The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-24
JAPANESE CURIOSITY.
Natives of Japan Regularly Stare al
# American Residents. =

A|''A'SS W csaPau hesuiarly stare at
- American Residents.
The foreigner travelling in Japan is
soon made aware of the quality Of
curiosity. On every railroad platform
he is surrounded by crowd of people
who, with their mouths as wide open,
as their eyes. in their effort to losesno
detail Of interest, regard him slowly
from head to foot and comment upon
him among themselves the while.
These people may have seen hundreds
Of foreignersthey may see them
every day--but they continue to act as
if they had never seen one before. I
visited some Americans in Tokyo who
had lived In the same house with the
same Japanese neighbers for about
year. Yet each time that we went out
to drive the people in the little Jap
anese house near by would rush to
their. windows and stand watching as
eagerly as a small Yankee at the cir
Gus. This happened every day. It is
always possible to tell whether a for
eigner happens to be in his garden, for
a goodsized crowd of japanese gath
cred about the gate announces the inn
portant fact. I gave several talks and
lectures to school children and young
men and women in Japan. They were
interpreted, l, of course speaking in
English, SO that half Of the address
was understood by only a few. Yet I
have never seen audiences more abso-
5lutely attentive. Not a word was lost
and the same concentration was shown
while was speaking as when the in
terpreter was turning it into Japan
ese. Little school ehildren-b boys and
girls -sat drinking everything in, with
their eyes popping out of their heads
until had finished. never f1attered
myself that this was due to the fascin-
alton of my discourse, but merely to
the great curiosity of my audience
their power Of concentration and their
ceptiVity.-Ainslee's Magazine. #
Sunlight at Different localities.
Instruments are set up at various
meteorological obseryatories that auto
.matlcally register the periods during
which the sun is unobscured by clouds
during the daylight hours, and tables
are printed giving the actual numb
OF hours Of sunlight during each year.
By comparing the actual number Of
sunlight hours with the number OF
hours during which the sun is above
the horizon at each place a percentage
number is obtained, as in the follow
ing small table. In New York city, for
instance, 6A per cent Of the daylight
hours. on the average are sunny.
. ST. Petersburg, "a per cent Ham
burg, % per cent; Dublin, SO per cent;
Berlin, SO per cent; Oxford, 80 per
cent; London, % per cent; Ventnor
81 per cent; Vienna, 80 per cent; Zur-
;ich, AZ per cent; Lagano, Sc per cent:
;Padua, 46 per cent. Rome, IS percent;
New York,s64 per cent; ) Madrid, rs per.
cent,
Derby Winner and Wen be Supreme.
America will be supreme when one
of her citizens breeds a Derby winner
and, without letting anyone else OWE
SO much as hair Of his tail, races him
il his own colors There is nothing in
buying an English horse to win an
English race. With such magnificent
breeding ESTABLISHING as Wood burn &.
Belle Meade, Elnendorf, MEG rathiana
Runnymede, Dixiana, Rancho del Paso.
the Nursery, Castleton, Beaumont.
Meade Wthorpe La Belle, Brookdale
and Raneecas, il which millions are
invested, the prediction is Ventured
that within five years we shall have
the horse We are looking for and the
man too Jew York Press. s 81