The first time that cyanide of potassium is sold for alum, or corrosive sublimate for bicarbonate of soda there will be an _eclat_ given to the dealings of this shop which will be very gratifying to its owner.
The telegraph in Yunnan is very largely used by the Chinese, especially by the bankers and officials.

By telegraph you can remit, as I have said, through the Chinese banks, telegraphic transfers to the value of thousands of taels in single transactions.

It is principally the banks and the Government who make use of the telegraph, and their communications are sent by private code.

When the Tsungli Yamen in Peking sends a telegram to the Viceroy in Yunnan it is in code that the message comes; and it is by private code also that a Chinese bank in Shanghai telegraphs to its far inland agents.

Messages are sent in China by the Morse system.