Arsenal authorities have sent an agent to Shanghai to purchase various implements required in connexion with the output of arms and ammunition, Among other things ordered is a large quantity of smokeless powder and 8,000 empty cannon shells.
Mr. Edwin Cunningham, American. Consul-General, and Mrs. Cunningham have returned to Shanghai after a short houseboat trip. through the Tsientang River above Hangchow. They report that the gorges are particularly fine at this time of the year and Mrs. Cunningham, her many friends will be glad to learn, has recovered fully from illness, of which she was convalescent just prior to the trip. When asked whether any bandits interfered with the party, Mr. Cunningham laughingly replied," Never a one, all the Chinese treated us just fine."
'THe king crab, formerly only found in merchantable quantities near Japan, according to a Seattle dispatch, invaded the waters of Cook Inlet, Prince Willim Sound, off Sitka and Behring in such numbers that four canneries in Alaska are packing the giant shell fish. About 20,000 cases is the expected output, worth $35 a case, or $700,000. The king crab measures from three to five feet from tip to tip of the huge claws, or pinchers, and in weight is from four to 12 pounds. The largest specimen of the king crab, of which Dean John N. Cobb of the College of Fisheries, University of. Washington, has beard, was found in the nets of a Japanese fisherman, and measured 19 feet from tip to tip, weighing forty pounds. Just why these crabs should migrate to the
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