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86 of the Caucasians, using that term in its widest application, with the Japanese has been very frequent in times past, and constantly on the increase in this day and generation. I have had the opportunity to study a few of their half-breeds, and in one family I have at present in mind, some of the children were of the Anglo-Saxon type, more or less resembling the father, while one boy, at least, more strongly exhibited the Japanese in his general morphology and traits, or, as they say among breeders, — favored his mother, who was a pure-blooded individual of the latter nation. No one will suppose for a moment that of the enormous stock of people that have for years past been pouring into the United States from the Old World, and I mean from Europe especially, invariably remain distinct, for by no means is such the case. They not only cross, whether through marriage or otherwise, with people who were born and bred in America, but they intercross among each other, and with the ne- groes, Indians, and Chinese if it takes their fancy. This is going on far more extensively than most people are aware, and but few people will admit. In conversation with a very intelligent German gentleman the other day, a man of fine education, intelligence and family connections in Germany, where he was born, he informed me that he very much preferred congress with a fine, good-looking black negress, than with any white woman he had ever known, and from all accounts, he had not been backward in such matters all his life. There are no end of half-breeds produced by the crossing of the whites and the North American Indians on the plains. During the Indian campaigns in that country it was of very frequent oc-