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Show THE 8TREET8 OF JAPAN. System of Numbering Houiea Mutt Be 8omewhat Confuting. In Japan houses ore not numbered according to their sequenco, but according ac-cording to tho order of their erection. That is to say that No. 78 may adjoin No. 1, with No. 102 on tho opposlto sldo. No. 2 is probably a mile down tho street. The city of Tokio is made up of 1,330 street, In which aro 318,-320 318,-320 houses. Those houses are divided Into fifteen wards. If a street passes through moro than ono ward tho houses aro numborcd according to tho wards in which thoy are; that 1b, a street passing through six wards will possess sis' number ones. It would bo like hunting for a needlo In a haystack hay-stack for a stranger to try to find a number In Tolclo. but a jlnriksha driver knows tho position and number num-ber of tho houses in Tokio. Ho la able to do this by having mado his business Uio ono study of his life. Laconic. Hermann Piefko was "kept in" after school hours for his want of proficiency proficien-cy In mental arithmetic. A noto to that effect was given him to tako homo and r'ng back tho next morning morn-ing with hi" father's signature. Tho father Is an ' nnost tin plato worker, a citizen of Tittsburg, and a strict dls-clplluarinn. dls-clplluarinn. Hermann returned tho noto to his teacher with downcast eyes. It was signed as follows: "Read and wallopod. C. PIEFKE" |