The ' Fexst of Lanterns" has been duly held at Ichang with a gusto bee"ming to 90 great an event. The mythical Dragon has been resuscitated, and disported itself prank cing and cavorting about in narrow streets in the city, and winding its sinuous body up tortuous paths on the hill sides, in the middle of the night; to the beating of tom-toms and loud bawling of its many-footed bearers until night was made hideous with their but the youngsters laughed couumedly, and the actors perspired. profusely and were content. An outsider watches this consumption of candles, when the moon is xt the full, and sighs as he remembers with sadness how sparingly they are used, even on the darkest at ordinary times by the inhabitants of very much benighted coun Yet the Chinese are not alone in reckless expenditure for an hour, and rigid economy for a year.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.