The Curious Celestials

KxtrieN frotn ID interview hold liy a reI porter of the Ioter Ooean wtth CotnmisSwift upoo return f'rotn China : li" reportei gleanad tome infbrmatten in ri-jtaril tu t he expeditioa to 'lun;i which ha nut lieen placel befara the public. ú ' idiea aooompanied the trety coiu mbssionerd rhen they Mik I from San KrmnBMon June 19, oo th -pm ¦ Oeeanios, t"i r Vokilianm. Japao. The yimtiK laiiies attrael '1 muoh attention on the steamer in i, iimi in f'.ii't during the whole journey, and they were i he reciiiiiTits ut' every ooartAay aad itteotion which admiring aml gallant gentlemen of every nationalitycould bettow upon (hem. ATier a brief atay in Ifokohama, the party m traoaferred to ( niteil St;ite flag-ship dichmond, which oonveyed them to the eoait of 'liina, where iu:y enibarked oo hovse-boaU fiw tlie iríp up tlic iivi'r tu l'"kÍM. The laat part of tha journe; on a canal in opon ¦kiffa Tbc Chinese luve nut yet lcarncd how to ooaatruol look, and henee tfceir canal" art; made ritfa levi U. Tlie boats ¦ are run llong a level and 1 1 - r ¦ are iinloadle I, aii.l thiíir freighi oarried by oooüea up ¦ r down to (lie ri'-xt l.-vel, and so on to tlie I i the cansí, [astead of luir-i - ot BbuU's th in rtivi' power man. :i nl tho ¦ ai o dnwa along with a tow-line ¦handled by mea who run ot wilk alooflbe lowpath. The Ameríoftn oommiKsinaen tod (licir lmdte took pnwge "ii the lir-t lerol io ojien skiH-, and l'ni l'uir unir wriv rapidly dnwn ftlong ty i"ur Uhinamen. Al tUe end of ilin OMtaDCfl they diwmbarked, walkcd up ! the neil levé), and cntered other boata wliiüh were liauled ly thrat men the qext tour nites, irhea again thcy walked up to the sext Irvel, and took another boat, whirli for the propelling power had only tw iimti. Arnved at tbfl hul level, and only ¦ short di-lanre i'roni the city of Pekín, tlic boti wfcioh nwaiied tliiMii were racli BADLKD BT OM i;nv only. tniused thi roaog ladies, aml inany a ineriv j,iki' was MSted upmi the ehanged uiroumntaDce.tofthegreat "i 'nitcd Btatea Chinese Tn atyOomraission," whifh hesded by the prestdeol of a uuivirn, h.i'l left toa shores f Anerica in a mih;,'nitícent iteamer nf 5 000 toon hnrthen, had heen reoeived ithal(ioeto'erern honor in Japan, and had placed at diopond one of the fine.t men of war in tlxir nan.ivy, was DOW appruarliinR the capital city of the nation wnh vhoB they were wirt to treat in bokU diawn by a Chinese boy not more than a dozen years of age. TUc attentiou oj' ih i (, ut, , . to on.' r.-nit wli'u-h wil! ihe inftitdiioa of Lener -(u:iininpe beiieii ( hiiifsc ;icn Aiuerioau !¦ Th ol' navÍL'Htii.ii, Hii(j indeed all ni'-ans ,i inicriial lütMBuTM and trans p ¦M.itmn mii-t Niir-iniy be modtflad mm] iaprovd hy irquainianvc irith, ind inrirmlii I Aiii.'iwun iiKi.ics. Over the ranal in Pekin, tiefure referrad to, are carne") all ll ruilli hm of Lu-hcN of " t rif uc rice, wliiih fbmi om of ika -hirt' item-, in the revciiuett ut ibu Fiuwery Kinj?loi ii ninst de rcmemberod Ut (e iniliion.-. ot' bushi-ls liare to bc unloadod IVwin rtie Imais Ht the ond of' i-very tevrl, f'mr mile, and arricd on the Khoalclen of nifii ii lo the next level, wliore, liy the ui of nek, no transfer or unlnadiiifi woula be necescary. The expense of'loek j would probaMjr i e r sxosad 2S,00U each, and the time ril lahm attsd would ! immense, 'l'liis oanal tyHWP '" 'lllt a 'air sample of Imw tkioRa are managed throufrhout Chin, and ii wuuld M'fin a tliouh t ha t nation, which has for so tnany years kept ecluded :md cloed frooi the ret it the world, w;n a bout to be opened up to tho moderaiimg influentes of tbe ifoited States,