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TAK license law of Sweden forbids any person buying drink without purchasing something to eat at the same time.
HOUSTHOLM in Jutland has the world's hierest electric light. It is of 2,000,000 candle power, and has a range of twenty-six miles.
THE in mines of Rehemia and Saxony have decreased their output, two-thirds in the last few years and are said to be rear the point of
exhaustion.
the Czar has returned to St. Petersburg and changed his winter suit of boiler iron for a light spring suit of cast steel.
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PARIS financiers' estimate the loss to France from the failure of the Panama Canal Company and the Copper Syndicate at over $300,000,000. A COTTON fabric which has been patented in England has the appearance and soft feel of chamois leather, and it is guaranteed will not lose its special qualities when washed.
THE evidence is accumulating that the microbe of malaria, which was described by Laverau, is the cause of intermittent fever.
The New York Times prints a picture of its new thirteen-storied building, which is undoubtedly the finest newspaper building in the world.
IT is stated that the priests whose imprisonment | JUDGE—At first you stole $60, and then after for seditious utterances caused the recent riots ward $40. Are you never going to do better? nt Guanajuato, Mexico, will be expelled from. Criminal-Why, your honor, I did belter that the country under the Pernicious Foreigners Act. time by $20.
ACCORDING to the army statistics issued by the British Government, there was during the year 1888 a falling off of 25 per cent in the number of recruits in Ireland, both for the line and for the
militia.
THE Washington Post cheerfully observes that IT is expected that the Spanish Government will soon self at auction $40,000.00 worth of State wandland in order to cover the financial deficit. to build railroads, canals and highways, and to establish rural loan banks.
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We are informed by the agent of the Austro- Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Com. pany's steamer Berenice, from Trieste, India. Straits, &c., teft Singapore yesterday afternoon for this part, and may be expected on or about the 4th proximo.
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SHE-Do you love music? I am passionately fond of it. He (just introduced) knew you were. I watched you the other night at the opera, and the way your jaws kept time to the music was a—- She-Sir?
Ma. M. L. Hussay, the well-known inventor, of Menlo Park, has secured a patent for a watch to run by electricity. The battery is inclosed in
the watch case, and with it the timepiece will run for a whole year without any attention.
"A STRANGE metamorphosis has taken place in the tree that Washington cut with his little hatchet," remarked the snake editor. "How is that?" asked the horse editor. "It was a cherry tree, you remember." "Yes." Well, now it is regarded as a chestnut,"
ST. PETER'S at Rome is to be further embellished by fresh mosaics. At present the cornice running round the nave and ajales is merely a canvas MAGISTRATE-Were vou ever arrested before,imilation, but Pope Leo intends to replace it by read mosaic, according to the original designs by Uncle Rastus? Uncle Rastus-Yes, salt, I war
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed andrewed. but I war disch 'ged; an' I tell va yo'r Raphael, Bramante and Michael Angelo.
placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order..
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konnah, dat I war nebbab so proud in my life as when 1 walked down dat court-room a free an
were
honorable man. Magistrate-Then you not proven guilty, Uncle Rastus ? Uncle Rastus
sah,
Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-No, sah; dere was a flaw in de indictment,
COAST PORT ORDERS. whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.
FIR. FROST of Saco, Maine, extracted a snake from the stomach of a woman, in Portsmouth, and won lasteaching fame by the exhibition of
"visited him who believed that they had snakes
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THE word's wine vintageof 1888 was 3010201,152 gallons. Italy led all countries with 80,214,000 hectaliters, and France was a close second with Fo,120 ooohectaliters, Califonia producing 750,000
hectaliters.
SOME of the Sanitary Science "people, have been agitating the question of making bathing compulsory. It won't work. It was tried in Noah's time, and the only people who escaped with their lives were those who kept out of the water.
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hours? Would not such a kiosk pay at the entrance to the Race course, the beginning of the Road of the Bubbling Well, not to speak of the open space round the Well itself?
But all this, neither the opening of the shops during the hours in which buyers go forth to buy, and closing them when there is no one there but to sell, nor the opening of kiosks, and ever scattering of ices and lemon juice broad- cast-though the last would be indeed a boon- | would help those of us who are prostinte, to rise up again. For that, nothing less is needed than that people here should cease to dress as they did in London or Paris, and begin to dress as they do in Southern Europe, if they Chinese do. A not quite out of date report has cannot quite get the length of doing ns, the it that feminine Paris is going to dress in feminine Japan's discarded garments. In that case Shanghai will probably find it possible to do likewise after a year or two's interval.
to be promoted abroad, by a consular : service reduced to such a level? The spoils system has got to go, despite its intrenchment in the very seat of power,.—Springfield Republican.
SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
Scottish proverbs are very numerous, and many of the Highland ones are of great antiquity, as might be expected in a wild country, where for centuries the small quantity of extant learning was handed down by oral tradition among rough men whose whole time was spent in watching for deer, fishing for salmon, sheep minding among the hills, peatdigging, and the cultivation of patches of niggard land.
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The Gaelic proverbs are strongly colored by the race whose village Solomons threw into'ʼn few words of poetry or prose the experience of their hard and warlike lives. These shrewd Men may find white duck coats up to their sayings contain many allusions to the old fight......... 'throats, with stand-up collars forming à substan- ing days of rival clans, and among most REFERRING to the report concerning the abolitial sort of warm poultice, the most agreeable of them are traces of the beliefs and tion of the Viceroyshin of Ireland, United garment in which to court sunstroke. But the courage of this strong and choleric race. The Ireland says: The Viceroyship, although whether they do or not they probably transact Highlander objects to letting the mountain, the degraded, must be maintained, as it is a sign of
most of their business and intercourse with | wood and the pool to be fenced around by here Ireland's separate nationality.
one another in somewhat airier if not more ditary clans. So, the old Celtic proverb says: becoming, garments. We cannot help noticing "A salmon from the pool, a stick from the wood when caught in a sudden rainstorni in Japan | and a deer from the hill are thefts that no man, without change of clothes what heroes previously is ashamed to own." common-place looking European men appear, Wrapping kimonos of bold design around their well set up figures. It is for women, however, there is the most pressing need of change, though of course anyone suggesting a new departure is immediately told "Men like to see their wives in tight fitting dresses." No doubt they do, for it is n fashion that came in rathei more than five years ago, and men always like en fashion to which they bave had a few years in which to get accustomed. But do they realise what it is to have clothing soaked with perspira tion, as it must be alter the slightest movement. at Chinese summer temperature, held tight against the delicate warm body, without any possibility of fresh air getting in to dry it, and that many women must sicken, and be invalided home, or die, or become chronic cases, if they bave to contend against the Chinese climate under such terribly aggravated conditions? And is it not, after all, the case that men always like, in time, whatever costume the pretty women of their acquaintance elect to wear?
IN the future every great ironclad will have its suite, composed of small fleet. This will consist of two first-class, torpedo-boats, a fast gunbaat ram, generally towed, and a very fast 200-ton "turnabout torpedo catcher, fitted with the latest improvements for destroying torpedoes.
THE row in the Chinese Recreation Ground to which we refented a day or two ngo seems to have been pretty fively. For an hour or two the whole quarter seems to have been thronged with clansmen of the two teachers of boxing whe started the quarrel, and even the surrounding streets were impassable. For about a quarter of James and others were fighting as hard as they an hour two or three European constables-P, C.
could with the mob, trying to disperse them, and charging them whenever they re-assembled. CUSTOMER-I see you are advertising fall sets of One of the ringleaders was arrested later by teeth for $8. Dentist (cautiously)-Y-e-s, sir; Inspector Quincey, who found him in a "fighting, do you I ve at home? Customer-No; I board. saloon" (caching thirty or forty men how to use Dentist (with dignity)You certainly cannot fighting-irons. Quincey soon cleared the lot expect, an $8 set to be of any use in a boarding-out, despite their science, and the professor was house, sir. My charge to you will be $25. to-day bound over in a surety of $100 to keep the peace. Several coolies who participated in the fight were also fined small amounts.
It is reported that a Dr. Eisenmann of Berlin has invented a piano. which, by the aid of
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Highland scenery is vividly painted in one of these proverbs, : If a man is asked why he does not do some difficult thing, he often replies: "I'm stopped by what keeps the goats from the ivy "--that is, by the steepness of the cliff. Often when a Highlander is liberally, treated in a bar- gain he uses the proverb: "If a man does not reckon with me, Pll not reckon with him.”. This was the saying of Harry of the Wynd, the sturdy swordsmith and armorer of Scott's “Fair Maid of Perth."
When the Clan Quhele fought the Clan Chat- tan on the Inch, at Perth, in the reign of King „Robert III., a man was missing from the Clan Chattan combatants, and the payment as a gold crown was troclaimed to any able-bodied man who would fill the vacancy in the field. Henry, surnamed Gow, or the Smith, and sometimes "Henry of the Wynd," volunteered, 'went into the contest, and being able to use as well as make a sword, speedily. Killed an antagonist, after which he struck no blow, but contented bimself with warding off those aimed at him. As no woman would, however, have the The chief who had hired him, seeing that the hardihood to adopt something quite novel alone, fight was fierce and the issuo doubtful, demanded could there not be a Society formed to do away why he had ceased to assist in the combat. The with high, close fitting collars, and tight sleeves, reply was, “I have done enough for my day's and skirts weighted with lining and trimming, wages," Said the chief, "He who serves me without but above all to no garment light fitting counting the hours, I reward him without reckoning during the hot weather, and to set women's his wages.". On this Henry jumped up, saying: throats free? Nothing more predisposes to 'Good; those who do not reckon with me, I'll sunstroke than preverting free circulation of not reckon with them," and rushed into the air found the throat, as the Papal Zouaves found | battle with such vigor and valor that the triumph out long ago. Formed of men of northers races to of Clan Chattan was declared to have been ended the Black Douglas, who admired good fighting men, offered to retain Henry of the Wynd in his army, and offered him knighthood and liberal pay. Henry refused, saying he had had fighting enow," "Did you not fight for Clan Chattan ?" asked the Douglas. "I fought for my own hand," said the smith. And to the present day these words are often used to express, did such a thing for my own pleasure." At the present, day, too, the Smiths and McDonalds descended from Henry of the Wynd, are called by the Gaels "The Slashing Smith's tribe."
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preving in their vitals. Now the Doctor is in jail, and the original patient says that the original anake was never removed at all. She can feel it writhing within her.
DURING a heavy rain storm on Wednesday the residence of Bishop Chinchan at Chambé, next to the Telegraph office, was struck by lightning, destroying a part of the walls, two glass doors and the chimney, top. The Bishop narrowly escaped with his Wife, being in the same room about six feet from the place where the lightning struck. He became almost insensible at the time.-Amay paper.
THE. American sugar beet, the A. V. Herald says, is sweeter by about 33 per cent than any other beet on the globe. We don't say this in a boasting spirit, but with modest pride. The average extract of sugar from German, French ee English beets is 12 per cent. But out in Nebraska the beet has got itself down to bus)- ness and insists on extracting 17 per cent of
"sweetnin" out of the "sile.".
A SYSTEMATIC appeal to printers and the editorial fraternity of the United States is to be made to secure sufficient funds, in addition to the amount already subscribed, to erect a monument to Horace Greeley in New York, the public con- tributions making the monument have more of the character of a national than a local tribute. Should a larger sum than that proposed ($25,000) be raised it will go to embellish the details of the design.
UNDER the Heading "Enterprise of Capital," the Courrier d'Haiphong says Responding to the speech of M. Bavier-Chauffour on the 29th May,
life which way he
diminish sound. This has been attempted by change the way or style of combing your hair the metal flute. Another novelty will be that. other experts, not ibly Brehm, the inventor of A man should decide early by moving the electro-magnets the timbre of the it that way for life. It should be a mark he is going to arrange his hair or beard, and keep tone is changed-for example, from, that of a
could be distinguished by as well as any feature violoncello to a piccolo. If true, we shall pro-in his face. It is wrong to cultivate a "pom- bably hear more about this novelty anon. padour in summer time and wear the hair plastered on the head the rest of the year. When the time comes to make the change the course of the hair has heen changed at the roots and the hair will not lie down. If cut short, it will stand out like porcupine quills; and again, when the pompadour is being cultivated, the wearer is liable 10
tire of it before it is mastered, You will always find that the men who plaster their hair on their heads become bald years before the men who wear "pom padours" or "half-pompadours" for the reason that the air does not get to the scalp and the tools of the hair die for the want of it. A scalp plastered with hair never perspires, and headaches follow. Any one subject to headaches can over. come very easily if he will but rub his scalp gently and thoroughly every morning and evening and as many times during the day as possible. If you continue this the flow of natural oil will be so plentiful that pomads of every kind can be dispensed with.
The Hon. C, P. Chater said that that occasion was calculated to draw closer together the interests of the capitalists of France
and England, and there was no need to pose as a Prophet to foresee that the result would be mutually benefiċi zl,--Those were not mere after- dinner sentiments, hut were the outcome of careful reflection on the possibilities of Tonquin, and of admiration at the marvellous development af Haiphong and the surrounding settlements. This was shewn by the fact that in subsequent Private conversations Mr. Chater and his friends expressed their willingness to associate in other new enterprises, and their belief that the capital ists of Hongkong were ready to to give Tonquin their substantial support. If, what, we hear is true, the premise has been already kept, and a company in Hongkong are going to buy the markets and slaughter-houses in Haiphong. That is well. It is the first step, and will, we trust, be followed by others, which will be fruitful of prosperity for Tonquin.
A FEW days ago we considered we were justified in objecting to the Govemor of this colony magnifying by virtue of his official position a A FIRE broke out about ten o'clock last night inking known as the "Belilios medal," which a three-storied shop just beyond the Hospital-article His Excellency, presented to two police No. 242 Queen's Road West. It spread so men at Government House as a reward for rapidly that before the firemen could get to work alleged gallant conduct. In Truth of May the whole premises were well ablaze, and had 23rd, received by last mall, Mr. Labouchere ignited a mat-bag' manufactory at the back.
exposes a similar exhibition, as follows:-I am Two hydrants were tapped, but not in time,
not aware from what country the Marquis de to save either of the places, so the efforts of the Leuville hails, but he has indulged in a piece Brigade were directed to saving the neighboring of effrontery which emulates that of the premises. This was easily done, and by mid- Cockney snob who secures a cheap immortal- night all other danger was over. The burnt-out ity by cutting his name on a famous rock buildings were insured the first for, $3,000 or an historical monument. The Marquis has [5 rather a big sum for a small wood merchant.
seized upon Captain Kane and the escape of H.M.S. Calliope at Samoa as a free advertising medium for himself and some book that he has written... From certain doucements that have been sent to me, it seems that he has had a medal struck, bearing, of course, his own name; and what, I presume, is his family crest, as its most conspicuous ornaments, and this Mrs. Henry Clews bath-he purports to have presented to Captain Kane room is a grotto of onyx; walls, floors, ceiling, as a mark of his (De Leuville's flattering basin, tub, all being of the sculptured stone, opinion of British seamanship, generally and
·Distilled and perfuzied waters flow at a touch; Captain Kane in particular, Not content with it is like a cool cave where Undines sport, and this, the Marquis has written and had no Monte Cristo could 'project a thing more printed a copy of some doggerel verses, sure fanciful and costly, That of Mrs. Cornelius mounted by a pictorial representation of his Vanderbilt is very beautiful. The walls are of medal, and this effusion he is sending by post Bubscribers in The Hongheng Telegraph are repacefully mirrors, over which run painted vines of morning to officers of the British Navy, accompanied by
glory and passion flowers, forming an arbor
a four-column notice and a picture of himself Suggestive of the bower where Venus bathed, from a publication called The Elocutionist, and the reflections doubtless furnish Titianesque The notice is framed in such terms of fulsome hints of attending nymphs,
adulation that I wonder at any journal inserting it in any other form than that of an advertise ment. In order to show the impression created on an average British seaman by the medal, the poem, and the puff, I append a letter from an officer at Portsmouth who has been favoured
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TELEGRAMS.
FRANCE AND EGYPT.
LONDON, June 28th. The subject of the conversion of the debt has been dropped. Lord Salisbury, having declined to discuss the question of evacuation in view of the approach of the rebels to Wady Halfa, two Battalions of Infantry and a squadron of Cavalry with Arilllery have been ordered to proceed immediately to the front.
(From the Courrier d'Haiphong.)
PARIS, June 20th. The popularity of the Exhibition is increasing The number of visitors daily exceeds a hundred The Chamber of Deputies have passed the Marine Budget, and are discussing the war 22 expenditure, /
June 22nd.
thousand,
Brillant fêtes in honour of the President of The Republic were given to-day in the palaces from Cochin-China, Cambodia, Annam, and Tonquin, The Tonquinese'dragon was a grest
success.
THE society woman, says a New York corres- pondent, depends greatly on luxurious bathing to renew her strength. The Turkish bath must be taken outside the home, but the bath-rooms in some of the wealthy houses give evidence by their costliners and beauty of the part they play in the dai economy.
The discussion of the probability of there being a deposit of coal in the Thames Valley and under the city of London, of which there seems |to be considerable evidence, recalls some inter- caling facts connected with its earlies use in that city. When coal was first introduced into London as a fuel, very serious objections was taken to its use. It appears that, in the beginning of the fourteenth century, the brewers and smiths of the city, finding the high price of wood pressing hard upon their returns, resolved to make some experiments with coal, but immediately an outcry was raised against them by persons living near the breweries and forges, the King was petitioned, and a law was passed prohibiting the burning of coal within the city. Those who tried it, however, found the new fuel to be so much superior to wood that they persisted in its use." But so determined was the Government to suppress what was regarded as an intolerable nuisance that a law was passed making the burning is recorded that one man at least was executed. of coal in London a capital offense, and it It would appear that the ladies were most bitterly opposed 10 the use of cost for domestic purposes. They considered the smoke to be ruinous to their complexions and would not attend parties at houses in which the objectionable fuel was used, Some persons went the length of refusing to eat | food of any kind that had been cooked on a cost
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S-I have, a temporary commanding officer of of H.M. ships, received per post from the auther the enclosed gratuitous insult to the officers, Ilving and dead, of the vessels belonging to Gray and frica which reffered in the recent btarikana na
Bansa.
The astounding affrontery of this self-advertlier is evident from
Kant, but wifch, you will notice, boars in a cost prominent way tbs sketch of the medal, supposed to be stuck in honour of Captala
the name of the diled advertiser...... What, however, naturally strikes the naval mind is the open insult to our Germaş
monopoly of Captain Rass, and, bylafurones, that gardien wis the cause of the low of the less fortunate.ships. In eridance of thie, lat me call your attention specially to the note above the
and American confrères by the assumption that "plack" was tha
skcich,
refers
The is the note to which my correspondent Medal in gold struck expressly for prestation to this Brava British Officer, by the Marquis da Lavilla, the author of Ears boththe German and American ships foundered. Nour, "In honour of Maharing gantly upheld Bellahpluck where I am quite sure that. Captain Kane, who has already shown that he ranks his achievement no higher than a man ought to do who has simply dose his duty, will be the first to say that no more pluck " is required to put your ship's head to the wind and steam away than to beach her on a lee-shore in a hurricane. I have the highest respect for Captain Kane myself, and for that reason I hope that he will add one more to his present claims to public gratitude by declin- Ing to accept the De Leuville medal,
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GOSSIP FROM SHANGHAI.
WHAT WE OUGHT TO WEAR.
picturesque dress which young ladies in Rome used to find too irresistible, and from the moment they bared their throats and went collar-less into society as into action not ane sickened from the Jun. If some dozen ladies would meet together after tiffin in the costume they then usually wear in the privacy of their own apartments it would very soon be once for all decided what kind of dress women really do find pleasant and healthy in China during the hot summer season. And it is safe to predict that after that we should hear no more of the present tight-fitting style being "really what I find most comfortable." And surely a dozen ladies would amongst them be able to devise some adaptation of the costume they now wear suitable for appearing in public, If not, why should not the ancient Greek classical style first popularised in England by the gifted poetess Mrs. Pfeiffer be adopted here? China silk would be admirably adapted for classic dressing and there is surely after all but little merit in wetting so many garments every day! "Those who are quite satisfied will," as Landor says, sit still and do nothing." But we must remember that the lion-like poet quickly adds "Those who are not quite satisfied"are the sole benefactors of the world."
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When a Higlander wants to characterize a quarrelsome and indomitable fellow he will probably use the old proverb: "Conan among the devils--if bad they give, they get no better." The legend is that headstrong Conan once went to Coll Island to inquire for some dead friends who were burned there. As he was leaving the devil struck him, but Conau gave him as good (or as bad) as he got. A whole legion then beset him, but he gave them claw for claw. "The Mackintosh does not hold a court every day" is nu adage traced back to the cruel days of Highland power. The tradition is that Mackin- tosh had the feudal power of "pit and gallows," and to maintain his position used to hang a thief every court day.
There is a proud old Gaelle proverb, “Hills and waters and Clan Alpin" (Macgregor.) The chiefs of this old clan were of kingly descent, and tion began, in the reign of James IV. Rob Roy possessed of great power until their long persecu-
was one of this clan. Its privileges were not. restored until 1775. When a Highlander is very poor, sarcastic people say he is "living on Mackgllong's dun cow." meaning the deer of the mighty hunter Mackgilong, who lived on the mountains of Athole, where they still show the ruins of his hunting huts.
An old Highland proverb prophesies that whenever the "stone of destiny," now in West. minster Abbey, shall return to Scotland that country shall be free. This stone, the Gaelic bards say, formed Jacob's Pillar at Bethel, How One of the biggest and most satisfactory jobs it got into Scotland is unknown, but for centuries accomplished by this rdministration for Missouri it was carefully preserved at Scone, and succes (Written specially for the Hongkong Telegraphs.) republicans is the final disposal of Chauncey Lsive Kings of Scotland sat upon it at their corp
Filley to the Hong Kong consulship. It will be nation, Edward I. removed it to London in It is summer time! This in England signtremeinbered that when in accordance with your 1296, and it has been retained ever since in the and possibly a snow storm, the thermometer ringhaus," the Missouri republican congressmen kept in Westminster Abbey. fies showers of rain, alternating with east winds
(the president's) suggestion to Mr. F. G. Neid coronation chair of the sovereign of England, actually struggling up to 70, to be speedily were made a board of patronage botses, they lowered by thunderstorm. Here it means
submitted a long lis of candidates for important darkness all day long; relays of human beings offices, among whom was "Hon Chauncey 1. told off to pull punkahs to create a breeze where Filley, St Louis, consul at Liverpool or some done exists; Chinese men, all bare to the wais', thing equally as good." But this berth had and mostly bare about the legs also; Chinese women mavi-g about in two slight garments,.
previously been pre-empted by some other both nearly transparent, and barely overlapping
patriot. After long and persistent application it was finally given out that Mr. Filley could have one another. And Europeans, how do they brave the storm? Born and bred in warm
the Japan consulship; but the "Old Demander latitudes, I recall darkened rooms, lemonades
or Old Regularity as he is familiarly called and ices selling at the street corners, even to the
by party associates, turned up his nose at this, beggars, ladies and gentlemen, appearing in the America, not in Japan." Then the fellow-bosses and tersely replied, "I will drink my tea in evening and enjoying life till one or two o'clock
Now and then a Scottish proverb has sprang sel to work again to get Filley out of the country, out of a joke,. It is common to say to a dia. in the morning, men in hose silk or alpaca coats
The St Louis Globe-Democrat tells the story appointed man: "A lobster is better than no or white jackets very open about the throat,
They talked Filley to the President and they husband." There lived, It seemed, two old unwaistcoated, but brilliantly necktied, and some
talked Fulley to the Secretary of State. Mr. women in one but, each of whom kept her own times equally brilliantly, sashed, often with Blaine was told that something better than Japan meal-bag. One of them thought her meal went fantastic puggarees of varl-coloured muslin must be given. He said, "How will Hongkong too fast, and to catch the thief put a live lobster about their hats and down their backs: Indies do?" Then he added: "I do not offer Hong- into the bag. At night the other hag stole to the with never anything more substantial on than kong. The administration cannot afford to an ordinary evening dress, generally white or indulge persons in the luxury of refusal when so
bag, put her hand into it, and, when gripped by cream colour, open about the throat and boson, many are asking these places. You may convey 'devil's in the bag. "Yean said the other the great claws, roared out: -“Eh, Lizzle, the and with loose hanging elbow sleeves. White
an intimation to Mr. Filley that perhaps Hong crone, chuckling, when you're there-and better muslin or black lace would be thrown over the
kong can be bad if asked for." The intimation a lobster than no husband. head, according to whether the Genoese mis:
was telegraphed to Congressman Niedringhaus setto or Spanish mantilla were the mode! Wednesday night. He called on Mr. Filley, and followed; with this would be worn silk stock the invitation was declined. When the ausser ings and sandal shoes, and the principal part of was received here there was a feeling that Mr. the toilette a lovely fan |
Filley did not realize that the very best which could be done had been done for him. Several telegrams were sent to Congressman Niedring. haus, conveying the positive laformation that it was Hongkong or nothing. To-day replies were received to the effect that Mr. Filley would accept.
The very dresses added to the air of luxury of the scene.. The summer looked like all our party, one continuous fite champfire. Toone who liked stuck flowers in their hair; those who liked wore Jewels. People made parties to bathe together. Fashion congregated outside certain shops. For the shops used to be closed whilst everyone alike took siestas, and then opened again at the hours at which customers came out. Then when the fre-dies It up the gardens, and the band played, the great army of bopmen, having sold many a pretty article of luxury because someone was passing and saw it, would come out, satisfied with their day's work, and enjoy themselves able to sit up, and sing, and boat or bathe with the best, because sure of i mid-day rest next day, Prostrate and writhing what with mosquitoes and nettle rash- wonder why have we changed all this in China! Lawn tennis is answerable for much. Cricket for much also, probably. But who is the gainer that the shops stand open during all the burning hours of sunshine? How many people enter a shop, on an average, between the hours of eleven and three? And how many of these few would not much rather do their shopping between four and six o'clock ?
Is it really true that kiosks selling ices, and what people here call lemon-squash-we used to call it lemonade would not pay, way one at either end of the Garden bridge, one at the Ewo fetty, the principal entrance to the Gardens, If it be impossible to obtain the privilege of opening one or more in the Gardens, wherela to dis- panes fous and iced drinks generally during Band
This story is of absorbing interest as revealing the real nature and vicious character of the spalls system in its ripest estate. Mr. Filley could not command the support of his own party in race for the smallest office in the gift of the city of St Louis. He lacks the confidence of bis own fellow-citizens, and his whole political career is well summed up in titles applied to him by party associates of "Old Demander," from the regularity with which he bobs up at every turn in demand of reward for party services,
land character, and couples it with the assertion A dry old Lowland proverb expresses at the same time a.sober respect for the native High of an indisputable truth. It's ill to steal breeks frzen Hielander," Considering that these nothera men wore the petticoat (called the kilt) In those days, the theft hinted at in the adage would be rather impracticable. The proverb, You may look for the grace of God in the Highlands of Scotland," so far from being Scotch, is decidedly the reverse. It is occasionally used to express a thing it would be useless to expect to find. After Lord Macaulay's most uncompli mentary description of the Highlands of Scotland two centuries ago, one can see the point of this adage:
"He that will gang to Cupar, maun gang to Copar," is one way of saying A wilful will have his own way." The explanation is that Cupar, the capital of the County of Fife, being the seat of law Courts, he who was resolved to go to law must speed to Cupar. In one of Sir John Van Brugh a comedies, are the words, Shall I draw on a pair of Scotch boots, master, and make him tell all ?" This phrase will be readily traced back to the terrible torture of the boot, during the reigns of Charles II, and James I which were recent when Vanbrugh wrote:
He is to bare blaireward now in the Hong Kong consulship. It is not the. Liverpool consulship; but it is something equally as good"; for, as the Globe-Democrat tells us, the Hong Kong consulship, it is found upon investigation, is worth more than Liverpool. The salary is $5000, but the fees are two or were better to hear the lark sing than the three times as much." General Mosby is said to mouse Cheep the motto of the great, Scottish have made $100,000 out of it. Think of that a family of Douglas-was adapted by every border the reward, not of merit or conspicuous service chief, to express that the woods and hills of their to the country, or even of reputable service to country, and not fortified castles, were their the party, but for pure political back work that safest bulwarko, no, be makes even his associates ask if it is not the hell To the present day there lingers in the minds price for riddance rather than a prize for of the Scottish Highlanders a belief in and a 'roward. The story would be amusing did it not toutes diend of falfices, Whenever this tiny race present so serious a question. How tym ki, nuntioned, it is with rest Reloaded, and country to command respect or inducncey er my
sion. To the fairies a spoiled the are its business interests or any oskus inheren
blessing wiend their deparing and