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Show Tho Mjuur.rltur. or Willi Men.- Thoio aro mny curious trades in tho world, but tho moit htruugo miut suiely bo tho "artificial inanu-facturo inanu-facturo of wild men." Yet a well known English doctor in China has justceitified fiom his own personal oxpcrlcnco that this art is regulaily practiced In tho Flowery Ivlngdom. First a youth is kidnaped; then bit by bit ho is flayed nllvc, and tho fkin of n dog or bear Is grafted pleeo bypicco upon him. Ills vocal chords nro next destioycdby tho action of charcoal to inako him dumb, and tlio doublo purposo of cautlm; "etiolation" "etio-lation" of ihobkln nud utter degradation degra-dation of tho mental faculties is ef ftcteil by keeping him inimtucd lu a pei f octly black hole for n number of ycnis. In fact, by trvntlng him lllto n bmto for n bufticUntlylonjrtlino ho is m.ulo into ouo. At loi.t ho is exhibited to tbo entirely en-tirely credulous Chlneso ns n wild man of tho woods, nnd his possesbon leap n lich harvest. Tho prliK-tn, it teems, momlupts nt tlmart. AVheti u kiduniicr, howover, is caught bj tho peoplo ho is toi n to piice, m d when tho authorities got him tlicj toituto him nnd ptomptly buhvui1 him. -London Chronicle. |
