has this year erected dormitories and a recitation room for the use of the boarding school at Fénchoufu. Accommodation is provided for about thirty pupils. One of the ladies of this mission has opened a boarding school for girls. Each girl will be required to pay five hundred cash each month for board and room accommodation. Six pupils are already in attendance and others are promised. This attempt to induce Chinese to pay a little towards the education of their own girls will be watched with great interest.
RETURNING PROSPERITY, large number of new houses which one sees the part of the Chinese is the com atively One indication of returning prosperity on
in course of erection in different parts of the province. 1y old houses have been thoroughly repaired. In this way a good deal of money has been put in circulation, at Jeast among carpenters and masons.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.