15th October.
A High Tide, The river rose higher this summer than has for some ten years, and most of tur bund was under water, Very little amage was done though except to the voar people who inhabit the foreshore. they encamped like gypsies just beyond igh water mark and when the rains ame drank deep of misery.
The Tiger.
'Who only representative' of Western tight for many months has been the pres-in port for a few days of the gunboat of the mailed fist. She carried a ative band whose sweet strains delighted he ears of the residents of this place, *ho are rarely moved by concord of sweet, ounds, - Tehang is filling up again, now hat the holiday makers have all returned, Western. Education."
All the natives of the place are'infected th the Western. education bacillus.
their talk is of the reform diets, and even the once taboood K'ang i-wei is now spoken of in the amens with pride. Some are curse disappointed that the old order hangeth, yielding place to new, and they ave pointed out that when these new lets were made public, there occurred disastrous typhoon on the coast, and he papers told of earthquake shocks, roving, they tell their superstitions editors; that the gods do not approve ho new regime, So rapi and sweeping ins. opposed opted character of China, the rest stolid and conservative of all the arid nations,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.