Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21

women with clumps of feet hanging help
lessly over the wheelbarrow. Yesterday
snapped nv camera at Chinaman wheeling
another Chinaman and live hog on the
same wheelbarrow:-
The Wheelbsrrow Il Cheap.
Aswe pass through Janan into China we
find that the Chinese, like the Japanese,
seldom use horses In Japan men draw
immense loads in jinrikshas and two
wheeled wagons, but the Chinese use the
wheelbarrow. A Chinaman will wheel half
. ton clear across the city of Shanghai tor
10 cents.
In this old Chinese town, the old city In
Shanghai around which q wall was built q
thousand years ago, we see all the indus
tries carried on in the most primitive STYLE.
H ere is man pounding copper into a tea
kettle, logs are being sawed by hand, and
hand looms are weaving silk. Carpenters,
blacksmiths and masons work for 81 so q
week and subsist on rice and little peanut
oil and fish. Rice is worth ~ cents per
pound and 35 cents worth will feed China
man tor a month.
The Chinese tailor will make ladies
dress or suit OF clothes S. cheaper than
tourists fit themselves out in China They
use English goods and pay Chinese wages,
which are IS week for an expert tailor
capable of reproducing any garment.
DUPLICATING A LADY's CORSET.
A most superb test of Chinese ingenuity
occurred yesterday. A large, stout lady in
our party, with jinriksha riding and hard
travelling, had used up her last pair of
m IL. Tt~ o,,I
truding bones made it UNDESIRABLE. When
my tailor brought back Tuxedo suit this
morning, Mrs. Marsh said jokingly:
"John, you makee corset?"
John took the corset in his hand, ex-
amined its difficult mechanism, and said,
Eyes me makee. Ne can do"
Mrs. Marsh gave him the sample, and this
morning j ohm sidled in softly with two per-
feet corseta They were absolute copies,
one in pink and the other in black satin;
and fitted to a charm! Johns price was
three dollars tor duplicating fifteen dollar
French corset.
Thee are many sects of Christians in
China and Japan, each teaching different
belief about Christ and Trinity, that the
poor Chinaman is all mixed up. First the
Methodlsts, Baptists and Catholics asked
the heathen to worship Christ or God. Then
the Unitarians taught that Christ was only
. cool man like Buddha.
Sir Edwin's l. flu nee on RsIi-ion.
Then Edwin Arnold, the great Agnostlc,
came and put Buddha over Christ, made
Buddha 'Tke light OF Asia" Going down
to Ceylon Mr.. Arnold showed his alteration
for the tooth of Buddha, kept there as
relic. To-day 1 tried to get at the belief Of
a con yerted Chinaman and asked him few
questions which he answered in pidgin
English.
"John." I said, "you have heard the
preaching OF Christians, Unitarians and Ag-
nostics. Now what do you think about
Buddha and Christ-about the Trinty?"
me no savey tIinity. Floreign joss
man very curio. Begin time nave got one
Mclean joss mamie talkee me this
fashion: 'Topside (Orthodox Christians)
havee got tlee piecee Joss, no belongee tlue
tlee. piecee-belong allie same one. One
piecee-alle same tIee piecee.
"How can? Bimeby he show me ploper.
He have got one book, inside talkee allie
same fashion he show me. Must can tue
So soon me catche 'clisten' he pay me do
pidgin he house wagee, 81 more large mother
man."
$50 you embraced Christianity, did you?
and then what happeued?" asked
Getting Mixed on the Eng ish joss.
'That joss man 60 way, new piecee come.
(Unitarian). He too belong joss man (Uni-
tarian) velly near allie same fashion before
master. Me No savey this pidginl He havee
got book allie same as first time Joss man,
inside. he readee different fashion. He
talkee no belong mix 'em up tlee piecee joss
allie same one, one piecee joss allie same tlee,
tlue only got one piecee, no more. I 60 he