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AERATED WATERS.
OUR plant comprises the latest improves ments, and is one of the most complete and efficient ever.shipped from England.
The Purity of the water is certified by analysts, The construction of the machinery and system of manufacture in force ensures cleanliness and absence of all contamination in the finished watera.
The quality of the Soda Water is equal to that of English makara..
the best of the spruned waters is equal to any produced in Eneland or abroad.
Sodanud Aerated Wwater supplied in Bombay Bized hotiles only, unless the ordinary size is specially ordered,
pecinst Port Orders carefully packed and dea- patched by first steamer after receipt of order.
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WINES AND SPIRITS,
BY APPOINTMENT.
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(ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.)
HONGKONG.
TE invite attention to the following old Wanded Brands, all of which are of ex- cellent quality and good value for the money.
The same being specially selected by our. London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the
best growths at moderate prices.
mar In ordering it is only necessary to state the name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, and initial letter for quality desired.
Orders through Local Post or by Telegram receive prompt attention.
PORTS. (For Invalids and general use.)
A Alto Douro, good quality,,
Per doren
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 890.
WORK on the Manchester Ship Canal is progress. ing so mpidly that there is good prospect of its being finished by the end of 1891. THE Queen had sableaux vivants, at Osborne. to amuss ex-Empress Eugéole on the evening of the day on which Magdala Napier (who was professedly accounted a great soldier) was buried in St. Paul. Yet, when some miserable Royal dudelet dies the Court goes into strict mourning for weeks at a stretch.
The Band of the A, & 5, Highlanders will play the following programme on the Barrack Square, to-morrow evening, commencing at 7.300'clock:- March......" Nannie wil's thou gang vi me"...Wakelen. Lancers. Faust up to date" Vaken as you picase"
The Officers PETKA
„Fahrbach. Quadrille.. Lights of London. CooLE. Galop Charlotten
Bergen,
Come,
CAPT. Swinnerton, of the steamship Leandr is a very fair amateur detective. Early this week, whilst on the way from Saigon, a Chinese passenger was robbed of about $250. Capt Swinnerton made somescarch, and then suddenly turned off into the chief steward's sanctum, much to the consternation of the occupant. Most of the money was found hidden in the sugar- barrel, and the rest on the steward. Mr. Robinson gave the latter six months, this morning, and complimented the Captain.
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Mr. H. M. Stanley arrived at Cannes yester. day, and had an interview with the Prince of Wales, who afterwards started for Paris. Stan- ley has declined on the ground of health an invitation from King Leopold to attend the Anti-Slavery Conference,
News has been received that a large armed Portuguese force, with artillery, has started up the Shird River. It is believed that they intend altacking Mponda.
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AMERICAN TELEGRAMS... The following telegrams from San Francisco exchanges were "crowded out" of our last night's issue.
LONDON, March 29th.
Lieutenant Stolt and Captain Salm, of the garrison at Cologne, became involved in an altercation to-day, when Stoll drew a revolver and shot Salm through the lungs, Bystanders attempted to seize Stall, but before they could reach him he placed the pistol to his head and fired, killing himself instantly. Salma is in a critical condition, and probably will die. The trouble grew out of the fact of the officers paying attention to the same womah.
employment in the British East African Com-condition he soon learns to adapt himself.". Of feeling his stepgth beginning to fail bim, called
that sympathy for childhood as such, which is out to one of the watchmen to fire, with great. pany's service.
so distinguishing a part of our modern civilisa presence of mind Ell Khan, waiting until Sariff tion, an average Chinese father bas 'no Khan was on the top of the beast, thrust his conception whatever. By this is not meant rife between his companion's 1gs and discharged of his children, its contents into the panther's stomach. Sariff that he is not fund for the reverse is most palpably true. Bu Khan shen let go his hold and the animal arrang he has no capacity for entering into the away. The Pathan then managed to stregger life of a child, and comprehending it. His into the manager's house, where he fainted fondness for his children is the result of the from exhaustion and loss of blood. The patrnal instinct, and is not an Intelligent and wounds he has received, though numerous, are sympathetic appreciation of the mind of a child. not of a very serious nature, the worst one being He not only has no conception of such a thing, a bite through the left hand and wrist. » The but he would not be able to understand what is apothecary, Mr. Mutukumaro, was sent for to meant by it, if the possibility of such sympathy Gopeng and quickly arrived on the spot and were pointed out. The invariable reply to all | proceeded to dress and attend to the wounds of suggestions, looking toward such sympathy the injured man. The panther on being wounded coming from a foreigner, seems to be, "Why, he went and deposited itself in a wheelbarrow, is only a mere child" It is by the slow moulding which was stan ing close by behind some bushes, forces of maturing life alone that the boy is ex. evidently with the idea of having a decent pected to learn the lessons of life, and these lessons catafalque, in which to lie in state, as befitt da he must learn fargely-though not altogether member of the Royal family of the forest as wall by himself. most Chinese children, there as in consideration to the French. Company for is very litle that is attractive in their own his speedy and easy removal to the local butcher, homes. The instinct of self-preservation does who speedily relieved him of his cont. The of course lead them to fly to their home, ne soon animal was an old one and in poor condi ion, as they meet with any repulse from without, but which may account for his depredations in the this instinct they share with animals. Chinese
fowl-house. Such was the tenacity and strength court-yards are almost invariably very con of Sariff Khariff Khan's iron grasp, that on the tracted, and allow little scope for enterprising animal's skin bei: g removed, its windpipe, was An alliance, offensive and defensive, has been youth to indulge in any, but the most crude and found to be broken in three places, and the Besh formed against the Italian Premier Crispi by simple forms of amu ement.
a contused and black mass of jelly, Signori Hagiani, Togani and Nicotera, which Ind generally has but, few toys, and those threatens to result in bis overthrow. Several of the simplest and most clumsy descrip members of Parliament have joined it. It is fion. At - certain - festivalavan sapecially lo tumored that Crispi, to meet this combinatietes, dich we talem & loaded will dissolve the Chamber of Deputies nekidoma with all varieties
often of a wenth and order elections to be held in May time and hybly tac sports character. In He is not disposed to give his adversaries time the country the same phenomenon is observed to organize.
large fair, at which wherever there has been the provision for, the children is always on s scale commensurate with their known wants But of these articles, made of earth, paper, bits of cloth, clay, reeds sugar, and other perishable substances, nothing will be left when the next moon shall have completed its orbit. In regins here bamboo is, to be had, there are a few more servicable and less fragile articles con- structed expressly for the childrer, and such articles doubtless have a longer lease of life.
That Chinese parents should take occasion to have a romp with their children, or even t engage with theft in any game whatever is so far as we have o served, a thing whole cu'side of the range of their wil est imagination. Clule dren have very few games which can be played in the house, and the line which is to our little ones the cream of the whole day, that, nam ly, in which they can gather around the evening lamp, to the Chinese a period of dismal.obscurity. By the dim light of a small and ill-trimmed
The longest railway in the world will be the St. Petersburg-Ural-Tomsk Irkutsk Vladivo stock line running through Siberia from west to It is said, and with reason, that this Sigantic trunk line will be complete in 1891. It will cover over 4,300 miles, Vladivostock, its castern terminus, is situated a little to the north of the mouth of the Tamen river-the natural
Queen Victoria has begun at Aix-les-Bains Russo-Korean frontier. At present it the usual treatment for rheumatism. She is takes from 70 to 80 days to send a taking baths regularly, and spends an hour every letter from St. Petersburg to Vladivostock. day swathed in fiannel bandages, with a towel When the railway is complete the journey may tied round her head. Those who have seen ber be accomplished in fifteen days. Jules Verne, reclining on her bed after a bath, wrapped up to Miss Nelly Bly, and George Francis Train will ber chin and looking thoroughly uncomfortable by that time figure as ancient history, as the find it hard to realize she is the Queen of Great journey round the world may then be performed Britain and Ireland and Empress of ledia, in forly to futy-five days-London, New York. From her bed-room window her Majesty looks San Francisco, Yokohama, Shanghai, Vladivó-out upon one of the finest views fa Europe. stock, St. Petersburg, London. Voila!
The rooms are in the second story of the hotel annex, 800 feet above the sea level. The ar and baths at Aix-les-Bains have always benefits Queen Victoria, but she is suffering at present from the most obstinate case of theumatism se ever experienced.
are as follows
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THE Alice Memorial Hospital statistics for April In-Patents remaining in Hospital on 1st April 47 admitted during April....................................... 67 Total, In-Patients treated...114
- Of these there were-- Discharged cured....................
relieved
on other grounds..............
25
$1.00 Died in Hospital
In-Patients remaining in Hospital on 1st May...68 Out-Palients, new cases
..698 ...620
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wine, Green Capsule........ 6. B Superior Pale Dry, dinner
0.60
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CLARETS,
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Plots,
A Superior Breakfast Claret,
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...... $4
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$4.50 5.00
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7
D La Rose
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Per_doc.
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C Very Old Liqueur Cognac
Red Capsule
18
$1,10
1.25
*1.50
D Hennessy's Finest Very Old
Liqueur Cognac, 1872 Vin
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Blend, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Mark...... 8.
C Watson's Abelour-Glenlivet, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark..........
D Watson's HKD Blend of the Finest Scotch Malt Whiskies, Violet Capsule... 10
E Watson's Very Old Liqueur
Scotch Whisky, Gold Capsule 12 IRISH WHISKY.
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0.75
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return visits
Total, Out-Patient visits...1318 Operations.......
Vaccinations...
12 .16
Dental cases............10 Casualty cases....... 7
SHANGHAI RACES.
SPRING MEETING, 1890. Stewards-J. M. Ringer, Esq.; A McLeod; Esq. W. Howir, Esq.; Jan. MacGregor, Esq.; O. Schuffenhauer, Esq.; Robt. MacKenzie, Esq; H. J. H. Tripp, Esq.; T. F. Hough, Esq.,, Clerk of the Course. Barnes Dallas, E; Secretary.
THIRD DAY.-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30TH, 1800 The "MANCHU STAKES: value. Tls. 100; for China panies, bond fide Griffins at date of entry, that have run and not won a Race; weight for inches as per scale; entrance, Tls.
5. One Mile a Quarter..
Mr. J. D. Humphrey's gr Vaticinator, Tust. glb. 1 The YANGTSZE STAKES; value, Tis. 100; for China ponies; weight for inches as per scale; winner of a Race of two miles or over, gibi. extra; entrance, Tls. §. Two Miles and a
Half,
Mr. J. D. Humphrey's gr. Vernal, rost, jalb... 1 The CONSOLATION CUP; valus, Tis. 100; for ponies that have run at this meeting and not won a Race; weight for inches as per scale entrance, Tis, 5: Once Round.
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The Chinese
Bellwood, the burlesque actress, and protege of Mandeville, who is now Duke of Manchester, is going to America with a theatrical company accompanied by the Duke. She will not appeas in music balls, but only at leading theaters. Swick, dipped info, a few spoonful of crede said:"There has not been trouble between un
vegetable oil, theevening's occuphilosare carried Look at the letters he sent me from Naples. Hon as best they may be, but to foreigner loves his own. Bessie too much to throw her over Chinese home is at such times most ideally com- because he is a Duke. He will cross the waker fortless, especially if the season be winter. No with me, probably as my manager. He is tired wonder that those members of the family who of his wife and wants a separation. If you don't can do so, are glad to crawl upon the more or believe me, ask Wales about it. He knows all less perfectly warmed bang, and warp them. about it and the Duchess knows still better selves in their wadded bed-clothes During the There will be lively times yet. I don't pose as portion of his existence in which the father being an angel, but I am as good as the Duchess and the mother of the Chinese child most of Manchester. Still, supposing the Duke backs gladly forsake bim, kind Morpheus takes out, I will go to America in company with some
The Kim up, and claims him for his own. peer. There's lota of them fond of me, but cut-door games of Chinese children want Manchester. He knows both my married mostly of tame and uninteresting typz. sisters in America."
A SIBERIAN SYNDICATE:
(Financial News)
The syndicate that was formed last year with the object of prospecting and acquiring gold landa in Siberia is reported to be doing good work, and, according to all accounts,. it has a information on the subject of Siberian mines has good field, for its operations Some surprising been furnished by Dr. Lansdell, who has recently travelled in Asiatic Russia and the Far East. According to this authority, the the annual production of gold throughou Russian Empire furnishes an eighth part of the world, and of this proportion three- fourths came from Siberia. Between the years 1833 and 1870 gold to the value of £50,000,000 of mine owners at Kuchta, Dr. Lansdell says was sent out of Eastern Siberia alone. Speaking that one firm there, con isti g of three paricers. washed enough gold in one year to give a ne profit of £600.000. They expected the year after to make £1,000,czo, and the Government Surveyor calculated that at that rate the mine would last fifty years. The conditions of gold mining in Siberia appear to be very concessions in blocks of four kilometres favourable. The Government grante mining
extent, no person is supposed to own more "than the caini, but. Dr. Lansdell says that, an area consists of a piece of land about three and a half miles long, the breadth being determined by the distance between the two, mountains in which the seam lics. This is generally from 50 feet to 1,020 feet. No one can occupy more than three and a balf consecutive miles; ' but a wife, or friend, or partner, having a certificate, may take the adjoining three miles, and then the three miles below may be inken, and so on 11 any extent. The gold' is washed in the most primi: tive manner, being.nothing but the placer min. cock with bis heels, striking a small stick
Californian goldfie'ds. The vast ex'ent of the sharpened at the ends so as to make it jump inte a city, a species of fox and geese, a kind of country has prevented anything like the exhaus 'cat's-cradle, a variety of jack-stones, these, Railway is completed it is probable that rich tion of its mineral wealth' ; but when the Siberian are among the most popular juvenile amuse-claims will not be got so easily as they are at Majormente in the rural regions with which we happen present. trepte,
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"JAPANESE AS SHE IS SPOKE.”
Hanashimahe Japanese language,
The Japanese language has no persons, cases,
moods, the tenses, inflections, or any other parts of speech worth speaking of This we are. prepared to maintain against any other sinologue, and, if challenged, can produce as many excep tions to any given, but supposed, rule of Japanese grammar (so called), as the other side can give instances of conformity with it. Like cancels like, and we are left exactly as we were All the Japanese colloquial language for the past 30 odd years (since the country was opened) has been made by foreigners at the rate of 3 cco words per annum-being on the average about one word per man per annum, The Chinese have charge of the writing department. The purest Inpanese is that spoken by the foreigners of Yokohama. This is shown by the readiness with which the natives adopt it.
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Receipt for Making Japaness. Stand any foreign language on in head, or work it sideways with the aid of this vocabulary, and classical fapanese is the result. Serve it with sauce piquante and haleines à la Faponaise, and garnish according to individual taste. Tadaima The Indefinite Future..
Naraba The Conditional Present,
Ano ne The Root, Mikado The rinme of an English operat Misema shop. --Vokurkoman öffice. Placas bullt by foreigners to serve as gratis exhibitions to sightseeia from the
country. The Japanese in Yokohama'all make their living by acting as guides -Banto=x head guide. Darl Who Darida? Who goes there?
Mispronunciation of the German Wer da? Shimdun-A newspaper, May rue Shimbuns The name of a newspaper edited by a "Japanese young man," a very Kand-Foreigners have come to Japan to look
"niminy-piminy young min."
for this word, but have not been able to find it. We now offer it to them for the first ".. time. Mažura—A wooden block, formerly used by executioners for chopping off people's heads, now used as pillow for sleeping on.." Happy be thy dreams," Neru To sleep, perchance to dream. Gosarimasu A cuss word. Tatami... The abode of fleas... Chayn-A House built of laths and paper, and
completely devoid of beds and the most ordingly furniture, but used as a hotel by the Japanese who enjoy the accommodation in consideration of the cheapness of the
tariff.
Halago It takes two meals, dinner and break- -fast, and a night's lodging to make up the
katago, at a Japanese inn, as there would not be enough to charge for unless they were all lumped together. Tiffin is an extra, and of course a luxury, which few Japanese, except the servants of foreigners and hotel guides can afford to indulge in.. The chaya has attractions only for geniuses visiting this country. Everything Japanese bas a poetical glamour about it for them alone, By day their noses are tickled with the scent of pickled Jasmine, and at night they are lulled to sleep by lovely perfumes arising in the neigh- bourhood, whilst the denizens of the talami prey on them by myriads. They recover their senses later on, and go away disgusted, if they
thing.
The King of the Belgians is here mixing Tossing bits of earth at a mark, playing shuttle- ing of the palmy days of the Australiani and stay long enough. They can't teach us any
money for bis pet canal scheme, to make Brussels a seaport. The idea for this was originally suggested by Mr. August Belmont when he was Minister to Belgium."
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Dispatches from Zanzibar report that Wisemann bas declared a state of was; cast coast of Africa and proclaimed martial law within the sphere of German influence.
Publishers are fighting the refusal of Bismarck to print his memoirs. The ex-Chancellor wrote from Varzin stating they would be most remark- able for what he could not recollect.
Solicitor-General Clarke is the latest candi- date for the divorce court. He has been paying frequent visits to a pretty young lady residing in a street adjacent to the St. Thomas Hospital in Lambeth. His wife, an elderly lady, caught her faithless husband, and now the public will 100n have the story in full.
PARIS, March 29th, The French gunboat Bee has been sank at Rochefort in collision with a man-of-war.
Dom Pedro says he was no intention to abdi- cate nor issue a manifesto to that effect. He anxious to return to Brazil in any capacity in order to pass the remainder of his life among the people he loves. He approves of the nomi- nation of Senor Bacaryva as Minister of Foreign to Brazil's influence in South American affairs.
Count Menabres, the Italian Embassador to France, has notifier Ribot, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, that he will def the toate latter 10-morrow the Abyssinia, whereby the between Italy and the former obtains a foothold on the Red Sea. Both France and Russia will undoubtedly protest against the operation of the treaty, in which case It is difficult to imagine what can stand in the Mr. J. D. Humphrey's gr. Vaticinator, zosi, glb.fway of its modification if not its abrogation.
A German spy has been arrested at Epinal, The GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE, Value,
Tls. 150-For China Ponies-Second Pony, the capital of the Department of Vosges Tlr, so--Weight for inches as per scale- Documents were found showing an organized Winners of a Steeplechase at any previous system of espionage of French forts and camps Meeting in Shanghai, gibs, extra-Non- along the Franco-German frontier. Winners of a Steeplechase allowed 5lb Entrance, Tls. 5. Twice Round a Course selected by the Stewards,
e acquainted. Chinese cities have allure ments of their own, some of which do not differ essentially from those found in other parts of the world than China. But even in the country, where restrictions are at a minimum, Chinese lads do not appear to take kindly to anything which involves much exercise. One does not ordinarily see them running races, as foreign boys of the same age can not fail to do, and their jumping and climbing arc of the most elementary sort. We have never heard of a crow which was so injudicious as to spot where it would be visible build its nest in to the eye of an Anglo-Saxon boy, unless the owner of the eye had previously made a long journey with it to a distance from all haman babitations. But Chinese crows build their huge nests in all sorts of trees, in and about every Chinese village. It is not uncommon to see an old poplar with ten or twelve of these huge mats of sticks, which are undisturbed from year to year and from generation to generation. Buddhist teachings suffice to account for the singular inviolability which crowsnests enjoy in China, In a region where every stick of fuel is precious, what sacredness can attach to a bushel or to of large twige, when the crows have visibly done using them? Neither does superstition in regard to ill-luck arising from demolition of the nests of crews security, although at first sight this may seem to be the case. Extensive enquiri a have satis fied us, that the true explanation is simply the natural one, that the Chinese boy is afraid to climbed so high as a crow's-nest, What if he should fall ? says every one when applied to for information on the point, and it is ibis unin-
Mr. Sassoon's ch. Fontenoy, 11st. 1lb..........Affairs, which will assure the peace and conformar gard to the sacredness of animal life do not The CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES, a forced entry and open only to Winners at this Meeting; fortion for the Winners of the Consolation Lisp and the Roadsters Plate, not exceeding 14 hands 3 inches in height-Weight for inches as per scale-Entrance, Tl. 10- Winners of two Races, Tis, 15 extra ; of more than two Races, Tis. 4o extra, One mile and a Quarter.
0.75
100 Mr. Julius' gr..Matador, 11st. 6lb, (5lb, added) 1
LATE TELEGRAMS.
ZANZIBAR, April 5th. The boats of H.M.S. Conquest have captured eighly slaves off Pemba.
Old, Green Capsule......... 12 GENUINE BOURBON WHISKY, fincold, Red Capsule, with Name. To
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B Flue. Unsweetened, White
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Finest Old Jamaica, Violet
President Carant will journey to Corsica to-morrow in high state. Arrangements for the trip have been made on a scale of magnificence recalling the days of the Third Empire
ST. PETERSBURG, March 29th. A train of thirty-eight cars, loaded with petroleum, caught fire near Betoum and was destroyed. Three train-hands were burned to death.
CHINESE BOY,
A letter from Sir Samuel Baker to the Times THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ogo centures the policy of Great Britain in abandon. ing the Saudan, and says that we cannot now grudge Germany advancing along the White Nile Sir Samuel recommends England to concentrate her attention on Egypt proper as a means of properly securing her route to India.
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The Hongkong Belegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 1; 1890,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A REGULAR meeting of Zotland Lodge, No. 525 will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. We are requested to state that H.E. the Officer Administering the Government will receive visitors at Government House on the afternoons of 8th, 15th, and 24th May, at 4.30 p.m. There
will be tennis.
THE Bowen Road and Plantation Road Stations of the Peak Tramway were opened for passengers to-day. The former station is particularly convenient for the Ladies Tenali Club and Magacino Gap.
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account for their
swered and unreasonable.question which seems
protect young Chinese crows from age to age. -N, C. Daily News.
(To be continued)
A PANTHER STRANGLED BY A" PATHAN.
A FIERCE STRUGGLE. -
Advices, the Stratis Times says, bave jun been received from Russia, by the volunteer steamer Petersburg, that the Russian genile man who is understood to be acting in the interests of the Syndicate has been granted Hcenses from the Imperial Government to pros- Mountains and Western Siberia, and that the pect and take up mining lands in the Ural
Siberia would be shortly to hand. It is gene. papers conferring sim lar privileges in Eastern ally, we are informed, a matter of extreme difficulty to obtain such privileges from the Imperial Government.
A FASIONABLE FUNERAL,
of the 30th Feb.:-"At Shang-kong, (Central). We take the following from the Malso Gasstie
In the last year of his age, John Jones, Esquire, son of Mrs. Smith, of England, and protéed of Town. Deeply lamented." (New York Police the late Peter Snooks-Browne, Esquire, of China.
Gazette please copy:)
in the procession to the "Bone. Yard," and The late lamented (who took a prominent part likewise in the subsequent proceedings) was closely followed by "Bunday Robinson, Esquire, who kindly acted as Chlef Mourner, owing to the unavoidable absence of the late Peter Spooks-Browne, Esquire. The "stiff? was attired in a long wooden overcoat, heavily Ilned with sheet lead, and well soft-soldered up the seams. The entire sult was admirably designed for keeping out the damp, and will pro: bably be the last which Mr. Jones will require. Arthe wake, which preceded the obsequies, we noticed mary of the "upper crust" drinking | the health of the corpse, who would, perhaps, have been less adjacent bad the remains had a voice in the matter.
The procession footed it up the Maloo in the following order pa
The Undertaker
"bier beater bier bearer The Undertaken bler bearer, bier bester, (fect first).. bler bearer bier bearer
bearing
beet.
Sandy Robinson, Esquire,
(Deputy chief mourner),
· Lady " Mery Africana "
bearing
beer,
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Boy An attendant at an inn-the Japanese for Chadai=(tea money) originally a voluntary of
neesas female servant. fering
from a guest to an attendant at an ian, but now always asked for. Another form of chodai"-glve, Ashan=morning rice=cuphonism for breakfast Hirumethi=midday rice
tiffia, Puhou-evening rice
dinner, Yo-you-used only as a suffix to nouns and
verbs.
HI
BakamJapanese pronounciation of "beggar.".
Ex-Baka yo-you beggar (ased contemp Abunal Japanese pronunciation of "Have an
tuously).
eye" (an Imperfect verb-one "eye" want- ing). Ex-Adunai yomadumal yo. Piggy Away away Be off wid ye now. dfacki—a street or a town, also imitation Tand- stickors, made in Japan and warranted not to strike any place on or off the box. While on the subject of imitations, we may mention casually that averything Japanese is an imitation of everything foreign-nothing genuine Macht is also the stem or root (we will give our ultimatum on this vexed, question later on), of the verb Maisu, to wait. Ex. O'Machi nazai,—0—0. Machi wait, Nasafido, thus making O do wait, The O is prefixed merely to round off the phrase; slang for sukoshtinats. Some idioms:
Nani Omas? What will you have? niso, How
many cards?
Kamawana Don't mind if I do.
Waray-ka 7-Smile 7 Warau I should smile. Dare kito Who are the people? Watakushi hilo We are the people.. Dare hito also means who's your friend, Mina Nikae="All up" also means "I'll raisa
you the limit," Bab-(synonym for "baby." The Japanese have got this word wrong. They take it to mean "baby's, clothes" instead of the "baby" inside. Sarampan-hito,—A broker,—Japan Herald,
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A VISIT 10 THE CUSTOM HOUSE,
A writer in the Pall Mall Gavette gives following interesting account of a visit to the London Custom-house — A
(nicksha," and with red flower in bonnet) misery of the outer world to the bright
Two "dead bestr.”
(Creditors of late lamented)
(weeping coplously),
The Hong-kew Roller (preceded by members of "chain gang all washed for the occasion "), "
The "Press" SWIN Vacant 'Ricksha of Mr. Jones (deceased)
* Three "beach-combers"....
(Ex-Blus.Funnel firemea),
The." Goat,!!!*
Several, Brekers ("busted" and heart-broken) Drunken Policeman Contain The Pagan throng.
Dull and sombre was the morning as I gazed down upon the dreary river from a snug lule office at her Majesty's Customs." And it' was with pleasure" I turned from the chill-
and the warm comfort within. My friend, before taking me the sound of the great labyrinth of bricks and mortar wherein is transacted all The “ Customs" duty of the nation, called my attention to a relic of the Spanish Armada, in the shape of a treasure chest which had been diss covered some years ago off the Irish coast, and ́of which the- bright steel and very elaborate lock work was as perfect as though it had been mada last week instead of having been buried in the ocean for 300 years. · Dar first⠀
soppage in our round of inspection was at the
At the French Tin Mining Co.'s mine of Klian Lalang near Gopeng, Kinta, Perak, on the 4th of March, at z am, the fukang ayır came in and informed the manager that he had shut a The early years of a Chinese boy are spent in large musang into the fowl-house. Mr. Cologon, what, viewed from the experience of a decade the manager, and. Mr. Poirier, his assistant, later, mast appear to him a condition of supreme went out to see the supposed musang, and on Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is in a com-happiness. He is welcomed to the household approaching the building, which is composed of atose state, and has received the last sacrament, with a wild delight, to which it is wholly im. 3 in, maranil posts and covered with in. wire possible for an Occidental to do any justice. He netting it was found that instead of a musang a CAIRO, April 8th. Prince Albert Victor was received at Cairo on begins life on the theory that whatever he wants, black panther had been shut into the enclosure. Monday by Sir Evelyn Baring, Generals Dormer, that he must have this theory is also the one Sariff Khan, a Pathan watchman in the Grenfell, and Barker, and Zeky Pasha, who, acted upon by those who have him in charge, company's employ, was called, and on bringing with the officials and notabies, bad assembled to an extent which aims to us, who occupy the his rifle fired at the beast, but unfortunately the at the station. During the day, he exchanged. position of impartial critics, truly amazing. A bullet struck the wire netting and was slightly visits with the Khedive.
Chinese mother is the literal slave of her children, turned from his course, causing it to merely rase LONDON, April 8th. If they cry, they mustbe, coddled, most probably the sklo on the animal's skull, Before this the The elder youth, Davies, was executed to-day carried about, and whatever dxpense, U it beast had made no attempts at escape, but it for the murder of his father at Crewe. The is possible, to, prevent such a terrible state of now became infuriated, and during its violent younger, who is believed to have taken a greater things. They must not be allowed to cry con attempts to escape, succeeded In tearing away sbare in the actual murder, is sentenced to penal tinuously. In this respect, at lesat, It does not the end of the wire netting from the nails and appear that there much distinction between through the gap past. Mr. Polrrier and sprang Prophetstown, Illinois, has been wrecked by a the treatment of boys and girls. The age at through the gap cyclone. Great loss of life is the supposed which a boy is too large to be carried on a very right at Sanff Khan, who was some seven or The deceased is to be congratulated upon Now said my friend, we will go down resulte
indefinite one, and it is common to see distracted eight yards away. Sariff Khan dropped his rifle the admirable arrangements with which he stairs to the Queen's watchouse, where she ZANZIBAR, April
mothers staggering with their lule gost-feet and as the beast lighted on him seized it by the carried out his fu eral, and although the and the Prince of Wales keep a great quantity under the weight of children half their own size, throat and mouth with his hands. The weight ordeal was necessarily trying one to go of their wine. Here there is an all-pervade The Germans have induced the 5th Zinzibar to withdraw the concession from the lugging their offspring about for the reason that of the panther threw him on to the ground, but through considering it was his first time, ing smell of snuff, which I was told arose British East African Company, granting to the they would not stand it to be put down. A in sple of that he kept his fron grip on the it was observed with great satisfaction from the fact that, owing to the decline in the Company the Islands of Manda and Palita: The preparatory discipline of this naturelanotadapted animals throat, and a Gerce and deadly (upon this point the remains has the sale of that article and the waste in tobacco Company's representative has declined to accept to teach children Independence, self-control or struggle took place on the ground (such as thanks of all that the corpse maintained a digni- manufacture great quantity is returned to the the withdrawal, kymme
ve any useful lepeor, and thosetult is such as might one would imagine often took place between fied silence, along with a quiet, gentlemanly, and Crown, and is then conveyed to the deep sea and LONDON, April 14th have been expected. Tut the Chinese child is the cave-dwellers and the natural tenants unassuming demeanour throughout the hole there sunk, bundreds of tons of it Passing A Times Zanzibar telegram says that in an eminently practical. Being and he finds by of the caves in pre-historic times) in which, after proceedings
little further down this dark and dingy cellars declares the principal cause of his joining the experience that when there to half a dozen some time, Sanfi Khan managed to get the up Mr. Jones goes to his well-carned rest with a in which, however, was concealed enormou German Expedition If the observations made children smaller than himself, the period of his per band. At the sound of the life shot the other shower of good wishes Personally, we wish wealth, I came to a vast collection of books concerning him in Stanley's speeches, He fore own supremo mlekas passed away, and has watchinen about the mine had concentrated at him how toyage and hope that he will experience by every known author-Dicken Thackeray
Rider Haggard "elaborato musical producilon0/ ther expresses his grief at being unable to obtale passed away never to return To this altered the manager's house, and when Bariff Khan, i cool weather on bis long journey,
servitude for life.
of
#Long" room, an enormous apartment, where are revited the papers of every ship that enters -Upon the antival at the “Acre" the corpse or leaves: the Port of London, and where is!
unnally received $620,000,000, over one-fifth the whole revenge
fashionable assembly, dispersed, sod, and the
of