Now that the farmers have had one or two good seasons the people are turning their attention to temples and idols loft to decay during the recent' bad years, Three or four miles south someone has unearthed half of Buddha, and jour that it is able to give medicine, Already hundreds have visited it: und {enough money has been subscribed to build @ temple over it. The mandarin hearing of it sent forthe local tipao advised him to be careful about getting crowds of people together, also recommending that the people put their money to better use than building temple for r useless "piece of stone. The unfortunate missionary has conseqtiently come in for a share of abuse, it being rumoured that he had ordered the mandarin to stop the building of this temple.
The Age of Manufacture.
'The official here wants to move with the times, evidently and has procured some sort of' machinery for making cloth and silk to give employment to the prisoners, bur alas, nobody has arrived with: it to explain the working Shopkeepers. sand others are greatly opposed to the new copper ten-cash pi ud of course say the foreigner is making good thing out of it.
What does it mean?
Thear that a "': ienshu" has come from the prefect warning the' people not to buy certain tinds of futeiga cloth, as it is liable to spontaneous combustion. "Whether this has anything t+ do with the' American boycott it is difficult to say,
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