Dec. considerable number of people in Shanghai, when overburdened with the good things of the festive season and having members of the Navy among their acquaintances, have in years past been in the habit of contributing their surplus mon-of-war in port, naturally selecting the ship aboard of which they had an acquaintance. Thus in the days when bachelors, who probably led a club, life, found themselves the owners of half a dozen hams and a turkey Jor two—ineidentally in clubs when the turkeys are alive they fare always.parked in the bath—they have been in the habit of
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