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Show UIXG CON'S" FUNERAL. A Distinguished Degcendent of Confucius Throws Up the Sponge. "Ing Con," a native of the country where they grow rice and rat soup, is dead. That is to say, the name, of the Chinaman who foolishly put his foot into the heavenly elevator and was hoisted skyward is believed to be Ing Con. The reporter of The Times asked Gin Sling this afternoon for the dead, i man's name, aud he was assured in all sin , cerity that the dead was none other than "Ing," who was the genuine article because his 1 name was blown into the bottle. Sling's ; statement was corroborated by Sky High, Long Toe and several other celestials whosa words have never been impeached, so that it 1 is certain it must be "Ing Con" and no other, i The deceased is about 44 years of age, and. has beer employed as a scullion at the Ontario Onta-rio mine for the last ten years. A few days. ' ago, so Gin Sling says, Ing was taken "belly slick" and was brought to Zion to be healed; bui the angels had a mortgage on him ani ; he bid adietr to suc h mundane things as tha 1 wa?htub and the sauce pan, and is now ca. gaged in pushing clouds beyond the paling r stars. The funeral that was conduc ted at Chinesa 5 headquarters this afternoon was a grotesqu 1 affair.and drew largely from all nationalities. 1 The coffin was removed to the rear of the 1 building, where the cover was taken off and r the face of the dead tenant exposed to the s sun. At the fool of the coffin was a dry 1 goods box, upon which was spread a ban-s ban-s quet for the departing spirit, while a coubl I row of torches blazed the way for the pas. 1 seuger. The weird ceremony in which" all .- Mongolians paid tribute to the dead was con. eluded, the coffin was placed in the hearsa 1 and removed to the cemetery, where the in. a termcnt took place. 1 . . . |