MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1897.
HONGKONG MARKET PRICES.
Corrected to Saturday, August 14. 1897, At 1020 Ch per Dollar Mezican.
Like.
catty
花燃饭
Podse.
班热
Pomfret, Whita
160
白我
PRICH
·Highest. Lowen.
Chinese Name
I'omfret, Black
140
熱雞
Cash
Ouak.
Butcher Meat.
Bacon, English,
肉食
L'en wien
250
鐵
Ray
50
琵琶沙
ib
Ame. Sugar cared,.
J
23
Fouchow,.
180
נן
Japan, cured
"
Best loin & primo cut. catty 140
來路姻精肉 花旗蘊猪肉 920
歐州腿豬肉 日本燻肉 180
龍
Rock Fish
Rouch,
Salmon, (Canton), Shark,
220
馬友魚
60
餓热
Salt Fish,
גו
100
鹹魚
Corned,
.culty
J40
3
鹹牛肉
Skate,
60
Shrimpe,
140
Roast
120
乾牛肉
34
Soapper,
220
立
P
Happ
Aw
粉肉
Steak,
130
"
牛肉薪
Solea,
180
捲沙魚
Tench,
SUR
ᅡ
Bullock's Brains,
per set
W
DU
Turbot,
140
2
Tongue fresh, vach. 280
4-W
Turtles, small, fresh water,
150
corned
310
鹹牛利
12
JI
Whiting,
culty
70
Head,
b00
牛制
#
White Bait,
鐵俬仔
12
Heart,
101)
Fruits.
Hump, Salt
catty
140
菓子
r
Foot
euch
"
Kidneys,
8 3
БО
Apples, (California)
catty 250
金山干菜
(Trentain}
100
天津平
Tail,
11:0
(Japan),
Laver
catty
70
41
Tripe (undressed) calty 60
60
牛肚
Bananas, fragrant,
40
"
日本平業 省香蕉
Calves Head and Feet, not
500
牛仔頭脚
1+
(brides),
bė
1
Chestnuts, Chinese,.
150
咸菜
Hams, American,
. ib.
320
花旗大雞
Carambola,
130
***
Chiasse,
210
金華火腿
Cocuaauts,
bach
60
*+
...
"
English, Now,
440
來路火
Ground Nuts,
catty
DU
花生
"
Japan cured,
210
日本大版
12
Shanghai,.
Mutton Chup,
180
上海火腿
Grapes, ..
170
Lemone, China,
180
T
Pool,
Leg,
160
Lichees, Dried,
"
Shoulder,,
120
**
1
Piga' Chitlings,
catty
70
00
n
Fest,
11
Fry,
110
160
1
Fresh,
Limes,
32
Ja
Mango, (Saigon),
(Manila),
Dangustuen,.
Oranges, Snout,
31
Olives,
Green,
Red,
BACE
. dozen
CALLY
Bead,
CHA
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7
Heart,
50 40
37
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33
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pais
70
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160
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catty
180
骨
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Corned,
鹹脂肉
Pine-uppics,
•ch
本地波羅
1)
Log,
190
"
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Peace,
catty
沙梨
Fat or Lard,
160
豬油
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Sheeps' Boad and Foat, got
360
Heart,
Bach
GO :40
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70
22
Kidneys,
Liver,
Ib.
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羊心
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Flum, Red,
Pamelo,
(Tientsin),
300
天津雪梨
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(Siam),
catty
镪雞袖
Sucking Pigs,
each $1.75 $1,25
猪仔
Peach, (Sweet),
Raisins, Muscatel,
Sust, Beef,
lb. 110
生牛油
11
Pudding,.
Mutton,
100
生羊油
Veal,
catty 130
牛仔的
11
Poultry.
生日
Walzote,
Chicken,
catts
220
261
Ospona,
100
Duskny
15
Doves
Eggo, Hen
gach 140
dow
120
-
Dack.
110
23
23
Fowls,
. Catty
193
Goero,
160
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Water Chesnuts, com, Mandarin,
Vegetables, &o.
Artichokes, Shanghai, catty
Beans, (French),,
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Boot Root,
Brinjais, Green,
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+ 10
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catty
Red,
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Rengeica,
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Bamboo-Shoota,
200 石狗公
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260
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE FERTILITY OF TWINS.
*The first and Father-cause of Cermon
FREDERICK ARCHER..
Soveral years have elapsed since this
Error,' says Bir Thomas Browne, is the wonderful jockey, in ahatterud health, cambion infirmity of human nature, but agroped for a revolver within his reach, and, no less potent cause is the credulity of pulling the trigger, terminated one of the men who give an easy assent to what is most satraordinary careers that has over nhtruded, or a balioving at first ear what is bean connected with Turf history. delivered by arm of truth though it All vulgar errors to contain a is often ouncealed and overlaid by a luzy riant growth of the popular imagination.
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Fred. Archer was the chief exponent of niggor-driving jockeyship. When racing he gave the impression of being chronically on the alert whilst he communicated his own lightning quickness to whatsoever home he rode, le may be said to have forced the very maxiroum exertion out of every mount. For the moment he seemed O. to inspire his horse with his own determina tion, riding energetically evary and of the and finishing in a marvellous with the most brilliant dash.
way,
The
examination of vulgar errors is there fore as necessary as i was in the time it is no of Sir Thargas Browne, and less interesting. Thers is a wide- spread idea that of twin sisters both mothers. The geris of truth never become in this statement was known even to Pliny, who says, If a woman bring twins it is
goodhap. if they all live, but either great bales, if not both. But if it fortune that the twins be of both sexes, one mala the other female,
it is ten to one if both of Indeed a left twin is one them escape.
stabjosts among the poorer of the cormonast classes to this
where it is spokon of day, with
bated breath. Arrived at auturity twin sisters are supposed to be storile, judgment. The profound contempt he
the mother dieth in childbed, or one of the the Ang fell he always gained. Pirocton
race;
an advantage he often maintained to the end when the distance was five furlongs.
sort of whether ved riding any He love Derby winner or selling plater,' in his it was coaxed, or more likely irum grip puniabod, until ho got it home, ridden hard the whole way through with good
but apen aita insufficient grounds. appeared to hold his fellow-creatures in There are undoubted cases where both was not entirely unprovoked. If Archer girls have married and have had large was up on complete outsider, whose families. The error scents to have arisen previous periorinaate showed inferior from too limited an observation upon the form, it dal not prevent the public from
jockey booking the idol; it was the public from they part of farmers who have applied what is partially true of cattle to what is quite un-depended on, and the horse, and the price true of their own offspring-British Me-shortened in a most sazing susaner. Love of applause, concealed from the outer world dical fournal.
by the careless looks his face, & wounded XY varity, and a must violent temper, often exhibitions of unecessary gave rise to
Archer'e Archor wins or Hoverity. beat!'
might
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The effects of over-axertion in producing various disturbances of a more or less grave character are well known, and not un frequently those disturbancos culminsta great jockey wld be seen coming up the straight, sitting down in his saddle, in permanent structural damage. They are net peculiar to cycling, bu during the last surring and thrashing a bates horse, the paar or tau cycling has predominated to loud racks resounding, yet ardh and again
of even after the winning post had over all popular sport that their pathology has be paid, come the pathology of cycling. We do not allude to the accidents entailing
solution of continuity of the skin seman in the world had a woount worthy and
but to the bones,
functional of his genius--for he had genie: When diseasca due
over pressute. There very inch was disputed by jockeys PRICE LISTS.
who were his equals in many respecte are two special forms of disease, one when
of bright
Buch
to
forms of
But those head finishes! Ah, how different was the scene when the finest
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due to travelling at a pace in excase of the breeches, and glossy thoroughbreds round rider's circulatory, capacity, and intended Tattenham. Commer all of a heal, consequent upon cycling distances beyond and Archet hagging the white rails
produc- his physical standard. The frat is
tive of circulatory failure allied to, and start to finish as was his wont, suddenly ofcen eu mainating in, syncope, while the shot out of the Derby group, amidst yels which lasted until the the favourite, for other induces a condition strictly compar- Lumbers went up and the "All right' was able with what is generally known called. Ok: those days when racing wa neurasthenis or nervous exfustion. Tao the finest of the fine arts; long will they be diagnosis of the first variety is easy romembered, never will they be soon again
The rider and examples are numerous.
suddenly gets out of breath and falls for Archer is dead. Godfrey Bastile, in the panting from the saddle, his faou by Budminton Magazine.
comes paid, or even livid, and a cold
sweat bathes the skin. In
mater cases, he
recovers after a brief rest, but he feels in W. RaRINAON & Co., Piane and Musical stinctively that he must out, his journey lastrament specialists and caports. Work short as best he may. In graver cases the shops and Factory, Duddell St.; circulation fails to re-establish itself for Rooms, Queen's Road Central,
some time, and aven after
robovery tha
the
heart may continue to beat irregularly, and
at an albormally rapid rate, for weeks, or
Hongkong Tides.
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are now did heart, which compiled by the Nautical Almanac Office in
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The condition observations taken by means of an automa engendered by the over-exertion, consequent tie tide recording machine in the Water 1012
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Baaln at Tsim Sha Tsui during the The rider is often deceived by the feeling Fears of the table is Low Water Or
1887-8-9. The zero of
of buoyancy and well-being
which is a-
perienced on arriving at his destination,dinary Spring Tides, which has been found His appetite,
it is true, is not what one would expect after such a journey, and his
sleep is daturbed, when, indeed, the night
is 302 Biven to
insomnia, characterised by
To obtain the depth of water on the tide
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Tiu, and on tho, gauge at Lamont Dock,
ments of the limbs and waking night Aberdeen, add 12 ft. 8 in. to the height
night-
marc On the following day the tongue Siren in the table
Y dirty, and the physical fatigue well
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marked. but one of the most.
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to say, the sufferer feels every pulsation,
and he is uncomfortably
fact that he has a
at the
conscious of
the ideal of health unconsciousness
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of which
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the
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climatic conditions have
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cold wird. In other cases the kidneys give Koht 29.87
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CONTENTS I The Fang-tas Gorges and Rapids in Bu-pa.. 1. HARAMETER, Fedced to 83 degreez Fahrer, The Rapids of the Uppur Tinsel, and to the larat at the sus la dunkus, tanks,
The Vate-mecums of the Trevallos and handredths,
through the Gorges of the Great Biyor Special Observations,
A Joumey in North Be Okkrant
Nap-sh'nan and as Kung-tan Haver,
Up the Kis-ling River.
The Great Half Wells.
North Kwel Choo
The Widh có Hu pa?
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Musk Deer,
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"
Cabbage, Chinese com. - Cabbage,
13
Bach
100
Pigeons.
160
Cauliflower,
11
Chessant,
brace
泰山
Bloe Birds,.
dor.
Varrots,
Celery, Chinese,
, batty
+
數
Quail.
sach
27
English,
*
綠蔬菜
Snipe,
11
Teal,
Turkey, Cock,
Hon,
Wild Dzok,.
Barbel,
Bream, Bombay Ducks,
Fish.
paiz
Uton Fresh Water Finb, ostty
catty 500
800
A Bach
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Chilios Dried,
Curry Bluff, English,
Qucumbers,
130
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Bud,
60
60
BENA
40
育廳
Bittor Squash,
80
管風
海鲜
Garlic,
40
營
Ginger, young,
50
***
Borse Radish, S'bil,
120
力機
41900.
200
Indian Corn, .
pics
30
粟米-
BO
13
Lettuce, (English),
.eech
100 pieces 260.
Mushrooms, Fresh, Datons, Betulay: «
.usity
Carp,
JLLOC.
Catfish,
Catfish, Bulty
Crabe,
Cattle Fish,
Dab,
Doa,
Dog Fish,
Eala, Congor,
Frank water,
the "als, Yellow,
io Fish,
in
Frogs,
T
-Fresh Fish,
Garoupa,
Gudgeon
Gurnardy:
Herrings,
Lonch
Mallor
21 322 38
200
180
Groen,
· FT
Shanghal,
Харад,
Parsley, Erigisk,« Potatoes, Sweet,
Pumpkin,
Pursin Paper
Shanghal,
Japan,
American,
Feochow,
Radiah,
bundle
catty
Eloe, best quality, par plotß,
Bolhage, (Chilies)
Gourd