Life in Peking for the last fow dars has been re dered arnest wide ridle by the in-ense hea rhe oldes: lets cannot remember a time when the vat spell Eas continued x0 long without achango. There ave been quite a number of deaths from heat apoplexy.
Some Benefit from it.
But it is an ill wind that does not blow some good, and the great heat has checked to a certain extent the ravages of cholera. That terrible disease, however, still claims its victims in great numbers, and when the rain comes, and all kinds of fruits become plentiful, one trembles to think what the consequences must be. Dr. Cochrane has seen Prince Ssu on the matter, but he confesses himself powerless to do anything further than issue proclamations warning the people against drinking cold unboiled water, and eating raw fruit and vegetables. But of course the Chinese pay no attention to these warnings; they are fatalists, and believe that if their time has come they will die whatever they eat, and say "Kai ssi, chin sa."
one Legation three of the servants died in one day, and the members of that Legation now take their mouls at the Club. However well one's household regulations are made, it is still very difficult to' prevent the servants, by some act of ignorance and folly, injuring the results of all one's previous good arrangements.
A Scheme Frustrated, Our old friend Cheo Pih has been at his tricks again. It seems impossible for him to let dead dogs lie. Those who helped the foreigners in any way to pacify the city after the Siege, are to him as a red rag to a bull. This time his plan was to get a friend of his to send in a memorial (a elated enough one, one would thiok), charging Mr. Huang, of the Industrial School, and " Mr. Yio, with welcoming the foreign troops to Peking. and using them to harass the people. Ch'in Pih hoped that he himself, together with the Censors in charge of the Chinese city would be appointed to investigate the charges, and it is easy to imagine what his report would have been. Howev to his great disgust, Sun Chiawsi was appointed instead, and he reported that far from harassing the people, Messrs. Huang and Yiia used their influence to protect them; and not only this, but that it was these very mes who did not a little towards smoothing the way for Ch'én Pib's return to his old posi A Sham.
Weste-n Education (save the mark!), as carried on by the Government in Peking, is at present entirely in the hands of Ch'ga_ Pik. The principal school, which is in
ago. Tt possesses a log list of high-the South City, was started abut 2 year sounding rules, drawn up not to be obeyed, but for the public eye. At the entrance examination more than half the applicants were represented by substitutes. The rule is that every new scholar, whatever his proficiency in English, be laced in the lowest class, hein told that his English is American, and then of course wonderful stories are toll of his progress in 2 few months. Eh Pih's own son attends this school, and must be an uucommonly clever boy, for he invariably comes out first in the examinations. The school admirable training ground for future The regular scholar gets his food. sul and quarters free, and thus is fostered the idea, so prevalent among the Chinese literati, that all institutions are brought into existence to enable them to make a good living.
An Honest Official. him in rheic Memorial to the Throne, "General Manager of the Protestant Church in China." This title may possibly cause heart-birning in some quar ers. The appointment is undoubtedly one of the best that could be made, and it is to be hoped that Dr. Richard may be able to do much in the matter of et og misunderstandings and smoothing tween officialdom and the Protestant Church.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.