with its very cloudy sky casts a gloom over all classes in this city. Every now and again the most outrageous stories somehow get floating about; are always believed however absurd, and cause panic generally till some other equally absurd story displaces them. It is impossible to say how frequently, if street gossip were accurate; Japan and Russia and other Powers.and Russia have been at war, and what mutual destruction: followed each: battle. These battles have. been mostly at sea; The. stary-mongers: possibly. did not see exactly how to place. them on land: A certain amount of friction there is, asthe various. parties are not' able to make themselves mutually understood. But the history.of.the three crows. has been repeated ad /ibitwn during. the past. year.
a specimen of the kind of story which comes and shakes the foundations of society. here let. me mention one of last month's. This was to the effect that a force of 20,0 Russian troops were announced by telegraph to have come from Tientsin by train to Chunghousuo, whence they, were marching to. Moukden! This sort of thing, is often. believed. A young man came to this city from Shantung to see whether his here still continued to exist, as the stories current in-Shantung: were of such an extraordinary character that, ap: parently, the people here were believed to be massacred in all directions.
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