Ir was lately remarked: "Fifty years hence people will note it asa peculiarity in Shanghai that the Cre-motorium is in the centre of the town."
For the benefit of such of our readers as do not know Shanghai, we may add in explanation that the Crematorium is three miles from the Bund, and two miles outside the boundary of the actual Settlement. It may also be added that forty years ago the old Cemetery in the Shantung Road, which is now in the very centre of the most populous part of the town, was virtually outside the inhabited quarter, whose western boundary was the Honan Road, as its old name " Barrier Road" indicates.
It has been said before that Shang-30 hai will be the New York of China jand Hankow its Chicago; but high authorities have predicted before now that Shanghai would not maintain its position as the leading commercial city of the Far East. Sir Robert Hart {predicted many years ago that it would be ousted from its proud position by Chinkiang. The Huangpu was becoming narrower and shallower, the Woosung Bar was becoming anually a more formidable obstruction, the Yangtze itself was shoaling, before long ocean-going steamers would be unable
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