M. Gaston Domnet, the special correspondent of the "'Temps," seems to have been greatly disappointed by the tranquility of Shanghai. "He arrived under the impression that the whole of the feminine population had been sent elsewhere for a d that the men were sleeping with a leaded revolver in ench haad.~ Five minutes after landing he suw " young lady walking about with no more" protection than that afforded by a small boy with a tennis-racket., Shanghsi, he afterwards discovered, regretted this absence of danger and was jealous of Tientsin and its siege.
Shanghai longed to figure in history, and, in the interests of its future biographers, created a Volunteer corps. Mr. Donnet was fortunate enough to witness a march-past of the corps, this movement being carried out, he says, to the strains of a funeral march played by Tagalos h seems a rather unkind way of ing the Town Band, and its martial which render marching so easy. The various continzen's preserved their national charac eristies. The English held their swords like processional candles; the Americans imitated the English; the Germans marched with that peculiar parade step which conveys the impression that the Emperor William's soldiers are all mounted on wooden legs; the French displayed their customary off-hand style and the little Japaneseydid thole very b: st to follow. In the evening M. Donnet became acquainted with the Club bar. Many gentlemen, previously unknown to him, shook his Fight arm up and dowa, like a pump, and asked him in a deep' voice, apparently proceeding from their boots, to have a whisky and soda, After this agreeable beverage he proceeded to sample various combinations of brandy and xin wit' soda-water, after which he entered upon the great family of cocktails. He was further threatened with pale ale, porter and claret, and would probably have succumbed ther if he had not evllected all the equilibrium left to him and fled. From all of which it appears that the Shanghai Club it still true to its traditions of profuse ye THE ZRUPELIN AtR-SHIP, In view of the great interest taken in Count Zeppelin's airship, and the enthusiastic vee sunts of the invention which have appeared in various papers, the opinion of a disinterested and competent rench authority, M. de Fonvielle, will not be without value. M. de Fonvielle cmside s that the Zepplin air-ship is very far from being a relixb'e dual machin Nothing in the experiments proves that it could be successfully navigated for any length of timefagainst the wind, Nevertheless, a step forward has certainly been inde. The inventor has made three ascents with powerful patroleam motors, and hws not set fire to his balloon! He has introduced the automobile to the clouds and.has done more than has yet been accomplished by any advocate of the theory thit a flying machine, howler thin the air, is superior to any form of balloon.
26th October.
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