Stop misbehaving, you little monkey!

An official, one of the many provincial deputies charged with the carrying of tribute to the Court at Hsi-an, returning thence to his post at Soochow, sent to a friend at Peking a detailed description of the life of the Court in exile, from which the following extracts are taken.

All the neutral elaïdates are insoluble in water, only the alkaline salts containing excess of alkali being soluble.

A Tai-yang state is one in which hot-natured reactions take place at the outside region of the body— that is, headache, fever, or chilliness.