Since the time of Papku there has ofa," was Chinese on the train of the Tientsin-Pokon Railway at Tai-anta on the 20th of the present month. The remark referred as much to the elaborate preparations and the large concourse of people as to the train A large tent enmptaously decorated, bad been erected on the station plat. form for the Chinese and Foreign guests who began to assemble about ten o'clock. Special invitations had been issued to all the Officials and local gentry and to all the foreign
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