Show I 1 ALL OF A PAGODA A boes story with the hanchow corr korth china bews yews gome time last month one of the old pagodas near the city tumbled to the ground it ft as situated on one of the hills near the famous india temple for a long time it had been in a dilapidated condition but it was a picturesque object in the landscape it fell about 3 PM one bright summer jar without giving any previous warning and flit hout any apparent provocation I 1 with some others was sojourn ing at the lime in the neighborhood and the sound of the fall was distinctly beard by us it is said that the structure was built about 1000 years ago the stories of its origin were revived by its destruction and the people vere talking about it for a long time it was on a hill called the flying hill and built to weigh it down and hold it in its place where the hill now h was gormerly merly a level place with a large village in it A noted priest bad an intimation that the hill was flying over and he wished to save the people of the village from destruction truc tion to do this he seized one of the beautiful maidens from the street and dragged her away everybody came out to rescue the maiden and thus they escaped destruction when the bill settled down on their homes and crushed them its weight in order to keep the hill from flying again the same one night went around the bill and carved the images of 1000 in the solid stone these images are all there unto the present day aud ane hill remains firmly in its place the common theory of the bene fit of pagodas is that they keep down disturbances in she earth the dragon is embodied in a hill A certain place is the location of its pulse and the pagoda is built over that place to keep the pulse from becoming too excited |