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en mien, learning their fall, and how great it was, learned also to long for their restoration, very interesting and instructive is it to observe how Christ realised for yearning souls not my the very thing which they asked for, but that in the very forms under which they had asked it; most instructive to observe how the very language. in which Scripture sets forth the gifte which a Saviour, brings, was a spondy which more or less had been used to set forth the blessings which man want- ed, or which from others they had most imperfectly obtained the Gospel of Christ falling in not only with the wants of soula, bat, with the very language in which those wants had found utterance. Thus thero bad continually spoken out in men a reNŠU of that which they needed to be done for them,
as a healing as à biruling up of
wounds.
heart Blanching of
enses.
mu
Of mercy in the midst of wrath: The frisket, thy provesting grace, Keeps us from many sullied race. CHRIST Jrave is the level stone, That our hearts must be wrought upon. The coffin wherein it doth lie, Is rest to all eternity.
The cramp irons that it moves on still, Are the good motions of the will: The
rounce, the spirit's inspiration,
a holy agitation.
of continence. The tether of th unbridled reuse : The winter, whoreon all doth fie, Is patience in adversity:
Working the gift of i
The
The foot step, humbleness of mind, That in itself no worth can find. ·
If there be such a chauco at this, That any letter batter'd is,.
Being come unto thy view, Take it out, put in unew; Or if Satan, that fout fiend,
with a pretence to mend, Mar, And being at thy goodness vext, Makes blasphemy of thy pure text, Find it out, O
O Lord,
then, Print our hearts new o'er again,
and
Lord, unto this work make haste. 'Tis a work that long will last And when this white paper's done, Work a reiteration.
ECONOMY IN THE ABSTRACT AND
IN THE CONCRETE,
(Pall Mall Gazette, Feb. 15.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
be called cheeseparings, the saving will be by hundreda, and will have to be counted finally by thousands.
Swan han.—THE EXTREME OF AWKWARD
NEYS,
A village magistrate's procession.
A village magistrate receiving a guest." A donkey braying in the market-place. Playing the flute on a cow's back... Wang huck-THE EXTREME OF UNPLEAS
ANTNESS.
Blandering upon matters which are
booed in a friend's house. (Compare the Spanish proverb: Don't talk about ropes in a hanged man's house.) Meeting a creditor when one can't pay
nne's debts..
Perpetrating a breach of etiquette on
a formal visit.
Hearing drunken babble after one has
become saber.
fan sun jeu. TRIBULATIONS.
To invite a distinguished guest, who fails
come to dinner.
to
To have a disngreeble fellow come on his
uwn jovitation.
She jều tsien tiea kwang.THE GROWING
YOLLIES OF THE AGE.
Envy, hatred, and malice. Invoking the gods when one is drunk. Cock-fighting and borse-raging in doep
mourning,
No. 1822-APRIL 10, 1869.
sting Pigs Fry,
by fasting for three days consecutively. During this time the somerer has an extra altar fixed up in the ancestral hall, Jays out all the paraphernalia of his profcasion, pre- pares a large quantity of charms consisting of grotesque figures of men sketched on slipa parts of the house (or village) and makes of
paper which he pastea up in various
ceremonies to be performed. On the morn Mutton Leg,- short
tall the preparations necessary for the ing of the fourth day the coromonial begins. and lasts, according to the length of the landlord's purse,
12 either twenty-four hours only or three days and three nights without
in Head,
13
33
Fork, Leg,
Chop, Fat for Lard,
180 170
180 170
120 110
150 140
n
Chitlings, Feet,
20 70 125 110
125. 120
#
Livor,
140 120
"
Ib.
350 320
Chop,
Sl:oulder, Livel,
13
350 320 250 240 200 180
180 170
400 350
lb.
450 400
"
240 230
"}
240 220
400 380
400 380
cach
70 60
60
catty
intervals. The ritual consists especially of Sucking Pigs, magical incantatious mumbled in unintelli- calves Hoad, and Feat, set. 500 450.
gible vernacular language accompanied by Sheeps' Head and Feot, thooffering offrankincense, wine, and paper, Buoon, English, and interrupted every now and then by the beating of drums and gongs and the blowing of a horn, whilst the chief sorcerer marches about in fantastic circles aword in hand and indulges in all sorts of hours pacna,
་་
15
Fahebau, lams, Chinese,
American, Euglish, Kidneys, Builocks"
Pigs, Sheeps,
11.
11
Sheeps' Heart, l'igs" lleart, Purk Sausages, Goats' Ment,
11
12 70
23 80 70
22 60
21 50
50
40
calty 240 220
13
200 180
Head and Feet, set,
300 260
Poultry.
eally
150 140
160 150
31
ench
400 350
enity
520.500
Heb,
By
1200 1000
Whilst we insist upon these considerations we should be very sorry to be supposed to bé indifferent to, or not aware of, the mportance of detailed evouomy, or cheese. paring, as it is dyslogistically called, No doubt there is a right and a wrong way of doing everything, and the right way of doing it ought to be inalsted upon for a hundred reasons, moral as well as economi- cal. One of the things which may be done either rightly or wrongly is the very process of checseparing. You may pare your checse liko a gentlemans, or you may pare. it like something very
different, and it is of cons siderable importance to do it handsomely We will illustrate our meaning. No doubt it is of importance that the pans in a public office should not be wasted, and no doubt an ordinary pen will hear several mendings, Every one who has proper sense of economy hurts,
unat feel a certain shook in seeing s
table of the physician did but image forth a
Jittered with a dozen excellent paus,
Bach of
To be button-holed by a man in liquor.kling about occasionally boly water in directions. After a while he demands a bigher cute and care which should concern
To have no money when things are cheap. bran-new rice boiler, fills it with oil, lights a which has served, porbaps, to write only one not with the bodies, itsalf
with the but
letter. How
To be seated opposite the way you hate firo underuath, aut us soon as the oil is is this to be avoided? You souls of men. They were but the branches
máy if you like prasoribe the number of
To bave a pretty concubine and a fealous boiling he bares one arm, dips it deliber- of one and the same discipline, so much.
mendings which a pen is to receive, but one
wile.
ately into the boiling mass and to the intense so, that the same god who was conceived
rosull of that is nearly sure to be that the
astonishment of the ascribled crowd ho master in one, the soother of passions, was
younger clerke at least will be seized with a
draws out his arm scalded and perfectly master also in the other, the bealer of dis-
passion for the use of the penknife, and will It was conceived of sink as of
uninjured. Having thus established his stripes and wounds, which would leave
cut up the old poun at a rate as unseemly as
reputation as an acccomplished wizard, he that at which they user to throw away their livid marke, their enduring scars, on
carries the rice boiler forthwith into overy new ones. Suppose that instead of doing the miserable souls of those who had com
room of the house (or village) followed by Goese, The remarks made by Mr Love the other this a circular wore to issue to the effect that mitted them--who should carry these
his attendants sprinkling about lustral Overgrown boobies flying kites.
Dueks, evidences of their guilt, visibly impresseri night at Fistrongers' Hall upon abstracting pons in kind had been found to Keeping idle vagabonds in bad and board, water and burning paper-chura. All this
Women going clacking about the streets is intended as an exorcism to scare away all cul, on them for ever, into that dark world, and concrete economy were highly charac-produce waste; an allowance would be made
Mortgaging one's property to other people. evil-minded spirits and injurious influences. Turkeys, and before those awful judgment-seats, teristic of him. This speeches, great to the clerks to enable them to purchase
The above extracts will be suficient to
Another ceremony follows sometimes which Pheasants, Cock,. whither after death they were bound small, always remind us of Mr Mill's remark their own pons, would not this he a quieter How deep the corresponding image of on Archbishop. Whateley, that so long as and far more effective way of reaching the shew that the Chinese satirist combines in the black art. The courtyard be Pigeons,
is likewise meant to prove the sorcerer's opka work of healing reaches he enst his planer cored whether or not tid in the matter of pouknives and small susanor of Four Riobard with his amusing several hundred-weights of charcoat. When Fowls, desired result? It is what Mr MacCulloch a dose of wholesome instruction after the fore the ancestral hall is strown over with Quail, in Scripture, I need not, remind you. His other people he never carat whether or notations. ministry of grace had been set forth in he got to the bottom of the subject. Pro-
criticisms on the ways of the world he lived the coal has been lighted and is in full Bo again if an office is overmanned; it is in ; and apart froin the interest that may language borrowed from this art, by pro- found philosophy is not to be expected in phets who went before; He should be au after-dinner speech, eron from a Chan-no doubt highly important that it should be attach to his collection of diets as a literary blaze, the sidors, of the house or village
Capone, anointed to heal the broken-hearted, to bind cellor of the Exchequer, but Mr Lowe reduced to a proper size. We have indeed curiosity, they are useful, besides, as in- carry to the spot their ancestral tablets, Hen Eggs, up the bruised; and when He began that might have said a little more upon the little doubt that several large offie night dicative of the state of society prevailing in and following at the heels of the sorcerer, Duck Eggs, mitiistry, He claimed these prophecies for principles of the subject while he was engabe advantageously composed of asmall num- his days, and as showing, in many a touch who advances barefoot right into the fire Salt Higgs, Bimself, laying his finger on the most signal ged upon it. Of course, to say that we all her of men of comparatively high position, and inundu, how little change in the habits, and steps fearlessly on the blaxing, coal, Dried Ducks,
the slders and those of the community who Suipe, - among them, and saying, "This day is this like economy in general, but that we all with power to employ copying clerks or modes of thought, and prejudices of the manago to screw up the necessary amount Partridges, Beripture fulfilled in your ears." And then shrink from particular instances, of it, and printera, like the printers of law papers, as Chinese has been brought about in the log of courage walk behind him and cross the! too weshall all remember how in another place to add that without the unpleasant parti- they wanted them; but if this change in to period of full ten centuries that has elaps fire, escdpissy perfectly usinged and unhurt. Rabbits, Hospake of sinuareas being sick, and Himself culars the pleasant generality is a mere be made, it should be done gradually, sys- as their physician; and by the good Sazia dream, are at once tolling and in a certain tomatically, and with the greatest regarded since these trivial sentenece, were com- I have never seen this ceremony myself; but Wild Geese,
mitted to writing ritan it has been often thought more than sense true remarks; hut they are just the likely that He shadowed forth Himself, sort of points which are calculaten first to the despised of his own people, and yet the recommend themselves to very second. true, binder ap of the bleeding burts of rate minds, anul next to incapacitate those humanity
Be only waited till minds from taking in another side of thu It was owned that a divine Physician, and quction, which is quite as trae and very none other, Bould take the great sufferer wuch more important. This side of the in band and then straightway He stood question consists in a recognition of the by the sufferer's side, and proffered him all fact that stinginess is far too stall an in- that he had asked for, but had now despair-strument to effect really important savings, ed of Anding, ever help and healing, and and that is is continually used as a blind these in the very forma under which he had which prevents people from acsing that the asked them.-Dr. Trench, Archbishop of made are not made in point of fact. We
really important changes which might will give an illustration from private life, There was once a person whose ingoa The subjoined Contemplation" first was suddenly reduced, whilst his ex- appeared in a small tract printed in pouses increased. He immediately be 1752. It was written many years before, gan to make himself uncomfortable but its author is unknown. Manifestly, in all sorts of 19AVE, In very cold however, he was a printer who could weather he stinted the supply of tires,
Dublin
wrapped
up in a blanket. We took off £1
pation, if by prayer they endeavour to servants, and £ a year from the wages of
riality. En. C, M.]
A CONTEMPLATION
On the Mystery of Man's Regeneration, in allusion to the
Mystery of printing.
Great hiest Muster Printer, come. Into thy composing TOOM: Wipe away our foul offences, Make, O make our souls and senses, The upper, and the louer cases;
Aud thy large alphabet of graves.
The letter, which being ever fit,
U haste thou to distribute it:
For there is (1 toate amount). No imperfectum in the fount.
letter's face be foul,
Canton.
W. F. MAYERS.
of
ny informer, an honest truthful man, Wild Ducks, insists upon having witnessed, it himself, Sand Hill Birds, and believes that the sorcerer destroyed the Woodcock, scorching power of the burning charcoal by Sparrows, soms kind of powder, be throw over it. lice Birds, Anothon, cormony which is noually per- Wild Pigeone, formed on those occasions bears more direct reference to the object in view, namely the re-installation of the Dragon spirit. A
to the supernumeraries who are to be dis- missed. It should always be borne in mind that a clerk in a public office is about
ON DRAGON-WORSHIP. the most helpless and dependent of human beings. His professional knowledge, such The worship of snakes is, as every hory if it is, fe of fin us at all beyond the walls knows, and of the most ancient forms of his office, and if you deprive him of his idolatry. There is indeed scarcely a reli- place you practically deprive him of all gion ou earth-Christianity not excinded meatis of subsistence. A imechanic or labour in the primitive forination of which a snake er can find work in any market and in every plays not some part or other. To the pre long beam measuring from thirty to forty Live Fish, part of the world, but & Government clerk sent day the worship of snakes or nagas, fest in length is carried to the spot, where- Hels, bus no market at all for his labour. Dis-as they are called, is a common practice upon the sorcerer produser a cumber of
Oysters, for keeping less olerks, but it is a reason missal is ruin to him. This is no reason among the darkt races of India, Burma sharp sword-blades and fastens · them
and Siam, whilst the tribos inhabiting the thwart the beam like so many stops of arabe, for getting rid of them gradually and ten-extensive mountain ranges lying on the ladder. The beam is then lifted up and as derly. Fare your chesse gently, using it eastern boundary of Assam call themselves such as it is firmly fixul in the ground in a like Izuk Walton's frog, as if you had a Nagas after the man of their ante-gods. Vertical position, the sorcerer strips off his little human feeling for it.
As to China I have not the slightest doubt shoes and stockings and ascends the ladder Frege, but at the siloption of the dragon as
thus formed of Bwords, stepping on the Small Turtles, uational emblems of the Chinese empire sharp edges without in the least hutting Large Turtles. sprang from the same religious sunce, his precious self. On reaching the top of Large Fresh Fish, What: strengthens this assurtion is the the beam lie blows his horn, swinge his Small
A CHINESE COLLECTION OF EPIGRAMS.
Humour, properly so called, is a quality
gather deficient, but its appearance in lite-
Shrimps,
Prawns,
Lobsters,
11
his boys, who were quiet, stealy lads, were Shang-yin, who tourished during spirits are worshipped all over China under and march in solemn procession headed by Salmon, Pickled,
ucomfortable, He had to change all his Bervants, Le felt excooningly oncomfortable bimself, and was continually fretting over his altered circumstances. He found, how ever, when all was done that he could not by any mens make joth smuts meet. Looking one day in a mournful manner ver is unconuts, it ozcurred to him to consider thic question from a new point of viow. After much meditation, he.
that period, and whose little volume, en titled I Shan Tw Town
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180 120
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each
140 120
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catty
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JLpar, Californian,
Sweet,
New
Yancs,
discern a spiritual weaving in his work, and sat in his study before breakfast (From Notes & Querias in China for March) direumates, that I am enabled to state sword, scatters abont, papers with chariasluokerol Small, as all toen way do, whatever their occa year from the wages of each of his maid-in whiol the Clinoso character is not alto positively that the Chinose translators of written on them, and finally invokes the
Sansorit Buddhist texts hi variably rendered Dragon-spirit to come and to bless the Congor Eals, Small, rise above the consideration of its mate his manservant, He was a very temper- rature is by no means common, and the the term noga (which has been identified inhabitants of the place.. It is not abso. Salt Fish,
ato nian at all times, but he cut off the tracta given below from a work which, in with cobra cla) by the word lung ()tely necessary that avery ono. of the Small Fish, glass of sherry which he need to drink at
coremaiés described should be performed Fresh Soles, Luncheon, and ata bis bizanit dry, or with some of its gungeut hits, has almost a tinge or dragon. 1. religious mind of China in order to resuscitato the Dragon-spirit. Canton amon weter. He never took a cab, however of Rabalaisia Rabire, are probably the first has never made a scientific distinction The patout of the ritual and the number Rock Fish musli ho might be fatigued, and however into an English d sand that have been put between snake and dragon, as the popular of ceremonies gone through depend outinely Shark Fish, an dress. In addition to what story of Abi-tseung and his dragon (see the
upon sum bard it might rain. He insisted that his
1-of
money stipulated. There Skato, over intrinsic merit may be adjudged to the Vol. II, p. 122) strikingly exhibits. wife should spend £10 & year les that
remaius however one woremony to be men- I am not going to inflict upon my re- tioned which is performed in each case and har dress, and he halve the ulazitics themselves, the antiquity
Turbot, formerly on ne his boys at school, and of these reflections en mon and manuera isders a general description of the various which is in fact the A pocket-oney of
83Bettinl I crowning part
Gunnet. Locked the allowances to his daughters atlient, no doubt, to lend a certain degree forms of dragon-worship oxiating in China of the whole ceremonial. When the above Parrot. Fish,
interest to their porusal. They date which have been described elsewhere, and mentioned ceremonies have been brought Snake, bionic. The consequence was that his wife from not later than the ninth century of better no doubt than I could do it. I way to a conclusion, all the inhabitants of the Fresh Water Fish, and daughters, having always dressed very ur era, being the work of, writer named Li however, in passing, point out that dragon place assemble, dressed in their best cluthes, Shine Fish, reasonably, looked rather shabby, and that
following two are the most common, the nearest hill at the back of the premises. various uames and titles, of which, the the sorcerer and laattoulants to the Dragon-king (E) of the fro lakes and Un arrival at the top of the hill the princi we pers to its amusing character the four seas, and the tutelary Dragon-spirits al sorcuter chants bis incautatious, swings. Intaines, Macau,
muity from distruotion which it has on-
magie sword, in all directions, calling joyed during the centurios that have proved of the ground (or as they pou the Dragon-spirit to hasten the tatal to so many more weiglity productions, are very commonly styled the Dragon shirts spot while his attendants make a deafening In the following translations, excerpts only of the tive regions (ILL) while the sorcerer intimples the arrival of drums and horns. Aftor, are taken from its contents, as, apart from The Besorions Fang-shui system or the the Dragon-spirit, whereupon the the considerable bulk of matter the work his house in London, and tour a house in comprises, waby portions are ill-adapted to guancy of the Chinese is likewise intimate sin indiately starts again, led by the Cocoa, & country town. He gave up mauzersaut the fastidious tastes of the present day, and by counected with this Naga-worship. For soremer, who, walking down the hill, kuops Toruip, Salt,
one of the fundamental doctrines of asking the Dragon-spirit to follow and some of his mids. He removed his the obecarity of other sentences would neces
that exatum and acquiesced in as gospe return to the back of the promises. On
to Carrots, Salt, boys from Eton, and put ule of them into sitate a-labour in research for their ducit truth by the mass of the i
" Freali, Teople, that every enching that place frankincense and on- a solicitor's office, and sent the other to a tion which eau searcoly be bestowed upon so cheap day school near his new abode. He the author's witticisms may now be at ground, is the sareil abode of dragons, who nut, whowupon all the villagers
He trifling a subject. Without further preface, mountain, every hill or undulation of the dles are lighted, and various offerings laid Spinage,
catty 250 200 Ludian Corn,- gave up the practice of going out of town dused. It will be seen that he ranks his exercise a nighty influence over the for- themselves, whilst the sorcerer alone reYoung Bamboo shoots, catty 110 10
Bach prostrale in the summer, and lived all the year round in one place. The result was that observations in categories under sententions tunes of those who live within the domain mains standing. He takes a large rattan Cabbage, Large Macao, each 150 120
of these spirits. One of the religious cere tray that is hauded to him, puta some Cabbage, White Canton, catly 50 his servants were paid proper wages, his headings, as follows:-
monies apring up from this root, and one hanifula of rice on it, fashions the heap wife and daughters were under no restric
Common, tion as to clothes; he had always half-
that is commonly practised especially by into the shape of a dragon and covers the
French, country people in different parts of the whole with a lot of copper caah which are Lettuce, crowna in his pocket, and was able, in a
Canton province, muy interest the readers meant to represent the scales of the dragon.. word, to go on anch as he pleased without thinking about mouey,
of this paper. Some portions the cero When this is completed he addresses the ey
to describs have come Dragon-spirit, imploring him to take up Parsley Chinese,
assuring him thas all proper attention would Beane, broad, bis abode again at the back of the
English,
be accorded, to him if he would only heap blessings after
Loug,- blessings upon all the vil
If any
wash it ere it touch the son] ;: Contrition be the brush, the lye Tears froin a penitential eye. Thy graces so s distributed, Think not thy work half Enished : On still, Q Lord, no time defer, He truly a CouresITON;
Take thy compusing stick iu hand, Thy holy word, the firmest band For sure that work can never miss, That's
truly justified in this.
The end of grace's distribution. Is not a mere dissolution:
But that from each part being cited, 7. be again united,
They may
Let righteousness and peace then meet, Mercy and truth each other greet; Let these letters make a word,
Let these words a line afford,
Then of lines, & page compose,
Which being brought unto a close,
Be thou the direction, Lord;
Let love be the fast-binding cond.
Bet, O Lord, O set apace, That we may grow from greco to grace; Till towards the chace we nourer draw)
two strong tables of The
thy law; Of which the two firm crosses be The Love of man, next after Thiet, The head sticks are thy majesty, The foot sticks Christ's humility; The supplication of the saints The side sticks, when our faili e'er faints Let the queins be thy sure clection, Which admits of no rejection; With which our souls being join'd about, Not the least grace can then drop out, Thy mercies and allurements all, Thy shouting stick and mallet call.
But when all this is done we sec,
Who shall the corrector be}
O Lord, what thou set'st can't be ill, ́ It needs then to corrector's skill.
Now, though, these grnes are all set, Our hearts are but while paper yet; And by Adam's first trauagression, Fit only f
for the worst impression, Thy holy Spirit the pressman maké, From when we may perfection take; And let lilm no time
To print us on thy character. Let the ink be black as jet
What though: ( it is comely yet;
As curtains of King Solomon,
Or Kedar's touts to look upon.
Be victory the prese's head,
That o'er oppression it my tread:
Let divina contemplation be
The skrews, to raise us up to Thee: The press's two cheeks (unsubdued) Strong constancy and fortitude; Our alavish flesh let be the till, Where to lay what trash you will: The nut and spindle, gentleness, To move the work with easiness:
The platten is affliction,
Which makes good work, being hardeeton, The bar, the spirit's instrument, To suctify our punishment; The blanket a resemblance hath
Pi pu lat.CENTAIN NOT TO COME.
A drunken guest called back to the wine.
fenst
A dogwhen you run after him with a
stick.
Laf-wooed by a penuiless fiddler.
Pu siang ching--CoxDITNS OUT OF PLACE.
A poor Patios (Posse. } A. sick physician.
A fat brille.
it is
morial
my
am going drawn from information which I obtained own observation; the rest I have under from reliable eye-wituasses..
Whenever a house is to be erected any where in the country, a geomangor learned
noise with
Kungs,
preces.
Aud
premises,
A teacher who does not know his letters in the mysteries of Fung-shui is to hetgers, whether engaged in agriculture, or
"2
13
» French,
Stringed,
or slaidies. Whilst repeating these Green Peas, in the Shell,
the purport of which is quite un
A butcher who reads the scriptures (i.e. engager, to make the preliminary survey praye to his hearers, he takes handful
because the Buddhist scriptures for with bis compass and to determine if the bid the taking of life.)
A greybeard given to flirting. Phien-WHAT ONE DOES NOT DESPISE. When one is hungry-conrac victuals. When one is in the tramp-the zorries
nag to ride.
These things are a parable, and a very obvious one too. If the English nation insiste not only on paying its debts, but also on having as much of the very best of everything as it can possibly suppose itself to want, the English nation will have to spend an enormous quantity of money and though it may mask this fact from itself by posting and accaping at particular pulate, and effecting reductions in the establishments of public offices, which inflict extremne suffering on sores, perhaps hundreds, of families for the sake of a comparatively small advantage to the pub lic, the groat bulk of the expenditure will remain untouched. In a very large eatab lishment there is always some waste-and waste no doubt is a very bad thing and ought always to be stopped; but the waste is not the main expense. It does not toucli the points of vital importance, and no aimount of scraping, however harah, bow- ever painful to ladividuals, will reduce the load laid
the nation's back percepti A perceptible reduction, one which would make tea, coffee, sugar, and bacco cheaper than they are at present, Pajupy must be obtained in a different way. The way by which it must and ought
bly.
of
пров
to
to be obtained in by such a reorga nization of the Boy and navy as would greatly cheapen those services. We have pointed out on several occasions the manner in which the army might be made at once far cheaper and much more effolent than it is at present, and we need not return to the subject. With regard to the navy, it is obvious that the whole question the necessity of maintaining squadrons various parts of the work, and especially of maintainting squadrons of wooden sailing vessels which would never in these daya be sent into action, is one which ought to bo systematically reconsidered. By carefully attending to matters of this kind it would be possible to save by millions witbout diminishing the value received in consider ation of our expenditure. By those detailed payings which Mr Lowo saya ought not tq”
When one is thirsty-cold congee. Stung
Ste.-COMPARISONH.
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A courtieris liko pumpkins, which
- grow best in the dark,
A row-is like a fiddler, he makes music
when hoe hungry.
A judge--is like a tiger, nover mover but
lie does sone injury.
Nunske rats, they burrow everywhere Swallows-like tons, they never go
abroad but in pairs.
KNOW.
WHAT IT IS BETTER NOT TO
A fidüler bed better not know music,
he will be thrown out of work.
A woman had botter not know poatry, or
als will lose ler.reputation.
A servant lind better not know his lettere,
or he will get into trouble. Young men had better not know anything
Tomatoos,
site chosen be within the range of friendly after handful of the figure which he had Asparagus, Dragon-spirits. On the spot which meets
with the approval of the geomancer the viously formed of rice and copper cash, Chilies, Dried,
and scatters it over the prustrate figures of house is then erected, and at its comple- the villagers, who immediately scramble Garlic,- tion a niche is fitted up for the individual
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over the grains of rice and the cash, believinger, dragon who is believed to protect the hose fug them to possess peculiar powers and to
and its inhabitants. This niche is always bring luck to those who eat such rice or Curry Stuff,
on a level with the ground at the foot of wear on their persons any of those cash'umpkins,
the ancestral altar and is considered, an the which had pruriously formed the scale of Large Onions, Bombay, Inscription indicates, to be the throue of the dragon. Herewith the whole cere. Green Duions,
the spirit of the dragon-hill at the back of monial is concluded, the sorcerer marches Shalots,
As soon as the niobe is ready and the paper his old abode and endowed with his pristine Cauliflower, the dwelling" off with his attendants, and the benevolent Turnips,
Dragon-spirit รัฐ considerad re-instated in
Cucumbers, bearing that inscription pasted up, intense-
and tea is offered there with some extem- efficacy and good-will to the satisfaction of pore prayer, and thereby the Dragon-spirit all concerned.
is installed as patron of the house. uffer- Canton, Maroh, 1869. inge of incense and tea are made there as
often as it is done at the ancestral abrine,
generally therefore on the first and fifteenth dsya of every month.
A more elaborate ceremonial is necessary, when a hundred years bare elapsed since
E. J. EITEL...
HONGKONG MARKET PRICES. Saturday, April 10th, 1809.
At 1300 Cash per Dollar Mexican,
the foundation of a house (or village)** THESE MUST BE CONSIDERED EXTREME For with the lapse of that time the: pristine vigour and efficacy of the tutelary
about alchemy, or they will come to Dragon spirit is considered to havo col
starvation.
A scholar had better not know anything about handicrafts, or be will be held in couterepl je-VEXATION, Sitting down to a feast and feeling the
Nato
stomach ache.
Finding the bottle empty in the midst of
A jolly night. Feeling one's back tingle just when how
ing to a superior. Not being able to get rid of one's pour re- -*
latione.
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Fraita. Mandarin Oranges,
Highest Loved Coolie Uranges,
RATER.
Butcher Meat.
cutty
Cark
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lapsed too and a resuscitation is deemed needful. To perform the ceremony of the re-installation ofthe Dragon-spirit a sorcerer Beef Steak, is to be engaged, that is to say either a Roast Tauiet priest, or one of those professional Soup, humbugs who pretend to be adepts in sorge Bullocks Brains, ry and witcheraft without subunitting to the
Tongue, rules of celibacy or monasticism. When
Hoart, the bargain is struck and the day for
Tail, the beginning of the ceremonies appointed, the sorcerer arrives with a number of
attendants and orders all the inhabitants to prepare themselves by lustrations and
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Lemons, Pineapples, - 100 180 Pumeloes, 190 180
Pears, Canton, 130 120 Lislees, Dried,
50.
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280 240 250 200 each 125 110 *** 60 · 50
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