QUEER CREATURES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 52, 11 February 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

QUEER CREATURES.

A Chines" journal gives the following curious fact respecting some of the western rivers in that country:— The wates are perfectly clear, and the do nrf. use nets in fishing, but in th<» winter season construct infix, and f-om these throw on the water a mixture o f wheat and the seed of a spoc’es of fern nounded together; winch, being oaten bv the fish, thev appear to be killed, and rise to the curfa co _ but in a short time they come ♦•> life again. * Th : s they call making tho fish drunk. In eastern Turkistan fish are obtained in a similar manner. In the spring, when the melted snow has swollen the. rivers, the fish are eren swimming about in all quarters; the fishermen immodiatelv take a solution of herbs, and sprinkle it ou the water, hv which the fish become perfectly stiinified arcLare easily caught. 'Hie Mohammedans So not eat them to r.ny great extent, exoent when mulberries are ripe, which are always eaten with them. A STATUE AS A STOREHOUSE. The wonderful East Indian statues and ten-inks cut, from the solid boulders and stratified rook are duplicated, il not excelled by the Arghans. Professor J. A. Gray, in on a < f his recent lectures on the’Far East, tells of a stone statue of a god which he saw at Bamain, near the Russian frontier. This particular statue was one o'f a score, hot was the giant of the lot, I>eing 173. feet in height, and large >n proportion. It was used as a storenmso for grain, and nt that time contuned over 2000 bushels. av .’* pursued the chairman of lbo legislative investigating committee, ‘that he.resorted to no bribery whatever during the campaign, so far as yon know?” “Yes. s : r ” ropb’ed the witness, thata what I said.” “Did b„ ”ot "irculate several boxes of cigars?” ‘‘Yes, s : r ■ but them cigars wasn’t bribes. -n" of them. You can try it.”