New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST

An odd festival took place On Whtmonday at
Eca HssinH"s-I &lainE. small village nifty miles
the village entertained any bachelors who chose
To attend. Tn" object that the girls should find
husbands \ procession composed of tho bachelors
ana unmarried women marched through the viii
llEe, headed by NE and drum corps Ma,l-
Guende the y, sIdeut If the fete. allowed the sue
'"sstul sHor for her hand to kiss her the pros
cncr Of tir delighted village folk. Some Of tie
men gave an exhibition OF their daring ry climb
INK the walls OF houses and jumping from win
dows 10 win favor In the eyes Of eligible madcnS
The exhlbitor Of Palestine which has been held
recently at the Agricultural Hall. in London under
III" maaaE"In"t'. of the London Society for Pro
noting Christianity Among the Jews WIS rne
largest exhibition Of its kind ever attempted any
country. lhiec thousand volunteer workers acted
as stewards. There Jerusalem street which
showed jewish trades working with such nipple
Inents as ""r~ used in the ancient period.
There is a street in Gwandu. East Africa. which
IS a verrabl@ place Of skulls. The town. which IS
oTa in shape. has around il ring Of poles Each
pole Is crowned with human skull There are
six gates To the town, and each is approached by
n pavement Of skulls. Something like twelve thou
SAND skulIs were used 10 construct this pavement.
II Is snowy wltite.
The volume which is called the pe,iIs F,iblo,.
Is in the library of the royal palace Of Sweden
II Is huge copy of the Scriptures Nritt,, on
three hundred prepared asses skins one rnncrt
SAYS that I, took I'VE hundred years To complete
his copy. which Is so large that It has n table hv
Itself. Another tradition that II was com
a. n
Ills Satanic Majesty who when the work vas
finished. gave the monk a portrait Of himself for
q ffontispe"c. The illuminated likeness of the
devil still adorns the front page Of the work THIS
volume was carried or by the Sweics in the Thirt
Years War from convent In Prague
There at the beginning of the wear 1904 M
ever than $50 persons in Japan who were more
than one hundred years old. Two hundred and
slXty-siN males and 5H7 females were IetN.eer 1Oo
ana lO3 years 3? males ana 81 females were be vce
!OJ ana ITO years, y males and females were he
tween 10 and ia years, ana male and 3 females
We're between ll5 and 100 years.
prchld hunters In Now Guinea often face death
searching Tor these rare plants one agent who
was sent there To look for dendrobium ,iweIt for
some months among the natives and lived und,r
t'e most trying conditions. He obtained four hun
dfed or the coveted plants and loaded them on n
niue schooner. but on putting into a port IN Dutch
now Guinea he had the misfortune To see his VOC
sci ourn TO the waters edge. He was ordered m
go back for more plants This time he found
masnlhcent collection OF orchids growing I'm a ma
i've nuryinS ground among exposed bones ana
skulls When the plants were removed some 90
the skulls were removed with them The natives
insisted on sending little Idol with the nIaDts 20
watch over the spirits of the departed MANY sucb
plants grow In swamps which are the homes ~
FEVER and mosquitoes. One collector was known
TO wade up To his waist In mud fer two weeks
seeking a specimen OF which he had heard An
other lived among the Indians of Brazil fcr nira
months making his way through the Jungle an
search OF iare specimen.