JAPAN'S INTEGRITY.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 406, 18 February 1904, Page 3

JAPAN'S INTEGRITY.

Ha* People Are. Proud to Sow* TholitlOTOrnment <or » Pittnnoe, *' > tf The modern Japan which' Marquis Ito's policy has brought forth was made possible by the religious devotion of nobles' and, coolies to ' the emperor, .which made the imperial wishes law; by the intense'"patriotism* and the. official integrity of the retainers of the Diamyos, who have become the officers of the ,arniy and navy and members of the civil .service,, writes .Frederick Palmer, in Scribner's. As an occidental, I "should place integrity as the fiftt cause. When you have official servants so proud that even the postman will not accept a Christmas present, a statesman knows that, whatever his errors of construction may be, the timbers are sound. As long as nien become policemen on less 'th'an'a coolie's .pay for the honor of serving the government, it will never lack for first-class ability to fill its offices. Japan may well reverence her old military aristocracy, with its false punctilios. .-{ The. Heaviest of Caps. > America's cup is apparently the heaviest bit of silverware in- . the world. Sir Thomas Lip'ton, that prince of sportsmen and genial genf.lfeiuan, has not' been able to raise I hat cup or tilt it the least bit in his direction, says thi New York- Herald. , ; It-is estimated that he has,; spent a ImuV'frl ,300,000 ; to lift it it firmiy Maintains its. level of thp last Half! century.' He has"'spent'enough to lift' West mi n afSfcabTJeyv stcry hud still.: is unable to move that cup the smallest fraction of an inch nearer the British Islands; If he had i:!it thai money' into coal, and by its {•Diiibustionj converted'' a small portion of the water lie has sailed over into ~!eain, lie would have power enough to lift -tlic'? great" pyramid. Yet all this power directed against that little cup has not been able to even shake it on its. foundation. Surely this is a wonderful exhibition of .gravity. ,

A High Balloon A«>cen*lo». § MM. SieriTig and Bers'on of' the .■m.Bt€orolt;£it : aKinstitute of Berlin hare lately ascended in a* balloon of B,OOQ cubic meters capacity to'the great height of .10,300 meters Success was possible o.nly because the: aenuui 11 tb began to" breathe*'pure, oxygen at an elevation of about 8,000 meters. . The, scientific, results of ] this ascension are .how in process of calculation and wilt shortly ,be,published, ,