There are now a number of foreign professors at work at the Shansi University, and the new buildings are being rapidly erected, but the acting principal, the Rev. Moir Duncan, M.A., has been laid aside with an attack of typhoid fever, from which he is now fortunately recovering. The Harvests in most places were very poor, but there searcely seems to he any severe distress, though high prices for grain are likely to be ined throughout the winter. The is being put on to coal, which has in consequence risen in price.
The Officials and the Roman catholic Church.
The mandarins complain bitterly of their difficulties with the Catholics, but this old story. The sooner the Powers settle th Missionary question the better, or once again all foreign interests will be imperiled.
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