BURMAH AND ITS PEOPLE, A LAND OF REMARKABLE SIGHTS | AND QUEER IDEAS, Horrible Beggars Who Line the Way to the Great Pagoda--The Won- derful Golden Dome, “) URMAH is a country of queer ~=d sights and strange sounds, | is was talking a few days since G to Professor NS. N, Baldwin, the famed traveler, so well known thronghont the East by the title of “The White Mahatma.” Said “Burmah is what an American girl would call ‘a funny country.’" Rangoon is an attractive cily of beautiful bnildings, stately pagodas aud long avenues, overhung with magnificent shade trees, yet right through the centre of beautiful boulevards runs open stream of the nature in which dead eats and rats make the air redolent with a perfume one of dogs, that is not at all suggestive of “Araby | : yi the Blest.” At Rangoon the great golden pagoda, situated at the top of a hill in the outskirts of the city. roadway from the valley to the top of the hill consists of a series of irregular steps, some ten or twelve feet wide, and from three 18 the left side (as you proceed toward the top), and are covered with an arched and vaulted roof. On the right side the roof is supported by pillars and arches out on a terrace of walled inclosures. This is about one-eighth of a long, and at the bottom on each are two enormous dragons, gome ty or forty feet high, carved out brick and plaster work. These drag- ons have immense mouths wide open, showing horrible fangs and a protrud ing tongue, while the tail of the beast is curled and forked, like that of th traditional devil. The architecture mely quaint and ing s beautiful. The gardens and stairway 3 miie ful that and if the place were kept clean 1 spot. But at the stairway, side with the most d Wolnt« spots ‘ ach 1sgusting Deg IaArs , but m« n ~-thin and atte nen, tly men and women nuated and mostly with some portion of their body half eaten away with leprosy. These people simply swarm around the traveler, clamoring for thrusting their mutilated arms and limbs, that have been partially eaten . : n and children off by the ravages of the disease, fairly | into one's face ; sometimes an eye will be gone or a portion of the jaw, If charity is given to one, it is almost a necessity to give it to all nis com- rades, for they crowd around you like flies, and fairly bar your passage, Most tourists before visiting this pagoda, which at one time was deemed so wonderful and beantiful that it was | included in one of the lists of the seven wonders of the world, are med to take with them a stout stick, also a light rattan switch. I'he tended as a defense against the pariah dogs, with which the place is overrun. The light rattan is to be used to keep the begears at a distance, for cruel as it may seem, often the only way to keep them from absolute snnoyance is by a vigorous slashing at their bar backs or nude limbs, and will often stand at a little distance aud spit at the traveler and whelm him with curses and impreca- tions, As the beggars are all relig ious mendicants, they are looked upon by most of the natives with perhaps of modified the English travel- uff viant miciens- canta stick is in then they over somewhat of a spirit ration, er is accompanied by a party ly large to be perfectly able to take care of themsel it just possible he might be ily handled by the natives in case of any hurt to the beggars Should the tourist be accompanied by a native policeman, which is often the case, the policeman has no hesitation at all in pushing the beggars right and left as if they were nine ping, so that they generally keep at a respectful distance, It is said that it some eighty or ninety thousand doliars to gild the dome of the large pagoda, but done every two years or thereabouts This is usually the gift of religious Burmans as an offering to Buddha, Professor Baldwin, who Las had very many years of Oriental travel, states yene- and unless one ol ik cost this 1s that one of the most pe culiar things he has ever seen is the rocking | which pagoda at a Burmese miles up the Irawaddy. village many This pagoda was originally built on the top of a very large bowlder of granite, some sixty or seventy feet high. After the pagoda was built the lower part of the bowlder was gradually removed and rounded until now it seems as if the pagoda was resting upon an enormous ball or globe of solid rock. The rock is 80 nicely balanced that a heavy wind or the exertion of a person pushing strongly on the rock will canse siightly oscillate, It does not go far enough to cause any damage, but rolls and rocks backward and All enormons rocking chair. This pagoda is kept exclusively for the | priests, The only access to it being by means of a rope ladder, which is drawn up after them, they are thus kept from annoyance, The phoongyi, or priests, are very especially | among the better clase, making every ! numerous, each father, effort go that one son at least shall be- long to the order. and insolent lot, and to the European observer never seem to be engaged in any special duties except squatting on their haunches and holding conversa. tions with cach other, or else squat- he: | of these | a sluggish | a sewer, | The | to ten inches high. | These steps are entirely inclosed on | opening | in sims, | it to forward like | They are a lazy | ting in the same position for hours, gazing dreamily into the distance and | supposed to be contemplating the virtues and graces of Buddha, or in | earnest prayer for the joys of Nirvana, | heaven, where each and | all lose individuality and finally sink | {into a deep and eternal sleep and be | | come a part of the great mother nature, | the Buddist — New York Advertiser. z crmetiiim—————— SELECT SIFTINGS, | Oldest specimens of glass are Egypt ian, | Fishes ean be frozen hard without { losing their vitality. Spider silk thread is used to some | extent in Madagascar, Storm warnings were early in the last century. vings have been exhumed at Ninevab. been Antiphitus, an Egyptian, about B. C. 332. The perfectly round pearls are the valuable; next in order most come the pear-shaped, and lastly, the egg | . hel ha v3 | and is not at all difficult to transplant, ; shaped, | Specie of snakes that are enemie® { of one another in captivity will coil up into their winter sleep in the same { bundle. Research shows that thereis not a particle of vegetation in the eastern part of the North Sea. It is one great watery waste, i ope ! I'he woodpecker has a three -barbed | \ " . tongue like a Fijian spear, with which it draws out the it has excited by its tapping. ld girl, yklyn recently on worm which who wns the converse A seventeen | arrested in Broo vagrancy, could fluently in six languages. Southland, Aus- mnttwenty- horse year caarge ol Bicycle riders in arerequired to dism from an approac ir lia, two yards and draw their whi The last headed in Ex ispirators iu J 1 beaten « Aan mal king the most ed nation. i Tw nty two of the people. heavily taxed of I'he State taxat per cent. of the { Drone cells are larger than workers’ | cells. The queen cells are still larg: and may be easily re always point downward after being capped. earnings ognized, as they Mrs. John Shenk, living near Leba- nto her cellar to yme provisions recently, and while there was stung by a copperhead snake. A favorite cat panied Mrs, Shenk attacked the reptile and killed it. A farmer tells of a sheep with twin lambs, one of which was blind, The mother and the other twin lamb evi- dently knew that the little Was sightless, for they were nunwearied in their care lost it should come to harm, or the other non, Penn., went i which seccom- : ' one fo A kindly from ons prevented it from ruanni batt’ ng into danger. familiar with the pressed endwise n the palms of both hands, even with fingers locked, Every one is strength of an egg, bet wee Strong men, have been unable to break an egg held One was tested at (N. Y.) Arsenal re- ing machine, and it in this manner, the Waterville, cently in the test required sixty-five 4 — a Dressing Small Skins, dressed and ones by the This is skin is soaked in warm water to soften the adhering flesh and fat, these being then scraped or shaved off with a sharp knife, such as a mow- ’ with a» Small skins may be made equal to tanned simple process ealled tawing, as follows: The mooth, Kes na re i n edge, minded block or ins are then placed in a intion parts of sugar of lead, alam and and re- main in it for a week, turned and opened so that every part is ex- posed to the lignid After the skins have absorbed all the liquid, or rather those substances are drawn if qual salt, being which } | from the water by the skins, they are takan ont and again shaved and partly dried, then well rubbed and pulled, to soften the skin, until nearly dry. The tuner side the skin is then rubbed with a smooth piece of pumice stone and yellow ochre until it is smooth and soft; when thoroughly dry this is rgpeated until all dust is got rid of. A little oil may be slightly { rabbed over the fur to brighten sud soften it, New York Times. of - a, — Buttermilk as a Drink, For a cooling drink in hot weather there is nothing more generally satis- factory than buttermilk. — has undergone the acid fermentation, its slight acidity making it agree bet- ter with most people than does abso- lutely fresh, sweet milk. There are thousands in cities who were brought {up on farms in the country, and to such a drink of buttermilk is a treat. No doubt in every village farmers who make butter conld find a good market for buttermilk if they look up ocus- | tomers who would like to drink it oe- | ensionally if they kuew where it could | be procured. Boston Cultivator, | ce —— A Shoplifter’s Bogus Baby. | A Parisian shoplifter carried a bogus { baby with her during her predatory oxcarsions. The infant had a wax | Ince and a hollow, leather body, It | was the thief’s custom to dexterously | transfor purloined articles, such as i gloves, laces, ete., to the spacious | baby, ~Chicago Herald, | trees the common linden or basswood | t most virnlent diseases first given | The best specimens of alabaster car- { honey rapidly while it The first caricaturist is said to have | | three feet high, than larger ones. pounds to crush | It is none | the worse for being from cream that | Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. 5. Gov't Report Royal ABSOLUTELY PURE pad pr nity MEN dnd (0) NG | AN WOMEN ege uives coarn % Com'l Arithmetic, Penmanship, Sten ography an writing, the Acader ] ches, de. Fusness men supplied with assistant Mita ural he oom { ‘ ' ' f 18 har tH had Tustruction Individunl, A pptiennts atiy day in the your bs + ad VALLN Le 1] VACATIONS, FOR CATALOLILE WITH FINE SPRCIMESS OF PEN WORK, nddress CLEMENT (, GAINES, President, 30 Washington =t., Poughlevpaie, N.Y, cures i Business College EASTMAN arte in a World Where ** Cleanliness Is Next fo Godliness no Praise is Too Great for Honey-Producing Trees, 1] } Of all our hardy indigenous forest yields the greatest quantity and best | quality of honey. Wherever this tree | grows in abundance bee-keepers al ways expect their bees to increase their store of choice and very white | sin blo and, it is said that basswood has been planted very extensive of | our Northern States almost wholly for pasture, We would recommend | tree all others for it ean be obtained cheaply ly in some bee this purpose, ns above such and grows rapidly in almost any good | rich soil, but best, of course, in moist bottom It would be belter to purchase small plants only, two or The quite i lands. timber of the basswood 1s not so valuable for fuel or other purpo as some other kinds, but the trees are Alpe 18 ns A wind- 08 of rapid growth, beautiful and rior to the cotton wot break, —New York Sun. Baby's Sitting Posture, much atten osture where Careful mother tion to the first sitting 1} child in the baby carriage, the continued mo exert a wrong | influence in curving the spine, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Miss Lind } sical enlturist, obs i mld be Is the give MAY ‘ht ah ht sh hou { fection warm bath, suffer perspiration to en- | ing cold. | tion has had time | system ; | niso, mm SAPOLIO r=, Those who have the most pre the | ise they A person who | Warm baths will often vent may be in fear of of having reeeived in- any kind should take a | sue, and then rab dry. He is advised Pearline. to dress warmly to guard against tak- | ot Pye pid £43 If the system has imbibed LOres any infectious matter it will be moved by resorting to the warm if the latter is taken Ire bath | the nlec befor | over the | ad BOM Line to spre . N a if \ nomical people Pearline f and cleaning, ey ind 1t to be just what w the most economical in Would they? ear]ine and even has the drenching per that may be induced by hot water will | be very likely to remove it. of congestion, i claps kL spiration In CAsCE bilious inflam- mation, ete., there is no remedy more bath. constipation, | been certain to give relief than a hot In of 1 obstinate wonderful CREOR 1 4 Cures have 4 New York Dispatch, ENLIGHTENMENT enables the more advanced and Conservative Sure eons of ty)day to cure ob vn diseases without cut- 5 THE BEST. ting, which were formerly | NO BQUEAKING regarded as incurable with. i oi A 3 DOVAN out resort to the kn Ths ‘ u toonomi- 1 ; ELLED CALF » RUPTURE or Breact ; ; Hope now radically cured wit ¥ FE KABA out the knife and withou ICE en in. Clumsy Trusses vi, . + thrown away! Ww rought, Je ri. 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