Everyone who has travelled in this Celestial Empire, knows that when a Chinaman does wash his face or take a bath, he wants his water hot, whether there be much or little of it. Like the darkey in the US., where the sunshine on the southern plantations is never quite hot enough, so is it with the sons of Han in the use of water. But one man is reported here as having been scalded to death at the bath house, For ourselves we think the story true as regards the man's death, but we are very sceptical as to a man getting scalded to death in water less than a foot deep and that man a Chinaman, 12th June.
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