Phis has been an exceedingly uncomfortable day for the return of the Court to Peking. A high wind has been blowing all day, and the air is about as full of dust as it can beand not have the regulation storm, the dust of which comes from a distance. Tt was rumoured in advance that a large number of foreigners were planning to be in the capital city to witness the return of the exiles. Intelligence of the success of their sight-seeing will be awaited with interest by the more sober stay-at-home folk.
The reported Outbreak in Kansu.
Some days ago it was reported here that an Americin or a British missionary and a number of Curistians had been' mur: dered in Kansu. The mame May (possibly the character anglicised Mei) was. given. So fur as I have been able to ascertain, there is no British or American missionary that section of country having that name. have heard no confirmation of the report, though it is about a week since it was first la circulation.
Such stories only result in eventual harm fr-m whatever view-point, considered, and no man of high moral sentiment will ever resort to them.
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