sums up the local history of Tientsin for the rioment; we have the blessedness of those who have no_ history, and the gentle misin of a folk driven indoors by wet rs, but Faun glad to 3 igns of flood.
The Chinew to a man believe we are to have floods this year, and not a few forciguers preten in the matter of meteorvlozy the bland and childlike natly all points, and therefore affect a similar belief; the law of averages and that alone is the only possible justification for such a ney. ows how far the said law tin list plouts who will then ery: "I
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