niversary of the birthday of Cun-'The provincial guilds in Peking offered sacrifice during the day and had luminations during the night. For over two thousand years these reverent ceremonies have taken place regularly.
A countryman was wearily walking homeward with a bundle of clothing, outside the Changye gate of Peking. The time was past midnight and the whistling of the wind through the trees was strongly sugge of ghosts and goblins to the imagination of the ignorant rustic. He quickened his pace, when lo! in front of him stood a tall apparition with glaring eyes, tongue hanging down two or three feet from its cavernous jaws, and hands like claws. It was clad ita white hempen gown et dered with white cloth fringes. Phospho-recent lights shone all about the strange creature's head. The rustic imagined this must be the devil himself or at least a near relation, and ga shriek and fainted. How fong he lay in a swoon he knew not. He woke in broad daylight, to find that his bundle and the clothing of his own person were gone. Congratulating himself on his pected behaviour, It was found that the prisoners had been advised by " certain monk, who was locked up in the same prison. The follower of Buddha got five thousand blows for his fee and was imprisoned in another cell to do penance to the end of his sentence.
Inside the Old North Gate a man com-pitted suicide by hanging himself on the prench of a willow tree. Four Mexican dollars were found on his person, Outside the Great East Gate 4 man was robbed in broad daylight of 4,000 cash which he was carrying.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.