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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER
THE General Managers (Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- son & Co.) inform us that the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Wingsang from Calcutta, left Singapore for Hongkong this morning.
THE English Society of Engineers has demon. strated that the action of sea-water on concreto blocks, made with a proper proportion of Port land cement, caused no deterioration, but they were actually improved by it. The result was a surprise to all.
LEPROSY is becoming a terrible scourge in the Levant. "There are at Constantinople alone upwards of 250 lepers. In the islands of the Archipelag, there are at Crate 3,000 lepers, and at Rhodes, Cyprus, Mytilene, Tenedos and other smaller islands they are also numerous. THE work of connecting by canals the two great arteries of navigation in Western Siberia has so far progressed that a boat fifty-six feet long and fourteen feet wide, taking three and a half feet of water, has been lately drawn from the Obi into the Yenisei with a load of forty tons of flour. The two rivers are 630 miles apart. THE function of a negra's black skin is supposed to be the conversion of the sun's light into heat. The heat thus generated remains in the skin and does not penetrate to the deeper tissue. Being thus provided with a sun-proof armor, the negro can stand an amount of heat that would be fatal to a white man, and he runs hardly any risk of sunstroke.
THE Princess of Wales has never, in the whole course of her married life, seemed to show any preference for the conversation of one man, over another, but the Shab, unloosed her fount of eloquence, for ne she sat beside him she used to
volunteer continually, long speeches, which the interpreter found it quite a task to translate. The joke of the season was that "the Princess half found her mash at last."
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"REMEMBER wife, that you arethe weaker vessel. "May be so," responded the irate lady, "bet Pl tako care you shan't forget that the weaker vessel may have the stronger spirit in it.”
FOR appropriating, a piece of raw beef, the property of a non-commissioned officer of the 58th Regiment, a hungry Celestial was treated to prison fare for one month at the Police Court this forenoon.
The news comes from Foochow that owing to the great heat in that city during the recent literary examinations, no less than sixty seven students died of heat apoplexy in their cells. There were seven thousand candidates in all, We are informed by the agents of the Austro- Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Cp, that the Company's steamer Maria Teresa, from Trieste, Bombay and the Straits, left Singapore for this port on the 30th ulto,, and is expected on or about the 6th inst.
LITTLE Harry (in orchestra chair pointing up at dress so low in the acck that none of it is visible a private-box where a lady site in a sleeveless "Quiet, my son you annoy the people." Little above the box railing): Just look, papa." Papa: Harry : "Oh, but see the lady in the pretty bath tub up there 1"
A FIRM in Germany is now manufacturing steel fly wheels capable of double and even treble the speed of fly-wheels made of cast iron, the resist. ance of which is generally limited to a speed of forty metres per second for the rim of the wheel.
The naves or spokes are constructed of iron or steel, and a rim is made entirely of steel wire wound round itself a great many times. IT is stated that Baron de Hirsch, who cry offered the Duchess of Montrose £50,000 for her racing stud, began his financial career in a calico store on Tookey's Flat, Thames Diggings, New Zealand. Hisch managed to get a large interest in some of the best speculations on that field, and subsequently sold out ce petited to to Europe, where he has ever sluce continued to add to his great fortune.
THX Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers will play the following programme at the Barrack Square to-morrow evening, com- mencing at 7.30 o'clock :—.
March........En Revenant de la Revue "......Dormes. Laces Soldaten Lieder"
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The Bugle Call ... Quadrille.....Roundabout"..
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SOLOMON-to prevent mistakes we may stale that the gay deceiver's full name is Raphael Jacob Solomon has proved worthy of his noble name and high descent, by coming out of his breach of promise business with Miss Tofa in a blaze of triumph. He did not, of course, bave it all his own sweet way, and the simple mode of life which is the fashion in "the Retreat" was not quite to his liking; however, somebody became bail for Solomon, and once on his native heath, it was an easy matter to "square" his fair and fascinating prosecutor. We hear the figure was $500, and at this comparatively cheap rate Raphael Jacob must consider himself lucky in getting out of his contract,
A COUPLE of merchants and three yamén runners of the Shanghai District magistrate passed through this colony, last Tuesday, on their way to a village near Canton, with the view of arresting a Cantonese who was in business for a long time in Shanghal, but who decamped thence early this summer, forgetting to pay various small sums aggregating nearly $20,000, which he owed. It was reported that the defaulting trader landed one of the big Wei-sing lottery prizes this
year, and his creditors in Shanghai having got wind of this, obtained a special warrant and despatches from the Taotai at Shanghal to the Canton authorities to allow his extradition, the alterna. tive of paying up in-fulf being given. avoid the return journey to Shanghai and the subse- quent consequences of the law. If the Wei-sing business is truc, the trip of the creditors will doubtless be a successful one, as the man would be sure to pay up to avoid the further troubles looming ahead.
SAYS the N. C. Daily News In some recent numbers of the Hwa Pad there have appeared most indelicate and obnoxinus Illustrated art icles, in which foreign ladies are introduced. We are glad to know that no foraigner has any in- whom it formerly belonged, having sold it to terest in this pap r now, Mesara, Major Bros, to Chinese some three years ago with the Tien Shih Chai photo-lithographic establishment. FROM the appearance of two women, a mother and daughter, whose faces were covered with gore when brought before Mr. E. Robinson at the Police Courtthis morning, one would have thought that nothing short of wholesale bloodshed was the matter, but from the evidence Appeared | that mater and filia-our reporter can sling Latin about when he is in the classical vein were having an animated discussion as to the right of a mother to dispense the rod of correction recommended by Solomon, which being resented by the daughter, was there and then physically demonstrated to the bodily damage of both belligerents. The came up and tried to separate the combatants discussion getting rather hot, P. C. No. 178 nimed a shot at him with a stone which landed when he was assailed by the mother, who on his left cheek, this weapon of war having
first been put to the novel use of breaking with the purpose of obtaining a sympathetic, her own head to "draw blood," and presumably magistrate to deal gently with her case. His Worship, however, was blind to the san guinary appearance of his two lady visitors, and having delivered a magisterial lecture on the unlawfulness of mothers subjecting their grown up daughters to corporal chastisementon British territory, thought that one cent each for disturb- justice so far as that part of the business was ing the peace would meet the requirements of concerned; but when it came to enacting David and Goliath with a Hongkong policeman, that dollars from the mother to make it straight. was quite another affair, and would require two
females who had come over in great force from The daughter was let off. The friends of the Yaumati to attend the trial, smiled audibly when his Worship gave the one ceat fines, but there was a sort of a hushed groan when the additional two dollars were added.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by
Correspondents in this column).
THE OFFICERS ON COASTING STEAMERS.
*TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HongKong Telegrapit." S13. have had the honour of carefully perusing a letter published in your issue of the 1st inst, launched under the above title, and written by one "Nauticus," evidently a man of profound learning and literary talent who is to a great extent hidden from us by the garb of maritime modesty which much enhances the value of his philosophical and classical pre- duction. And it is now with infinite satisfaction THE approaching celebration of the four hun-research displayed in his last correspondence, that I bestir myself and, in admiring the deep dredth anniversary of the discovery of America feel proud to quote from that learned man and by Christopher Columbus has again awakened say that I will not be "the last to follow out the interest in the discovery of the exact nationality principles contained in the table of Hercules and of the great sailor. The Abbe Perretti of Colon the carter." I presume that "Nauticus" has has taken especial pains to find the exact truth, many esteemed friends holding drivers' positions and he expresses the opinion that Columbus, like in the Douglas and other Companies, and these Napoleon, was a Corsican, and he adduces a friends have just awakened to the fact that since large amount of evidence in support of this leaving the last barque they have become daim. The Jewish World claims that Columbus "gentlemen's sons," for he informs us that was a Hebrew, and furnishes quite an amount of "nearly all officers engaged in steamers on this alleged fact to bear out the assumption. coast are gentlemen's sons," and he further states that many gentlemen at home have not THE German officers detailed by Li Chung-long sufficient of the 'root of all evil' to give any to their two years ago to instruct the Sheng Chi-ying or sons," which is indeed a very lamentable state of Imperial bod,-guards (consisting entirely of affairs. But perhaps these fathers would indied Manchu Tartars and descendants of renegade be truly thankful if their dutiful sons would send Chinese who joined the Tartars in their last in- little of this "root" home to them, and it is vasion of China) in military tactics, including the perhaps with the commendable intention of manipulation of machine guns and torpedoes, assisting their near relations that "Nauticus" calls have at last attained successful results, and it is on the square-rigged aristocrats to now intended by Prince Chun, the Commmander themselves, and having attained "the character in-chief, to ask permission of the Emperor to for honesty and fair dealing," obtain further pecu send a number of the most intelligent amongst niary consideration for the same. the drilled men to the various coast forts for
actual sea practice with torpedoes.
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the Skin Pao, and on the 17th September there buckets. A foreigner once employed a city appeared in that paper some particulars obtained | youth of a very firmly compacted character, from him of the amenities of charity distribution who was told to wheel the baby-carriage during in the distressed provinces. He sometimes an afternoon walk of his employers. Previous travelled several tens of li in a day, and was experience bad made him cautious about refusal, where he was always warmly received, and the glad to take refuge. in, soms poor cabin, but compliance was out of the question. After a moment's besitation he said that he would run women of the household were sent to sleep ont and call a man who would do it. He w at a neighbour's while he and his helpers told that this was superfluous, as the master was were allotted space on the fang, or brick atove- fully equal to the task, and he could pay him! bed, with the men. They had to carry their own Accordingly, at the end of the month the sensi- food, as with all the good will in the world they tive youth was presented with his wages, less could could not stomach the ordinary menu of five hundred cash payment for the times when grass-roots and tree bark.. They learned what he had engaged his employer as a substitute t they did not know before, that, it was possible This case is mentioned to enforce the remark for a family of five or six persons to support life that 'face' is at the bottom of many such ebulli- on twenty cash a day, the food being a ma-tai tions of obstinacy. Wheeling a baby-carriage (hempen bag) of turnips and dried cabbage boiled is a woman's work, and must not be done by a in water. This diet they found, in use even in man of loft self-respect. Yet this same sensi districts not categoried as "distressed," and it tive individual, for a small extra payment, did gave them a more vivid idea than they had ever all the washing for the infant whom he would had before of the abject poverty of many of the not wheel in her carriage 1. To cut off, one's northern peasantry.
"nose to spite one's face' is in China a proceeding
wherever the foreigner whiq hires his boat may too comman to attract the least attention? A boatman or a carter who is engaged to go direct, sometimes positively refuses to fulfil his contract. The inflexjple obstinacy of a Chinese carter on such occasion is aptly illustrated by the behaviour of one of his mules, which on road, lies down with great deliberation to its coming to a particularly dusty pince in the dust-bath. The carter meantime lashes the mule, with his whip to the utmost limit of his strength, but in vain. The mule is as indifferent as if a 'fly were tickling it. I considering the phenomena to which this is analogous we have been frequently reminded of the caustic comments of De Quincey, in which with a far too sweeping generalisation, he affirms that the Chinese race is endned with "an
amidit the tragic experiences of the brare dis
The comic element was not wanting from ride is a bride's sedan chair; for being one tributors. Mr. Shi Tare-ying had one day to morning too fatigued to go his daily rounds
within a certain fixed radius from a village on available, and that by a piece of pure good luck; foot, this gaudy palanquin was the only vehicle a marriage having-taken place just before he arrived. He often, when too tired to walk, wAS dragged along seated in a pa-tou, by ropes, a most uncomfortable sledge, a pa tou being ap- parently intended for another purpoc, a measure for grain, on which there was not much to
measure.
find, but at Hoh-King Chen, in the Ch wan ha A frag with three legs is a very rare thing to district, east of the Hwang-poo, Mr. Chen ofthe Ch'ồn Ytan-ch'ang” store this summer found one of a greenish-blue colour, about 5 inches and one alt, in the middle of its tail, with seven long. It has two feet forward, each five-clawed, claws. For three months Mr. Chen has had such such an influx of visitors to admire the new build of frog, that to get rid of them he has got a neighbour. Mr. Meg. to take the animal to Shanghai city. It is now in the Fang. Sheng Kith, or Animals' Home, where those who wish fo improve their minds by enlarging the hor zon of their visual experience, are recommended
to go.
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
THE ABSENCE OF ALTRUISM. XI
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obstinacy like that of mules," The Chinese are not obstinate like mules, for the mule, does not change his mood, while the same obstreperous carter who defies his employer in the middle of his journey, though expressly warned that his wine-money" will be wholly withheld should he persist, is at the end of the journey ready to spend half a day in picading and. Fotous for the favour which at a distance he treated with have a written agreement with his carters, boat- contemptuous scorn. That a traveller, should men, etc., is a matter of ordinary prudence. As we have explained in treating of the Chinese. talent for misunderstanding, no loophole for a possible misconstruction must be left open. And yet, whatever his care on this point, money will probably make, the foreigner, in China more trouble than any other single cause. Money and clothes role the world,' says the Chinese proverb, in a sense which seems to the foreigner new and peculiar. No quotation, from the doors of Chinese shops than the words 'Con- classics is more frequently to be seen over the.
of one's ordinary experience in shops and out of sider uprightness as gain. Viewed in the light them, few quotations will strike the stranger na combining to a greater degree the sober and the inquiring if he has a central incisor tooth which grotesque. To ask a Chinese for money is like
dealings with any Chinese, he is likely to be he can conveniently spare. If one has business
Man is composed of water and avaricious reminded of the school-boy's erroneous formula, tissue. The Chinese are like children in respect to the undisguised prominence which they give that your cousin is married and settled in Japan" to their own claims and desires. "I have heard said a mother to her daughter, and that she is very happy." "Bosh about 'happy?" was the un- sympathetic reply; did she say anything about that Japanese doll I want?" If a Chinese refuser money when it is offered to him, it is almost he is afraid to take it, or far more probably invariably for one of two reasons, either because because there is not enough of it. The famous Chinese officer Yang Chen, of the After Han be accepted it no one would know, replied dynasty, refused a bribe, and when told that if
I know." It is not unreasonable to suppose that "Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know and
there may be Chinese at the present day who are least known only to 'Heaven' and 'Earth.'" as upright as Yang Chen, but if so they are at
between Chinese and foreigners are numerous The relations of this subject to the intercourse
pause to remarks, is the same all over the world, and important. Human nature, we need not but there are wide variations in the forms of its exhibition. Some of the most instructive of those exhibitions in China, as we have al cady mentioned, are to be met with in the rela- Chinese are in many respects most excellent tions between masters and servants. That the
all comers. Some of the best national char servants we not only admit but maintain against acteristics, to which we have already devoted much space, are. abundantly illustrated by Chinese servants. Many of them have a sense of intense loyalty to their masters, worthy of the feudal ages, and it is very common for women employed as nurses of young foreign children to become far more attached to these infants, than to their own. We have known a servant whose master had left China, and who, up all his engagements and devoted himself upon the return of his master temporarily, threw exclusively to this master's interests during the time of his stay. Cases are known in which the by a foreign master for more than thirty years. same Chinese servant has been kept in employ
produce better rice than others, so there are But as there are certain parts of China which
certain parts which produce better servants, and demand for Chinese servants began, it is reason- as some generations have now elapsed since the
Referring to the "disdainful manner" which tended to survive. The best way to ascertain orientais, is a task involving much time; bound. able to suppose that the good qualities have For an occidental to learn how to bargain with officers are treated by "petty clerks" whom he the real quality of the raw material of which less tact and infinite patience are the prime A SPECIAL despatch from Peking leads us to adds would not be tolerated in the same and take for servants whomsoever you can get, made, because between such intimate friends designates as "quill drivers and who he further China is full, is to plunge into the deep interior,requisites Not infrequently no bargain can be think that the private exchequer of His Majesty society in which offers of the merchant Thus doing, one may be able to acquire a stock money must not be so much as mentioned. But Kuang Hii must be at a pretty low cbb, that is service are at home." if we may judge for the recent petitions of the ask this blue-hlooded son of Neptune what of life in a port could not for a moment compete. payment comes at last, the same man who was I should like to of experience in a year, with which twenty years that is no guarantee that,, when the time for Grand Chamberlaiú and the Master of the status a merchant mate does bold, unless A person who had been engaged as table-boy, so delicate in his sensibilities that he could Kitchen to the Presidents of the Board of it be as a "homeward-bounder" in the select under these circumstances, was set to serve at anot bring himself to name any price at all, Revenue and other departments. These officials neighbourhood adjoining the docks. He weakly feast which was provided by a foreigner for a will not raise a tempestuous disturbance, beg that the five hundred and sixty thousand walls-"why should such a difference be made?" Chinese family party. During the progress of because he has not made so much by his taci which should properly belong to the For the simple reason that a Privy Purse-being the balance of the con- we know him in the East, does not care to "quill driver." as
the meal, this individual disappeared, leaving no generous refusal as he expected to do, tributions from the several provinces for the subject himself to the undue familiarity of any was ascertained that he had gone home, in which the Congo Free State was opened; In one to wait upon the guests. Upon inquiry it one of his volumes recording the process by expenses incurred on the occasion of the waif and stray who becomes very sensitive of response to inquiries the next day, this man, Stanley has given a description of his dealings Emperor's marriage, but which had been granted bla social grade, when suddenly he awakes to by Imperial decree to the Hal Chuen yamen (the
who was endowed with a melancholy mien, with a certain native tribe. He had bought land Admiralty)-should be refunded to the Palace find a few celestial servants hovering about his explained that he had guests at his house, and for a station, which had afterwards been destroyed exchequer, to be disbursed for various expendi-poorly subsidized anatomy. tates incurred in connection with the Imperial the Scottish Oriental, Butterfield and Swire,
He also writes "What are the officers of and wait upon them i This is but a sample of tion, and a subsequent peace, followed by ■.
that it therefore became necessary for him to go by the natives. This necessitated some retalia- household and culinary department. "Other
instances in which there is the calm assumption gratuity on his part, to make the peace perpetual, wise," the petitioners naively state, "We shall of worms that are content to grovel along the service you have paid--not improbably in them, he new gave to each one of the fifteen and Jardine's doing? They remind me of a lot on the part of a Chinese for whose time and Having previously exacted an indemnity from all be put to dire straite if the money be not best way they can, and have not the spirit of the advance that his interests are the first forthcoming immediately." We believe that In
chief and elders a plece of cloth and ten At the resumption of the inquiry this foreview of these exceptional circumstances, the low wages and the way they are treated at the considered. Being sent for to do a particular, brass rods, amounting in value to much more British subject to make a complaint against the of the fire a fost Admiralty authorities consented to the imme night ago on No, 112 Queen's Road Central, dlate remoys) of the 560,000 taels to the Palace,
piece of work, he is found to have gone home, Allow me to inform this noble agitator that with the message that he cannot come to-day, greed showed itself. Leaving their presents on than the indemnity they had paid. Then their Mr. H. E, Wodehouse released the pre- but on the condition that this money should be Jardine's, was the first who wrote to any purpose lity, has already been, inadequately indeed like after which one of them reported to Stapley one of the so called "worms," an officer in misen, stating that although the result of returned when the next provincial remittances on the subject; therefore, this statement with most others, treated, but it is necessary to revert "Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) we have been as he has an engagement, The topic of flexibi- the ground, they went aside to hold a palaver, the investigation was altogether unsatisfactory, for the winter expenses came. Poor Kuang regard to their willingness to "grove," and to it once again. So far as we are able to judge, considering together. We are all of one mind there was no actual evidence of incendiarism, Hai but at the same time it was not unattended with
Fanwillingness to complain" is wholly without this quality can only be seen, to the least adyan that you ought to give each of us two pieces of suspicious circumstances. Some of the things
inform "Nauticus" that as far as my experience where it is found at all, it produces stalwart peace. Take away the presents," said Stanley foundation. And-in-conclusion I venture to tage in districts which are strictly rural but cloth, and twenty, brass rods to celebrate this should have been there, but they were not, that were. Insured were indestructible and
goes, the officers on the above mentioned specimens adapted to win prizes in international to his servante,It is enough," he continues Through some misunderstanding ho was sorry
companies have far more claim to the title of exhibitions. The cook absolutely declines to waving his hand to the chiefs. The land i that there had been no police supervision over
gentleman than many of these nameless seamen wash his dish-towels in such a way that it is yours. Take it we will depart forever. I am the premises since the previous adjournment of
who drift up to Hongkong daily and are only too possible to determine whether he has done it at tired of you." Upsprangihechicis. "No!nol no!" the inquiry, for which, his Worship said, per
glad to obtain any position which offers itself, all. Tortures cannot force him to broil bis beef shouted one of them, resting the servant's haps he was responsible for, in that
and in return for much kindness and consideration steak, if be bas once become accustomed to fry movement. Stop 1 Be not angry with us! his instructions that a European policeman
assuma “airs" which ill become even an "officer" it. If the fatal and mysterious element of face this is the custom of the Wy-yahel. If you had should have been sent to supervise the premises
in the Douglas Company. But as Macaulay enters into the matter, it is all up with the poor given us four thousand brass rods, we should [5 and not been attended to, He had placed great
writes "We are taxed twice as heartily by our master, who must either yield the point or the have asked for ten thousand if you had given importance upon the necessity of a constable
pride as by our state. The curse of England is servant. A good-natured rustic who knew tow us ten thousand, we should have asked for ten being on the spot when the things on the upper
the obsijante determination of the middle classes to cook, and who in emergencies did not times that number. Do not leave stad Give ur At Ningpo, on the 25th September, the wife of floor were removed, owing to a dispute as to the
to make their sons what they call gentlemen, disdain to wait at table, could not be induced the cloth and the rods, and we will go and cele the Rev. J. C. HOARE," of a daughter.
lawyers without briefs (and the noble lord king period of the dog isya. After ons Wy-yanzi ta as insultable as the appetite, of the So we are overrun by clergymen without living to keep away the files from the same during brate the peace. Does not Bula-Matari know the might have added-officers of the mercantile or two mild waves of a tan, he gently but, hippopotamus. Wy yanzi love money too well marine) who would have been above the age as Brmly retired to the kitchen. Crafty diplomacy to fight any more. So live in peace, and let bakers, watchmakers or innkeepers."
succeeded at length in eliciting the information your heart rest."-N. C..Dally News I have the honour to be, dir,
Your obedient servant,
that his objection to this particular form of
(To de continued.). exertion is based upon sound reasoning. GOOSE QUILL. Amoy, September 29th, 1889.
Chinese play-actors are regarded as a low and
PEKING, depraved class of the community. Amo & play- actors the least respectabile are those set to do
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) the stage business of acting as lackeys, whisk-
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whore time is spent with a basket on his back, the city and at the hills. The fre lasted for might be induced to draw a rope which moves a the deepest regret. The brilliant reflection in "punkah'! The country boy, a large part of the sky of the great fire was seen by many in roaming along the roads in quest of manure, when more than siy hours and was reflected on taken into a foreign family where he receives more large portion of the heavens. When the heavy money in a month than he ever owned in all his rain fell, the roof had not given way and benod previous life, absolutely refques to do such the jalo had no exlogusting effect." Notice degrading work as emptying slops. We have was at once sent to the Falace. The front and known repeated instances in which lads too poor Hata; gates tas kept open all night and fire to know whether they would have a regular meal enginery bunted to the spot, but they aware three times a day at their homes have stood much too late to be of any avail. When with inexorable armness on this detail and be official buildings Catch fre, it is the duty of All cause of it have with apparent cheerfulness given the high officials to hurry to the spot and leave- smooth pillow casco on Sunday, they felt first on the scene Fire Alarms Are quickly up their places. Like the lady who refused to their cards, H.E.C the Marquis ¿was the obliged to draw the line somewhere's she drow ranned from one police station to another hers at pillow case)-they drew theirasat alepka. Do this occasion it was net dons lenide
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noon into the causes
A HORRIBLE tale of Chinese official brutality comes from Shanghai, where a young man wIE put into a cage the other week, and left to die of starvation and thirst by the orders of the district magistrate, a worthy named Fel, who pretends to be the father of his people," and an ardent expounder of the Confucian doctrine of the Five Virtues. It appears that the father of the hapless victim complained to the magistrale about the unfilial conduct of his son, and his unwillingness to grant support to his old and decrepit father; the young man being an only son, the parent's with, evidently, was to bring him before the magistrate to be admonished for his unfilial con- existence of Insurance and perhaps
gent said should have been there, but which bamboo. But old Magistrate Fei, looking throngis
to a few strokes of the he did not see after the fire. He fully bellaved, his inmense goggles,—which gave a looker-on however, that the misunderstanding was the idea of the whole of his head being enclosed dua to bis own fault of pot pressing in a glass case,~did not regard the mufliat upon the Inspector what he wanted to gondout of the youth in such a mild light, but be, done on the premises. As to the owner after the sdministration of a severe flogging, be of the things insured, there was the extent commanded that the unfortunate son should be ating circumstance that, if he had bad any put into a wooden barred cage, and while sinister designs, he would have performed them alive be taken to each of the six at the time when his premises were insured at stated intervals, to be held up as a warning to city gates nearly double the amount formerly, to what it the unfilial and gay youths of the Model NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS. was at the time of the fire, It was also to be Settlement" and its environs. The heart-rending. remembered that he had friends with him at the supplications of the now thoroughly alarmed
fa Honan there are vast tracts of fine sand to time of the fire who were not in themselves such parent for a mitigation of this terrible sentence, be traversed. This enkes over on the top and condemned most severely was the reckless ram nowadays, failed to produce a particle of especially the villager loaded with food-material as to raise any suspicions about. But what he common enough in ancient times but somewhat looks fm, but hen the unwary traveller, manner of lusuring conducted by the insurance sympathy in the sony-hearted Magistrate, or other hardens, ventures on it, be sinks in to company-on the Agent's own showing, the and the poor wretch died in frightful the chest, and unless he abandons his load and owner was allowed to insure some three agony. He declined to the last either, to jola in manages to roll out on to terra firma, as he The movement in Rotterdam is tending or four thousand dollars out of the $19,000 the suppleations of his father, or to make any felemelt ukinje stendu, eta loperighe on, goods that had no existence- whatever. | sort of a and maintained an attitude of miserably, though his friends are looking on The reckless granting of policies and an evident stoicism worthy of a better cause. During the and cager to rescue him. Many instances have reluctance to dispute things, offered temptation Art po days of his incarceration, some tender- occurred of countrymen thes buried in a living to unscrupulons men, and was the attributive hearted oficial in the Yamén gave him some grave rather than shake off the heavy load on cause of most of the fires in this colony. This | nourishment, but the being discovered by the their shoulders, for to lose that means death by might be partially explained by the amognt of Magistrate himself, who often, prowls about in starvation. competition in the colony; however this was no : plain clothes after dusk, inside and out of the city excuse, and so in the absence of decided evidenceAll this good Samaritan received a hundred showing that a crime had been done, he had blows of sin, bamboo ay a gentle reminder to released the premises.
mind his own business,
HONGKONG, Thursday, October 3, 1889.
TELEGRAMS.
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THE COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.
LONDON, October 1st, The Tribunal of the Seine has decided that
the Directors pay to the Liquidators 18,000,000 francs,
THE STRIKES IN HOLLAND,
towards a settlement,
'LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A REGULAR meeting of the Eothen Mark Lodge of Hongkong, No. 264, will be held in Free masons Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the 7th instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited
Mr. Shy Taze-ying, the energetic distributor of famine relief deputed by the Shanghai Silk Guild, has been interviewed by a leader-writer in
to be