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cial capital must have a normal school of the first grade.
These schools are all equipped with chemical, physical and botanical laboratories, and in some of the cities, such as Tientsin, there are also teachers' museums, where models and books describing the teaching in foreign countries are exhibited. The Normal Schools are largely attended by those who wish to fit themselves for work along the lines of the new development.
Peking has its law schools, Government and medical schools. It teaches law and government, as well as political science, and one may see five hundred students there at some of the lectures.
There is also a language school of high grade, where Chinese boys are prepared for the foreign office and for the diplomatic service abroad. This school already has three hundred students. It is open to any who can pass the entrance examinations and give certificates of good character.
In addition to the modern languages, the school gives a good academical education along foreign lines. Every boy is required to take at least one foreign language. He may choose either English, French, German or Russian. English is now the most popular, and about eighty students are studying it. French ranks next, and then German, and after that Russian and Japanese.
With this wonderful development along educational lines, it is quite natural there should be similar progress with the newspapers of China. Within the past five years over five hundred periodicals have been established, and nearly three hundred dailies are now being published in the different cities.
Some of the dailies are now putting stereotyping outfits in, and the "Sin Wan Pao" is cast in cylinders, just like an American newspaper.
It is run of on a rotary press which prints 30,000 an hour. It goes to press at four o'clack in the morning and has telegraphic news up to that hour.
Nearly all these dailies publish cartoons. This is especially so of the papers of Peking. The change in dynasty, the opium evil and the new army are graphically pictured.
The old Peking "Gazette" has been modified. It is now issued in a different form, but it comes out regularly and has a wide circulation all over the Empire.
This is the oldest journal in the world. It was
