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THEY SOON GROW OLD. Thoy soon grow old who grope for gold In marts where all is bought and sold; Who live for self, and on some shoй, In darkened vanits hard up their pull, Cankered, and crusted o'er with mold; For them their youth itaulf is old. -0. F. Cranch.
The man who will unt gird his loina For that which truth or love enjuina, Burzuso ho knows his work æben wrong Will fall below his hope and thought Is no true workman. Let hita do The thing his conscience points him to, Aud ho shall find the seed he cast Spring up when many days are post. -- . የሆንነት.
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and then diappear for ever. More pormon the fame boing thus administered in what maps furnish fresh ilustrations of this char- out by far arethe portals which aro created to the physicians call' divided dunes." Or if actoriatio, whatever they may furnish fo the the great scholars, famous ofhoere, virtuon the tablet as a whole holds together, it may line of ancient geography. They are drawn witows and maidens who may be so hon form the seat at a way-side restaurant, a with the purpose of exhibiting both the oured as to have the right to them confer doorstep, or uven the pavement to ancient and the modern names at the same now the barrier betweon Coron and Shing- red by imperial favour. When these struc- bridge. In any cass the inscription has time, the former in black ink and the king! turos are made of well-cut stone, are of the been out so shallow that it is almost or quite laster in red. As the scato of the maps is It is, wo repeat, a singularly auggestive most advantageous size and well situated, illegible. The travellor may penetrate half not a large one, one result of this plan is to creamétance, that a peoplo so exceptionally they are the finest representation of Chiness of the provincesin China, may examine every crowd out altogether a great many anciant conservativeofthe past as the Chinese, should architecture to be met with in the Empire. venerable tablet which he sees, and yet not names which ought to be noted, and as have to few enduring monuments or pablic- A wealthy citizen of Puria, London or Now at one which dates ne far back ne the Chinese abaracters take up considerable works. All that can be said to come under York, who wished to confor upon these aitica Mongol dynasty (500 years ago), except in room, anothar incidental result is to lead to this head are the Great Wall, the Grand the walls of cities, and river embank- a gift which should convey an accurate and somo Forest of Tablets in a largo city, the printing of the black characters immo- Üant attractive view of what the Chinese can under special caro.
diately over the red, to the obliteration of ments. The Great Wall is doubtless a won- achieve in ornamentation, could not do bat-- We began by remarking that ne nation the latter. Not only so, but extensivo derfal monument of baman energy, and it for than to order one of these Pei-fangs, and has a greater regard for antiquity than the notes and explanations instead of being put has been remarked that it is the ouly artified have it set up in a public park, where it Chinese, but contrast this wretched poverty at edges of the maps, where there is always vial structure which would arrest attention would be admired for many generatines, of memorials of the past, with the ver about oue-third of the space vacant, are in a hasty survey of the surface of the globe The Chinese Invigh grant suma on the flowing wealth of the cities of the ancient printed wherever it suited the fancy or But the Great Wall has been subjent to con- atructures, which as to be seen in empire, now extinct, at the other end of convenience of the blook-catter, entirely stant renewals, so that it is impossible to immense numbers just in proportion to Asistio continent, Babylon, Nineveh and covering up hundreds of square miles of determine the real, age
any particular the proximity of a supply of stanes. Baalbek. Instead of lofty columns of por territory, and in several canes literally part, and throughout a large portion of its nub se bo had, thephyry, the ruins of an ancient Chinese city stamping out of existence auch important course it is reduced to a mere heap of rab. portals are made of wood, se in Poking, consist of an unlimited supply of bits of cities as Si Ngan Fu, and Peking, with all blo. The same questions of identity of and vory much less than quo generation is tiles and brickbate. The only way to iden- the country adjoining. Those infelicities, structure which occur in regard to the required to reduce them to a condition of tify the site of such or ancient city, as for however, aro trißing compared with another, Great Wall, see constantly anggested by the Like all other Chinese erections, example the Khanbalik of Kubisi Khan which defeats the very object for which may hundred city walls all over the empire. they give way at the bottom, the tall near Peking, is to trace the mounds of map is made, to wit, to exhibit the relative Few of them can be proved to be of any posts bogin to lean in different direc earth, which give the mere outline of what situation of places on the earth's surface. great age, all of them are subject to constant tions, the lucquor seator of as if they had
was once one of the world's grant capitala. For example, under the map of the Con-renewal of the external facings, and many There is no nation existing on the planet, the leprosy in an exaggerated form, and Khanbalik wae A comparatively modaru tending Kingdoms, it is impossible to deter- of them have been moved bodily from on which has a greater regard for antiquity, large sections of the complicated ornamental city. What was the situation of the ancient miuo either how many kingdoms are ro- place to anutlar ut irregalar intervals. and with more resson, than the Chinese. woodwork at the top are soon to be on the capitals of the Yin, the Tang and the Sung presonted, or what were their boundaries. The Grand Canal is a work which implies na suppose, for example, that we a high degree of civilisation in the Mongol Bat there is no country in which it is pos-point of falling. The same thing occurs in dynasties as compared with the cities now
NAVIGATION Company's Steam-ship. sible to find so few material relics of the the case of the stone portale, but on a more to be found in the noighbourhood, the wish to ascertain the situation of the state dynasty which ruled when it was duz, at
BENGAL, Captain W. BARAT, with Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatched sacercain, for called Yen, the Kingdom of Swallows,'a tune when no canale of importance We have already opressive scale. Although built of ma traveller finds it very hard distant past, as in China. spoken of the Chinese hunger for fame, us Serials which ought to endure for canturion, in China chere is most literally no contine and of ic capital, the Khanbalik of Kublai,existed in Europe. But it has long since
To other European points at proportionate from this for LONDON, rid BOMBAY and SUEZ CANAL, un WEDNESDAY, well as of the disregard of foundations and although pus up at gross expouse, it is ing city. That the Chinese wish to koop in the modem Poking. Not far from the been allowed to go to rain, a rain husstand rates. Spesial reduced ratus granted to 30 Jalusky, at Nuron. We have now to notice the relation which are to find specimens which are thirty years rebrands the situation of ancient ancient You, was the ancient Yu Chou, the by the groat Taiping rabolion, and by Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service these two characteristics bear to one an old and yet in good repair. The foundations ¦ płaces, is evident from the fact that in the modern Tungchow, which is about twelve the disastors caused by the alteration in and the Imperial Chinese Caatums, to be jpm. on the day beforo siling.",
Cargo will be received on board until other, and their connection with the in-
the course of the Yellow River more than obtained on application. Now by a aiak, the strong iron clamos give way, the biatore parts of the eropire, it is common ailes us of the capital.
It is still frequently
Parcels and Specie (Gold) at
the Office stinct of conservatiem. The Chinoso are heavy transverse blocks of stone are wrench. to find inscriptions over city gatus, certify-minute inspection of some forty-five of thirty years ago.
Passengers by this Line have the option until 4 p.m. on the day before sailing, very dosirous of transmitting to those who ad from their mortises, and crack. Every ing the this Is sonte instabs this tradi- them neither of the cities Yon and Yu to ships of the largest burden, and as lined Pacific and connecting Lines, Central Pacitanshipped at Colombe; Tea and Genoral ach and these maps, we discover that in eighteen of described as capable of accommodating of proceeding overland by the Southern Silk and Valuables for Europe will be ite such a chou. To Contemporaries, a knowledge of whatever socket, and howevor interested the traveller tion is kept alive simply be the pasting of a mark & l. In eight of the remain ease, but the traveller who views the Railwave, couse after, as well as of making known to projection appears to ha starting from tends to make themselves, their families, or may bo to ascertain thongs of the work, or to } strip --( red paper aver the gate of emall maps Yon is noted, but not Yu, in others granite throughout a great pars of ita fic, Northern Pacific or Canadian Pacific Cargo for London will be conveyed vid their dynasty great or notable. This is an audy the curious carving which it displays, market town, with characters conveying the Yu but not Yen, and in ouly nine are botatain, is disappointed to find that tho ambarking at San Francisco for China or impulse which they share with the rest of his first and instinctive auxicty 18 to gel out announcement, although it is impossible phoneena only, one would suppose these narrow stream which passer under that Japan (or vice versa) within ous year will be
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
INABILITY OT CONSERVE TANUIBLE
MEMORIAL TO THE TAST.
rear.
to be found. to
the human rage. The toeans by which they from under it, before it falla. It is impossi seek to accomplish this end, are the eren ble to refrain from "porulating as to the tion of memorial temples, memorial portale length of time ere the crazy framework will (Pai-fang), stone or wooden tablets, and come down, and whether the law of chances in the Ming dynasty the use of stone figures will admit of its fail without killing any one. of men and animais lining the avenues to If comparative brevity of existence is true of Of the swift runs which over such massiva structures as the portalu, it is cemeteries. takea every form of building constracted much are the one regarde stone tableta on a Chicago plan, and of the ruin of the which constitute the ordinary vehicle for the public roads we have already spoken, conveyance of famo to posterity. If erecsed Strictly speaking, there uo old towples on a large scale, they stand on the back of in China, becauso no Chinese temple can
a gigantic tortoise, amblem of longevity, withstand the cloments more than a few and appaat at first adapted to execute the now and revised edition, if it does not perpetuato fame for an hundred
gubora. trees, have befinite Toplo Bars, if not for ten thousand antiquitie of life, and it But the same vicious mode of construction, that is to be profuuged, they must be or ratuur destruction, eles the tablet, she acions portal and the temple. The foundation perpetually grafted, or elas new must be raised from the read. The voorumis iondequate, and sooner or later they sli lacquered tablets, which are an highly or go down The tortoise is decapitated by Haantal when new, and so diemal when the attrition of ages, and buried up to the gid, and which play important & partatump of his neck in the soil, while therall away, and light is to bruale forth in ite in gratifying the Chinese desire for face, precious fame-buaring tablut lies prove on and fame, bare but lifted duration, the earth, or shattered into many pieces.
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Jadging then from those and a single person who can give the exsot
ancient cities to have been like a modern name, is not a canal and is not grand. location of the ancient city.
The preservations of that historical know. revolving lighthouse, visible only at fa- Should ho pursue his travels for three ledge of the past, for which the Chinese tervals, and at intervals of great irre hundred miles further to the city of Lin- have so great a respect, while it cannot be gularity. But this is not all. Sometimes ch'ing-chou in Shantung, he would find the entrusted to temples, portals, or tablete for Yers in called Yen Koo (the State of Yes), tine Grand Canal' a mere mud ditch, the reasons which we have already given, and sometimes it appears to be merely the rad or two in width, with barely suficient might be expected in the form of carefully city. In the map representing the 'Sovan water to dont a mucosow River embank. prepared maps showing the old, the inter-Kingdoms, Yea has gone cast about one ments of considerable antiquity exist in mediate, and the now designations of places geographical degroo, and is perched on the China in great numbers, and of great length which for two or three millenniunia have Great Wall, while some centuries later it The utter neglect in which they are ordi- beua historic. Works of this sort certainly went as much to the north-west, though still matily leit, is alternated in the rainy season do exist. Dee of them rejoices in the adhering to the Great Wall, and is called with maat frantic efforts to keep them in title of Li Tai Yi Ti Yen Ko Rastem Yen,' fully justifying by its rapid repair. The usefulness of these works is a
territory under successive
But if You was peripatetic, Yu Chou wat opinion, but there can be little dissent from Francisco. with their changes. This appans
not wishes to revive the mighty past, ale
and river embankments, should constitute the Great Will, the Grand Oual, city walls exactly what a wanted by the sindant who sita down to an examination of the sixty or
the only crystallised and accumulated seventy maps, with a confidunes that now
labours of the Chinees people, through all at last the darkness of the bygone ages is to
the ages of their resilence in China.'- N-0. Daily News. place. Wo have spoken elsewhere of the Chinese disregard of recuncy, and these
QUOTATIONS.
E. L.. WOODIN,
Superintendent.
score fears at most, when it gives way to a commission with which they are sharged, to } formidaɔ10. e Map of the Imperini fight its name of the Swallow Capital.' matter as to which there is diffurer cs of addressoil to the Collector of Customs at SAD P. & 0. S. N. Co.'s Office,
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bo to
circuit of the modern Peking, appearing it it emerges, it contrives to make a a complete now on the cast, then south, anuth-wast, north-west, and north, its movement boar ing some resemblance to the revolution of the enustellation Ursa Major about the Polar Star, though in a roverse direction. But it manst have bean sua time before
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$ 1,000,000 20,000S
China & Manila Steamship Co., L.d. S Reflueries.
Chins Sugar Refining Co., Id.
Luzon Sugar Relining Co., Ld.....
Wharves,
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf &
Godown Co., Limited
Tramways.
H'kong High-Level TramwaysCo, Ld. S
Mining Co., Ld.
Société Francaise des Charbonnages
du Toukin
Planting,
East Borneo Planting Co., Ld. Songei Kayah Planting Co., Ld....
Hotels.
!$ 400,000 40,000!$
150,000 3,000 8 250,000 6,000 $
Miscellaneous.
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4 per cent, for dra. Aug. 24, 888195, buyera $195
194 per share=18 per
cent per annum paid Des. 22, 88260 % prem.,
for Fiustam. vnding
30/11/88.
=
$74
us
Duni.
First year
18, sellers
(110) prem.,
8.10
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First year
238, nom.
$35
330
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30 7.10 10,843.7.7 £
8,708.01
411,47
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ing 30/5/88Aug. 31, 99 $170, nom,
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First year
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account 1858
6 per cent.-$3 per sb.j
Nov. 6, 88j97}" prem.,
for xpaths eatingOct. 5, 38 par, buyers
81 Angust.
(10 per cent, for year;
1,900,15.8 ending 01/12/87, per Apr. 10, 38/$120, nɔm.
cent. boxas far do. 1.
Lipero Spor Feb. 11, 86 $102, cellors
420,60 year ending 31/12/87 &
fut div. 7p.c. to 30/6/68) Aug. 1, 88}
$6 p.sh. Jer year end-Mur. 10, 56285, 10m.
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813, sellere
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DETAINED. Williams, G. F., Staffordshire, 1 parcel.
For Morohant Ships.
Barwin
Dectacouga
John M. Blakie 1
-
Orient, E.8.
Pakami, Princebirg
I reg
Books, etc. withoat Covers. Australasian.
Bankom Magazine.
Belaral Courier.
Catalogue of Standard Works,
Ceylon Advertiser. Cornbill Magazine.
Christian.
Caistian Leader,
C. Kagenhardts' Calender, Electrical Review, Formagh Times. Greenock Telegraph. German Books, &c.
10% prem.
Closing Quotations. Katholiek,
Legost.
Hongkong Shanghai) Chinese Imperial Govt. Silver Loan 1884 Banking Corporation $1,994,700,14 'kong Currency $500 H'kong Currency. 8% par annum 30 Juno sach year until 1890% pret, Liverpool Mercury, Chinese Imperial Govt, Säver Loan 1884 C
Do
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Lirerpeel Workly Post.
nom. Marine Engineer.
Morgenbladet. New York Horalit. Nerddentenher Lloyd. Poople's Journal Quath.
15 Oot.
18925% praL..
пом,
31st March and 30th Sept.
eaok year until 31-Mob. 14% premessian Fooke, o,
1017
$1,591,700.14 H'bong Corretoy. 8500 H'kong Currency. 8, Enping Tie. 700,000, Equivalent of
Shanghai Tle, 787,200. "Allotted at
Chine Imperial Govt. 7-pet Cat.
Jexchange of Ts. 12 por $100.
Silver Loan 1886 E
Do.
'kong currency, Drawn Honda Shanghai Taels 250. and laterent payable at ourrect rate
of the day for demand bills on Shanghai."
•
Equalisation of Dividend Fund,
† Depreolation and Insurance Fund.
STOKES & YOUNG, Share Brokers
Reforma dola,
Rue Militaire.
Samples of Tweed. Sa...sy Chronicle,
Weekly Budgets
For further informaation as to Passago Company, No, bus, Queen's Road Central and Freight, a ply to the Agency of the
100
Ɑ. D. HARMAN,
Agent, Hongkong, January 17, 1889.
CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
TAKING CARGO, AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES, AND EUROPE, VIA
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
ANY OTHER CONNECTING
RAILWAY LINES & STEAMERS,
THE British Steamship BATAVIA,
4,838 Tons Register, AULD, Com mander, will be dospatched for VANCOU VEL, B.Q., vid KOBE ad YOKOHAMA, on THURSDAY, the 7th February, at 13 p.m.
To
followed by the 8.S. PARTHIA, on the 7th March, and S.S. ABYSSINIA,
on the 4th April.
Connection will be made at Yokohama with Steamers from Shangbai sad Japan
Porw, and at Vancouver with San Fran-
Hongkong, January 17, 1889.
NOTICE
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. PAQUEBOTS POSTE FRANCAIS
STEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, MEDITERRANEAN AND
BLACK SEA PORTS, ALEXANDRIA, MARSEILLES, AND PORTS OF BRAZIL, AND LA PLATA ;
A730
LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX, DUNKIRK AND ANTWERP.
WEDNESDAY, the 6th February, 1983; at Acon, the Company's Steamship OXUS, Commandant GotRAND, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and CARGO, will feave this Port for the
above places,
London as well as for Marsailles, and no- Gargo and Spools will be registered för cepted in transit through Marseilles for the
cisce and Pacife Cusst Points, by the pricipal places of Europe. regular Steamers of the PACIFIC COAST Noon STEAMSHIP ·COMPANY and other Steamers,
Shipping Ordera will be granted til
Cargo will be received on board until
Through Passage Tickets granted to Eng., Specie and Parools until p.m. on land, France, and Germany by all trans Atlantic lines of Steamers.
First-class Faras granted as follows:-
To Vancouver & Victoria, Mex. 8160.00 To San Francisco
178.00
To all common points in Can-
230.00
sda and the United States
To Liverpool
300,00
To London
*** * im
305.00 proportion- ato rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service, sad the Imperial Chinese and Japanese Customs, to be obtained on application.
To other European paints
Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo destined to points in the United States, should be sent to the Company's Offices, addressed to Mr. D. E. BROWN, District Freight Agent, Vancouver, B.C.
Fraight will be roacived on board until 4 p.m. on the 6th February.
All Parcels must be sent to our Offee and should be marked to address in full; aud the same will be received by us until 5 p.m. the day previous to sailing.
For information as to Pasage or Freight, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL" & Co.; Agents.
Hongkong, January 10, 1889.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
NOTICE.
58
STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, BRINDISI, GENOA, ANTWERP, BREMEN & HAMBURG, PORTS IN THE LEVANT, BLACK SEA & BALTIC PORTS; À1990,
LONDON, NEW YORK, BOSTON; · BALTIMORE, NEW ORLEANS,
PORTS,
the 5th February, 1889. (Parcels are not.
to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.)
Contents and value of Packigos are rau ` quired.
For further particulars, apply at the Company's Offico.
G. DE CHAMPHAUX,
Agent. Hongkong, January 25, 1839.
Intimations.
THE CHINESE MAIL.
150
THIS paper is now issued every day.
The subscription is fixed at four Dollars per annum delivered in Hong- kong, or Ten Dollars Forty Cents in- cluding postage to Coast parts..
It is the first Ohiness Newspaper, ever issued under purely native direction. The chief support of the paper is of course darived from thə n-native "community, amongst whom also are to be found. the guarantors and securitier necessary to place it on a business and legal footing,
The projectors, basing their estimates upon the most reliable information from the various Porta in Chics and Japanj-~~- from Australia, Californix, Singapore, Fos nang, Baigon, and other places frequented by the Chinese,consider themselven justified in guaranteeing a larga And ever-increasing circulation. The advantages offered to ad vertisers are therefore unusually growty want the foreign community generally will find it to their interest to avail themselves of them.
The field open to a paper of this descrip- on-conducted by native efforts, but progressive and eati-obstructive in one is almost limillaan." It on the one hand commands. Chinese Belist mód" interést, while on the other it deserves" overy sid that can be given to it by foreigner, Like English journals it contams Editorial,
GALVESTON & SOUTH AMERICAN with Local Shipping, and Commercial
News and Advertisements.
Subscription orders for the above may be sent to
GEO. MUEBAY BAIN,
China Mail CH
BAOK VOLUMES.
THE COMPANY'S STEAMERS WILL CALL
AT SOUTHAMPTON to LAND PASSENGERS And Integiak.
N.B.—Cargo con de taken on through Blis of Lading for the principal places in RUSSIA.
N SUNDAY, the 17th day of February, 1889, at 10 5.m., the Company's S BRAUNSCHWEIG, Capt. H. BoDEEER, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and CARGO, will leave this port as above, calling at GINO
Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, Carge will be received on board prti p.m.; Specie and Parcels until 1 p.m. on the 16th February, 1889, (Parosis" are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office Contenta and Value of Packages are required.
OF THE
"OHINA REVIEW
may be had by applying at THIS OFFICE.
SAILOR'S HOME,
NY Cut-off Coraiso, Books, or Papers will be thankfully monivedi
at the Sailor's Home, West Point,
Hongkong, July 30, 1887
WASHING BOOKS....
(in English and Chinese,) [VASHERMAN'S BOOKS, for the non
The Steamer has splendid Accommodation Wolf Ladies and Gentlemen, dan how
and carries a Doctor and Stewardess. -
For further Particulars, apply to
MELCHERS & Co.
denta Bongkang, January 01, 1889,
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be had at this Office, -Prics, 81 ch.
Chiara Mail Offs
Painted and published by Gao.. MURRAT Bam, at the China Kast Ofoe, No. 2, Wyndham dress, Hongkong,