New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-09
NEW TORTURES FOR TIE CHINESE.


From The London Globe.
cOrresDOndcnt sends us the following 1t
purports 10 be a translation OF Chinese document
picked up year the Hcaltheries IL Is dated from
kng-sing-IOng In November 1854, signed by certain
an ana would appear 10 be part OF official report
addressed the Board Of Punshments. Pekin After
Sx moons soourn IN this abode of moistened gloom
am prepared TO offer suggestions for improving our
Celestial punishments. Those which We now use, and
which SHOWN IN pictures az the exhibition OF Mdme
Too-so require good deal OF apparatus. and can from
their destructive tendency be inflicted only once upon
the criminal The tOrtuTes III vogue mere are pr
haps the only points where these Dsrbarians have
improved civilization. They are self inflicted;
they be repeated many times ana they are always
conducted with that riHd etiquette when Is dstihctve
Of superior people. FROM patriouc MOVIES nav G
undergone many OF THESE punis hnents my anu
arranged with some barbarian experts VINO VIII
accompany home and introduce their art into our
peerless country, should the brother of the sun ana
Moon he pleased 80 to Ordain.
The common TO these infections is Pah- H. ana II
it customary refer to them as pleasant The exc
cu dwelling they occur writes to ask the
ply that they happy accept the Kind invitation
The Pah- It's OF various kinds one form now al
usually applied to mddle-a yed ladies' They have TO
semblc ana each swallow portion OF meas followed by
tea cake muffin. hot soaked IN Tat made from
the milk of Each then drinks large draughts OF
decocton those twice boiled leaves which We dis
painfully export barbarans tea The tannin In It
changes the meat into leather and It's mud bulE makes
present scomfort aud future Indigestion insured.
Mean lille the victims are compelled by etiquette to
converse with assumed merrment regardless OF the In
creasipg agony they enduring The greater crimi
nails made to sit during this operation with their
the re and In very heinous cases the door or
window sufficiently opened TO allow draught free
pay faces This adds tOothaohe or neuralgia
10 their other Inconvenience
These Tee Pah-Tis. however, falling into disuse.
they usually occurred IN the afternoon, whereby
those who took part IN them we're prevented from earn
lpg incOmeta for the state Nowadays most punish
ments take place In the evening They are known as
evenings Pa-Tls or swah-RAys The simplest OF these
like aduonion by baking. Into room contain
ing enough air 100 persons 400 persons made 10
enter candles lighted, the doors and WIN
dOws are Theoretically sealed and the prisoner. are IN
troduced another Potcness cOmpels them TO
converse. This. from drOuh and sympathy, they mud
difficult and each Is source or sorrow
audfo all netg A wly q
Is lower the temperature means OF 0raugnts 10
point which conversation becomes just possible All
the most laxative people then mutually introduced
they cvincc wish 70 speak they are or
with their natural voices. produce such bangs.
and cries strike terror into the Dodcst
hearts and make all trembe 70 think what may
he coming next. After these performances, those VINO
failed from the neighDOrhood OF the exc
cutoncrs are obliged to smile and thank them.
For robust criminals there lie Severely punish
menf. known Dhan-Isng. IL Is moro farlRung than
the fesdm and ts recipients are less comfortably at
and Pah Timers. The Pah Tners have TO clutch one
another In uncomfortable positions. and gyrate Violent
Iv To the sound Instruments The Sbap p Rooms are
nlaced bolt upright IN cold awkward places They may
noumove but thoy like the cushions or billiard
table and have the Pan Tn~rs continually pumping
against them and stamping on their toes Meanwhile
rhe pan Tners very unhappy For care IS taken 10
coupe the tall with the short. the sght win me stout
and the unweldy. 30 the short got Jrkcd
and bunped. tall crsmped Win stopping lhe
snrnt cannot get proper EOld OF tue stout anu no
-ouf feel not and cOntcmptuOus toward inc AEhI po
weights revOlye helpessy around the uhWeny'
and the unwiedy Ike the eath upoh their axes
and are cannoned against and hustled TIL they are bacA
and blue Then they all have 10 say no" huch INC
nave euoyed themselves; they eaten cou on tue Io'o
home and AWAKE very sad indeed the next morninE