Some of our readers still remember-anghai in the palmy days of 1879, Situated at the corner of Ming-Hong: Road and Broadway, was a building, on the face of which, on canvas forty. foot long, stretching: the whole. length of the front of the house beneath the windows of the-upper storey, was inscribed the: ancient legend; "The House that Jack Built:
Over a hundred bluejackets representing the navies of Great Britain and. America signed' the pledge and thus was inaugurated: the "Star of Asia," the first. lodge of the Good Templar Order in Ghina.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.