The attempt to establish the use of the Western calendar has failed in the interior. The business people have entirely reverted to the old style and only official documents from the yamens now use the Gregorian calendar, But as the almanacs sold are now no longer, as formerly, issued under Imperial sanction, the editors are not responsible for uniformity or accuracy. Thus November 17 is variously given Ist of 1¢th Moon and 30th of 9th Moon.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.