The rumours of the death of the Emperor were assiduously circulated at our northern summer resort this year, bevy of people having received telegram from Peking, so it was said, placing it beyond dispute and doubt. Some of us are old enough to remember that this was a hardy annual, not so long was able to inquire of a Chinese ficial, who was in attendance at the Summer Palace off and on for some time, and he sssnred me that the Emperor: had not been very ill, but that there had been some serious quarrel which Emperor' was much softer in mind and heart." visions oF PEITAIRO.
Those of us who know Peitaiho timately, were much amused by the of a "Visitor from Shanghai" in the calamus of a local paper, and in yours, The division of the settlement between Saints and Sinners is a moth-osten joke, but he must have been a dreamer of dreams; for some of his statements about hymn-singing clatter of plates and the cries of children are very far from being trae, and, as all who live at Rocky Point know, there is little now of the overlooking into other people's yards. His plea for a road from the station is a very urgent one, and all agree with bat, as the road would be used for eight months of the year by local farmers, it would be a costly thing to keep in repair. Rocky Point has roads built by the Association, and sanitation Tw it possible yy" that the aequi Tand may have lent some, colour to the visions of a " Visitor from Shanghai any rate it is well worth knowing that the Saints' section is used extensi by Sinners, too, and all agree that well policed, with good roads, and excellent water and sanitation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.