Three American visitors, Lieutenants Brittain, Tompkins, and Gise, paid our city a visit last night. These officers are from the U. S. ships Kentucky and New Orleans now in Tsingtao harbour. They ned by this morning's train to. par pate in the celebration of the Fourth. An elaborate programme of sports and works has been prepared, and an invitation has been extended to all foreigners at Tsingtao to be the guests of the Kentucky and enjoy the festivities. Tue recent heary welcome accorded to Prince Henry by Uncle Sam and h's navy will doubtless go far towards securing a good attendance at this Fourth Celebration in a German community.
The Railway Work west of this city is now confined to bridge construction, it being thought not desirable to risk metalling the new embankment until after the rainy season. Then the earthworks will have settled, and rail-laying can be carried forward with greater speed and permanency. The large bridge over the Chihho, twenty kilometres west of Chingchoufu, has been begun, and hundreds of carts are now employed to transport cement and steel beams from Weihsien to that point. This bridge is "The health and vigour of an individual depend upon the quantity and quality of the blood. When the tissues have been at work, there are thrown into the blood waste, products, and if these be not elimin nited but through any cause detained in the bloc, they influence nutrition and funetion and finally produce organic disease."
—The Humanitarian. In eases of Sero-tula, Scurvy, Eczema, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood Diseases, Pimples and Sores of all kinds, the effects of Cla: ke's Blood Mixture are marvellous. Thousands of wonderful cures base been effected by it Carke's Blood Mixture is sold everywhere at 2s, 94. per bottle. Beware of worthies imitations anc substitutions, the longest on the line between Tsingtao and Chinanfu, Recent rains have swollen the Yunho at Nanliu, and threaten to sh away the temporary crossing in use, pending the completion of the permanent bridge. Most of the steel spans are place and the piers ready for the remaining spans, so that the danger of interrnption is not serious. To provide against a sudden emergency an extra train and locomotive are kept on the west side of the river to aiord a means of continuing the trafic, even if a transfer be necessary.
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