Tam convinced that the opium evil as been materially reduced in this city and adjacent districts. In the city the regular dens have all been closed, although in secret a few places do much reduced business.
There are also ten places. Licensed to sell the drug for home consamptio In outside market towns and district cities the same work has been done, but less thoroughly. It seems to be possible to square the police inversely according to the square of the distance of any place from the large officials, Again the growing use of the hypodermic syringe must be noticed. I have been told by @ native physician that in hix own town this method of injecting morphine costs the people no leas than ten dollars per day; each treatment costing only " few coppers. Whether in this way the opium habit is spreading or not I cannot state. So much more of the strength of the drag is saved in this way that it is decidedly cheaper ba would imagine that it is less tive than the old method of mon sapin at 1 fr. 50. the course, with the utmost simplicity, and hax earned much kudos for the brave way in which he bears ill-fortune. Some of hi friends hope yet to patch up affairs between himself and his late wife. Suddenly Comte Boni de Castellane learns that his comin, Prince de Bagan, is paying attentions to Mme. Anna Gould, who till has a large fortune owing to her careful marriage settlement, and that an engagement We were favoured recently by a call from Mr. Frank N. Meyer, who is exploring for the Department of Agricalture of the United States, Mr. Meyer thinks that the North China plain is well adapted for cultivation of the sugar beet, but that there) would be need of cheaper fuel than is at {present found
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