hearty eating of Sir Claude MacDonald, It is very pleasant to read of Shanghai's and if the Chairman of the China Association's Shanghai Branch were in Peking we too might rejoice st the new Minister's ignorance of things Chinese, for then he would be sure to got well posted as far as the former's knowledge goes. But as it is, from whom is Sir Claude to tempered If from anyone for years in Chinese employ, shall we not be as so often is the case in The Court found that the shooting was ina whatever happens—'as yor were!" accidental; so the Spartan is gone, and Sir John Walsham too knew nothing of the cook went with her. H.E. the Viceroy China on arrival. And we all know what is putting another couple of Chinese the effect of the atmosphere of Peking is. characters on to his new dollars, which Yet, as the Italian cook, who had staked characters will have the virtue of making and lost his last soldo, said to his solicitous them worth 1,000 cash, while other dollars mistress trying to dissuade him from gambling: "Oh, Signora, woald you take fom of the same intrinsic value are only able to fetch $40. Like the French Consul, me my hope?"
His Excellency is a believer in the magical 12th May. er of formula, but we fear they will th be disappointed.
Translation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.