Young bamboo trees are laid in lime until they are easily beaten into sticks the size of a large mortar, when they are pounded with large wax tree mallets also worked by the running streams. Passed through several sieves it is eventually put into a tank, which is kept wall stirred. Through this an operator puts a finely arranged bamboo mat and brings it up covered with the swimming bamboo fibres. These forming a large sheet of paper, are laid upon each other until a thick block is formed. This is carried. into the. drying-house and left there until ready for exportation. The friendliness shown to the foreign visitors in the industrial centres makes the usual round of the missionary interesting and eventful. Only atithe last process do they say. " Observe, but do not touch,"
Prices Up.
The partly spoiled crops have raised the prices of many things. Rice and corn have gone up nearly thirty per cent. Vegotables, broad beans especially, have increased nearly sixty per cent. If the sun would shine a few days and ripen the corn the prices would go down again.
Housebreaking in a place called Shipui, fifteen miles from here, has been frequent lately. Three burglaries took place in one week, the proceeds in one case being three shoes of silver and thirty thousand cash, Honour to Whom Honour is Due.
This city is quiet. The only noise woe have had being the incessant. firing of heavy crackers in honour of the letters patent which afew days ago arrived with the new M.A. graduate.
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