Women are to-day pioneering in spirit and action. This was proved last month by Miss Margaret Rawlings, a young English actress who has mate such strides im her profession in a short time that she is in peril of being called famous already. At all events her fame induced the Oxford Group Movement to ask her to be heir chief guest at a luncheon in London. In sixty Years Ago From tHe "Nortu-Cuwa Datty News" or Aucusr 13, 1877
The past four days and nights have been exceptionally, hot in Canton, the thermometer ranging from 92 to 96 at 2 to 4 p.m. and 86 to 92 at 10 o'clock p.m. the air parched and dry, the wind continuously from the North, as it still is this morning, though there is sensible relief in a quality of elasticity in the air since mid night. The barometer began to fall on the 8rd instant and has very gradually dropped from 29.70 to 29.38 where it now stands; the same orometer marking 29.10 in heavy typhoons uring the past 25 years at Macao and here. At offices here the thermometers stood as high as 98 and 102, and 98 or higher in Shameen. I remember no day since August 14, 1868, so ing to one's strength.
Macao, August 8.
The Pall Mall Gazette says there are now staying at Southsea twelve young officers of the Imperial navy of China, who have come to England for professional instruction, Their ages vary from seventeen to twenty-six, and they all speak English, After a time spent in preliminary study, six of them will proceed to the Naval college at Greenwich, three will enter the English navy, and the rest will attach themselves to various training schools.
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