Notwithstanding the coolness of the weather up to the present, the' foreigner should not delude himeelf into believing that all is going to. be of an extremely pleasant chara: ter during the forthcoming summer: The fact of the matter is that, ac-Jcording to Chinese metcorologiets, this year the Chinese summer does: not commence until July 10, and then apparently will be the time] to sweat. For these Chinese predictions of when the seasons will arrive are seldom inaccurate, end the one who would ignore the: generally not the one who la: ast. The intensely utilitarian nature of the Chincte race here comes out very strongly. very beginnings the Chinese were a great agricultural race, and hence this business of getting to. know: about the weather and the season: became a highly developed matter, with the result that an amazing degree of accuracy has been achiev-feds Mr, Alexander Philip, a Scottish lawyer who was called in by a former Pope to discuss the reform fof the calendar, mentions in his took "on the calendar, how two} wulous Chinese. gentlemen named} Hai and Ho were beheaded grveral Jcenturies ago for being half an hour foot in their prediction of an eclipse fof the sun, and in view of the great attention to accuracy which was in these early days paid, it is beth wonder that the results ary 0 gen erally sure to-day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.