The Hu Pao announces that the Chinese Government has generously resolved to pay back to the United States a large sum of money, being the unclaimed balance of the Wyoming indemnity. The effect of this announcement is somewhat wired by the concluding sentence which, as a coro lary, hints that the United States might the example by refunding to China the much larger balinee of unclaimed indemnity paid to the United States thirty years ago.
'The city of Hai-yen, north of Nin which was submerged' by the sea about 1,000 years ago, has lately been partly exposed to view, and a considerable number of vases, plates and other utensils of the Sung dynasty have been recovered by enterprising natives.
From an account given by the Yih Wen Luk it seems clear that the bulk of the waters of the Yellow River ate now finding their way into the Yangtze by way. numerous channels leading from the Kao-Pao system of Inkes. The hydrometer of the Canal still marks 12 feet, and the lowlying fields are flooded.
The son of the Brigadier Wu of Haitan, who some months ago shot a fellow officer, was sentenced to death in spite of a efforts to save him, and has committed suicide in gaol. The dead body was taken to the Foochow execution ground the other day, and the form of strangling it was gone through in accordance with law.
The Shen Pao warns'ita readers against two Cantonese, a boy and a girl, who have come to Shanghai in order to sell their leprosy," i.e., to get rid of it in the- way the Cantonese think they can do, by communicating it to another person occupying the same couch with them, The Roman Catholic Chapel at Fah-an Hien in North Fukien has been pulled down and burnt by an enraged mob, Swi to the occupants having raised their wall in defiance of the objections of the féngshui prophets. A gunboat had already been sent to the scene, but it was too late. The Magistrate has been removed from his Pathe Hangchow Provincial Judge has recently undergone a singular experience. Having sent for the virtuous heroine of a recent case in which the widow repudiated a second marriage improperly contracted for her, in order that his own wife might, by contemplating her, learn a lesson in "icy faithfulness," the proud widow hastened to explain that she hated the proposed husband, but would be very glad if the Judge would find her a really lo one,—apparently, indeed, offering her to the Judge himself, The learned Judge
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