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SNAKE POISON AND HUMAN FOISON..
Dr. Mitchell furibor says: The many noxious compounds nen sarcies in his liver and gastrio glands (the slowisch) are fatal if they enter the blood in any large amount. There is scarcely at organ in man's body which is not a possible source of poison to him. Small doses are con- stantly passing into and out of his blood. The cemate ho ou get rid of it a fast as a scenmulates.
Allading to death by rheumatism, gout, and kidney disease, au eminent London physician Baya: Thus men is poisoned by the products of his own body."
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The bite of the wattlesnake in almost always Books on conjuring probably do not teach many people how to conjure, because fatal to use. Yet this unko ja puser affected by printed descriptions of delicate movements the injection of its own poison inte ita ona blood, are so difficult to follow. The most neither when enraged it bites itself nor when its elaborate
of bow to the a pimple venous is injcuted by aratoial moans to test the descriptions
question. Speaking on the latter post Dr. S. jam knat in a casting-line are of lesa Wen Mitchell, an oxpert on snake poison, mys valds than a practical example. We can I have over and over bried this experiment, but searcely
therefore, that Profesinine case have I saen death romult. Why should hope, sor Hoffmann's Drawing-room Conjuring this ba (Routledge) will enable young persons to ompete with Jannes and Jambres. In spite of the great part which those magicians play in the Bible, Egyptian popyri have not yet, we believe, thrown much light upon the Egyptian Bozocs and Katerieltos, nor dosa Egyptian history say much about feats lilco thosa recorded in Exodus. Yet it is probable that to be 'masters of mugiu stni spelia was tommon enough in Egypt, on in Tot Oriental and even savage countries. The Hindus have a great and deserved re
Now lot eiten passage from a man's orpo. putation in his way, which they bava long enjoyed. The famous rope trick is an ex- rience au related by himself. The time extends ample. In the open air the conjurer throws over a period from March, 1888, to May, 1690, A man alimte it more than a year. He says: My head need to up a toge, which fixes and good out of sight. Another followe bim whirl around, and I had frequent bouts of faint. noss and gidress; and at times I used to fall with a kaife, outs him up, and throws down his limbs. These are put under a cloth, down, no matter where i was. This would sceur tion or three times a day. For three wooke I was and the dismembered man walks up quite costined to my bed. I grew gradually weaker well, from outside the sírule The Indian weaker and las: a doal of sloop. I lett vore newspapers, every now and then, contain Bred in the morning than when I want to bad. accounts of this trick, which, unluokity, de after a while i bucane, nervous, and may lage not stand the test of grass-examination. treabed and shook ander me to each a deprce Perhaps the oldest account of the par- that I feared to walk out. I had gent pain in formance is given by Ibn Batuta, ar Arab my kidneys, and the secretion which vaided from traveller of the thirteenth century. He them was thick and yellow as the yolk of an egg. saw the trick done, and it made him feel Month after macnih passed and I failed me and
On the other hand he ran-more, and could hardly arawi about. very unwell. liune that a countryman of his own, also present, said that there had been neither coming up or going dawi: it was all hocus-pocas. It is not clear whether this astato Arab aaw notaing, or whether moro for me and advised me to go to a hospital, Darkwell, Carliil & Co. merely inferred that his oyee had been went to the Peterborough Hospital, it got
Residlpacy. desived. Pertapa there is no other deware while thors. The hospital doctors refusal. Dn.. saription so genuine and authentic that
of to tell me what ited . Having spont two 17-Douglas Lapenik & Co.
2.-Din. Unadie, Coriu and Stedman. Ibn Batuta. He also saw cups and other mouths thuro, got anxiang and returned to my
F objects move untouched, at the court of the horse utterly disheartened. I continued to rend King of Delhi, and, on both scensions, cou. to the hospital for medicines, which I took for plained after wards of sickness and headache. three months lougor. I was now so einciatod This trick of flying sops won in the reper that my fricate who came to sou me raid I would toire of D. D. Home, and it was ales or hibited about 1640 at the capri of a Cacique of Feru, where the Christians attributed it
to davila.
be
⚫nd a doctorailoading mo, but his medicinos
did not bench ran. Head my liver and kidneys were in a bad way, and that ho never saw secro- in passed in such a state. After treating are six months, he told me that medicino could do no
never get well.
In this condition I continued until May, 1889, when one day as umbrella vendor called at my hase, and, seeing how it I was, said his wife had baril of a various illness by Mother Saigel's How far it is possible thne to deceive the Curative Syrup. He spoke so earnestly of it that I determined to try it. After taking the Synap ayce, and cost a glamour over the observers, is a difficult question. A bypnotised patient far ton days I felt in botter spirits: my food may perhaps bebeve that he sees what he is agreed with me, and from that time I gained airength daily Forsevering with it, I was acon told to sea, but how can spy ons hypnoticeable is return to my works as healthy and strong a crowd? It was Hearns, we think, in the ever. Since then 1 bera been in the best of Just century, the Copper Mian River, health. Yoz are at liberty to pubäd: the above who saw a red man swallow a buge board of cad. 'Of course, he says, I know he did not swallow it; but, as far as the evidence
of my Dees went, he did. The
facts, and I will gladly reply to any inquirike. Tears truly (Simod), READ WELFARE, Ames, St. Mary's, Haute, Fabrary 18th, 1892.
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No brief comment can do justice to this romark traveller was told that, the week before, shin case. What the public needs to know and 33-Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Go Thras hours 100 Day (6 to 6) 2.00 terns, 5 per 2 or
down Co.. Lad, West Point. the conjurer had swallowed & cradle These to remember is this: r. Walfurn's whole system feats are not like the merely mechanianos poisoned by the products of a torpid and in-
down Co., Id., Praya Centrai. trick of swallowing a sword-the eye is actis tigestion. Those and entered his blood, 81. Hongkong & Kawloon Wharf & Go-
A story goes roucd the Dr. Mitchell describes. The nervous syetem was really deceived.
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bowed
Do. nothing but the conjurer It then attain the beart and kidneys, causing the 37- negative smpty-handed, would of course cottirm the state of things Mr. Welfare mentions. Nothing doctrine of a hypnotic fraud on the spect-more noxious, or, in the end, surely fatal axiate ators. But, uninckily, there is no evidence in any polaszoss reptile and yol people trifle with the disease and doctors seem not to ender for the tales; they break down on ez- amination. The best known case of a cel
Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup cure by stima. tentive hallucination is given by that famo pedlar, Patrick Walker, who wrote the Titslating the kidneys, akin, and howels, and toning
the gastric glands.
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Patrick was present when multitude of people saw a battle in the clends, with swords and bonnets dropping to the ground. Thay deauribed the fashions of the swords, some basket-bilted, some rapiers, and so forth. A gentleman who Dame to scoff remained to gaze, and loudly exclaimed that the phenomena wore underi- able. Meanwhile Patrick Walker, though as superstitions us any other bulated Came- raian, 2-authing at all! The crowd who saw must have been viuti ma of self-an- gestion. Perhaps to other collective Balla- cination is so well attested, Patrick having every desire to believe. But here there was no conjurer present, or no en recognised in
is ourioas that science , that
bas capacity. not got discovered how these tricks are managed, though there are some tricks which Hindu magicians will seil, tricks of sleight-of-band, like the Mango Tree trick. Of cours at least as generally practised. the, lookers-on report, not what they ev. but what they are persuaded to believe they see, a very differen! matter.
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Fushan on parpore, the rest follow, sad that is all. Most
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Ama bu $142, bayers
of China, Limited... MARINE INATRANOKA. Canton Insurance Office Ov., Là........ 10,000 to the same places in he same way. China Traders' Insurance Co, Ld... 34,00 8 83.33
North-Obios Insurance Co., Ld..... 5,0 £ Straits insurance Co., L30,000 $ Vaion Insurance Society Co, Ld... 10, Yungtas insurance-Association, Jet. '8,000
FİRE INSURANCES, Oina Fire Insurance Co., Ld... 30,0 Steals Fira Lusurance Co. L. 20, Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd... 8,0
closed, if the nature of the contents be first exhibited or stated to the Postmaster General, as he may consider necessary, and approved by him. Printed Circulara may be inserted in such Pattern Packets,
The Post Office decline all responsibility for Unregistered Letters containing Bank Notes or Jewellery and, where Bo- gistration has been neglected, WE MAEN NO ENQUIRIES into alleged losses of such
letters.
DUTION
STELAKOATA.
'kong & Whampoa Dack Uc.. L. 12,600 China and Manda S. 9. 00., Ld................ 5,0% $ Douglas Bovatnship Co., Limited.... 20,00 It is forbidden to insert in ordinary of dikusid af. Steamboat On., Ld. 80,000 1 Registered Correspondence (8) Carrent Coin | Indo-China 8. N. Company, Lammita 60,000 £ German Empire (including Heligoland and the (b) Articles liable to Customs Daty.
Steam Lannah Company, Limited... 2,000 China Mutual S, N. Go,
20,000 (£
Egypt,
France, with Algeris."
Cameronica).
Holland
Italy (with Agencies at Tripoli Assab and
Maasowal).
Norway.
Orango Free States.
Portugal (including Madeiro and the Azores). Roumanis. Sweden. Switzerland.
Troie
fransvaal.
United States.
Foreign Cities and Towns -- Constantinople.
Balcaico.
SKYSTIA.
Penama.
Adrianople,
Tangier,
Reyront.
British Colonies :----
Сургав.
*WEST INDIES,
Antigua,
Bihamus.
Barbadoes.
Falkland Islands.
Gibraltar.
XBite.
Newfoundlandi
AFRICA,
Berwuda.
Grenada. Jamaica.
Montserrat.
British Guiana.
+
British Bechamaland.
Cape Colony, Gazibin.
Brillah Honduras, Dotainica
Gold Coast Colony, Lagoe. Mauriting: Natal. St. Helena. Seychelles. Sierra Leone,
St. Lucis.
8. Vincent.
Novis,
St. Kitta.
Tobugs. Trinidad Turks* Takođe.
3.--Orders on the Countries drawn through
REGINA F. PITMAN, containing the whole of the Proceedings st-- Mombasa. the Police Court, full report of the trial in
Lamu. Criminal Sessions, with connected Corre- spcadence and comments of the Presa.
To which is now added a Report of the Case of
PITMAN V. KESWICK
AND OTHERS, Price per Copy,
China Mail Orgies.
PUBLICATIONS.
(new insue). 20,090 £
Do.
BEFINERIES. hina Sugar Company, Idmited.....15, 00 Cussa Sugar Company, Limited.... 7,000 B
WHARTER.
Parcel Port to the United Kingdom. Parools not exceeding 11 the. in weight are received in Hongkong and at British Post Offices in China, for transmission to the United Kingdom P. & O. Packet vid Gibraltar. No parcel is sent with the Overland Mail via Brindisi. Parcels tharo- fore arrive in London about eight days later then the Mail. Parcala may be scaled, but any parcel, even though sealed, is liable to be opened for examination.
Hongkong Loud Investmont and{ Parcels toust be posted in Hongkong
$150,000 $ Agency Company Limited...... before 8 3 p.m. on the day before the depar ture of
sho Mail. Those striving from the Lowfoon Land and Building Com- Coast, o, after this hour are kept for the Humphrage' Estate & following P. & O. Mail.
& Kow. Wharf & Godowa Co. 20,0008 Wanchai Warehouse and Storage }}}
2,600 Company, Limited as............
LAND AND BUILDING.
& Finance Co..
∙1,000
The Postage is 25 cents per I., and 20 West Point Building Co., Limiwd. 12,5008 canta each snoseeding it or fraction of a HK Zigb-Level Tramwaye Co., Ld... 1,201$. which includes Registration fes, and must
TRAMWAYE
MININO
be prepaid in stangs. No further charge is Jelebu Mining & Trading Co., Ld. 45,000 3 made in the United Kingdom except for Panjom Mining Co., L
Qustoms dues. No parcel must be more
than 3 feet 6 inches in length, or 6 feet in Société Francais des Charbou greatest length and girth combined. A re
ceipt is given for each
The conder mast fill
Parcel.
Inpa form of Customs
25 965, sales and salles
20 $13, sollers
: 2002.
30 Tis: 170, steady.
1003
2604
26 $130, allors
69a873,
quiet
100
2 $79, sales and sellors
28
100
50/180, sellers.
26/12, bugu
126 all 85% proma, malen
60 al 867, sellers
60 ali $60. sellers
20 18254, bayers 10 39% dia, buyers.
6 £8, £7, £21, £1, sellers
10€
100
$161, rollers.
104
al $49, sollers
50
236, males and sellers.
100% 97 $40, sellers
1004
ut 958, salce 5083 $10, axles 10810, nom.
508 4436, selkors
100
All 820, firm
$5.80, ales and sellers
60,000
48
nages du Tonkio
31801, nales 8,000 Pos, EOC Fs.500 8824, sellers
New Balmoral Gold M'ing Co., La
15,000 $ 20,000 £
20 AU (62) 39, sollers; $170,
113/10 84.50, mollars
8,000 Fos. 600 all
7,500 3:
6,000
-HOTELE, ETT
Hongkong Hotel Company, Lt.....
6,000 3
son & Co., Limited.
60,000 8
b81, 'sellera 60 alts, buyon
50 A
1812, quiet
10810, wallern
61.40, sales and sollers
Declaration, which can be obtained fres at Raub Aust. Gold Mining Co., L ench Post Office. Na parcel can be accept Sociolé Francisa des Houilleres ed till this is completely and accurately
dle Tourane kjenner
PLANTING, ETC. filled. The only articles ordinarily sunt
China-Borneo Company, Ld. from China which are liable to duty aro.12, Brown & Co., Limited..... Tea, Tobacco.
Dangerous or per
perishable goods, articles likely to injure the Mails; Liquide (unlaes
the London Post Ofice are paid leas the follow-securely packed) or parcels onally crushed, ing discount far wideh the remitter should allow such as hand-boxes, are prohibited. No Par.
All such Orders must be expressed in British cel can be received if its value proseds $250. A Parcel may contain a letter to the same.
currency:-
COMPENSARIES..
Watson &
A. 3. Dakin, Grotesshank & Co., Ld....... 50,000 $
LIGHTING,
HE. and China Gae Do., Idmited 7,000 £ 3d. address as that of the Tarcel Itself, or an Hongkong Reatris Co., Limited.... 89,000 € For sure not Excenting £2.
Exceeding £3 but not Erding 5. 6d. other Parcel to the same address.
other enclosures are allowed
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£5, or $25, ar 60 Rs.
30, all $195, bayern, 108
No
84,75; mollire"
50 Cents.
奶
"
£7 d.
£10 1,0d.
3-The commission charged is as follows (as cording to the carrinoy the Urder is drawn ic). Up to £2, or $10 or 20 Bay $0.20
0:40
With regard to inward Parcels, addressses Green Island Cement Co., Ld.
MISCELLANEOTA, are requested to observe that the Parcel Hongkong Brisk & Cement Co.. L. 4,000 Mail is not opened until the ordinary dis-ball. Moore & Co., Limited tribution of letters, do, is finished The Campbell, Moore
BRICK AND CEMENT.
20,000 3
sollers"
12x
10 all 14, n.
Filted
6,0011 3,0003
ellers
10 all 17. seller 80104, wilera
Interest
CHINA MAIL' OFFICE.
0
the Colony wouldHINA REVIEW-published once in
Two Months. materially aid the SENATE of the COLLEGE by forwarding to the AzIOS OVERLAND UHINA MAIL for every MEMORIAL HOSPITAL B
Weekly Mail. (1), Glass Jars (for museum garposes). (2). Illustrated Papers and Books for the CHINA MAIL-Evory Day.
Student's Reading Room and Library,
Address to
to joints probably cannot be laught. The conjurer is born, not made.There is a Hindu trick with a ropes. The
his spectator holds his own rupee in with kwackles upwards. The conjurer tape, the knuckles with his hand something stirs in the spectator's hand, he opens
and out falls no rupee, at a scorpion; Cax | Professor Hoffmann tell a how this is done?Belly News
JOHN C. THOMSON,
Hon Boo, o the College. Hongkong, February 25. 1891
Orders for Printing and Book-binding promptly executed at MODERATE VILEGES,
CHINA MAIL' OFFICE, 5. Wyndham Strest (behind the Glub.}.
27, or $35, or 70 s
:0.00 0.80 £10, or $50, or 100 Rs.
150 ... 1,00 4-No Order must stood £10 or $50 (unless drawn on India, when Rs. 150 is the limit), nor will more than two such Orders be issued to the came person, in favons of the same payon, by the same mall, i.
5.-Suas not exceeding 150 may be remitted between the Farts of Caine by means of Postage Stamps, subject to a charge of as per cent, for cashing them; or Money Orders can be granted at Hongkong or, Shanghai on Ports where there ark Agencies of the Hongkong Post Office.
General Post Dior, Hongkong, 1st January, 1899.
postage on Parcels at home is 10% per tb., Gen. Fenwick & Co., the Regulations are generally similar to the Hongkong Bakery Company,
via Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.
abore, and the Parcels are sent out Hongkong Loo Company, Limited 5,000is 179, sellere ; $73, buyers.
Gibraltar.
Indemnity for the Loss of a Registered Articls. The Post Office is apt legally responsible for the safe delivery of Registered correspon doncs, but it is prepared to make good the contents of such correspondence lost while passing through the Post, to the extent of $10, in certain cases, provided
1. That the sender duly observed all the conditions of Registration required.”
2. That the letter was securely enclosod in a reasonably strong envelope."
F'kong Rope Manufactory Co., Cal. 3,00
*Founder's shares
Valus,
LOANE of Amount Uniasso Tamperisi 1896 z Tia. YET,300 The 250 7 2 p. aunas 18 % pret
DEBENTURES. Hongkong Hobal Mort 400,000.00 $500 gage Debouturo. 1881
Prieted at the Onas Mall Office, No D. Wyndham Street, Bop konz