The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-04-23
GOTHAM'S GRIST.
John Chinamen'S Filtration Fan
nv DavenpOrt's Wedding
and Other News.

New York, April Is Especial
correspondence. New York with
out sensation would be like
Hamlet played with the Prince OF
Denmark paralized. Not long ago
Chinatown was call torn up" over a
romance in black and yellow. A pig
tailed celestial by the name of Fun
Ingin-(not one of the "big ingln OF
the BAzoo tribe)- had some fun.
Fun Ingin is rapidly versing hiI-
self in the ways of the young upper
town club man and "allee samee Mel
lean man on the mashee." His shop
is a very high toned grocery store and
tobacco shop. with large windows aud
fine fixtures. He lives in flat fur
nished in gorgeous Oriental style.
Sitting lazily at the entrance to his
place smoking a very long Chinese
pipe, dressed in a gorgeous blue silk
shirt and what look like very wide
evening drawers, together with an I'M
portant smile, he is just Sd lovely that
young women just drop in" for fun.
Fun IDgin quietly says "Ah there"
and the expression en- his face becom-
es as empty and meaningless as a
bowery beer keg. Well he says
"Ah there" to one giddy young
thing of some IL years named Emma.
Emma has strong Mongolian prefer
ences and weak and tender morals.
She is very pronounced brunette.
Emma's spa" is a professor in the
whilewash business and came from At
RIGA, tracing his origin through the
Ethiopian negroes to the giddy Queen
of Sheba. Emma hearkened to the
tales of love, heard the praises OF her
"iich blown cheekes," and heard of the
solitary splendors of Fun's lonely
bachelor quarters, and shyly admitted
that it would be Lice to preside over
Mr.. Injin's shirt buttons and panta-
lettes. But there Fun IDjin deceived
her. After toying with ner singed al
fections, he refused to marry any girl
with fat nose or who could not part
her hair. Emma took counsel of her
friends, and the Chinese authorities
;ntina5ed to Fun that if be monkeyed
any more his name would not be Eli.
So he artfully tried to have sweet EN-
ma sigu paper drawn up in beauti-
sui tea chest stsle, and he would pay
for his fun. But she declined, and
has sued Mr.. Injin in $4,000 for
breach of promise.
Apropos of that is the Fan-tan
Trust said to be formed by the Chi
nese gamblers. "Melican man no
catchee on" exclaimed an almond
eyed, dun colored Chinee of Mott
street, in answer to question as to
what the Chinese gamblers would now
do since the national game of Fan-iau
has been stopped by the police. But
these ''heathen Chinese" are initiating
the great American Baron, and have
actually formed a Fan tan Trust. I"
The gamblers have devised a new
game with which to gather the
"washee-washee" money as fast as
skillful laundrymen can make il.
The new game is 'Chee Fah," and is
a revised Fen-tan. NC players are
allowed at the new game; only the
brokers or agents are permitted to be
present while the deal is going oD.
These agents or brokers are chosen by
the players, and if accepted by the
Chez Fab company their orders are
honored. In the new game the win
ming number instead of being dealt
out before the players, is written
and hung up ON card so that if
the enthusiastic "copper" should
surprise them at the game, the only
things he sees are a few Cinnamon in
a cellar gazing at what looks like one
of the imitation hieroglyphics on the
Egyptian monument in the park and
the innocent looking dealer has the
cards promptly up his breast bone or
In the sewer, and such testimony
cannot convict. But to the game
again, the player goes to his broker,
and selecting one of the four numbers
that he thinks will win, writes his
name on that chsnce and the amount
he bets. Then he quietly waits re-
suits. If he wins, the agent prompt
ly sends him his money. If he loses,
ne usually promptly goes back to his
wash board until next Sunday. Only
two 'Chee Fab" games are run, and
are kept open only a few minutes
twice day, but they do lively bust
ness in that time, some agents having
from 100 to 500 orders ranging from
Is cents to s25 for each opening of
the Chez Fab.