tif course we keep no
such jew eled to ads in stock.
We don't have so niueh call for
fancy carved ivory and solid imitation
silver heads, monkeys'and dogs' heals,
and birds and such things as we used
to do. People seem to go in now for
rare and tine sticks, lasting and relia
ble ones, nnd the rane dealer who
wants to keep up with the times must
have an almost infinite variety of sticks
from all parts of the globe. I've men
one, a plain rough stick, without a fer
rule, and only a tent crook at the top,
that was said to have leen worth ♦17,-
<NM> when it une into the country. It
was hollow*, and had diamonds packed
in it. That was several years ago. I
guess tho custom-house chaps have
dropped on that dislge. Anyway. 1
never hear of its l>eing played now. I
have seen a German cane with a flute
in it. ami another that would hold a
good drink of schnapps, and one that
was a pipe when you took oft the fer
rule and a cap on the head; but all
those things were mere eccentricities.
We are never called on to make such
things.
There have tieen 24,000 divorces de
creed in Maine during five years, make
ing a ratio of one separation in ten
marriages.
The leant or Lantern*.
, The annual festival called the feast
of lanterns is one of the most peculiar
I* of the Huddhist cfi-finonlal*among the
i Japanese, belonging more particularly
f among the working than among the
I official classes. Huddhism in Japan is
remarkable for tin* extraordinary ven
eration of the memory of the dead
which it inculcates. Gravi - arc ha
bitually kept clean and decked with
flowers, mid nearly every grave in that
faith bus a cup of rice and a jar of tea
I water standing by for the us.* ..f the
departed spirit on ii- up|H>sfd frequent
, visits to tliis world. These graves,
among groves of ornamental tree* and
flowering plants, beautify tin- hillsides
about Naga.-aki. Heinle* this ordinary
• are, Buddhism also incnb ales the cel
ebration by the relatives of deceased
persons o| distinct • omincmorativc *<t
vie- • 1 1 pon tin* fir-t, tbird and < m nth
.Hiiii x< r ari*s. I nt.• d, t ij, t
per-onagc- or of the h t Is * ; familic
i these are k j.t up to the fiftieth '<r< v< n
one hundred and fiftieth anniv * r-aries,
but a- so tic \ a I majority • 1 ordmarx
deaths all obligations of propit iiiry i c
--eiuonies are di-i-iiiirg' I iiftei He *ev
< nth ;inni\er-ar\ by one common and
general feast of lanti ri.s, 'flu- is field
its a three dais' hohda-. i.y I ela- •-
about the lir-t day of N-ptemlwr an
nually, and the jssqde of the outlying
country flock into tin* city to attend it
and enjoy its a'compariying visiting,
dri" - 1 int.'ieir best attire.
<n the tirst of the three day the
ghosts partieiilarly honori*| are ls
--lievisf to leave the spirit-land on a re
turn visit. Accordingly all the Icuse
dis.rs are set wid<* open, and the head
■ f e.ufi family in h - best clothes sit
in bis rc. ' ptioii-ro- in, bowing at int*r
vaNand uttering w*.nls of webone t *
bis invisible guests as they collie in,
<onwicntioiis ]ier-"iis whohavea large
gh'etly acquaintance • <>ntitiuing tbi
< ereinony well into the night. Hy tb<
next day all the sjijrils are sup|s>sed t*
have armed, and a -mall cabinet
apart merit found in every Huddbi-t
dwelling (called the household teinpb
mid set apart for tin use of the deal)
is de. *-r.it• <1 with flowers and set out
with r.' e, fruits, wme . and s *on. a.i
ting in the adjoining man. the living
ineinls-rs h<>ld their own a -comjiatiyinu
feast, which is kept up through the
-eeond <lay and nc*st of Hie third. In
the night of the third day the ghosts
have ti* g* • I s K. and at night fall he
po|mlation that can move betake them
selves t<> the graves, which they d<s k
with bright paper banners and many
> *!orsl lanterns, lighting up the lsitcr
as the day f.eles, so that the dej.arting
visitors tnny liave their last hours as
, pleasant as jtossjlde. As midnight aj>-
proai h-s the ruabw form into procesr
slons, e\cry memlwr carrying aloft a
!ight<sl lantern on a bamU*> pole aHuit
t*n fs*t long, and thus they carry
down the hillside* to the sea the l#oats I
in which the spirit* are to depart.
These I>ats. varydng from two to ten
and even thirty f<*ct in length, are dee
jointed with tlags and streamers, pr>s
vided with a st<M k of provisions and
with money to pay ferriage over tin
>tyx, not omitting a lantern or two t<
how the way. are then launch<*l and
thrust f'irth together, carrying tbi
spirits to the far West, where go"* 1
Hiuldhists are l*lievi*| to pass their
time in happy oblivion. This a<t. '
blended with outcries, locating of gangs. !
chanting by priests, and nearly naki*l
liguri** rushing to anil * o in their ex
citement, concludes the Weird but
touching ceremonials.
llnml-Miiikhiir.
Hand-shaking is Hntish. The
lounger in society, in hi* glass of fash
ion, enumerates its various styles as
indicative of character. These are
aggressive, supercilious, ly in pat hie,
imperative, suspicious, sympathetic,
emotional, but none of tlu*se are re
quins! by etiquette. Still, to shake,
or, rather, to take or given haml in
mere conventional greeting is a culti
vated art of society. A gentleman
can not take a lady's hand unless she
offers it, and an American authority
on etiquette remind* him that he
must not "pinch or retain it." A
young lady must not offer hers first, or
shake that given her, unless she is the
gentleman's friend. A lady should
always rise to give her hand, and in
her own house she should always offer
it in greeting strangers ami friends
alike. In the ball-room, however,
hand-shaking is not the thing. It is
also the privilege of the superior to It©
the first to proffer the haml. An
American Is chary of his haml ; in
these progressive times a m*l is suffi
cient. except in conservative Virginia
and the South generally, w here family
traditions of old courtly ami kind ob
servances still obtain.—AH thf Year
Hound.
Among the articles which were taken
from the mails during the past year
'; were cans of dynamite ami loaded pis
tols, a* well a lmwie knives and other
| sharp instruments.
4 PAI BBS \f. GOTERMVEST.
I.lfr In Mm loßp —Ticket* for lirrrf-
Inftfig.
You cannot live m Huxony without
handling an assortment of yellow
tickets every day. Von get a ticket
fur everything. When you pay your
fare on the street car the conductor
gives yon a yellow ticket. Before
reaching the end of your trip, another
dficial enters the ar and tear .acorner
jfr the ticket. If you send a package •
hy express you receive a yellow ticket.
If you send money hy mail you get
two yellow tickets, one for the con
signee and one Jor yourself, and when
the consignee receives the money he
also receives a yellow coupon, and
signs a yellow ticket. When you buy
v hill of goods in a store you are
handed a yellow ticket, and when they
are delivered at your hou-e the bundle
hoy gives you another yellow ticket
and takes the one von lir-t received. I
don't know whether the minister who
j officiates at a wedding gh • the hride
and groom yellow tiel > '• or not, hut I
■ ledieve they must have one whin their
; lir.-t hahy is h rn. II you live at 'il'jG
15 street, and y u movt to dT'.t.'i A
street, you must g . to the city hall and
get a yellow tiia-t. II a rvant girl
haves Mr-. X, and goes to work for
| Mr.-. XX, -he mn-t also go to the <ity
hall and get a yellow ticket. It is
prohal le that th. Sixon goes into the
next world with a yellow ticket in his
hand, hut that is another jioint ujion
which I have no definite inl'.rmalion.
All this seem- very f ran j- and very
unny to an Aini-roan until le ha- in
juinsi into it thcr. ughly, an 1 then it
i strikes him that the plan is an excel
lent part of an excellent system. In
the street car, f r in-t.v ■ , there can
is- rio iai h thing a- H knw king down."
1 lie hracc 1-11-i mil will not work,
very j i"si nger must haw- a receipt
for his f.,re. and lie in ; ' -ic a it to the
1 •'!:• al who tears ther rte-r • -f! Kvery
l*ly krmwsthe value of receipts fur
p.ii kage- -• lit and r--. ej\e-l, whether it
i I*- expre-s, hy ]. ist, or hy hundhs-toy.
Tlx- hooks ol the city hall w ill tell
you where every man in < heinnitz re
sides, the nuiiihi rof tin t reet as well
as the numh'-r of the llat; they w ill tell
: you whether ho is marrx-i or single;
whether he liv- s with his parents or
r-"ins alone; how many children he
has; how old he is; how old his wife is,
and how old his children are; what his
' trade is; whether he keips a servant
i girl; what he pay sh< r; how much his
! income is; where he was Imrn, etc.
etc. They wkl t-llyou in a word, any
thing that is possible to i.nd out con
cerning himself and his business. He
cannot sail under false colors. If he
pretends to hax • an income of lO.fiQO
marks jr annum he must pay an in
come tax on that amount or prove that '
he has Iwen talking too big. If a mer
chant is thinking of hiring a man, he
• an. within forty-sight hours, discover
. whether his pros]tortive employe has
ever Isen mixed up in a dishonorable
i m rajH-.and determine whether or not the
: acoeunt given hy the man regarding
h.s own history i true.
There is another feature of this
j system which is remarkable. If you
I know thenunilwT of the house where
a certain man lives, whose history you
I are anxious to ascertain, but you cannot
I jMissiblv find out his name in any other
| way, you can go to the city hall and
' have not only his name, but his entire
1 record, plartsl ln-fore you in a short
, time. The nutnlicr of the house tella
the story. But you cannot get Infor
mation about Tom Dick or Harry
simply to satisfy an idle curiosity or
for purposes of blackmail. You must
show cause for seeking the history of
Tom, Dirk orllary; your own name is
entered as having called at 1 he city hall
at such a time for surh and such a
purpose; and if you use the infor
mation which you have received un
lawfully you will In l punished severely.
Ancient Brock Manuscripts.
Many ancient manuscripts of untold- A
alue are lielieved to In* stored aw ay in
the monasteries of t J reive. A lossthat
w ill never lie understood to its full rxj
tent has just leen sustained in the
destruction of the monastery of Yato
|>edi, which took fire through careless
ness of one of the monks, and, in the
absence of any appliance for extin
guishing the flames, was spefdily
burned to the ground. Several
thousand Dvrantinc manuscripts were
consumed in this Are. To prevent
surh irreparable losses in the future,
the Greek government has sent two
Athenian professors, Kindiklis and •
Kalogeras, who are experts in decipher
old manuscripts, to examine the
libraries and archives of the monas
teries, and to send such manuscripts as
they And of value to the natioual
library in Athens. These gentlemen
report that they have already (ks
* covered a great store of |>archment a
treasures in the monastery or Dusiko, r
among them some of unexmt Greek I
authorship. It is said that they have J
found an unquestionable tnuledv by
.Kschyluf and one by Sophocles,