The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-17
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

r.. X. a. MS Is sainple vi Snihose
lack of civilizations: A huge wall sur,
rounds Bhaotungfu in Western Central
China. At regular intervals around the
wall are projections, and at the base OF
each projection fetid pit of rubbish:
Female infants are thrown from the wall
into these pits. Hundreds OF girl babies
from few days to three years OLD are
thrown from the ramparts. Sometimes
they are dead and sometimes not-whcn
the pariah dogs come to eat them. Glrl
babies not killed in this town are sold
for slaves. 1t is poor city Conden-
sation of a recent report to The North
China Daily News).
n. +. LAS thou knowest not what
is the way of the wind; nor how the
bones do gro in the womb OF her that
is with child; even so thou knowest not
the work of God who doeth all.-Eccles-
tastes. Chapter XII, verse ..
Yet in England woman OF fashion,
instructed bv wise doctor of Vienna,
has succeeded, according to her belief, in
controlling the sex of a child just born
And the world IN general hardened to
marvels still dazed by the telephone,
the photograph and the A-ray, is barely
able to feel little astonishment. We
are truly hard to move, and the man
who means to astonish us hereafter must
bring along something startling. In
viewof Dr. ScEenk and his pretensions.
thus indorsed by the English Countess,
what becomes, asks the New York Jour.
nal, of predestination, and what of all
the theories as to the eternal individuality
of human souls, before and after birth?
We and the rest of the unthinking world
always supposed that heaven or some
reservoir was full of little boy and girl
souls waiting to inhabit some suitable
baby body. But here comes scientist
who tells us it is simply question OF
prenatal diet whether a boy or girl
shall come along, and we accept the
statement calmly. Truly the mind adj
justs itself readily to marvels.
f. C.-Seven OF Queen Victoria's nine
ell ildren are living.
Delaware Citv-Cuba was discovered
by Christopher Columbus on October %.
1892. Had it not been for the episode OF
Ferdinand and Isabella in the life of the
great Italian navigator the rule of Spain
southern American continent for centu-
ries and Cuba had not now been fight
ing for freedom. Columbus believed that
he had discovered the main land of
India, but was persuaded by the, alb
originals that he was on an island.
When he returned to Cuba he again
made up his mind that it was the oriental
mainland, and it is said he died in that
belief So firmly was he seated in this
opinion that he committed it to writing
in order that posteritv might know of
his conviction. But in this detail the
immortal discoverer was in error.
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