The Shen Pao learns with great regret, from an English newspaper of Hongkong, of the departure of Messi Kao and Tsuh, the brilliant pupils in Western Medical Science of Dr. W. W. Myers, for North Borneo. The Shéx Pao considers it a thousand pities that their talents could not be utili by theGovernmentin their native country, where it was hoped that these young men would form the nucleus of a competent Army Medical Department for China.
'A gentleman who has returned from Nauping Hien, (the prefectural city of Yenping Fu, Kukiou}, to Foochow, reports heavy flood in the country near that city, the water having been 50 feet deep on 2Ist June, with considerable loss of life and property.
On 24th June, in accordance with orders from the Viceroy Ptien, two ying, or batta-ions, of troops, proceeded to the northwestern frontier of Fukien, near Kiangsi, in pursuit of a formidable party of Kiangsi men leagued with members of the Kolao secret society, and amounting, it is said, to about 5,000 or 6,000 men, who are setting the Government at defiance and so terrorising the people of Yang-know, that they are leaving their homes in great numbers.—Shen Pao, Bamboo sprouts are a delicacy the mention of which makes the vegetarian gourmet smack his lips. They are principally grown in Kuangtung, where every season has its crop. In the beginning of spring are the OF, "hairy sprouts,"
mao sun, or at the end of spring the EGF, pik sun, or "pencil sprouts beginning of summer, "fire sprouts" YEA, Iwo sun; autumn ARSE (ma-mei-sun) "horse-tail sprouts." Later on come the BS, "winter sprouts," tung sun, Thus' no time of the year is without its own crop. Nanhing Chow and Shao Chow Fu are the parts of the Canton province where the winter shoots grow best. They are not very large, and at the place of production are very cheap, and not much esteemed as food by the natives; but being cut in winter, preserve well for exportation, and are sold far from their native place for ten times their original value. The summer shoots grow best close to Canton to the east; the different kinds have fancy names, "phoenix tail," flying clouds,"
dragon's grandsons," ete.
The ground here, light and porous, la well adapted for their growth, and the sweet water from the White Cloud Mountains makes them large and juicy, a ''cat-head" bamboo-sprout weighing up to 5 or 6 catties. In the fifth and sixth moons, when they are cheap, the samshu-shops buy them up, salt them, and pack them in jars, where they will keep good for a year; when required, they are taken out, soaked in fresh water to remove the salt, and found to taste as if fresh-cut. All the growers of the these sprouts assemble at the beginning of each summer season at beat of gong, and fix the price; and no one renter to undersell the combination.—Bu Pao.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.