Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-28

while an almond-eyed maiden tried to pull
down the other side of the machine with
her weight. She wore silk coat and wide
silk pantalets which reached to her feet, but
where she put her foot into the stirrup I
could note her little blue shoe with its
pointed gold toe. 1t looked more like a min
iature club foot than the real variety. Her
leg, which was wrapped with cloth, was as
signs above the ankle of the curve Of the
calf. She wore silk cap. out of which her
oily black hair peeped at the back. and
from her ears hung triangular pendants of
green jade. On other barrows / saw Chi
nese men riding in pairs, and 1 met still
larger barrows used for the carrying of
freight. The passenger wheelbarrows alone
In Shar ghai number about three thousand,
jinrfkshaS. The prices of both are very
low. You can ride to any point In the city
on a jinriksha for five cents, and the wheel
barrow hackmen get, l am told, about a
cent a mile.
Chinese Newspapers.
paid q visit yesterday to the biggest
Chinese newspaper in the empire to make
inquiries as to the employment Of Chinese
artist to do some native illustrations for
me. and had a most Interesting talk with
the marager. The paper IL called the Shun
Pao, and it is the best-paying and most
widely circulated of the three native news
paper dailies of Shanghai. 1t is an eight
page sheet of about the sizs and shape of
Frank Leslies newspaper or Harper s
Weekly, printed on the thinnest of rice
paper. 1t is so light that 1T does not weigh
mere than mans handkerchief and so
thin that the paper can be printed on one
side only. The paper goes to press in big
sheets, which are so folded that the blank
side Is turned inward when taken in hand
by the subscriber, and so that there Is
neither cutting nor FASTING. Owing to the
tninness OF the paper, 1t has a greasy
yellow appearance, and 1t is printed so
closely with Chinese type that not an. inch
OF space seems to be wasted The headline
or title of the paper consists of two Chinese
characters, taking up a space not wider
than one of the columns of our newspapers
and not more than an irch in length. 1t is
one-cent sheet, its price being ten cash
but as China is on a silver basis, this
should, In our money, now be divided by
two, and its price would then be only half
a cent
A Strange Journal.
But let me give you my talk with the
managers. 1 went to the office without my
interpreter, and my jinriksha man, after
Chinese streets, in which we had a number
of narrow escapes from pony cabs and
freight wheelbarrows. landed me at a
ragged two-story building. with side en-
trance. Over this were large tea-box char
acters, meaning the name Of the paper.
went in and made my way to the second
story, where 1 luckily stumbled into the
room of the managing editor. 1 addressed
him in good plain United States, and found
that he spoke English as we'll as 1 did
l introduced myself, and showed him some
letters which 1 carry from the State De-
partment and from high officials at Wash
ington. He read them and looked at the
seals, and then bowed low again and again,
and shook his own hands at me in Chinese
FASHION, and asked me to be seated At my
request ne took up a copy of his news
paper and explained it to me, giving me a
number of facts about new spaper work
among the celestials. I'VE have" said he,
the largest newspaper in China, and our
dally circulation is about twelve thousand
There are two other native newspapers
published In this city, but neither of them
makes as much money or does as well as
We DO. We are the oldest, and we have
Deen in existence now twenty-five years.
We nave good advertising patronage and
the chinese believe in newspaper advertis-
ing. Take look at the paper and you will
see that 1t is prosperous from an advertis-
ing standpoint"
1 looked at it, but for the life of me
could not tell the lads" from the editorials.
and said So The editor took it from me