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| More than forty stopsies of aphasic subjects. Į taken so seriously by Chiasse oficiala se by the have shown no case in which this part of the European Press; their moral lies chiedy in the application. The Throne's benevolent inten- brain has been attacked, but an extensive cerations in this case were regarded by the Boards CITY - THE bral hemorrhage bas bon noted in most coeee. as a politic move to conciliate the most laudable, Further, this loss of speech is usually attended but quite impracticable, sentiments of the pro- by a diminution of the general intelligence, chi, a Cornell graduate, in a responsible port gressives. But the appointmout of Shib Chas- POISON OF ICE CRNAM-SCIENCE AT ALL indicating that speadh cannot be assigned to in the Board of Communications was too literal
any special part.
sa interpretation of the Throne's commanda. The fact that this newly established Board har charge of all navigation, railway, telegraph, and postal matters might appear to justify Tang these branches of the public service, and in the Sino-si's decision to engage men trained fa case of Shik Chan-ahi he cartainly selected the best man obtainable, of Tantal rank, specially Nevertheless the storm broko; ait tha fitted by practical experience in railway work, of Celestial officialdom raged and stored, and the Throne, recognizing the situation, performed one of its accustomed rolle face, removed Suih Chan-chi from the Board of Communications, and severely cemeured Chany Po Hai and Tang Shao-yi, its President and Visa-President, which set of reparation is accepted by tha futtered dovecotes of the capital to mean that classical scholars of the orthodox type will continue to be eligible for technical posta
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A unique piece of engineering, now in progress at Newcastle-on-Tyne, includes B novel application of ferro concreto.
Tho rapidly growing saburts of Heaton is separated by a valley from 10 to 1,10) feet wide and 120 feet deep, at the bottom of which runs the Ouseburn River, and after rejecting various plaus for improving communication, the engineera hava decided to fill up the valley. A parabolic ferro-concrete culvert for stream, 32 feet wide by 25 feet high and nearly balf a mile long, will be covered by filing about 100 feet deep. The steel framework of the | culvert, with a total weight of 850 tons, ocmaiste of bare from 5:16 to 1 pohes in diameter, in a maximum separation of 12 inches, and the forre-concreto at the crown is only 8 inches thick. With the steel strengthening, it is calculated that this thickness is ample to support the enormous weight, which will inctado baillings on the made land.
In the simultaneous discharge of eight of the ten 12-inch gums of the Dre daavghi, a shock was given the vessel of 400,00 lun, more than double that of any broadside ever before fired. The vessel of 1930 tons skiddet sideways several yarde, listing mir deges. The gun are 3 feet long, and each shell of a pounds is discharged by 285 pounds of corfite, with s muzzle velocity of 20 miles sa hour. It is calculated that if the eight gars coull be. cm- bined in one and fred at height of the atmosphere, the shell would travel around the
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More than 13 iustadesof thiorinatin. fluence on history of weather in wir-time hate besa collected by Richard Bratley, of the Regal Meteorological socity. Wiud, fog, maio, so bail, thunderstorms, beat and colt bare al materially affeted invasions, battles, rot reals and other operatiņu 8.
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A pisca of felt. interposed between the air, chamber and the svelop, is a French solution of the tire-puncture problem that seems to have given good result. The felt is about half an inch thick, it wilth depealing on the size of
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the tire, and it je beld in place by the outer without special educatics denouncing Tangi envelop at its edge and cemented to the inner Shao-yi-the number of those unpublished is surface of the profecting band. It sana adjusts egion-bears the name of Ma Chi-chang, a itself to the shape of the tire. Before a nail or
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defence sur arder any jaqairy into bis alleged offences. un the other hand, he น treated with leniency and allowed to retain office in the Wairupt and Board of Communications.
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writason Feb. 20th The recent Impeachment The Shanghai correspondent of the Times of Tang Shan.gi by reactionary officials, and the consequent issue of two imperial Faicts ensuring him for self-sufficiency and the employment of unsuitable person," aru mattors of much wider interest and importance than usually attach to such events in the Chinese political world, For Tang Shao-yi is recognized by his country wen 18 represausing something more than the progressive tendencies which, in his official
Frior to the memorial of Ma Chi-chang, capacity, hate concentrated upon him the
perial audience by Liang Ting-fen, zo emissary enmity of the literati He is Erst and forecas Shao-ri had been doccursed at an Im getic and capable fellow provincials, and, as Cantonese, the accepted leader of his ener
of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, whose support. of the reactionary movement took the form of sneh, an object of attack by the Honadese party antagonism to the foreign education movement. at the capital. A stanch advocate of modern eda and vigorous support of Confucian lesering, cation and administrative reform, he is, at that with results that have been recorded in recont same time, an avowed supporter of the odiots, raising the sage to the highest rang in the policy of China for the Chiness, and therefore ational Pastheen, and subordinating Western usually in conflict with one or more of the learning to the classics in the astional schools. Legations, Finady, an the chief henchman and The co-operation of Dan Chih-tang, with advisor of the Vcarop Ya, he 'suds in Chu Hung chi, the one animated by motives Is public opinion and the Press of the Treaty of simple cuuservatis, the other by hatred of Porte for the Chinese, as opposed to Manchu, the Cantonese, and their combined attack on induences in public affairs When we remem Tang Shao-si, date from the Nanchang case; bar that the career of the highest officials in recent events have but given them a long songht China is still made or marred by a stroke of the opportunity. In that case, as the result of Vermilion Pencil, and reflect in what unfathom. Tang Sano yi's negotiations with the British
and French that Pencil is dipped, the recent riets"
was cashiered, Y is a paretically repudiate the golems promise of laganese, the protege of Chang Chih-ung and administrative reform mal by the Thron | Chu Hung-chi, wao, failing to prevent his dis- astonishment. Ia a land where the capidity lest much face") Sack are the complicated few weeks before) case to be utter for grace, were in consequence deeply chagrined of a pringling or the hatred of a eaunch wheels within wheels of Chinese politics, a game cau tarn the wheel of Gorarament faster whorein the individual interests and sympathies than all the activities of Vieres, the of the personal equation are of more weight than
is rather that Wonder
an official like all the destinies of
of the Tang Shao-y, the advocats of principles
people. For the moment there is a fall, but it may contrary to all orthodox Mandaria kods, salely be predicted that the Conservatives, should have risen to each high place. That bencouraged by success, will not rest here. The has doce s prores, I think, that the Court situation is full of interest, both in the north, recognizes in the forces which be represents where the Viceroy Yoat's troops are restive at a power to be reckoned with and, if possible, their trosfer from bis control to that of the conciliated His patriotism, s sboro in Board of War, and in the south, where students dealings with foreigners, has undoubtedly stood and Press may be expected to renew their agits- him in goot sted even with his enemies, his tion for administrative reforms. That Tang Customs affir, and in regard to railway deniable, the garage of his couvictions and atlitude in the Manchurian negotiations, i the Stan-yi's action precipitated the crisis is o concessions appealing strongly to public opinion. the max's natural optimism iguoring the That the powerful reactionary forces lately silent forcas of tradition and prejudice that brought to bear aguiast biza Lave failed to work in and around the Forbidden City. As procare his summary dismissal from office is for the European in Chins, he is but a specta- hopeful siga of wisdom in high places, ludiosting tor of this clashing of systems; his intaresta that courage and intelligence are not without are affected, but they concern not contending their value erau at Peking.
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The erea's which led up-to the recent Ediots or his help. Both, in fac, on different lines, are cf peculiar interest. It must be remembered make China for the Chiume the chief int Tang Shapi has been prominently ident-plank in their platform. Nevertheless, looking died with the several progressive measures which at the prosium in the broat light of civilization startled the tanti after the return of Duke as we auderstand it, our sympathies are per. in the ice cream but particles are rubba d off in ¦ Taxi fae's travelling commission-the abolition fares on the side of the party which Tig of opian-smoking, the granting of official Shao-yi raprosents since it makes for know- degrees for "Watern-leer uing" stndente, and ledge and movement, and the substitution the administrative reforms, intended to pare the of national life for stagnation and decay. way for a Constitution, promulgated in the November Edicts. It was inevitable that each and all of these measures should evoke the Not least among the educational advantages hostility of those boss views or pested interests of both Berlin and Vienna is a so-callest. Uca sia ware threatened, and in the September lecture theater, where lectures are being given confer-nees at the Palace there were mnt- constantly-ast weekly or occasionally butterings of the coming storm. It is, however, significaut of the inner workings of Geestial several times a day--cu a gres variety of sub statecraft that the actual attiek or Tang! jects. Sir Wa, Ramsay and ofh ers are seeking Shao-yi was directed, not against any of the general principles advocated by the
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