Mr, Bristow is expected here next week and if he is up to tine Mr. Brenan will leave about the 15th inst., Mrs. Bristow and family remain in Bedford for the present, The educational facilities of Bun yan's town are making it quite a resort for China residents; and really few could do better than locate themselves under the scholastic ovis of old Harper's trusts. the class lists recently to hand young Tientsin shows up well under the names of Bristow, Bryant and Bryson—the youngsters owning these patronymics are repeat-wally przenven Te san open secret up hero that the American residents in Tien and N, China have intimated to Mr. Cle land's friends their opinion that the appointment of Mr. W. Pethick to this Consulate would be at once welcome to them and a wise step in the present delicate condition of American-Chinese polities. The droll naivete of Mr. F. HI. Bostwick of 452, Prospect Street, Cleveland, and his Arcadian-like sinpliity fu rushing into print have rented amusement, dashed with consternaamong our American residents.
By his untimely revelation as to what the Chinese may do in certain contingencies he has utterly given away the position. It is one of the oddest bits of journalistic marplot diplomacy has seen for a long time,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.