TOWN AND COUNTRY TALES.
THE BOUGDNER AND THE LAUNCH,
THE CHINA MAIL.
or the Flag alone will be hoisted at the Most Head.
four times the size, observed a stout mem grout success. You can quite understand ber from behind a cloud of smoke in the that I have not much opinion of what are the onBed quack medicines, which are generally I was living at Erith, one of the most decorner if the saloon. About a st the cure all and worthles, and I should he glad Ing Teasels will be notified by their proper į
original expense, much less than a sixth annual coat, and twenty times the comfort
Anyhow continued the narrator.
On the
mon of owhatance,
the
Arm.
POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondence, Mar. 5, 1886.
9. The approach of Men-of-War and Sail-
lightful little places between London and the Noro for those who really love perco and
to see them swept out of existence with the Symbols and National Colours, or House So a lot of fellows said at the he got however, is an orcoption,
imo, hesam of destruction.
Your preparation Vlaga, &t the Quarter of the Yard, or at the quiet. A stock-broker, wito in his genera
and is un
Note.The Distances of vessels will bo One of lion, had just buift meoli a summer han.
+ my brothora galow there
of the chalk cliff, this launch, and it is a most curious thing doubtedly uroful. edge
aight, sho happened to run took it with considerable benefit; and to estimated from the Peak, and will be maile will a long strip of garden in which he is, one for sight and cut her down to be gandid with you, I only laughed at him, by means of the Numerals which are attach-
into a aclwoner took marvellous pride.
always 1
going
Iod to the letters in the table of Fingo. Nobody knows the and said, His faiths had healed him.
H. G. THOMSEFT, R«N«, up and down the river; sometimes in a Hit the water's edge.
1.}] The wea very self this year with Congested rights or wrongs of the collision.
Harbour Master, de.. the open boat of my own, with a huge munch won hardly damaged at all, but the Liver, Indigestion, &c, and after tauch latoon sail, sometimes on a tug, sometimes in a sailing-horge-for I made it my busi-schooner was cut down almost to hor keel persuasion by my brother, to please him,
of ovary kind, and to for the launch had a bow like a man, and consented to try Mother Soigel's Byrag, ness to know skippers
that in spite my and I am bound to wout threegif the schooner's planks like sund be a welcome guest on their craft,
But there was one than what I could knife through a piece of note-paper. The projudica and unachet, it did it for
launch
I am batter in stood by and
and picked up good than anything nover got near. He kept entirely to schooner's crew. Oddly enough, they wore health now, but not quite well, and puba- himself. His equals disliked hins, and all saved except the owner. He did not bly never shall be again, u my heart has called him tho *king of the barge-
down
with the schooner, which was become weak, although I am considerably 'TROT," by way of mockery. He was a Sisad the next work, but his body was undor fifty years of age. I mention my case
for he owned the picked up a fortnight afterwards.
The to you, thinking it might be of some inte- great! billy-boy which he sailed himself, and crabs and congers had been so busy with rest to you. I remain, faithfully yours,
'W, Sheppard Pole (Ph. C.).' in which he would fetch atone from Forbit thus it would never have been Houtilied land, or other such heaty cargoes, and, but for the clothes and the lettera in the casionally, if he wanted a long run, potatoes t There was an inquest, of from Cornwall or the Islands. I used to ekos
At all moot him hero and there upon the riser, but nothing came of it. I think it was
what you call an open vordist. and I could see that I was talking to events, no more was heard of the matter, who wee, and I always had been, a gentleman. But he did not care for conversation, and nnd I suppose the exact nautical rights and I have skilfully Braided the least approach to any wrongs of the whole thing will, na thing lika intimacy. It was only inter that I said, noyer be sortied. The only men on heard his story, and understufal way he the deck of the launch at the moment of the collision wore the owner himself, who had thus become a floating hermit. I can- not, of course, say how far this tale in cor-was at the whee, and a murt of valet ke Zect
detail, - in but I know that its broader hul, a fellow from the Mediterranean, who to have been an terrified that he linos aro true.
no entirely lost his head, and could give no In his younger days he had been an artist entirel
longshore artist, painting bouch and necount whitever of how the thing hap river sketches, and with a pretty little yaobs puned. Anyhow, thus crew of the schooner blume, and I hard at the time that they were very luudamely treated afterwards #f the lanachi, although really by the owner there was no obligation on him in do ang. thing of the kurd.'
oc-
He could
It seems odd that only the owner should have gone down, observed the member from the corner of the room, and nobody
Baldock, Horts, January 4th, 1889. HAVE NOT HEARD A SINGLE COMPLAINT. Gentlemen,Perhaps it would by ap propriate to state, that it given me great pleasure to push and advanca tho sales of your medicines, an account of their worth. have sold I have not had or heard a single complaint about your medicines since them, but, on the other hand, unbounded testimony as to their worth, therefore I can with confidence bring them to the public notice. During 1942 I sold 112 dozens of the Syrup, and 7 dozen Pilla. inhabitants are under 2,000, and there are This. I think, taking into account that the
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of his own, in which he used to potter abmat were agreed that the launch was not two other agents in the town, will give you Cristo, A.. the coast in quest of subjects. paint with feuling, and with Jus own pri. vate fortuno, and his two, or perhaps three, small pictures in each year's Academy, was comfortably off I may add that he was married and loved his wife. Fortunately for hoth, there were no
no children, was the old story, His wife waz Τε
Sho likod young, pretty, and weak. dresses which he could not afford, and hungered
bitterly
for
jewelry almost be ried Sho wearied .of yond the reach paintor.
es of bar quiet life and its simple pleasures, her garden, and flowers, and hothouse, and hot tranquil summers in the Channel le
The end lals or on the French toast.
with a rich vi coureo came. She ran away man, the son of a Liverpool cotton-broker, a mere brute with a thin veneer of educa tion and culture upon him, and who had all that insolence of wealth which the Greek dramatists regarded as the bitterat, upon a mas, of possible divine cuces Her husband did not go to the Divorco Court He went on painting as usual, and whatever he may have suffered, he turned out as good work as over some
A bad egg as over hired,' was the an- even said better.
Son of zome Manchester cotton. One night, in the middle of a driving anewstorm, ehe came back to is small cost spinner or Liverpool stockbroker. Was kicked out of his regiment for something. tago he had taken at Dol, and tape at shady, and kicked out of his club, the Rag the window. She was alone, helpless, and beastse he couldn't explain why his Colonel ovidently dying. Her cough, and the flushe
in the right. the wrong and lie i as in
marvellous
people
So it docs, dryly answered the narrator i things do happen in this world. It came out at tho inqnest when he was picked up that his skill was stashed and all his fingers broken as if they had somehow been jammal, I won't may hammered, but any how pinched and splintered into matchwood. But a collision at sea, after all, is just like
railway. There
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Was on her check, told their own story. He tinckballed at every other club afterwards.* forgave her, and she died in his arma.
He was considered shady even on the Turt. Thon he left Deal, and for year or two
with disappeared. When he was nust soon, ho Ono of his exploits was to run away with hela amali quick steam-annels, built al- another fellow's wife-I can't remember whose. She was little batter than a child. most on the lines of a torpedo-bont, in whose. which he used to run about the coast bu- and as soon as he was tired of her he kicked tween the North Foreland and the Scilly her out inte the streets, and I believe the
puor thing was frozen to death in the snow Isinnule She was a strange craft, with all overts she died of his ill-treatment
speed, and when she dipped Ata kor funnel and hurned arokeless coal, was there'a very little doubt of that. He was
always a cur, and drowning was too good distance, except in hardly visible at
any
death for him.'-World. the very clearest weather.
He kept entirely to himself, and some people said that his trouble had more ISTENCE HANGS A BLACK CLOUD or less tingul his mind; atheis
he had turned
With the uncertainty-of-life is mingled that
his attention the dark mystery of death! While, on the to marine engineering, and
one hand, we catch the welcome sound of a make a fortune out of it: others that now breath of life that tells
an addition hahad always anything.
„been an odd kind of fellow,
to one species, on the other we shuche as- who might do
we hear the rushing wings of the Destroy His engineer
and area were Sunder-
the great ing Angel! The mighty voico His cook and valet was a land Maltess of whom nobody knew anything,
Iotuesce which rules the Universe has that he seemed much attached to bis pronouneed our fate: the dronel fiat has excopt
gone forth, and overy mortal man is doomed master, and to have a natural batced to
prevont wards the rest of mankind. The frurth to die! But, though we eangst
can we pristpone death? The question hand was a boy, who, when not engaged in momentous, even if it concern tho pre- dirty work, was always asleep.
The Erith Yacht Club had at that time, longation of life but by a single hour, s and, for all I know, still keeps up, not only much as every instinot prompts us to fight ils rooms on shore, but also a floating frouss the boldest battle we can for this glorious
wen
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a hot summer Sunday: and, I was
The masts have now been taken out, and the buckle on the shield, which nature places places by means of Pastal Notes. Bee woystate interior of the vessel fitted as a large saloon, with one or two banks forward behind a ready to their grash, may ward off the in-pates of the Pool Basta
sidious attacks of the implacable chemy of bulkhead,
eud, for members who anddenly find themselves in want of a bed, and be life, until is a ripe old age, the vital
faculties
decay, and the Angel gradually yond these,
steward's room. Tho
Peace glides ese, again, a
softly coffee-room, if I may a term the salon,
into our presence, lead a must pleasant resort on the morning of ing us, as it were, in a goutle slumber to
regions beyond the Was seated
1080
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and a brandy-again heard somebody favoured by him than that of a deadly fue at the Peak are published for general in- Lady Harewood
among those who were present use the now preying upon the very vitals of Modern formation. words the king of the bergeman.' I Society. What is this foo? Taste are few among us who have not boon or are now to dropped my paper and listened at ance
Would the reader 'It was a funny story,' said one of the some extent its victims. dozen or so of men who occupied the divans know if he, too, B under the ban of this and armchairs, his running down that frightful scourge. Let him ask himself whether he experiences any of the following yacht.'
symptoms
Not at all funny, if you knew all about it,' esid a second.
don't believe anybody does know all about it, or over will, sontentiously
marked a third.
There are
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART, Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th February, 1883.
1823 Fict above Sen Zerel. SUNAL STATION, VICTORIA FEAR, HONGKONG.
1. The Union Jack will be holsted of the
Mast Head when any vessel is being
e are pains about the chest and sides and sometimes in the back. The mouth re-has a bad taste, especially in the morning;
and there are feelings of dulness. The ap- signallo petite is poor, a sort of sticky slime collecta 2. The Commercial Code of Signals for about the teeth, there is a feeling as of a all Nations will be used at the Stallon, heavy load on!
on the stomach, and sometimes S. All Signals made by vessels in the a fairt, all-pone sensation at the pit of the Offing will be repeated. stomach, which food does not satisfy. The 4. When Signalling to Men-of-War in
Then there was a silenco..
How was it?' asked another member, pouring himself out some claret.
replied
1 the
*It happened upon this wise, ember who had been the second to speak
I think that. I can out the story short
Ilia wife, you see-there always of a wo
Wellfoot, 8.8.
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Christian Commonwealth.
Colonial Trade Journal. Daily News.
Diario de Natisins. Kesuoment.
Field Exercise. 1884.
Elgia Conraul & Corrier.. Etades sur la lätteratura.
Fleur de Vertu Fantalla,
Freemason.
5. When Steamer, or the sake of a Gaceta de Macrid:
•he did and he must hava modaard him no rest. Nervousness, sing Yearol is 1
pretty good income, too.
Do you r
member that odd poem of Browning's suddenly, there is a giddiness, a sort of or, the Vessel's heir goal, and it Le Bosphore Egyption,
po
Well,
• "peaker, with that requsutly & spittini un of the food at the English, French, or American Ensigo, Mandt's Gooncário,
the
cold nità feel clammy After a while a sign will be hosted at the Flagstaff, and at eyos are runken, the hands and fast become the Harbour or in the Ofing, a White En-
mon in affairs of this kind-was very prosty the course of a few months with expecto
Crotty cought setrin, at first dry, but attended in the Mast Head of the Man-of-War. and extravagant, and had many more
very
ration of a whims than he could ever have gratified, feels constantly tired, and sleep seems to at the Yard Arm and Distance off at the Roboc Brems.
of a greenish colour. The sufferer Steamer is sighted, the Compass Bearing disgor Weekly Mall, if he had made four times the money afford.
Mast Head, will be hoisted. If, when the Hobosta
made out,
Mail Steam Hlustrated Lordon Novs, and evil forebodings follow. When
Flag will be Journal de St. Petersburgh. whirling sensation in the head. The bowels substituted for the Compass about the beautiful girl of Pernie who become costive; the skin is dry and hot at will be kept flying until tho anchors Le Petit Provençal. was buried in
in her golden hair 7 The members of the Frith Yault Clubes; the blood becomes thick and starmant The Distance Signal will be kept up ifteen Leader.
eyes are tinged with yel minutes after the Steamer made out:- Liverpool Weekly Mercury. tire sarule, roaders of the author of the whites of the
zot, as Sordella, Name of the present had even low; the urine i
6. If the Steamer is a regular Mail Lynn Reporter. scanty and high coloured, depositing a medi
for atanding. aediment after
There
Steamer a Chin will be fired, and a Ball over Madeira, so much as heard of the poem in question.
da Ball over Mission Field, times with a sour taste and at others with a with the Distance off at that time, will be Natal Witrean. continued peculiar esise of
of enjoyment which
is in sweetish taste This is often attended with shown at the Mast Head. The Compass Nationaltidendo, and Thing Luowledge, respects akin to pride, his wife you palpitation of the heart or impaired vision, Signal and Symbol will be hauled down. New York Ticies. many
The Ball and Ensign will be kept up
until Diario Popular. know, bolted with another fellow-a fellow with spota before this eyes,
companied by great prostration and weakness. All of the vessel
anchors
The Distance Signal People's Friard. with a pot of money, who took her away with the symptoms are in turn present. It is will be kept flying for half-an-hour, and Fetis Roser him in his yacht. I remember seeing the thought that arly one-third of our changed at each successive half hour to show Pulman's Weekly News. yacht at Cowes. A fine craft she was. When bo
be found she had gone and wit's population has this disease in soms of its the Distance off at those times. When the Samples of Oil Cloth
do varied forms. Modical men liare mistaken passelin between Green Island and the Shipping Garatio. дока time moped for a long whom, somewhere on the south const. People say the nature of the malady. Its truu nams is North Point of Hongkong the Distanes The Standard
Dyspepsia or Indigestion for which a cor-
hauled down. If the Mail Te Lathurgits. Signal will be she came back to him and he forgave hertain remedy is to be found in Mother That I should very much doubt; he wasn't
Timess that kind of man, Anyhow, she died-Seigal's Curative Byrup 10edicine which is not, in the Harbour when it is
o dark tu distinguish flags, a red light will yiplette Blea [Too about, that--and after her has won in both hemispheres a confidence bo ozhibited at the West Yard Arm, or a Weslly Echo
founded only on its great
virtues. The
the East Yard Arm until she Züricher Post green light at deathbegove up painting algemen
and I Syrup can be obtained from my chemist or anchur rather a pity, I thought at the time, and think so still, for very few men could touch medicine vendor, or from the propeletore, 7. River Steamers will not be signalled. him in his own line. Well, he had a sort A. War (Lamited), 17, Farringdon
---Foward ingrking
there's
he
thai
of blockade-runner built for him by the Road, London, EC.
Thorneycrofts. She was a venomoUS- looking thing, but could go any number
of knots an hour, and he used to knock
about the coast in her,
I'd sooner have a desent yaw. about!
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