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BOUM-BOUM.
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It was not Boum-m. What he did see was Bonsieur M., and the machinist met quiet-mastered man, who ushered him into sudy, and that stady, with hooks on the table and grave pictures on the walls, was ine noh a a doctoc's s office as any other
former lived in the Moninartro quarter. It (Translated from the French of Jules was a rather queer procooding on the part of Jacques, but who you think about it, Clorerie for the New York Times There lay the child as pale as death in do not comedians sing and play annetimes his narr, white bed His eyes oxian-in denwing zooms? Perhaps, who know, dod by lover, looked Atraight ahead, with that clown, if he only would, raight ho in- that strange, fixed state of the sick who duced to come and say how do you do to François. How would he be received when already see things the living ignore.
-Bura? the foot of the bud at the mother, he came to see Boun following anxioanly the progress of illness on the eranciated face of the day and biting
her cots.. Singers 3 to ropress The father, an honest work, waa keeping back the tears that hung salding
A reddened eyelids. Day was
sweat and clear, on place. braaking
Jacquea looked and him and did not that pleasant springpnorning, and the light was stealing into the narrow room in the ace anything recalling a clown in the gou Bue dos Abbesses, whore little Francis, tleman he was visiting He turned his hat the child of Jacquer Legrand and Mind round and sound in his hands while the other waited. The gentleman seemed to nuls dcine, his wife, Iny dying
He was only seven. White, rosy and what was wanted.
It was, after all, happy; quick and gay as a sparrow-persoptions.
'Task your
pardon, will you excuse me little fellow-only three weeks before. Bui then he caught the favor, and one afternoon Bach a dear little clay, sir, and so bright
brought him home from school, is the first at school in almost everything; just a little backward in ciphering, but a little hond nahing and his little hande feverish.
on
they
at times, and saying nach out-of-the-way
Borer, novor.
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THE CHINA MAIL
renoh, melts metals and sola everything in-
immable on fre
One pound of mercury eonverted into fat minste is safeicut to charge 50,000 par. CUSHIO CANS.
Steel when hardoned decreases in specific gravity, contracts in length and ivorenie in diameter.
Wine-makers sra
Ordure on the Countries marked aro terwarded through the London Post Office, and are paid loss a small discount of about 22. in the £1, for which the remittor should allow. All such orders must be expressed in British currency, and cannot be drawn for any suis Jons than d
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£4 or 5 or B 700,00
£5, or 226, or R 50,0.40
.
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The commission charged is as follows There are twenty-two crematories in En-(ccording to the currency the Order is rupe, in which over fourteen hundred inoin- drawn in crations have taken place during the past Up to £2, or 810, or R 20,...,..0.20 centa your.
exporinicating with
£10, or $60, or R100, 0.60 electricity. It is said that if as electric cur rent je sent through a barrel of wins the
R150... $1.00. ligaur, loses its rawness, gains in bouquet, 1.No Order mat eng
ΟΣΟΡΟΚΙ £10 or $50 on the and in every way takes on
the qualities that
(unless drawn on India, when 150 is the limit), nor will more than two such Orders used to come only with years
According to Dr. Howship Dickinson a aba issned to the same person, in favour of firred tongue is not necessarily an alarm the same payee, by the anne mail. in yuve a clean tongue, and to others don for even bums not exceeding £5 are symptom. To nona porsons it is nur- -Money Orders on the United King- equally normal to have a coated tongue, so granted by means of Portal Noton, as to that it is possible to fix any değrao or winch ace separate notice or the Hong-
Postal Guide. limit of coating as a necessary empani kong
:hure” 6-Eums not oxcoading 850 ment to perfect health
According to Professur Gunld's investiga mitted between the Porta of Clins by
that
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from 14,800 to 16,000 miles por scorid, and that the velocity of transmission increases with the distance between tho wites and this earth; or, in other words, with the and that subterran height of suspension. wires, like submarino cables, transmit with roduced rapidity, Again, while wires au14- pended at a feeble height are known to transmit sigrals pt a velocity of some panded higher gise a velocity of from 12,000 miles per second, those that are gun- 16,000 to $1,000 miles. Wheatstero's claim of 288,000 miles in his experiments appears never to have been confirmed.
or Money Orders can be granted at Liong- long or Shanghai on Porta whore there are Agencies of the Hongkong Fost Office.
General Fest Office......... Hongkong, 26th April, 1888.
+ By means of Postal Notor.
Government Notification.
Since then he had been in bod, and delirines dreamar, Bud-and-yon will ace-why I trolls, it appeara actricity at the rate of charge of one per cent, for cashing them
all bi-a littlo damer-bogause-he- un pules traga:oit a telegraph wires ruents of Postage Stamps, subject to a things. There were his shura. His mother caso and hero Jacques stuffered had had gut thom on a shelf in a corner. Sorire-heoke down and recovered himself, and than times he would say, Throw them away,ho blurted it out!
A dreunior--and the proof is that he is Little Francois novor will want his shoes
Francois never will put them on. niways thinking about yox, talking about again. Fracois never will go to school again you, and that you never before him like
star that he wants to lay hold of, and
But Jusques never finished that sentence Then the boy's father would say, Will
etik and the mother, pale nedhe euld not. He was haggard, trembl rested, would hide her bend in the pitowing, and the great hands of work at awront rolled 40 that Brancois might not hear tur crying clowil. What was the clown going to
That night the child was no longer out of the
Boom Bouta Maghe, taking mind, but the Doctor was much worried, be reply?
for cause last two days the boy had him for a crank, he would show him the ahowa a strange depression, just as if, a
age, he wero already tired of pesca of life. Franents seemed so listless, and would let his head droop. He ruftiaeil all food. The smile on his poor thin lips had sled. The eyes were haggard, and still there way that sad far away-what?
Jover
the
Bou
bestes.
Where do you live- naked Boun!..
Ruo des Ab * Oh-urar-qquite nour
All right. Your buy wants to see mast see Bonm-Boum. That's all.
Eur
look, that sought something far, Bonn-Bauin, does he? Well, then, hezed him from a miserable oxistence and
*Something up thero, perhaps thought the mother, she trembled.
As the door opened to let in the clown, Jacqnes Legrand cried out gloefully
He refused his tea, lig broth, his sirup and water, He would take nothing,
What would you like to have, Francois the
away
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Francuis, it's all right now. Look, here de-Boum-Bonn: The child's the fit aa with a flash of joy. He raised
othing must be done,' said the self on his mottiere arm and turned his
Yon, that was his father, and the other? Whose was the joyous face smiling on isi? Whos they said That is Bau-Bom, François gazed at him for an instant only then his big blue eyes dropped and sought the wail of the rooms as if in search for the painted batterily on the back of Boun Bour, as some lover who pursues his dream.
So, said the chitt; in hunt accents, as is not if despair has broken his heart. Boum-Boum.".
-Doctor 41 am afraid of that torpid head toward the visitors so that he might You, the father, the mother, you ought to see who the gentleman in an overcoat w know about your child. Try to find some beside his father. thing, no matter what, which may bring back to earth this little soul which is flying to another world. And then the Doctor lett.
Try to
find something! Yes, of
of course. If anybody knew what thoir Francois cared for it was the father and mother. How he need to delight in robbing the hedges of their blooms of a San- by day and bringing thom back to Paris the armful, perched on his father's soul ders. He loved to sas Punch and Judy an Champs Elyedes from inside the rope Jacques with the little rich children. Legrand bought leadun auldiers for Frauenic and picture ones on paper sheets of gaily culoro soldiers, cut them out, made that
bia ayos.
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AN IMPORTANT DOVELY is announced in the Paris Figaro, of a valuable romedy nervous debility, physical exhaustion, and premature decay. The discovery was made by a raissionary in Old Mexico; it an early grave. Wo learn that the Rev. Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansious. Bloomsbury Square, London, W.0., will sand the prescription, free of charge, an
lope receipt of a neif addressed stamped enve-
WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE BOSPITAL
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No. 66
·HARKOUE DEPARTMENT.
The following Rules regarding signalling at the Peak are published for general in formation:
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART, Ading Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th February, 1888. SONAL STATION, VICTORIA PEAK, KONGKONG
1823 Fect obore Six Level: 1. The Union Jack will be hoisted at the Mast Head when my vessel is being signalled.
2. The Commercial Code of Signals for All Nations will be used at the Station.
3. All Siguale made by romels in the Oling will be repeated.
. When Signalling to Men-of War in the Harbour or in the Offing, a White En sign will be hoisted at the Flagstaff, and at the Mast Head of the Man-of-War.
HE COULD LEAP THROUGH THE AIR, My object in writing is two-fold: to ex- pres my gratitude for a grast benefit, and to tell a short story which cannot fail to interest the feelings of many others. It is 5. When o Steamer, or the smoke of a that Steamer, is sighted, the Compass Bearing all about myself, but I have remarks out at the Yard Arm, and Distance of at the when a man tells the honest trath about himself he is all the wince likely to be of Mant Head, will be hoisted. If when the
Intimations.
SUMMER TIME TABLE.
THE KOWLOON FERRY.
STRAM-LAUNCH
MORNING STAE
Mails.
CANADIAN PACIFIO STEAMSHIP
COMPANY.
TAKING CARGO AND. PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES, AND EUROPE,
mat VIA
Ituns Day as FERRY BOAT between Poddar's Wharf and Trim-Tau-Tani at the following hoursThis Time Table will THE CANADIAN PACIFIC BAILWAY take effect from the 1sr JUNE, 1888.
6.45
AFD OTHER ÖÓNNEURING, RAILWAY LINES & STEAMERS, “
THE THE British Steamship ABYSSINIA,
3,651 Tone Register, Lee, Con mander, will be despatched for VAN- COUVER, B.O., and BAN FRANCISCO, vid KOBE and YOKOHAMA, on TUES: DAY, the 10th July, at 8 pm. To be followed by the 8.S. (
on the 2nd August, and the BATAVIA, on the 23rd August
[No. 7760-JULY 7, 1888.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Unclaimed Correspondence, July 6, 1888.
Late, Pap.
Anderson, Capt. All M Arline, Miss N. 1 Arbonin, T.1 Almeida, A. J. 8.1-
Brown, HP1 Banett, M.
Book, M1 Bourne, F. 9, Beauvais, à
2 Kloin, H.
8 Lactat
∙Lete, Far
Leigh, hira Lord, Mise Luzronós, N, Mayor, B. C. Murdock, Miss Li Missenler, W.
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Macphail, H.
1 Morgan, T.
Bowler, T. L...
18 Morcovito, M.
Carnal, ta 3. Crawford, Miss Lik
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MoQueen, R.
Middleton, Mrs. Nicholson, H,
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LEAVES KOWLOON.
LEAVES HONGKONG.
6.00
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·6.80 M
7,00
7.30
7.45
8:00
8,15
8,45
9.00
3.15- -9.46 *10.16, *10.45,
12.16 P.M.
9.30
*10.00 *10,30
12.00
12.30 PM.
1.0055
1.30
145
9.00 17
2.16
80
8:00
3.30
4.15
4.30
4.60
6.10
Carlyle, Crule, R. N. 1 Delckmann, P. I David, N. Dinan, Afra Dazzarott, Miss 1 Hamage, Geo, Encarnacio, J.G.1⠀⠀ Conusation will be made at Yokohorns Fonkes, 1. with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Fraser, E. H. Ports, and at Vancouver with Pacific Coast Frost, H. G. pointa, by the regular Steamers of the Forrester, W. PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY and Fey, W. E Ferreri, E. other Steamers
Parker, L. C.
Parker, H.
Prizes, Miss
Pape, W.
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8.45
7:00
7.15
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There will be Launch on Monday and Friday, on account of coaling.
The above Time Table will be strictly adhered to, except under unavoidable cir cumstances. In case of stress of weather, de notion will be given of any stoppages.
The Overland China Mall,
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR THE ROME TS PUBLISHED to suit the Departure of each ENGLISH and FRENCH Mail Steanion for Europe. Formerly the Over land issue was published fortnightly; as it was deemed of special importance that weekly budget of news should be prepared, it was decided to fasuo it weekly. Sub sombera at Home, and those at the Coast Ports and in the interior, who find the Overland edition a convenient form of news.
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First-clasa
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To Vancouver & Victoria, Mex $160.00
To San Francisco ******** 170.00
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Sabatini, A
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230.00
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300,00 305.00
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Hackatatulable: 1°
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Klein, H. Vancouver, B.D. Freight Agent, bat Froight will be received
until Kaneke & John I 013 board 4 pm on the 9th July
Krong T. Chaul All Parcele must be sent to our Office Kolth, W. and should be marked to address in full; Kraft, Wy and the same will he received by us tatti Kerr, no.
p.m. the day previous to sailing. For information as to Passage or Freight,
ADAMSON, BEUL & Co.,
Apents Hongkong, June 26, 1888.
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genco, special tables of Shipping, and other East, contains special Commercial intelli- information. The various Reports of Courts and Meetings, and all other news, are given in fall as they appear in the Daily issue
The attention of Advertisers is directed to a weekly howspaper, which is circulated among old China hands and others, both and it
at home and in the Far East, who do not
take the daily journals.
The cluwp, who was 'standing near the months than I ever bad before. It Steamor'n'Gut will be fired, and a Ball over | to us."
brd, gazed at the little sufferer.
dance on the bell, and protemled to laugh, stricken mother, and then said. aming trout viuld to medicine, and as. I alan The Ball and Ensign will be kept up ·
the teart were
again: The child is right. Bouza-Bona and he left.
It is
Tok
would
Quarter,
SUBSCRIPTION
812.00, postage, $1.00
8,00, 0.30,
* Single Copy,
China Mail Office, Hongkong.
0.26
tu his follow-creatures. To begin, vessel is made out, she is not & Mail Steam theu, you must know I had long been more or, the Vessel's Distinguishing Flag will be
substitated or less subject to attacks of bronchitis,
for the Compass Sigani, complaint that you are aware is very will be kept fving antil the Ship anchors
The Currland China Mail will be regularly cozzaen and troublesome in Great Britain The Distance Signal will bo kopt up fifteen
posted from the Chins Mail Office to sub in cortain reasons of the year. Some minutes after the Steamer is made ont.
of it 6. If the Steamer is a regular Mail scribers, on their addresses being forwarded I bad a very sorers tura of His look
gore, I think, was a searching one, but there was pity, was probably brought on by my catching the English, French, or American Ensign, sympathy in it. He nodded his locati, as we are all apt to do when we least with the Distance off at that time, will be Per Annum, looked at the anxious father, the grief-
it. expect Wer's passed by, and my shown at the Mast Head The Compass austinato. It Signal and Symbol will be hauled down, proved to be very
until but te
Look, look. Here su go! It's a Gonend. Don's you remember? Watch
I will nocer, never so B-B, bogan to have violent racking pains in my the vessel anchors. The Distance Signal limbs and back, I hecame greatly alarmed will be kept dying for half-an-hour, and out 20w. A big, big, General Don't you said the child, repeating the words over and resul
I could neither eat or sleep. If I had changed at each successive half hour to show know The very que we saw once. He was over again as if talking to the angels. been a fackle, sickly man, I should have the Distance off at those times. When the ou parade. Now I will tell you what I will Boum-Bous ay be far, far away in an- thought leas strangely of it, but us, on the vessel is between Green Island and the Distance. do. Just you
a good pall of this nice other world and the child fast fitting to contrary, I was hearty and robust, I fear North Point of Hongkong the take toa, and I will buy you a General with mest hin
when Then all of a sudden (it was all within od some new and terrible thing had got Signal will be hauled down. If the Mail it ja reni tue uniform and golden epaulets, Does Francois want his General?"
the half-hour) the door suddenly opened, hold of mo, which might take my strength Steamer is not in the Harbour
be exhibited the Weit Yard Arm, or s and--ns betoru in his parti-colored ineler, of no avail against it. I my, that was the too dark to distinguish flags, a red light will
I thought. his yellow sig and topknot on his head, Presently I could not even lie down for sreca light at the East Yard Arta until she the big gold butterfly on his back, his the pain all over my body. I saked my
7 River Steamers will not be signalled. like the elit in a money juu, and his face and he frankly said. "I am sorry to be powdered, there stood Benu-Boum Bam-Boas of the circus, the popular Bean Boam, Benois' as Boum-Bom
On the little white bed, his face radiant
No,' replied the child, in that short, seant, metallic voice which fover produces. All right. We won't say a Genem! any
anchors
more, but a true-for-trac pistol. That's mouth stretched wide wide from ear to eat doctor what he thought of lay cove to Theproach of other Steamers from Macao
what we watt, and marbles, à cross-bow.'
No,' was the reply, quick and almost cruel.
No matter what it was-balloons, jump ing-jacks the father and mother offered, the aeswer was always the same, No-no
do
ant
with delight, laughing, crying, happy, say
the ekild clapped his thin little hands and shouted brace. His 7-year joyousness
You and
What, my poor little man, want 1 asked the mother. There nrust bo something, and toll, it to me, your mother, and sho bent over the pillow and all this in hisvar, cammingly, like whispered a accrot Then the child sat up for a mo ment, stretched out a single limp hood, as if to grasp some invisible object, and said in a tone of you outh implorar, and author- itative, I want---Boum Donai.
Bon Borm!*
II
The poor mother casi a wild look at her husband. What was it the child had said Was be out of his miad again Had that. fearful delirium returned
Bom-B1
caut, and
She did not know what ho now she was frightened at the strange word. With an obstinacy which could not be over- come he kept.cn repeating:
Boum-Boom! Yos. Bousa-Boom! I will have Boum-Boum!
The mother seized the hand of Jacques with a nervous prip
What can he mean, Jacques? Oh, he is lost--lost!
On the father's face there was visible the aintest relaxation of the muscles. It was like. a. Beating smile of hope when a man cordeaned to death imagines there is the possibility of a reprieve.
Boum Hum 12
tell you that you are getting worse! Thin of Canton will be made known by showing se frightened way friends, as well as myself, the National, or House Flag and Symbol that they said Themes, you must go to the at Yard Arm. Hospital; it may be your only chance for
& If a Flag showing that an Officer of bigh rank is on board an incoming vessel, a
Mails.
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vaual Porta of Call, 03 Die Gartenlaube CANAL and SATURDAY, 14th.
be received on board until
But I didn't want to go to the hospital. similar Fine will be shown above the Bay BLACK SEA PORTS, ALEXANDRIA A Fill July, at Noon..
Bowen he thinks he can posily or the Fing alono will be hoisted at the
had returned just like breworks. Bourget along without doing it! I am a labour- Mast Pous; that's Bours-Bo Hurrah Boom Boun! How-dyr-do, Bonn-Boum og au, with a large family depending on
be cried.
TV.
When the Doctor returned that day ho found a clown seated by Francois' but fale facac clown. The child was inughing
Bead
MARSEILLES, AND PONTS .... OF BRAZIL, AND LA PLATA;
BORDEAUX, HAVRE, DUNKIRK AND ANTWERP.
9. The approach of Men-of-War and Sail- me for support, and I might almost as well ing Vessels will be notified by their proper
and National Qulours, or House LONDON, as to be laid on my back in Symbols
Flags, at the Quarter of the Yard, or at tho Yard Arm
a lapied wouble to lift a hand for mouths,
hospital or find only knows how loug. Bight at this I had thought flash zeroes my this point a neat sunshine induudy I had heard and read a good deal
ALSO
Note The Distances of vessels will beN THURSDAY, the 19th of July, estimated from the Peak, and will be made 1888, at Noory the Company's 8.5.
The clown held a cup in his land, etericg day; other Scivol's Curative Kyrup, and ed to the letters in the table of Flags.
a lump of sugar, and he was saying:
in a
You know, little Frangis, you must take
a sup of this, for if you don't Bon-Bou will pleat right out and never come back!
And the child draak.
It was awful nice, wasn't it!
Allout
ramedy. On this. I gave up
I resolved, before consenting to be taken I would try that well-known to the hospital,
the doctor's taking the Syrup. medicine and began Mark the wonderful result! I had taken Hours
nies. Thank you, Bou-kuni.' but three doses within twenty-four
of
coughing,
ใน
up the phlegm and mucus off my
Very
Doctor,' said the clown to the physician, when I was seized with a fit
julies I make for him do highest by the mouthful. The
I trust; but it sooma to me and threw that the ugly faces
kitus
as muck as your prescription.
todsand end broken it up. Father and mother were crying, but this with the S
the ranking pain, which I time it was for joy.
belierep, the
cane from the bitter and
Poison
From that time antil François was tun humours in my blood and joints, soon left ning around, there drove up every day a curinge to the house in the Rue des Ab.uontirely, and I felt like going to sleep, and I did sleep sound am quist. Then I bosses. A mati came out wrapped in an felt hungry, with a natural appetite, and at overcoat, with a high-standing collar, and under al that was the down, with his I ate I got strong and well
I felt I could leap through the air with delight! painted face.
What du I
ove you, sir, Jacques Le-
In a week I was able to go to my work grand asked of the clown when François wert out for the first time, for I certainly in. It deosn't seem possible, yet it is true, and the neighbours know it. There And, on Easter he had taken owe you something." Francois to the circus. In his ear there The clown held out his hands of Hercules are plenty of witnesses to prove it
I rang the hearty laugh of the boy, the to the parents. We will shake haude, that therefore, when I say I preach the good ream of amusement when the clown, that is all. Then the clown gave François a new of the great power of Seigal's Syrup to cure pain and diseases for and wide, beamciful clown, all beapangled, with a huge good kiss, and said, with a laugh:
"Well, there is one thing you might do nebody will vonder at rou.
still
remembers
my cards:
butterly painted on his back of motley, had Grant the permission to have printed on thrown Komersault, then tripped up the ringmaster, then had his bond in the saw dust, his feet in the air, or next was kick- ing soft felt hats up to the very chandelier und catching them on his head again, where they formed a pyramid. How, after every fanny wally, hke a refrain that made his funny face light up, that clown had shouted Boum-Boum the orchesteu company- ing him with a grand orasi
Boum-Boury and every time the Bone-Boum came in the whole cirous would roar with applause, and then would follow the clear, pearly-rippling laughter of
Boam-Buan
his own little Francois. Could it have been that Boun-Eʊum ? Was it the clown Francois wanted to har,
ROUBL-DOUM, Aerobatic Doctor, and Fleysiciaty ën Ordinary to Little Français.
POPULAR SCIENCE,
Dr. Gatting has patented a new gun metal composed of steel and aluminium and said ka. by › of remarkable strength,
Eurly rising is che of the characteristics of
to see again? How could he go to the air persons who live long lives. It is more im-
cus, and the poor child stretched there, portant than total abstinence.-Medical
Berord.
Inquiries issued to twenty-eight madical
dying in his bed bright the colleges elicit the common response that
That night Jacques
with
flash of child & jointed clown, apangles. He had paid a big price for it in "cost if not all, infectious diseases ard
a toy shop. It cost about as such as hissed by the growth of microscopic organ-†
isum,
weges in the machine shop would
to cowe
The boy looked for a moment at the plas thing, as it lay glittering on the white sheets,
then
is not necessary to remove it whet
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