The Japanese have not yet made bai-lifts cat their own parchment as they do in Galway—accordin, to Charles Lever or "Colonel" Arthur Lynch or hearsay or some other authority—but they are rapidly approaching that stage of civilisation. Some time ago Mr. fhibahara, the sole surviving member of what would be called in Ireland "an ould eacient family" in Shioya near Kobe, borrowed yen 5,000 from a usurer who, alter the Iapso of a long interval of time and after exhausting all other means to get back his money and the interest thereon, "plied to the local sheriff to attach Mr. Shibabara's property. The last of an ancient line awaited the approach of the myrmidons of the law in gloomy isolation byt the sheriff never came. The local villagers, filled with a respect for "the rale ould gentry that could hardly be surpassed by Mickey Free Himself, had waylaid that functionary and thrown him into a river. It is not added whether or not he got out again but we are told thut several of the villagers have been arrested.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.