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THE CHINESE HEADSMAN. A Very Eiport Prrwnaje With le*lm of Work U> do The Pr^rea*. A letter to the Inter-Of tan s: Down toward the southeast corner of the city walls, but outside of it, there is in Can ton a short thoroughiare or lane, about fifty yards in length and from fmir to eight yards in breadth, into which I never dare to look when in that part of tho city. It is the Canton execution ground. There is no street leading directly to It, cither from the city or from the river. It is touched on every side, by the shops and houses of natives,' for it is in the heart of the southern suburb, where the people alionnd like swarming bees. The whole eastern side is bounded by a dead wall of brick about twelve feet high, while on the opposite side is a row of workshops'for the mannfaeture of the coarsest kind of unglazed earthen wafe. I •appose there is no spot on earth where so many tragedies have been enacted as on this little plot of ground; and how any human being can endure it to live in proximity to the place is more than I can understand. I suppose it is because by a merciful provision of nature the fear of death diminishes in exact ratio to its in creasing frequency. Here it is so fre quent that the people laugh at its ap proach, and instances of heroic death are the rule, rather than the ex ception. The national sensibilities seem to have been almost destroyed. Here in one year, during the “Talping” hellion, I am told that 50,000 heads were severed from as many bodies; and for a number of years thereafter the av erage annual decapitation rate was 1,500 peraons. fhmk of it! It seems as if the ground must be crimson with the perpetual sacrifice of guilty and innocent blood; and I half wonder that the stain has not passed through this tiny earth to redeem the soil of America on the other side. While from a somewhat cursory ex amination o.f the |x*nal code of China, I am led to believe that it aims at ns high a state of public virtue and justioe as that of most civilized countries, 1 am Compelled daily to shudder at the in human w ay in which the enforcement of tho laws is conducted. The torture sys tem prevails, not only in connection with the punishment of convicted criminals, but also as a means of forcing an accused man to confess, whether he is guilty or not, and as a means of forcing a witness to give the evidence that it is suspected he has in his possession. If I were writing for some publications instead of a decent American newspaper, P might fill columns with revolting details such us any traveler may witness here, which would not only have the merit of truth, but would exceed in thrilling sensation alism any of the fiction its way into after-dark literature. * The? hardest feature of it all is the un .*emly haste with which criminals are hustled into eternity. About an hour be -fore the annt-emcuenallv is to be udmi 14=1 istercd the doomed men are informed of their fate. They are promptly escorted to the yamun of the governor (merely being allowed the privilege of a hearty meal), where the death-warrant is ex hibited. They are pinioned, and may be seen in the act of being transported to the execution-ground in baskets carried between two coolies. Their limbs are pinioned, and their arms tightly fastened behind their backs,being tied wittiacord to their ankles. At the back of each criminal’s neck is a stick, to which is at tached a long strip of paper, inscribed with the man’s name, age, crime and fate. In some cases this paper is affixed to ar rows which have "been shot through the poor fellow's ears, but for the sake of simplicity \yo will take the case of those who are granted the privilege of the most honorable form of capital punishment. Beside the coolies who are carrying the candidates for decapitation, the process ion is made up simply of two magis trates, who march at the head, and take Seats in front of a shop facing the execu ' tion-grouml to witness the final tragedy. The criminals arc dumped out of the baskets, placed upon the ground in a kneeling attitude, and ranged in a line; or if there are'a good many of them, in two or three lines. The ligatures of the arms and legs throw the head back into an almost horizontal position. An as sistant runs rapidly along the line, snatch ing away the tickets with which each man is markcjd, and bringing the head into the position. In the great ma jwirjr Of cases the victims display the ut most stolidity, it is said, which to mv mind only emphasizes the sadness of this barbarous picture. In less than a minute, it may be, from the time when the mournful band en *>— tered the yard the magistrates on their re served benches will shout “Pan!” (exe cute.) And wit> the rapidity of an echo Jie dull, crashing blows of’ the keads vn’s ax are heard falling along the line. Practice makes perfect, and these Can onese executioners are expexts in their profession. It is rare, indeed, that it takes a second stroke to send the head polling and tumbling in the gore that sat urates the ground. In a quarter of an hour more the bodies have been dumped coffins and carried to the crimi- j Just outside the east are often suspended in ° n the commit- ! I aerso as g* Coral warnings. Rfc v . Gtherindustrv"! * j as ispidly bit cm,ntr 7 has JJR'O Unite/ SSe ' 3 ,;? oo ' #< w. 000. oon J„ 'l* h,ve i W mounted to oHv 1 founds; to-lav it ®*** 60,000,000 pounds— -Al) is nearly 300,060.000 i I an increase of W two-fold Of sEt en L? production of wool tire-fold in FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. Whales were eaten by persons tho upper classes in Europe as late at least as*the latter part of the thirteenth cen tury. The tail and tongue, dressed with qxas or roasted, were prized as choice delicacies. The Princess Eleanor de Montford paid, in 1266, the sum of twenty-four shillings for “100 pieces of wlmle” to be used as food in her .house hold. The latest novelty in New' York city is paper soap, which is mainly for the uso of travelers. The sheets of paoer. which are put up in the form of a small book oi about three inches square,are coated with soap and are said to be just as good as the regulation article,in addition to being muc [ier. There are fifty soap sheets in eatu oook, costing in the aggregate about as much as an ordinary cake oJ soap. A twenty-months’-old child in Gran itevillc, Cal., while standing in the door way of its home, was charmed by a rat tlesnake, which coiled itself in front of him. It was but two feet away and wa* gently moving its head backward and forward, and looking at the child with eves like two flames. The child's sister, twelve years of age, pulled her little brother away, when the reptile glided swiftly out of sight. The child seemed stupefied for some time afterward. An Englishman proposes a “reform 11 in printing by omitting “the” from the copy. In a chance copy of the Londoa Timet he found “the” occurring 200 times in the first column of the first page; he calculates that it occurs I,OOC times on every page of every copy of the Timet , making 16,000 times for each en tire copy, equal to 38,000 letters. Keck oning that every line in a London Time; numbers forty letters and that a column is made up of 150 lines, 6,000 letters are consumed in setting up a column, which brings the calculator to his grand result —that an ordinary cops of the London Timet devotes eight columns of its space to one little word “the.” A great many persons say “ God bles? us ” when thev* sneeze. The following explains the origin of the practice: Ac cording to the rabbinical theory it was originally ordained that men should sneeze but once, in that act, possible only when the time of death had come, giving up the ghost. But the patriarch Jacob, feeling that such a sudden call al lowed no time for the settlement ol w’orldly affairs and for preparation foi the hereafter, prayed for exemption from tho rule, and in answer to his prayer was allow r ed to sneeze and not die. Tne change was regarded as a great benefit, and “ all the princes of the universe, when they heard it, ordered that for the future sneezing should be accompanied with wishes for its prolongation.” Hence the custom which has prevailed among all nations of uttering some form of saluta tion on the occasion of the act. A very common ojucmiu on iimmig u.u Liiuiwn people on sneezing is “God bless us!” which generally sounds more humorous than reverential under the circumstances. Foreign Land Holders in this Country. The amount of land owned in this country by Englishmen, British corpo rations and other foreigners, is larger than most people suppose. A list of these holdings, ranging from 5,000 to 4,500,-. 000 acres, and footing up a total of 20,- 041.000 acres, is published. In othei words, European subjects own more than half as much land in this country ns there is in England. Among the largest tracts that have passed into foreign hands are the following: English syndicate No. 1 (in Texas) acres.. 4,'00,003 English syndicate No. (in Texas)..3,o xj,ooo Sir r.dward Reid. K.C.B.iin Flori a.2,000,000 English syndicate h.Aie i by 8. Phil potts ! i .l,8t0 ; 00S C. K. and lan 1 ooinpany of London,, Marquis of Twee t ale 1,750,005 j FhiMip. Marshall A j German syndicate 1,100,000 I An^lo-American syadi- ate beaiel by Mr. Rodgers, l ondon 750.00 ft An’Khglish company (in Mississippi) 700,000 Duke of Sutherland 425,(M10 Rriti >h land and mortgage company 020,000 Captain Whelley, M. F\,ior Fet-r --boro, Englaid.4 110,000 Missouri lan l c impany. Edinburgh . : 00.003 The Hon. hobart ’lean ant of London,. 240,000 Scotch lan4 company, Dundee.....V : > 247,66 i Lord Dunraore i 16).000 ] Beniamin Newgas, Liverpool 100,0 hi | Lord Houghton. 00,000 Lord Dunraven €O,OOO : English land co ny any (in Florida).. 50,000 English land compauv, lepreseute 1 by Jb. Newgas 50,030 ; An English cap.talist (in Arkansas*. 50,003 j Albert reei, M. F., Leicestershire... 10,(00 George Grant of bond on tin Kansas' 103,0 K) An English syndicate (represented by Close Frcs. t in Wisconsin llO.fO) A Scot-h company iin Cali omia'... 14u,0J0 M. El erhauser. o! Nova Scotia, in West Virginia 600,030 A Scotch syndicate tin Flo i la) ; 503,000 A- Boysen, Danish consul at Milwau-. kee........... ............. 50 000 Missouri land ani L. 8. Ct* of Edin burg h 165,000 English syndicate (in Florida) 59J 0) Raising Turtles by Machine. The New York World says: People | who are fond of turtle soup, but who are not willing to pay exhorbitant prices for the delicacy, will watch with iuterest an | experiment which is about to be at £ tempted in the way of hatching turtles in i??*' m ** md raising them as domestic J Vf 1 are for the { A -ria and Corsica. w h nM ♦i!’ ! conditions of sandy beach he neceSssu 7 ’ md mav be found f V ST t food ’ ! of the scheL The promo ! success, in view oconfident of I V* *J fish arc that oysters are raised a- it - ilatc^od and j turtles. as it U proposed to and sgnrftuaffiTare pub^^j?^ Ucism four m Belgium, Fran . * three in Germany. S P ftin and * i A Condactor’s Story. Rf“l have been running a train for ■irty years,” said a gray-haired <on- Kctoron the Wrpash. “I started in B the New York Central, have been op the Lake Shore, Pennsylvania and Sse C.’s, and hefe 1 am on the Wa “|>id you know old Vanderbilt?” “■id I know him ? Well. Housed to kl'p a pretty close watch-of every thing, I tell you, and there wasn’t much going on albng the line the road that he didn’t know about. One time I got myself into a box. At Albany they brought a corpse onto my train, and nobody had bought a ticket for it, according to rules. At first I re fused to carry it, but the station agent said it belonged to some of the rail road folks, attd the charges would be paid to me in New York. When we got to New York nobody called for the corpse. I was in a hurry to go home, but I waited round for my fare t as I knew I’d be held responsible for It. Nobody came, and nobody at the depot knew anything about it. Tit's vexed me a good deal, and so I made up my mind something had to ba done. So I* sent word over to the medical college there was a ‘stiff’ at the Central depot for sale. A doctor came right over, and I sold him the body for just enough to pay the vharges, entered the fact on my re ;x>rt, and went home. Next morning I heard the body was that, of a rela tive of old Vanderbilt himself. And f had gone anti sold it to a medical coL lege! Well, I went straight to the old man’s office to get my discharge. I knew my time had come. But, would you believe it, I wasn’t bounced. Tho <?ld man took it very cool.” ; “What did he say?” “lie said he had got the body back ,U1 right, and had inquired into all the i'iFcumstances. Then he raised my waives a hundred dollars a year.”— Chi. rago Herald. Divleg for the Remains of Ships. The diving for the remains of the Greek and Persian ships sunk in the great sea fight at Salamis has caused a flutter in archaeological circles. liy IS kIIUU 11 UL their banks of \irs of the ancient world. We have descriptions present ed us in the delightful gossip of Athenauis of two ships built by Ptole my Philopater, and one built by Iliero tyrant of Syracuse. But the description is wholly of the interior. 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