InFoRMATION on Chinese matters is often drifted out to residents in China by strange currents, but he would be a very far-seeing man indeed who would expect to find it in the pages of a philatelic journal. Philately (in the vulgar tongue, stamp collecting) is chiefly known to the ordinary sane resident of the Treaty Ports through the sallies of Mr. Lister, who suffers periodically from the importunities of gentlemen " aimiable to make collection of timber posts indeed it can only be by some accident, lucky or unlucky as the sufferer may view it, that any ent of the growing literature of this amazing hobby floats, like the astronomer's new star, into his ken. Such an accident indeed has put us in possession of the latest
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