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Show JAPANESE POLICE AND HATS. ; National Druggist.' The following account exemplifies the thorough manner in which Japanese officials of-ficials carry out thelrorders. The Dro-gisten Dro-gisten Zeltung says that last month the police of Kobe distributed to every house in town a package of arsenic", with directions for the use of tlie poison printed on each package,, which latter w&b to be used in the destruction of rats, in accordance with the plan of the Department of Health In fighting the plague. A very prominent cltlsen of Kobe and a political leader of some note, on the day after the distribution was made, called at the office of the Kobe Chronicle and lodged a complaint to the effect that he had been grossly Insulted by the police. According to his account, a police officer on the foregoing day had walked into bis dwelling, and without a word handed him a package marked "arsenic." "What is that?" asked he. "That's for you," answered the officer. "For me?" inquired the astonished cit-Uteu, cit-Uteu, fn whose mind, no doubt, visions of a hint to betake himself to the unknown un-known shore after the "good, old' '4 Japanese Jap-anese fashion, were floating. "tes for -you," repeated the policeman, police-man, pausing after each word to emphasize em-phasize it. "The order has gone forth that all vermin shall die." i This was all that the astonished editor edi-tor could get out of the wrathful politician, politi-cian, and the latter went away still raging rag-ing against "the Insult the police had put upon him." - |