Chinese say the eagle on the dollar is swallowing the dragon, which means short that England is gobbling up the Flowery Land, By an easy stretch of a very clastic imagination the serpent is traissformed into a dragon, and the eagle is England because the Chinese character for that country is the same tone and phonetic as the character for eagle Perhaps your readers have noticed that Chinese merchants no more write "eagle dollar" but " English dollar."
16th January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.