A CHINESE RAID.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 256, 5 November 1878, Page 4

A CHINESE RAID.

The San Francisco BogH of Health recently made a visit of inspection to the Chinese quarters, and the correspondent of b French pnper, who accompanied the Board, made lhe foHowirg memoranda, on his ehirtcufFs of points gathered from the conversation of thu members ani from bits of information kinUy furnished by the bystanders: — 1. The Chinese are n j terrible people. 2. They est ra'a. 3. Gecer*'.ly raw. 4. Sometimes they get very sick, Jim] then the rats ent them. 5. Aisvtiys raw. G. They sleep piled up like «*ordwooil in lote of a thousand each. 7. Wlifii thus srrnnped each opium smuggler and tan player has a red rag on his big loe, so that he can be hauled out without delay when wanted by the police. 8. This sort o f loiging costs one cent a week, though clubs of 1 alf-a-cord or more are taken at half-price. 9. They earn 17-Jols. a day, which- reduc 8 thewagpsof tie down-trodden white man to^^:ents. 10. They live and get fat 0:1 ens meal a week, consisting of five grains of rice, find tha forequarter of a mouse. 11. No Cliinamao tnakea over 9 lols. a month. 12. As their license to be Chinamen coats 20Jo!s. a month, it seems they have the gnll (o pay out moro fhan they toke in. 13. They all have small-pox except those that have been vaccinated, and those hive leprosy. 14. All the reel; soicko opium. 15, Opium conies in hnlf-pound cannistere; thus is the poor working man robbed. 16. It is unhealthy to meet a highbinder after dark. 17. The citizens therefore always leave their watches at the pawnbrokers', for safe keeping. 18, Every Chinaman is a highbinder. 19. If ha hasn't got time to be one himself, he hires some one to bo a highbinder for him. 20. Each of the Six Companies has a President, who runs a whisky ring of his own. 21, They have an underground torture room, where fourteen Chinese criminals are put to death every morning before breakfast. 22. Beforo each execution one of Kearny's Eastern speeches is read to them. 23. That makes (hem ready to go. 24. They eat sheet iron. 15. They wear fiofuboltomed shoes as house-servantp, and in that way are frequent witn.sses in divorce cases. 26, They ewim in the eewers, but are extremely neat in their habit?. 27. They are noted Lr personal cleanliness, hut are a most filthy people. 28. They dou'c teil the trufh, like all white people do. 29. When you cut off a Chinatrion'B qurus ho dries up and blows away. 30. A good many of Ihem are Mongolians. It is not often, in iheue daye of confusing newspaper niisrepiestniutious that so much statistical information on this important feu* ject is collected together, and we call the earnest attention of the Government at Washington to che abovo leiiatle cJaiu.