Hsianfu has lately been visited by several Japanese. Some have gone to the mountains to the south-west, hunting, it is said: One went a few hundred li northward to ojfert adrue oil wells, but I have not' heard with what success. There Has also been an English captain here on his way to Tibet; he said he would follow the course of the Yellow River. Now, there has arrived young Russian selling cloth, and '8 ChinoJapanese who made some trouble but has been, I think, arrested. He is a native of Honan, who has been to Japan and cut off his que Sometimes he is a foreignes, somer Chinese, sometimes a Protestant, and sometimes a Catholic. Now he is probably a prisoner. tions have down about within a fow days, and in one an attack was tiiadé upon a few Christians: 4 Pienty, the Sategtiard:
At Tsimingfu also, placards have been issued this summyter dydinst, thiethissio So long as food is plentiful, it is hardly probable nny of these intentions, will materialise; but were rain to hold off, it is not easy to prophesy what might happen:
The Spread of Knowledge:
One fruit of the Post Office is that. there is coming to hea general knowledge of the outside world: And the literati having tasted of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, find it 80 much to their fasts, that in one county near here, they hold frequent meet ings, to talk politics. ''he American boy~ cott has hoon t roughly discussed, and informed that if Yuan Shih-kai i not taken mutters by the forelock, there is no teliing what the populace in their ignorance migh: have dene.
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