Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — The Chinese Way. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Way.

A Japanese girl went to the Maloo market to make some purchases, when a Chinese fish-dealer, who was discussing his breakfast after haying disposed of his wares, and who was probably inspired by national ill-feeling, brutally spat in her face. The woman resented this outrage and a disturbance followed, in the course of which she got severely handled by the fishmonger and lost a hand-bag which she had brought with her as a receptacle for her purchases. At this stage the police arrived on the scene and the fishmonger decamped, leaving behind him, however, the "sura of 7,000 cash. This the police took charge of, but in the afternoon the fishdealer made his appearance at the police station and demanded his money, whereupon he was taken into custody on the charge of having assaulted the Japanese woman. The fishmonger was brought up at the mixed court and sentenced to receive 100 blows for the assault. It was then suggested by the police that the 7,000 cash, the fishmonger’s earnings of the previous morning, should be given to the Japanese woman as compensation for her lost hand-bag, and Mr. Giles, who was sitting as assessor, readily concurred in the suggestion, remarking that the prisoner would be all the more likely to duly receive his hundred blows if he had no money. His worship also agreed to the suggestion, but on the money being inquired for it was found that the fishmonger had handed it to a friend, who had made off with it with all dispatch. Eventually, however, the police obtained possession of the cash and handed it over to the injured woman. —North China Daily News. Prof. Thomson, in a recent lectureinformed his audience that the magnetic pole is now near Boothia Felix, or more than 1,000 miles west of the geographical pole, In 1657 the magnetic pole was due north, it having been eastward before that year. Then it began to move westward until 1816, when the maximum was reached. This is now being steadily diminished, and in 1976 it will again point due north. Prof. Thomson says that the changes which will have been observed, not only in the direction but in the strength of the earth’s magnetism, will show ftiat th*e same causes which originally magnetized the earth are still at work. To build up that strength of mind which apprehends and clings to the great universal truth is the highest intellectual culture.