Tur following is the best specimen of English as she is wrote that has come under our notice for some time, says the Jape Gazette. It is the translation of a circular by the Jike but it should be stated that the translation does not emanate from the hospital Prixcirat Purrose 01
The hospital is treating the disease no distinction to the high and low or the rich and poor.
The hospital is named ''Jikei-Jin" Charity and it is more happy for the hospital to be last by the sympathy of merciful person.
the affair is proceeding that the house is feeling narrowly and going to add the room for disease but it cannot be done by individure, so it must rely to aid of the merciful person.
And it is not only shall pay building exponees but it shall extend the favour to other poor disease and it is the principal purpose.
Soldier who was called to battle field and following coolie not only have done their duty in the shower of the ball and smoke of the gunpowder but there are much more that are wounded, lamed and suffered from cold and heat.
to protect and help the such one.
And itis principal purpose of the hospital Now I am hoping heartily to Ladies and Gentlemen to contribute cheerfully as you like.
One's names who contribute money or the article should be publish by news or other ways.
Tar following note on the cultivation of cotton in China is from a recent Report by S. Consul-General Jernigan Cotton is not cultivated in China as in the United States. The preparation of the soil and the planting and cultivation are different. The ridges are wide like the ridges of an American wheat field, and the seed is sown as the American farmer sows wheat. Consequently the plants are very thick, and the Chinese cotton farmer cuitivates every plant to the full maturity possible. The necessity for sullicient space for the plant to grow and branch is not admitted, and, when matured, the stalk is small and the limbs comparatively few. This thickness of growth necessarily results in small bolls and a short staple. "To look at an acre of Chinese cotton when full grown, leaves an impression favourable to great yielding capacity, which the actual yield is far from fulfilling. The thickness of the plants, standing so close together, keeps off the action of the sun, and causes many of the bolls to wither in' the shade, and also prevents many from maturing. The hoe used for working cotton is very narrow in order that the labourer nay thread his way, as it were, between the thick standing plants. When the Chinese are taught the advantage of properly spacing their cotton rows and thinning the cotton plant so that the warm air and the rays of the sun can freely penetrate, the change from the present system of cultivation will be rewarded by an increased yield per acre and a much finer staple.""
Transport says that the question of establishing a fast mail service between Great Britain and Canada appears to have entered upon a new phase. The visit to the Dominion of Sir Charles Tupper, the High Commissioner for Canada in London, to consult with the Government concerning such a service, presumably a 20-knot one, makes this clear. The precise object the High Commissioner has in view must for the present be a matter of surmise; but it may fairly be assumed from the fact of his having undertaken the visit at this season, that, there is a strong possibility of the service being established. That a line of 20-knot steamers running regularly to Canada would materially facilitate business with Canada is obvious, for the trip across the Atlantic by way of the Strait of Belle Isle would be accomplished in considerably under five days; and this is a most important matter so far as the transport of perishable produce is concerned.
Tur Paris correspondent of the Economist writes on the 26th of December last "The British Chamber of Commerce in Paris has for a long time past. taken an Active part in advocating the adoption of decimal system of weights and measures in England. In 1883 different members arow up fourteen reports on the subject, examining it in ite various phases, from the standpoints of education, legislation, and banking, and its application to yarns, textiles, gauges, machinery, ete. The Chamber has since gone further, by pronouncing in favour of the French metric-system pure and simple, sending delegates to support resolutions at the meetings of the associated Chambers in England. As an_interest in the British Chaniber is now making renewed the question has been awakened in England,
efforts to propagate the system, and recently obtained from the Educational Department of the Paris Municipality permission for Mr. Godson, M.P., to visit the schools to witness the' manner of teaching, and on Mr. Godson's invitation, leave of absence was granted to a Professor of one of the Paris Municipal establishments to go to England to explain the system in a public meeting. A deputation of the Chamber, accompanied by the correspondents of the English Press, was also invited a few days back to' be present at the classes of arithmetic at two of the Communal schools, one of boys, the other of girls, and the visitors were strack with the intelligence of the pupils when examined, and with their thorough mastery of the theory of the standards of coins,. weights, and measures, all derived from' the same common measure—the metre. The President of the Paris Municipal Council after-satisfaction is expressed by the' authorities wards roocived the deputation, and great and the Paris Press at the prospect of Eng-Jand at last joining the ranks of nations which have acknowledged the superiority of the French system of weights and mea: sures over all others."
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