Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — A Celestial Joke. [ARTICLE]

A Celestial Joke.

The love of fun is not unknown among the serious looking Celestials who, during the past few years, have been collecting in some parts of our Australian colonies. A storekeeper, wishing to advertise his articles' in the Chinese language, engaged a Celestial to paint him a sign, expecting, of course, that it would be a very enticing one. , It did not answer his expectations, however, for the only perceptible effect it had on “the relations of the sun and moon,” as the Chinese term themselves, was to excite a grin of the broadest dimensions. At iength the storekeeper, by a considerable bribe, obtained a translation in English of the advertisement, and found it to be as follows: “Don’t buy anything here; storekeeper a rogue.” —Manchester Times.