Yankee notions about Barmaids- —" Female beerjerkers" is the name given to barmaids in Pittsburgh. By a local ordinance the employment of barmaids was interdicted. Thereupon" the saloon keepers advertised that they had engaged lady conversationists'' to entertain visitors. An exquisite piece of Chinese carving vvas exhibited at the Philadelphia Exhibition. On aiv elephant's tusk is represented. a Chinese city situated on the side of a mountain, and containing Joss-house, palaces, pagodas, and military processions, while every minute detail of Celestial street and domestic life is depicted with marvellous accuracy. The carving is the work of one man, an 3 occupied him for three years, yet the value of native labor in China is so inconsiderable that the value of the work is only estimated at It has been bought by the l'emisylvumaii Museum of Art.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 417, 5 April 1877, Page 3
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135Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 417, 5 April 1877, Page 3
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