The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-11-05
Customs of the Chinese.


Says the Rev. w. G. Milne, author of
Life in China, on this subject:
I'm paying calls. your take off you hat,
he Keeps his cap on; you advance and offer
hearty shake of the hand to your friend;
but he. AS he advances towards the host,
closes his two fists, and shakes his own
hands.
"At dinner, (when you can afford i,,)
you commence with fish and soup, etc, and
| end with dessert of wines and fruits: but
he just turns the tables. beginning with
fruits, wines and biscuits, and winding up
with fish and soup.
| Al 'ceddtngS, English ladies' wear white;
Chinese ladies cannot wear white, but other
colors. Instead of young, blooming bride
maids, trimmed in white, you NAV see old
matrons rugged in black, a,,endan, on the
anxious BRIDE; and, for honeymoon, the
bride d'sPenses with flight about the
country to this and that spa, and satisfies
herself with being Gagged up for the frs,
month in her husbands house; and there
Is no need OF any announcement when she
may be at home
| AT funerals, black i. not worn, but
white; and the dead are shrouded, not in
white, but in the gayest dresses.
I'm dmuSements, it is not uncommon 10
see adults flying Lites, and little urchins
squatted on the ground, looking on; and
shutlle-cocks are bat.ledored generally, no,
by the hand, but the heel.
I'm books, the name, when written ont
side, IS inscribed on the bottom edge. The
beginning of the book is what you would
count the end. The running title is on the
edge of each leaf. The paging is near the
bottom, not at the top corner. Marginal
notes are written at the top, not nj the foot
OF the page; and in reading, you proceed
from right TO left, reading each column from
top to bottom.
"Niseetianeous.-The surname announc
ed does not follow the Christian name. but
precedes 1t. In kissing, the fond mother
holds up her lovely babe TO her nose to
smell it, as she would a rose. In moon
light, no matter how bright, you bear your
lighted lantern about with you The sea
men, in naming the points Of the compass,
says, east, west, north, south In launch
ing vessel, she is sent into the water side
ways. The horsemen should mount his
horse on its right side. The scholar, in re-.
citing his lesson, does not face his master.
but turns his back upon him. In parties,
do not wear light pumps, but as thick soled
shoes as you can get; and, for blackiug,
they must be whitened with white lead,
and only the edges Of the sole"
-~s.<-
THE PHANTOM MUFr-HEAD; OR THE SOL
DIER's OATH."-Father-Do behold,
Son-He sees mel
| F-No; it cannot bel You have a
name
S.-What now' Aside.
F-That name
SIS Snooks'
F-And on your breast
S.-A mole.
Fla! ha! My mole.marked only son.
Oh. bliss! But no-Iwith distrusll
S.-lle doubts-itears open his waist.
coatl Be.ehold!
-[Cautiously. 'Ts there indeed.
Thy mothers namei
S.-Was Jane!
! F-Base fears. begone!
Come to my arms, OH mole marked son OF Jane!
for mountains lnVieiiiIis prove when moes prove
true;
And 10 affections instinct all is plain,
When sons are Snookscs and their mothers Jane
Villagers dance-Braudits FIRE feu de
Joie. Monks anil nuns fall on their knees.
and the faithful servant wipes his eye, with
his coat tail
This is nil of the above highly terrific
yarn that will appear in the columns Of the
Chicago Tribune. The remainder can be
found only in the New York Vermifuge
Smifkins writes for the vermifuge; Biff
kins writes only for the Vernifuge. Among
lis corps of regular contributors NAV be
mentioned Boggs, lIoggs, Moggs, Scroggs.
and roggs. a thrilling romance is N
course of preparation from the pen OF
Noggs. who has been engaged regardless of
/ expense Fanno Fungus furnishes one col
umn per week for the Yermifuge a, an
alarming sacrifice of the dictionary. The
Nermifuge contains all the murders, sui.
cides rapes, soductions and other disagreed.
bic termiuatiops of affairs of the heart.
They appear regularly in the Ver.nifuge.
For sale by tho BOYS.
STUDYING iluMAN NATURE-The BuFa-
10 Republic tells story which we don't he,
lieve, hui it is So gnod that il is wortl, re.
peating, simply ms joke:
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, dressed in
/ very common clothes. was studying human
nature as exhibited in tie highways aud
/ by ways of New York. In The course of
lis philosophic peregruations he went into
a mock auction shop. He stood awhile on