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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 45, 3 October 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

Chinese Courage.—An officer serving in the Chinese expedition amuses a friend in Paris by giving the following order of the day* alleged to have been published by one of the Chinese commanders, directing his soldiers what they are to do in; order to overcome their enemies. It is drawn up in the form of a training bill of fare for thirteen days: —"This is commanded by me the chief of the braves. Let all tremble and obey. On the thirteenth day before the battle they must eat the jelly made from tiger's flesh, m order to imbibe the rage and ferocity of that animal; twelfth day before, the roasted liver of a lion, in order to have the intrepidity of that noble beast; eleventh day, stewed serpents, to acquire their cunning; tenth, extract of chamelion, to deceive their enemies by changing color \ ninth, crocodile broth, to make them amphibious and to be able to pursue and fight their enemies both by land and on water,; eight, jaguar's liver, cooked in wine, in order to have the rapidity and fury of that quadruped; seventh, hawk's heads, in order to have the quick eye of that bird in distinguishing the enemy; sixth, zebra's intestines, to be able to imitate the cry of that animal ; fifth, hippopotamus' brains, to make the body impenetrable to balls; fourth, stewed raorkeys, to acquire the activity of that race; third, scorpions, in order that all the wounds inflicted by them may be as venomous as the sting of those reptiles. On the day before the battle the half-raw breast of a panther, in order to be as pitiless as that animal; and on the morning of the battle they must drink a glass of leopard's blood, in order that they may imitate that animal, which never turns round while devouring its prey. Tremble and obey!" The writer adds that, •' on observing to a Chinese prisoner that, notwithstanding the above preparation for combat, tne braves had fled before their enemies, the Chinaman explained that the cheat of a cook had for his own profit served up the flesh of calves instead of that of panthers and tigers, and that circumstance had made them cowards."— Galignini. Queer Epitaph.—ln the Cathedral churchyard, Winchester, to the memory of Thomas Fletcher : " Here lies in peace a Hampshire grenadier, Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer, Soldiers, be wise from his untimely fall, And, when you're hot, drink strong or none at til/