Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1890 — The Chinese Compositor. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Compositor.

That the public may see what the Hong Kong Telegraph has to put up with from the man with the queue, it publishes a portion of a familiar piece as “set up” by a Chinese compositor: “The Burial of Sir John Moon.—Not a drum was heard not a funeral note as his corse to the ramparts. We hirmed not a soldur discharged his farewell shot O’er the gram when our Hero we buired. We buired him doubly at dead of night. The soda with our bayonets turming. By the shuggling moonheanrs mirty light and the lantern drinly buning. No melen coffin enclosed his breast not in slu< nor in shorsed we Wound him. But he lay like a wanior taking his not. Wilt his martial clock around him. Few and short were the prayers and, we we spoke not a word of sorrow. But we steadfastly galed on the fall that was dead and we bittelly thought of the morrer.” A wife was complaining bitterly of her cruel husband. A friend advised her still to treat him kindly and gently and thus heap coals of tire on his head. She replied: “Ah, that will not do, for h have tried two kettles of boiling wate4 on his head and he’s no better.”