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ceeds, and within year is promoted to the
regular marital relation.
The Monpolian RuIes for Health.

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regular marital relation.
The Mongolian Rules for Health.
His mode of living is a perpetual viola
| ton of what we call the laws Of health. He
builds bamboo cabin in swamp or in a
drain and sleeps upon the foul and oozy
earth. He makes bedroom scarcely larger
than coffin and closes every chink to pre-
vent the air from entering: He eats huge
quantities of sugarcane until his abdomen
becomes permanently enlarged. He is usu-
ally an orthodox Buddhist and regards the
killing and eating of animals as sinful as
theft. But he will 60 from the psgoda to
his brothers home and steal, kill, cook and
eat the latter's favorite dog.
He will sell his son or daughter for
song, but will spend a weeks wages in buy
ing religious paraphernalia for his pet joss
house He hates his superiors and has an
intense dread of death, but he will commit
suicide with great cheerfulness when 30 or
dered by an official. Instead of killing his
mortal enemy, he browns himself in the lat
ter's well, after having written obscene epi-
thets upon the stones ofthe coping. Almost
numberless stories can be told of their Curl
Gus habits I called last evening at my
butchers, and found the place closed for
business, but was allowed to enter.
Using the Roasts for Pillows.
The carcasses, instead of being suspended
from hooks, were lying on the blood-stained
earth which constituted the floor, and the
three largest pieces of beef were being util-
lied as pillows by the butcher, his wife;
children and couple of friends. In reply
to a question, he said that it frightened
away the ratsl and made very comfortable
sleeping. Another illustration is afforded
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tradesman,
On hand over 200 fine newsuits taken from
the entombed corpses of wealthy gentle
men.
The announcement was true except as to
the wealthy gentlemen, the grave clothes
having been stolen from the bodies of poor
coolies. Grave robbery is common, espe-
cially when business is dull. The ceme-
teries are unguarded and unenclosed, and
the spectacle Of man digging excites no
comment whatever.
Equally novel are the official recognitions
of virtue. The latest is an official document
from the Imperial Cabinet at Peking, the
highest authority in the Empire. Trans
lated it reads as follows:
The Devotion of a Daughter.
Wei P'eng -ohu, Assistant Deputy Magistrate
of Hofei Hsien in Anhui, has a daughter re-
piety. In the summer of last year (1s90) her
father was deputed to look after some work
in connection with the river embankments.
While he was away his wife became danger
ously i'll and was most tenderly nursed by
the daughter, who went the length of cut
ting off piece of her flesh to make Soup for
own life should that of her mother be
spared. When her elder brother proposed
to go and inform the father of the dangerous
state of his wife's health, she prevented his
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enough to do looking after his work, and to
add to his anxiety by conveying to him such
news would serve but little purpose.
wife died, and the daughter refused to take
any food for several days. Seeing that by so
doing she was causing great grief to her
Cruel. Some time after he wasagain ordered
away on river work, and during his absence
she again refused to take any nourishment.
W while away ne tooR 1is III ana as1ed ID tor Leave
by his daughter, who informed him that she
did not dare to die without first telling him,
but now that he had come back she wished
to state that it was her intention to go and
wait for her mother in the shades below. In
spite of all entreaties she then resolutely
abstained from all food and died some ten
days after The Cabinet agreed that it would /
be a thousand pities to pass over such a re-
markable instance of filial devotion without
remark, and ordered q handsome scroll to
be made and erected to her memory.
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Chinese life is perpetual surprise. Mans
most faithful four-footed friend, the dog, is ,
relegated to the outcast world and his place
filed with the more edible pig. Under |
these auspices the dog reverts to the ances-
trail wolf and is hardly distinguishable from
that dkagreeable brute, while the hog be-
comes distinguished member of society.
Every Chinese porker has name and an
swers it, especially when called to meals,
as promptly and knowingly as welltrained
watch dog He lives with the family and |
sleeps either on the foot of his owners bed
or else in the baby's crib. After breakfast
ing en- famille, he sets off on constitutional
walk through the city and suburbs. He
makes calls upon other pigs of equal social |
standing, invades and robs every garden
whose gate may be open and usually re-
freshes himself by a walk in the surf on the |
beach, where he whets his appetite with a |
dozen oysters on the whole shell and few |
defunct fishes.
He returns home at P. NJ. for luncheon, |
If moment late, the family turn out en- |
masse and fill the neighborhood with the |
blood-curdling yells, so, piggy Jim, lost |
pig, come herel Dear piggy Jim, come
home and eatl Where are you, lost piggy |