Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-16

the shoals he certainly would of the
''whistling buoy for OF all the diaboli-
| cal sounds heard at night on land or sea,
| this is the worst. VIC.
THE BOY EMPEROR OF CHINA.
Ro,v He Eats and Where He sseeps-His
| Father and Motite: KaeeL tn Ham.
North China Herald.
! The ruler of the two hundred and fifty
millie rs of which the Chinese nation
probably consists is now within five years
of his majority, and is an occupant, while
yet q minor, of the same apartments Ii
which lived the emperor who preceded
him on the dragon throne. There ne eats
with gold tipped chop sticks of ivory.
There he sleeps On d large Ningpo oed-
stead, richly carved and ornamente8 with
ivory and gold, the sarne on Which the ne
bic minded Emperors Asug t55i and Cnien
Lung used to re0line after the days IA
tigue last century and the century before.
Like ole OF those living Buddhss who
may be sean in iamaserY on the
Monaghan plateau, he is knelt to by all
I! his attendants and hon0rad as q god.
There IS this difference, that the respect felt
! fer him is Tnors profound than for them.
The saciu5ion IN which he is kept also IS
far more complete.
The building in which Inc emperor re
sides is called Yang H-in lien, and Is
httIe 30 the west Of Ch'ien C#Ing Aleu- il
the middle of the palace. Il the back az
F! the central gate, On lhe south side, Is the
great rece ption hall. Waen ministers Of
state and others enter for an audience at
4, 5 or IN the morning, according 10 Gus
tom, they hare to 10 on foot to the centre
of tbs palace, over half a mile, if they en-
ter By the east or west gate;
and when they get on in
years they can appreciate the EN-
peror's favor, which then. by a decree, al
lows them to be borne III a chair instead
OF walking. The rooms of the emperor
consist of seven com apartments. They are
provided with the dlvan, or k'ang, the pc
cuIiar institution of North China. The
Hangs are covered with red felt of native
manufacture, and the floor with European
carpets. The cushions have all en-
broidered On them the dragon and the
phoenix. Pretty things scattered through
the rooms are endless in variety, and are
changed in accordance with any
wish expressed by the Emperor.
The rooms are in all thirty yards long
by from eight to nine yards deep, and are
divided into three separate apartments,
the throne room being the middle one.
Folding doors ten feet in height open into
each of these apartments TO the north and
south in the center Of each. The upper
part of these doors is in open work, in
which various suspicious characters and
flowers are carved. At the back paper IS
pasted 10 admit light TO the rooms. The
front Is OTnamented with gliding. sculp-
ture, and varnlsh of various oolorB. These
doors remain open even IN winter, because
during that season q thick embroidered
curtain Of damask Is hung IL
he doorway, which, by ia weight,
keeps us place close 30 tho door posts and
pravsGts cold sir from entering. Ia sum
mer his IS replaced by 2 curtain admit
sag tho breeze, on accGUu5 of ITS being
made Of very thiu lips Of bamboo The
SIX threads used In sewing she strips of
bamboo together are OF. various c0iors.
and passing through The Whole texture OF
She curtain from the top 10 tae bottom, arc
varg agreeable 10 tha eye. These sumner
/ c1G wiuear Curtains are rolled up to give
AIR 10 she rooms when required. Exit
and entrance are effected en- each side
Of tbese curtains by side doors. Along
the whole front CT thirty yards there
is covered flight of steps
fifteen fest wide. The roof over this rests
on two rows of pillars. The pillars shiue
with fresh vermillion, both within the
rooms and on the steps outside, and are
decorated with sculptured work, partly
gilt and partly vanished. The Hoppe,
| who lately returned from Canton, gave
the emperor present valued at $4,000
1t consisted of chandeliers holding 500
wax candles each. His majesty has also
electrical machines, and numberless for
eign curiosities.
The emperor was vaccinated when an
infant, before his high destiny was
thought of; otherwise it would have been
! difficult to vaccinate him, for his person
being sacred when emperor, no lance
can touch him. His mother
| the princess of Ch'un, who is sister of the
empress of the west, will be raised to the
| rank of empress doTager when he is SIX
| teen, and his father will also be made Tai
| Shang HUang At least this is to be ex-
pected by precedent, SO that after three
years We shall again have two empresses
dovager, but in this case they will be sis
] ters. The princess, his mother, goes in to
J see him once q month, and kneels when
! she first speaks to him, but rises after
ward. His father does so too. The en-
| Peror studies Chinese daily for an hour
and half, and Manchu also for an hour
| and a half. He spends two hours in
archery and riding and in winter
anuses himself with sedging. He has q
little brother of five, whom it may be
hoped the mother takes with her when she
goes to the palace. The teachers who in
struet him kneel to him on entering, but
| afterward sit. The emperor has eight
eunuchs Who constantly attend him, be-
sides an indefinite number for special &C.
| casions. He has his meals alone, and the
eight eunuchs wait round him, restraining
him if he takes too much of any one
thing. His school room is at the back of
the Yang Hsin Ten already described, and
the hall for conference with ministers is
little to the east.
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