Corn has been exceptionally dear this spring. Rumour as usual drags in the innocent foreigner. This individual is bent on cornering Chins, and he can find no more euccessfial way than to buy up all the corn and tip it into the Yellow River! Ladies are the agents, and the silver they give in exchange for the corn becomes powder in a few days. Thus the Chinese are robbed in both ways. So you seo that though we are far from circulating libraries we yet have plenty of fiction.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.