Definite shape to the proposal to give a day's entertainment on shore to a number of men from the British for now lying at Woosung was given at an informal but largely attended and very business-like meeting held last evening at the Club. Mr. F. Anderson (Chairman of the Municipal Council) presided.
The programme already pretty well arranged was outlined by Mr. James McKie, who has practically taken the matter in hand and has done most of the ard work of setting the scheme going. Ho was able to announce that the financial needs were already provided for. The tenders Gutzlaff, Samson, and Victoria have been placed at the disposal of the transport Committee and these will bring the men up the river to the Bund. Qn disembarking, the guests will be marched b the Town Band to the Town Hall where dinner—of the old fashioned English kind, will be served. There roast joints will be supported by ale and porter, and Mr. R.B. Allen of Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor & Ca. has promised a glass of western, ay ae—daily blush wt the Just s, the sun, goes to, bed, and the publicity of the performance, they gather in we Puolic Garuen of Shanghat—their ob-Yious, attraction the nightly dole, of munlcipal music, the cniarén are suffered to come, tov, and their vowes are to many the real unnsic to be beard, che study of man-kand is man, the sidy of man, as a hobby, according to, a forgotten, "a very properly forgotten, humourist, is cheap. 4% costs nothing. 'Whether of mot, here, where the musicians and the.childreh' play, tte observation of one's fellows, in such a very cos mopolitan crowd, requires no effort. It is forced upon one. sSesides, what also is there to do?
'Yo take types" at random. "Thats is a group of four Japanes mex, their' phrases of small tak punctuated by hearty, bursts of lwugoter. Un busitiess bent, the Japanese is a very serious person, If ho'smilé at all, the smue is added, make you sure, to the price of the ting ne sells. But at leisure, he is all cachinnation. Ju iis brain there seems to. be a constant hwmorhage of hilarity. "Plenty people here." (Laughter). "Yes. You say true." (Laughce). hey nearly all have good testh! It was cynical dentist who suid: "A closed mouth often hides bad teeth."
Not far away, four Indians, two ladies and two gentlemen, The. latter are in European attire.. The, ladies, for which we are grateful, retain their. picturesque national habiliments of. flowing, flowery silks. Their talk we do not understand, It sounds musical,. ce ange A group of German sailors, fine, fighting animals. They smoke, and, at tedious in tervals,, limit monosyllables. Is it that there is not sufficient. room in this crowd for them to unroll and spread out those polysyllabic verbs, which so perturbed the genial wit froma Hartford, U.S. A.?
A vision passes, "an English gird walking, white muslin floitices, trailing ribbons, and a 'Shady hat, suggesting' cpolnéss and warmth simultansousty. Note her pretty heck, and the carriage of her' dainty hea Jered slag in rutting' tine, no swan upon a park lake, ever could emulate that poetry of pose,
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