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Southland Times, Issue 19036, 2 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

in the matter of wbmaa'B rights, Abyssinia is far ahead of Europe. According to ao authority, the house and all its contents belong to her, and if the husband offends her sho not only can, but does, turn him out of doors till ho is duly, vepentant, and makes amends by tho gift oi a cow or half a camel — that is to say, half tno value of a camel. On tho other hand, it is tbe privilege and duty of the wife to abuse her husband, ajid she can divorce herself from him at pleasure, whereas the husband must show reasons to justify such an act on his part. * • * Neither clock nor timepiece is to "bo found in Liberia. The reckoning of time is mado entirely by the movement and the position of the sun, which rises at 6 a.m. -ad sets at G p.m., almost to the minute, all tho year round, and at noon is vertKiClly overhead. The islanders of the South Pacific have no clocka, but make an ingenious and reliable time marker of their own. They take the kernels from the nuts of tho candle tree, and wash and string them on (he rib of a palm leaf. "Tho first or top kernel is then lighted. All of the kernels are of the mi mo bizc and substance, and each will burn a certain number of minutes and then set fire to the nest •below. The natives tie pieces of black cloth, at regular intervalsialong the string to mark the divisions of time. Among the natives of Singar, in the Malay Archipelago, another peculiar device Is uSed. Two bottles are placed neck and neck, and sand is put in one of them, which pours itself into the other 'every half hour, when the bottles arc reversed. There is a line near by also, on which are hung twelve rods, marked with notches from ono to twelve. A regularly-ap-pointed keeper attends to the bottles and rods and sounds the hour.