Various Ideas of Paradise.

Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 11, 13 January 1894, Page 24

Various Ideas of Paradise.

All desert dwellers, says the St. Louis Republic, die expecting to awake in wooded land supplied bountifully with cold war ter. You will remember, if you have ever read books of arctic travel, that all natives of the frozen north have paradise pictured as a land of warm sunshine, with glowing fires overhung with pots of boiling whale’s blubber and'easeful couches of fur scattered here and there. The Caroline islanders, who are passionately fond of liquor, but who are in mortal dread of breaking their necks by falling from one of the millions of cliffs with which their islands abound, believe that paradise will be a land as level as a floor, where one can get drunk and not be in constant dread of cracking his cervical vertebrae. I