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A BABY OF limn DEGREE, VIIK INFANT DAUHIITER OF THE CHINESE JWIMSITKU TO THE ClNlTEO STATES. VAr Felon Hint Have Been and Will He (liven in Her Honor. [From the National Republican.] It was at the residence of the Chinese Minister, and the representative of the Jit’/ailtHcan had called to inquire about -tlie health of the Minister’s baby daugh¬ ter-. Tsu Shan Puug, First Secretary of Legation, had said that the very young lady was in excellent health and spirits and was growing rapidly. Then the reporter said ho had a very delicate question to ask, and begged the Secre¬ tary rot to be offended, but if the in¬ quiry was a violation of Oriental eti¬ quette to at once inform him aud they would talk about the weather or some other harmless subject, “It is custom jtiv, you know,” continued the reporter, . this country to publish quite min¬ ute details of the private life of bigli lx> u babies, and-” “ i understand,” said the Secretary, over whose face there had crept a smile of appreciation and amusement, “ you •w-iiit to know about the baby’s feet. Borne one has said that they are already bound. I assure you that it is no such tJimg. Her feet are just like any Amer¬ ican baby’s.” “ IJut is it not true that the growth of the feet of noble Chinese girls is stopped -early in life?” • « Certainly it is trap, just as it is true that the waists of all high born Ameri - earn ladies are compressed,” and the Sec¬ retary illustrated by compressing his own rather slender waist with his two Tia> ds. “To make the ladies’ feet small,” lie continued, “is a Chinese fashion; to make their waists small an American fashion. It is a demand of fashion or - enniom in both cases, aud nothing mere.” “At what age are the feet bound?” “ iViien the little girl is six or seven yean old. Tlie process is so gradual, that, I think, there is no pain about it whatever; no more than when an Ameri¬ can girl binds her waist.” “Is there nothing peculiar, then, about < fhc very early lifeof a Chinese maiden ?” “Nothing in the world. She is just like an American baby, About two months ago the members of the Chinese Embassy celebrated the day when she was a month The old by celebration a dinner at Worm ley’s. when next is in her honor will tie she old enough to go to School. Then there will be another din¬ ner. There will he no more festivities for her then until she is married.” “When will she lie old enough to go to school ?” “When she is seven or eight years old.” “I sy Tjose you mean by ‘ going to school ’ tWt an instructress will be brought into the family?” “Not always. Sometimes a rich little Chinese girl will have a governess in the house, hut often several wealthy families employ a tutoress together and send their children to her for instruction. It as a private school.” Just then there came down from the nppor regions of the house a long, vigor¬ ous, infantile wail. “There,” Chinese said baby theSeoretary, laughing, -“is a crying in good Eng¬ lish.” “Ts she the Minister’s first child?” i Oh, uo. He has several children at home, but this is the first one and the first, Chinese baby horn for in Minister Washington. She is a great pet the and his wife.” “And would if she be of only all the boy Embassy, I suppose, was n ?” ‘ ‘Oh, that makes no difference. Lit¬ tle boys and girls are treated alike. It Is only when they are grown that our etiquette requires the seclusion of the ladies. ” The reporter inquired with much cau¬ tion and fear of offending why it was that the Chinese Minister’s wife did not Keceivo aud did not go out at all, “ That,” said the Secretary, “ is only because she does not- speak English, and it would be highly improper, according to our etiquette, for a gentleman to translate for her. Neither does the Min¬ ister speak English, and there is no one who could translate for his wife.” “How is it that the Minister cannot English when you speak it so well?” “I acquired the language in Hong Kong, but the Minister is now an old ■nan, about sixty-one years old; never¬ theless he is studying the language,” Returning to the more interesting sub¬ ject of the ladies, the reporter suggested that the wife of the Chinese Minister at Pans was quite a favorite in society and Went, out v--*-- .r “That is,” said the Secretary, “be «Mise she lias a very charming lady -daughter, highly educated, and speak¬ ing European languages well. She can translate for her mother.” “Is the Minister’s wife the only Chi¬ nese lady here ?” “Yes; the other members of the Em¬ bassy, if they are married, The must Minister’s leave then wives at home. wife has two Chinese maids with her. but there is really no room for any more ladies in the house,” said the Secretary, laughing. He then explained that the term of office of the members of the Em¬ bassy ‘six wars three years, after which they bad months’ leave of absence iu which to go to China and visit their families before returning, if they did re¬ turn, which was optional with them. The present is tlie second Chinese em¬ bassy, and there are but two members of it who were here with the iirst Em¬ bassy. As the Secretary said, three years is quite long enough to be separa¬ ted from one’s family. The seclusion of the Minister’s wife lias not been gener •ally understood, but the Secretary stated that the reason given above was the only one. She occasionally goes out riding, but makes no calls and has no society. The advent of tlie baby must have been a blessing to her secluded life. ft sarcastic looker-on in Vermont Writing from an encampment of militia *t St Johnsbury, describes the review¬ ing officers thus: “One is the Governor, two are ex-Governors, and the other seventeen all want to be Governors.” God is glorified, not by and our all groans, good foul our thanksgivings; good claim natural thought and action a alliance with good cheer. A WICKED JOKE. How the Oil Kxclian.e Ilude wai Imposed Upon. The members of the Oil Exchange are a rather swell set of young men, hut the lead in the matter of clothes is taken by a youth known as “the dude,” whose name is withheld for the sake of his relatives. This dude strolled into the Exchange during a dull hour, says a local paper, and Solomon in all his glory was never arrayed like one of him. To begin near the bottom, his feet (the dude’s, not Solomon’s) were encased in the glossiest fitted of patent leathers; his trousers like the paint on a lamp-post; his coat had never a crease from tail to top; his linen was starched until it shone, and his collar was perfection itself and raised his chin so that he could only gaze at the floor at the hazard of cutting his throat. But his tout ensemble, so to speak, was completed anil set off by the darlingest silk hat imaginable, with the broadest and most curling of brims and a beautiful bulgent top. Altogether he was radiantly, dazzliugly beautiful. Tue dude stopped near the middle of the floor, struck an attitude much af¬ fected by garden stautary, and gazed serenely and pityingly upon his com¬ monplace fellow-brokers. But horror of horrors ! A rude man came behind him and jerked the silken tile from his head, and the next moment it was thrown to the floor, had received a vicious kick, and a dozen brokers were running aftei it. They surrounded it, scuffed for it, and away it sailed again toward the ceiling with the entire membership of the Exchange, save only the owner, in wild pursuit. Bound aud round the floor gamboled the merry brokers with the hat before them. Now it was suffer¬ ing in their midst, then it shot over the floor in desperate efforts to escape, only to)be trodden again overtaken, trampled, kicked and until it presented an ap¬ pearance as if it had been lain down on by a cow and then spent a summer uu der a dust-heap, and the gay brokers were tired out and perspiring. The dude during this terrible period stood aghast, aud, with horror depicted in every feature, turned in frozen despair as the gambols of his wicked associates led them to the four cardinal points of the room’s compass. But when a grin¬ ning messenger boy brought him the battered corpse of his precious dicer he forced a smile which was only a desolate mockery of happiness and remarked: “Aw dawn’t care anyway. It was an old hawt.” Then the rude man who had torn the tile from the unhappy adolescent’s head approached and handed him the silken hat uninjured, and thedude learned that he had been the victim of a wicked joke. An old hat had been substituted on the floor, while the joker held the victim’s tile behind his back. And it came to pass that the noise of unholy the Jaughter was so great as to jar ticker into the tape-basket, and the dude will wear a derby hat hereafter while on the floor of the-Exchange. A Romantic story. Thirty years ago the American Consul at Rio Janeiro was Henry Devon, who had lived for a long time in Brazil and acquired a fortune. Soon after her ar¬ rival in this country with her three chil¬ dren on a visit, about the year 1853, Mrs. Devon learned of her husband’s death iu Rio, and immediate steps were taken to settle his estate. In the course of the settlement it was ascertained that but a largo sum of money could had disappeared, no trace of it be found. After the vain investigation was over Mr. Deven’s confidential clerk, to whom no suspicion was attached, removed to Australia, where he had a checkered career in the gold diggings. Last March the clerk fell sick and was taken to a hospital in Melbourne. Shortly before his death he embraced the Catholic faith and confessed that he had stolen the missing §42,000. He was enjoined to make restitution, which he was will¬ ing to do, and as he had kept up a cor¬ respondence with his old employer’s widow for several years after the crime, there was little difficulty iu tracing her children. One of them, Mrs. Joseph Ashhrooke, who lives at the Girard House, in Philadelphia, has just received a letter informing her of this history and also of the agreeable fact that the clerk bequeathed $25,000 apiece to herself, her brother and her sister. In a part of the country where the long drought has been prevailing one rain of the newspapers, in speaking of the day, that had fallen the previous re¬ marked that, “while the showers were copious, they were not sufficient to meet the wants of the mill men,” but the compositor made it appear “milkmen.” “No, ’’said Mr. Dash Cutter, “I can’t afford a new suit of clothes myself; it has cost me so much for liveries for my coachman and footman .”—Boston Post . Thebe are houses where people are bright without mistrusting it; there are others where people are stupid in spite of themselves. IIoxv He Double,1 Hi* Trade. Mr. Betij. W. Pah n, pharmacist, G’obe Village, Mass, says that the miraculous pain cure, St, Jacob’s Oil, has greatly helped his other busine s, a d ihe sates of the remedy have doubled n one month. He keeps a large supply dways on hand. Offi -ers of the Army and Navy pronounce St. Jacob’s Oil to be the g.eatest pain cure of the age. 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