Bortfolio.
CLEOBIS AND BITON.
In Argos, the Cyclopean city,
When the birds were all welcoming June, And the winds to the woods hymn'd & ditty, And the woods the winds answered in
tune; The priesters Cydippe, to honour
High June with sacrifice due, Her consecrate vestments drew on her
To offer the sow and the ewe.
And the ways to the temple were covered With the poppy the Goddess held dear, And the scent from the dittany hovered," Hanging, incense-like, in the blue air; While the people their priestess awaited,
And mingled their prayors with her
· praise...--- Blest priestess, blent mother, and fated For many still happier days,"
But alas ! what can mean the dire omeu ?
When Cydippe her chariot would seek (Falls doad silence on man and on woman!)
Disappeared are the exon so meek! The oxen, so patient and mild-eyed,
That ne'ez before failed to her cry; And the priestess, distracted and wild-eyed,
Soes the exerifico-hour speeding by!
But was ever so happy a mother?—
Forth steps Cleobis, blue-eyed and fair, And the <dark, grave-brow'd Biton,
brother;
And, yoked to the chariot, the pair Never ing on the road, never falter,
Thongh the way to the temple be long, Till their mother they place at the altar,
"Mid the far-awelling cheers of the throng.
Now the rites of the priestess are over
Duly slain are the ewe and the sow— While serene from Olympus leans over The Goddess with pleasure-lit brow). To the Priestess the Mother succeedetb, And a prayer to Olympus doth rise For her sons, the beloved, she pleadeth,
While happy tears rain from her eyes:~
"Great Juno, dear Juno, if ever
The smoke from my altar hath smelt Once sweet in thy nostrile-endeavour For thy favour once ever been følt; Grant now but one boon to thy servant,
And while light remains to those oyes, As month follows month, still mora fervent Shall my prayers and my sacrifice rise.. «Thou hast seen how this morning for thy
anke,
That thy sacrifice mest should not fail, My dear none have laboured; for my sake
Grant the guerdon such love should entail Not in vain come my prayer to thy portals,
But in the way thou best dost know, Award them the best gift on moṛtain
Immortals can ever bestow1"
When the next morn arose on the city
The birds were still welcoming Juno,- Still the winds. the woods hymu'd s ditty, Still the woods the winds answered to
down to
sourse of time to Sin-au,
The Lai clan dates its pedigree as far back as the Chow dynasty, when they inhabited Shantung province, from whence they emigrated to Fulkien, and under the Sung dynasty to Kwangtung, settling in the dia triots of Chaug-lok and Kwel-nhau.
THE CHINA MAIL.
"All the coolics engaged by the allied
Forces in the last war were Hakse.
INo. 4802 Novritsen 28, 1878.
Two ropes aro
Tabbe, evidently felt hurt and, like him, too, persisted in stating his self-made temper, and ordered the interrupting party grievance until Mr Gomersal also lost his to be turned out of the theatre. This had ultimately to be done, and the drop songs was rung down. Hana, however, refused to leave the box without his friend, and the two freunden, doubtless with unusually railed feelings, were forelbly ejected, after which the performance went on smoothly..
present condition, their language, religion Many were taken captive and mold to the tioned the Wan Ti, god of literature, and ........ THE BUZZING OF INSECTS. **Life-Buoy qud the several uses to which and peculiärhabits, from which comparisons coolle ships at Macso, which at that time Wa TL god of war, who generally have
The old naturaliste thought generally that it can be applied --It is made of this Iron may be drawn, and further investigations be did a thriving business with their butuan one temple between themselves. But the buzzing of insects was produced by the formed to the shape of two egg cups hol- instituted.
freight. Some made good their escape and Kwan Ti-hes besides numerous temples in vibrations of the wing, but they had scarcely lowed, the bottom of each fastened to the In 1861 a series of papers treating on tho went to Hainan, Saigon and Singapore, which he is worshipped alone. There is attempted to analyse this phenomenos, and other by a screw. Both the top and bottom Hakkas appeared in the Daily Press of whilst others were scattered abroad in other Tien-hau or queen of heaven who has her their opinion was abandonon when Reaumur of gure are the seats, which may be turned Hongkong but probably few people will be parts of Kwangtung.
templos chiefly on the river sidea. There in possession of those. Afterwards a similar sories, written by Dr. Eltel, appeared in kang In 1863, having been taken an.board every district city as also the temples where of the phenomenon have been advanced by the cushion being made of cork, would of Three thousand of them came to Hong are the temples for the tutelary deltles in showed that when the wings are out a blow-either way and screwed on, making the fly continues to buzz. Other explanations of keeping three or four persons afloat, and hollow perfectly water-tight. It is capable Notes and Queries, but that valuable periodi by some foreign vessels, which happened to Confudiné sad bis disciples are worshipped, various naturalista, but none of them, are dal has since bonome very scarce, It will do business with rice eto, in Tai-foo-san. the saint being besides worshipped in the satisfactory. M. Jousset de Bellesme has itself support another. therefore not be superfluous to try to keep. They were kindly taken care of by the schools as well as in private housOS up an interest in the Hakkas by a communi. English government and the merchants
There is the god of ground and the goda of bon making some investigations on the attached to each seat in the middle, so as cation to the Recorder on the subject.
who collected money, and bad mat-shede
subject, and, after proving that previous to form two hand holds ; the ropes may also The most reliable sources for tracing the built for the fug tivos until they were abla Brain which have their altars as well as tem- theorica dro unsatisfactory, he describes the be used in tying a person on in case of To avoid shipwreck: Beveral of these buoys" origin of the Hatkas in this province, are to provide for themselves. I was them pies There is the 1 and who results of his own researches. the family records, which are religiously Intrusted with funds collected and used to are supposed to take special care of the confusion, it should be distinctly understood with the ropes thus attached could be lashed preserved by the bonds of clans. Thus my buy rice for daily distribution to these fields, and are generally worshipped, undor what is meant by buzzing. In the scientific together for the purpose of forming a raft, own catechist of the Li clan dates back bris wretched people. One would think that green trees. There is in the families the god acooptation it means to imitate the sound of The "buoy" can be uneornwed, and could pedigres to the rulers of the Tang dynasty, auch unfortunates would be in the fittest of the hearth who is supposed on the 23rd the humble-bee, which is the type of buzzing be used then as two buckets after removing A ahip having one Hundred of which Li-yuon was the founder, A. Datate of ruled to receive the Gospel, but day of the 12th moon to ascend to heaven insects. But the humble-bee gives out two the seats. 620. In his family record the 20 emperors they showed very little concern for their and present his report on the' families upon very different sounds, which are an octave sends in two minutes would have two of each other--a grave sound when it files. kundred buckets ready for use this would of that Dynasty are correctly mentioned, souls, being quite absorbed with their mis earth to Eff, and to return and a sharp sound when is alights. We be of great service in case of fire Thore and it is stated that the 3rd son of Chau, fortune and with the dark future before to his post on the last day of the say, then, that buzzing' is the faculty of in- buckets could also be used to put fresh taun the 19th emperor *bad fled to Chekiang them. Some, indeed, although barely able year. There are the gods of the door scots to produce two sounds at an octave. This water or provisions in, in the event of a where he pursued agriculture. He had to save their lives, had not omitted to secure and of the well and no end of divini- definition limits the phenomenon to the crew being esat astoro on a desolate island. fire sons, whom he named after the their idols, and bring them along in a box ties, each having a particular function se hymenoptera and the diptera. The coleop- Another valuable use would be, that ship's elemouts, adding to each Now or in a busket, showing thereby that the nigund to it, to procure for people health tera often produce in lying a grave and papers could be deposited in them the the fourth of those,Huo-tob, moved craving for religion in the heart was not and weaith, to protect them in their going dull, sound," but they are powerless to emit floating properties of this invention being
entirely quenched, but the oppressious out and coming in. Metempsychosis is the sharp sound, and consequently do not perfect. the Fah-kion province and endured, and the fact of being thoroughly believed in. A woman told me that she buzz. There are two or three ascertained
Ar amusing susue occurred during the | lived in 汀州府 Afterwards he crushed made their minds callous and in- knew of no sing which she might have facts which will serve as guides in the in- performance of Formosa, in the Aberdeen
moved again and put up his abode in the different. In course of time
small committed in this life, but there might terpretation of the phenomenon, First, it Theatre, on Tuesday night, September 14, village of Shih-pib. Finally when the sol amber of abous twenty joined the church. stand some against her on the account of is indisputable that the grave sound always which is thus desaribed by the Globet
lers of the Sang dynasty asnaed great die. I went also several times to the Jin-len her former life,
On the whole the Hakkas accompanies the great, vibrations of the happened when, towards the first act of histurbances in Kwangtung, robbers arose in district on preaching tours, because the are not as bigoted as the Puutis, and the wings, which servo for the translation of the the drama, Bob Saunders, the dog-fangier, all quarters, and the people were slain in Governor of Canton had interfered, and Gospel has found easier access to them insect. It is easily seen that this sound comes upon the stage, with sundry fatby great numbers, so that out of ten scarcely succeeded in making a compromise between than to the latter. It is also comparatively commences as soon as the wings begin to puppies staffed, all except the head, into one aurvived; the fields remained waste, the Hakkas and Puntia. The land was easier to make friends of them than of the move, and that if the winga be cut off from the right wing of the proscenium, bis coat pockets. Bob had just sallied and grow only thorns and briars. A decree redistributed and the fugitives were invited Pantis. It is perhaps owing to their disappears entirely. The sharp sound is was issued by the Emperor Ta-teh of the to return and to occupy the land which had standing constantly in fear of their own novi on the contrary, produced during when, glancing towards the upper privato Sung dynasty, inviting people to apply to been allotted to them by their government countrymen, the Puntis, that any sincere flight, it is only observed apart from the box opposite, according to the oustom of the authorities within 100 days, and pro- Stones marking the boundaries were sat sympathy which is shown them by for great vibrations of the wings when the in-sons experienced actors, his eye had pro- porty would be assigned to them in the up, and a military camp established with signers linde more reciprocity, and is thank-seat alights, or when it is held so as to bably caught that of one of the two male waste districts onable them to cultivate 500 soldiers and a colonel to keep the peace, fally availed of.
hinder its movement, and in that case the occupants of the box. At that instant Bob wing is seen to be animated by a rapid Buy a little dorg!" which, of course, the fielde. The descendants of the Tang and a civil mandarn with the little Kyan
had to speak the patchword of the part, dynasty settled in Chang loh and remained nin foo, was appointed to rule the people.
trembling. It is also produced when the The Roman Catholic missionaries had thoro for 5 generations. Afterwards they
The great rebellion which had originated wings are entirely taken away. From these was received with laughter by the audience came down to Taing-yuen bear Canton, and obtained a footing in Jin-len beforehand, with the Hakkas, showed that they were two remarks we may draw the conclusion generally; but the risible feelings of the have been there for 22 generation.
having been invited to come to the place by open to new convictions, and although it that the grave sound belongs properly to the audience were quickly turned into astonish- Another of my employees, who teaches a the Hakkan, in the hope that they would turned out a sad failure, yet it might have wings, that it is sansed by their movements ment when one of the gentlemen in the box school, belongs to the Hung clan. They be able to assist them against the Puntia. been attended with better results, had the of great amplitude. There is hore ne dit stood up, and with an excited look and in a first lived in Shenal, and moved to Szchusn Although disappointed in these expecta movement been better directed.
ficulty. As to the sharp sound, it is ver- very distinct Continental ascent, protected province, from there to Kiangsu, and then on, a good many seem to have embraced In their domestic life you find that there tainly not produced by the wings, since it that he did not want to buy one dog,"- to Fuhtien. From Fahkien they came to the Christian religion under the guidance of is not such a strict separation of the sexes survives the absence of these. Yet the and stated that he thought it a most un
the priests. It may be remarked that theas elsewhere. Kwangtung and settled in Kia-gin chow, feland of St. John, where Francis Xavier Hakkas, that the women never have their cular trembling during the production of to ask him "one so wonderful impertinent It is a peculiarity of the wings participate in it and undergo a parti- usual proceeding on the part of any actor spreading thore to Hwa-hien 'near Canton, died without having entered China, belongs feet cramped; high and low of the female this sound. To discover the cause it is ne- question " The actor used all his tact to To this atau belonged the renowned Hung to the jurisdiction of Jin-len. yiu-taden, Taiping wang, who caused church is built there in memory of that sheas a very different standing in society. movement of the wing. It is known that a jest, but the stranger, Nike Mr Joskin A stone cox preserve their natural feet, which gives cessary to go back to the mechanism of the stave off the awkward" interruphon with the great rebellion.
A third one of the Chin clan states that pioneer missionary, and of course he ranks It striken ons favorably to see the whole among nearly all insects the musolos which his ancestors came from Faakion, where they among the saints, whom the Chinese are family working together on the fields or to serve for flight are got inserted in the wing
directed to worship by the priests. had lived in MR for 21 generations,
When I above stated that the Hakka market town from the different villages to port it, and that it is the murement of these
see men and women going together to the itself, but in the parts of the thorax which up from whence they moved to Kwangtung dialect had a similarity with the Mandarin, offer the produce of the soil for sale, and to which nota on the wing and makes it vi and cattled in Chang-lob, spreading in it shiefly refers to the pronunciation of the purchase what they want.
brate. The form of the thorax changes characters. I appose we may safely con The Hakkas in the profecture of Kia-yin with each movement of the wing under the sider the four or five hundred sounds in the clow are renowned for their learning, and influence of the contrastiori of the thoracio Mandarin dialect as the original stock of there are so many diu-taal that there is not muscles. The raussular masses intended for the Chinese language from which the differ room enough for them to make use of their flight being very powerful, this vibratory ent dialects have in course of time branched talents and literary acquirements, so that movement of the thorax is very intense, as off. For in spite of the unconth nasals in many have to stoop to menisi work to get a may be proved by holding one of these in- the Funkies and Chau-show dialects, or the livelihood. In the Jin-on district the Hakkas scots between the fingers, But as the vi- impure sounds in the Canton, where Ming are allowed two candidates to pass in the brations are repeated two or three hundred is changed into Sheung, fi into Tai and so literary and two in the military examination times por second, they give rise to u ma- on, there is yet the undoubted fact, that each term. On the island of Hongkong all soal sound, which is the sharp note. In the Chinese language la but ons, and the the stone-cutters are Hakkas, and nearly all fact, the air which surrounds the thorax is Hakka has kept nearest to the original. the druggists, barbers and journeymen set in vibration by that directly, and with- The paucity of sour's has been in some blacksmiths. Many of the coolies are Hak-out the wing taking part in it. There are measure improved in the dialects, their kas, but few of the bost people. On the then two simultaneous sounds, one produced atock having generally been increased to whole they are poor and bave to work hard by the vibration of the wings and the other thousand and even the simple four tones in for their subsistence. The women seem to by the thoracio vibration, the latter twice as the Mandarin have been increased in the work hardest, and are accustomed to much rapid as the former, and therefore an octavo, Hakka to six, and in the Canton and endurance from their very childhood. You This is why in flight only a single grave Chau-chow diefeats to eight.
meet them carrying heavy loads which you sound is heard. When the thoras moves The Ho olan is still one that dates its
In taking up Morrison's Tonic Dictionary would rather wish to see put on men's alone a sharp sound is produced. This, M. pedigrou back to the Chow dynasty and I find that from the first to the seventh shoulders, and they seem never to have had de Bellesme believes, is the only explana- gives Shantung as its original home. Under syllables the pronunciation is almost iden enough leisure to learn proper women's tion that can be given of the mode of pro- A stage where every man rauat play his part, the Sung dynasty they moved south, entered tical with the Hakka. It is only to be work, so that they are generally obliged to duction of the two sounds which constitute
Fubkion under the Ming dynasty and pro- remarked that all fourth tones end with a engage a tailor to make their dresses Out-buzzing. cosded from thenco to Kwangtang, taking hard consonant in the Hakka either k, p, ting grass on the hills for fuel, pigs for sale, up their abode in Kinyin chow. The last ort. Thus Obey or Chih in Morrison cooking the rice for the whole family, and of those most ancient clans is the King, reads Chak in takka, Ch reads Chap, tilting the fields fa the general occupation of which also exlated under the Chow dynasty and lived on the Yang ter kiang, and Cha reads Chat. In the eighth ayi prefecture of Kis-yin chaw, the women spin the women. In some purta, as e, g, in the whence it took its name. At the close of lable in Morrison the a in Chang is charged cotton, and are also able to weave the yara the Sung dynasty they entered Kwangtung into o and we read thong, as also Shong into cloth, of which they make their winter and settled in Hai-feng.
The Hiu clan lived under the Handy-The characters under the 9th syllable are ning of the hemp of which grass-cloth is recently reached a village not far from instead of Shang in the 288th syllable. dresses. In the Jin-on district the spin-
KEEPING A SECRETA young Irishman Basty in Hon, moved under the Sung dy-again much alike in their pronunciation.mado, is more frequently seen, but the wo Birtley, straight from the Emerald Isle, and nasty to Fuhlien, under the Yuen dynasty. In the 10th Ohay becomes simply Cha. In men do not weave it, and there are journey shortly after his arrival he received letter No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings to Kiangai, and under the Ming dynasty to the 11th syllable Che, the first charactor mon weavers who go round in the villages, A glance told him the writer was Father girl may read it herself, or ita-lessons may Kwangtung, asttling in the district of given reads Tein Hakka, but all thereet with their primitive looms to do the reavant Felix, his into pastor, and he well knew the
for the families. Polygamy is not frequent The Teau clan lived under the Tang dy... are read Chè, the 12th Chě becomes Obst, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stinge nasty in Fabikien, and entered Kwangtung and so I might go on through the whole among the Hakkas, chiefly on account of good priest had only officiated for "the publication of those works was not intended
poverty but lafanticide is very prevalent girl he left behind him," but what was in Quaries under the Ming dynasty spreading in the book to prove the atmilarity of the Hakka. They live in poor houses, mustly built from the letter was a sealed book to him. In
diatriots of Chang-lok, l'oh-lo and Kwei- with the mandarin. The Lord's prayer sunburned brick which are not always even
this difficulty he consulted the village rendered in the Delegates' version would plastered, and are protected from the wet schoolmaster, whom he requested to read The Liang olan existed fu Honan under thus road in Bakka: Ngo-fu tahai then, by the far protruding roof, errby straw the missive aloud, but only on condition the Tain dynasty, entered Kwangtung an nya li myang shin, H kok lim kak, li chi which is fixed on to the walls; but when that he allowed Patriok to put his fingers der the Ming dynasty, and spread in Kia- tot ahin, tahaithi pok tada, so si chi yong, such anburned brick walls come under the over the schoolmaster's ears, to prevent up. yin chow and Sin-an-
kim nyit syak yi, age mea nyin fu, Kayu influence of the heavy rains, by leakage of him from heuring what was read!" The Chang Hwang and Talolens all came men ngo fu, pi wut ngo chi, chin ngo ohut the roof, they soon melt, and make the
'A CASE presenting features of a somewhat TAE SOOTCH Bre from Fabkien. Thus it will be seen that ok, yi kok, kba, yin, kai li so yu, you houses unsafe to live in. There are cer.peculiar as the Hebrews. At the Glasgow bourne Police Court last week, before Mr a people nearly a novel nature was investigated in the Mel- The Bakkas descended from the North of khip shi nhi, ku no nyên ya”, Olins, which accounts for the similarity of As regards the religious observances of tainly also some rich people among them, Presbytery the other day, a motion came Call, P.M., and a benen of magistrates. their dialect with the mandarin, and their the Hakkan there might be mentioned some and you cocasionally most with the establish-on for discussion as to the appointment of The dge thus states the onse Jospha frequent moves bear out the meaning of striking peculiarities, but this would requirement of a which stands out very
a day of thanksgiving "for peace and for Evans, hairdresser, carrying on busmees in their designation as strangers, or settlers, more detailed description for which this prominently from the huts of the poormation was given just at the time when all with having, on Sunday, the 22nd Sept. an abundant harvest." Notice of this Elizabeth-street, was charged on summons Now in Kwangtung where they managed to article is not in ended. Suffice it to say, I have seen three-storied houses built the talk was about peace with honour" last, kept open his shop for the purpose of At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear.
stlok together, and to occupy extensive that they are devoted to the three religions of stone from the foundation to the but the Cabul trouble having broken out trading, he not being an apothecary, chemist tracts of country, they feel strong, and are which are in vegue in China with as much roof, and besides walled in by a sub-suddenly, and peace being by no means butcher, baker, pastrycook, or confectioner, -Cowper.not afraid of their enemies. Such is the sincerity as can be expected,
stantial adobe wall, to protect the inmates assured, the author of the motion, with a or otherwise exempted by the provisions of case in the prefecture of Kia-yin obow which
such precautions caution worthy of his country, suggested the Police Offences Statute. Mr Townsend is entirely, pe pied by Hakkas or in the pre- the dead is certainly, the most cherished would show that the Hakkas in general that it would be well to postpone thanking MacDermott appeared to proseouts on behalf
Theonfucian precept of worshipping and their property. footure of Fui-chow where they are at least part of their religion, and the ancestral do not come up to a high standard, and the Almighty for peace while the present of the police; but he was understood to be to the majority. But to the South wet wor-hip in the house, in the ancestral in fact, so bad an example being set to state of things lasted. This was a fine instructed by the association who have of Denton in the Shau-hing prefecture halls, and on the hille where the tomba are, thom by the Mandarins, whose rapacity is example of the canpiness of the race, and recently endeavoured to compel all hair there are Hakk' and Pun-ti, living inter- form sich an Important part of their proverbial, it is scarcely to be wondered at the word "peace" would have been removed dressere to close on Sunday Senior-con- spersed, and th latter considering them religious duties, that these are always the that they turn and sook to revenge them from the motion, but for the prompt ap stables O'Meara and Herbert-stated that salves to be the original lords of the soil de last thing from which they will separate, in solves by thieving or robbing. What a plication of the Soctoh love of bair-splitting, they visited the defendant's shop on the not cherish much affection towards the case of conversion to Christianity, In great reform is necessary for this great by which it was unanimously resolved that Sunday in question, and saw him following former, whom they rather look upon as connection therewith is the "Fung-shui, tion May the leaven of the Gospel effect the thanks to the Almighty for peace should his avocation and receiving payment from Intruders. The consequence fo that there to which they are staunch believers. They it, and penetrate the gigantic mass, till the be offered on the express understanding the customers. The defendant contended are not only constantly petty quarrels do not see the contradiction of looking for whole be leavened-Chinese Recorder, that the peace was the peace of Berlin, that he was perfectly entitled to carry on among them, but that they cometimes come blessings to deceased parents and at the
and had no reference whatever to the his profession on Sunday, as shaving and to blows on a larger scale. Thus the dis- same time sailing in Buddhist priests to trict of Sin-ning in Shau-hing became the help their parents in Bades. Non-wrs
RAILWAY TIME.--The other day an old present complications and impending war hairdressing was not trading. Mr. Call, Boone of a canguloary war between the two mi-to-fuh is the pass word which is expected of the Central Station, Newcastle, and in lady presented herself at the booking office
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P.Min giving his decision, remarked that It would be very interesting to know more races, which nearly terminated in the to pave the way to happiness for a poor quired what time the train started for York, lately occurred at a marriage at St. Mary's and oited a decision given by the English WEDDING RING.-A earious incident in that respect the defendant was in error, of the different rates inhabiting this great entire extirpation of the Hakkas there. Hakka soul, and you frequently meet with Clerk at 1.45. Old Lady Way, Parish Church, Dover. A French couple House of Lords. In the case cited in Scantry, and propose to give some secount The history of that dianater is ohortly this, stone tablets erected along the road-side thor's aporter tell'd me just noo in wad from elais, haring bean staying in the appeared that an apprentice to a barber in of one of them, the Hakke, with the view of The Taiping rebellion, which originated with the above @ characters engraved on dent leave fill a quarter to two. Noo, town a sufficient length of time to have the Scotland, who was bound by his indentures inducing other missionaries who may have from Hakkas in Fa-yuen near Canton, had them, to remind the wayfaring people to which on ye hev as to believe ?Wekly banns published in that church, came up not to absent itself from his master's become acquainted with them, to contribute also spread to the prefeature of Shauking whom they should entrust body and soul. Chronicle. what information they may be able to give and found numerous adherents among the The most popular idol among the Hakka
In the morning to be married, and the business on holiday or week day, lator hours
tupa.
But Cleobis and Biton shall never
Again breathe the June morning's breath- Theirs the best gift to mortals for ever,
On their faces is Death.
E. B. Loughran,
THE WORLD.
You have too much respect upon the
world:
They lose it that do buy it with much väre,
I hold the world but as the world:
And mine a sad one.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of the fcorid!
Fie on 't! O, fie! 't is an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and grows
in nature Possess it merely.
Shakapers.
The world's a hive, From whence thou canʼat derivo
But case thou meet Somo petty, patty sweet,
"I is a very good world that we live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in, Bat to bog, or to borrow, or get a man's own, "T is a very worst world, air, that ever was
known.
-Old Sony.
"T is pleasant, through the loopholes of re-
treat To peap at such a world, to soe the stir
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd
To hear the rear she sends through all her
gater,
Ohl it is beautiful to see this world Poised in the crystal air, with all its sens,
Mountains, and plains, majestically rolling Around ite noiseless axis, day by day,
And year by year, and century after century And as it turns, still wheeling through the
immense Of other, circling the resplendont sun Is calm and simple grandeur.
Atherstone.
THE HAKKA CHINESE, BY REV. B LYCHLES.
The Loolau alte lived in Shantung under the Chow dynasty, and emigrated at the end of the Tang dynasty to Fahklen Under the Ming dynasty they came to Kwangtung and occupied the prefecture of Kla.yin obow. The Yen olan likewise lived in Shantang under the Chow dynenty, same under the Lain-shi hwang to Kiangsi, under the Yuen dynasty to Kwangtung, est tling in the prefcetute of Chau-chow and predlog under the Ming dynasty to the district of Kwei-chan.
Kwei-shan.
shan.
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Miscellaneous.
should like to have my moustache dyed." SARCASTIC SLASH. Young Swell-"I Polite barber" Certarily. Did you bring it with you?"
CHINESE books for girls (says a writer in popular English magazine) consist chiefly of exhortations to discharge all their duties, a daughters, wives, mothers, sistors, and especially daughters-in-law. If you go into Pekin bookshop to examine what books are devoted to female training, you will find little volume called "Nu er ching," which describes the daily routine of a girl's life before and after marriage. A larger work is "The Girl's Four Books," in two voinnies. This contains the best results of Chinese thinking on how the female mind ought to be trained. The dation of daughter, wife, and mother are here explicitly laid down and illustrated by examples. The boys have their Four Books, which they read before the study of the Five Classics. These were fixed upon in the Sung dynasty, 700 years ago. A century of Mongol rule followed, when the family of Genghis Khan held the throne. Then came the Ming
little collection of works called The Girl's dynasty, which ruled for nearly throo centuries. It was at this time that the Four Books" was made. Emperors wrote prefaces to two of them, in order to give to these books have been much used as a sort them greater authority. Singe that time of educational coarse. In what does this work consist? In moral instruction. The
be taught her by an instructor. The
to furnish a curriculum for use in girls' schools but in fainiliss. Girls' schools were not thought of then, and it is only now, after the commencement of Christian mis stones, that the question. whether China should have girls schools or not has come
on the subj et. It appears that they are to Pan-ti people, whereas strange to say, the lathe Buddhistis Kwan-yin (Kon-yim Argus" in Land and Water, took ledge joining of hands and the putting on of the Sunday without leave and without shaving A BEURET OUT, A friend of mine, writes ceremony proceeded satisfactorily until the early, without leave, went away on be found in more than one province. In Hakkas remained loyal, and assisted she nyong), and I bave seen her name put above ings the other day in a farm-house he ring, when it was discovered that the his master's oustomers. It was held by the this province. Kwangtung, about one third Mandarins against the rebels. This ex all other gods which are worshipped in the complained bitterly of many things. The Frenchman had no ring. There was an ords (Versions that the apprentice could of the whole population are Hakkas. The asperated the Fun-tls very much, and houses, the names of them being written rowing of the fowls in the early morning awkward pause, no one in the company Court of bersion) that the apprentice could there are come also in Kwangs, Fabkien, they swore vengeanos agalust the Hakkas, on a big sheet of red paper hung up on the was bad enough, but a far greater nuisanco could lend a ring for the occasion where not lawfully be required to attend his on the Zeland of Formoes, and even in Chi-When the T'ai-ping movement drew north, wall. Then there are the Buddblatio existed than that. The worthy farmer upon the offisting clergyman sent the master's shop on Sundays for the purpose of klangs if I am rightly informed by a mia and the southern provinces became com ceremonies performed on the occasion of gents donkey for the use of his children. serger for the church-door kay, the ovo of sharing customers, and that that work and Bionary brother who had been labouring in that proviste. I also remember Dr. Guttately quiet, the Pantin commenced deaths of funerale, by the conleriastical This animal was a champion sus for bray. which instrument was said to have been all other sorts of handicraft were illegal in
hostilities with the Hakkan. The district Ho-ahang as well as by the Lay Nap-wa laf having said they formed the chief part of Hoftean was the first in which disturb There are the corcorers called Shang-/ The fact was that unless the thildren were it was found, however, that the eye was works of necessity, mercy, or charity, Smilar ing moralng, poon, and alght he was at it.used in other places in elmilar emergencies. England as well as in Scotland, not being of the population of the Kiangul province, anses broke out, and the fortunes of war kung ör. Shang-pfo, bath however males, petting him he was unhappy: A friend to I not sufficiently large to admit the bride's laws being in fores here, the carrying on of and that dialect was spoken in Naim ChaDS were variously, experienced on both rides, whose special, business is to drive out evil | whom be applied knew of a care. In the anger, The bridegroom searched his the defendant's business was illegal Tho fu, the capital of that province, But I do until Bually the Puri-tin, being stronger influences, or cast out devils, and there dusk of evening he slipped into the donkey's pooketa again, and brought out a bunch of minimau penalty that could be inflicted. not know on what authority his statement then and meanhp congnored the Hakkasin is the Slon-poh (which I believe in a speciflo i stable armed with a heavy kitchen weight keys, attached to a ring. This ring, with was £5, and as the defendant promised to as based. Now since Kiukiang is an open this and other districts, and expelled the Hakka notion, or conjutor of the dead, this he axed to Neddy's tail, Noddy its appendages, was placed on the book, discontinue the praction for the future, the
man who le requclad, to, to inquire after the never brayed that night, nor as long as it from thence it was transferred to the Bride's Klangal It might be easily ascertained whe Acording to the account viven by the condition of the desi in Haden Spirit was done It appears that to bray a finger, and with the steel ring of the bunch sher Dr, Grigal's statement is borne out by
rapping is also practised and the spirit is donkey must extend the tall. I daunos of keys the ceremony was duly completed made to appear to communicate by writing say why, but I know that in this lostance Leisure Bour, I will now give a general sknotch of the
revelations about the future.
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Ron's PATETY "Lapa:Buoy Brat." Prigin of the Mekkes in Kwongtong, thals
Of other idole, wombipped are to be men, | owners will try it,
phrt, and our brethren from the Island mis- Blon are penetrating into the interior of the ware not killed,
feate or bot
Haas in the Jin-len district, ton of thousands were slabs with the eward, untold numbers died of hunger, cold and general privation again others perished by sickness,
are was postponed for a month on the understanding that should the defendant. carry out bis undertaking it would be withs drawn, but that in the event of his again transgredag a fine would be enforced. | The Kellowing is a brief description of this | Avalrgilan papara