Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-06

almond eyed merchants dressed IN gor-
gcous silks moving about through great
beds Of iufs Of all kinds. The iurs are
piled upon the ground, aud you can
bny sablcs ior about s. a skin, and tiger
tkius Tor SIS, which will be worth twice
that amount anywhere else IN The world
You can buy the finest Of crminc, and
ior SO you can Let coat Of lambs
wool, Of the kind that our ladies use for
long opera cloaks. This Chinese city Is
q city Of banks and OF stool: exchanges.
] visited one morning the silver cX.
change. II was room like barn, and
the people we're buying aud selling
stocks just as they do ON Wall street,
yelling and bowling and pushing each
other like mad Us they did 80. Il Is a
city Of bous stores, and there are some
streets which contain no other shops.
We have the idea that the Chinese
melely live upon rice and on rats, and
that their chief Industries are the making
Of mating. Of fans and Of silks. The
truth is that China does a vast business,
and she produces all sorts of commodl-
ties. Nearly every one Of these Chinese
streets contains shops Of all kinds, aud
the main business OF China Is not the
supplying goods for the foreign markets,
but the making oil those required for her
own people. They have ~ many wants
as we have, and they require as good
goods. The mobiles dress IN the hnest
OF silk, and there arc hundreds Of stores
which sell nothing but pictures. The
art displayed M most Of the paintings Is
abominlble, but they arc pictures never.
thcIcss, and the Chinese pay good
money Tor them.
wish could show YOU the markets
OF Pcking. You can get rs good meat
there as you can In New York, and there
Is no finer mutton IN the world than that
OF North China. The sheep are OF the
iattailcd variety, and | saw many which
| had tails weighing over a pound. Il Is
/ thep sell. They have no Slaughter
| houses, and sheep Is often butchert d
| In front Of the shop aud the blood Hes
! on the ground while you buy. There
4 are all sorts OF fish, and they are always
sold alive. No Chinaman would buy a
/ dead fish. and In case you want TO buy
| less than whole fish at a time, the
Chinese peddler will pull the fsli out OF
the water, lay him squirmng on the
block, and cut piece OF quivcfing flesh
out OF his side for you while You walt
lie does not kill the fish, and after you
are through he throws Il back into a
separate pail Of water and waits for
another customer TO take OIL the rest.
| one OF the chief meats sod Is pork,
and you see hogs tfolting about through
the streets OF Peking. They wallow ~
the puddles right under the shadow OF
the cmpefot's palaces, and they are the
difticst hogs IN the world. There are
all sorts Of game for sale IN the markets,
and you can get snipe and quail and
squirrels OF all kinds. The Chincse are
the best raisers VI poultry IN the world.
, They have duck farms and goose farms,
] and they know all about artificial incu'
baton. They sci great quantities OF
dried geese aud dried ducks. and they
/ carry bushetbaskets full Of dried ducks
about the city for sale, They sell all
kinds Of fruit aud they are adopts 10 the
7 raising OF the choicest OF vegetables
They bury their grape vines In the north
IN the winter, and you eau buy your
nuts by the bushel. As 10 cats, dog
and rats, ! did not see any sold In Pek'
ing, aud don't believe that the better
classes are accustomed to use them
am told, however, that such cats as are
sold IN the south are raised and iattened
especially Tor The market, aud that theiI
diet Is usually rice. Dogs flesh is sup
posed, by the people. to give heroic
properties To- those who feed ON Il, and
the same effect Is produced by bears
meat and the ground'up bones OF wild
tigers. These things ought to bring q
high price just now In Peking, for the
people certainly have reason TO increase
their courage Another queer article
that you see In the Picking market IS
false hair. passed several places where
long.queued Cinnamon stood beside a
board upon which were hung long
lunches OF black Chinese locks. Each
OF these was a false pig,ail, and Il is
said that one OF the Chief articles oil eN'
port from Corea to China is human hair
The Chinese braid extra locks into then
queues and they often patch out theil
queues with silk thread.
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