Our Wonderful Weather Ik would be distinctly interesting it anybody could give the record of more diversified state of weather Shanghai than has been exper-8 tenced during the past few day:
There was something. almost pheno-monal about Sunday's effort, for instance. About four o'clock in the afternoon it rained at one end of hile at the south end absolutely dry.
{snot specially new in Shanghai for owing to the currents of hot sphalted roads, lain, here finds itself quite often The peculiar point about Sunday, however, was 33 that while the day had been hot and humid and unpleasant, some. 16 after, the showers men! med fell, 18 cold blast of wind sot in from the Te continued for quite a time, fand then again the atmosphere turn:
to. the special Shanghai sticky variety, with a good deal of Swatow kiang about it. Between Tuesday right and yesterday mernige from it to comparative coolness took and there is no need to be 20 dseutsive about the rest of yester-20 day's proceedings, The quick-change 20 lartist of the weather has certainly 22 distinguished wheelbarrows, hi cing walls made of Piles of stone' with a few pounds on. the roof to hold it dawn during the typhoon Blasts of these the abode bears the mark of genius. And no ordinary bricklaying genius, either, because wedged bet two top drain pipes constituting the! entrance is a curved piece of bamboo, simple imitation of an arch, with a red flower stuck in the coni add that artistic touch which dis That Unguishes the architect. "In a few jdeys, perhaps, it will be torn down bat ihe: mate, inglorious, Ween has Jown ideas into the reality. of had the pleastive of transforming his
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