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etiquette, ought in the first place to have been forwarded to the China Mail ?
What business has this Canton foreign "friend of the plaintiffs'" to attack and abuse in the public press a man who, he knows quite well, is not at present in a "position" either to explain or to defend himself? We are surprised that our morning contemporary allowed itself to be made the vehicle of such an exhibition of cowardly and purposeless personal
Tux P. & 5. S. N. Co.'s extra steamer Ä'hiva left Bombay for this port at 5 30 p.m. yesterday, TH Nagmaaki Aising Sum of the 14th in, says that the Portuguese gunboat Rio Lima is still a that part, awaiting orders from Lisbon, PASTOR (to candidate for church membership)— "Whar's de cerfiticket ob marriage?" "At home, "In this Indy your wife, sah?" "Yes, sab."
sah. Dey's a pair ob twina, sah.”.
A MOVEMENT has been started. in England to put an end, if possible, to the custom which injure themselves physically by arraying them demands that women shall inconvenience and relves in mourning whenever a member of their family dies.
Two Japanese were fined at Nagasaki the other day for living in the foreign settlement there without the necessary permission. PRICES of great violins have reached the highest mark of their history. A Stradivarious is ad vertised for the unbeard-of sum of $5,000
policy is looked upon as the safest of provisions; abroad, the name of the office is recognised in name of a Company that has, long years ago, every British colony and dependency as the
competition. And while ever since 1865 its won its spurs in the lists of honourable, business" new business has exceeded a million annually, it last year obtained the premier place among the life offices of this country by showing a record of new policies issued during the year, sterling. Such remarkable success amounting to nearly one-and-a-half million affice doing business on the sure and steady in an
lines which have always commended themselves
RECENT advices state that slight shocks of earth-straight-forward dealing. At home a Standard quake still continue to be experienced at Kama moto from time to time, but the people are to their houses and resuming their occupations gradually regaining confidence, and dre returning
On the arrival of the steamship Nagato Mary at Hakodate the other morning, an enormous. sunfish was found firmly fixed on the bow of the vessel, having been caught in the centre and cartled along by the ship. It appeared to have feet in length, and weighed about a ton. I been there for some time. The fish was about was sold for the behalf of the crew, and realised a
diseases, and of that number 216 have died. It is stated that in Hyogo ken during the present year 326 persons have contracted infectious
THE Nashville American editor has been to see the "Curly" Bellew and Mrs. James Brown and declares that "A diamond surcingle with a Potter's representation of "Antony and Cleopatra," gold fig-leaf attachment is the Potter ideal of
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sister's name certain documents, and as he has fled the colony it seems more than probable that he committed perjury in the witness box; but these are matters which at the present stage can only concern the authorities, and, under any circumstances can have nothing to do with the innocently Impartial and disinterested (1) foreign rentleman who is such a great friend of Madame Yu Hox Low. If this no doubt charming lady authorised her Canton foreign champion to coarsely, and quite unnecessarlly abuse her own, brother in the public newspapers, now, that Yu Suur WAN is in the position of a criminal fleeing from what is supposed to be outraged justice, we should imagine that her alleged numerous Chinese and foreign friends will scarcely care to further acknowledge the existence of such tender ties.
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. Doar CK writes to-day that the typhoon isn't a typhoon, after all-it is a shallow depres ion to the south-east of Hongkong. If this sort thick the shallow depression" is physical, not of thing goes on much longer we shall begin to atmospheric.
A PENNSYLVANIA editor has discovered that everything in nature is playful. He says: The lightning plays, the wind whistles, the thunder rolls, the snow flies, the waves leap and the fields smile. Even the trees shoot and the rivers and streams run."
An American writer sarcastically remarks that England has over one million dollars invested in the manufacture of idols for heathen countries, tinantly calling for more money and more mis- and yet the churches of that country are con-
ionaries to suppress idolatry," A Kone native paper, the Yushin Nippo, says that Japanese are much more careful of their health than they used to be, and the mortality is consequently less than formerly. Saltwater
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world are worth nearly 60 000,000,000, or about IT has been calculated that the railways of the one-tenth of the wealth of the civilized nations, of more than a quarter of their invested capital would buy only about one-third of them. At this, rate all the ready money in the world
British ship Wildwood recently left this port. THE Kobe Herald of August 12th says:The with 1.305,147 lbs. of tea on board, and this is. the largest quantity ever taken away by a single vessel, since the date when the Afosser left Kobe in 1884 with a cargo of 1,384,319 lbs. tea.
man yesterday and, by representing that he knew A CHINAMAN went to a well-to-do fellow-country- another party who wanted to buy bracelets, get aim to part with two jade-stone bangles, worth that the jewelry had been stolen, but it was too $300. The alleged agent afterwards pretended thin, and he is now on remand.
that "the Ministers of France, England, Italy IT is very interesting to read to a Tokyo paper and the United States met on the 9th inst., at the Russian Legation and spoke from early in contemporary has omitted one important item in reporting this talking match-it forgets to Ministers. mention what was the tipple used by the worthy it is satisfactory to know, says Research, that
other liquid. Salicylic acid, however, appears lo some extent two germacides for consumption have been discovered, the one gaseous and the to be the most lastingly successful. Perhaps principle of the method of treatment is quite a better germicide may be found, yet the
living bacili-tubercles, and this system intro- revolutionary. Inconsumption the blood contains duces into the blood by injections the microbes of salicylic acid to kill the bacili. bacilli are destroyed nature will bave a chance of repairing the damage done.
Ir is said that much attention is now being paid
in Turkey to the production of grapes for wine- making. Especially has this been the case since the phylloxera has caused such widespread des truction in France. There are large areas of adapted to grape-growing, and the wines that the Ottoman Empire, that are particularly are produced are said to be excellent and to command a ready sale. '
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office is in especial favour with the officers of both branches of the service, who, from past
experience, have discovered, that the Company is excelled by no other in the liberality of its terms. One result of the Company's sixty-four
COAL MINES AND RAILWAYS IN years of work has been to earn is a name which
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HOKKAIDO.
The average amount of each policy, has, in recent years, shown a reduction. It is now According to the Chingai Shogyo Shimbe of 504 This, taking all other matters well into the 2nd instant, the projectors, of the Hokkaido consideration, proves that the Company is being Railway Company are greatly elated by the dis increasingly supported by those whose incomes in the Yobari district, on the company's proposed as this is the case, it is a matter for congratula covery of a coal bed of extraordinary dimensions do not admit of a large insurance, and in so far route. The depth of the bed is stated to be more tion. The Company paid last year in claims be exceedingly good. It is calculated that it income for the year was £987,029, its accumu than 30 shaky, and the quality is declared to 58,191, or nearly £3,000 a day; its total will be possible to obtain 300,000 tons of coal Iated funds are within Π annually from the newly found scam. The pounds of seven millions, and it has over few thousand
for working the coal mines and the railways. Of force. These figures are sufficient evidence of projectors contemplate a gigantic undertaking twenty millions sterling of assurances in the 4,000,000 y representing their estimated the magnitude of the Company's business, which, capital, they propose to appropriate three mil- however, is not only large, but is of a thoroughly Muroran to Poronal, thus connecting their list may be seen from the fact that at the last valua with the Government one. They further propose tion, for the five years ending 15th November, to apply to the Government for the sale of the 18 5, a surpluss of £487,315 was shown, of which Should this project prove successful, the company The Company, since its commencement, has Poronal-Temiya line and the Poronai coal mines.
£485,091 was divided among the policyholders,
line traverses the rich valley of the Ishikati which no policy-holder will find fault. will own a long line of railway, connecting Otaru always declared a bonus at the rate of 1,1or. and Muroran, the best ports on the western and eastern coasts of the island, respectively. The This is a mast satisfactory rate, and one with per cert, per annum on the amount assured.
seat of the Local Government. The Company river, topping on the way the best coal beds in the island, and passing the city of Sapporo, the will be able to produce about 400,000 tons of coal per annum from its mines.-Japan Mail.
This Canton oracle, who claims to be balbing has become very popular, and the seaside the forenoon till the afternoon." Our Japanese Hons for the constructions of a railway from sound nature. That it is of a profitable character
"behind the scenes," regrets that the Press did not report the case more fully as, in his opinion, it was a much (sic) more than usually interesting one, and he trusts soon to reveal to the public the whole truth of the business from beginning to end, through the medium of our morning contemporary's valuable columns. We rather think that our contemporary will hardly feel disposed to publish any more of this self-constituted julge's inconsequent twaddle. The full details of the case of Yu, Hok in t. Creasy Evens were of no public Interest whatever, the suit was the outcome of one of those paltry family squabbles so common amongst Chinese, and certainly ought never to have been allowed to come into court. It is regrettable that the nominal defendant should have been a well-known English solleitor, and that the Green Island Cement Company should have in any way heen mixed up with such a shady business. but beyond these particulars, which were acts as a "Tonic Laxitive" and establishes duly reported, the Hongkong community
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As we understand that the Green Island Cement Company's shares which were the subject of dispute in a Hok Lin v. Creasy Ferns form the bone of contention in another suit which will shortly come before the Supreme Court, and in which the Canton foreign gentleman's friends are defendants, we refrain at present from further comment, as it is not improbable that " A friend of the plaintiffs" may have an opportunity of revealing the whole truth" in the witness box. Instead of through the medium of an anonymous letter in a public newspaper. Mr. Yu AROMATIC QUININE WINE.
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Two tailors with a grievance against a priest at Wanchal tried to get even yesterday by heaving a brick at his cook. The old shaveling acted promptly, first giving the pair into custody and tohacen, to alleviate the pain and act as a typtic then plastering his cook's wound up with
The men are remanded.
FROM the Melbourne War Cry :-We"want short, spicy bits for the Cry, not Church style, read it, but some of the Go-ahead Salvation which is calculated to put you to sleep while you Army, Blood-and-Fire, Holy Ghost, Hell, Dam nation, and Judgment kind, which will make every man shake as be reads it, and set all the devils in Hell trembling?
Godfrey, ..Strassi.
March... Dombardon"...Brail 1ancera
Trial by Valse
Wiener Ital Palka
The Bu in Call...Oder, * Qundra
Lights of London". Conte. Cato (c)...."The Jolly Bachelor"......Standhaft.
SOME enterprising Americans have secured the construction of a horse-car line frem Cairo concession from the Egyptian Government for to the Pyranids. There is a large amount of tourist travel at all times between the two points, uncertain donkey. The idea of a modern and the only accommodation for travellers is the American horse car, bell-punch and all, in the shadow of the Sphinx is novel, to say the least. some idea of the profit to be derived from the beet-sugar industry may be formed from the fact that the refinery at Brehna, Germany, paid 1,100 marks to the share. These shares are of during the campaign of 1888.89 dividends of a par value of only 1,000 maiks, that here is seen the extraordinary spectacle of a business The experience of the refinery at Landsberg is
pava 110 per cent profit in a single reason encouraging is encouraging, though not equal paid dividends of 1,000 marks on shares costing to the preceding case. The latter establishment $3000 marks each no small profit under any circumstances,
that
When the
NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.
Two oplum dens were entered by a band of employds of these establishments were awed robbers at Fatshan on the 18th instant. The into submission by a display of firearms, and the robbers walked away with money, opium, and valuables considerable amount. The police, of course, came only when the last of the enjoyed a couple of whiffs of oplam at the scene robbers had leisurely walked off, after having of their depredations.
most reasonable terms, that it is valued on a It need only be said that the Standard office gives every description of life assurance on the
sound basis, and that its expenses are not dis- proportionate. While an intending assurer or app'icht for agency would find it difficult to. select a better office, he might with the greatest case pitch upon one much worse. There is no such thing as a bestoffice in life assurance, some offices excelling on one point, some on another, Assurance Company is in the very forefront of but for all round excellence, the Standard Life the life asurance institutions of the world.
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THE CULTURE OF THE FISTS.
Athletic training has been greatly stimulated of late, not so much for the benefit that it brings Lieutenant-General Su, commander-in chief of to the individual as because it produces a small Kuangsi, says the Kwangpao, is now in Canton,
class of professional pugilists, who are trained to ostensibly or a visit to His Excellency the
make matches for the purpose of mauling each Viceroy, but, we (Telegraph) are credibly other. These matches afford an opportunity for informed, with the intention of procuring weapons betting on the probabilities of the best man in of precision for the Kuangel troops, who are now
some of the recent exhibitions in this city a but partially armed with modern quick-firing negro imported from Australia was pluted against rifles, and these of a most miscellaneous descrip a white man. The negro, apparently, had the tion. General Su, it may be remembered, was
most "science" and the best-trained muscles.. the popular and successful defender of Tamsule whipped his white antagonist. Whereupon against the French in 1884.
the colored element of the population was' mightily set up. There was a glow upon had a color that would wash, but he had muscles African countenances. The black man not only
A thousand spectators assembled to see this that could prevail over his white antagonist. and other contests with fista, fu, this city. Those who were not members of the association under whose auspices the battles were fought between a negro and a white man, willingly paid their money for an opportunity to witness the "sport" Large sums of money changed hands.
All that portion of the river at Fatshan, where owing to the narrowness of the Channel, have an embankment joins the North and West rivers, been in the habit during Spring freshets of over flowing and causing considerable damage to the neighboring ricefields. This trouble, according to the Kwang Pas, will shortly be a thing of the its présent breadth and strong dykes and em past. The river is to be widened one third of bankments made to resist all future encroach-in the payment of bets. important work have been collected at the ments of the river, The funds for this
tung.
urgent solicitations" of Viceroy Chang Chih-
Sue-l must be awfully nice, Jack, to be a
A WEALTHY Chinese medical practitioner of great editor and to be able to away men's minds East gate, which aims at buying leprous children Canton has set up a charitable institution at the with the stroke of a pen. Pe-But you don't
from their parents or guardians (so, says the knw the discouragements of the profession, Flo I've been trying to sway the business manager's
placard posted in the most prominent streets of mind on a financial paint for some weeks, but the city) and puting them through a course of without success. She-1 dare say it is some
treatment for their cure. A large sum of money dark deep problem that he fails to grasp. He of such of the poor children as may have been is also put aside for the marriage ceremonies -Yes; I want a raise of as a month.
cured; whereas such as are incurable, after the The Band of the Argyl and Sutherland High-face of a year, are to be turned over to the Leper village outside the South gate of Canton landers will play the following programme at city. The custom has always been, in the case the Barrack Square, to-morrow evening, com- mercing at 7.30 o'clock:-
of children afflicted with leprosy, to send them at once the Leper village, but by means of this charitable institution an attempt, at least, will be made to succour the unfortunatea before consigning them forever to social ostracism. This benevolent doctor Has our best wishes for the success of his philanthropic venture.
table. It will be of short duration. England will A LEADING San Francisco hind-legs thus War with England is inev!- paper gets on its
the United States is unprepared for war. It is have the advantage of the United States, because proper in one sense that America should be prepared for war. England will bombard our const cities and play havoc with our commerce. All this we can stand, but as sure as God lives, nity to England. England may bombard every this republic will never pay one dollar of indem coast city and destroy every American ship which sails the ocean, but America will never submit conquered, for conquered this nation can never be. to defeat and never acknowledge that it has been San Francisco may and doubtless will be blown to smithereens, but all the same we can thrash We shall take the Dominion of Canada and the every English soldier off the American continent. whole line of British America whenever this invelgle the two great powers of the English little incident of war shall occur. Canada will speaking world to this inevitable and disastrous conflict. Six millions of small-minded, Jealous the hour, half of whom hate England because Irish-Americans, who also hate England; 4,000 they are Romanists and Jesuits; 10,000,000 of miles of border line, with an open-Behring Sea; the fisheries question, which will never be adjusted; a competitive railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific; a fortified navy yard at Fucs protected by English fortifications; English Vancouver Island, with the Straits of San Joan de pride, English valour, and English trade, render it altogether impossible that England and America should avoid war. Looking upon it as inevitable and unavoidable, wo welcome it as bastening the time when our soil shall be lighted by the aurora borealis, our country bordered by cordon of republics with whom it will cur.and. two occurs, and bounded upon the south by a their interest to maintain peace. We shall pick up Canada as we would a plum. Whenever this HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1889.
(FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.) vexatious neighbour provokes us to a war with TRE Tokyo Oficial Gasstie gives some interesting England, or what is a better expression, whenever
August 3rd 1889. THERE is quite a new departure in news-
Information regarding longevity in certain provokes England to make war upon the United but during the past few days it has been dry and We had very heavy rain during last month, provinces of the Japanese Empire. In the States of America, we will gobble it up and anoex paper correspondence in this morning's An Rom Papea expressed desire for the Car reads Prefecture of Yamaguchi, there are: above 100 it, and, after holding it for a terra as a conquered the shade.
that the Pope's
'inals years, 3 females; above go years, 131 males province, we will make half-a-dozen States of
hot. The thermometer to-day stands at gain Daily Pres. A Canton correspondent who to select Cardinal Lavigerie as his successor, met says he is a friend of the Plaintiffs, and with the approval of the prelates, and that there 4,239 females; total 7,618, of which there are republic. We are friendly with Canada and do and 237 females; above 8, 3,005 males and of it, and admit them to the family of the great whose fine and large and ungrammatical is no doubt Lavigerle will be the next Pope 3,133 males and 4.479 females; in the Prefecture do not want an inch of her sterile soil, nor any Roman hand is easily recognisable, makes
of Wakayama, there are; above 90,31 males and part of her very curious and cranky population: 108 females; above fo, 1,041 males and 2.250 We are friendly with England and do not desire what is dubbed “Disclosures in the case of
females total 1,430, of which there are 1,072 an acre of her colonial possessions. We have Yu Hok Lin v. Creasy Ewen," We have
Ehime there are: above 100, i male and 3 stand vexatious, arrogant, and Imperious neigh males and 2,358 females; in the prefecture of land enough and people enough, but we cannot carefully perused this person's contribution
females; above go, tas males and a16 females bours. We have money enough and soldiers to the current literature of the period, and
above 80: 2,843 maics and 3,706 females; total enough and enough of courage and pride to 6894, of which there are 7,769 males and 3,945 guard and protect our own countant in friendly have failed to find anything even in the
females; in the prefecture of Fukuoka, there are
10 be let shape of disclosures. The letter contains
alone. We desire maintain friendly above 100,2 females; above go, tot males and relations with all the world. We wish to avoid Or President Carnot's face a clever word-painter 265 females; above 80, 2,784 males and 4,528 the necessity for a standing army. We desire absolutely nothing of the slightest import writes "It is long, very sallow, and the beard #females; total 7,680, of which 7,865 are males to avoid the expense of a navy and of const morrow, with a quartz mill for one of the gold not suppressed. The animal triumphe over the
and mustache arg still almost perfectly black and 4,795 females.
defences, but if it becomes necessary in defence It is one of those faces that seem to go all back-
of our soil to resist foreign invasion, we would the chin goes forward; the check-bones are intended for a criticism on the recently-lasued We would fight as the Greeks at Marathon. If ward and slantwise. The forehead retreats; LAST night's China Mail contains what is summon an army as numerous as that of Xerxca. bigh," Camot's eyes are kind and tender, but report of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock coast defences are inevitable, we would surround very anxious, and his face is lined with care,
Company. It was evidently written by the office our shores with impregnable defences. If a navy boy. Will the writer kindly explain by what becomes a necessity, it should hat alone rival MANY tests have been suggested to determine method of reasoning or calcolation, he makes that of England, but should be equal to the whether or not life is extinct where death has out that "if the shareholders themselves care combined fleets of all the nations. Not a cent appeared to occur. One of the most recent, and to assume the debt on the new Dock by taking for tribute, but a thousand millions for defence, held to be one of the most reliable, is called the up (sic) new stock in the Company, they may should be the ultimatum of any 'proposition of ammonia-hypodermic teat. In using this test then look with reason for a larger dividend than wark Nor would we delay navy and coart the operator injects one bypodermic syringeful that now declared?". On a capital of $1,162,500 defences, 1f England fortifies her Canadian the arm or some other convenient portion of the months working, with one excepilor, on record, it by its strength of guns and its power of resist of strong solution of ammonia under the skin of the Company, after the most profitable six frontier, we would erect a fortress commanding body. If the body be not dead-if there be the pay the handsome half-yearly dividend of 5 per auce. If England builde a naval station'in our on the skin, over the point where it was injected, that by increasing the capital to two millions Considering war with England as unavoidable laintest circalation the ammonia will produce cent. And the China Mail: wants to make out waters we must catablish a more powerful one a bright red patch, on the surface of which raised and a half of dollars by the issue of new scrip and inevitable, we would make friendly prebara red spots will appears but if there be absolute the shareholders could then look with reason tion for the encounter, looking our friend steadily death there will be produced a brown dark for larger dividend than that now declared in the face and being ready for the conflict Blotch, which is debnitely conclusive against any The Idiocy of such fodge is too apparent to whenever England shall choose to permit Canada possible vitally.
require controverting
to provoka it
DEATH. On August 12th, at Suma, Japan, E. P. MACFARLANE, L.R.C.P. and S., Edin.
he Hongkong Gelegraph
ance that was not already well known, and the writer omits to give some Information regarding his friends the plaintiffs, with which he is well acquainted, and which, moreover, Is not altogether unconnected. with the recent trial.
If the China Mail referred to the female plaintiff in the late trial as having gained anunenviable distinction," why did this Canton foreign friend, who looks upon that expression of opinion as a personal grievance, not address the erring journal directly, instead of sending his stupid but palpably, Interested gabble to the Daily Press? And why did the morning paper stultify itself by publishing a letter that, according to all rules of journalistle
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
THE U.S.S. Palos arrived at Nagasaki from Chemulps-on-the-17th-inst
A contin was crushed to death yesterday, in Messrs Reiss' godown, by a pile of cotton-bales falling on bim.
We have frequently noticed the propensity of Chinese in the witness stand in the Police cuphonious term of "Kwal Chai" to the Court, when giving their evidence, to give the constable, be the nationality of "Bobbie" what it may. This term, if sweet sounding, has also the merity of force, as perceived from its literal translation" servants of the devil!"
THE August 'sessions, concluded yesterday, ought to have been called the concessions. out of the seventeen prisoners tried only one was convicted, the prosecution in each of the other cases being unable to sustain the charge. This is phenomenal indeed it is juries selected there were far too many callow regrettable, in our opinion. Among the three youths and nondescript individuals who neither listened nor understood. And it is certain that Mr. Chief Justice Clarke, like the Judge in "Trial By Jury," munt have bad an extensive practice when at the Bar, in restoring offenders "To their friends and their relations, favor. My lord Clemency-Clark is not in high for he sums up most effectively in every prisoner's favor with the members of the police force in consequence,
it
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Just here the inquiry is pertinent: What good results, are attained by exhibitions of this kind? Do these fistic, exhibitions tend to the most desirable physical culture? Rather do they not tend to a development of brutal tastes ? Viceroy of Canton was presiding over a rifle young man who can now drive a bicycle a hun Yesterday morning while His Excellency the Physical culture is not to be underrated. The
guards, an attendant, while attempting to pass walk forty miles by daylight, climb mountaion competition at the range belonging to the Foiai's dred miles a day, pitch a good base-ball game, across the line of fire, got a little present in with little fatigue, bunt, and fish for recreation the shape of a bullet, which passed through his when another would tire out in the first hour, cheeks, knocking out in its progress a few super or use his fists dexterously to punish a, bully or ever, that the wound was not a dangerous pne the mass who has had no physical training. fluous teeth. The Kwangian assures us, how bighwayman, hat an immense advantage over We are glad to hear of this, as we are The former may be the better man all his anxious to request this attendant to come life. He has more resources and more power to down and stand with an apple or orange resist disease and all adverse influences. He on his head while we put a bole through it with takes hold of life, as it were, with a stronger tition at Kowloon. We are generous, and now life. There is a physical training which tends our Martini-Henry at the next spoon" compe- grip, and in the long run will get more out of offer sixty cents passage money (Chinese first to secure such results, Against this nothing can class) by the H. M., and C. Steamboat Com- be sald. It is in most instances good from begin pany's sicamers, if he will come down to Hang ning to end. It is all-round culture going that. Tell with a breech-loader. kong and give us a chance of playing William-make a strong and healthy individual. It does not brutalise the man nor in any degree lower the moral tone of his character. It goes well with a vigorous intellectual life. The preacher who was let upon by a bully, who was offended by, the sharp thrusts of the sermon, was the better man when, after having knocked his antagonist down, besat astride of hini, compelling behave like a good Christian ever afterward. him to repeat the Lord' Prayer and promise to He had no occasion to go to a prise fight to learn how to use, his muscles in such an only amongst the natives. It is not strange that sical training, it depends upon the ends to be
Cholera has made its appearance, but so far emergency,
Now boxing may be a desirable part of phy that it has not been more fatal than has been the sought and upon the associations that go with the disease should break out here but it is strange case, considering the wretched manner in which the training. Physical culture is a part of a the people.live.
sound education. Many of the colleges and are here by next steamer, on his way, to everywhere better than the weak man. The
Col. Chaille Long, of the U.-8. Legation, schools of the country have adopted it
necessary part of Instruction. The strong man. Egypt.
During his absence the French cruiser Chasseur much of him as can be made available for prise- M. de Plancy, the French Minister, was called tendency just now outside of the schools is to to Peking on important business by last stemmer.
push athletic training as a specialty to extremes. It is not the whole man that in. trained, but s remains at Chemulpo.
Thai steamer Signal leaves Chemulpo to wibbing in the fistic arena. But his instincts are fields. Mesurs. Pierce, Scott, and Harvey go to if at all, by mere brute force, he wins a deal of man, and because be,is an animal'who is to win, superintend the erecting and working af it. It admiration. Does the athletic training for befile next spring, or even then. The King men? Take any or all of the prominent athletes is very doubtful if the mill will do any work instance, of Sullivan, make the best kind of and one or two prominent officials are in favour who have dininguished themselves in this of introducing this innovation, but many of the
lots are working hard to make the affair a examples of physical culture? Have the brutal country by fistic contests-are they the beat failure-Rising Sun
instincts been at all suppressed by this kind of certain that they have been unduly developed 7 training? On the other hand is it not quite In short, has not the pugilistic training depressed hese men so low in the social scale that nine-
oldest life office in the country, was established it cannot be said that the son of physical tenths of all who witness a prize fight would not This Company, though far from bring the covet any social intimacy with the pugliate P at Edinbugh in 1825, and since that time has culture that tends to brutality, la desirable. I. truly be said of it, as was long ago said of the the tone of society. The prize fighter is, for tho had a long career of brilliant prosperity."-may- "docr not improve the individual, and it:lowers ancient city of Nuremberg, that its hand is in time, exalted His going and his coming are every landbile there are other companies recorded with more minilesssy, than the move t at safe, as large, and as prosperour, there men of the foremost, salesmen of the mo no single one that has a more untarnished The criminal clunest, the unrestrained and the name on a higher reputation for liberality and Lawless, those most givan to personal, arsa
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