Year: 1866

OUt COIliU!


May the five thunders strike you dead


PROVERBS.


Here are some Chinese proverbs: 80.
To feel after pin on the bottom of the
ocean-[to try to do an absurd or impossi-
BILE thing.l ,..


A cat leading rat to view the feast OF
lanterns one bad man deceiving another
with specious pretensionsJ


A tiger eating hy-[disproportion.]


A wooden tiger-[an unsuccessful plan
to frighten people,l .5-.,,


A basket OF grain producing only pound
of chicken meat-[lndicates money-los-
ing business.l .t..r,


A toad in the well cannot behold the
whole heavens; to look at the heavens
from the bottom Of well-lcontracted
ideas


Climbing tree to hunt tor fsh-[to look
for things where they can by no probabil-
ity be found.


In a melon patch, do not stoop down to
unloose your shoes; under plum-tree do
not lift your hand to adjust your cap
[avoid appearances of evil.


Don't tell man with full stomach that
you are hungry one just after plentiful
repast does not readily sympathize with
the feelings of a hungry man.


JUGGLER's TRICKS.


A street juggler will cause a candlestick,
in which is lighted candle, to stand erect
OH the top of ones head while he sings
some ditty to the sound OF clap-traps which
he swings or works in his hands. Another
is to balance common plate on the upper
point of a short perpendicular stick, which
is placed for support by its lower point on
another stick held in the mouth OF the per-
former, the plate spinning around with
very great velocity. The wonder OF this
truly wonderful performance is the ease
with which the plate is made to spin around
so fast. Sometimes one passing along the
streets will see a man playing with three or
five rings, some six or eight inches III
diameter, in manner which never fails to
draw a crowd around him. He throws the
rings up into the air separately, catching
them in his hand when they seemed Joined
together. or linked into each other like
chain. The performer throws the rings
into variety of shapes without the slight
est hesitation or mistake. Another man
will be seen throwing up three sticks, one
after the other, keeping two of them in the
air. With each, as he PATCHES it on falling, he
gives rap on the drum placed before him.
Sometimes three kitchen knives are thrown
up in the same manner, and caught as they
fall, one by one, and tossed up again. When
knives are used no drum is struck.


Sometimes the spectator sees him cut
diminutive door and child with pair of
scissors ont of common paper, and place
them under the blanket. In short time
these things have disappeared, and bowl
of vegetables appears under the blanket in
their stead. A spectator hands the per-
former an empty bottle and requests him to
fill it with spirits. 1t is put under the
blanket, and in short time, on taking 1t
out, behold, It is filled with spirits of the
! best quality


The following feats are sometimes per-
formed: A man having only a pair OF
trowsers on his loins, with boy to assist
| him, clears q space in crowd ABOUT twenty
or thirty feet in diameter.


From time to time he puts into his mouth
several common sewiug-needles and some
thread, separately. By-and-by he pulls out
of his mouth several threads, each having
strung upon them number of needles.


He pretends to swallow several metal
balls, one at time each nearly an inch IN
diameter, and then points out the places
where they will appear just under the skin,
| as on his neck, or about the middle OF his
stomach. And, sure enough, they seem to
be lust where he points out, their appear
ance being indicated by arising of the skin
about as high and as large as would be the
case if one of the balls had really been
! there.


He snatches from time to time from the
ground handful of slips of paper, which
| he Grams in his mouth until his cheeks pro-
| trude and he is unable to articulate dis
| tinctly. He now places his hands on his
hips, and pretends to be causing his breath
to pass through the mass of paper in his
mouth. In few minutes a small stream
| of smoke proceeds from his mouth, just as
| though the paper was on fire, which is
really the case. He continues to force his
breath out through the paper, and the
| smoke becomes more dense, until 1t pours
| forth from his mouth in constant stream
| to the distance of two or three feet. The
| spectators in front OF him can see the fire
in the center of the mass of paper in his
mouth AS he continues to fan the fire with
his breath, larger and larger quantity OF
paper is ignited, until apparently half of the
mass is ignited, and smoke and sparks issue
| from his mouth continually, and the man
acts rs though he telt the heat very sensibly'
Considerable merrimcnt prevails among the
spectators as they look upon the man whose
mouth is full of fire. His grimaceS and
contortions are irresistible.


After short time, occupied principally
by collecting cash from his wondering and
amused spectators, he commences to pull
out of his mouth paper ribbon, being
about an inch and aquarter wide. AS ht
passes along around the outside of the clear
ed circle, he drops the paper ribbon on the
ground, until he has passed two or three
times around it, where it lies for the tim'
being, while he proceeds to perform some
other feat.


He takes pair of Chinese brass swords
about twenty inches long, exclusive of the
hilt. The blades are about an inch and {
half wide, and are fiat, and the edges art
not sharp. He places these flatwise, ont
upon the other, and then puts them into hi
mouth, point first, and both at time. Ii,
throws his head back, so that his face i
about at an angle Of forty-five degrees will
the ground, and forces the two sword
downward. He continues to press dowl
upon the hilts until all but the hilts, ant
three or tour inches of the part of the blade
nearest the hilts, have disappeared. Will,
the swords are in this position, he walk
slowly around the arena, facing the speeta
tors, some of whom are within three o.
four feet of him. There is evidently no de
ception in regard to the swords being il
his mouth and extending downward. Hi
boy at this juncture calls upon the specta
tors to throw cash into the arena, which 1
done oftentimes literally. After a whil'
the swords are drawn out of his mouth ant
handed to those of the spectators who man
ifest a desire to handle and scrutinize them
A CHINESE COUNTERPART DETEcToR.


The outline Of the bill, with various de
vices to make counterfeiting difficult,
engraved neatly on solid block of brass Ii
the case of wealthy banks; poor proprietor
| e 4 ka, 1I 20