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NEW YoRK, October 80, 1886.
The Chinese arc the most interesting
people in New York, because, although
there are 1900 Of them and they have
been washing our linen at the highest
market rates for ten years, we Know
nothing about them. We don't know no y
they live, what they eat, what amuse'
ments they have, or shat they think. We
know that they are Chinese and that
they work nigh, and day like sailors,
do good washing, aud never get into the
police courts. Nothing moro. | know
q little more, because | have interested
myself in them for years, yet few Others
do. Bat | was astonished the other
day to find that they are quite as much
ct sea with regard to us. A China
mans wife is the authority for this
statement. She is an Irishwoman, one
of the hundred Irishwomen who have
of late become the wives, either actual
or left.handed, that these homeless mso
have shown . fancy for uniting with.
And, blythe. way, Cinnamon make good
husbands. Few women who have to
slave at manual labor can ever hope to
be better treated than are those who
marry Chipsmen. These singular crea-
lures make plenty Of money, spend
nothing on themselves, and 80 idolize
any woman who will condescend to
mate with them that they find nothing
too good for them.-dresses, furniture,
money, and lovsr-like treatment are
fairly hesped upon these women. A
woman who would marry . Chinamsn
Ia certain to come from such class
that the change in her condition makes
her . queen in the eyes Of her former
companions. Consequently China
mems wives multiply in number.
MRS. BIDDY QUoNG
invited me to sit down in An uphol-
stored chair in her front room in Mott
street. Some say she used to be .
scrubwoman in the City Hall. Some
say she was not as good as that. Blu:
never mind what folks say; she
doesn't.
"Is it about the Chinayse ye want
10 know s' she asked. "Shure they
live in . dhream in this country. They
don't understand thing wanst they
come here till they die or lave the place.
Nv man. Mr.. Quong, thinks the pc.
lice are soldiers. lie thinks Alderman
Fatty Walsh is Q prince Of the blood
and can order man taken up aud
hanged in the Tombs prison-yard whin-
liver he phases. Shure they do all think
that. They know nothing about voting,
or liberty, or the likes of that. DivIl
. word of it. They think the stame
ingines are some kind of deviltry, and
yeu couldn't git Q Chinsman near wan
Of them for love or money. They think
the women have the upper hand of the
min and can do anything they phase,
and that the laws in this country are
for the min and not for the women.
And shure, that's why they all thry for
to get 0 woman so rs no trouble can
come to them. Whin my husband,
MIR. Quopg, does be at his quare pray
ers and ak him what he is doing, he
always says: Fourth of July SO as
I'll understand. Dye see? He thinks
the Fourth of July is part av our reli-
gion, all the same as Good Friday OF
Christmas, and he thinks George WASH
ipgton and God are wan and the same.
Shure, am that sorry for me good man
/ could cry, but sorry bit more than
twinty words Of mine does he under
stand, and | have not more than tin
words sv his lingo, 80 j can do nothing
but shake nv head aud laugh at him.
Upon me word, they're all alike--liying
in . country to get what they can and
not understanding what it's all about.
But this I'll tell you. Divil q wan
did l ever see that wanted to 60
back to China. 1t makes me think
they must have all been tramps over
there, the way they hate it.
GOSSIP OF THE STAGE.
Considerable ruction in a small
way was occasioned by Miss Sims, .
worthy American singer, who came
over with the Angelo Italian troupe,
to find herself announced on the bills
one morning as Mile. Simmi, This
maccaroni touch did not please the
American girl, who had certain pride
in her parental cognomen. So she
kicked, to use the stable phrase, which
in also Q stage metaphor. Siguor An
CELLO was polite but obdurate. 1.-The
Americans wanta Itallano," he insist
ed. Sims Was as stubborn as he, and,
finally, he agreed to fix it. What was
the lsdy's horror on the day OF her
debut to find herself announced as Mile.
Simisi. Signor Angelo had fixed it the
wrong way. A deputation OF her
friends, armed with American revolv-
ers and meat-axes, then waited on him
and politely informed him that if he
didn't take off the asa forthwith the
lady would join the American opera.
In view Of this horrible alternative Sig
nor Angelo promised faithfully to re-
store the lady TO the name OF her IA
Tiers, and treated the courtiers with ur-
bAnity and sour wine. Ever since this
there has been two parties at the AGA
deny Of Music. The orchestra and
agent are Sims men. But the direc
tory and the chorus are Simisis. A
deadly feud is raging, and there is to be
music in the air not provided by the
score.
The Angelo Company are producing
ItAliano with q dsshing cussedness that
is worthy Of the palmy days Of Stra
kosch. 1t is long time since We have
seen supers in their shirt-sleeves come
on between the scenes TO remove the
furniture. II quite: taxes the festive
stockholders back TO the old regime.
HAMLET IN PINAFoREs.
Wilson Barrett has lodged Hamlet
He's . little afraid Of doing II in Nes
York. But he needn't be. New Yorl
likes everything young, especially il
y the theatre. Look at Mrs. Bowers, VIII
Mas held 'sm for four weeks spellbound
Ths only old person that attracts an,
attention is Violet Cameron. But sh
has got old since she arrived. Wilson