The following is from the "Japan Advertiser" of November The Shinto shrine at—Kakigaracho, Nihonbashi, Tokio, known as Snitengn, was the scene of a remarkable disaster early yesterday morning which was due entirely to the superstitions belief of thousands of ignorant worshipers.
It seems that the festival of the Suitenga Shrine falls upon the fifth day of each month, and upon these festival days charms made of paper are sold, which, according to tradition have the power of protecting the possessor against all disasters by water, and as yesterday's festival fell open the "Dog's Day of the Dog's Month of the Dog's Year, according to Japanese Zodiacal symbolism and such a coincidence of three Dogs," opens once in every ty-one years, it was thought by the superstitions people that the water charms porchssed on that day would be of especially great effectiveness in shielding them from the danger of the waters.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.