I thought they were joking at first, but it seemed they were genuinely interested in the talk about glaciers.

(4) Ting Pao-cheng, lieut.-governor of Shantung, reports having sacrificed to the Tai Shan (泰山), inspected the Confucian Temple at Chüfow (the native place of Confucius), which has just undergone a thorough repair, and examined the dykes erected to protect the low lands, in the neighbourhood of Yuncheng, from the inundations of the Yellow River.

Why, my Lord, you see he's the provokingest Creature in Life: I believe, there is not such another in the varsal World.

King of Thogarma, and his Habergions Brimstony, blue, and fiery