After the manner of its ancestors, Peiping's population is still happily content that its ice for summer days shall be collected: from the moat which lies outside its city walls.
It is to be hoped that freezing lessens the vitality of the germs which must abound in this convenient receptacle for all things no longer needed in the economy of the Peiping citizen.
An article descriptive of the Peiping ice industry will be found in today's issue of the "North-China Daily News."
On Peiping's frozen Moat: tying ropes round the ice-blocks in order that they may be dragged to the ice-pit Rectangular blocks, four feet by two, are marked off on the ice. Men with ice-picks move along the lines, working their picks in unison until a block has been cut off.
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