Ir is officially announced that Mr. Wei Cheng has been appointed Chinese Consul-General in London.
Tue following letter referring to the all-important question of the state of the banana market recently appeared in the "Pall Mall Gazette"
A friend and myself have been arguing over the sense and grammatical correctness of the saying, Yes, we have no bananas."
My friend dismissed the phrase as ungrammatical and absurd, but I did not agree with him, 1 imagine two men—A and B, eating bananas. They finish them, and a friend, C, asks if they have any bananas.' Jocularly, they reply, No, we have no bananas."
Subsequently. a friend of ©, cross-examines A and B with the question "Did you tell C that you had no bananas The perfectly correct reply to this last question would be, "Yes; we have no bananas."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.