MORAL TRUTHS FROM MR. WU

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 348, 8 January 1903, Page 3

MORAL TRUTHS FROM MR. WU

mw jOktl&M* Miniate* at Wmfctagton -~5_..,; Sw»« a Boastful Rv i ■ B_4* 4* an old story of the Chinese t&faiister, Wu Ting-fang, in ft new form. A reporter had been commissioned by his newspaper to interview Mr. Wu. Following his usual artless Chinese custom,. Mr. Wu asked the _ reporter how much salary ho received, says the.Youth's Companion. "One, hundred and ftfty dollars a week," he answered. The familiar ©ommecrt was at once forthcoming: "It is too muoh. .It is altogether too much. You are not worth more than $»6 a week." Some time afterward, while talking with other newspaper men, the minister learned that the reporter has deceived him, and that instead of receiving SISQ a week he was paid not more than SOO. Accordingly the next time he called at the Chinese legation in search of information' Mr, Wu thus sharply dismissed him: "You lied to me about your salary. If you will He about such a thing'a» that you will lie about, anything. I do not trust you. T have, nothing to say. I want to revise my former estimate of your value. Instead of being worth $25 a week, you are not pvorth anything, sir." •*' A»e of the Human ttne«. This question receives an interesting answer in the latest edition of De Mortillet's "Origin and Antiquity of Man." The total number of years elapsed since, according to geological evidence, men first appeared upon the. earth is placed at 238,000- Of this 78,000 years belong to the'preglacial epoch, 100,000 to the glacial, 44,000 years to the interval between the glacial epoch and the protohi«>toric and Neolithic 10,000 years -to the two last-named epochs, and 0,000 years to the time since the beginning of the historic period in Egypt. j _w~ _______________ BMatatce on n Tombstone. Jjuclus M. Sargent, in his "Stealings with the Dead," Rays that "In the graveyard eA Norfolk, Ya.,, j_ • handsome marble monument sacred to the memory of Mrs, Margaret, etc., wife of, etc., who died, etc." and that following tb« inscription is this: "Erratum. WOB Margaret read Martha." " ~.^...i \ Wo Ose for Stove*. _•. There is in the Mediterranean c*<ma« tries a widespread prejudice against all artificial heat, and consequently not more than one house in six ie ever he a tad during the winter, tim*