There has thus far been very little rain, and no snow at all, in which respect this winter is like the last. But there la still ample time for amends, which it is to be hoped may yet be made, Postal Notes.
The establishment of a branch-post-office in our humble locality and on our premises attracts no outside attention, and it is doubtless supposed to be altogether a foreign institution. It patronised slightly by "the public,"" but since the latter as a whole can neither read nor write, its growth must. be slow. When a Chinese is absent from home, if he writes a letter once a month it is justly considered phenomenal, but this style of communication does not suit the foreign denizens of this obscurity, one of whom was heard to remark the other day that he had (as the result of about ear's residence) eighty-five unanswered letters, a state of things probably nob to be paralleled in all China's millennial ages in the case of any (tmofficial) Chinese that. ever drew breath.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.