Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-10

often breaks at the instep, and the bones
sometimes portrude. This binding is kept up
through life and swelling takes place when
ever the bandages are removed. The women
must be in continual pain and in the winter
these compressed feet are liable to freeze.
DIR. Mary Niles, of the hospital here, told me
yesterday of the case of a woman in the
country near Canton. Her feet became
frozen and sloughed off. She came into
Canton on the stumps with her feet in her
hand, brought them to the hospital and asked
the doctors to sew them on again. A cast of
one of these feet is now shown at this hos
pital, which is larger than any in America,
and which, since Its foundation a half-century
ago, has treated l 200, 600 patients.
CHINESE BILLS OF FARE.
Canton is of about the size of Paris or New
York, and it is one of the best of places to
study Chinese ~gastronomy. The restaurants
here have birds nest soup at So a plate,
and l bought a rat which was saited.
pressed and dried, yesterday, for 5 cents. [
doubt not the price was five times too high.
for the rat was the smallest on the string
which hung in the butcher shop. 1t lies be-
fore me as | write. 1t measures a foot from
nose to tail, and it looks a little bit like a
piece of dried pork. 1t has been skinned
even to the tail, Its legs are cut off and the
liver and heart are pressed inside of it. 1t
smells like salt meat and 1t looks as though
it would make the center OF a good sandwich.
| propose TO sent 1t to the Gridlron or Clover
club as "a sample of Chinese gastronomy. In
this same shop | saw cooked cats, and I Wis
tied, yesterday, a cat and dog meat restaur-
ant. CarcaScs of small dogs which looked
not unlike clean sucking pigs hung from
hooks about a low dark room. and these, in
most instances, had a tuft of hair left on the
tip of the tail. This hair was black, for black
dogs meat is worth more than that of
the yellow dog and black cats flesh costs
here ten cents a plate. just below these
dogs, ana next to the street, were two clay
bowls filled with burning charcoal, and upon
these was stewing the flesh of dogs and cats.
In little cages on the floor were "a number of
live cats ready to be killed and cooked to
order, and l saw this afternoon a peddler
showing a cat to a woman in one of the mar
row streets of Canton. The woman was ex-
aiming the cats teeth in order to know its
age, and she felt of its body as though it
were a rabbit. There were about about a
dozen Cinnamon dining in this dog and cat
restaurant, and a good Dime costs on an
average 10 cents.
The Chinese, however, have as good mar.
kets as you will find in the world. have
never seen a greater variety of fruits and
vegetables anywhere than in Picking,
Shanghai and Canton. The mutton of the
north is finer than that of England, and the
game is of the choicest. Fish are always
sold alive, and you see tubs of living fish at
every Cantonese market stand. The market
man takes the squirming fish from the
water and cleans IL while IT gasps. He
holds its wiggling tail and cuts slices Of
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cruel here as everywhere. All kinds of
dried fish are sold ana among the common
articles of food are dried ducks pressed and
sailed. These hang up everywhere, and |
see smoked sleeps heads. dried oysters
strung on strings and dried clans. The
Chinese fruits are especially fine, and they
have oranges, bananas, plums, pears and
Dersimmons which would make your mouth
water. Canton sends thousands of dollars
OF sweetmeats to America yearly, and their
preserved ginger is sought for by the gas
tronomes of the world. The Chinese them
selves are great eaters. Cook shops for the
rich and poor are found everywhere, and "A
big Chinese dinner sometimes has 100
courses. Mr.. DENLY, the American minister
at Picking, when received by the vicerOy of
Canton, was given a dinner of sixty-iye
courses, and he smacks his lips when he dis
courses upon the d~elicacy of sharks fins and
BIRDS nest soup.
DROWNING BABY GIRLS.
| took a ride on the river this afternoon.
Canton has about three hundred thousand
de Dp!e who live on the water and there is no
busier city in the world than this of boats.
Crafts OF all kinds from the small steamer,
the great Chinese junk and the river cargo
boats 10 tina sampans and little tubs rowed
by spoon-like paddles move here ana there or
dart In and out through forests of masts.
Whole families live on boats about twenty
feet long and no wider than the average city
vestibule. Here children are born, grow up
and die. Marriages take place and the whole
business and actions"of life 20 on. Little
children swarm over them aud tots two years