| Show it is reported from china that tho the oldest newspaper in ia tho the world the tha pekin grafto G aalto is i about to suspend publication I 1 lio he first number app appeared earcil la in 81 A 1 P and frinco 1351 more than a century before the discovery of america it i has appe aral regularly i tho the pekin gazette ilia has pub liattia a L daily budget or tho the I 1 inar arial court news ani and liaa has been a repository of 0 hots iota from the throne from provincial governors a and ud reports from chinese officials it would bo be wrong to infer furor that its contents were always dry frequently tho the gazette has contained news DOWS of great interest to the worl woolland rlland wo I 1 and in formation on one phase or another or chinese character or the government regime me A raw few years ago a report in tho ho gazette from tho governor of nannarl said that thai in soma of oc the tha country districts ilia villagers had a horrible hor custom of burning to death any man caught ing corn cora or fruit in tho the gel bel Is then roll followed owed detail od accounts of some of these events T the ito was files of the tha vencial venc ae paper aro are almonr the tha curios curiosities ittem or of typography doling a part or tho the eighteenth century it was printed in tile the imperial calaco from movable c apper typo and andico in the lie last eight years from i movable typo type calved out of wood |
