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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 372, 25 June 1903, Page 3

] 1, i .... ’ 4 i SyW A GStAUK 9&SSS fShto» ®« »«• Wa 7 o* ««RMte9 3%a&* f'V MMMWWrt «*>« LataK«HMn> - caAn« It OaaS. . -••. “Sfcsro m aoa» ways «fi »—May mo»y off a e&abn than fanning H out," told an Alaska miner who had hbh luck with his pick and shovel, reports the Washington Atar. “For lnst*nea, I knew a man of xaeane in the Daw- *°® diatrtct who had a claim which had failed to be aa profitable a* expected, •nd k» dMa’t know just what to do w«fc » to gat hfa wtMMj bMk «atfl ha had devoted eoasdAerabV thought to M. A&A It waa stopple enough when he knew how. “He quietly went to the gold commissioner and announced that he wished to pay his ten per cent, royalty on the product of his claim for a year, which was $6,000. The commissioner accepted the $6,000 royalty and gave him the usual receipt, stating on its face what it was for, with the number of the claim, location, etc. “Then he ‘waited patiently about,’ like Mary’s little lamb, and one day, in the course of human event*, an Englishman came along lookingtor a good thing for some people who had money to spend. He asked Mr. Blank, among others, what he had to toll, and the smooth gent told him he didn't knovf exactly, but he would show hhn his goods. They Looked over several claims that were practically anwprked, and then in a casual way M*; Blank showed the Englishman his receipt for royalty on claim so and »o. ‘And. you know,’ he -said,. with a wink,-*that ,r-wan isn’t, paying rATalty on any more than he can poswoly help.’ V * ‘ "The Englishman was right on to' that little game, of course, and he', eeired up the $6,000 receipt, .looked over the claim in ,a general way, apdended by buying it for $150,000.* C v HO CABBAGE LEAF CIGARS. KMskta impreiiioß THat aßwy PoopSo Get from the Hemew-, ona PabilemMoai, **l believe,” said a Chicago cigar dealer recently, reports the Tribune, “that there are actually many people who think that cabbage leaves play an important part in the manufacture bf all brands of cigars. I suppose they get their Ideas from the comic papers and the newspaper paragraphs of a lighter vein. “What has been one of the meet venerable jokes at present known to man has by long use come to be accepted by many as sober truth. I don’t say for a moment that there are not many of the cheap grades of cigars which contain many thing* besides leaf tobacco, but nobody would bother about putting cabbage leaves in cigars, for the rimple reason that these leaves are so thick-veined and peculiarly shaped that they would not roll up with the tobacco leaf, and if they did would make lumps on ths sdger like the pumps" on a ccviuelv ~~T. —: - “A cabbage is a vile smelling thing When It is dried and burned, and the smoker of the vilest cigars would turn from it in scorn. It is because of the villainous smell of burning cabbage, I suppose, that people first began associating it with cheap cigars of a loud and strenuous odor. Thai is aboui' the only resemblance be tween the two. “Mullen leavee, which we used to dry and smoke when we were hoys, are much more suitable for the filling of poor cigars than cabbage leaves, and X have no doubt they are often used.** THE DRAOOH BCRJSBIL WesSetfsi Pemlele HksWi toM BMn Tmmw of VBDteilMiiß the tor el Pehtai, Very few people even In Peking seam to have heard of it. For, of course, till lately none were allowed to drive along the excellent carriage road by the lake through the parklike grounds interspersed with rookeries, says the Cornhill. The screen is perhaps 30 feet high, and of porcelain throughout, and on it in high relief a row of dragons standing on their tails, and possibly five feet high, old gold, full red, cream, dark blue, then over again, the two dark blue* confronting each other in the center. What waa that screen meant to shelter from the world? Now behind it .there is only a twene of frantic desolation of ihe moat complete vandalism—treats hacked and broken, marble columns razmd to the ground, images torn from their lotus seats and cloven in two. Here a. broken heed lying in the grass, there » gilded hand, and behind, a little to the right, on an eminence, a temple like that which crowns the hill at the Summer palace. Covered with a thousand images of Buddha outside, all of imperial yellow brilliantly shining, It caused the spectator to sigh and think how exquisite must have been the other destroyed building, since this required no protecting screen. “I do not deplore its destruction at all,” said a German Sinologue; "the Chinese must be humbled somehow. Best humble them through their palaces end twnP 1 * 8 ” , u Similarity of Wenei. It appears that a consignment of “Wheeling stogies” recently shipped to England was classified by the custom house officials as “leather manufactures,” on the assumption that they were boots for bicycling. This is equal, jays the Pathfinder, to the Dutch patent office, which claeetoed as Aeneriea* machine for making ginger, snaps under “distilling and brewing,” on the assumption that “ginger snaps” soma sort of “schnapps” to drink.