is at present being made by Jen Taotai to supply facilities for acquiring Western Knowledge in this city. A large tenement has been adapted and made suitable for the purpose of teaching English, French, mathematics, natural science, etc., and the library of the school is already well-equipped with text books, maps, and charts. The weak part of the scheme is the ABSENCE OF COMPETENT INSTRUCTORS, but it is understood that H.E. Jen intends to cope with this undoubted flaw in his programme in the course of a fow weeks. More signal proof of the need that exists for properly equipped schools and colleges has not been given than by one Ag, Sung, himself a Hanlin, who is Superintendent of the Chengtu. 729 45 og In his official capacity he as just issued a proclamation in regard to the working of coal mines and in this ludicrous document he declares that the. products of coal are very numerous among then being Zerotene ai! and sudphurio acid!7 Then coal mine owners are to form themselves into a sort of Chamber of Commerce or official combination (7 #]) which again will establish a General Kerosene Warehouse here. When this combination has been formed, then the coal mines will be prospected and special measures taken in the case of such coal mines as are likely to produce the most oil! It is altother a most egregious proclamation, and also a fair illustration of how the blind lead the blind in China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.