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Show As EaTCUGE says: Hong Ah Jew, a peaceful and industrious Chinaman, lias been arrested In Xew York for refusiug to answer be census man. Considering that he can neltherspcak cor understand a word of Engl'sh, his failure to answer the offlelal's questions is not strange, nor is it strange that, hav-lng hav-lng no notion whatever of his errand and Imagining that he was trying to play the "lust laundry ticket game." tho'poor fellow drove the public functionary oat cf his establishment. When he was brought before the commission-r he was asked through an interpreter whether they ever took the census in China, and replied that they did, once In a thousand years, but that be had no recollection of the last one. He was dismissed with a reprimand, and is now In a dazed state of wonderment won-derment as to what all the "bob-bely" "bob-bely" was about. |