The Archive · 1938

Sixty Dears 850

From rhe "M№okrh-Chixa Dairy News," or Jury 23, 1878 the sympathy that is expected from us, We have read with; we fear, not all the "diverse. complaints raised By Correspondents whose sleep is broken. Gnd whose tempers are disorganized by the noises which by night and day arise from the traffic in the m of the Settlements. A few years ago when ath more. than the fidelity of an manoc, showers of crackers announced ihe approach and occurrence of native festivals. tive diabolical disturbances in the street ihe causes of mue danger end "actual damage. Nervous ponies kicked traps lo picces and Charged unsuspecting crowds fants were Startled irom troù into. more "troubled wake tu foreign. invalids "of "maturer yea found illness intensified and. convale sconce interrupted by a senseless indulgence ex tended to the Chinese. The more prosperous the Settlements, ther fore, the greater will be ihe din o Workers m metal, the more persistent the tattle of rickshaws, We squeal or Wheelbarrow s and the shouts of coolies, and when we now and then hear it Surreptitious y. raised im a back street, far from in2ving to cat the nearest levies recol-

When every T People who bitterly of itє more object whereby the bustle of Shansi itself, remind us of the tender-hearted damsel in "Punch" who denounced the cruelty of butchers, though she would not go without lamb and would not eat it alive.

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