The announcement that the King of Denmark has has bestowed high honours on three of his subjects engaged in the Chinese Customs Service has been received here with much satisfaction. Congratulations 0 primarily, of course, to the three my delight who knows no wane' sang the Persian poet. An end will be put to that inconstancy which lovers have ever taken to justify a Jconscienceless exploitation of the|t moon's favour to their rashness. In perpetual moonlight the world will evel in the ecstasy of the Larger Lunacy. Statesmen will find their! wisdom turned topsy-tury, their! schemes maddeningly free from error and their opponents dumb in Imoonstruck awe. Distressed tenants will come into their own, for: moonlight fittings can be staged at fany hour of the day. Moon's men will do a roaring trade so that the Police Force will have to be doubled. homeless hardly covers Yet-the Commission has endeavoured to canvass the sympathy of the public {in the light of the knowledge which ite statistics convey. 'The Yellow River, Inthe long history of Its hesitations and diversions, has. per= haps never s0 devastatingly exerted its baneful influence. Tt has destroyed towns and villages and in the com= pletely altered' face of the country over which it has poured misery, starvation and death had their Fortunately the gallant labours the Flood eliot workers {their lives and economy, "Any help that can be given to this great work cal asset to the country,
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