WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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AT PRICES TO SUIT ANY PURSE
PERFECT FIT
AND
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Gentlemen's Outfitters
64, Queen's Rd. C. Tel. 21417.
Very Nice Woollen Materiala
For
Making Ladies'
DRESSES
&
OVERCOATS
Also
FURS &
SILK HOSIERY Expert Talloring
Department. LEE MOWI
Chinese Silk Hoslery Store No. 1, D'Agullar Street
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21265.
TANG YUE, Dentist.
Successors to
the late SIEN TING, 14. D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE
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Printing
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OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
59, Queen's Road Central.
SHOES.
Fair
Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00. Black Browa
Bools from $8.00.
Children's Boots or Shoes from $2.00.
Best styles, mast complete stock
WONG SIU WOON
21, Pottinger St.
Phone 21474.
THE CHINA MAIL:
BIBLE MISPRINTS
A GUINEA FOR EVERY MISPRINT BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
The Truth About A Rumour.
Can you find a misprint in your Certainly we give a guinea to Bible? Having succeeded, can you the first person who draws our at- get a guinea for bringing It to some-tention to a misprint or blemish in one's attention? ask a Correspond-one of our editions. (He said it ent of the Manchester Guardian. [quito cheerfully, too). But, under- And continues thus:-
stand me, only to the first person.
110.
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HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
Butcher Meat.
Soup
BuRock's Brains
40
#5
Poultry.
Jan. 20, Jans, Juns,
1982, 1918. 1914.
Cia. Cla. Cts.
lb. 88 30 31
28 80
62 28 10
4
58
$8 13
Ubicken Capons, Small Capona, Large
Duck
Eggs, Han (cooking)
Af per dox. 35 18
Jan. 20, June, June,
1982, 1918. 1914
Cts. Cts, Cta.
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24 20
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10
18
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As in the picking-petals-off-a- We have given away quite a 'num- dalsy song, some say yes, some say her of guineas, too, in the course of Even among rectors and vicars time. We do not wait to be ask- and curates and perhaps among ed, either. Аз воод аѕ we have deans, canons, bishops, and arch-verified a case reported to us bishops-there is no unanimity on send the guines
We have a good the subject. The majority of vicars many reports in a year, but most dismiss the notion as just another of them are from persons who are of the queer old rumours about too late, or from persons who mis- Elver eaay money which permeate this take an old-fashioned spelling for Tripe quaer old country of ours, such as a modern error. Some are from Calves' Head à Fort the legend that any child lucky cranks, who stick stubbornly to Mutton Chop enough to be born in prison is en-their point to win a victory for vic-| titled to an income of a farthing a tory's sake, not to gain the guinea. day from the Government for its
A responsible official at the office
1
Log in!!
Shoulder
Saddle
of all sizes. Repairing a speciality. entire life. (Claims for arrears of of Printer C also announced his Pig's Chitling
that allowance are still trickling Arm's readiness, nay eagerness, to through, I am told, to the Frison give a guinea to the first lynx-eyed Commissioners),
detector of a typographical error
SPORTING GOODS.
ATHLETIC GOODS
1
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Fat or Lard
I have now found out the truth in a now edition of the Bible as about this much-discussed rumour. printed by them. He said: There are three firms in Britain, and three only, which are permitted inge of an error in the other two Naturally we don't pay for tid- by law to print coples of the Bible. firms Bibles. You understand Pork Chop They are the Oxford University that?
These errors are very few Press, the Cambridge University and, as a matter of fact, always Press, and Messrs. Eyre and Spot-entirely due to some accident such tiswoode.
as the bending of the edge of Sheep's Head & Foot .. Although no request was made of plate, causing a "fadeout," or to
Hears me to regard anything that was said as confidential, I pefer to shake guineas for a faulty full stop or a smashed type. There are no up their respective explanations la blurred comms, by the way. Such Sucking Pigs, to order THE LIANG YOU CO. a hat, so to speak, and, while keep-applications as are made to us are sust, Beef
ing each quite separate from its chiefly from men. We obtain fall companions, to present it to you as particulare and examine our reveal A, B, or C.
KHARERITER
AT
70, Queen's Road Central.
maining stock of that edition.
If
necessary, we are quite prepared to cancel an edition, though only a
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A responsible official in the firm of Printer A told me:
Do we give a guinea to anyone bad blemish would justify so seri who shows us a misprint in one of
ous a step. The reward, I em- Barbel our Bibleat Certainly not. We've phasise, goes only to the first in- been given a lot of trouble by that former. rumour. Some time ago it appear-
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HOP SING & CO.
ple writing in and claiming the re- many applicants who assume that Catfish ward. Of course, careful as we are because a word in the Bible is spelt Codsal
(here he gave a diffident cough, differently from the way it is now Craba
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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzis has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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do creep in to the type sometimes. anyone who thinks ho has found a Daca Yes, we do like to have them point-mistake first to compare his Bible Dog Fish A boy showed me one only with several others of different ori.
Evis, Conger recently. Sometimes we have given gin.
ed out.
small rewards. But a guinea for My Inquiries among vicars and each-certainly not!
curates revealed that many of them Frogs He went on to explain that most are very well aware of the chance Garoupa of the "errors" spotted were mere- of winning the misprint guinea. I Gudgeon ly ancient spellings. The writers was told of a certain gloomy young Herringe had compared a Bible word as spelt curate down in Oxfordshire who abus in the seventeenth century with a startled the congregation one win-Labrus modern pocket dictionary and atter Sunday morning by smiling and Loach once Assumed that the firm was becoming quite cheery while read Lobsters illiterate or careless. Others starting the Second Lesson. Two days Mackerel ed a long and leisurely discus-later, having got a safe start, he Monk Fish sion, at the rate of two or three confided in a clerical comrade that Mallet letters a week, and rarely if ever he had noticed "a perfectly splendid Oysters enclosed stamped envelopes for misprint" and had hastened to Parrot Flah the replies. "That guinea-for-a-notify it (not to his bishop). Porch... misprint is only newspaper talk, An amusing misprint in a large Piks only a rumour," he added, empha- lectionary Bible was discovered by Plaice... tically. So that was that,
a Buckinghamshire'rector. In the Pomfret, White Second Book of Kings, chapter 9, Pomfret, Black
Only One Guinea, Next I called
on the Arm of verse 1, the words "Gird up thy Prawns Printer B, where a responsible offi- loins" appeared as "Gird up they Bay cial declared:
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VANISHING EAGLES.
12
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16
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lb
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244
25 26
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Rock Fish
Roach
39
Salmon
Shark
A COIN HE MADE HIMSELF.
Sicate
Shrimps
But He Was Not Arrested.
Bird Of Prey In Danger Of Extinction In Germany.
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Tempest, a
deformed savage
14-A fierce American
Indian
HORIZONTAL (Cont.); VERTICAL (Cont)
149-And not
180-11-fo, cuntrated 51-Definite article
82-French for king
(23-To humble
Groat N. American
snapping turtle
16-A great Roman post 67-A great Hebrew
16-Latin word for line
17-A.ridiculous".
proceeding
18-To band in the
middle
15-Encountered
21-Very warm 22-Dalty
23-Fetters
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17-Comicat
prophet
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60-A college town in
N. Ohio {81-An officer who
Inquires into the 'cause of vlolont death
VERTICAL
1-The oyster-plant
20-igh
21-Animosity 24-A negative 126-A masure of
weight at-To-recting
139-To obriruct, as a
stream 34-A violent wind
storm
85-To look at
36-Beizas suddenly 87-Dispatched. 38-A sallor 89-Instrument.for
measuring
diamsters
141-An African tree with
huga trunk
2-A place where been 43-A short loose whlet
kare kept
SA-dance
14B-A fonglegged.
shore-bird
4-Water in solid form 46-A metal in comman
G-Faiso BraxanddyTA
6-Bymbai for fron
8-Interisoc.on..
Low stories directly
under no roof
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freight-boat 12-Harmony
something
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cross-word pussia will app
A Bohemian-looking man enter- The Prussian eagle, once the most Parbos..
ed a Budapest shop, and having dreaded bird in the world, and Turtles, small fr, water made a purchase, flung a glittering regarded as the "hallmark of Ger- new coin on to the counter.
con-
ARMY'S NEW-RIFLE.
Doubt About Efficiency
Action.
BYRON'S SLIPPERS.
Another Relic For The Harrow School Collection.
WANTED A PIED PIPER
City Begins A Huge Rat
„Drive,
many, is in danger of extinction, As the assistant examined it with says Reuter's Munich correspond- suspicion, the customer remarked ent calmly, "There is nothing wrong Observers state that the only with the money-I made it myself." eyries left in Germany are
The assistant hastily called the fired to the Bavarian Alps and owner of the business and suggest Bohemian mountains. Many eagles ed that they should immediately have migrated south to Austria and The new rifle with cruciform Brown leather slippers which call the police to arrest the "self- Hungary, but those remaining have shaped thrusting bayonet, approved used to be worn by Byron have been never really recovered from the for the Army, has been issued to presented to Harrow School by Cap- But the shopkeeper recognised earlier. activities of misguided certain units for trial I under- tain J. S. Redmayne. the well-known Hungarian sculp sportsmen and egg-stealers, stand, says the military corres The school has many relics of ter, Louis Beran, who, having Killing engles was made illegal pondent of the Morning Post, that Byron, Including the stump of the been employed by the Hungarian in 1925, when an Eagle Protection both weapons have so far given tree under which he sat in Harrow miut, was the lawful creator and Society was formed, but, apparent satisfaction, but no official reports churchyard, his first watch, bis of cats these work separately. not the forger of the coin.
ly. It was too late, and the birds have been received by the War duelling pistols, a portrait of his A brigade of ferrets, have continued to diminish rapidly Office,
daughter, and a latter from his 5,000,000 poison cakes, thousai or migrate.he
The ride is known as "No. 4, mother to his lawyer stating that of gas cartridges.
confessed solner."
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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MAS
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SCAVEED DRO HORS OLAND PAGE BAIRY AOF ARNET
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END. OILATED ROLD ROELDED MODLARK S REAKS UTAIN
FOR THE BENEDICTINES.
War on rate, on the grand has started in Buenos Aires where rats do damage esti 257,000,000 a year.. The army comprises:
20,000 citizens.
An army of terriers, and an ariny
| Mark X" ' In the “sighting,” the he refused to return to school be-・・ The only thing missing is à Plo
most important change has been cause he had fallen in love with | Piper. effected, but while the soldier his cousin, Miss Chaworth - Vessels in the port have be Benedictine monks at the Abbay engaged in compiling as large a The slippers were the property of furnished with wire netting gutza of Montecassino, one of the most score as possible at a stationary Admiral Studdert, Captain. Red- to prevent the fleeing fate, Trou famous monasteries in the world, canvas target, or a snipper taking mayne *, grandfather, a who - was have just been provided with, the deliberate and careful aim in action, Byron's host in Athens..
Water supply they have been want
Ing for fourteen cont
Bignor construction carry a
would certainly find the new "per ture" type of sight an advantage, It red... the is questionable if a man in the heật đồ
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