Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — Mandarins Never Seen to Walk. [ARTICLE]

Mandarins Never Seen to Walk.

Most Chinese mandarins pass the whole of their lives without taking a single yard of exercise. The late Nanking viceroy (father of the Marquis Tsene) was considered a remarkable character because he always walked 1,000 steps a day in his private garden. Under no circumstances whatever is a mandarin ever seen on foot in his own jurisdiction.