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PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. 



One eleventh part of the Chinese live upon fish and other products 

 of the water. They sometimes employ the cormorant in catching 

 fish. 



The average yield of an ordinary tea-plant is six ounces at a pick- 

 ing. 1000 square feet will support about forty plants. The times 

 of picking are, the middle of April, 1st of May, middle of July, 

 and a small quantity gathered in August. 



In Fuhkien, and Changchow, (provinces of China,) from twenty- 

 five to forty out of a hundred of the female children are destroyed at 

 birth. In other parts of the country the proportion is less. 



The Sinim mentioned in Isaiah is supposed to have been China. 

 (Williams.) 



The custom of cramping the feet of their female children was 

 introduced in the year 950. When the infant is a few days old, all 

 the toes, except the first, are turned under the sole of the foot and 

 bandaged there, making the foot of the shape of a wedge, with the 

 two back corners rounded off. When the child is of a certain age, 

 an iron shoe is put on, of the size that the foot is intended to remain, 



