Show Selecting the Joss Man The last agony of China New Years occurred yeaerday Their windup was the selection of a newman new-man for their Jose house fpr the ensuing year This is a grand event I among them This functionary must be a very important man from a religious re-ligious point of view or else theres milhonb in his office The way they conducted their election is as follow Competitors from the two companies about twentyfour in number were ranged opposite each other ready for the contest Thirteen cylindrical bombs ware brought in one at a time and exploded From each bomb was shot into the air a ring The figh friendly but rough as in our football game was to get hold of this ring andcarry it in triumph tri-umph to a spot selected a few yards off The rings were numbered from one to thirteen and the man who captured i umber one was to be chief The strife was very lively and incessant in-cessant as a fresh bomb would be fired oil before the ring from the proceeding pro-ceeding bomb bad been taken in The rings whose numbers were unknown un-known to tbe contestautscandidates were taken aod given over to a council coun-cil of arbitrators who alter the battle bat-tle were to name the winning man A large crowd of whites and a sprinkling of Indiana were present and enjoyed tbe novel show very much W µ bave not yet learned the name o < trw honored pigtail who is to run the Joss bouse for the next Chinese yearEureka Sentinel |