CHINESE HUMOUR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 14 September 1909, Page 1

CHINESE HUMOUR.

An important feature of the Chinese "Universal Gazette" is its satirical writing, of which the following is a specimen: — "Lemonade. — A peasant comes to Shanghai to buy a bottle of lemonade. The shopkeeper gives it to him with the warning to open ifcarefully; otherwise the cork may fly out, and there -may be an explosion. The peasant gtes home and opens the bottle in fear and t/Tcmfblfng. But nofhin'g Ibajpens. Tho lemonade was flat." "The allusion is to the appointment among the Ministry at Pekin of Yuan Shih-pai and Chang Chi-tung, the loader of the Heform Party. The people quaked ana tremblea -with mingled hopes and fears of reforms to come. But nothing has happened. There was no explosion, and things -tvent on as before." — "(Inloniiitioual." IT SEEMS SO. Served at a restaurant in South Dakota' with a bad egg, a man, telegraphs a New York correspondeut, sent it by express post with a formal omplaint lo tho Attorney-General at Washington, whose assistant made the following memorandum:— No 149,563. Subject transmits boded egg, TVhieh he believes rotten. It spems so. File."