A correspondent at Luho in Kiangeu, a provinc- of China, writing to*the " Shang hai Mercury " sayg j f< I asked an inn keeper in the town of Ko-tan-tsih if he knew wha^. country it was that had dared to go to war against China, and he dieam ingly replied that it was a foreign country somewhere near England. As a matter of fact there are thousands of interior towns and villages whose people may never hear of the existing troubles until some years hence-, when some itinerant missionary may speak of the war in conversation.
Madame Paulina, a native of Holland, ii at present the smallest woman in the world. Although she is eighteen years of age, and presumably has given up growing, her present measurement is 20 inches, and her weight is leas than 9 pounds. She is very pretty and well proportioned, and among her many accomplishments she can speak four different languages with the utmost fluency*

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