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Street Life in Rekin,

It is scarcely possible to imagine,

without having witnessed it, the scene Princes Riward Island Branch

which the commercial streets of Pekin exhibit every day. crowd, the horses, mules, carriages, hand-barrows and sedan-chairs, all mixed in inextricable confusion, and among them the itinerant dealers, some with hampers, contaiming the stock-in-trade suspended around their necks, others standing before portable stoves, on which they cook the viands they vend. These and many others are to be seen in the street, not silent ly offering their wares, but endeavor- ing to attract the attention ot possible buyers by shrill, ear-piercing cries, and loudly vaunting the low price and su- perior quaiities of the commodities.

'The barber witb his little bell summons]

all who have not performed their toilets to be shaved in the open air. He motions his customer to a low seat, with one turn of the hand lathers his head, and dexteriously performs with his triangular razor ; he then paints his eyebrows, and adjusts his queque, brushes his garment, and, receiving a small fee sends him away satisfied. Often a crowd collects to listen toa story-teller, or a singer, to watch the tricks of a conjurer, or to hear of the marvellous properties possessed by cer- tain drugs and medicines sold by a lo- quacious quack ; but suddenly there is a stir amongst the assemblage, which hurriedly disperses or draws to one side, leaving room for the passage of some grandee, who, seated in his chair, and surrounded by a numerous Cortege, expects all inferiors to make way at his presence. Guards of soldiers are stationed day and night in the principle thoroughfares, with strict orders to use their whips on all, without dis- tinction, who are disorderly or betray the slightest inclination to quarrel ; besides this, every street is divided into sections of ten houses, which are each under the surveilance of one of the in habitants, deputed by the authorities, to fill the office of tithing-man. At both ends of the street there is a wooden barrier which is closed at dark, and sentries posted at these barriers will permit of neither ingress nor egress unless the applicant can show good cause for his absence from home. Watchmen patrol the streets during the whole night, who, instead of erying the hour, show their vigilance by strik- ing a tube of bamboo every few minutes, causing a dull, hollow sound, which it takes Europeans some time to become accustomed to and _ sleep through.

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The average schoolboy’s essay on a dog generaliy begins by calling it a “sagwacious animal.’ A certain New York policeman is evidently of the same mind. Whilst patrolling his beat —a very quiet one—the other night, the stillness was suddenly broken by an unearthly noise, and the man rushed

past the officer at full speed, pursued,

the constable swears, by no less than eleven several dogs, each of which was howling and yelling at the top of its voice. The poiicemanic mind imme diately jumped at the conclusion that the chased was a miscreant of the deepest dye. The fugitive was sum- moned to stop, which he refused to do, on which the active and intelligent officer fired five shots at the taken-for granted villian, whom he missed, kill- ing a dog instead. The officer on this with a great crowd of dogs accompany- ing him, proceeded to the house of the suspect, on which his canine friends, conceiving their object to have been achieved, disappeared. The door was locked, but admission was gained, as

licemen best knows how, and the iterally hounded man was discovered in bed. He was arrested and taken to the cells, and the next day brought up before the magistrate, when the follow- ing dialogue took place.

‘What is the charge ?” inquired the magistrate.

“Chased by dogs, Your Honor.”

“ Ah! The circumstance is suspicious. What have you to say prisoner ?”

The latter affirmed his innocence.

“Well, dogs don’t usually chase a man without acause; but have you no other witness,” (turning to the officer.)

‘None but the dogs your Honor.”

“Well, as the dogs are not here, I think Til have to let the prisoner go.”

Even a Justice Shallow could make nothing of the charge, though he did his best. In every sense the officer

was a worthy successor of old Dog-;

berry.

A Bangor, Me., woman is thoroughly nonplussed, She had a little cherry- rum refuse, which she threw into the yard. Her flock of turkeys devoured the stuff, and apparently died from the effects. She plucked the flock and threw the bodies into a heap on the

rass. The following morning she ound them walking about the yard in undress. It would be difficult to tell which was the most surprised, the woman or the turkeys.

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Y virtue of a Writ ot Fieri Facias to me

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wharf, for the better boating and bathing accommodation.

TERMS—$2.00 to $2.50 per day. families.

Coach leaves Charlottetown for the ‘‘ Seaside” every W

Special arrangements made for permanent - and

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