Show THE CELEBRATION OF The number of queer things the various people do in the name of religion are but no sight is more odd than that which may i be witnessed on a peak of the Himalayan range in northwestern The peak looms feet above the and at an altitude of feet there is built a shrine of Vishnu overhanging a great tank fed by water from the sacred thermal Annually about pilgrims t climb the weary path to the and every twelfth is the number increases to at least Arriving at the pilgrims adore the great liberally fee the Brah- man priests and bathe in the sacred This latter perform- ance is slightly as men and absolutely plunge into the water with cries i of joy until the entire tank is a seething mass of resembling very much the familiar of an infrequently emptied rain New York r |