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THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER
Peking Gazette Was Started Twelve
Hundred Years Ago.
The oldest newspaper in the world in the
Ching Pao, or Offical Gazetter of China.
Its exact age is not known, but the first
reference to it in Chinese history is found
in the records of the reign of K'al-Yuan,
of the T'ang Dynasty, A. D. 718-41. It had
undoubtedly existed for some time previous
to this date and has been published regualrly
ever since.

The Ching Pao is a sort of Court Circular,
containing also offical decrees and
royal containing also official decrees and
royal proclamations. It appears from several
proclamations. It appears from several
offices under several different names,
owing to the right of certain persons to
copy and sell it. There is also a manuscript
copy, issued to subscribers one day
earlier than the regular edition.
This remarkable newspaper, in all its

{From 1-20 to 1 1906}
agreed.

The present "hot wave has had some
counterparts centuries back, according
to Samuel Pepys' diary, attention to
the following entries in which is called
by James J. Dougherty, of No. 107
North Camac street:

January 21, 1661. - It is strange what
weather we have had all this winter; no
cold at all, but the ways are dusty and
the flies fly up and down, and the rose
bushes are full of leaves - such a time of
year as was never knonw in this world
before here.

January 15, 1662 - Mr. Berkenshaw asked
me whether we had not commited a
fault in earing to-day, telling me that
it is a fast day ordered by the Parilament
to pray for more seasonable weather, it
having hitherto been summer weather-
that it is as to warmth and every other
thing just as if were the middle of
May or June, which do threaten a plague
(as all men think) to follow, for so it was
almost the last winter, and the whole
year after hath been a very sickly time
to this day.

paper are bound in a neat paper cover and
stitched with tissue-paper thread, which is
thin as tissue, but so tough that when
twisted into a thin twine a wisp of it will
hold a man's weight.

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