The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-03
GENER RALITIES.
The Original COIored Dentist.

We don't know that anybody has right to
smile at an advertisement which we find in
Southern paper, announcing that DIR. Blank,
''the original colored Dentist" is prepared to
supply to colored ladies artificial teeth, with
plumpers, mounted on plates in q neat and
durable manner, to restore the original express
sion of the face" The doctor probably under
stands his business and if he really be able to
put handsome and original face in the place
of one which has worn out or baoken down, we
suppose he must be considered public bene-
factor. We are suspicious, however. about the
cheapness of the doctors terms; and it would
be well that his patrons should be warned to see
to it that his plumpers and teeth are not the
cast-away articles which have been gathered up
in the dentists offices of Northern cities.
Living without Eating.
To live without eating q blessing that
must be, considering the high price of provisions
and the confirmed incapability of a majority of
cooks! Yet how few are there who find them
selves equal to the miraculous method of susie
nation! We hear of one woman in or near
Richmond, Va, who 'eats nothing at all, and
who is kept alive by daily application of oil
but whether the said oil may be olive or whale
or petroleum, we are not informed. The lady is
described ''devotedly pious," and thankless
indeed would she be if she were not as pious as
possible under the circumstances We are asked
to believe that 1t is now year since she took
any solid food. We decline to believe anything
of the kind. We are certain that no human
being ever lived for 365 days without food. The
lady may be, as she is described, 'of angelic
beauty" but we are confident that her digestive
apparatus is perfectly human.
Cinnamon In San Francisco. ..
If John Chinaman expects to retain his charac-
ter peacefulness and the innocuous cultivation
of his own pig-tail, we mustn't hear of any such
stories as this, which comes to us from San
Francisco:-It appears that about forty China
men were employed in cigar factory in that
city. These forty were employed among three
Chinese organizations having the euphonious
titles of the See Yup, the Sam YHp and the
Yong Wo companies. One of the Yong Wos
was discharged from the establishment, and
that company filed his place with another
of their own order. The new work
man was not looked upon with favor
by the See Yups, who demanded his
discharge. The accommodating employers
accordingly informed the new conner that his
services were no longer required, and he was on
the point of leaving the workroom, when the
entire gang jumped from their seats and in
dulged in free fight, which would do credit to
a Sixth ward (New York; saloon in political
times. The ideal pig-tail placidity was utterly
gone. Loud yells and cries attracted large
crowd around the building, while inside, chairs
and tables and cigar boards were smashed and
hurled by the men at one another. Finally the
police arrived and suppressed the fight. The
results were that ten or dozen received injuries
more or less serious, and the whole gang were
subsequently discharged from the factory. This
won't do at all, John.