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turn the top of the roll toward the body, with the palms of 

 the hands upwards ; we turn it from the body, with the 

 palms of the hands downward. 



There the candle is impaled upon the stick, the stick being 

 inserted in a hole in the candle, while we insert the candle 

 in a hole in the stick. There candles also are large at the 

 top and taper toward the bottom. 



Japanese oars are pivoted upon a pin, and not between 

 pins ; the row-lock is inserted in the oar, while we insert the 

 oar in the row-lock. 



I have seen a stone-cutter returning from work on a hot 

 summer's evening carrying all his various heavy tools upon 

 a tray, suspended from one end of a balance pole over his 

 shoulder, with a counterpoise of stones hung from the other 

 end. Pack-saddles were sometimes balanced in like manner. 



Housemaids dust first and sweep afterwards. 



The short cue of our wigged colonial ancestor hung down- 

 ward behind, while that of the Japanese projects upward 

 toward the front. 



A student was given, as a topic for a written examination, 

 " The economy of brains in agriculture." His dissertation 

 thereon being brief, I give it in full ; " Brains are the 

 most precious and refined part of the human body. We 

 should therefore be very economical in their use," a kind of 

 philosophy too much in vogue the world over. 



In ceremonial aftairs, the left outranks the right. 



Etiquette is better than morality, and equal to a liberal 

 education. 



Courtship follows, not precedes marriage. 



Under the native marriage customs, not only is a prior 

 courtship unknown, but the preferences of the contracting 

 parties were not consulted, and they may never have spoken 

 before the ceremony. 



It is not always a good rule that works both ways ; a wife 

 cannot sue for divorce upon the same grounds for which she 

 may be put away. 



The Japanese superstitiously avoid sleeping with the head 

 to the north, that being the position in which the dead are 

 buried. I have often seen diagrams of the cardinal points 

 of the compass drawn or pasted upon the ceiling of rooms 



