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Show Rural England in 182S Had Little Over China The Chinese minister of communications communica-tions sent from Peking a long cablegram cable-gram of poetic prose felicitating the managers of the Darlington railway exhibition In England on their centennial centen-nial of George Stephenson's "Locomotion "Locomo-tion No. 7." Unless the railway track was laid I over the graves of ancestors In an Inland In-land province, the spectacle of the puffing monster, once regarded as first cousin to the earth-dragon, would excite ex-cite far less confusion In the celestial republic today than It did among the honest English yokels of Stephenson's era. Then, according to contemporary report, re-port, "In many bosoms the arrival caused the greatest consternation. They fled in abject terror, many hiding hid-ing themselves in the church, others seeking consolation In the bottle, while some of the more courageous climbed Into trees and at a safe distance from the monster's claws watched It pass." Reading that account one Is Inclined to believe that Europe In 1825'was not many leagues In advance of the cycle of Cathay, remarks the Philadelphia Ledger. |