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Show , - te GEOGRAPHY IN 'CHINA. I S Men with Three Faces, DTrarfu, FUh- ' i. . ermen and Men Without Xecka. W' i W"' Dr. Lockhart, a member of the medl-r medl-r S J , cn academy of London, has received as . 1 $ gift for tho library of the association J 1 'Mftl' series of volumes relating to China, ' ( jEW sent him by an English missionary, Rev. JgV'' p. C. Spaham.ofllunkow. fflfa Among1 these volumes, says the Cron- iquo Universcllc, he ban discovered a ,' Chinese geography extremely curioua and valuable. This book has for its I title "Slin-IIai-Slnjr" (mountains and senB). Tho author gives, a Ktrnnpo deserip- k( yt tion of the people living in other parts ;'" of tho globe. He Hays they nre divided ',",' ft into four distinct classes. The first in cludes men possessing three fuees; tlio ', , ' , second consists exclusively of dwarfs; r"tfS.1l ' r tne t,,rd of "J'hridR, partly men, partly ', Tm V i. fish; the last division, tho most curious ,t W ' ' 'M of all, of men who have no neck. Tho head is placed directly on the trunk, the fnco turned on tho upper side. wl ' - When they wish to travel they forco f , down the'r mouth a stick which, with- i out encountering nny obstacle, passes nntiroly through them, and in this way theirs servants carry, them on their backs, taking them from place to place like living palanquins. . . . ,. t I , i. |