Also—from the sublime dollar to the ridiculous pig—the sale is prohibited of sick animals or those who have died from disease or have been slaughtered after illness. And this after all is the ost revolutionary of all the aforementioned mandates. For until this time. if a foreigner's pet cow departed this life, there was no hope of decent burial and rest in a peaceful grave, for no sooner would the earth be heaped into a mound than ghouls would appear to drag forth the last reniains of the dear departed and divide her forth to various meat shops, whence she would next day grace the tables of the fortunate.
Tae Misravsr or Pexina.
Yangchow artists have been asked to paint pictures for an exhibition sale for the benefit. of famine sufferers.
The money shops have contribut-$5,830 to famine relief, and the priests in the city have also held a meeting to raise funds for this purpose. All officials with salaries over $100 a month have been cut down 20 per cent.
Mr. ¥. C. Shen, of Tientsin, and Messrs. Chang King-zung and Lo Pa-hong of Shanghai paid a visit to Yangchow in the interest of the International Relief Committee, and were disappointed to find that most of the Chinese contributions are going through Peking, even though the current opinion is that not more than two or three cents in ten will ever go to feed the hungry.
Scuorastics aND ATHLETICS.
The Kiangsu Board of Education has during the last week sent Mr. Wu Hu-si from Nanking to inspect the teaching -of physics and arithmetic in the Government Schools, and Mr. Li, Ching-hsi to inspect the progress of phonetic script, which is now taught in all the schools. The Provincial Government promises to finance Pri mary schools if local funds are insufficient. This news is doubly, welcome as the keepers of tea shops have lately held a meeting to protest against the tax of two cash a pot of tea, which was levied against them in the interests of middle schools, Mahan of the representatives of the four
Episcopal Mission, The Eight Middle. The Commercial, and the Fifth Normal met last week in the old library to reorganize the Yangchow Athletic Association on new basis with as few rules and. causes for dispute in the constitution as possible. Mr. Green, of the Mahan, was chosen President and Mr. Tu, of the. Commercial School, Vice-President. Tt is hoped that this association may do much to further clean inter scholastic athletics conducted, the true spirit of sportsmanship.
On Saturday of last week Mr. Green and Mr. Forster of the Mahan School took their football team down to Chinkiang to play the Chinkiang Club. The boys made a good showing against soned warriors and scored two goals—the score being 3 to 2 la favour of Chinkiane.
The Yangchow School of Sericulture held an exhibition last week, which was attended by several distinevished visitors, in-eluding two French gentlemen from Shanehai. hesidec General Huang and the local officials.
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