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Useful knowledge.

Mrs. Anglo Mania-What are you writing,
Estelle2
Estelle (aged n)-Miss Jennings wants us to
do a composition on Washington's Birthday.
Mrs. Anglo Mania-Neyer mind it now, my
dear; you look quite pale studying SO hard.
Run aud play.
Mrs. Anglo Mania Ito governess, later
Don't feel obliged, Miss Jennings, to cram the
children with all the National holidays.
Miss Jeunings-No. madam, but Washington's
Birthday is SO essentially American.
Mrs Anglo Mania-Oh, yes, ] know; but
prefer they should become proficient in English
history Let them write up Guy Fawkes's day
and-er-the Queens birthday. Such exercises
store the mind with really useful knowledge
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the japanese, though some of the half-breed
girls at Shanghai are very attractive. The
Manchu maidens of North China are the pref
tiest of the almond-eyed ladies have seen,
but these women of South China have the
broad foreheads, the semi-fat noses and the
stolid faces which seem to partake more of the
nature of the negro than of the Caucasian.
see, however, but few Of the ladies, as the rich
Chinaman keeps his wives indoors, and as it is
not etiquet for them to be upon the streets.
1t is said that the custom of binding the feet
was introduced in order to keep the women
from gadding, and if So it has accomplished
the purpose, for Chinese lady with very small
feet could no more take a three mile walk than
fly. The girls are kept from playing by the
binding of their feet, and inasmuch as the feet
are bound as early as at FIVE years, it viii be
seen that the Chinese girl has little fun to
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boys and girls have their faces covered with
rouge. The dresses of the ladies are marvels
of embroidery on the finest Of silks and satins,
and the ordinary dress in some districts is a
silk gown which reaches to the knees and be-
low which are wide pautaloons also of silk.
The eyebrows are blackened with charcoal, and
the fashionable eyebrow should be in the shape
of the willow leaf or Of the new moon. The
hairs of the brow are often pulled out to make
them of this shape and the Chinese have their
fixed Ideas of woman's beauty They do not
believe in the decolette dress however, and
the neck and bosom are always covered. Out
side of the horrible deformity shown in the
foot and calf they have not unpleasant forms,
though they are smaller than the average
American girl. They are plumper also, and
have yet to see a lean Chinese woman Those
of the north have fine compilations, approach
ing in their rosy, yellow hue that of the most
beautiful of our OctOrOOns, while those of the
south are of the same yellow as the Chinese
met with in America. Altogether they have
none of the charms of the Yum Yums of Japan,
and l have as yet seen no reason to change my
opinion that the brightest and the prettiest
and the best dressed girls in the world are
brought up on the farms of our own Uncle Sam.
FRANK g. CARPENTER,
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The city inside the wall at Shanghai is made
up of streets not more than eight feet wide
The shops are built of brick, and they are of
one and two stories, with roofs which hang
over SO that only a narrow line of light can
come down into the street. Tho shops are
almost solid line of cells, from 10 to 40 feet
square, and separated from one another by
walls about foot thick They are lighted en-
tirely from the front, and are open to the
streets The signs hang downward from the
edge of the roof of the shop, aud the whole
looks more like a great bazaar than a series of
stores. al kinds of working goes on in the
same street The blacksmith blows his bel
lows and pounds away at the red-h hot iron next
door to the seller of silks and the ivory-carver
works i'll the same street with the carpenter.
The seller of perlumeTy may have a shop ad-
jacent to the peddler of fish, and as a rule the
stencil from the street itself is such that it de-
stroys all other smells.
Among the curious places OF old Shanghai
are the bird market and the market for the
sale of goldfish. All kinds of birds, trained
and unframed, are sold, and | saw one dealer
who would throw a grain of corn into the air,
and then let fly little bird no larger than
sparrow, who would catch it in his mouth as it
fell. The Chinese gold fish are among the
| finest in the world, and the market at Shanghai
! has them for sale in large earthen bowls each
as big around at the top as the end of hogs
| heau ana about TWO teeG deep. The hSh cost
| 10 cents and upwards pair, and many of them
are raised by the market-m men. AS soon as the
! goldfish are Matched they are fed upon the
| yolk of hard boiled eggs and after they are 10
| days old they are given insects to eat At first
/ they are black, aud it is only after they have
! lived about four months that they get their
celebrated golden hue. They have eyes like
goggles, and they are like no other gold fish l
have ever seen. There was, ] should Judge,
about an acre of these big jars of fish, and the
demand for them may be understood when it
IS said that every Chinese garden has an aqua
| rum.
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Chinese feast that does not include a sucking
pig. The vegetables are of all descriptions
from the tomato to the lily bulb, and l saw in
the Peking markets potatoes 10 bigger than
beans for sale by the hushel. The Chinese are
very fond of pumpkin seed, and it is common
thing in the theaters to pass around black
watermelon seeds for the auditors to MUNICH at
during the play. These cost about half cent
a meal, and they are not bad to take Mules
meat and camels meat are sold at some of the
shops of North China. The animals are how
ever, too valuable to be killed fer this purpose,
and the meat is that of those which have died
a natural death. There is no public inspector
of meats here, and the poorer classes will eat
anything
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why do you speak in such low voice." J"
said member of a certain church to the pastor
WELL" he replied, when l first began to
preach they called me a shOuter, because 1 spoke
so loud. One Sunday morRing, just after
finished the prayer. and while the solemn hush
was still upon the congregation. a little fellow
broke the silence with the question: Ma, is God
deaf2' have never shouted since"
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In the meantime it is easy to see how much
more readily the foreigner picks up the bad
than the good in our civilization. There is at
Shanghai a billiard saloon, patronized by the
best of the Chinese, and the Chinese have their
clubhouse, which they frequent with ques-
tionable women of their race. The Chinaman
never thinks of taking his wife out to ride in
an open carriage, and l saw hundreds of Chi
nese driving about Shanghai in foreign car
riages with almond-eyed beauties richly dressed
in bright silks beside them. The party of young
Cinnamon who went to Yale to be educated
have returned to China and they all have good
positions, either under the Government or in
foreign houses. They get on an average of
Sl25 a month, and they have brought baseball
back to China. Some of them are so fond of
European clothes that they wear them under
their Chinese costumes, which the Government
prescribes for them. You never see a Celestial
clothed like a foreigner here and they stick to
their cues and their gowns. l saw one riding
bicycle the other day, and one Of the most
intelligent of the amateur photographers l
have met was young Chinese n0bleman, who
talked English as well as you do.
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Inexplieable.
[PHtsBurg Chroniels.l

"Well I can't understand it at all" remark
ed Mrs. Snaggs, after their caller, Mr.. Water
tight, had taken his departure.
Cant understand what?" asked her hus-
band
Mr.. Wartertight says he took saloon pas
sage to England and back and he's such q
strong Prohibitionist too"
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The Credentials We're Inadequate.
TDsUsI,,,,.<y Tl5eyogrb


One day last week lady who resides in
Chicago, on the South Side. advertised for a
servant. The first applicant who came in an
swer to the advertisement was pretty and
neat young girl, evidently but recently from
ireland. After some little talk the lady asked
the girl il she had any references.
"Oh, yes, ma am" the girl replied, and hand
ed over a sheet Of note paper, on which was
written the following legend;
To lao it moi cOnsarn:
Rally aud thruly she be good gurl She kin
do ginral work. She lived with me sivin
months She be me cussin. MRS. POLICE
OFFICER O'BRIEN.
The reference did not get the poor girl a place
then and there.
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OMING from Peking
to Swatow one jumps
from Winter to Sum
mer. We found snow
on the top of the great
wall of China. Here,
1900 miles south, the
coolies are barefooted
and bareiegged, the
roses are blooming,
and ripe oranges and
bananas are hawked
about the streets.
China is a land of
fruits, and nature has
treated her as bounti-
fully as she has any
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON g. THURSDAY FEBRUARY T. 9

fact that it is necessary for them to take Sum-
mer trips to the seashore. Life however, in
the interior of China and among such sur
roundings would kill them off before their time
had they not good homes and yearly vacations.
/ met Bishop Fowler, of the Methodist Church,
at Foochow. He has been looking into the
condition of the Chinese missions and his idea
as to the treatment of missionaries is. ] think,
the correct one. "a missionary" said be. . is
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Why 1t PIeases Her.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I have lately
been reading story published in your paper,
"fhe Boy Duke by Frances Wilson, and
wish TO express to you my great pleasure in its
pernsal. 1t is something SO aside from the
ordinary, its medieval flavor is SO charming,
that hope we may have something more from
the pen Of the same author.-FAEEIE NJ. ROB-
BINS. Oak Park, III.
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No Work TO be Had.
TN,,.,.;-F~.. H.o,FxTI

E" I tell you, but work is scarce in this town !"
said a red-nosed man to an acquaintance, of
whom he solicited ten cents. " 1 was down at
FOgarty's saloon all day yesterday looking for
work, and not a soul came around offering to
give me job. If times don't get better, I'll
have to send my family to the poOrhouse."
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MARKETS OF CBINA.
Fish Sold Alive and Sheep Killed on
the Streets.

Birds'-Nest Soup at So a PIate-Smolzed Sucking
Pigs and Dried Sleeps Heads-Fish. Flesh, and
Fowl Cheap and Abundant-What Foreigners Pay
for MeatS-HOW the Missionaries and Foreigners
Live-The WheelbarroW rs Cab-The 1900
Walled Cities of CHINA Look at Old Shang-
hai-GOId Fish, and How They Raised-The
GoIden-Lily Feet of the Chinese Women, and Our
Correspondents Photograph Of the Foot of a
Chinese BelIe-Japanese Versus Chinese Girls
The American Maiden Takes the Cake.
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good for nothing until he has spent five years
i'll China to learn the language, and this costs
the Church at home about $4,000. When you
have $4,000 invested in a man it pays to take
care of him, and l think we make more out of
good treatment of our missionaries than if they
lived in Chinese houses and wore their lives
out before they became of real use to u.s."
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feet are known as goiden-lily feet, and the
Chinese lady takes great pride in her shoes.
She embroiders them herself, and there is
woman at Canton whose foot is so small that
the part that touches the ground can stand on
a silver dollar and not come outside the rim.
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Here at Swatow I visited the fish market,
where dried fish are sold in great quantities.
They are Brought to the markets in baskets
which hold about three bushels, and every va
riety of the fnny tribe is to be seen. The dried
eels are especially curious. They look like raw
hide whips, and are esteemed a delicacy.
Smoked sleeps head is another Chinese edible.
The head is split in halves, dried and smoked,
and hung up on hook outside OF the shop.
Pigs are sold in every variety Of shape. Suck
ing pigs are smoked and dried, and it is poor
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portion of the world / had an idea that the
chief diet of the empire was rice and rats. l
find here a greater variety of game, fruits,
and vegetables than in any country | have ever
visited, and John Chinaman lives about as well
as any man on the globe. The BIandarins
spend great deal on their tables, and one Of
their favorite dishes is bird's-nest soup, which
costs So plate. Sharks fms are another ex-
pensive luxury, and the euriosities Of big
Chinese market are worthy of mention. |
visited a number of these markets, and find
in them many things which it would be we'll
for US to initiate There are no bad fish sold in
China. The Celestial must know that his fish
is fresh, and the market-man has to bring them
alive to his customers. He keeps them in his
stall in tubs of about the size of an ordinary
washtub, but only half as deep, and they swim
about until they are sold. China has many
fine cells. and these are also SOLD alive. The
butchers meat is killed in front of the meat
stalls, and / saw hundreds of the fat-tailed
sheep of North China killed aud dressed in
this way. The blood stains the streets, but
this does not matter to the Chinaman; and
blood, by the way, is clean in comparison with
the average dirt on the sidewalk. China seems
to be the natural home of the pheasant, the
quail, and the snipe and the markets are full
of these birds. Deer's meat is sold in Peking,
and the mutton is the finest in the world.
The butehering is well done, and the markets
appear very appetizng.
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The mode of conveyance in the native city
of Shanghai is by wheelbarrow, and the Chi
nese wheelbarrow is the cab of this whole re-
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The cooley woman of Shanghai is not overly
modest nor diseomposed at the sight of foreign
ers. She has the small foot of the sex in China,
and she walks as tenderly as though she were
walking on hot plowshares. The smallest
feet have yet seen are those of Tieutsin, and
I am surprised to find that each city seems to
have different style of shoe and of feet for
the women. Doctors tell me that the binding
of the feet takes away entirely the swelling of
the calf, and the Chinese beauty has not the
the legs of the Venus Di Medici. The leg from
the foot to the knee is pipe-stem and | saw
woman at FoochOw who had tied her Zouave
pantaloons above the ankle to keep them out of
the mud and bandage and all was no larger
around than the wrist of a six-year-old boy.
l have photographed one of these Chinese legs
for the use of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. The
foot is not so small as many of those | have
seen, still it gives good idea of the compress
sion and the deformity. The skin looks as
rough as though it were chafed with the cold;
it is cracked and sore, and the heel comes
down more like the heel of a shoe than that of
flesh The four small toes have been bound
under the foot, and these Chinese women in
reality walk on their big toes The smallest
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sneak of. The Chinese woman is as fond of
dress as her American sisterr Those of North
China always have flowers in their hair-real,
when in season, and artificial when these can
not be had. She uses three times as much
paint as the gaudiest ballet dancer and little
The National tribune., 1889-02-07

Presentation Of Hill's Memorial Record Book.
Messrs. Jas. Woolson, Edwin b. Hale, Frank
A. Allen Erasmus ]. Leaviit, VIM. H. Wood
Charles Bullock, Chester w. Kingsley John W.
Houghton. L. Burt Phillips, Edward Kendall,
S. NJ Hannum, Oliver II. DurreiI and S. S.
Sleeper have presented John A. Logan Post, No
1856 of Cambridgeport Mass, large and hand
some copy Of HIPS Memorial Record Book.
The National tribune., 1889-02-07

Ayers Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, and ex-
pels all poisonous elements. Sold by druggists
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For Coughs and throat troubles use " Browns Bron
cIiaI TrocIres.'-" They stop attack OF my asthma
cough very promptly.'-C Falch, sitaEirtlie, ohio.
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gion. It has wheel as big as cart wheel,
which comes up through the center of the bar
row, and the passenger sits on the side and
hangs his feet in a loop of string, which is fas-
tened to the woodwork. A half naked cooley
pushes the barrow, and you can ride across
Shanghai for about cent. Natives only, how
ever, get about in this way. Foreigners ride in
chairs or walk, aud the streets are so narrow
that it is almost impossible for two wheel
barrows to pass. A not uncommon sight is a
load of merchandise on one side and man or
woman on the other. Sometimes hogs are car
ried on one side of the barrow, squealing and
wiggling, while women composedly ride on the
opposite side.
The National tribune., 1889-02-07
loOrrn1anrrD by FRANK G. CARPENTER. 1881

Special Correspondence NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
SWAToW, CHINA, January, 1886
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Among the curious fruits of China are the
persmmons. These are sometimes as big as
the largest of American tomatoes, and they
have much the same red color. They are de-
liciously sweet and are full of meat so soft that
you can eat it with a spoon. Oranges seem 10
grow all over China, and there are mandarin
oranges and cooley oranges. The mandarins Of
the best quality are three times as large as the
hgh-priced mandarin oranges we are sometimes
able to buy in America, and the cooley oranges
have the same taste as our Florida oranges
Bananas grow here at Swatow, and the lemon,
the ounce, the olive, and pears, plums and
dates are common. There are nuts of all kinds,
and the English walnut is among the dessert
dishes of all the hotels. The lyches is half nut
and half fruit. 1t is a sort of date-like flesh
inclosed in a shell, which you crack with your
finger, and which tastes as sweet as sugar. The
markets of every Chinese city | have visited
have been full of sweet potatoes, cabbages, and
melons, and they are the busiest parts of
town. | find cook-shops not more than ten
steps apart, and the fact that John Chinaman
has big stomach and that he likes to fill it is
always apparent. Everything is cheap, and in
the foreign market at Shanghai, where the
prices are perhaps twice those paid by thu ma
tives, see that beef brings five, six. and eight
cents pound. Mutton is worth from ten 10
twelve cents, aud eggs are only seven cents a
dozen. Pigeons are eight cents apiece, wild
pigeons sell for six cents, and deer are sold for
three dollars each. Snipe sell for S4 cents a
dozen. Wild ducks cost six cents apiece, and
Christmas turkeys were sold for one dollar and
half. Radishes two cents dozen; and
the market list all told, includes more articles
than could be put in column of this paper.
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Neither the missionaries nor the foreigners
starve in China. They live quite as we'll as we
do at home. They have better servants and
more luxurious surroundings, Shanghai is
more like Paris than China 90 far as the foreign
colony is concerned, and the average foreigner
living in China can, by speaking three words
TO his cook, get up dinner for large party
which would do credit to Washington chef
The foreigners as rule, have a large corps of
servants, and the average cook gets about six
dollars a month and boards himself Other
servants, not skilled, receive three and four
dollars month. But one will not do the work
of the other, and 1t is necessary to have four or
five servants TO the Americans one. The houses
of the missionaries look not unlike American
homes. In Picking each mission has u large
compound or yard, shut off from the rest of
the city by high wall, and in this are the
homes of the Missionaries. These compounds
contain many acres in some cases, and when
the missionary gets inside of them, with his
little colony of co-workers, he is practically at
home again. One of the most comfortable
homes / have seen in China is that of
the Reverend DIR. Talmage, the brother of
L. Dewitt Talmage, the noted preacher of
Brooklyn. IL is situated at Annoy, on a
high hill overlooking a most beautiful har-
bor, and is the center of the work which
DIR. Talmage has been carrying on for Al years.
The homes of the missionaries are among the
most refined homes Of China and the mission
aries arc the best-pOsted men upon the customs
of the people. They do a good work, and they
have, am told, about 10000 native Christians
in their churches in China. Travellers are
often severe in their comments upon what
they call their luxurious living, and upon the
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Changed His Pitch

and weakened energy, is wonderfully sue
eessfuI
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SEGRE Persa @ 1i only E 10 cents '3S 81 FERN
PUB. CO., St. Louis, 40.
Mention The National TribunR
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ed 10 every way. We have large variety Of Lamps
and host OF other goods given Premiums ior
sale for Cash without Tea Orders.
AS a sample Of Dinner Ware. offer tina follow
Ing as one Of many, in English Decorated goods,
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DURPEES Special List Of Novelties in seeds for Issa
ID Mailed free 10 any address application % W.
ATLEE BURPEE & Co, Philadelphia, Pa
MeatOn The National Tribune
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A GENTS WANTED 70 sell Religious Books and
y Femily Bibles For Fest works aud Big ierSuS.
address HUBB8I&D BROS, Pubs, ,Paiisi., IA
Mention The National friDuns
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THE lost ARMY N CAMP AT HELENA-NE-
GROES UTILIZED-A DARKY DOXoLoGY-THE
END
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We're all free now
We're all free now
We're all free now forebber.
We don't tank massas,
We don't tank missu~ses;
But we II tank de Yankees forebber.
Agin! Agin Aginl
Wen tank de Yankees forebber."
[ The end.
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OREGON CHEAP HOMES in the great William etta
~ Falley-the garden OF America FuiI Information
from SALEM LAND Co. Salem, Oregon
Mention The National Tnouns
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-12-18
A Moman,s Discovery.

"Anothci wonderful discovery has
been made and that by a lady in this
county. Disease fastened its clutch.
es upon her and for seven years she
withsL0od its seyerest tests, but her
vital organ. we're undermined and
death seemed eminent. For three
months she coughed in ,ess lutly and
could not sleep. She bought Of Us a
bottle Of ~ Kings New Discovery
for Consumption III WIS 81 much
relieved on taking first desc that she
slept all night and with one bottle
has been miracllously cured Her
name Is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus
write w. g. Hamrick Il Co, If Shell
by. n. C-Get free trial bottle NJ
Blacknalls Il Sons.
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no-20.3m

We desire to say to our citizen
that for years we have been selling
DIR. Kings New Discovery. DIR. Kings
New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salye and Electric L.tteis. and have
never handled remedies that sell as
well, or that have given such univer.
sal satisfaction. We do not hesitate
10 guarantee them every time, and we
stand ready TO refund the purchase
price, il satisfactory re ults Do not
follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity pure.
ly on their merits. II, Blacknall a.
SON, Druggist
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Tobacco wanted.

The hardest working man in the
State is Owen Davis. proprietor OF
Davis warehouse, Henderson, N. 9.
Give him trial load while prices
are high. BE among the many who
are highly pleased with every load
they sell with him.
no-20.3m
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ADVICE to Mothers.

airs. vinslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used for children
teething. 1t soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie,
and is the best remedy for diarrhoea.
Twenty-Five cents bottle.
sep 27-d-w-1v