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AVE MARIA

"A BUEFON LEGEND,

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In the ages of faith, before the day When men were too proud to weep or pray, Thero stood in a red-roofed Breton town Songly nestled 'twixt aqu.and down, A chapel for simple souls to meet, Nightly and aing with voicen sweet,

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Ave Maria!

There an idiot, palsied, bleated, With unkompt locks and a matted beard, Hunched from the aradis, vacant-eyed,

Yat who, when the sunsst-glow grew dim. Joined with the rest in the twilight hymn,

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Maria! But when they got up and wanded home,

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Those op the billside, those to the foam, Ho hobbled along in the narrowing dust, Like a thing that is only h

hull and busk; On as he hobbled, chanting still, Now to himself, now loud and shrill,

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Ave Maria!

When morning sunted on the smiling deep. And the fisherman woke from dreamless sleep, And ran up his sail and trimmed his craft, Whilehiakttle onestoaped on the sand and laughed, The soussiés oripple would stand and staro, Then suddenly hollos his wonted prayer,

Ave Maria!

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Others might plow, and reap, and sow, Delve in the sunshine, spin in the snow, Mako sweet love in a shelter sweet;

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Or trundle their dead in a winding sheet; But ho, through rapture, and pain, and wrong, Kept singing his one monotonous song.

Ave Maria!

When thunder growled from the raveled wreck, And ocean to welkin bellowed back, And the lightning sprang from its cloudy sheath, And tore through the forest with jugged teeth, Then leaped and laughed o'er the havas wreaked, The idiot clapped with his hands, and shrieked,

Ave María

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Children mocked and minisked his feet, As he slouched or sidled along, the street; Maidens shrank as he passed them by, And mothers with child, eschewed his eye- And half in pity, half soorn, the folk Christened him, from the words he spoke,

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One year when the harvest feasts were done, And the manding of tattered nats began, And the kittiwako's arsam took a weirdor key From the wailing wind and the moaning see,

For the sake of eliciting the observations of intelligent mangwe present our theory on this subject.

-THE CHINA MAIL.

outer courtyards. These opium dens are called "smoking establishments," the fact of their being in the palace is notorious, but no doubt it is considered policy to shut the eyes officially to their existence.

All eunncha gamble, and spend most of la their greatest source of enjoyment; as their leisure time in that occupation. It they say if wo "do not like gambling we have no pleasure."

As a class, eunuchs are considered to be very honest, it being a rare occurrence to hear of one having committed a theft, Another good trait in their character is that they are charitable to the poor, and generally carry loose cash about them to bestow in alms on those they conceive deserving.

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For the botter management of the eunuchs, and that the work of the palace may be carried on systematically, it is (in. Most of the eunuchs smoke opium, and the present dynasty) divided into forty-to enable them to indulge in this habit All strangers at Rome are cautioned not eight departments, each one having its own without quitting the palace, seven or eight to cross the Poutine marshes after the heat particular class of duties connected with it, opinm dens are opened in its precincts; this of the day is over. Sixteen of a ship's and staff of sunachs to perform those is not only a convenience for them, but for erew, touoning at one of the West India duties; thus, there is the department for officials who may have business in the islands, slept on shore several nights, and looking after gardens, courtyards, cook-palace, but are compelled to wait about the thirteen of them died of yellow fever in a honses, armoury, obairs, etc., ets. Each few days, while of two hundred and eighty, department has a superintendent who is who were freely ashore during the day, not generally of the sixth grade, or having a a single case of illness occurred. The gold button." Over the whole of the marches abovo named are crossed in six or departments is a chief sunuch, or general sight hours, and many travelers who do it supervisor; this officer is usually of the in the night are attacked with mortal fevers. third grade and wears a "red button." This does, at first sight, seem to indicate If any ennuch by reason of dislike to his that night air is unwholesome, at least in duty, through hardship, ill-treatment, or the locality of virulent malarias, but there other causes, should run away from the is no direct proof that the air about sunrise palace, his absence is immediately reported and sunset is not that which is productive to a species of police corps, whose duty of the mischief.

it is to capture runaway onnuchs. The men composing this force are not eunuchs themselves, but know all the eunuchs of the palace; and it is rare that one of them A person might eross these marehas with succeeds in escaping, for no sooner is the impunity, who would set out on his journey flight of one reported, that the members an hour or two after sundown, and finish of the force (who are adepta at disguises, it an hour or two before sun-up, especially and may be considered detectives) spread if he began that journey on a hearty meal, themselves all over the city, and speedily because, in this way, he would be traveling recapture the deserter who is then can in the cool of the night, which coolness veyed to a yamén appointed for the punish keeps the malaria so near the surface of the ment of eunuchs known as the Shen-hsing earth as to prevent its being breathed to sast, where he is tried and punished accord hartfal extent.

ing to the nature and degree of his offence. But if it is deadly to sleep out of doors For a first case of desertion, the culprit all night in a malarial locality, would it be is imprisoned for two months; at the end necessarily fatal to sleep in a house in such of that period he receives twenty blows and a locality? It would not. It would be is sent back to his duty in the palace. For safer to sleep in the house, especially if the the second offence, he is put into the windows and doors were closed. The rea cangue for two months; at the end of which son is, that the house has been warmed he is again returned to his duty. For the during the day, and if kept closed, it re-third offense, he is banished to Monkden maine mach warmer during the night for two years and a half, and at the com- Indoors than it is outdoors; consequently, plation of his term of banishment, he is the malaria is kept by this warmth so high returned to his duty, as usual. above the bead, and so rarefled, as to be Theft is punished by banishment to comparatively harmless. This may seem Moakden; but if the property stolen should to some too nice a distinction altogether, be anything prized by the emperor, such but it will be found throughout the world as curios, jewellery, or other valuables, the of Nature that the works of the Almighty offender is taken to Chin-shan-Fou,a are most strikingly beautiful in their minu place about forty li distant from Puking tic, and these minutics are the foundation and there beheaded. of His mightiest manifestations.

(No. 4452-OCTOBER 6, 1877.

the electricity, when a great white and bluish are appeared between the rod of the electrometer and his bead; at the same time a sort of steam or vapour arose, which entirely benümbed. Sokoloff, and made him fall to the ground, Several parts of the spparatus were broken and scattered about, the doors of the room were torn from their hinges, and the house shaken in every part. The wife of the Professor, alarmed by the shock, ran into the room, and found her husband sitting on a chest, which happened to be behind him when he was struck, and leaning against the wall. He appeared to have been instantly struck dead, a red spot was found of his forehead, his shoa was burnt open, and a part of his waist. coat singed.

dows closed; that is to say, for the hour or anos to be given. oth the present 'old women, whe, forgetting their ago and FIRST NIGHTS" AT THE PLAY, two including sunrise and sunset, because empresses are "Sajd. joy farces or sex, are masquerading in male attire. One Between the acts on a first night the ap Any decidental object may turn the seala can bear the mutual tension no longer. about sunset the air cools, and the vapors domestic dramas, in which the Homely lives la positive, therefore, on encountering apearance presented by the better parts of As Mr. Precos pats it, a ship sailing calmly which the boats of the day have caused to of the poor are depicted

alah they specimen of this sort, that it is either a ascend far above us, condense and settle can learn but, vory, life,

the house is that of à lingo soirée. The over the ocean, a moving railway train, a witness in any bona fide eunuch, or else a masquerading stalls are a rendezvous for all that is horseman galloping home for shelter from near the surface of the earth, so as to be other manner, ti

ese sources. On old lady the latter not being very prob fashionable and popular in art and letters. the approaching storm, may be the least breathed by the inhabitants; as the night the other hand, mperor would invariable. Eunuchs age rapidly, looking Here in one corner is a well-known manager atraw that breaks the camel's back. Every grows colder, theen vapors sink lower, and ably soloot pieces historical naturo. sixty when only forty; they are like bemoaning with a favourite dramatist the one knows the celebrated experiments of are within foot or two of the earth, so It is related of Hierofong that he was children; will burst into tears at a trifle, or dulness of the season, the pair puzzling their Franklin, by which he demonstrated the they are not breathed. As the sun rises, once so frightened at the these same vapors are warmed and begin acting of a dramatic player, that he ordered another person would scarcely notice, and venture. Or an actor may be seen arranglin, when he seat up his kite, fastened e make up and give way to ungovernable rage for what united brains for a novelty in the next identity of electricity with lightning. Frank to ascend, to be breathed again, but as the the unfortunate eniuch to receive twenty are as quickly pacified as they are to being with an author to write up a strong part key to the string, and to the key a silk air becomes warmer, they are carried so blows for daring to startle him. This come angry. They are not by any means for him in his own particular line. In little ribbon, intended (ails being a non-conduc far above our heads as to be innocuous. modo of complimenting a player would bloodthirsty-as eunuchs are usually re- mots of threes and fours the critics are tor) to isolate him from danger. For Thus it is that the old citizens of Charle-rather astonish some of our dramatic per presented to be-but exactly the reverse, comparing notes and discussing the progross some time he was unable to perceive any And where head kept rolling from side to side; son, S. C., rezember, that while it was formers, and would not have a tendency to being harmless and conciliating in manner, of the play, oz gossipping with a popular appearance which would justify his theory;

considered important to live in the country develop "native talent," one would imagine. as if they sought to ingratiate themselves Rotress over an ice cream. Visits are paid but a shower estadon, the kite-string was... during the summer, the common observa- These players draw the same salaries as with these stronger than they are, by con- and telegraphic signs are exchanged botween wetted, and therefore became a good gon tion of the people originated the custom of other eunuchs, but often get a largess fossing-in their fawning demeanour their boxes and stalls, stalls and dress circle, ductor. Franklin, in his impatience pre- riding into the town, not in the cool of the bestowed on them by the emperor or own weakness and inferiority. evening or of the morning, but in the mid- empress when they are particularly pleased are very olandish in disposition, and will be immensely good-hutaoured and shaking gratified by receiving a smart shock. It They Everybody seems to know everybody else, to dented his knuckles to the key, and was dle of the day. They did not understand with a performance... unde in

always assist one another against those who hands all round. Meetings are arranged, was lucky for him that his success was not the philosophy; but they observed the fact

are not eunuchs, even to the extent of beta laid, mutual projects discussed and more complete than it proved to be, or he that those who came to the city at mid-day

fighting. remained woll, while those who did so early

settled, and the whole scene is the plea would have paid dearly for the honour of santest and liveliest imaginable. No less his discovery. He thought that his kite or late suffered from it.

animated, in a more vigorous way, is the hat withdrawn electricity from the thunder- attitude of the pit. Here, of course, the cloud, whereas the discharge he witnessed critical atmosphere is strong. A man depended on the inductive action of the catches eight of a friend three or four rows thunder-cloud on the kite and string ba off, and sends a lond-spoken query as to his escaped destruction, because the electricity impressions of the play. A reply comes with which his kite- and its string were back which provokes a difference of opinion charged was the small amount induced on from some of the intervening benches. The them by the thunder oload. Philosophers question is taken up, and a lively dobate who followed in his foot-steps did nat followa, joined in by all within hearing dis escape so easily. Professor Richmann, of offer on the subject. Such as boast no the following year. He had erected an tance who have an idea, good or bad, to St. Petersburg, was killed by lightning in

the hunt, bravely uphold the views of the communication between it and his study, opinion of their own, ashamed to be out of apparatus in the air, making a metallis tallest talker near them. Keep your ears where he had provided means for repeating various theories of all the critics and theeing to his friend, Sokoloff, the nature of open now, and you may hear retailed the Franklin's experiments. He was deserib trical journals in town, and pick up more the spparatus, and was stooping, towards green-room gossip than you can carry in the electrometer to observe the force of your head. But the biggest and most keenly defended opinions emanate from Olympus, where sit the perspiring gods: You venture an opinion here at your peril, and the man who cannot support his views of a favourite West-end player by a careful comparison of his talents with those of a Surrey or Britannis favourite fude to hearers. An amateur holling forth glibly one night in the gallery on the peculiar merits of a well-known actor, happened, nuluckily, to touch upon a melodramatic part which had recently been given with unusual eye-rolling power by a strong lunged East-end favourite. Ho was dwel- ing with fond minuteness on the delicate touch of the saltared player in a scene which the eye-roller had carried by sheer exertion of the attributes of Bottom's Hon. A costless god on his tight surveyed the molancholy and a disposition to suicide, gentle scorn which bespeaks conscious su

As regards eunuchs being subject to would-be judge from top to toe with that close questioning alioited the answer that periority. "Ah," he said, "you go to the suicide is almost unknown amongst them, Vic, and see B- He'd make you jump" my informant never having heard of a-Dublin University Magazine, single case during a period of forty years; and that melancholy is not more prevalent amongst them than it is amongst Chinese A DRAMATIC AUTHOR CRITICISING gonerally. In short, to sum up in a few words what has already been stated,

HIS OWN PLAY On the recent production at the Fifth ennuchs, as a class, love mirth and gaiety Avenue Theatre, New York, of "Ah Sin, anything condusing to amusement being the Heathen Chinee," the joint production eagerly sought after by thom. That a of Bret Harta and Mark Twain, the latter little, amases them, while on the other gentleman, upon being called before the hand, a mere trifle will make them shed curtain, made the following amusing speech: tears. That they love gambling, every one This," said he, is a very remarkable of them being gamblera, That they are play. I don't know as you noticed it as it affectionate to women and children, and are went along, but it is. The construction of fond of pots-particularly small doge this play and the development of the story almost every eannah having one. They are the result of great research, and erudi- are not by any means revengeful, but are tion, and genius, and invention and plagi extremely timid, and have a dread of others arisma. When the authors wrote it they who are not as they are. They are irrit thought they would put in a great lot of able; will give way to bursts of rage and catastrophes and murdere and such things, squabble like women, but they are easily because they always enliven an evening so; pacified. Cases sometimes osour where but we wanted to have some disaster that they become insane when fil-treated or wasn't hackneyed, and after a good deal of stripped of their rank for some fault, but thought we hit upon the breaking-down of their insanity is generally of a harmless stage-coach. The worst of getting a good Sometimes, when two antichs have been nature. They are very clannish and will original idea like that is the temptation to implicated in a similar offence, each has to stick to one another through thick and overdo it; and, in fact, when the play was fog the other torn. This is amusing, thin. They are honest, generous, and all done, we found that we had got that for the one who flogs first does not dare charitable, as has been shown. Putting, stage-coach breaking down seven times in etrike lightly, lest the chief eunuch, who is therefore, their good traits against their the firat net. looking on, should detect it; while the bad once, I think they will show up favour. here every seven minutes or so, and spill all It was to come right along encond hits hard to have satisfaction forably with the common run of Chinese; and the passengers over on the musicians. Well, the beating he has just received from his when one reflects on the awful deprivation you see, that wouldn't do; it made it mono- present victim. This is called" flogging they have suffered, one is more inclined to tonous for the musicians; and it was to in turn."

overlook many of their failings and to think stagey; and we had to modify it; and there them objects of pity rather than exceration isn't anything left of the original plan now and contempt.

axcept one break-down of the coach, and one carriage break-down, and one pair of runaway horses. May be we might have spared even some of these; but you see we had the horses, and we didn't like to waste them. I wish to say, also, that this play is didactic rather than anything eles.

VILI.

He was found, at morn, on the fresh-strewn snow, Frozen, and faint, and arooning law,

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They stirred up the ashes between the dogs. And warmed his limbs by the blazing logs, Chated his puckered and bloodless skin, And sirove to quiet bis coattering chin Bat, ebbing with unreturning tide, He kept on marmuring till he died,

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Ave Maria!

Idiot, soulless, brate from birth, He could not be buried in sacred earth 1.. So they laid him siër, apart, alone, Without a cross, or turf, or stone, Senseless day unto esnacless clay, To which none ever came nigh to sAY,

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When the mends grow saffron, the hawthorn white, And the lark hare his music out of sight, And the swallow out-raced the racing wave, Up from the lonely, outcast's grave Sproated a lily, straight and high,. Such as she bears to whom man cry

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Ave Maria!

None had planted it, no one know How it had come there, why it grow; Grew up strong, till its stately stem Was crowned with a snow-white diadem- One pure lily, round which, behold! Was written by God in veins of gold,

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Over the lily they built a shrine, Where are mingled the mystic bread and wine, Sbrine you may see in the little town'

That is sungly nestled 'twixt deep and down. Through the Breton land it hath wondrous faite, And it bears the unshriven idiot's tatne,

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Ave Maria.

Hunchbacked, gibbering, hlear-eyed, halt, From forehead to footstep ons foul fault, Crasy, contorted, mindless-bar. The gentle's pity, the cruel's scorn, Who shall bar you the gates of Day,

So you have simple faith to my,

--Cornhill Magasine.

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POPULAR FALLACIES.

Night air and damp weather are hold in

their whole existence,

Trifling offences, such as neglect of duty, Thus it is, too, that what we call fever laziness, etc., are punished by the bustinado. and agus might be banished from the When a eunuch commits an offence of this country as a general disease, if two things kind, it is dealt with summarily. The were done. I. Have a fire kindled every chief eunuch summons the attendance of a morning at day-light, from spring to fall, eunuch from each of the forty-eight depart in the family room, to which all the family ments, each euch being armed with a should repair from their chambers, and baton made by glueing together two slips there remain until breakfast is taken. 2. of bamboo, with the rough side outwards Let a fire be kindled in the family room aand the culprit receives from eighty to a ehort time before sundown; let every mem-hundred blows. When the beating is bor of the family repair to it, and there finished he is sent to the surgery, where remain until supper is taken.

the doctor-who is also a eunuch-dresses the wounds by rubbing in cintment, and after three days the culprit is again flogged to render the punishment more severe. This second flogging is termed "raising the scabs."

In both cases, the philosophy of the course marked out consists in two things, First, The fire rarefies the malaria and cansos it to ascend above the breathing point. Second, The food taken into the stomach creates an activity of circulation which repels disease-Hall's Journal of Health.

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CHINESE EUNUCHS.

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Eunuchs are much liked by the small tradesmen with whom they have any dealings, for, unlike other Chinese, they do not care to huggle over a bargain; a seller, or workmen, knowing their peculiarity this way, has only to say give me what you please," and for's trifting job, or for goods not worth half-a-dozen etab, he is sure to recoives handful; so that this class of people generally trust to a emush's generosity, and invariably get the best of the bargain. In paying for small articles too, they rarely take back any change, indeed it is seldom one of them is over known to be mean or stingy..

CASTING OF A LARGE GUN,

The heaviest gun over cant in this COUR try, with perhaps two exceptions, was soo cessfully produced at the South Boston Iron Company's worka, near the Broadway Pre of about 150 persons, several of bridge, Bonth Boston, May 30, in the whom were ladies: The material used was the ordinary chasonal Iron. The gun, which will be a 12-inch rifled Rodman, carrying a 700 pound conical ball, when finished is expected to measure 268 inches, or about 32 feet in length. The diameter at the widest part will be 66 inches, and the casing wil be 20 Inches for a depth of 238 inches. At the muscle the outside diameter will be about 29 inches. The weight when finished will be 89,580 155, and when cast was about 162,000 1h. facere was 90 tons of metal in the three furasoes. The gun is expected to be som plated in November. It is estimated that the mass will cool in aboat 150 hours.

Three large furisces were used for the melting. The flask, which was some 20 fest Dg, was sunk ail but about six feet into the ground, muzzle op. From the furnaces were runners, a sort of iron trough or pout, lined with slay, about 8 inches wide at the top, 4 inches at the bottom, and 6. inches deep, and exah about 18 or twenty feet long, These led to a sort of contral hero the flask or mould was placed. In tank or pool within 6 or 8 feet of the point this was an opening which led into two runners like those coming from the furnaces, the pool to the mould. The pool was for the purpose of equalizing the consistency. of the iron before it entered into the com- position of the gan.

and the runner carried the material from

At about 4.60 the visitors were requested to preserve quiet the word was given, and the deep red stream of molten iron was soon seen rolling through the runners with the It is companiment of great quantities of beauti-

It would take up too much time and space to specify particularly all the duties eunuchs have to perform in the palace. They may be summed up in a few words as regards "out-door employment, they are Palace eunuchs are rarely dismissed, they water carriers, watchmen, chair-bearers, mast be incorrigible before that event takes gardeners, etc., while their in-door work is pisco. Whon ones they are driven from From the foregoing pages it may easily such as would be performed by cooks, the palace they cannot be employed as be gathered that the emperar is the only chamber, parlour, scullery maids, and per- servant by any one, and as they are fit for man who resides in the palace at Peking sons of that class in our own countries. In nothing else, they become beggars and One man, only, in that vast enclosure short, they do everything in the palace. I eventually die of starvation. On the other Well may he be styled the "solitary man " shall speak more particularly of two or hand, if a prince dismisses & eunuch it is What a life, too, for the ladies! In three special employaients of eunuchs as I not of so much consequence, as he may carcerated; shut out from the world, what intended rather for instruction than amuse-ful golden state sointillating over the Bary grost horror by multitudes of persons who am on the subject, the first of which may obtain employment in the family of some is the palace but a gorgeous prison for ment. The Chinaman is getting to be a man. From the pool the liquid, after be are sickly or of weak constitutions; conse-be styled of a religious nature, so I give other prince or noble who is entitled by his them I "Seeing none of their male rela pretty frequent figure in the United States, ing thoroughly amalgamsted, passed through quently, by avoiding the night air, and that the precadence.. damp weather, and changeable weather,

rank to employ eunuche. In the palace are eighteen Latas priests,

tives, and only at long intervals their and is going to be a great political problems, the aborter runners and dropped to the and weather that is considered too hot or who are also eunuchs. Those priests are vary from two to four tesis per month; home ties must be severed; the most sacred on the stage before you had to deal with gradually until the level of the troughs was The actual salaries of common enunchs female ones, all their nearest and dearest and we thought it well for you to see him bottom of the mould, the material rising too cold, they are kept within doors the supposed to represent the Lohan, and are twelve teels being the highest salary any fealings of the heart must become withered that problem. Then, for the instruction of reached. This occupied about 15 minutes, mach largest portion of their time, and as kept expressly to attend to the spiritual one receives, no matter what his rank mey and parched up for want of the nourish the young, we have introduced a game of and then it became necessary to pour it in a matter of course continue invalids, more welfare of the ladies of the palace. and more ripening for the grave every

be. It is not to be supposed, however, that ment necessary to foster them. Hearing poker. There are few things that are so from the top, which was several feet above hour; the reason is, they are broathing an it is speedily filled up by selecting a eunuch in one thing squeezing!"-and many of is filtered through the lips of eunuchs for poker. The upper class know very little ladles (great tubs

When & vacancy occurs in the eighteen eunuchs are different from other Chinese nothing from the outside world but what unpardonably neglected in our country as the trough. This was done by filling impure atmosphere nineteen-twentisths of who has either a desire to become a priest, them make large sums in various ways, all they can gather of what goes ca beyond about it. Now and then you find ammass each holding several tons of melted iron,

iron lined with slag,)- or fenoies he has a vocation that way so such as by pretending to facilitate, or really their prison walls must come to them dors who have a sort of general knowledge and awisging them by three enormous As nothing can wash us clean but pure that, independent of not having been train facilitating the business of those having thronge that sourse what wonder is it of the game, but the ignoranes of the people derricks around to a runner raised higher water, so nothing can cleanse, the blood, ed to the priesthood from childhood, many audience; making them comfortable while that we hear of heart-burnings, palace in at large is fearful. Why, I have known than the others, and which led to the top nothing can make health-giving blood, but of them know nothing whatever pertain waiting, by supplying them with tea, pipes, trignos, and struggles for supremacy; each clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, of the mould. The portion filled up with the agency of pure air. So great is the ing to their craft when they join; some of etc., and the thousand, and one other ways, one striving to be favourite so that she can sincere, and all that, who did not know the ladies was in addition to the length of the tendency of the blood to become impure in them, tob, can neither read nor write, and by which a true Chinaman knows how to forward her own interests or those of her meaning of a flush. It is enough to make gun, which must be out off some dis feet, consequence of waste and useless matters we can readily imagine the amount of tarn an honest pouny, The salaries of never more to be-seen relatives. And lastly, one ashamed of one's species. When our this is necessary in order to have the end mixing with it as it passes through the ignorange and superstition to be found eunuchs are paid monthly, whereas other what a life for the eunuchs! Their post play was finished, we found it was so long, perfectly solid. The gun was cast upon the body, that it requires a hogshead of air among these eunuch priests, and the officials draw theirs half yearly, every hour of our lives to unload it of these spiritual benefit likely to accrue to the Bach eunuch, in addidon to his pay, is to know which to pit most, the emperor it would have taken a week to play it. I hollow, filed with water during the pro tion must be worst of all, Ons is at a loss and so broad, and so deep in places that Bodman principle of having the core, which Impurities; but in proportion as this air is employers of their services. vitiated, in such proportion does it infall-

supplied with a certain quantity of rice in his solitary grandeur, the ladies in their thought that was all right; we could puts of casting by means of a pipe to convey ibly fall to relieve the blood of these im double allowance of salary, resaving an as well as for convenience sake, the eunucha sheir deprivation of all that constitates it straight along. But the managers said, another to carry off the water from the top These eighteen Lama priests draw a monthly and to economise their salaries, gorgeons imprisonment, or the eunuchs in To be continued on the curtain, and run ouid water to the bottom of the core, and purities, and impure blood is the foundation allowance as priests in addition to their form messos amongst themselves, rubearib what may be essentially termed manhood Noj it would get us into trouble with the when it becomes heated This causes the of all disease. The great fact that those salary as surfuchs; this is a strong tetapta ing so much each to supply meat, veget. From everything we can learn regarding general public, and into trouble with the cooling inside and outside to be much more who are out of doors most, summer and tion to many sumche, and any vacancy in sbles end other kinds of food, which is eunuchs, but one conclusion can be drawn general government, because the Constitu- uniform, and adds greatly to the strength of winter, day and night, rain or shine, have the ranks of the priesthood is under these cooked in the palace, the best health the world over, does of circumstances-Alled without dioulty,

se to their origin, and that is, polygamy, tion forbids the infliction of cruel or unusual the gun. The casting was finally folshed itself falsify the general Impression that

Every courtyard in the palace has its were it not for that eunuchs would be as punishment; so he ens ont, and out out, and about 6.60 o'clock, without accident of any night air or any other outdoor air is annumber of ennucke is theatricals. That called Menist's houses" at the sides of the of us, the question naturally arises in our never saw a play that was so much im warded to Sandy Book for experiments by The next special employment" of a colony of eunuche, who live in small houses, rare as unicorns. With this fact in front the more he cut out the better the play got kind. The gun when finished will be for healthy as compared with indoor air at the the ladies of the palace may be gratided in main building in which their particular minds how about polygamy in the west ? proved by being cut down and I believe it the United States authorities*** Boston same time.

Air is the great necessity of life; so much and as no outsiders can enter the palace, a dily summoned when wanted.

their taste for theatrical entertainments, employer resides; so, that they can be rea- the Mormons, who are polygamiste, are would have been one of the very best plays

Journal so, that if deprived of it for a moment, we dramatic corps is kept up, especially for

left to themselves, will they not hereafter in the world if his strength had held out so parish and so constant ie the necessity of that purpose. This corps numbers over opened shortly after midnight, for the as the ides may be, one cannot avoid the

The palane gates are shut at dusk, and introduse eunuchs Revelling and painful that he could out out the whole of it." the blood for contact with the atmosphere, three hundred, and is composed entirely of admission of such officials as have business reflection that they are gradually trending EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHTNING, follows right on the heels of another. First "WELL, I deolare," gasped the stricken that every drop in the bedy is exposed to eunuchs, the whole of them under the with the emperor. Should any sanaah be in that direction that there is but a step

man. in a despairing voice, one trouble the air through the medium of the lungs control of chief sannoh, They live in a out of the palace when the gates are closed between them and the eastern polygamist, every two minutes and a half of our ex building within the Imperial city, but he in compelled to stay out all night, and and unless they awake to the error of their

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my wife went, an' now it's the cider." outside the palace, called the Nan-fa.. is sure to be severely punished the next ways, ar are compelled to reform, that stop bined electricity of every obfent over which feel it a duty I owe to you to express my

An electrified eland decomposes the com Whatever may be the impurity of the Those eunuchs have no other duties to per day. Official hats dave to be worn on all in the common courge of events-meat it passes, repels the electricity of the same gratitude for the great benefit I have de “BERKELEY, Sept. 1669.—Gentlemen, I outdoor sir of any locality, the indoor air form but those of playing in the palace, occasions by eunuchs, no one being allowed eventually be taken. Let us hope that this kind as that contained in itself, and stirecte rived by taking Norton's Camomile Pills, of that locality is still more impurs, be- and the rehearsals Resecsary to render egress or logress without a hat on; con foul blot on aivilization may be "wiped the opposite kind. The earth and objects I applied to your agent Mr Bell, Berkeley, canss of the dust, and decaying and odo- them protalent. riferous matters which are found in all

sequently one mode of punishing a eunuch out one way or another, by common sense beneath an electrified cloud are in this for the above-named Pills, for wind in the dwello Besides, how can in-door air be the Tang-lo-yitam. In this, it is anatomary este confining him to the palace; ..

Within the palace is a theatre, known as is by taking his hat from him, and by this and humanity, if possible; by compulsion, manner charged by induction. When the stomach, from which I suffered excrasia more healthy then the out-door air, other to have pae performance every month. Eunuchs, taken as a whole, may be con N. C. B. of Royal delatie Bobiety.

if necessary.GO. Stent, in alournal of the attraction between the opposite kinds of ting pain for a length of time, having tried things being squel, when the dwelling is This is entirely independent of representa-aidered zepulsive looking, but young enauchs supplied with air from without ?

electricity becomes greater than the resis nearly every remedy prescribed, but with. To this very general law there is one or have distinguished themselves; and have appearance; indeed, one can almost imagine tions given in honour of officials who may are often very handsome and feminine in

tance of the intervening air, a discharge out deriving any benefit at all. After A GRAND Jury have passed the following takes place. It is the accumulation of taking two bottles of your valuable Play I sace to note. When the days are hot and what may be termed a "state perform. in mea's clothing As they grow older built. Resolved, That the material of the contained in the electrified cloud, and causes benefit of those who may thus be addicted. caption, which it is of the highest import therefore been deemed worthy of witnessing one of them to be young women dressed resolutions: Resolved, That the present guel indused electricity on buildings, which offer was quite restored to my usual state of is insuficient, and that another ought to be the attraction for the opposite slectricity health. Please give this publiefty for the the nights ddol, there are periods of time ance." within each twenty-four hours, when it is

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