Celebrating another birthday, the familiar Red Book makes its 85th an~ ual bow 10 Shanghai this week, 1850 it occupied. half-a-page in the first "number of the "North-China Herald," but branched out in independent entity a year or two afterwards a Kalendar and. Miscellany. the introduction to the Kalendar the compiler, witha careless disregard for space, optimistically prophecies that, by its serving as a reminder of the opening year— iculturist_ will be partially the proper ume for per forming' the various operations. pre throwing his seed into"th there 10 beveliminated by the Divine Worker into waving crops, the fhariner wil with additional certainty totoly pursue his course oF make pre ions for the coming. arm; the Limid adventurer wil have new cour e-instilled into his faint meos, by the removal of halt formed and. iit Schocd fare of his ist drew Eulator in the lives of his fellow sen Will held' out more equitable Induce: {nents to the Murband and. the father {o"'make wise' provision against the ev'day, that may come many land Sha inévery cine The List of Foreign Residents in Shanghae, Canton, "Amy, Ningpo Fuchaw in 1852 numbered about 500, "Nationalities were. fewer than they are" to-day: "in. Canton "the Abdoolally Rujabellys. predominated; Shanghae the Smiths and the Macs, with an appreciable number of Rozarios; while' the other three Ports each had a small British mis: Sionary population with vice-consuls. The Shanghae Hong List gives a d to the origin of a number of familiar road names which have survived since that year: Muirhead, Medhurst, Yates and Boone, missionaries, Al: cock and Montigny, British " and French consuls; Kinnear, Thorburn, Wetmore and others Our particular Kalendar of the Year 1883 was used asa hospital diary by the Dr. Jordan of that day, most of whose patients seer to have "sv. Siren" ree cived into' Hospital 15. Gordon "sv. Siren" dis charged for misconduct Apr 12 Bob, ex. Glenlyon, died of smalt-pox.
In an Abstract of Atmosphericat Changes the present theory. that Shanghae was a cooler spot in those days is not corroborated, as the ave! age maximum day temperature dui ing the month of August for nine years ending 1852 was 94, and' for July 96, but the average minimum by night during January was as low The Miscellany of this ancient volume describes a thrilling native houseboat expedition to Suchauy an article on Chinese arithmetic, "King Louis-Phillipe's Orders for Naviga tors, the Land Regulations and other data. "A list of land-renters. shows that only 1,000 mow of land had at that time been purchased by for eigners in Shangh:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.