Work on the motor road to Nanzing and beyond is at a standstill, and has been for many weeks. No one knows when it will be resumed. Considering present conditions hereabouts it may be said that the wheels of pro-ress Rave slowed down to a scarcely ereeptble moron. But better times are expected, and the patiently enduring farmers and merchants shoulder their burdens and grin and abide.
Of the curious stories that oceasionally come to one's attention the latest is of a weirdly outlandish child that has just been born in the country west of Huchow. The child is described as follows: its head is extra ordinarily large; its body is shaped ike a melon and dwarfed; its feet are enormous, and its fingers are.only halt the length of those of the ordinary newly born. The country. people are said to be considerably excited over this event, wondering. whether some portent for ill is indicated.
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