The Mayor of Chungking resenily Chungking, Aug.
called a meeting of those moving educational circles, the subject of the discussion being the opening of a 'school for the ladies and daughters of civil and military emeers, These ladies are to have their living and home conditions reformed, while their "bodily and mental strength" fo be increased. The school Is to open shortly with 200 students on lis rolls. and the whole course is ex-ceted fo take six months A remarkable doctrine was preach-near Hochuan recently "by a Eroup of so-called "religious' bandits," who were dressed in goat-skins, and claimed that their charms could keep them from being hurt in any way' by either sword or bullet. 'They were: but to flight by government troops, Wwho succeeded in' capturing three bandits.
'A public trial was held in Hoe chuan, 'The District Magistrate decided that this was an appropriate movement to demonstrate the fallacy of their doctrine, and ordered an assistant to stab one of the bandits in the log. Needless to say, the len bled profusely, whereupon' the District Magistrate followed up this} practical demonstration by a short Teeture on the "foolishness "of the religious bandits."
The provincial government has been ordered to suppress all illegal rellgious and charitable societies, on the ground that they are responsible for! both religious uprisings among. the uneducated masses and for the spread of superstition.
No one really knows when the abacus first came into general use in 'China, but st has been the standard counting apparatus for many hundreds of years. Tt is not without fits defects, however, operators periencing dimeully' in' reading at Sight the tenth, hundredth, or the sand th figure of any given number they usually rely upon their memories for assistance.
French epicures and gourmets will frown upon a recent action of the Mayor of Chungking, who has "fne¢ tone of the larger local restaurants Po the sum of $600, onthe grounds that, despite a warning not long ago, served frog-meat to its " customers. Frogs, says the Mayor, should not be killed for food as their main items of diet consist of nearly all the eropdamaging insects and" worms. The '$000 is to be used to buy medicine, for the poor, which takes some of, the sting out' of the Mayor's action,
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