MISCELLANEOUS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4318, 30 May 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEOUS.

ADMIRAL PORTE ft'S VISITOR,

The Chinese visiting etiqnetto is that the rank of the callor is denoted by the size of his card. 'Thus the visiting card of a high mandarin would bo an immense roll of paper tied up.

Admiral Porter recently engaged a fullblooded Chinese servant, and Mrs Porter immediately afterwards held a "reception" —whether to commemorate the employment of the "yellow boy " or not is not known.. John Chinaman attended at the door, and received with great disgust the small pasteboards of the visitors, and evidently with an opinion of his own, of the low condition of the Admiral's friends, pitched the cards into a basket, and, with scant ceremony, showed their owners into the draw-ing-room. But presently the gas man called with a bill on a big piece of creamcolored paper. That card satisfied John. With deep reverence he received it. With low salaams he ushered the bearer not only into the drawing-room. but ; with profound genuflections, to the dismay of the gas man and horror of Mrs Porter, clear up to tho centre of the room, whore that lady was receiving her distinguished guests ; and then John, with another humblo reverence, meekly retired, doubtless supposing that the owner of that card could be no less than the president.