Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — Breaking Up A Mob. [ARTICLE]

Breaking Up A Mob.

The Chinese carefully qjroid being caught in the rain. They have a superstition that drops of rain falling on the head breed vermin, which, with their very long hair, Is very difficult to get rid of. But they are equally careful not to wet their feet. This latter precaution is not due entirely to the fact that the soles of their shoes are made of pasteboard and liable to be injured by soaking, but to a belief that soreness of the feet Is brought about by getting them damp. In commenting on these peculiarities, Leslie’s Weekly prints the following: The Chinese tear of rain has sometimes had a striking effect on mobs and armies. At the time of the massacre in 1870, at Tien tsin, the mob burned the French consulate, with the cathedral and the convent, destroyed the orphanage of the Sisters of Charity, and murdered the consul, the Sisters and several priests. Then the crowd started toward the other settlement, determined to pub all foreigners to death. The cathedral behind it was in flames, and the mob, fresh from the torture of nuns, was hungry for blood. It started down the Taku road <ith frenzied shouts and the beating of drums and gongs, when suddenly rain began to fall. That was the end of the massacre. The crowd covered their heads and scattered.