BETTER GO TO CHINA.
An American in ChinU writes:—" Everything goes by contraries here." Then China (says the ' Norristown Herald ') is the place for the American paragraphist. Just think of living iu a land where the servant girl explodes and blows up the oil-can ; where, instead of the mule kicking the man to death, the »ian kicks the mule into oblivion ; and the chestnut tree falls from tho boy and breaks its limbs, and tho gun is sent to kingdom come because it " didn't know the man wa3 loaded," and the ice breaks through a skater and is drowned ; and the editor's house is broken into by thieves and robbed of 150,000d01s in cash and 10,000dols in jewellery ; where the front gate—but you have our idea. Four-fifths of the jokes that have been perpetrated in this country during the past fifteen years could bo introduced sort o' vice verm in China, and pass for new.
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Evening Star, Issue 5226, 4 December 1879, Page 4
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