A sort of communique reaches us! from Peking, on the first_ meeting Jof a Commission for the Education lof Railway Labourers, which, it as created under the Ministerial Order of the Ministry of Communications" dated January last. At the.inauxgural meeting Mr. Pinjin T. Woo, the secretary general of the Commission, made the being made to conserve its numbers, Unhappily there ix no authority Jeapable of insisting upon such a measure although the great source of continuous wealth. that. there would be for the country by such action must be obvious to all.
Recruiting at Tsingkiangpu The letter subjoined reaches without other means of vent its authenticity than the written railway labourers. A general dis-Jeussion with reference to its finance took place." Then follows Swhich states thatthe Third Diviaion evitable list of regulations, signed hire is recruiting slivers nad wan by Mr. Yeh Kungecho, Minister of nnd Communications. "From these we la deeds these ae facts of falsehood and apolnting mayors ta some dhatrits one. From, these Valeriy recure. "The news ween recently: cryanized is supplementary Mand te composed three. Hw (1) A, Chairman. appointed by the Bel Vu Tat AMiniater of, Communications, mentary Regiment organized (2) Asnumber of Members, appointed ried of last years bythe Minister of Communtene secure even a single soldier tions atthe recommendation of recently, and stil esx would othe the Chairman.
(3) A'Secretary General, selected fr the Members and' appointed forth wore Reis wot with aide aide selected while, the hotel people, suspecting that something was amiss, "had telephoned urgently to that department of the Paris police whose duty is to look after the good conduct of the city's inhabitants; and while the three ehhvacters stand there in the room, all more or less nonplussed, police agent, breathless with running, rushes he take the situation and arp and staccato-like "Abt, such as only a French gendarme can utter. Thrown into consternation and alarm by the sudden and unexpected appearance of the representative of law and order, the other three again exclaim "Ant" in quick succession, the occupier of the room in bewildorment; the unfortunate lady in genuine emb: vraesment, and the tunate suitor in un-tain!
The powers of acting and expression used by the actors in this little comedy ave stated t render the ejucvlation adequate to explain. everythings trid to tenyo the audience in no doubt whatsoever.
While the idea seems to have much to re~ commend it, and to learn thy various intonations of would doubtless be much east than to learn either Experanto or French, we doubt very mucit whether it could be applied successfully to th every-di language problems of Shanghai We should like to hear, for inxtance, an Annamite policeman directing, on this system, newly-arrived Russian, Koukaza Garden to the Munici pality, or a Sikh policeman, by the same means, intimating to a riesha coolie that he was infringing some traffic regulation. The result would be entertaining, if not illuminating.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.