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Show IN THE MIKADO'S EMPIRE. Traveling la Not Altogatlur an U Mlxad Delight A lady traveling In Japan glvea tbe following sketch of an inn at which she stopped: "The landlord and bis wife and the servants all come to talk to you end when you Inform the company com-pany thst you are sleepy and want ' your bed laid, everybody ssys at oncsj 'llonorahle bed annually Is It?' but n body does snything, and when at last you have scliieved your desire yoa r have lo force apart. In rleflnnce of po ' lice regulation, the wooden abutters . which I'l-rmetlriilly seal tho house, li ' otder tn avoid being aninthered wits ' the fiiuies of chsrcoal and humans. At '.' soon as tMneM are quiet erough rats I cIismo over the rooms and generally over you as well, and sometimes bits ( you. One o'rloc k In the morning, la the old Jniat:e';e reckonlnK. was called ' 'the hour of the rat,' doubtless for thll i reison. Ami all night long the watchman watch-man sounds bis rnttlu to show that hs Is attendlie to his duties. You have to be up with the cock to get tbs first , go at the bath, which Is only filled once, and the wash band basin, which li only is lnrc.n as a cake tin, la al I wayi kept In the veranda." |