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children disporting themselves, men and women thrashing grain 

 and occasionally a crowd of disputants all combine to make it a 

 very indifferent thoroughfare. Most of the houses are inns or eat- 

 ing-shops. The main gate of the inn leads directly from the street 

 into a quadrangle bounded on two sides by open sheds, which are 

 provided with troughs for the feeding of pack-animals, and on the 

 other two sides by the guest-rooms and kitchen. The court-yard 

 is often dominated by a powerful pig-stye, and littered with fodder 

 or earthenware pitchers and vats." General agriculture is, how- 

 ever, not so elaborate and fruitful as in Japan and southern China. 

 " The principal farm animal is the ox ; in mid-Korea he is a splen- 

 did beast hardy, tractable, and bearing a strong resemblance in 

 build to our short-horned stock. A cane or iron ring, for which 

 his nostrils are pierced when young, suffices to control him, and he 

 is early accustomed to his constant work of load-carrying. Plow- 

 ing is done with the ox ; rarely or never with the pony. Dairy 

 produce is unknown, or nearly so. Draught cattle and ponies 

 are fed on coarse fodder and a boiled slush of beans, chopped 

 straw, and rice-husks. The remaining domestic animals are 

 black, hairy pigs, wily gaunt creatures, and horribly loathsome ; 

 wolfish dogs, possessing a surprising nose for foreigners; and 

 fowls that almost equal their wild congeners, the pheasants, in 

 powers of flight and wariness." 



An incident which happened to Mr. Campbell during his jour- 

 ney in which a woman by bullying and coaxing forced a party 

 of unwilling bearers into his service gave a fresh blow in his 

 mind to the theory of the subjection of women in the East, and 

 strengthened his opinion that " women in these parts of the world, 

 if the truth were known, fill a higher place and wield a far greater 

 influence than they are usually credited with." 



In a paper read before the French Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, on the Succession of Media inhabited by the Ancestral Series of Man, M. 

 Fauvelle presented a genealogical table of beings in which, waiving the question 

 of plants, he showed forth the successive development of animals, beginning in 

 sea- water, continuing afterward in fresh water, then in moist and marshy soil, to 

 reach a higher stage on dry lands. The beginning was the cell, which originated 

 in sea-water, an aquatic medium ; the climax was man, a product eminently 

 aerian. M. G. de Mortillet, while he recognized the ingenuity and attractiveness 

 of M. Fauvelle's system, suggested that, to put it on a solid base, it would be 

 necessary to prove that sea salt existed at the time of the origin of life. 



In a paper at the British Association on the worship of meteorites, Prof. H. 

 A. Newton gave accounts of divine honors having been paid to meteoric stones 

 in early times, and of myths and traditions pointing to such worship. Particular 

 attention was directed to the indications of this cult that are found in Grecian and 

 Roman history and literature. 



