The prospects for winter wheat are not very good; there has been too little snow, and the wheat in consequence looks rather stunted. Accordingly grain has risen in price. Living is now a great deal higher than it was a year ago. Another reason is assigned for this advance in the price of grain. By some the rise is ascribed to the influence of the ten-cash piece. This seems very strange; but, nevertheless, there is something in it. The ten-cash piece has almost replaced the copper leash, beloved of the Chinese; this fact is due not to popular recognition of the excellence of the larger piece, but to.ofcial proclamations and to the exportation of the smaller cash. '1ne people are many of them still a little afraid of the "copper unit," as the ten-cash piece is called here. "Some prefer to keep their grain rather than exchange it for money which may or may not be worth its face without actually having a depreciated currency, we are enjoying some of the concomitants of one.
The Railway Hoped For.
Tt is now almost six years since we were definitely promised a railroad. These years we have been hoping and waiting, but without smything to encourage us. Now comes a report, seemingly authentic, that work on "one" line will be begun soon after the Chinese New Year. This railway will leave the Tsingtao-Chinanfu line at Kaomi, near Kiaochou.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.