Apropos of the power which China claims to exert in post mundane affairs, a Chinese official lately volunteered the information that a certain worthy, recently deceased, has just been heard from, to the effect that he was exceedingly busy managing foreign affii: s. Owing to the increased number of foreigners resident in China and the number of deaths among them, it has been found necessary to appoint a special deputy to attend to their numerous wants. oer John! Are there Sanmens, Port Arthurs, railroad concessions, etc., there, too? It must seem to him very much like Tennyson's brook "Men may come and men may go, but these things go on forever."
The "Shasi."
This boat is now making fairly regular trips along the northern coast of the province from Chefoo to Yangkwako, stopping at three or four smaller ports along the way, as inducement offers or inclination wills. Reaching the latter place, the traveller is handed over to what an American paper' would call. the "uncovenanted mercies" of small Chinese craft to make the remaining 449 lite Chinan. We hear that deliberately spasmodic efforts are being made to dig out the canal, so as to allow a steam launch to run the entire distance, but. the latest traveller reports that even with a slipper bat" the Loatmen had to wade and feel the way over the sect on silted up by last August's Hood.
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