Japanese Families

Every house in Japan secmed to be overrun with childreu, in same of whioh I counted ten or a doaao, and all of about the. same size ! The birds in a nest, thö chiekens in a ooop, the frogs in a pond, are not more compact and orowded thati these human bee hives seem to be, and I muy add, or more .happy. - The average number of the inniates of each house in Japan is estimated at between thirtij nnd j 'orty ! They eat but littie meat cxcept ttsh, which abound in their waters, botli in the bays and in the sea, and oasily procured, as well as fine. A gentleman toid me that he bc lioved, irom liismoet careful obsorvatiou, not above one injijty of the people ever out uny other animal