COUNT TOLSTOI AND THE POLICEMAN.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9812, 23 August 1897, Page 4

COUNT TOLSTOI AND THE POLICEMAN.

The following amusing anecdote is told about the famous Count. He once saw, in a street in Moscow, a policeman dragging, in a most rude manner, a drunken moujik to, the station. The Count stopped the police*man, and said to him :— '.' Canst thou read V " Yes," was the reply. . "And hast thou read the Gospel ?" "Yes, sir." •[ " Then thou must know that we mustnoi offend our neighbour." The policeman looked at the unpretetK tious iigure of his interrogator, and asked him in his turn :— " Canst thou read ?"

** Yob," replied the Count. "And hast thou read the instructions for policemen r" " No."

" Well, go and read them first, and then come and talk to mc."

EDUCATION AND MODERN TEETH,'

Education is playing sad havoo with thin teeth of modern generations. So an experienced dentist in the West-end Btvyo, and he ought to know. Formerly decayed teeth were generally attributed to a secret fond« ne_s for bonbons, but this idea is,' it appear., quite a mistake. In fact, eugar ia rather nourishing than otherwise. The truth is that the ancient sturdy Bquare jaw of the English race is ohanging through lessons and book-learning to an .angular or V Bhape, whioh presses the m-lars one upon the other, does not give them room to grow, and will in time prevent some of, them cutting at all. Indeed, this catastrophe is not infrequent already. In many cases the original teeth are becoming l«ss in number than they ought to be, and often the " wisdomera" fail to appear. This, in an " educated jaw," is lamentable. The new facial form is, according to the dentist, rnnon cultivated by ladies, who find that it w popular among gentlemen. The latter like women with the " educated " angle of chin, which generally oatxies with it pearly bus very frail teeth.' If the specialist be right, this process of selection, aided by farther lessons and more study, will, in the courw of time, produce a race without any teeth n all. .:hen will the dentists make fortune., for puopl. will require complete artifioifu sets from the day of their birth onwards.

DUTCH AND ENGLISH IN THE PAR

EAST. To the current issue of the Field Mf H. G. Wise, who has twice made wjonrtl in the Dutch East Indies, contributes a.to* and entertaining letter descriptive of the home and hotel life of the Dutch, ttj scenery and sights to be met, and coum»» problems as they are dealt with in Java **» Sumatra. Dnc notable fact »• «f ™? Dutchman thoroughly understands the -an of making himself comfortable in a_tropiOM country. Bathing is studied as ft fine a», and as regards music, the tonus »* the .Concordia and Harmonic p"***.?* Batavia compare with the fin«t cat*" Europe, the others mentioned in »" connection being the Artillery Eand.« Manilla, in the Philippines, and the t»n victe* Band at Noumea, in New CaledgJ; A curious description is given ot the BU9wr* ranean palace of Djoejo, Ja™" *Sh capital, a Royal residence till the rixWg century. Mr Wise observes that to * student of colonial questions nothing «•» more instructive than a visit to Java, f" the Dutch appear to have at last eff «?£j solved the problem of dealing with *** races—kindly, firmly, and P» flt *"V»SL withstanding mistakes and _st which may have been committed generations. We read that " the writer w* impressed by the evident happinessi ol natives, by the firmness with which thee* rapacious Chinese are regulated, lu_Qt«_tcontraat to the British system in the »w* Settlements, whioh appear to exist ( aw J for the benefit of the Yellow Alien; «» {. the excellence of the Dutch fioancijdjwiKK The population of Java is estitnatea 24,642,985 souls, of whom JftJJ Chinese, 14,800 Arabs, and «»W WJJ peans and naturalised Dutch. ThertWj-j army consists of 30,000 men, about wu whom _» Europeans; and it « .» a ߣf Vfco to note that the wives and families m soldiers live in barracks, travel w"> troops, and receive Government ration*