There have been many meetings recently of the committees of the , and commodious, as well as helm easily accessible for many of the schools. i I happened recently to come across rather an interesting code system used by members of the fruit and fish market and by the dealers in curios. It seems that the characters Ping, wen, shan, cho, cheng, an, mien, kuo, ching ICM Hie ce BARE) are used to represent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 8 respectively among members of thi same business fraternity—a useful! cipher when interlopers are foolish enough to intrude wpon_ their private transactions! So 130 cash is ping shan lao chien!"'
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