A very practical joke has been perpetrated upon a native Christian in a city two miles north of this fu, by a Chinese doctor who represented himself to the above as authorised by a well-known missionary to make arrangements for opening a hospital where the Christian revided. The authority he assumed in giving directions to engage a carpenter and a builder, and the skill he displayed in writing what he called letters to the missionaries who commissioned him are unequalled. 'The reason for such conduct has not yet transpired the.persistent way in which he refused fees, as well as the reasons he gave for refusing them from those he visited professionally show he was not a rogue. Sub; sequent enquiries' indicate him to be demented rather than wicked,
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