Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — Prizing an Officially Dead Man’s Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Prizing an Officially Dead Man’s Shoes.

In Davis’ interesting description of the Empire of China we are informed that whenever a judge of unusual integrity resigns his situation the people congregate to do him honor 1 . If be leaves the city where he has resided the crowd accompany him from his home to the gates, where his boots are drawn oft' with great ceremony, to be preserved in the ball of justice. Their place is immediately supplied by a new pair, which, in turn, are drawn off tq make room for others before he has worn them five minutes, it being considered sufficient to consecrate them that he should have merely drawn them on. * . / J y « / • In forty years the mean duration of human life in England has gained two years among males and nearly three and one-half years among females.