FOR IDLE MOMENTS.
A gentleman traveling in Japan broke the mainspring of his watch which he took to a native village jeweler. The watch was returned, apparently in as good running order as ever, and it kept good time until the rainy season set in, when it stopped. Being in the city of Tokio at that time the traveler took the watch to an Knglish workman, who was astonished to find that the cunning Jap had put in a spring made out of bamboo, which so long as it kept dry remained elastic, but during wet weather had gathered dampness and lost its power.
The Navajo Indians are very superstitious. Not one will ever enter a house in which death has been, and the wide domain of this tribe is full of huts abandoned forever.
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