| Show lillo san near the Holl yama where the mighty damitan holds his honorable head high enough to greet a cloud As A it passes fare face to face lives a it maiden whom I 1 deem fairest of the su clan daughters of this clan to wed kings rings and even gods are proud UVO ullo san the of grace in gahito cloth 4 Us made 0 ot the precious fiber which delicately veins the pink leaves of lotos b ds arrayed bits on nak ya cushions rich lino san and dreams I 1 think of the lord who wl wi I 1 be while little ellent silent wave lacquered fans tor for lillo s ease let her dream no longer III play the literary knave faking a la japanese from the new orleans times democrat A weird tale from japan the hochi hecht of boklo prints the fol lowing wonderful ond erful tale on the lilt at 4 p in that part of airy space that over canopies a slope commonly called which forms part of in houkal do became the scene of sanguinary battle between hostile forces of winged creatures the combatants were swallows on the one side and milliards of dragon flies on the other it if interior in number the swallows were certainly superior in in tel and physical po ers to their opponents on the occasion n in as one would believe and everybody had but one opinion as to the end of the mid midair air contest but the unexpected happened ha opened and after charges and countercharges and other aeronautic movements ending in at dose quarters fighting of some duration the swallows beat a hasty retreat or rather disgraced themselves by the most confused contused flight ever in bulged in by a vanquished enemy then the victorious dragon flies flew about that particular portion of the sky with the unmistakable air of noble conquerors performing all sorts of assertive antics which included airy cura coling evolutions soa rings plunging etc all sufficiently cant and all tending to proclaim the tact fact of their undisputed occupation of the atmospheric superficies over the in the depths of the sea at the natural history department of the british museum south ken may now be seen a series of models of dempses deep sea fishes the tremendous pressure under which these strange creatures live Is one of the mary causes affecting theli tion it must be remembered that the pressure of the air at the surface of fifteen pounds to the square inch Is increased in the sea to a ton weight for every 1 1000 fathoms of depth tha the distress experienced by a balloonist reaching a great altitude attitude end the dis comfort attendant on hio hi rapid with drav al from the pressure pies sure under which he has lived Is aggravated in the case of the deep sea fishes brought to the surface to such an extent that not only do their internal 0 gana gans burst bit often the whole creature becomes disintegrated the colors of these fishes are emt extremely remely sample simple their bodies being os s a rule either black pink or silvery of fishes found only from fathoms down downwards wa ads true forms are known of which ch we gire give a group of examples in our illus japanese Broth strange associations are numerous in japan among the most curious are the fall together society the pauper brotherhood the society of protesters and seaweed sod ety the members of the last corn com wearing nothing but the most tattered garments more curious still Is the society of self annihilation formed apparently by discontented nobles infected by nihilistic doctrines the members of this society are bound to possess no private capital they must look to bothin but their own right arm to support and protect them and they must be in session every day during the year the r object being to say what they please eat and drink what they like sleep when co 0 o dis posed and concern themselves about nothing which does not affect them selves personally V k ng sh p un arched prof gustafson of the university of recently unearthed near Lo ensberg a viking ship in a good state of preservation the relic is larger than the famous gokstad gogstad ship discovered in now on exhibition at the university the professor says the vessel of oak la is at least 1000 years old the ship will not be ex until next spring as there la is not time enough to take it from the marsh where it was found L IN |
