The Shen Pao says that owing to the recent proclamation forbidding women to frequent opium-dens, the keepers there-have been making diminished profits, and to make up for their loss have now hit on the brilliant plan of presenting each smoker with a fraction of a ticket for the Manila lottery. This fetches them in crowds.
'A servant-woman was brought up before the Shanghai Magistrate lately for making a row and smashing up everything breakable in the house, to show her displeasure. She owned to having had words with the master about her which were in arrears. That's enough," said the Magistrate, servants should know their places, Sentence, sixty slaps on the face; but the
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