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Show THE CHINESE CHARACTER. The Rev. Dr. Hawkshaw, a prac tical philanthropist, has been prosecuting prose-cuting suiuc interesting p.-ycological experiments in San Francisco, with a view to determine the mental and moral status of the Chinese character, charac-ter, la order to make this test thorough and impartial, he has, during dur-ing the last few months, had five of the Chinese nominally employed, although his real object in maintaining maintain-ing them was that he might study their peculiarities. He has reached the conclusion that tho moral deficiencies defi-ciencies of these people arise mainly from their lack ot education, and their constitutional and mental peculiarities. pe-culiarities. He hns been in the habit of daily lecturing the0e pupils through an interpreter on tiie simple elements of moral principles, at the game time teatiug their appreciation of his teachings. We will let a San Francisco paper relate what success has attended these systematic efforts to reclaim the reverend gentleman's heathen protege : His pupils at first coTisi-ted of four boys and one young girl of 1- years. Tlio preliminary experiment was entrusting en-trusting ina oldtit by (who raao to him with a character) wita a 10 piece willi which to do some marketing. The experiment was successful, and neithor basket or boy have sinca been Eoen. The doctjr eiptrimontud to the extent of nearly two complete sets of heathen.", tho sacrifice being one g -Id watch, a seal ring, tight tea f noons, one ftathur bed, aim bis teit pairuf i ants, not lo mention one barrel of best nugr and other groceries. gro-ceries. At Ihf) end ol the third mouth, having only mo boy loft nut of ten, and liiro untested, ho corcluded tbul for innate in-nate inquisitivenei-s the Chines have no ciunl, and that absolute proof to the con-, con-, i trary, if practicable, would require an impracticable expenditure. Jio resup-plied resup-plied his WBrttid ranks with good boys from the bast Chineeo families, and hug sinco, by adopting the pri iciples on whieli the Lotta fountain ia run, man-agf-d to ket'p enough cups, chairs and cold wntur in.thti house to supply his frugal wants and thoe of his hwu-iu hold, although his front g'ttu hns long iin':u disappeared and tht- giis company have A bjll sg.ii'itt him for furty-sovon feet of f:an pipe and two gas meters, and his andlord hna compelled him to py for window shuttor, n arhle mantels, and backdoors. Ho thinks that, with all thai, his iuavou i3 slowly workiug. Tho doctor describes some of his eiioru to Hammer into ms pupils a ' little of the American sense of the ridiculous or humorous : John doe) not know a joke from a clothes ba-ket; and his smile is as Benso-k-si as that ('fa Cheshire cit a simple out-crop of satisfaction and good nature. Th doctor ru tailed to k'u oldt-st pupil, day hll-r day, the mu,t ridiculous arirc-dotes arirc-dotes the Aluuchaiisen talts and the like without tho least e licet. Wlu-n John was told Uiat tho bar n ono Jiilit hi'.cht-d his liorso to tlio top of a itceplu, in conscfjuonco ol the d"plh of tho snow, and in tho morning, nftur a tliuwy night, discovered him uaiiKling by tho bridlu from tho sttt-ple hijh in tho air, John merely re murk od, "heap snow," and WvTit about 1m work ri'll, utivuly. A pie, Btulh'd with cotton, wm cut before him fur his dinner. Hustii'ined eimuly to regard re-gard it as a peculiar di-n of thy Amcr-icins, Amcr-icins, and ate evry crumb of tho crust, leaving thn cotton very neatly spread outon tlio platn. Th) quous of a pur of btj ith'iris were s'jly tie 1 togulhor, which resulted, when they mlempled ta go m oppo iU) diroilion-, in nearly tearing their scalps oil". So far from inaiiif-st-ing any appreciation of the jkt, thfy fell upon iho another like Kilkenny cut, hmahed n pi r glna, a inarhlf-topped inarhlf-topped centre tade, and greatly alarmed the doctor' family. The doctor, however, is Mill persevering per-severing in his efforts to analyse tho ChincAO character, with a view to test tho po-tiibility of making an Amor-ican Amor-ican citizen of him in tho ultimate future. H ho shall succeed, will ho not spoil him as a Chinaman is a etill graver question, t i |