(Theemometer in the open air in a shaded sivaation in the English Settlement.)
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We, learn from the Echo de Chinn" that M. Kroupensky, First Secretary of the Russian Legation at Peking, M. Karsakoff, second dragoman of the Legation, and M. Beltchenko, dragoman of the "Russian Consulate at Hankows, have been appointed to the grade of Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Cowxr von Schlippenbach returned from Yokohama on Thursday, by the N.-D.L.3. Bayern.
Mu. Nosé; Japanese Consul at Fusan, has been telling the Economic Society something about the currency in Corea. He alleged that silver coins have become most inconveniently scarce, practically non-existent, the only coins available being of nickel or copper. The nickel coins are struck in four ways: the Government strikes them; the people strike them secretly; the people strike them with official connivance; and the Emperor strikes
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