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What time is it, Maggio?' and John, with an uneasy sense that he ought to buon la homeward way.
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The annual dinner of the Uppar Tooting Bicycling Clab took place at Willis' Room ** Simla, on las 31st lento. Cayers were laid
I'll go and look, who answered. Stopping for forty-three; and those present fecluded theneral Sir V. Fede, R.O.B. (in the quietly into tu kitthou the girl pushed the chair Archdeacon Whofer, Sir Putton clock nude back an hour, aud returning, said, Brake,
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and aty s hour longer. Mr Curzon Foote (Honorary Borotary). So John stayed, for lovers are zorer degir to
Lelegram ceived and read during the eveting moring, however, le uverslept himself, and from Upper Teeting was 16-part and he needed in craxing. The slot Follow trog-wheelers wish you all Patent Biaggio's father, at his breekfant, having issed Safety.' The catering of Signor Ransit the train he intended to journey by that day left nothing to be desired.
wondered how the good old clock could have After dinner, when the health of the lost an hour in the sight. But Maggio d'inds of students of the Far East and and all oiber news, are given in full as | paper and the same date, Printed mat o. We compensation can be paid for more
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going to had, but forgot, which shows and more what everybody should remember that can set back the clook, bat we cannot set back the
tánce.
1880 I felt worl and tow. I hail a bad taste in
Bir V. Pede rose to propose the toust of Our Alma Mater in the R. W. District' Ho mid-Ocing to the unavoidable absence of the Naval Member of Council.
All the same It is possible occasionally to ro who was to have presided bere to-night, It has fulless to say unworthy self (No, received, I find this suntener; Then test me
gain lost things. In a woman's later recently no) to propose the toast of the evening. Look ten years younger than I did And if she But at any rate I ought to know what fall ann she looked she was to all practical par I am talking about. I am an original press ten years younger. For, adtlough a clock member of that band of daring men, face looks the same in matter what time it is, the 39th anniversary of whose londation human face doesn't. That changen with the we are celebrating to-night, and may layoutition of the worse, or the life behind it, claim to have collided with inofficsive destrians before many of you muro avon horo. (Beat, hear.) I can trace by my own personal knowledge the evolution of the hioyelo from the primeval bone-shaker, which like the long extinct.mastodon drag ed its slow length along, to the glorious racer of today, which carries on the wings of the wind and at seven miles an hour
And though hero, far from our homes, on the slopes of the lofty Himalayao, owing to the nature of the centry we are unable to emulate those record brankere whose glorious achievements on the oinder- path will stir to emulation a future gever-
ation in the immortal pages of the Unper Tooting Herald, still let us always remem- ber our proud motto, even after a dental owing to too hasty meeting with the truck of the cat's meat man, or the baton of an oloious policeman, and let us ride with plaster on our noses and axurage in our hearts, softly murmuring, Kerrow excelsior. (Load cheers)
nected with
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The letter goes on the In the spring of the mouth had a thick shiny phlegm cuvered my month and tongue. I was sick in a murning, relating and renting a watery Bd. I had
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In November, 18, I read in a bonk of a indirine called Mother Seigel's Carative Syrop, and got a betile from Mr E. Banka, the chemistrial Cuctoms, and Hongkong Services, also by the Missionary boilies amongst After 1 had taken a fny doses. I found my feed
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Sir Patton Brake next rose to propose the health of Our poor relation.'le taid Most of you probably knew that as our honoured contemporarios, the Masonic agreed with me better., 1 kopt an with the Fraternity, make a practice at their bau-Strap al gradanlly gained strength.
boo go thin and striated through all these quets of
of proposing the health of the poorer years of suffering that it took time in fully brethren, coupled with the name of the restore me.
But I am your is better walth Tyler, as we never om it to propose the bealth
than I ever was in my life, and me every of the Triepele, And we have another has astonished my friends, they tell me I look ranson heaidea charity for this toast; for aster yenre younger than I did far taktas the athung the ancient Egyptians the best at the Syrn How I wish I had known of roars banquet always sent round an adult skeleton sooner! My husband and friends had given up to remind he
guests of the faevitshte end, all hopp of my gouting botter, but mole of us and asold Homer remarked, are picka moram, kusw of Mother Sorel's Syrup.
On mentioning to the Rev. E. Marries, the &o, &,
we in a moment of elation like
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pristors know what the syrup had one for me,,
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t of old age or vesification of the angle. bone, we shall have to lake another wheel to support our tottering foot-treads; and us all humbly trust that in the words of the great English, poet, il tany beou a tricycle built for iwn." (Cheers.)
Mr Curzon Footo suid he wished to any a word on a subject that they had heard much about in the past year. He referred to the obanging of the Club colours. There huc been march bad feeling about it among severe. of the younger members, and he wished to explain the facts. A small body of mes connected with the military serviss at home bad copied their blazer exsutly, and members of the U. T. B. C. hai bêen an. 'I didn't noyed on the river by the question, know you were in the Gaarde'-the name of the Club in queation. After communicat ing with the Secretary of this Club, but without any aatiainetory result it was decided at a general meeting of the C. T. B. . that they would give a lesson in good kreading by changing their own coloure, and he was sure that the tastefol sex-green with yellow
that they now hard the epota privilege of wearing, коны amply Couzole them for their loss. hear hear) Colonel Goelow then proposed the health of the Chairman, who refuched Chubice in t faw graceful words, alluding to the sucGE?? of the Club Mission to the West rad music | balls, and proposed the beaith of Sir Patter Brake Brake.
The latter proposed the health of Arch- deacon Wheeler, who highly eulogized the work of Colonel Gastow.
A vole of thanks was then passed to dir Curzon Foste, to whom, as in past years. | the success of the annual gathering was mainly due.
After g te songs, including Wheel may the keel raw," The Tasting Cycling Song and Tarn en thou Wheel of For- tune, the proceedings terminated.-Pioneer Mail
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as is nor provided extremely dosir- Newfoundland able; aut contributions of much interest
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AFKLUB
may fairly be looked or from the membare British Bechamaland. of the foreign consular services, the Chinese Cape Colony.
Gambis. Customs corps, and the missionary body, Gold Coast Color among whom a bigh degree of Chinese Lago scholarship is now amiduously cultivated, Megriting. and who are severally represented in the first Natal. number of the Review by papers highly St. Helen. creditable to their respective authors
Seychelles.
Some translations from Chiuose novels and Sierra Leoa. playa are marked by both nceursoy and fresh-hiombus dex of style; and an account of the cariser of Lama,
Selusion.
Paurma, Tangier,
WEST INDIES.
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Beranda British Guiana
British Honduras,
Dominion. Grenada, Jamaica. Montserrat,
Novis. St. Kitts. St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tubage. Trinidad. Turke Islands.
With the object of doing this with as mach folat as possible, and at the same himself extremely unples. time
rendering sant to his impezial neighbor, ho made an offer last year to form a hospital for consumptives of the chateau; and, to make the offer still more pointed, ho selected jant that particular charitable institution of which the Archduke was president to
out his aobome. Of souras, a tra- | earry mendous row ansuod, and the proffer was declined by the Arobduke, who did not relish the idea of having a consumptives' hospital to near his summer home, sud who incurred much populer odium for preferring the health and interest of his CHAN A FOOK, at WATKINS & Cnd a place in its pages also it is to be cording to the catroney the Urdar is drawn in). own family to those of the pauper sick of
Vierina.
Nothing doubted the Baron has now Fresented the chalens and estate, valand at 82,600,000, together with a handsome endowment, for nes as a home for invalid officers of the army. The gift has awaken- ed wouch enthusiasm in military circle, and the bope is uniformly expressed in the army and in the press that the Arabduke will place no further impediment in the way of the generous and charitable Jewish banker.
Or five thousand person arrested for cruelty to animals last year, in Calcutta, over ninety-six per cent, were convicted,
will check Consumption and Bronchitis and is indispensable in all wasting diseases.
· Socet & Bamio, Ltd., London. All Chemikia
Bois Agent for China and Hongkong £
Flongkong.
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE FOR
CHINESE
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DESIDENTS in the Colony would
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MENORIAL HOSPITAL
(1). Glass Jars (for museum purposes). (3) Illustrated Papers and Books for the Student's Reading Room and Lonry,
Address to d
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Hongkong, February 25 1891
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