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Show ' Chinese Talent. About five months rince Mr. Ed. Preble, of this city, sent two ambro-typea ambro-typea of his infant son Neddy to a Chinese artist in the Flowery Kingdom King-dom or reproduction in oil. Yester-pay Yester-pay two Hfe-eizo protraits of the little fellow were received from Chijia; and two more finely executed and more exactly correct " counterfeit- presentments" present-ments" of the original could not well be made. These heathen artists know a thing or twj about portrait painting that their Christian brothers haven't U arned. Twenty-five dollars each was the ant of the pictures delivered hero. |