CHILDREN'S FUNERALS IN PEKING.
A WRITER in Woman's Work for Women quotes this from Mr. Holcomb: "If you lived in Peking you would be surprised never to see a child's funeral pass; but if you go into the street very early in the morning, you will find the explanation. You will meet a large covered vehicle, drawn by two oxen, having a sign across the front stating its horrible office, and piled to the brim with the bodies of children. Sometimes there are a hundred in the cart at once, thrown in as garbage, nearly all of them naked, a few of them tied up in old reed baskets, and fewer, never more than one or two, in cheap board coffins. These carts go about the streets each night, pick up these pitiable remains, some of them mutilated by dogs; they are thrown in like so much wood and taken to a pit outside the city wall, into which they are dumped, then covered with quicklime. Does it make you sick to hear of such a thing? I have lived seven years in the city where that is a daily occurrence."