RANDOM REFLECTIONS,
Local sport is not so conspicuous, in the columns of the newspapers these days, Tennis is practically the only game that attracts any attention at prouent, with the exception perhaps of lawn bowls. The new league will soon be getting to business, and if it doos as much to improve tennis as the football lengho did for that game, the promoters will have every reason to feel satisfied. I understand the Kowloon Crisket Club lins received the promise of a trophy to be offered for an open ohampionship
CURRENCY IN CHINA,
MEMORANDUM BY SIR CHARLES DUDGEON.
In December lust the following Memerandum, prepared by Sir Charlos Dudgeon, Chairman of the London Committee of the China Association was submitted to HM. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Had Lord Palmerston interested himself in thus question of Chinese currency, he might have propounded an even better conundrum than that of What is a Found P" and floored the the House of Commons (and
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 10TH, 1909.
tative, it has been compiled from the most, reliable native sources available, and there is every reason to believe that the ramifications of the note issues are even more wide-spread than they are represented to be therein."
LONELY ISLAND:
BRITISH IN PACIFIC WHO WILL BE GLADDENED BY VISIT.
Their
at 194 in 1910. And this is the limit, From such point, according to him, this will be gra dually reduced until, in 1950, the average oceup- ancy will be 167.-Brooklyn Eagle.
THE MYSTERY OF WINE.
THERE IS SKILL AND
THOROUGHNESS
OF CONSTRUCTION
IN ALL
PIANOS
And much as Wine has play'd the Insol, A STUDY IN THE FINE ART OF WINE TASTING.
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour-well,
I often wonder what the Vintners buy. One half so precious as the stuff they sell. In the fasting-rooms of the large buyers of wine, just now the subject of highest interest is submitted to the judgment of experts by the great houses of Champagne vintage likely vintage naturally will follow the 1900 vintage, to prove a very fine one. In offerbeter, the 1904 which followed that of 1898. In the interven ing years, the products of the champagne die. tricts were not high enough in quality to be classed as vintage wines- phrase devoted only STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY to the best,
competition. That is decidedly good but when the question of "What is a Tone else) with fifty-six million taal's worth of copper cash of the girilised world; the rim of the her the champagne vintage of 1904, which is being
are the ladies to be catered for. There aro
quite a number of first-rate lady players in the colony and it would certainly be interesting to note their provoss with the racquet.
Just now, on a tiny island in the far away Shanghai further states that "in addition to the large circulation of notes representing Pacific Ocean, a little community sexionely tacks and dollars, there have been issued within watolies day by day the eastern horizon; and the last two years an immense number of notes the first man to announce the appearance ou the
details as to the amounts issued by will be for days the proudest man in Pitegira. the individual banks, but the estimates made of
For the members of this island community, presenting oopper dash; we have been unable ocean's distant threshold of a squat little cruiser the clrculation in the various provinces are anid says a correspondent in a home paper, know be on a conservative bonis. Not only have that that oraiser will bring their mail, which
year or two. between nine and ten thousand millions, of ton arrives once in a outh pieces been struck by the mints, but about island is out of the track of the ships notes have been isoned during the same period, son is ever clear save, perhaps, when some which at 1,650 cash to the tae! would represent drunken wind jammer wanders from the road half-light, passing by to the bustling centres over another ten thousand millions of ton cash and appears like a ghost in the evening Amount the other side of the Hora; or when there pieces, The estimato in given as follows:
Province.", Year of Isane.
Manchuria Tls. 30,000,000 creeps up this cruiser sent by the British Hupeh...
Tla. 10,000,000 Government to show the fing and to see that all Tls. 7,000,000 is well with the files in this lonesome orner of Shantung
TL. 5,000,000 the sea wilderness, the world forgetting, by the Canton
Tis. 4,000,000 world forgot. 1908
Hunan...
"It Shanghai's comment is as follows: seems almost incredible that a country with a sound financial reputation such as China has And for currency purposes, the information enjoyed in the past, should permit reckless given to Mr. Jamiesen is pretty nearly correct dealing of this nature with the currency of the also, for there are very few people in this world country, more exqmeially with the money of the who can say what sort of a wol any given toul millions, the standard in which wages and all retail transactions are settled, but so it is; really is what is its weight, its fineness silver, retal stringent measures are not taken to and what its exchange value.
control those issues, China will eventually be face to face with all evils attendant upon of inconvertible paper."
In a report apon the "Revenue and Expendi. turs of the Chinese Empire," prepared by: Mr. George Jamieson, late Consul-General at Shang hai, he states that he was explicitly informed by a Chinese Official that (for revenue purposes anyway) "s tael was not o'tael in the ordinary would senas of the word, but was such a sim as Speaking of leagues, reminds me of at the local authorities to lay down a teel of suggestion that a similar competition might be the standard weight and parity in Peking, and, got up among the local bowling-clubs. Kowloon consequently, included a meltage fee, loss on Bowling Club is the oldest organisation, and melting, freight, and costs of transmission, and
general office expenses! since it was formed some eight or nine years ago a number of clubs have spring into existence. The Civil Service players were the next to take up the game, then the Police followed suit, and shortly afterwards the grain at Cosmopolitan Dook was opened. Since then, the Taikoo Club
are
1906 1907
1908
1908
The recommendation of remedies, in presence of the confusion now prevailing in financial questions, is a matter of extreme difficulty: some hope for the situation may however, perhaps be found in the belief oxpressed by are becoming more and more amenable to Shanghai "that Chinese bankers and officials foreign advice, owing to the stringency of the native money market." Such advice is offered by Bhanghai in the following suggestions:
(1) The issue of an Imperial Edict, prohibiting controlling the terms of issue shall have been any further issue of bank notes, until regalations published.
month.
STRANGE TALES:
a
WE IMPORT
SUPERIOR VALUE
For the past four years, until mature for ship- ment, these wines of the newest vintage bave teen carefully treated in the great chalk careS finest champagnes comes and now the London of Epernay, Boury, and Rheims, whence the
Champagno is more dealers will compare the curries or vata of the
Clleqnot, Heidsieck, Moet, Mumm, Pommery, great shipping houses. generally known by the name of the shippor BUILA, THROUGHOUT FOR and so on-than by any special locality. It is time of very great interest in the wine trade also to wine drinkers, who will begin drinking the 1904 wines, which have now attained a certain maturity, this suramor,
THE.METHOD.
The facos
They are hoping that the British Postmaster will call them to mind soon, and they are not to be disappointed; for it is announced that H. M.S. Flora will shortly proceed to Pitonirn Islam! from Coquimbo, Chile, and that lotteri so printed matter for the island lease England this Even in this country, where we receive letters as often as we feed, there is still a joyous scusation in finding a letter awaiting us, if it be A currency tuel. may perhaps be defined as a
What then must be the the variations of both weight and daeness being
delight of the Pitcairners when the mail has been formed, and other sporting associations varying weight of silver of varying fineness,large portion of her currency being composed of the right sort.
Let us take advantage of an invitation from kove shown an interest in the game. With four governed by topical conditions and custom, as
arrives?
It was my good fortune to go aboard H.MS. Messrs. Spiers and Pond to look in at ortive bowling associations in the colony, it should wolf as by the nature of the transactions in not be dificult to form a league which would give which it is employed; for the taal weight current a great impetus to the game. Perhaps the for the purpose of buying (y) abalo of cotton
Floru when she returned to the China station their tasting-room and gain some idea of goods, may be. and indeed often is, quite
after her last visit to the romantic waters of the the fine art of judging. wines. Kowloon Club as the oldest might take the lead different to that required for buying a pical of
Southern Pacific. At ng place during their of the assemblat committee-five or six exports, a warmer welcome that at Pitcairn Island.ities on wino--are becomingly serious; and it is in calling a meeting, or the Police, as being salt. A good illustration of this is given-by
26,000 mile cruise had the officers and men had including one of the first living author sample after sample to the test of their senses of perhaps the most onthusiastic, might do so. The Mr. Morse in his recent work, "The Tide
They brought back to our hundrum world in an awe-inspiring silence that they apply and Administration of the Chinese Empire,"
the officers told me of white men they had sight, smoll, and taste. The air has a winy fra- matter should not be allowed to drop..
in which he instances the conditions obtaining
strange tales of its lonely people.
grance, and is fraught with mystery, at Chungking, in Szechuen, where the tools
met who had no idea whether the Tories or ase are of three different degrees of What a time the ladies had on Wednesday st in
at least
destinios from Westminster; who wore in foot, the garden fête! Not for a long time have they finencas, with about a score of diferent
the Liberals were controlling the Empire's
that there
not awara, that Russia and Japan were at war, weighta 80
and who had to have explained to them that had such an opportunity of playing at work and,
sixty currencies possible in this town alone!"
(2) Bevere penalties to be imposed for dis
Queen Victoria was really no more. incidentally, showing themselves to advantage. The chaos of the tael is not, however, the least
offer.co. I think the dear things are most fascinating part of the currency confusion, for there are obedienco, which should be made a criminal. R. on the mailbage meant that the great
THE SIMPLE LIFE. current in China"ninetoen different kind of
(3) Regulations based on the experience
The officers of the Flora found their hosts when dispensing tea and showering little atten dollars of different exchange values, as well as
(4) Issues now in circulation, which do not wondrous content with their lot. Not once did tivas on the men folks, and I am sure the newly-coined tools, Chinose rupees, and an foreign banks should be drawn up forthwith. ladies themselves are not devoid of that know-infinite variety of copper coins and brass cash,
le debased subsidiary coinage belag issued, conform to the regulations should-be withdraw they hear a desire to gnit the shores of the In their own simple way the Pitcairners were lodge. One could not help noticing that the married ladies simply carried all before then, thongh not accepted, at within a of the island for the life of the great world beyond.
Government issuing (Pekin telegrain to the being closed or wound up
immediate appointment of a Beard of prospering; they had none of the warped and frenzied ambitions of crowded cities; no destro metaphorically speaking at the fête. They know Times, 19th September, 1908). The chaos
for wealth or position. Happy, happy people!
They had an oldest resident, of whom they how to tackle the gentlemen, and while the single of currency conditions are well summed up by Currency. (The engagement of the services of
under the Board of wore proud. He was a cheary old soul of 87, ladies stood by overcome by maidenly modesty Air Muse, in his work referred to above at least one foreign expert adviser would be of (6.) The Master of the Mint,
and he claimed to be the grandson of their and wondering what to do, the married ladies In China the currency is at the top a weight great advantage to China.)
pure stid simple, in the middle a combination of
coin which stands on its own foot, and neither who should have control of all the salute in the pioneer, Fletcher Christian. Other families weight and token currency, and at the bottom receives support from, or absolutely gives it to, Empire. (The interest and co-operation of carried-rememberance of the foundere of their visit the aria or is the Chinese banks aich have maintalued the stand-res in the names they bore-Young, Christian of course, modified: Imt not subjugated, the teel (call it the onnce, and it will be better ard of syces in the past, might be enlisted in the McCoy. Inter-marriage with the Tahitians had
(7.) Pending the establishment of the control Western feature of the people. realised), in which payments are made in management of the mints.) precisely the same way that delivery is taken of a lot of silver bars. Then comes the of the mints, the further issus of subsidiary dollar, which, though a coir, is nowhere legal silver coins and copper-cash to be suspended, tender, and of which the specimens from the until they circulate at par; the
lad rashed in and done it.
I heard it said that on this occision some mors men who sat down to tes found the force of labit too strong for them, as they yelled out "boy" when they wanted more... Of course explanations followed. -
a
it
Currency, of
of
THIS CLIMATE.
ROBINSON PIANO,
CO. LTD.
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EXCITEMENT ON THE SULTAN.” This morning twelve samples of the fluest
This morning there was great excitement on cuvées of twelve different shippers are to be jodged. In the early hours the little room has forward by a staff of highly-trained clerke off Kanagawa, owing to a large spent making been prepared for the mysteries now going board the British steamer Sultan, now moored Bound three sides of the room run low countersite appearance from the hold of the ressel The fitted at the back with 'Ettle sells, like steamer, the local agents of which are Messrs. pigeonhotos, each large enough to contain Butterfield and wire, was recently sold to the a champagne bottle; and in front of each O-aki Shibuilding yard, Shinagawa, and a on the steamer, under the superintendence of hide the
the Bhipbuilding yard. While the workmen Preto thue
engaged, the serpent suddenly made group of cells there is a green cartam to number of workmen are now engaged at work
its appearance, to the great surprise of all on board. The men attempted to capture or kill the reptile, but were prevented from doing so by order of the Captain. In the meanwhile the some time ago three small snakes were set free serpent escaped to the hold. It is reported that for the purpose of capturing rate on the steamor. Japan Gazette April 22ad.
bottle from the tusters ken, The tasters as they taste are applied with slips of different coloured papers, lettered to correspond with the cells and glasses; and on these slips they record their verdict on the order of merit. Each tastes in silence, without con- munication with the others; and when he has made up tás mind, hands in his slip of paper to to the recording clack,
When as many as twelve wines are tasted they best-wine of each section has been found, an are livided into two sections, and when the elimination tasting takes place, only the best samples coming into the competition.
They were living about as near the simple life
There is always some divergence of opinion as the most thorough-going Utopian could desire. soil, and in short, enjoyed all the advantages of dividual taste for a style rather than quality The Imperial Decree issued on the 5th the free life of those whom we are pleased to call but it is recognised that this system of tasting October last, urdaining the introduction of a the uncivilised, and at the same time suffered
comparatire merita. Tests on these lines ure alse," is not a bad description of tho-principal or Ynen," but merely 72 hundredthe of a tael; attraction at most bazaars. I say principal though so inscribed, dollars of silver are nowhere
fxed in terms of Laels of silver, but are quoted uniform silver currency throughout the Chinese none of the disadvantages; they enjoyed the gives an extraordinarily clear indication of inxury has been concentrated. Time was when ' Empire is a welcome (though tardy) recognition consequences of their civilisation, and suffered now going on in all the important tasting rooms attraction deliberately, because whether are
by China of her obligation to provide none of its ille Thoir measure of mortal hapin London. married or not, most of us-I think nu say with Robert Burns:
spent
"Where the ladies are, there the men will be Chinese mints are inscribed, not generally dollar copper cash to be definitely fredar rate for They existed comfortably on the products of the among the experts, partly owing to an in-
The haplocet oors that cer I
•
•
at rates which vary from day to day according
of Article II. of the Bhanghai Treaty of bustling world. They had no newspapers
to
of
SWEET, OF DEY,
considered palatial.
MODERN HOTELS AND THEIR MARVELS.
The hotel buildings which are being put up mark the culmination of a business to which the best of American ingenuity and desire for the hotel that cost half a million dollars was Now no hotel in the larger cities is considered first-class unless it posts at least 31,00,000, and many of the new hostelries cost three, four and five millions,
The modern hotel is a house of marvels. The including their site of ground lesee.
few friends does not realize perhaps the cost casual guest who spends a simple dinner for a
Not only is are summoned to his service. his room lighted and ventilated by electricitys bat his carriage is signalled, the potatoes for his,
the same fores. breakfast are peeled and his breed is kneaded by
the Chief Justice joking in court when adrsitting / 20pper cent. inscribed at the minte, of some earnestly to be hoped that the Decree will not about the supremaoy of the feet or the income, wine is liqueured to the taste of conspimers in cost and ingenuity of the mechanical devicet
at the bar" is
not for
EDGE-OF-THE-FLANHT OUTPOSTE.
be allowed to remain a dead letter, but that it is tax man; nore, in fact, of the harsher features au admission of the necessity for immediate of the struggle for existence. action, and expresses a real earnestness of in- tention to rectify the almost hopeless confusion into which currey matters of China have been allowed to drift.
The provisions of the Edict will, no doubt, meet with general approval, but it is to be remarked that no indication is given whether the new coins are to be issued solely from
for a uniform national coinage" in terme piness was indeed, greater than that of us of the
to A cuvée represents a blend of the products the demand and supply, factuating within a range of six to mors per cent... Then come subsidiary coins, fractional to the dollar, but
no letters with bills every morning: no scramble producing the most esteerned wines; and the subject to a fluctuating rate of exchange, suok 1902; had China paid earlier attention to this keep pace with no spiritbreaking telephones; of many differont vineyards, no one vineyard,
Treaty obligation it is probable that of the
qus ity of champagne depends or the skill that the Wore spent amang the lasses, oh!”.
dollar may this year change currency chaos which bus arisen in the past to catch the train to the City; no problems for 110 cents, and next your for only 35
few fears might have been obviated. It is poverty or housing of the people! no worry devoted to this blending. At a later stago the Humour sits in high places nowadays. Here's cents in small coin. Next comes the
different countries, or it may be left in the day, unsweetened condition that Englielmon love in Provinces as worth one hundredth of a dollar,
sparkling wines. The Russians like their cham- sweeter than honey, while Germans,
One of the latest hotel devices is a telauto their sparkling wines, though the fashion is Frenchraen, and Italians all favour sweetness in
Here, in England, champagne remains angraph, by which orders written in ons now slightly changing in France. the wine of festivity. Other wines are drank, paper by a moving pancit in a totally different questionably the most popular wine. It is department are automatically transmitted to less than of old; indeed, the general wing part of the building. Another electrical device of fire whenever the temperature around it is consumption to-day is not more than half that is a delicate apparatus installed in every room us to drink wine. French wines bought in abnormally high.
The old broom with its cland of funt is a of 1875, though there are tes million aero of of a New York hotel, which sends in an alarm
Pneumatic brooms have Paris octroi in a fortnight. year in England are not more than pass the
Sherry-one of the finest wines in the world thing of the past, has suffered a suffered a great loss in favour. taken its place, sucking up every partieln of dirt
Even the chambermaids who run these broom medical profession of about twenty-five years
are kept in constant touch with the main office inserts a small glass bulb in a socket on the The flow of fashion is among the greatest of frame of the hall door. This connects a circuit uge, though doctors now again are beginning to the mysteries of wine. Light, dry, old ports which not only lights the bulb, but also a glass recommend sherry
are coming into favour with gouty subjects- not the vintage ports, which may be a little batton on a switchboard in the office, thug en- dificult to digest, but winea matured in wood, abling the clerk to tell exactly where every of towar complexion, not overloaded with maid in the house is at a glance, Boston Globe.
THE TEAK WOOD TRADE. alcohol held by many to be the best and most
The tenk wood of India and Burms is not innocent of stimulants,
Competition flourishes in Hongkong. "A fair field and no fateur" is our motto, to which
we add "Int the best man win." These thoughts coinage of Chian, through the opening of of the K'ap'ing Tael as the national coin in Coquimbo she will dodge first on one side, then having never recovered from the attacks of the and depositing it in a bin in the basement.
a barrister to practise and expressing the hope and of others as worth ten cash, but never treated as correlated to the dollar; whether that there would be "no meaning at the bar " monsidered in its relation to the dollar or to the No doubt some decisions are bound to give pain cash, it is as token coin worth intrinsicially less to the gentlemen interested, but whether than half its nominal falso. Last comes the they will express themselves by moaning copper cash, the currency of the people. Here me to say. we have a series of non-related currencies, each unit of which is a state of unstable equilibrium, Frobably his Lordrip knows there is another red neither, in itself nor in relation to other bar where the monning is for frequent, quits.
4 most serious question of the moment is that and where the argument is usually of a more interesting nature,t that bar crystal, not of the new copper coinage, for it has to be bere in mind that copper is the coin of the people, and that consequently any jaggling with the golden, bridges are used.
copper coinage strikes at the very foundation upon which the trade of the Empire is based. The last three or four years have witnessed n most far-reaching revolution in the copper mrs suggested by a nice little toonal war. It is not provincial mints over the length and breadth of the ion war, though this one is suggestive of the Empire, the main industry of which has been eith, but it is a struggle over the sale of fans. the coinage of the ton cash ecper pieces above It will be remembered that during the Ward referred to. What the actual amount of such issee has been it is impossible to say with any Company's necupancy of the City Hall fars degree of accuracy, but an estimate, believed to were sold to patrons at ten cents each. Then be conservative, which has been prepared by Sir a keen-eyed rival came on the scene with fans Alexander Hosie for the yeara 1905-06 puts the issue at the enormous amount of 9,000,0:0,000 at five cents each. He held undisputed away for coins. The issue of this new coin of ten cash on some little time until he saw at the theatre the an honest basis, was welcomed as a more in the other night boys selling fans other than his, and right direction towards a stable copper coinage The rival competitors were intended to gradually supplant the old sumber his ire was roused.
sono copper cash, and in the beginning the Back to the tape and the autourst leaned coins were honest, the discs being mainly back in Kis seat well pleased with the result of imported from Europe of a parity of
and 1 part 4 parts zine copper, his great enterprise. But his triumph was short parta Hived. The following night his boys were shad-tin-the same, in fact, as the British penny. higher standard unit will tend to increase the
the other, of the Tropic of Capricorn, calling In the Society Islands, Easter Island, Fiji, and. probably, as well as at Fitcair, at lovely. Takit perchance, Eamon, beloved of R. L. S.
THE GROWTH OF NEW YORK.
mag fra borcaghs in this way It WES not long. however, before the cost of living: as Shanghai points out "the Manhattan
to
GOOD OLD DAYS,
Cigarette smoking has had a great effect on
by electricity, When, one enters a roum she
Their simplicity and quaintness were reflected stance, because the island was pestered by rate. in their laws. One must not kill a cat, for in- Saturday was the Sabbath, or taboo day. No work was then to be done, and the men of the Flors found that this, and all other iswa, were Most of the islanders could not conjure up a carried out both in letter and spirit. minte under the control of the Board of Finance
a very necessary proviso-noz is suy montion mental picture of a railway trais. Their ances made of a fixed ratio between the new coinage tore had been unable to describe anch inventions, and the copper currency another matter of as they had left England long before Stephen- first importance. It is understood that both son's Rocket paffed its way between Liverpool It aliud be added that the Flora, in her points have attracted the attention of His and Manchester.
The arguments in the Memorial which cruise, will doubtless call at several other edge Majesty's Ministor at Peking. accompanies the dict, favouring the adoption of the planet outposts of the Pacific. From preference to the dolar, do not appear to be very contincing: the opinion in the provinces is admittedly divided, and it in difficult to that from the point of view of China's national understand such pleas in favour of the tool, as dignity she ought to try to stand alone, that she cannot afford to throw away her sovereign
Josepli Caccarajo, an engineer of prominence, rights-how are they affected)-in order to gratify, the wishes of others, nor change the tradition of the country for the cunvenience of devote himself to the natural growth of popula the open ports or trading marte. While it is tion on the City of New York, in a table of hardly to be supposed that the open ports will computations pablished in the Eagle recently. meet with much sympathetic consideration, it At the very least, it is a most interesting the drinking of fine after dinner wines. Men what it is used to be. During the past few smoke cigarettes, whereas of old they linger.584,799; and while there was a time not no might reasonably be suggested that the interest speculation. It places the population of the pxime domestic importance.
are not alone in deploring that so much tes is all the teak wood she required, Bombay alone of Chine's or trading marte is a matter of City of New York at 4,810,000 in 1910, and at welke dagse the dinnertable with the Indies gears it has declized in value from £641,700 to There is much force in the argument that the 19,250,000 in 1950. This population is divided od lovingly over their glasses. Wine dealers long ago when India could supply herzelf with
1950, 1910.
drunk in these times, and go little wine and beer. now imports about 14 per cent of the teak This position aẾ 2,250,000 2,000,000 bat hold that a swing of the pendulum will supplies produced in Sium.
large 1,700,000 7.000,0.0 come. They said that the clerk who now lan affairs, however, is not necessarily a retrogros-
480,000 4,000,000 shes on tos and a scone will return to the sion because it is accounted for in 300.000 5,000,000 cistons of twenty-five years ago when lunches measure by the sedulous conservation of tank forests of India and Burma in the capidity of the officials was aroused, very inclin-effect will be more plainly felt in expenditure Brooklyn
80,000 250,000 Richmond
meant chops and halfpints of beer or claret. ed thereto by the heavy calls made upon the involving small sums such as 5 to 10 cents- Bronx...
will not be convenient in actual practice." It is,
This is not there guesswork, but is based upon But Englishmen at present-though they luterests of porterity At, all events, ther provinces for the service of the "Boxer translating these me into 4 ounts and 8 cards Queens indemnity; in any case, however, discs speedily began to be imported of lower and still lower however, no doubt trus that (as stated in the standard, until the intrinsic value of the coin Memorial) the bulk of the people in their past growth and future prospects themselves could, if they would, bay really honest Bordeaux is not now that wholesale slaughter of every- A coinage is that the exchange and the natural conditions and inevitable trend Frenchmen drink wine by the litre as a matter on in earlier days before the Forest Department was depreciated to less than half of its face value. daily life mostly rely upon the copper cur based on the acreage of the various boroughs wins at is, a bettiere not wine-drinkers thing in the shape of teak wood that went The profits to the provincial mints were immense tence no doubt the enormous propor- between the dollar point in favour of the of population. It is a fact that since 1790, both of everyday coarse; and if you order a three-came to the rescue. But, on the other hand, tions which the lagne ussumed--but for caure adoption of a dollar and the cash might be Manhattan and Brooklyn have doubled their franctable-dhete in Paris, they are pleased to while our exports of teak continue to decline, moment Bangkok prides itself on being able to half a frauce after paying duty. By: Sunday reading covered two appropriate cormous has been the loss to the people, for conveniently fixed at the old normal ratio of 1 to populatious every twenty years. All other
Among the mysteries of wine is the curious export half as much again as India and Hurma subjects. One was a strong plea to the clergy not only have they had to bear the loss of the 1.000, whereas the cash exchange of the Kuping things being, gast, which, in ipst, our give you a litre of wine which has cost them those of Siam continus to rise, till at the present sees no reason why that rule should not apply to tact that the finest tasters cannot define the combined. This is largely due to the fact that by the Bishop of Liverpool for the natural use depreciation on the new coins, but as all previour Taal (at the same rate) works out at the incon- adequate ways of transportation, Mr. Caccarajo
the loss of the de-venient figure of about 1,482. issues are affected, ther
Brooklyn in the future as in the past. The qualities on which they base their judgments, there are still left many virgin teak forests in of the voice in public worship. He described preciation on those issues to be incel as well.
total arrange of Brooklyn is 49,680, its available. They speak of a wine as "towny," "dry" "rish," Siam, which is also blessed with a splendid system ures for housing purposes is.40, 000 acres. The fruity." "of vintage character," "fragrant to of rivers by which the logs can be cheaply fontod Erasmus is the spokesman of a large number of To show what this depreciation aus, it needs
"velvety to the lasts," or as having down to shipment ports. Furthermore the teak deroat
Church people when he said that only to be stated that whereas in 1995-06 (when
the censte of 190 wus 29. It is estimated that In 1910 it will be 42. At the same rate of he was tired of the droning of ecclesiastical the minting of 10 cash pieces countenced) the
of wine depends on qualities thus described, they In this connection we observe that an attempt
clair of dispate Barron's
being able to services. For the moment I felt myself in cash exchange of the Shanghai tael was between 1,100 and 1,120; to-day itis 1,68, while a recent
Growth as in the past, in 1950 the average, are so subtle that chemists and analysts, cannot is being made in a continenal paper to palation per acre would be 175, always com hoarty agreement with Eramus and the muil from China advises that in Hankow the
a celebrated analyst supply the finest teak wood that the world pating on the available, which is arrived at the Bishop of Liverpool on the subject, à moment cash exchange of the Hunkotel (Sh. Tl. 1.02)
by dedusting park lands, cemeteries and swamp acknowledged before a beach of magistrates, produces. The author of this crusade (M later I happened to be glancing at a disserta- Lins risen 1,885. tion on physical culture, wherein it was stated
lands. Now 175 persons to an aura is far away that analysts could not discover the origin of Postin) is said to have formerly held an official was no difference between a twepenny cigar and trees of both Barma and Sam are identies that there is no more healthful occupation ta on minting them has disappeared, and the deluge. Two chickens and a fruit turt were browning from congestion.
a half crown one, or between a leg of mutton (Tectomagrandis) core frora contiguous regions M. W and are grown in similar ground. May be but Barma has got the name in the commercial yawning." I reflected that nowhere more than of pripus coins hus bean checkel. In these nicely. Mr. Childs has what be calls a wind. There are spots in Manhattan where the alcohol; and explained that to the analyst there position in Siam and he contends that the task world of producing the finest teak, and she is to the churches do we see people indulging in circumstances a new expedient has been hit turbine, a special form of windmill, which average occupancy is 1000 to the sore.
raising the wind" in the form automatically always face the wind by an congestion. Such spots are called sores. They for for
likely to keep it in spite of anything that can be this "healthy occupation" and dark dunkte of the issue of native bank taal and dollar notes, ingenious system of plans directors. The wind era topetnant districts, and efforts by philanth and a log of beef..
said to the contrary. The goodwill of an accep HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Koop your com- arose in my mind as to whether it no iee, in a few instances issued by recognised hanks wheel, in being blown round, drives a dynamo rapists and sociologists are being made to in the interest of the Jinman race, to banish of the local governments, but in others by merely which generates electricity and charges a set of distribute their population. But trade and private institutions; those issues are not electrical accumulators. From these the electric commerce are really doing more of this work the drosing parson from the pulpit. The authorised by the Imperial Government, and onrrent is obtained for lighting and heating, than any other agency. For their own needs plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crême Charmante, Lait teu article in the timber trads, as in other trades When the wind blows strongly and the dynamo they are uncroaching on the territories and Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre oren the patat medicine trade is worth a lot Herof money, and persists so long as the demand "printer's devil will not grant me time encugh they are neither limited, nor have they any
1453 to decide. this interesting question, so I must proper cash reserves behind then, Appended to tends to gouerste kod much ourruat, an auto driving ont tenants: And it is here that you Charmant will enable you to do it.
this Memorandum is a statement received from matic device is operated which checks the touch the striking points of the table. In Specialities for the Skin are the study of a continues and the quality of the supplies is not
norer likely to happen.-Ponser. Shanghai regarding this fuote issue; the state- generating power, so that there is no fear of too 1900 there was an average of 154 to an gere in lifetime, A. 8. Watson & Co. Ltd. Sole Agents below par, which in the rise of Burma, teak is pass it on to my readers.
Manhattan. It requires no guessing to place it mont lays no claim to be complete or authori- rapid charging of the accumulators
owed by other boys giving fans gratis, and as this was continued it was not surprising that the sale for funs dropped to an infinitesimal degres and the growing monopoly met the fate of wheat corners in America. Que might reflect ox this incident, but to reflect would be to reflect, so I want
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RODERICE RANDOM.
Seeing that these ten cash pieces are now circulating at about their actual value, the profit
rency."
COOKING BY WIND.
POSSIBILITIES OF A NOVEL DEVICE
At an electrical factory at Willesden Green Mossys: J. G. Childs and Co. Ltd.), a dainty Innoheon was to be seen recently wooking in an electric stove whose only fuel was the wild
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population of Brooklyn per acre, according to the powell," and while the which goodnose industry is comparatirely a new one in Sim
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