in the last two months, death hag been busy in the homes' of se-}veral of the leading citizens of the city. A husband and wife, hoti elderly, died within a few days of each ther. Their funeral was considered to be a very grand one, but it has been outdone by the funerals accorded the aged mothers of two other families, the latest Just yesterday, being that of the mother of the President of the Board of Trade. Two thousand dollars were spent on it. What a pity that it wag not used in come more lasting way to commemorate the departed. An intelligent Chinese remarked something to the same effect, at the same time saying that not only is the empty and irreverent display an offence against our sense of the fitness of things at a funeral but it also is an offence against all that is best in Chinese tradition of the order and decorum that should mark the passing @f the dead.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.