This season it comes to the attention of the editor of the GUIDE that more progress has been made in China in regard to Base Ball than in any fifty years preceding.

But during the breathing time that now came to him, so far from leading an easy life or "never getting up till noon," he was in all parts of the world, from China to the Cape, from Ireland to India, still on the old mission of endeavouring to do a little good wherever he was.

Who drew the wall that has encircled China for a thousand years?

As Berghaus does not distinguish the Buddhists in China from the followers of Confucius and Laotse, the first place on the scale belongs really to Christianity.

In one week that reply came in writing, and was very explicit: "As to opening a trade, such as is now carried on by China with your country, we certainly cannot yet bring it about.

They began discussing why their china would not be so fine as the china at home, and I said the clay might be different.

" "You mean that we Americans ought to consider our work in China as temporary?"

What follows this is merely an account of his travels in India and return to China by sea, condensed from his own narrative, with the addition of some marvellous incidents that happened to him, on his visit to the Vulture Peak near Râjagriha.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE YUENTE, Emperor of China of the Dynasty Han. HANCHENYU, K'han of the Tartars.

"Seeing that it's Esther's china on her own mother's side, I guess she can use it if she likes," said Aunt Amy, mildly belligerent.

Tea is the chief import from China into this country.

All the green tea consumed in Central Asia is brought by them from China through India, and although the transport is much longer, they sell it at a much lower price than the Russian tea.

Each of its walls had a length of 4,000 metres; thus, it was even somewhat larger than the famous city of Loyang, capital of China during the Later Han dynasty, in the second century A.D.

The governor and his suite have stopped before the precious van, bolted and sealed, and are looking at it with that respectful admiration which is experienced even in China before a box containing many millions.

The belief in this elixir was general in China about the seventh century, A.D., and many emperors used great exertions to discover it.

" "Is he going back to China after his visit?" asked Mrs. Carey, who felt a fear of the young man something akin to her daughter's.

There were some from China among them, but I could gather from them nothing of any interest.

The construction of highways, air and missile bases and military occupation have thus tied Tibet closer to China than ever since early Manchu times.

The polarity of the loadstone was observed in China over a thousand years before the Christian era.

In this way Chou had brought the bulk of South China under its control without itself making any real contribution to that result.

Economically, our present period witnessed an adjustment in South China between the Chinese way of life, which had penetrated from the north, and that of the natives of the south.

"They seem to be puttin' most all the Americans in China out of circulation!" said the little fellow.

China against Japan.

We are alone in China without instructions and surrounded by foes.

He was nearly contemporary with Confucius, although the Buddhistic doctrines were not introduced into China until about two hundred years before the Christian era.