People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Americans Should Learn This. [ARTICLE]

Americans Should Learn This.

The Indians on the Missouri river tread water just as the dog treads it. Among the natives of Joanne, an island on the coast of Madagascar, young persons walk the water, carrying fruit and vegetables to ships becalmed or, it may be, lying in the offing miles away. At Madras, watching their opportunity, messengers with letto-s secured in an oilskin cap, plunge into the boiling surf and make their way to the vessels outside, treading the water through a sea in which no ordinary boat could live. At the cape of Good Hope men used to proceed to the vessel in the offing through mountain billows, treading the water as they went with the utmost security.

In order to discourage suicide, Swed ish law compels the body of every person who commits suicide to be sent bs the dissecting room o* the nearse? university.