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	Chapter JOHN o' Groat of J by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		John Blunt, a person who prides himself on his brusqueness, and in speaking unpleasant truths in the rudest manner possible.
		John Grueby, the honest, faithful servant of lord George Gordon, who wished “the blessed old creetur, named Bloody Mary, had never been born.” He had the habit of looking “a long way off.” John loved his master, but hated his religious craze.
		John of Bruges, John van Eyck the Flemish painter (1370–1441).
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1120/14774/4.html (337 words)

	Readings: Asia Through a Glass Darkly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Chinaman has the reputation of being the most patient of animals in the harness of business, and he equally maintains it in his steady pursuit of pleasure.
		John Chinaman and the heathen Chinee were amusing or contemptible, but no threat, as long as they stayed in China.
		John Chinaman, for instance, is still much with us in endless, unfunny racial jokes containing "Confucius say." Even Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader whom we profess to admire, is not immune.
	www.askasia.org /teachers/Instructional_Resources/Materials/Readings/Asia_General/R_asia_1.htm (3173 words)

	Chapter John-a-Dreams <i>to</i> John o Groat of J by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		John Audley was a noted showman and actor; when his platform was full, he taught the ticket collector to poke his head behind the green curtain, and cry out: "Is John Audley there?" This was a signal to the actors to draw their piece to a close, and clear the house as quickly as possible.
		John Bull The national nickname for an Englishman, represented as a bluff, kindhearted, bull-headed farmer.
		John Dory is technically called Zeus faber, common in the Mediterranean Sea and round the south- western coasts of England.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1175/23124/1.html (606 words)

	Immigrants to Canada - Chinese
		It gives John Chinaman a breeches pocket, which he seems to be proud of, for he has his hands continually in that portion of his dress, a practice which his own costume did not permit of.
		John Chinaman retains all the peculiarities of costume belonging to the land she came from.
		Men judge here, as elsewhere, from their own interests, and wherever the Chinaman's labour competes with that of the person who speaks of it, the cry of evil is heard; on the contrary, those who have managed to benefit by this new institution are loud in its praises.
	ist.uwaterloo.ca /~marj/genealogy/chinese.html (2312 words)

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		John devoted his spare time to being a choir boy in the Methodist Church, and in becoming one of the first "Oregonian" paper boys, delivering the newspaper to early Portland subscribers.
		John Byrne has contracted for the erection of a building of 26 feet front by 60 feet deep, two stories high, on his Fourth Street Mission property.
		John Meyers, living near Long Lake, on the Nesqually Road, is quite ill of lung fever.
	www.geocities.com /elechtle/texts/meremention.txt (22856 words)

	AN ALIEN IN THE ANTIPODES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Shying was "licensed to retail wines and malt and spirituous liquors for the House known by the sign of the Golden Lion".
		John Sheen was buried at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney.
		John and Eliza moved to South Head Road, and by 1864, John was described as an undertaker.
	www.multiline.com.au /~bvl/Stories/Shying.htm (15703 words)

	Greeley: The Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"John" [Chinaman] does not seem to be a very bad fellow, but he is treated worse than though he were.
		He is popularly held to spend nothing, but carry all his gains out of the country and home to his native land--a charge disproved by the fact that he is an inveterate gambler, an opium smoker, a habitual rum drinker,and a devotee of every sensual vice.
		"John" has traits which I can neither praise nor justify; yet I suspect that, if other men's faults were punished as severely as his, a good many Californians would be less comfortable than they are.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/roughingit/map/chigreeley.html (375 words)

	PiL - Ted Chau Interview
		The first time I met John was at the Sushi restaurant in the Kensington Hilton, and I remember him being a bit wary of my sense of humour at first.
		John took a little while to thaw out, as he keeps himself guarded until he kind of knows where your head really is, one of the necessities of stardom/his experience?
		I don’t know what John wrote in his book (haven’t read it) or said in interviews, so maybe it wouldn’t be in the body politic to give details of that period.
	www.fodderstompf.com /INTERVIEWS/Ted.html (2034 words)

	SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, Part 5.
		He made another pass and two of her fingers fell to the floor—another, and part of an ear came away—another, and a row of toes was mangled and dismembered—another, and the left leg, from the knee down, lay a fragmentary ruin!
		John returned presently with a carriage, got the broken-hearted artist and the broken-legged statue aboard, and drove off, whistling low and tranquilly.
		WONDERFUL DISCOVERY—Some six months ago Signor John Smitthe, an American gentleman now some years a resident of Rome, purchased for a trifle a small piece of ground in the Campagna, just beyond the tomb of the Scipio family, from the owner, a bankrupt relative of the Princess Borghese.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/5/8/4/5840/5840-h/5840-h.htm (11405 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. John Company. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		116, says that “John” is a perversion of “Hon.,” and John Company is the Hon.
		No doubt Hon., like Hans, may be equal to John, but probably John Company is allied to the familiar John Bull.
		The Company was abolished in 1857, in consequence of the Indian Mutiny.
	www.bartleby.com /81/9261.html (116 words)

	Working Papers-Taunting the Turtles and Damning the Dogs:Animal Epithets and Political Conflict in Modern China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It also includes John Dower's influential book on racial imagery during the Pacific War; one of its most powerful chapters compares efforts by Japanese and American propagandists to present this conflict as a struggle between a group of heroic and very human soldiers and a pack of monstrous beasts.
		John Fitzgerald, "The Invention of the Modern Chinese Self," in Modernization of the Chinese Past, ed.
		John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon, 1986), pp.
	www.iub.edu /~easc/resources/working_paper/noframe_9b_taunt.htm (11033 words)

	Chinese in Weld County, Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Announcement of the birth of John Hung, son of Mr.
		Announcement of the death and funeral of John Hung, six-month old son of Mr.
		A brief biographical sketch of Chung Lin Sou (Chin Lin Sou).
	www.unco.edu /library/gov/hist480/weld/chinese.htm (2716 words)

	Robert da Silva
		In his life, John C. Fremont sailed to South America, explored the American Southeast, Midwest and West, conquered California, was court marshaled for mutiny, made millions in California gold, became California's first Senator, ran for President of the United States, was a Civil War General, and became a pauper in the Gilded Age.
		On July 9, 1846 a U.S. Navy battleship, commanded by John D. Sloat, docked in Monterey, routed the detachment of the Mexican Coast Guard garrisoning the port in a minor skirmish (the Battle of Monterey), and alerted Frémont and his men that the Mexican-American War had begun.
		The Swiss adventurer had visions of an agriculture-based empire when he arrived in the region in 1839 and built a fort about two miles from the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~rdasilva/MexiAmeri.htm (1109 words)

	CPRR Discussion Group - Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
		John Charles Currier continued his journey west on the first CPRR train and writes in his diary, the next day:
		The grading of this road is perfect; for the last 80 miles we have run as smooth as a floor.
		The road was built by "John Chinaman", HUNDREDS OF WHOM ARE SEEN ALONG THE ROUTE.
	cprr.org /CPRR_Discussion_Group/2005/01/was-there-camp-of-chinese-rr-worker.html (871 words)

	A Clear and Present Danger: The Chinese Exclusion Act
		Despite the pamphlet’s disclaimer that it was not prejudiced, arguments were riddled with racist statements about the employment history and “Social Habits” of “John Chinaman.” The selections from the pamphlet reprinted here reflected the abiding beliefs of many white workers, especially skilled workers who belonged to the San Francisco BTC.
		The white domestic servant was expected to live in the room originally built for John, generally situated in the cellar and void of all comforts, frequently unpainted or unpapered, containing a bedstead and a chair.
		Absolute servility was expected from those who took the place of the Chinaman, and it will take years to obliterate these traces of inferiority and reestablish the proper relations of employer and employee.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5036 (1364 words)

	Bike China Adventures, Inc. - China Bicycle Travelogues
		John Chinaman is no more responsible, morally, for the "dark ways and vain tricks" accredited to him in the Western World than a crow is for the flness of his plumage.
		The sentiments of pity and consideration for the sufferings of others, are a well-nigh invisible quality of John Chinaman's character, and as I limp slowly along, I mentally picture myself with a broken leg or serious illness, alone among these people.
		The brown battlemented cliffs are relieved by scattering pines, and in the interstices by dense thickets of bamboo; temples, pagodas, and a village complete a scene-that will be long remembered as one of the loveliest bits of scenery the whole world round.
	www.bikechina.com /ct-tstevens2.html (3551 words)

	Thomas Nast
		John Bull[?], a rotund image of Britain's spirit
		Columbia, a graceful image of the Americas as a woman, usually in flowing gown and tiara, carrying a sword to defend the downtrodden.
		John Chinaman[?], a sympathetic image of chinese immigrants.
	www.fastload.org /th/Thomas_Nast.html (384 words)

	Chinatown
		BETWEEN the tabernacles of Jewry and the shrines of the Bend, Joss has cheekily planted his pagan worship of idols, chief among which are the celestial worshipper's own gain and lusts.
		Stealth and secretiveness are as much part of the Chinaman in New York as the cat-like tread of his felt shoes.
		Rather than banish the Chinaman, I would have the door opened wider--for his wife; make it a condition of his coming or staying that he bring his wife with him.
	www.tenant.net /Community/riis/chap9.html (2606 words)

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		The Chinaman had come with the trader from Queensland, and we were assured was "as good as gold." If colour counted, he looked it.
		It was the Chinaman, and over his gashed misery were drawn the folds of the flag that had flown on the staff.
		It was John Chinaman that covered the retreat of the wife and child into the hills when the husband had fallen.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/gp24w10.txt (14059 words)

	Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. Index
		John 167 Lynch, John 62, 78, 145 Lynch, Judge 94 Lynch, Mr.
		Chinaman 213, 284, 301 Marcee’s Restaurant 307 Mardi Gras in New Orelans 147 Mardi Gras at Memphis 306 Marison, A. Marks, Henry 232 Marmora, steamer 37 Marshall (The) 179 Marshall, Rev. Dr.
		Darcus 190 Patriot, Newspaper 30 Patterson, Captain 12 Patterson, John larcenist 199 Pauline Carroll, steamboat to be sold 164 Pauline Carroll, steamer; sold 170 Paxton (see also A. Paxton & Co.) Paxton, A. Payne & St. John, business 13 Payne, Mrs.
	www.cswnet.com /~sschmitz/murder-index.html (6460 words)

	'No Tickee No Washee'
		John Fischer, in the introduction to volume of humor reprinted from Harper's Magazine, notes his embarrassment over that magazine's publication of "some of the worst humor that ever reached print....
		"John Chinaman" was commonly used as an expression of racist stereotyping in the nineteenth century American West to refer to the Chinese immigrant.
		That the better treatment was not often forthcoming could be said to be another example of the Chinaman's chance, a phrase said to have originated in the California gold country to refer to the unfairness handed to the Chinese: they could not win for losing.
	www.uidaho.edu /special-collections/papers/notickee.htm (5867 words)

	About The Nineteenth Century - Books on China Title List
		Davis, John A. The Chinese slave-girl: a story of a woman's life in China.
		Contribution to an historical sketch of the Portuguese settlement in China.
		The life of John Livingston Nevius for forty years a missionary in China.
	c19.chadwyck.com /html/noframes/moreinfo/china_t.htm (4606 words)

	Immigration
		The pursuance of the White Australia Policy rendered the Chinaman a curiosity in South Australia and by the middle of the 20th century he was rarely seen, either in the city or the outback.
		The chief Chinaman of the party had for several years lived in South Australia where he amassed a considerable sum through his industry and economy.
		The Chinaman is the reverse of a model colonist.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /manning/sa/immigra/asian.htm (2767 words)

	Cynicism
		And John Chinaman says my virtue is the genuine virtue.
		John Bull does abhor the crimes of John Chinaman He is the quickest old gentleman at finding out the faults that are his neighbors', and the slowest old gentleman at finding out the faults that are his own, who exists on the face of creation.
		Is the prison that John Scoundrel lives in, at the end of his career, a more uncomfortable place than the work-house that Mr.
	baharna.com /quotes/cynic.htm (1869 words)

	The Big Apple: Tammany Tiger
		In 1848, a state assemblyman named John J. Reilly invited Tweed and others to help form a new engine company, No. 6, and Bill happily assented.
		They decided to name it the Americus ENgine Company, perhaps after Americus Vespucci, and further to adopt as its symbol the likeness of a ferocious Begnal tiger that the members copied from a French lithograph.
		Uncle Sam, a lanky image of the United States (first drawn in the 1830s; Nast and John Tenniel added the whiskers).
	www.barrypopik.com /article/911/tammany-tiger (822 words)

	part51 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Your teacher will put a copy of a folk song, "John Chinaman, My Jo, John", on the overhead or display station.
		This song is a take off of a famous song "John Anderson, My Jo, John".
		In the last line, the song reads,"Don't abuse the freedom you enjoy, John Chinaman, My Jo".
	score.rims.k12.ca.us /activity/goldmountain/pages/part51.html (131 words)

	Robert Merry's Museum: "Chinese in California", by Lucy St. John (1870)
		There are not many Chinese children in California, for it is very seldom that a Chinaman brings his wife and family from the Celestial country; but they often take "secondary wives," so that there are some families.
		The Johns cannot sound our letter R; they always give it the sound of L. As for their work, it is anything and everything.
		My sister was once unable to get a good Irish servant, and took into her service Ah Sam, a Chinaman, who did very well when he was so carefully watched that he could not steal everything he laid his hands upon,--as he would have been glad to do,--and who especially excelled in washing and ironing.
	www.merrycoz.org /museum/CHINESE.HTM (929 words)

	A Cruise on the Barbary Coast - 1873
		John Smith, a miner from Mud Springs, El Dorado County, came down on the Sacramento boat last evening, and put up at the What Cheer House.
		One resembles in outline a goat, but has the head of an alligator, and the figure astride its back is that of a man with a cock's head on his shoulders.
		The next figure has the body of a lion, a horse's head, and a fish's tail, and is ridden by a man with the head of an ox, and a sword in his hand, A Chinaman, who appears to understand English, volunteers to explain these mysteries to us.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/History/1870/evans.htm (7651 words)

	Tinkham Chapter XVII
		They believed with John C. Calhoun that "a vast market will be created and a mighty impulse will be given to commerce" (5).
		The manufacturers of San Francisco, finding "John" a good imitator and keen to learn a trade, thought it a bright idea to teach him to make cigars, clothing, boots and shoes, etc. As soon as he had mastered the trade he began business on his own account.
		Then the white sailors were "fired" and at lower wages John Chinaman became a sailor boy to plow the deep blue sea.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ca/state1/tinkhamch17.html (4552 words)

	Barbary Coast and Chinatown Vice - Gambling - 1871
		It is evident that our friend the policeman is not looked upon with favor by the sentinels at the gateways of the palaces of sudden wealth, and we suggest to him that he withdraw to the opposite side of the street, and still keep an eye on us.
		We see a peculiarly pleasant-looking Chinaman, whose face is familiar to us, at one of the doorways, and approach him: "Good evening, John." "Good eening, gentlemen." "Look here, John; these gentlemen come allee way from New York.
		We have been admitted as a special favor, and of course must "patronize the house," so we select a Chinaman who speaks a little English, and ask him to act as an agent in the transaction.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist6/evans.html (6188 words)

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