The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-26
SCHIFFMANN SENDS
GREETING FROM
THE ORIENT
Copies Of Curious News
papers From Far off Ceylon
Received From the st. Paul
Traveller - They Give a
Glimpse Into Strange Gus
toms and Manners.

The breezes that elbow soft DER
Ceylon's isle" do not, apparently, creep
into the English newspaper, the Cey-
lon Independent, that is published in
Colombo. Unadorned facts, tersely
put, occupy the small space in the pa
per that is not devoted to advertise
ments. DR.. Rudolph Schiffmann, who
recently left Ceylon for Port Said, has
sent to T e Clio b e a copy of this
Ceylon newspaper; also a number of
the Geographic bulletins that are Is
sued every day by the Independent for
the benefit of the English residents.
Queer Looking Sheets.
To the Occidental eye the makeup
of the paper looks queer indeed. The
first page is devoid of headlines and
three columns are taken up with ad-
Vertisements and funeral notices, an
other column with letters from cor
respondents and the remaining two
columns contain queer tumble of
foreign and local news. Only one pipe"
can be discovered in the paper, and
the editor, apparently, was ashamed
OF that, for he cut it down to a few
lines and slowed it away in an OBJ
scure corner without even a head line.
1t is most appropriately termed an
lows:
AN elephant, recently sold from the
king of Slams stud at Bangkok, was
placed in charge of a man who had
formerly been in his majesty's en-
ployment. Upon seeing it's attendant
the animal placed his trunk around
his waist, dashed him to the ground
and trampled his body to a pulp. In
qulrles show that fifteen years before
the man blinded the right eye of the
elephant with a stone"
Cevlon Neede nr nb,oa
The weekly health report for the
town Of Colombo points plainly to the
fact that what Ceylon needs most of
all is DR.. Ohage. The report which is
published on the second page of the
paper says:
The number of deaths registered
in the town of Colombo during the
week ended March 81, 1903, was 1O4
This, added to one death which oc-
CURED in the infectious disease hospi-
tai, hanatta (Outside the town., makes
total of 1885, corresponding to an an
nual death rate of 1875 per 1000 Ca
fall of 3.9 per 1000 compared with the
last week, but a rise of IL per 1000
compared with the corresponding week
of last Year,. The number of births
registered was II, corresponding to an
annual birth rate of 24.6 per 1000 "a
rise of % per 1000 compared with last
week and a rise of 81 per 1000 COM
pared with the corresponding week Of
last year,"
The following complaint, made by
correspondent for the town of Handy,
however, cOnvinces one that the Occi-
dental mind is becoming alert 1--WE
call the attention of the secretary of
the municipal council to the bad man
ner in which the cody women sweep
the streets. They simply draw their
brooms along the road leaving a lot of
rubbish behind. Surely the Inspector
on duty or the conductor should see to
this, as 1t is unfair to employ women
who do not do their work"
orlentals Have Warnings.
While it may be true that "every pros
pect pleases" in Ceylon there are yearn-
ings in the Orient as in the Occident One
of these has crept into the columns of