The summer resort known by the name of the nearest railway station, Peit'aiho, appears to be adding to its popularity, there being more persons present from adistanco than ever before. It is now estimated that there are quite 500 foreigners here. About every house is occupied and full, A fow new houses have boon built this season, and further growth seems inevitable. Itis not often that we have anything more exciting than picnics or excursions, or the passage of the steamer or gunboat not far away; but last Saturday, the 2nd inst., there wa: a real exciting occurrence at what is Imown as "Light House Point," which soon extended to about the whole place, It was reported that a large fish had been brought ashore, a chang (10 feet) or more long, the inference from the report being that' it was asi But a gentleman who saw it before it was seriously mu-filated pronounced it to be a whale, the strainer hairs, the absence of teeth and scales and other marks indicating clearly, he thought, the nature of the beast (fish #). It appears to have come near shore at high tide, and when the water fell "sand. bar: prevented' ite escape otherwise the Chinese would not have captured it with their appliances. The Greek priests took charge, removing the skin and blubber and giving the red meat to the villagers who carried it: away, and report that it was very good eating. It measured over 15 feet in length, and its stomach was "large enough. to hold 9 mule." Several people got pieces of the bones as souvenirs of the occasion.
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