ceeded to select a number of damsels from On the 2nd of May the Hamproms pro-the daughters of banner-men for the harem of the youthful Emperor at Peking. It is understood that the Emj Consort or principal wife of His ty has been already selected.
On the Ist at 8 am. seven prisoners were taken in carts from the prison of the Hing Pu (Board of Punishments) at Peking to the execution ground at the Vegetable Market outside the Shan Wu Gate and there beheaded. It is said that they were all highway robbers of a desperate type.
The same day a foreigner was trotting along on a donkey outside the Tung An Gate, when the litre animal suddenly cavalier on his back in the mud." The irate lipped in a miry and deposited the
foreigner began to be labour the unfortunate donkey-man with his fist and dragged him into guard house. The soldiers succeeded in pacifying the foreigner with good words, the donkey-man kowtowed to him, and received his fare, 800 cash, justice was satisfied and the crowd dispersed, The scheme for improving the native city of Shanghai will be carried out, about. the physical pain.
Those who have any ac- &e. &c., &c., personal friends, more or less, quaintance with the operations in hospitals and that therefore you cannot bind your-in China, know how common, or rather selves by the hard and fust rules that are how almost universal it is, for the patients necessary at professional meetings; but find to bear without flinching'a degree of pain that in Shanghai you like to do everything from which the stoutest of us would shrink to which you put your hands in the best in terror. It would be easy to expand this practicable manner, and if my suggestions topic alone into an essay, but we must tend to any possible improvement. in pass it by, merely calling attention to a the future, I shall be well satisfied. remark of George Eliot, in one of her My first suggestion is an impracticable letters. 'The highest calling and election,' one at present, though it should be borne she says—irritated no doubt, by theological in mind, if you ever build a new Grand forniulas for which she had no taste—'is to Stand; that is, that, instead of facing the do without opium, Course, it should be built atlan angle of clear-eyed enduran i thirty d with it, so as to give everyone there can be little doubt that most Chinese, an equally good view of the races without at last, have made their calling and election having to turn their heads, Next, I would sure. It remains to speak of the worries suggest that the probable starters in each and anxieties to which humanity is every-race, with the riders' names, should be sent where subjected in this distracted world. in to the Stewards the day before the race, The Chinese are not only as accessible to so that " correct card might he published these evils as any other people, but. far on the morning of the race. Next, more 80, The conditions of their social life telegraph board, for the information of the are such, that in any given region, there is public at the Stand, should bear not only Tagged etge of ruin. A alight diminution ition who are always on the the pony's number, but also the name of his rider. The regular riders' names could of the rainfall means starvation to hundreds be kept ready printed, to be slipped on of thousands. A slight increase in the rain- th" board—in the way that the steamers' end of summer or beginning of autumn, On the 7th and 8th May the principal street running out at the West Gate was officially surveyed. This will be levelled and made practicable for wheeled traffic, The improvements will be commenced, however, on 600 chang (over a mile) of road from the Bridge of the 16th ward to Luh-ka Pang, and it is estimated that 40,000 taels will be required for road material and labour.
Pao. other day and bit a foreign doctor, who at AA mad black dog rat along the Bund the once proceeded to cup the wound as a caution, The same animal had previously bitten a Chinaman, It was last seen run-the Bund towards the French
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