The weather is quite chilly for this season of the year and sickness is prevalent, smallpox being rife among children, A. health officer would be a welcome addition to our city, for there are practically no precautions taken against infer tion. Unless one exercises vigilance oneself, children will school from infected be ut to but more or lees in a tainted atmosphere, and it is nothing short of a miracle that we live 80 immune from those diseases that surround us, Some time since I read in the "North-China Herald" of a notorious "eat case" which had been occupy: ing legal minds in England. Some days ago, the depredations of a cat led to very serious consequences in this city. The daughter-in-law of muy was accused of eating mothing which: pussy had. eaten and not only accused but was badly beaten, so severely and unjustly that the young: girl drowned. her~ self. This caused a terrible quarrel with the girl's family, who cxme in full force from the country to be avenged and their method of venge~ ance, Was gruesome in the extreme. The girl's corpse was placed alongside the ancestral t ther-in-law's famil till neighbours insisted © that must be buried. How the matter was finally settled has not been s0 far made public, but it has not been officially searched into. The families concerned were left to set-te it themselves, because they lodge ed no complaint with "the powers that be!"
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