Show aan I 5 2 r THE STRANGE ST ANGE LIFE OF THE Of FAR EAST 5 N a house houlle Is le built IN I without a null nail It 11 IB Is hunK hung on tour four upright ot of teak or bamboo coven or eight feet teet tOm from ruin the the planking of oC the floor noor Ii 11 I tied led to the uprights with rattan time be walls wails are mode made of f split bamboo 1 plaited t Into Ino beautiful and anil fanciful patters pattern says sa the Chicago News Yf The he root roof consists of lit the leaves leave of DC toddy which have hnyp been soaked In salt water to 10 mako malto them Insect proof There are re no win wiry down dow a but large lines of ur he plaited pIli tt ell bamboo walls ate All raised rained m lit the daytime to admit tight I Iff lit and air The house houie run Ion i slats In the rune ease of o the tha poor of or only out note Rood goal room roomi but hut when there timers are several i evert erR l I chambers they lend off nit from ir om the lie rommon room and separated H from It by h na of or plaited bamboo rhese ate are generally raised rained one cite or UI fet from the th Ioor of o the common room loom but tut In III n no case raae Is III one door above the 1111 other othet lit h I In 11 II It being thought itt a gent t Indignity to Lo have liase ho I any 1111 nii oars fret feet over ones mimosa head The thatched tots are aro highly Inflammable and loan lean leanIng hag Ing against every thatched house tray be he seen a to long hooked bunked stick with which to pull oft elf the root roof should It catch Ore Are Somerville of ot the navy lIay recently related the th following In III an al ad od nN U U dress before the Royal so society soy o elet The New Nets rapid of ot the was formed C In 1890 1806 Hie land Imd slipped In ht after the heavy rains mimic and amid allied up thebe the tho bed be l of or time the river No one OM up III abase knew an anything thing about It mud ami an IM the lime Junks were coming down BOO were sore wrecked 1 In a II whirlpool at the foot not of or orthE the rapid The rime story II to I li is It was tho the work olk of ot a II dragon A friend of ot mint Ferdinand Tyler was ent rent up top there hero t bythe by bythe h the Chinese government and ho he tried to the tho diaKon on This so It was teas said Mahl had hail been formed by I tho the dragon turning over In his bis sleep Mr Tyler Iyler 1 telegraphed to 10 auk ask to begin IH They Il e telegraphed him that first o or if toll nit the nutrient ancient methods must muni bo lie II tried to see nee If It the dragon could nM lie la moved and then than If It he would not move western method might be he attempted Welt Well thi tho dragon on would not move snot and Sir Ir Tyler fyler started with dynamite and shifted n a bit or of it the river Pomo observer say eny that In all alt probability ability the next generation or the tile next but hut one of lit the th Japanese will be he as nil tall nil tallon nilas on as a the lice average European or American It 11 In is the th custom of ot sitting upon the an mt kits kl of or upon UIO a II that et ox plains the H of lit the Japanese log leg The art An more lire kinked by hy the cramped position 1 and wm III o the growing Bones boneH are lira not tint properly nourished Tile The Japanese spine U Is just of ot iv it 1 length with that of o the time average European 1 or Ot American Indeed nil all persons differ In n height ht rather by uy reason rell ol of ot leg ICH than hun of ot bark back lime Tho length of ot tho tiro spinal column Is III singularly construe constant among various rod and races Ghosh a n 1 bar barrister barrister barrister rister line has urea been telling an 1111 English null cure that lint time tilt of or Indian jug Juif filers ulers Is II explained to some Homo extent l by hy bythe tit tilt fact that dint they th are aro from flom early eRIh childhood By Uy way III of Illustration he loot mentioned that a 1 child chilli of ot four our would be lie taught laught to tl hold huld a n l small coin In his hili tin oat for tor a 1 tow few seconds AH All the years went by II the time Brno and tho the also 1110 of ot the tite coin would he be Increased when wh he ho reached leached manhood two good sized ml ties would he be formed on each I ch side MidI of oC his hili tin 1111 mt lilt either olther one large huge enough to Wild lI several coins In Ito Japan IB is made modo very easy Jn in the streets are aro till tall posts PORts with pray prayers ers ems IS printed on them hero std with a II wheel attached Anyone passing by b can tho the wheel a turn amid that counts us its a prayer The Alnus Alms t hog Ing In III the tho second largest of ot time the 1 of ot which the ts Is r composed worship the thc hear and allot rover rever reverence ence enco the sun sal moon fire wind and wa wn water ter Lr raising U is practised In Manchuria Ia much as 01 sheep fanning Is III carried on elsewhere A 1 Manchurian takes her hr dowry In doss dogs six If It she Ihl be ue the 1110 daughter of lit poor pOOl parents more If It they the bf Ulo wealthy The serve as liS meat for and their mug coats coat are ml converted Into rugs ruffs and garments From to 10 dogs lire are slaughtered every year ear |