HORSE-RACING IN CHINA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1818, 18 April 1888, Page 3

HORSE- RACING IN CHINA

A Chinese horso-raco is certainly suggestive of the lmUcrou", but no ippvp bo than the reality, as given m. the pnge3 of a recent traveller m tbo dominions of the Brother of the Moon. <( On the afternoon of the cup day at the Hong Kong races," siys tho writer, '* tbo main rond is taken po&ROssion of formilos by anwiftlycireulalipg imss of chattering, pig tailed most uncanny- looking Chinos o lic/e yro i a;e at the entrance of the grand t-tanri The Handling-boll' rings, tlie numbers are hoieted, a thud of tioof» announces a preliminary canter. Aa to tho rnc'n?,, it is beneath contempt. Tho ponioa aro from Australia, Japarj. or Chufcs -wretched, weedy, groggy, under-s'zed brutes— while tho amateur jockeys are principally oonspicuqus for the- preposterous iongfh of their lega. their heavy weights and quoor ridiug, A very good racer, according 1 to their standard, can be bought for about w'x guineas. But the races avo only, an excuse for gambling aul ririn'k'ing anct | betting on the chancea of the "wretched screws taking the qt^lrcs, which are pretty C"nßi<3or»ble.' Tho cignal Imp boon given and they *ro off, Ifer? eorflo the horses \ 7/hat a qyeer lopking Jot the jockeys are \ How are hnnohed up 1 ' How thoy throw their qrraa ab.oqt J £[ow fiercely they flog ! What diabolical fßceß, and ho\v queer their plgtaila look, floating m the wind from bpnoath their jockey c«pn or fulling over their bUIc j^okota, for th«.y at* cnßtumed en regie I This Is a taca ran by tho grooms of English aottlere, and Is

the beit one of the meeting. 'Go if, Arober ! 'Go it, Fordhara ! ' »hout their masters, by wny of encouragement, and thy yo'lrw-sklns ocroam and yell Ilk* fretz ed madmen or enriged moakeya until tho tjoal U \v.i&t, aftor vrhich they strut about the coarse m their caps and j:ckets, evidenily icnrnnnaoly prood of tdeir make-up d V Anglais. A DEATHS SD SBSS-TION. Society m Oinnnnati'a nrfstnoratlc enbnrb, Avnndale, Is excited over a deathbed Benaatiin. Lan Tuefdsy affornoon Samnel O. Tatum, jua., ft very prominent young huelnosa maa and the eon ani hoit of a Cincinnati mUlloaaifo, died at hia elegant horaa en Kaeota Avenue. He was but littlo over thirty years old, and though a trifle peculiar m hia ways, tras regarded as a ero*fc p zj by marriageable j young laiies, though ie wa>. deemed a oonfirmed bachelor, Ab the body lay at the hoosa on Wednesday a carriage drove np and an e'egantiy dressed lady alighted. Her black eyeß, dnk hair, and features indicated French decent, She hurriedly walked to the front door and excitedly demanded that she be permitted to Bee the remuna of Mr Tatura. The woman's uunuerß were bo strange and her agitation co notloaablo that this wag refused She instated that she had a right to whit tha asked, and In proof took from her pocket a document and hand; d it over toann?mber of the household who bad responded to the ring of the bell, It proved to be a fo mil certificate of m&riisge of Samuol T-itum, jnn., to Marie Frances Emommin at Dayton, two years ago. All the family were naturally surprised when confronted with this ev'decce of Tatutn'a double life,, and a consolation waa hurriedly hdd, ending m the vi*i!or beinp; courteously Invited ir. It now turns out that the mysterious wonun la thedaugh'er of poor aid pain people at Dayton. Four yeara ago she left bom ) to be treated for some coruplaint at an hospital m th's city. She returned homo with a husband m the person of a distinguished looking young" gentleman nimed Herbert Linton. The coupla later wpnt to housa-keeping m Cincinnati, on West Eighth street, aid Mr Lin ton 'a rooms appear tn the dlr^cory. Linton was no other that Tatum. In t'rno the woman discovered the husband's right nsma, and compelled him, two years ago to marry her under his name. Tha ceremony was performed In BofiMo, New York. All this time Tatnm. was living a doable life, and his fcienda never suspected the trua situation till his doith, when the wir'ow turned up with a marriage certificate. She Is no<r at tbe suburban horn?, and will came into possession of a cool half- million In her own right.— "Brooklyn Eagle."