THE MULE WAS UNINJURED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 19

THE MULE WAS UNINJURED.

Senator John Sharp Williams, whose supply of darkey storiei scemp inexhaustible, tplls this new one: — "I was proceeding leisurely along a Georgia road on foot one day, when I met a conveyance drawn by a mule and containing a number of negro field-hands. The driver, a darky of about twenty, .vas endeavouring to induce the animal to increase its speed, when suddenly the animal let fly with, his hock arid dealt htm such & kick on the head that he was stretched on the ground iv a twinkling. He lay rubing his woolly pate where the mule had kicked him. " 'Is ho hurt ?' I asked anxiously of an older negro, who had jumped from the conveyance and was standing* over tho prostrate driver. '"No, boss,' was -trio older mail's reply; •dat mulo .valk kind 6" tondah for a day ot' two, but. ho ain't hurt.' "—Lippinoott's Magazine.

There is one public library in Pekin. It is the library of the Kuo Tze Chien, or "School for the Sons of the Empire," an ancient University that existed a thousand years before ihe Christian era. This library is of 6tone. On 182 tablets of stone composing it are carved all of the "Thirteen Classics," the summary and essence of all Chinese culture. This stone library itself is uot of the ago of the School for the Sonß of the Empire, but probably dates frbm Eom6' time "late, in the ftlongdl or early in tho Ming dynasty, about fiOO y&u-s ago.