TYPICAL CHINESE OPEN AIR SHOWS.
• In the Suza district on ai piece of waste land itinerant shows have pitched their tents and fixings. They include a performing tiger (5 cents), jugglers, performing monkey, Punch and Judy, and performing marionettes A gang of extortioners own the tiger, as after paying 5 cents to go in, 20 cents more have to be-paid, failing which, "out you go!. •
' An Imperial Chinese postal guide has been issued. It is the intention to improve the system and to make the main feature of it intelligible to the people. The extension of the Imperial Post Office over this vast Empire has ibeen recommended by the different Viceroys and. Governors in their memorial to the Throne, as one of the measures of reform. A fine field for Artemus Ward!
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9976, 24 June 1901, Page 3
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132TYPICAL CHINESE OPEN AIR SHOWS. Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9976, 24 June 1901, Page 3
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