Wuchou itis reported that a Buddhist vrieat has male a big sum by a lucky draw the Shan Pla, which, as some of your lors know, isa form of lottery, the vaults being decided by numbers. The ortunate—or unfortunate—priest has made jum of some thousands But no sooner yas this known, than some of the gentry, 1d local officials wore after him, and to relieve him of hiv gains.
wut was that he has no need of the nancy. and it should be devoted to the arrying on of the local government. This interference is strongly condemned by the ative pre-s. The officials it says, openly for opportunities for gambling to ther people, by licensing fan-tan houses, and ow they want to step in and taxe awa; om a man what he has been lucky enough! o win. This actions is worse than the pings of thieves in general, for at least doth not yet appea With the present stress laid on toaching everything in English, there is room for fear that the new education will, for a ime, be in its way as much one-sided as, the former was; for whatever a man's abilities in other lines may be, it must remain true in general that the scholar should be able to handle his own Iinguage fluently snd correctly, and he should especially be able to do this in those branches of which he has made a speciity. The general output of schools: The where but little stress has been laid on literary culture, already show marked weakness in the ability to use their own Language fluently and forcibly.
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