The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-11-08

uum8u 8OC00COTS-Cl0t CoCoStlalS eat
fully $50, 900 hogs. I must admit that
Chinese pork is superior to any found
elsewhere on the globe. Poor China
men. who can not afford to buy pork, eat
meat of dogs, asses, horses, RAGS, mice,
rabbits, haies, goats and sheep. But
never saw them eating cats.
OF birds the Chinese eat silver pleas.
ants, ducks, geese. chickens, jackdaws.
crows and many others. Curiously
enough, the so.called Cochin China
fowls are very rarely seen here. Salt
eggs are in great use here. -.-.
among the choice delicacies OF the
Chinese must be mentioned the fins of
sharks and the nests Of sea swallows.
Under the latter is understood not the
whole nest, but only the mucilaglnous
inner coating of tho nests. 1t is be-
lieved that the swallows VINO build their
nests on the sea rocks cover their nests
and glue them to the rocks with the juice
of sea cane, which on being dried, looks
like mucilaginous membrane. On the
market these nests are found in the shape
of hemisphere of the size of half
orange peel. The nests are sold here at
from $15 to $25 per pound. They are
used principally for making broth, to
which they give q peculiar aroma and
taste, much valued by astronomers.
Rice stands, of course, at the head of
vegetable food. Without rice cruel no
meal is served her. "Fan" means both
''to have meal" and 'to eat rice Cruel"
The brown rice, which is common rice,
but heated and musty, is much liked.
There is also red variety of rice.
Honey is much used here, but chiefly
as cosmetic. After being mixed with
-four it is used by the women in their
hair dressing. With their hair satur.
ated, sticky and shining with honey, they
must be, indeed, sweet.
As everybody knows, the Chinese are
passionately fond Of tea, which they cul.
tivate for the rest of the world. They
drink it at every meal, at home and out,
when idle and at work, in shops and in
offices-in short, everywhere, and at any
and green sorts of teas they prepare only
for export, while they themselves use
exclusively yellow tea. They take tear
small cups, and without sugar.
Though in China there are excellent
sorts Of grapes, yet no wine is prepared
there. The Chinese make two kinds OF
Wnl5k0y -OI sage anu OF tlce-Auu OTlnk
good deal of it. Women also drink
and smoke here. A tin gill Of the shape
of an hour-glass is used for whiskey
drinking. They had no glassworks here
until recently, when an American gen.
tleman taught some Celestials to make
glass. During my thirty years resi-
dence here I have never seen single
drunken Chinaman on the street. No
coffee or chocolate is used here.
The unusual fertile soil OF this coun.
try yields products enough to satisfy the
appetite of all the Celestials, and in
view Of their peculiar philosophy Of the
stomach they ought to be able, all Of
them, to reach the blissful state of safe
ty. Yet how many of them are lean,
hungry, with wistful eyes and hollow
stomachs? What heartrenderipg
tragedy each Of these thin fellows pre-
sents, whose all-absorbing idea is to be
thick! When look upon the crowd of
hollow checked Cinnamon and then upon
the few who are in the blissful state of
corpulency. cannot help thinking of
the lean -feshed and The fat-feshed kline
of Pharaoh.