To Chineese aiw Frenchmen.—Ev
erybody has heard the story of the Phila
delphia merchant, who, desiring to suprise
his family with a unique Christinas pres
ent, sent patterns to Canton for a cosily
•el of China ware, with orders that the
design should be exactly followed. Now,
prominent in this notable design was the
initial letter of the family. A, which was
intended to be in the center of each plate
and saucer; but the painter having chanced
to get it a little on one side, the direction,
“ This in the middle,” was written as a
matter of precaution across the letter. The
laugh came in when the set came home,
with a sac simile of the direction inscribed
by the little Chinese arlitd on every plate
aud saucer, and the initial to a heir where
the designer had rnisglaced it. Aprmpos
to a moustache coffee cup, among his
Christmas present’, Grant telis a story of
obtuse literal, understanding on the part of
a race not usu lly Counted slow of wit,
which fairly beats the oriental. The mous
tache cup, it should be premised, is the
common presentation coffee cup, only that
one half the top is covered with a fixed
lid on which the moustache rests while the
wearer si(>s bis (leverage through a small
aperture, without getting it fl ivored with
Rowland’s macassar or Boglo’s hyperion.
