Traveller.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 413, 14 April 1904, Page 3

Traveller.

__U A QUAINT gXA.MINAJIOJSr. I or PkE ' Rangoon Times' describes a local ] divinity examination, which,.has.to < European eyes some odd features. "There] were §bput jIOO candidates, none of fmoeM W®%a€ didate was provided with a rush Inat and "V Jffpet and a little oblong table about a root high. An old Barman, with his loongyee tucked up to show the tattoo marks, went round* shouting but the the of the' examination there (was a beating of drums and a clashing of] cymbaled when; this. fcadrjCeasMr M gbatlemW' icalted 4 M law whd was? jßlfarikg for the highest grade of the examination to stand dMiea priests responded, rec3ived their jjjmasb, and sat down. This was repeated pH ttiose competing in the second and PPJrd grades. Eor the second there were iffihabs, a dozsn competitors, and the rest for the third. attitudes assumed by the candidates jwere distinctly curious. One would 11 ottjhAa.nhafikp.i.anQthßr, on hi a stomach,lilst a third assumed a pose common to ndidates all the bows on his little table and holding his lad Sin his hands. fFhen began the citing of the answers, j 'or which purpose raiey shad' carefully r^led lineSjQn^the cmcei|i<fatethia«meM »n the work thjey tfjgd to |o, as the barrief round the zaf|t ip>B crowded with peopll, aj|d w4tnen, who madej aocub'n|h&t those candidates who "sat near were Siting. The only^^ft^^lSffiinl^ roakersi l«f adftfe did- n««» R il ?d t he :h ? bbul mlM&Wfii® mvmw the oal|okei:««r|o«i days (mm, oiitW, «* jfour hows a day, must be rather trying,. even if) 4l#Wtim#Mvl a . ( p[elif W Thet people of course, made,, r ,this examinat|}n the gaining'Sierli' by feeding the p| prov&ions of all|sorts found their way "to' the ipagoda precinctp, aad Burmaas from ejvpy quarterlwent round collecting money mo provide! the competitors with of Ilife, and luxuries asSeffi' SBice, curryl fruits, lemonade, icap iSttii^aflll manner of|sweetmeats were ffss& iii great priests -KuwL li|ve had •« liiffla,' a&vfar? as them were cbficerned. ~ / Th| : |§) Ingenious gentlemen mfewin be *4 e | r brains far some new form &t£ in whioa the nerve and skill' oClholeikot more smously employed may fivfr dciapation. P*alking competitions to loose favour, for the reason ! ,thlt ti are all sthjßs?i»J P® ™«a onthe rolling log has "proved] nobody i "wliEedi go s f , ; |pd|. the young womau i who" insisted ° .on ; , walking mfrtbl tbtows m Record] looure. pxesma remain, 'OBea^to|heftmaiWh6se«li' j r ! epat»tion' i "ph"ysicalf eserfciOn-j the grouhd ,hfta ao^^Bißvej|d|aiready i ..'faTh« wprld haai sbgglr/fltt ormad tjpMp time of »f Ihlie wM.exc% m the slaugji r yimsSipl bulloclsrshee'p ana poultry ],j». regufifep comj^mMi^''6if th&' strange" ,saScydf|he min^wkb*Elected tocarr^V fifty mi es,'»Sa dia it in' JH hours; of Jhe.brul maker who turned out just under athoup ad less than an hour; r orball|c ling j aacLpf enthnsialts the -jj^ik, time or wl^e^wrt^n^^^&,%pjajy> serioUßfiadividuale wßw«9Spup«ly J»sißa4> ,4tof'open |hem at the tsm ToTllteTOsfnufr foffljam hour lunoheons does euggearlJoßslDuitieß, but there is a big obstacle ia the w#y of new

records, for already aHady of the sort wanted iio- she jj Strand hta %b euttufg^wc^thou*knd J laWicW twenty-two hams- in nineteen and threequarter hours; The lightning shave has alto *een'overdbne^aiid■ fcbere are not many ready to offer themselves for faster times flian those standing to the credit j>Bf the man who took the 'heards" off-leVeW^ men £? |nd,:knookJ!sg- down again of 1410 ninepluß within the honr formed the <#» profitable occupation, of another Spirant,to laurels/.^The',rat oltcher ia the man li fit& 4, a p*Bt wMfti he should most readily have reproduee3i flo one of -this-fratenrty possessed a do& whioh ri3g™l®|[ l»llingj,rfts at the rate of ten a minnte until a thousand JiaeTbesa disposed of. ~ „ no nation can claim chat it has a monopoly -of-epostißg-aoyevements;— The—teaing—nations in yesterday's race will be able -to congratulate - themselves, no doubt, upon some other j notable feat which has gained many holds, the ,'record although it has!not which belongs.to England. America has feint'-up a'-kite higher-thannany ~oth«r~~ nation—more than ten thousand feet above sea level, or a height of nearly two miles, is the record achieved at; Massachusetts. Tasmania has a record whioh hw ,never jlwent/beaten:. fShore skilful r' chopped thrdnf Cinch 3 mm. 86 sec, and his feat has never been .matched, inside or. outside the Commonwealth, tHt isV British ship which holds the world's record for coaling, and it is a %l^ 8 -t~^ P " wlw > ha 9 one aao * he r thing that is unique by swimming twice across Niagara, racers not always to the swift, nor tMbattle tpstha strongi JSgifiewhere not a thousand miles from ¥*ris is a little cocoa shop kept by a woman who has won ' a rocord in the Alpa whioh veteran climbers may well envy. For years she with her basket, marching with them on E her walking Btiok as support and her basket of cocoa an ex;u3e Witbiaafew days this wonderfoWomaiFhas scaled a mountain 2600 •Jteot-Jiighy.'Croesed another covered with snow, ascended another to a height of liSNfPfes, sJi<»he&. wttih the troops to the top of MonfrCenis, and finally left the regimentfcat the summit of the Frej as, a height 'of 2700 metres. Soldier after <§oldier jfejl out jeffthp the occoa woman marched oh, up the Alps and down the Alps, and if yon ask a French Alpine troopsrto-day the bravest woman he has ever known he will tell you without''stopping' to think thatitis Madam 9 the,keepisr_of a cocoa shop at fiyoas.*f' St. ,J<iaiea'B 'Bcfitge'E'"-" 7 "* *—~~