To judge from the thousands of wonder. ing Chinese who flocked to Chang Ssu-ho's garden, Shanghai, on Saturday afternoon, parachuting is another of the inventions of the western barbarian which come as a shock to Celestial notions. Of balloons the natives know something; but the spectacle of a woman flying through the air and descending for nearly a mile apparently with only the aid of an umbrella was certainly enough to excite hi-yahs " without number. Tt is on such occasions that foreigners in Chiva must feel the disadvantages of not understanding the language. The comments, translated into our speech, would jour doubt be very amusing; and it is highly probable that there were not wanting patriotic natives who felt sure the same (bind of thing had been done in the Middle
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