McLean Buckley s Esq, has presented the Club with three medais—gold, silver, and bronze — for a twenty-five mile road record, to be competed for during the season, the road to be taken is from the 1 Tinwald und of the b idge to the Water ton Hotel and back* It was resolved to lhank Mr Buckley for his kind oiFer. The opening run will be held next Wednesday, " starting from the Post Office at 2.30 p.m. I> was decided to hold four bicycle races and four foot races in the Domain during the afternoon. Education in Oorea is of the Chinese order —the committal of whole books to memory. On all other subjects than knowledge of Chinese, ignorance is the fashion when it is not a reality. Philoso phical speculation is stated to be common, bu*; Corean notions of natural science are indeed very chaotic, if the following story may be accepted :—A well-known mer \ chant of Chemulpo was asked by one of ■ his native employees—a man of some education—whether or no he had ever seen a dead sparrow, that is fco say, a " sparrow which bad died a natural death. 3 The person questioned did not; remember that he had. He was then asked how the foreign savants accounted for such a phe nomenon, for such it was, considering the vast number of sparrows in the world and the huge families they reared every year. The answer to this query being unsatis factory, the Corean gave his explanation, which is the popular one. He said that dying sparrows betook themselves to the ) seashore, dived into the mud and became clams. ' How else,' he triumphantly added, * could you account for the number V of clams along the coast ?' An English traveller gives the following description of Chemulpo, the portof Seoul, the capital of Corea: Besides its position m <jhe nearest port to China, Chemulpo is * "ceat iraporfcanoa »9 being the port of oj. d ''""^ft&ttnl pf opyea, from which it Seoul, tno ■• 4 t m \\ m distant, is aboub twenty-. -*n ideal harbour Chemulpo is by no means. -« Qw tide for, owine: to the fall and rise v ««,„,. 