Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1879 — A Chinese Review. [ARTICLE]

A Chinese Review.

A Chinese review has just been witnessed and described by a correspondent qf the Shanghai Courier. The men, clad in uniforms of red and blue, were ranged in two ranks, every tenth man holding a bright scarlet flag, while a sergeant in the middle gave the time to the advance by waving a huge crimson standard. At the sound of a horn, which resembled the humming of a gigantic bee, the battalion prepared to receive cavalry. Out popped a soldierbrandishing a pike, which he poked at an imaginary assailant, then uttering a shriek like an owl he flourished his shield, turned a somersault, and trippingly retired to the ranks. When everybody had popped out, brandished and poked his pike, shrieked like an owl, thrown a somersault, and retired, the big horn hummed once more, the soldiers formed in square and one of them danced gravely put energetically forward, throwing out his right leg with a graceful jerk; then bounding backward he again danced forward, this time throwing out his left. Then he jumped, he waltzed, he capered, he prancea, he turned head over heels, rolled himself well in the dust (which rose in clouds), stood on the back of his neck while he flourished his legs in the air; , recovered himself, grasped wildly with his arms at nothing in particular, made a grotesque courtesy to the Viceroy and retired. With this martial spectacle the, review concluded. < ’ ■ . • ] Mas. Josrss, howls health this morning! Thahk you; madam, much Improved. I bought a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Byrup last night, and after the Ont dose., my cough wan <dtecked. I slept well and have not coughed once this morning.