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THERE FORTERATE WOMEN, DI We will introduce you to the oldest one first. Here is Moldede Rascall, and the res WSU PORU (UK) Suvateat near the city of New York, in America: Se It is a matter of powledge to many was born in London in 1787, and is therefore men and women born in New England that 105 years of She remembers many incidentă the summers are innger-as measured by childhood, and still has traces of farmer the healed form and the winters, warmer beauty Her eyes are bright, and become than they were a half-century ago; and exitiated vben. the talks, Bke rotalas hat mental facnitise completely. She descends two that this result has been remobed by slowly fights of stairs to ovary mual, and rotaras with but surely operating causes, and thin slow
ont semistaneo. Up to three years ago she was bat sur changs in the climits of the regular attendant, at the Greanwoud Baptist country is one of momentous interest not Chinth. Har sight is excellent, and she reads only to the naturalist, but to the average the newspapers arery day, and takes great in citisen de sall, for should it continue veterest in the news from England. She has akanges would follow in the industribe and never had any severe lineas in her life, and her products of the country, as well as in it appofite and digestion are almost as good as aygienic conditions. It would not be an they were flty years ege.
The second woman days: "Ever since, I was unprocedented experience if the northern helf of the American continent was peeing a child I bave suffered from laces Thirtson through a climatic change of so positive years ago a tired, languid, and heavy feeling sart to become memorable in the history came over me. The whites of my syva Eccaro of the globe. For while ecientific opserrage with yellow, my skin was sallow, and my
month tasted badly, especially in the morning, Far East generally. Recently a new de-18-Batterfield & wire, Shipping Ofties,
36 Do do: Sugar Offical tion and records are of too recent period bands and foot were cold and clammy. My of China, Japan, Mongolia, Tibot, and the 66 Blackhead & Co., Fraya Centrál,
do; Refinery Quarry Bay. to supply us with adequate data for intelli- and I was often sot, vomiting a sour, frothy partitre has been taken, and the Review now
do. Peat, Rezidongo. gent judgment as toll, nevertheless liters fail. I had a pain in the chest and sidea, gives papers on Trads, Commerco, and 364,- Sure is illed with éridoncs bearing directly heartburn, sad fatalaney For fear years 1 Descriptive notes of Travel by well-known 39 Do upon to point, and so implicit in its suffered like this, and I shall be glad to recor-writers. It was thought that by extending
he scope of the Reviews in this direction, 42.-Canadian Pacifo Railway Co. natase and so emphatio in its iteration as mad the medicine that Saally sured me." to be uhloipeachable. As most Americans (Signed) (Mrs) FRANCES ELLE 5TH, 49, the Magazine would be made more generally 3-Cantlie, Dr J., Fonk Hospital,
15.Central Police Station. Usofal are too busy to know much of the past, it Weadhorse Street, Leeds, January 25th, 1898.
The third woman says: "I bave been delicate
The Review department receives special 22, China Mail Office. may be interesting to recall a few of the
East Point. passages in ancient "writings which might all my life. For the past six years 1 havú al- be quoted in enforcement of our enggos-ways felt tired, languid, and weak. I had a poor attention, and endeavours aro made to 71.-China Sugar Refinery, Town Other.
alse Crory morsel 1 ate. I me dizzy, and often Literature on Chine to, and to give 87.-Compradora, Douglas Laprak & Co., eppeito, a bad taste in the month, and rain present a caufal and concise record of 172-Do
Authors and The land of Palestine is certainly not fit is if i was going to fall. I always felt sick, oritiques embodying sketches of the boat to-day a wintry suustry, Bat thirty, or and would retch and strain, but could bring recont works on such topics. more centuries ago an ancient post wrote: nothing up. There was a dull pate at the right Publishers are requested to forward works Hast thou entered into the treasures of aide and a dreadful pain betreen the shoulders, to Editor, China Feriew, care of, China the snow 2 Os hast thon soon the treasures I never knew what it was to bo well. After Kail Office.! of the hail? Out of whoes wemb came baing on my foot for a time my legs would swell frost of very much. No doctor was able to help sat, nor the ice?... and the hoary heaven, who hath gendered it. The any nodicine; that is, up to the time I took the (Signed) waters are bidden as with a solid rock, ope which gave me my health back. I never
felt so well in my life as I do now." and the face of the deep fa frezen (MS) SABAU SHARMAN, Gintung near Market Such, evidently, was the degree and offest biaping, February 19th, 182. of the cold in the land of the Midianites
Why do we put those three womer in a group thirty centuries ago. And David, writing-the ote vereble womad b America and the aerera! centuries later, gives the following two others here in England? Thy are perfect description of interse winter weather: He strangers to one another and always will be or any of the Modern Languages are re-74.-Fletchor & Joy Queen's Road
ceived. Tho papers are contributed by gireth mow like wool. He moattereth the do it to show how long and happily a woman
East Point. hot frost like sahod. He assteth forth his may live it he only happens in escape the members of the various Consular, the Im 47-Gas Company, Ed., Went Peint ice like morsels. Who can stand before malady, that everywhere threatens her.x and perial Customs, and Hongkong Services, 43-Do his gold ? Such is the secount of these to show that those who have been burdened and alan by the Missionary bodies amongst 31,-Gibb, Livingston & Co. climate in the land of Palestine twenty and cursed with it may be cured and once more when a high degree of Chinese scholarship 44.-Government Houss. eight and thirty conturies ago. But, in-
Mrs Smith concludes her letter in these words: asiduousty cultivated. Amongst the 80-Government Civil Hospital.
Bretachneidnt, and Hirth, Professor stood of snow, heil, ies with the solidity of after taling three bottles of Mothen Saigel's regalar contributors are Drs. Chalmer's rock, and frozen sea, the inhabitants of Cardive Syrup all pain and sickness left me, 114 country to-day live in a bot, sultry know me more of the alment that had Legge, and Messrs Balfour, Walters, Stent, olimate; in which snow and ice are never troubled as so long, indigestion and dyepopeis. Phillips, Macfutyre, Groot, Jamieson, neer. The blimate of Italy, as it was of new others who have been benefied by the Faber, Kopach, Parker, Playfair, Giles, Liton, and Taylor, all well-known names, old time, and the great change which has Syrup. All sufferers should use it."
Mire She adds that after she had doctored indicative of sound scholarship and thorough Dome to it, are not beyond the student's
Estery of their subject. knowledge. Virgil was both a pest and sand doctored and taken everything, almost with- skilled agriculturist, and in his Georgios out getting any good from it, Bir Webster, a he often giver directions for the security grocer of Guton, sald, "Why don't you wa of young cattle against the dangerous Mother Seigel's Curative Sprap?" She seledan, postage included-payable in ad effects of ice and snow and periods of ons waggestion, and boulth wasn't long in onsoring."I cannot speak too highly of Seigel's intensely cold weather.
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Orders for binding volumes will be Address. Mata Hie directions were for the neighboorhood of Mautua and up, she anys: We shoull agree with her in promptly attended mi that opinion, for a remedy that will in a forker, Ching Mat Office. weeks put an end to a case of chronic indiger- tion and dyspeptin is certainly worth a good word or two.
Naples, and when speaking of Calabris, the most southern and hottest part of Italy, he alinded to the freezing of the large rivers and streams as a thing to be annually ex- pected. Nor does he stand alone in his witness su to fuis matter, for Pliny, Juvenal, and other suthors of their time speak of co suit known provalent in all parts of Italy, while Elian, if we remember correctly devotas a whole chapter to the giving of specific directions of how to filsk for ale when the rivers are covered with ice, These descriptions of Italian climate apply an it was eighteen centuries ago.
Ovid. can be quoted in this connection also. We ers writing from memory and; with less fulness than we might could we turo to the author's books, but should any classicist bis interested to follow us be will find that our recollection is essentially our
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This post was banished from Italy to Tomas by the Emperor. This place is Lear the coast of the Busine Sea, and aimationl
includes the regions round about! Constantinople. He spent seven years in eile in, thia region, and be teila to that he saw the Euxine or Black Sea covered with ice; that this ice was not only strong enough to support bat oren and heavy sleds loaded with pre- daste. He states, moreover, that the wine of the country was often fraten, sad that the snow incny places in the forests WAS never fully melted during the entito suro- mer. It is a well-established fact that in the year 401 the Euxine Sec was frozen ovor! for twenty days together. This is certainly a most extraordinary picture to one who has lived in this century in Constantinople or
l knowledge of its olimate. The Alps Abeantnes are the highest of European and mountains. History has no stranger tale to tell than the march of Hannibal's army over It was one of the them lofty rangÖS,
wonders of antiquity. Lavy and Polybin both bear repeated testimony to the sufferinge of his troops from the terrible sald they encountered and the awful obstacles of the know and ice: But those mountakas are easily pazeed to dep:
Nor have the changes in the olinate of Germany been less remarkabla. A Latin historian records that in Coser's time the Khine and the Danube were not only fre- quently frozen but o deeply frozen that the ion was able to uphold, without cracking, the heaviest of weights. He says that the the barbarians the native Germans chose winter senson for tasir campaigns, because they could then transport their armies, avalry and heavy waggons, along the
this rivere over a solid bridge of ice. And is precisely the state of things which, until recently, the New England people have been accustomed to the potum of frozen of rivers and lakes used as the highways pleasure and the heaviest, transportation, We might easily continue these quotationi from the englent authors in witness thank the climate of both, Asia, and Europe bas undergone a vast change in the last 2,000. or 8,000 year a ubange.co profound that it has affected both the character and habits of the people and the products of - these countries: 's change which amounts to one' degree for each hundred years; but we have suggested ectigh to give direction to the popular thought tonehings probable change of the allieve in our own country, as it not be take the same causes which operated
to modify the einste of the Rast are now
al chaging Abat of this wertARD hemisphere, and that within 1,000 or 2,000.
Now here you have those three Englishwomen, ose e fortunste as to have lived more than a century without an illness; the others (still more fortunate) have lucwn the sadness of suffering end the pleasure of recovery
Oh, my ak, my I how hard it is to tell who is best off in this queer world
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Hongkong April 11, 1809.
SHARE LIST QUOTATIONS-APHIL 14, 1884. AST
Patre
Stakes
GLASBANKEN.
¿Nos. of Share.
Hongkong and Shanghai Back Our 80,000 $
New leate
Bank of Chins, Japan and Straits, 199, 87b
FBS
Closing Quotations,
Cash
125 all 93% prem., sales & sallerm
10£ 1,15 nova.
1£9, pom.
Lak manusiamus apietrasikasserer B, 250 £15 National Bank of Okius, Limited...
PURAN MARINE INAOILAMUSS.
10£ 8.10,924), mallare:
3. Burholders may leo sand Patterns to the same places in he came way. In
Patterns may be wholly volopes containing closed if the nature of the contents be first traits Insurance Oo,, 30, DO 10 exhibited or stated to the Popster Union Insurance Society Co, Da... 10,00
Canton Insurance Office Oo, Ed... 10,000 2608 60 $132), selleta Jhia Traders Insurance CoL 24/006 83.33 5 25983, sellers
2002 500-185, anilory. North Uhans Insurance Co, Dove
20 8138, steady
$70, buyers
1082 678, aler
18135, sellers $12, bayers
General, as he may consider nocessary, and fangtas Insurance Associatiozi, Led.), 8,000 seller
approved by him Printed Circulara may. ***** bo inserted in such Pattern Pocketa.
The Post Office declines all responsiblity far Unregistered Letters containing Bank Notes or Jewellery and, where Be gistration has been neglected, wZLU MAKE d losses of such NO ENQUIRIES Inte
* into ligged letters
It is forbidden to inzert in ordinary or Registered Correspondence (s) Current Coin (b) Articles liable to Captores Duty.
Portel, Post the United Kingdom. Parcals not exceeding 11 Ibs, in weight
are received in Hongkong and at Brillah
FIRE INSTRANGES.
Chus Firs Insurance Co., Ld 20,05 Hoogkoa; Fire Insurance Co., Led 8,000 Strathi Firs Insuranus, Co. Ed. 20,00
DOCES.
'kong & Whampas Dook Co., Li 18,500
Chius and Mani S. 8. Uo., Ld 5,000 ||
Od 1 Steamboat Co., L. 80,000 3 Duglas Seamanip Co., Limited - 20,000 2 Indo-China 8. N. Company, Luaits 60,000 Steam Launch Company, Limited, 2,000 Chins Mula 1 3 N. Op. 80,000 £ (now isme), (20,000 £
10
125 ali 86 % prem, sales
50962, sales,
Buy 100, sales and sellers. 2026 sales and buyers
20 de atesly
10
10 68, no.
£2,
105
121, om
7,00-10 a
|| 165, sallers
Post Ofices in Chins, for transmission to Chins Sugar Company, Limited..... 15,000 1 10 her and sallers
the United Kingdom by P. & 0 Packet Lason Sugar Vompany, Limited
bil Gibraltar. No parcel is sent with the Overland Mail v Brindis. Parcels there
fore arrive in London about eight days later then the
the Mail. Parcels may be scaled; but any parcel oven though sealed, be oponed for atamiinitas
Parcels most be posted in Hongkong bofore 3pm on the day before the dept ture of the Mail. Those smiving from, the
LAND AND BUELDINO,
5011937, Sales
$,600 100 57 $10, sellers
H. & Kow What is Godown Oo. 20,000 Wanghai Warehouse, and Stomge
Company Limited unanime) Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company, Limited....... Ewloon
loon Land and Building Com-
tention that has been bestowed of late years 6-North China Toratets / Coast, &c., after this hour are kept for the Humphreya Kstate dr Financa Co...
Sahcelo & Co.
In case of FIRE ring up No; 15.
W. STUART HARRISON,
Manager.
For Sale.
upon the investigation of Chinese literature, antiguities, and social developquente, to say nothing of linguistic studies, has led to the accumulation of important stores of inform ation, rendering some zich channel of pub. 146 licity as is now provided extremely desir able; and contributions of much interest may fairly be looked from the members of the foreign consular services, the Chinese the missionary body, Customs.corps, among whom a high degree of Chinese
Assiduously saltivated scholarship is now
highly and who are severally represented in the fart minber of the Feme by, papers creditable to their respectivo
Bad Soma translations from Chinese zuvos
FOR SALE
following P. & DADA POR EDHE FE
The Postage is 25 cents per band 20
50,000
West Point Building Co., Limited. 19,500)
MINING
8.000
51
49418, büyen
1 8571, buye
$493187, sales and.
cents each succeeding tb or fraction of a bANO,
HK, Eigh-Level Tramways Co., Lax 1,2004-10 which includes Registration fee, and he prepaid in stampe. No further charge is feloba Mining & Leading Co, al 15,004 made in the United Kingdom except for Fanjosz Alining Co., Larimare Customs dues. No parool must be more
Fight
8,000 Pos 604 PM, 500855, sales and buy
Ld: 15,000 $10
than 3 feet 6 inches in length, or feet in Sacists Brazaiae des Charbon-
pages clu Tonkers, greatest length and girth combined. A Mere Balmoral Gold Min celps given for each Parco
Bach A2 Grid Mining The sender must filtuig's form of Quators Bociate Francise des Hos Declaration, which can be obtained tree st
esali Post Offer. No parval can be side Tearsde ed till this is completely and socvistely Gains Boraso Jagamany, Id. filled Cruze articles ordinarily went drown & 995.
mited baxíthors LABEL CLAROR OF A Jago from China which am fiable to duty and
Dens of styles and an account of the career of
COMPLETE REPRIT, in Pamphlet Form, of the proceedings in the
REGINA PIPMAN
Tes Tubacione Dangerous or perishable
8,000 F 500:-.alla}"nom.
6,000
1. B. Watson & Do., Limited, a
agar tatt i brak gabe T |- Ky and Coins joins Co., Limited 7,000 £ Hoogsang, Beatric Co. Limalied...: 30.000
PRICE AND GEMÉBE
20,000
Rakin, Craidshant & Co., Lalarios. 160, 90052
articles plays are marked by both accuracy and freak containing the whole of the Proceedings at likely to injere las Mills, Liquids (unles the Chinese post-alatesman of the eleventh the Police Court, full report of the taal in securely packed) parcels early cried,
of the Prose,
cel dan be redutyed if its value exceeds $250 address as they of the Parent steak, of ane REBSWIOKOther Parcel of the same address Ne
Hongkong Brick & Cement Cour La 4,000 of encontrare allowed Bed Green Tahid Cemani De Ld,
With regard to inward Parcels, addressess Price per Copy, 50 Ohm, are nquestal to observe that the Partel
China Masz OPPED
Male Bot opened until the ordinary da tribution of letter,
FITMAN
only historically valuable, but is also To which is now added a Report of the Parcel may contain letter to the same Cong by nah B. C. But, ependence and comments noted Core- rubl te bant-boxes, are prohibited. No Pak distinguished by its literary grace. Beside notions of new books relating to Chips and Case of lancemen the East, which will be a useful feature of the Rescues carrie
If carried out with princtuality and deal, we are glad to gutles, that
Notes and
1 Queries are destined to hoped that this opening for contributions And a pleas in Its pages also. E to be on Chinese subfocks may evoko
degide of Hterary west, to that which was Vademecum of the Tarciler displayed during the lifetime of ita preda theough the Gorges of the Great Hayer: orar to the field, and that the Ching Reviews part ligcassary to Lasero Special Observations.
A Journey in North" Sz Ch usi Nandh gun and the Kung-tan River The Kibling River, TEA Great Ball Wells. Forth Kwal, Chou. The Wilds of Hur
Orders for Cupiss
1. Chan, 41, Upper Kannington Lane, Low Monnet LANE, CLAYPOED & O.,
Monars, Kisʊy & Wax, Limited
MATT PROGRAMMES
FOR SALE.
N NEW SHADES AND PATTERNE
THINK MAIL OFFICE,
D. WINDHAM SZÜRET.
AKDOTES
FOR SALE Din
poutage on Parcels at home is 10d per th the Regulations are generally similar to the longong Dairy Jam Abors, and, that Parools are sent our vis
1UINËSE DEKOOL-BOOK8tralian
SAM-TS KING nominile for the Loss of Bogule
The Post Of
LATERALLY TRANSLATED AND EXPLaren for the safe del
PRIGS 15 UENTS FEE COPY, OSTIKA MAIL Orrios,
Hongkong, May 17, 1899.
dence, but
passing through the 1:10, in curtain củản
2. That the lectar, wie sécurely, colone 905 in a rowonably strong envelope.
rinted at the Chiwa Mal
50%
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