The characters chin and ma, together, constitute an abbreviated way of referring to Chin Men (Kinmen) and Ma Tsu (Matsu), two islands just off the coast of Fuchien Province that serve as Taiwan's first line of defense against Communist attack and as symbols of the determination of free Chinese never to abandon their compatriots on the mainland.

The anopheles associated by experience with malaria are, in the main, house-haunters and night-biters, and at night their victim mainly spends his time in a house, circumstances which make it likely that the house is important in the transmission of malaria.

Cities honored by Letters Patents from the Kings or Emperors, with the name and dignities of Metropoliſſes;

Miss Ina Claire tells me that half her acquaintances call her Eenah and the other half Eynah. She answers docilely to either.