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Show A Chlncio rilctlrlvcp. I Tiles were being driven in one of the I new buildlnga for a foundation' for u I punch. They were eight inohes in v diameter and fourteeen feet long. The j staging was bamboo, and so was the I frame for. the hammer, which was a I round piece of cast iron, with a hole in I the center for a guide- rod. Attached 1 to the hammer block were 27 ropfcjyxar-A I ried up to the top of the frame and down on the outside, looking very much lilte the old-fafihioncd Maypole. Twenty-, Twenty-, seven women had hold of the ends, and i with a sing-song, all together, pulled ' 'down; up the rod, four feet, trnv-i trnv-i eled the hammer; then, at n scream, all let go, and down it came on top of the ! ! pile, whjch was protected by a band or ring. The women were paid 20 cents in gold per day. This Maypole driver is in general use throughout Japan and China. At some of the railway stations of ! Germany, parrots cry out the names of the towns. In Colorado there nre ruins GOO'years i old on which arc rude sculptures of horses. i The bears in Xorway climb telegraph . , poles, and amuse themselves by sitting i on the cross-bars. 1 J In .some of the farming districts of i j rii,in ninre nr Imrncssctl to small wacr- Clnna pigs an narnesseu io niuuu h-ons h-ons and mado to draw them. Cold meni require a longer time to digest than worm meats, and are nob so satisfying to tho appetite. Cigars aie cheap in Germany. Nine-tenths Nine-tenths of those sold cost only from one cent to one and one-third cents ejich. A wheelman in Bedfordshire, England, Eng-land, had h'.s bicycle wrecked by a stroke of lightning, as he was riding it. He was unharmed. |