Connected with one of the ancestral halls in Fatehan are some fands, the interest from which is to be spent in ivi ner once & year to all the old men in the district who are more than seventy years of age. This year the numbers st the yearly feast were 1,800. The oldest of the guests was ninety-four years of age. He was placed at the head of the table, and next him was the Fan Fo of the town, who was present on the auspicious oocasion, The other guests took their places in the order of their ages. The dinner service" was ordered for the ccoasion, and those who were present at the feast were allowed to take home ith them as heirlooms to be treasured "by their women and children" the several utensils which they used. It is" pity that even such an occasion as this could not pass off without some quarrelling. The report states that two of the oldest of the visitors "fell out over the order of pre-cadence, snd came to blows." It seems almost Indicrous that two old men, on the verge of the grave, could not ovine to s feast like this without quarreling. But then we are in China, and etiquette is of supreme importance.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.