THE MISSIONs to SEAMEN.
THE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1892.
into shape and allowed to dry. It is then inached op, dipped in moltes glaze and allowed to cool The average workinan can turn out a hundred day. The clay le kaolin, running from red and gray to snow white, and costs about a cent a pound. The glase is melted in a small charchal furnace, similar to the old-fashioned soldering furnaces of retired plumbers. The wages of good artist vary from no to 40 cents a day. The cost of a fair-sized image is about 3 cents. He sells it for 5 cents to a native and for as high as to the credulous European or Americas Somlat. The moulding, touching andre-touching are the same in all the shops. The glading varies Indennitely. It may be opaque of any colors transparent but listed with any shade desired, or clear and colorless. The best work is made by painting the clay with heavy white paint and dipping in the glass last described. In another kind of good work, the clay is colored in caustic colors, kept to the beat until these The have set, and then glazed as usual. Chinese are very skiiful in this field of labor and with fine brushes will turn out "josses" that at first sight might be mistaken for cloissanté,
our people will take advantage of the present opportunity in this country before speculators and European buyer shall have exhausted the best part of the stock.
large clumsy ass from which shoot eat any where from thren to thirty rontlets. - Their sur- face is never smooth, but always irregularly commented. The value of a coot-depends upon is als, its outline, lis freedom from decay and is suggestiveness of some everyday object. It rare that a main root of root-mass is more than six Inches in diameter. Such belong to |'trees, ranging in age from thirty yours to a fifteen inches, and are then said by Chinese century. Infrequently they attain to twelve and exons to be four and five hundred years old.
The "Thiry-sixth Annual Report of the Missions to Seamen," of which we have to ack nowledge the receipt, with thanks, contains more raatter of local interest than usual, Amongst other items that are worthy of note in the statement that the indefatigable
the
Rev. A Chaplain for Hongkong. Gurney Goldsmith, hopes soon to replace with a more comfortable and conveniest struc sure the temporary mat-shed Insitute at Kow locn."
A Sunday cargo-working ordinance came fato operation on August 1st, 1891, at Hongkong, forbidding Sunday labour, except on payment of a heary fee for a permit, which has restricted Sunday labour In that harbour to a few of the mone wealthy shipping companies. Almost en tirely stopped Sunday labour in the port, evon se, regards the fending shipping firms" would have been nearer the mark, seeing that the average number of permits lassed since the Ordinance came into force is two per month and
Antiques" are popular with the dealers, as these were, almost without exception, for vessels they can be planted and dug up to order from chargeable with the maximum fee. Refering any dealred aga er dysasty, sed bring a band- to "the growing tendency of shipowners and some profit. The simplest to the "black loss." agants to ship bunker coal on Sundays" It is made by painting a clay cast with a pro the report states this labour is usually paration of tar, blumen, Shellac or Ningpo performed by landsmen, all cleanliness, quiet varnish, wrapping la several thicknesses of and rest are banished from the ships, "and" paper and "firing" it in a kiln. According to The Foochow carvings are famous in Chips and
are found in
in every
and town. The simplest Divine worship on board ceases, to the great the preparation and treatment you can obtain a
are basso and altorellevos apon irregular plaques, | moral and spiritual loss of the officers and Black-brown, red-black, blue-black or a dark-
aordinary plates and clumsy vases. The figure is crews; whilst unkindly antagonism is generated gray product. The color sets through, so that a between employers arid employed, hurtful fractare discloses a very clear and ualform sur- "joss" (the conventional deity), a patron saint, to both." Which we commend to the firm that face. There is little or no vitrelication in this a hero, demigod or dragon, Sometimer, though filled dp the Memnon's bunkers last Sunday treatment, which makes the cast resemble a rarely, the artist is a portrait-catter, and instead although she had not commenced to discharge carving all the more. "Touching removes of an imaginary creature turns out very fair the large cate the brought up from Sandakan. any irregularities or defects, and also adds the representation of a human being. On one occa The Mission, we note, gives no credit to the signs of decay which usually accompany the slon I managed to recognize whom an image local Marine Officers' Association in respect to fight of years. A few of these "birck Josses stood for. The carvings of this class are very the Sunday Cargo-working Ordinance (1891), are enamelled, and are cageily bought by sapient cheap, ranging from 15 cents upwards. The If states simply that for three years, the Sea-globe-trotters. Another and very different group reller-portraits command anywhere from $1 to $5. men's Chaplain for Hongkong Harbour, the Rev. of Josses are those carved from wood and covered A second class are articles of domestic utility, A. Gumey Goldsmith, and the Committes at with gold and gay colors. Many of the art paper weights, link-stands, Joss-stick holders, home have done their utment to procure fat very ancient and are much more in demand pin-boxes, jewel-cases, pedestals and the like. the harbours of Chinese waters than the pottery ware. They are carved with They are cut in simple geometrical forms, are and of the Indian Ocean the day of rest and evident skill, and retain their brightness for highly polished and decorated with floral designs, worship to which they are morally entitled, but years. The pilces vary according to size, arabesquerie or serpentine work. They see very which was long withheld. As a rule the workmanship and amount of gold or other de inexpensive, costing from 5 cents to one dollar ships on board which Sanday cargo-labour corations covering them. The smallest made A third class consists of statues and, animal prevails, whoever does the work, have no wor- are but an Inch high and tring a few cents the figures. The Dragon, the Dog of Happiness, the ship for their crews either on weekdays or largest are so to 12 feet high and cost $150 to Heavenly Foodle, Buddha, Sira, the Goddess of Sundays. A low moral standard, a weak physical $500 and upwards. In the larger sizes (say Mercy, fishes, buffaloes and llons are the favorite condition, discontent, and unhappiness are the those of more than a foot high) the carving is designs of both maker and buyer. In size the natural characteristics of life on board prayerless admirable and the coloring life-like and very carvlage range from a mere toy half an ships. Owners, efficers, and crews in such whips, artistic. There are four of these large-sized nch high to handsome pieces of one or are entirely out of mutual sympathy, Christian Josses in the famous temples of La-po-do attr feet square dragon etter bringing fellowship and fellow-feeling. It is with great she entrance of Amoy harbor, and they produce of prices, a rough dragonnette" thankfulness and praise to the Lord of the as imposing an effect as any collection of statues a few cappers, while a large and well executed Sabbath Day that the Committee record the in the galleries of Europe.
Goddess of Mercy is quickly disposed of at measure of success which has attended the effort.
$40.00 to $50.00, Last year, letters were written to the principal Secretaries of State at home, to the chief Autheiltles of the Crown Colonies concerned, and of India, to the Chambers of Commerce and of shipping at home, to the Bishops of the seaboard dioceses in the Indian seas and many others, Very grateful thanks are due to Lord Knutsford, in the late Governor of Hongkong, to the Governor of Singapore, to the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and to the
In almost every modern drawing-room, there is an ungainly statue or carving in soapstone which, the owner vaguely says came from Japan, China, or somewhere in the East Where
Foochow they really come from
which next to Amor is the most important city in the great province of Fokien. A few cars Amor, Wenchon, Chan-Chan Foo and Canton, out of the soapstone rock which occurs in
The roots are dag from the soil, and allowed inexhaustible deposits to the vicinity of Foo
to thoroughly dry in the open air under a shed or else in a moderately warm room. The loose chow. But neither in quality, much less in quantity, will the output at all of these three places earth is carefully removed. ss. Is the loose hark combined compare with that of the latter city. and all pieces decayed, cracked or wormienten The soapstone, or stestite, to use more The antlas then determines what it is to be. The accurate word, is quarried almost like ordinary favorite types are dragons, buffaloes, cows, carul- ballding stone. It is singularly free from flaws
vores bears mandarins, priests, howling and blemishes, and often comes out in blocks of dervishes, dancers or mythical heroes. If the a cubic yard. The finer kinde In
come much roat cannot be worked into one of there shapes, Fineness from a Chinese stand. smaller pieces."
it is converted into a pedestal ar platform for a color translucency, of
zod point is a matter
figure piece. The primary operation consists in distribution of shading. No other steatite can wawing it into rough shape. This is done with
of compare with this in variety and brilliancy
■ fine cross-cat and the clean edges removed by color. In a collection owned by Captain John H. rubbing them on tiles or bricks. Sometimes a Coombs of Amay, there are objects in black, brown, root is beat, by softening ti with steam ar ball maroon, carmine, Indigo, ultramarine, Frenching water, and then twisting it in any desired gray, orange, purple, yellow, blatre, sienna, and direction. opa Usually a carving is made in one color, but some are even la polychrome.
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Now comes the hardest trait of all. Themest valued piece is that, which shows, so 'art and seems perfectly natural. The carver goes over the block, removing here a fibre and there a set | of roots, here thinning out one on the under slide- and forcing it down and there burning another and expanding it at the burned point. I have one in my drawing-room which is a capital figare i of a dragon, rearing and opening bis jaws an to spring upon his prey. Careful examination shows that nothing has been added to the mass, but that hundreds of bres, knots and corruga tlona have been skilfilly removed,
In nearly every instance, a heman figure made In the same manner, or carved from wood of the same colar, or else made partly from tea-roots and partly from carved wood, is added to the first plece. The designs are endless in this field, Learned men lecturing birds, mandarins standing on dragons, boys slding cows and other kileulous quadrupeds, dancing beggare, men fighting each other, are the commonest groups, but of the more uncommon there are thousands. One famous artist in Foochow claims to have produced with the aid of his apprentices over fifty thousand different designs, and judging from his stock on hand, his claim seems reasonable
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The tea-root carvings are seldom very costly, running from fifty cents to one hundred dollars, Nine-tenths bring less than $2 each. A hand- some set of a dozen can be purchased for $20; which will decorate a drawing-rooms or hall better than bric-a-brac many times more expen- aive. The figures are strong, durable and in no danger of fracture by Bridget or Ah Sla.. Oat side of their esthetic value, they are of interest in showing the wonderful ingenuity and economy of our Chinese cousins.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
PARIS, May 11th. Ravachol has been conveyed to St. Etienne, committed there in 1889.
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gives a touching description of the poor man; he was, he says, like a Lazarus covered with wounds all over his body, and his legs were posting with blood; he seemed to suffer lutensely, crying at intervals (in Chinese) Jesus, Mary, hire pity on me. Afterwards he became tranquil, and the priests exhorted him to pardon his enemy as Jesus Christ had done when nalled at the Cross He did so, received the last holy leaving a desolated family to mourn his lost.
Now the Chinese say that the projectile was sacraments and at 3 in the afternoon expired,
Macao bomb, but I told them that a bomb has bullets in It, and in this case there was nothing left in the wounds, only holes made. Truly it was dynamite, as can be known by its terrible effect. I think the dynamite was of laferior quailty, because if it had been of the best kind, the man must have been torn to pieces. God bad pity on 'blm, and gave him sufficient time to prepare to appear before Him.
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We hope that he who pardoned his enemy, will be pardoned by Him. at He has promised us in the Lord's prayer.
The Mandarin of Hal-ting came yesterday, and will hold a post mortem examination to morrow. Afterwards, Almlehty God preserve our lives, for if the Chinese take to sing such brutal measures to wreak their vengeance, I do not know where or when they will stop."
FOOCHOW.
14th May, 1892.
There is, in addition to sa unsold stock of 4,000 cases of kerosine oli at present la port, an equal quantity in the hands of retail dexters. Some seventeen ruffians, who bave been fo prison for years for murdez, stood their final trial at the court of the Provincial Judge last week, and are now awaiting the Emperor's sanction for execution. There are amongst them two women, who murdered their husbands. The new Min magistrate immediately after taking over the seals of office, summoned mil the managers of the native banks and money. changers to his presence, and Informed them that he intends to vigorously carry through the standing law established by his predecessor the use of spurious cash, and that during his term of office he will do all in his power to extin gulsh this malpractice.
Upon the expiration of the terra of his office, the Tartar-General requested from the Throne permission to proceed to Peking, and present himself to the Emperor according to "clo custom." Instend, however, of obtaining the desired permissier, orders have just come for him to remain at his post for another term at this port, which means six years further service. The statement we made last week that the finances of all piece-goods dealers are in a most precarious state. is beyond doubt correct; an another fallure of a silk and piece-goods Erm of very long standing has occurred in the city, with Hablilties reported to reach nearly $200,000! The business of such dealers is generally in connection with one another, and so serioas a failure must bring several others in its train.......
May 41st, 1892.
The much talked-of temple to be erected, at the Foochow Arsenal in memory of its pro- moters, Shen-Pas-Chen and Tao-Tsung-Tang, An enormous building,
Josnes carved from stone are rare, and dear. Great mandarina pay fabulous prices for small A fourth class is essentially Chinese. They ones made from jade; those made of the pale call ff a "dramatta picture." It is a brave attempt green and light-bite shades of that precious to do in one piece of stone what Cellela did in a mineral are much more valuable than the white, doxen pannels of metal work. The stone taken yellow or brown, Liu, the former Governor of as a whole is carved into a conventional mountain Fermess, owns one about 8 inches high, which with impossible roads, viaducts, and caverns. At is said to be 15 centuries old, and to be worth every point which pleases the artist's fancy la $10,000 Small ones of 1 to a inches bigh in carved a human figure, They are out of perspec Canton seldom cost less than $250. The tive and out of proportion in every respect. difficulty of cutting the refractory stone li Two warriors, for example, are fighting on
CAVCER, wille price. In Foochow they make many joises out lovers are trembling in
the of stealite and selenite of various coloré. There father, as large as a baby, confronts them at the entrance. A horse whose head is larger than are rather neat and are exceedingly cheap.
From now on for the next five year will be the his trunk, is about to be devoured by a dragon golden opportunity for the collector to secure the size of kittas. So the incongrulties run on the finest specimens of swords. The market Despite the ludicrous unnaturalness the work The Latinite never before contained and never will gain manship excites admiration. such an sportment, as regards eliber beauty, patience with detail, the enormous labor expend- economy, historie values, variety or workmanship-ed upon the work-and-the handsome chromatic But it might fairly have been added that the The reasons are simple enough world and the are worthy of a high and nobler art. These the passage of petroleum tank steamers through / most largely taken, and amongst other kinds,
The opening effect from the well-chosen colors of the stextite docal Marine Association, ably led by Capt of China and Pm was a fatal blow to the dramatic plctures are not over costly. They | the canul after July 1st. A report, however. Flowery "Pekoe and Green tea Price being
We at KWarn that
lawyers have made ample use. The laws of two continents and several countries have been brought to bear in the excavation of the real rights and wrongs of the petty detalls round which the conflict has principally bean rangod. The Times, which, on the subject, seems to have exclusive information of a character net usually within the ken of mentals, declares in an authoritative way that the care has employed "the lawyern of two worlds.” Wa, whose knowledge is confined to the one warld in which we live, are unable to say in which of the other worlds the lawyers have been engaged on the Concha case. ungrateful people who think meanly of lawyers will aver that there is only one ether world in which lawyers are to be found while traversing this proposition we do not propose to go into It that, because it is too deep. The mais point ta after elaborate investigations in Peru, trials in France, and seven different suffu in this country, we have reached finality. It may be as the Timas sugreats, that the case is to be continued another world, hat for this world, at any rate, it is finished, Who get the money? The money-oh, there is no money. It appears to bave vanished at some earlier stage, for in the Lords the case of Conchs varius Concha was heard in forma pauperis, which implies a `declaration that the Higant le not worth, fire posinde. As wa said at "starting, the Courts do their work thoroughly,—Namr of the World.
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For One Year,
From goth June, 1893 until 30th June, 1893.
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For terms apply to
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FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND
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Bishop of Rangoon and others, for the readiness' enormous and is 'the chief reason for its high | bridge whose timbers are like match girl's | where he will be tried for murder and robbery is now begun. We understand that it will be HE Steamakip
with which they entered into this grievance of seamen ; and for their untiring and successful efforts to bring into operation in the Crown Colonies. and In our Indian possessions reshictions upon the working of cargoes on Sendays, somewhat similar to those so long in operation in the United Kingdom, in the self- and in some foreign
chant colonia
Samael Ashton, bid a very big hand to procuring for ships' crews rest on Sundays which was long denied them. greatly alded by Mr. Goldsmith, the press of Hongkong and the Liverpool and London Associations, all of whom deserve the bearty thanks and good will of all bonest seafaring men. The report states the total income for 1891 from all sources, including £4.165.1.10 derived from legacies as well as receipts from the branches and the Mersey Mission, is the greatest ever amassed by the Missions to Seamen in any une year, amounting as it does to £30.951.1.3, or £2,914 over that of the previous year.
The annual meeting presided over by theRight Reverend the Bishop of Rochester was held in London on the 2nd ultima,
ON CHINESE CURIOS.
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range from $1 to $45 a plece. The native artfit cents a day, while his apprentices are delighted with twenty and even much less. They belong to a powerful guild which has a blatory of ten centuries and are as proud of their art as an R.. is of his productions with the brush.
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to the outside introduction of swordsmith's industry, Before that event, the most powerful guild in the cast. The medieval rivalry between Milan, Toledo and Damascus was insignificent alongside of that of the great armorers of the Orient. Competition caused experiments la metallargy, alloying, forging and tempering, that produced results of high value Of considerable interest are collections of and disclosed mechanical secrets to the workers "cash." There are small color of bronze, brass, in steel that &TO unknown to the best copper or allver, maging in intrinsic value from cutlers of Europe and America to-day. the one-twentieth of a cent to 25 cents. The They produced blades, with perceptible tints in oldest en record was coined about 2,300 violet, blue, green, red, allver and gold. Saladin's Over 150,000 different kinds are preserved in word that would cut a vell or a cushion, and collections. Some are experts examples of coins Richard Coeur de Leon's, which would severage, but most of them are very clamsy and steel mace, could have been duplicated in · hundred shops in the days of the Shogunate and the 18th Century mandarins. Upon the sword, art ran mad. The smalth learned to arrange the fibres of the metals, so as to form geometrical and even the Chinese characters quotations from the great poets and philosophers Their skiilin this field bordered on the marvellous. You can obtain superb weapons even now which in the brightest light seem made from metal mirrors. Put them in the sunlight so as to cast a reflection on a dark surface, and in the illumination you will see in falat lines every pattern I have described. The effect is the same as that produced by the magic mirrors of Japan, but how is it done no one knows,
ranges
LONDON, May 14th.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company have declared a dividend for the past half-year of deferred stock
cent. on prefered, and 7 per cent, on Mr. Lowther, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that the Suez Canal Company had sanctioned temporary rules for
from Sir Frederick Abel and Mr. Redwood, danger in the causi, had been forwarded to the company, but the Government were unable to interfere in the matter,
ST. PETERSBURG, May 16th. Miss Kate Maraden, who is now here, will visit Berlin, London, and America with the object of raising funds for organising a leper colony in Siberia
ATHENS, May 17th,
M. Tricoupis has had a complete triumph in the elections only seven adherents of M. Delyannis have been elected.
LONDON, May 17th, The Timas, to an article on Persia, con- gratulates Lord Sallsbury and the Fersian Bank for averting the perils which would have been involved by the acceptance of the loun offered Russia. by
th, **May 18th.
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Severa! Manchu tea buyers have arrived to make their annust purchases for the use of the Imperial household and the officials of Peking; Money is sent down in advance and entrusted to an whose head quarters are la Sie-Chune
A
variety great
of tea
teas is taken, all of the Kye. finest quality, of course; and all specially pre- pared. A tea that corresponds to Pouchong is
at Noon,
"ARRATOON APÇAR,” Captain J. E. Hansan, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 7th farty
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, and June, 50s.
F$88
PROFESSIONAL' NOTICE: -
URING my temporary absence from HONGKONG my Dental Surgery will be CLOSED.
no object, fabulous figures are paid for the per plcul. The orders, which are retalled ont in the different districts, are caturally much sought after, a big profit attaching to the busi
as high as 715, D
ness.
1.
DENTON E. PETERSON, No. 9, Connaught House,
Queen's Rasd.
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Hongkong, zod June, 1892.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
COMPETITION for Mr. SABBOOM'S CUP and SPOONS Next SATURDAY, the
4th lost. Ranges, 300 and 300 yards. Time, 3PM.
ED. ROBINSON, «
Han. Socrutaty.
Hongkong, and June 18:2
this subject was delivered in New York on patterns, the figures of flowers, fruits and leaves, in brass and branze whose of a cent. Their The Newmarket STAKES of £4.500, for 3 year worse; by doing away with the tex they would SHIP-CHANDLERS. SAIL-MAKERS,
A very entertaining and instructive lecture an February 27th by the Hon. Edward Bedios, U.S. Consul 11 Amoy, under the auspices of the Philosophical Society. The lecture was illus. Views and
Arated with a hundredi stereopticones fnen.
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and PROVISION MERCHANTS, NAVY CONTRACTORS; & GENERAL COMMISSION agents, No. 11 Fraya: Central, (Opporlie Pedder's Wharf}.
SOLE AGENT FOR
We are informed that a couple of benevolent persons, as they style themselves, are going about the different tea districts exhorting the planters to pluck up their tea plants and grow sweet potatoes, or any other crops they may chose, as the present low prices and sapro fitableness of growing tes it's clear proof that the money of the Awang yang or foreign devil
●bad fungout, and the sooner tes growing is COATED. In this regard the East is a paradise
put a stop to the better. Before foreigners came for the numismatist. He can work all his life,
to the port they lived in happiness and content spend very litle money, and leave to posterity
ment they had made money since, but it had been fost again, showing that the curse of heaven collection of thousands of coins. All ha need do
rested on money made out of the trade. They lackhead & Co is to confine his work to cash, the small coins
got valde
should be warned in time before matters from one-tenth to one-fourteenth
olda, distance one mile and two farlonge, run
have a happy fature to look forward to. Such workmanship varies, but is usually very good.
is the preaching of these good strict. The They European
at Newmarket to-day resulted as follows - Their shape to-day is like that of
were last week in the Pakling coins, with the exception that through the Prince Sellykoff's bl. c. Curio, by Thuro- .
time is certainly well chosen by these men, who- middle is a square hole through which the
Light of Other Days, 9ttämmauson. I
ever they may be, to recommend their country. pieces are strung
men to abandon tea growing. Everything is ever, other formng the past, Mr. H. Milner's b. c. St Angelo, by Clairvaux
or Galopia-Agnets, 9st. immi key, Mr. Rose's h. c. St. Damien, by St. Simon--
going in favour of their belog listened to. We square, triangle, heart, ellipse,
shall not be far wrong if we but them down to sword and spear, The number of kinds is
Distant Shore, getmesimummoner 3 | be emissaries of the Hieraff, and we think all simply remarkable. They are referred to la literature as far back as 250 B.C. The earliest elections will commence at the beginning of opinion.
Sotto Morning Post states that the general who read the foregoing will be of the same RAHTJEN'S GENUINE COMPOSITION that I have heard of dates from the Tindrassy Jair The Times, however, belleves that they which ruled from 255 to 207 B.C. From that will not take place until the end of the session. time on until today these useful little coins have been ined by every monarch, no matter
A circular has been lassed by the Duke of whether he was Emperor of the nipates in Cambridge; to district commanders, calling on
into 1850 there it in estimated. from time to time the empire was broken, them to report cases where publicans have
Wase
various thrones, royal and Imperial. In addition view of refusing to renew their liceness. revolution of 1853 changed all this in a twinking. Sword-wearing, except by the police and the to these regular issues, Inch they may be called,
there have been special issues from time to time, DYNAMITE outrage NEAR soldiery who had the ordinary European wen pan, was made a crime. The two awarder lost and also special localissues. Awealthy mandarin
AMOY; his occupation, and his tools of trade were locked in Canton is said to have the Epest collection up as memertons of the golden past one since kinds. The cost increases as you go backword A missionary at Kangbe, a village at the extant, containing 25,000 specimens of different. But twenty years have Come and then, the ĺkadate is an established fact, in time. The cash of this century can be secured foot of Man-tal-bu, in the sub-prefecture of Hal and all hopes and desires of a return to the at their normal value. Those of the eighteenth ting, gives the following account of a fatal outrage old feudal system have become ma
Echoes:
and seventeenth centuries bring from
were employee the
was a great success, socially as cially. It was substantially as follows ----
Few collectors are aware of the wealth of Chins in all sorts of oddities and curios. There Is an army of connoisseurs among the rich Mongolians, but they display little or no energy In accumulating art-treasures when they see something that strikes their fancy, they are satisfied with the price, they take it without a murmur. If It hs to cents beyond what they regard as a fair fimit, they walk off to high dudgeon. As a consequence, the surto market bat few ups and downs. The natives Ind ages were accompanied by steel-clad swash- or King of cha of the petty principalities
The
appearance of this flood of weapons upon the market is due to an additional cause, Under the ancient régime, every noble, high and low, in Japan was attended by two-sworded men-at- arms, just as the robber-barons of the middle
bucklers. In
May roth.
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May 18th, 18g2.
We understand that oplum is to be extensively planted in many suitable places in this province, Several retired aficials are investing money in the undertaking.
residents that I have encountered have display* { at least 400,000 #two-swordera " in Japan. The | There have been over 1,200 occupants, of the refused to serve soldiers to uniform, with the increasing in Figi, sa much so that as many
penchants for the following-
Tea cultivation is reported, to he rapidly two hundred acres, which have been planted some time, are now being picked. The yield in said to be so good and satisfactory that a further ons hundred acres are to be planted-Echo,
rat. Arms and armor. Of the former there are 2,100 types, and 1,200 of the latter. Some of the chain mall work is exquisitely beautiful, Most of the plate gemor la very grotesque, the ancient armorers having made it a roll, to give their wares a monstrous or tarifying expression, -The best work comes from Japan, and some admirable pieces are said to be of Cordan erigin, The Chinese work is extremely variable in quality and character.
Amey and Canton are places which supply travellers and curio” dealers with the hideous money and not for the "herd's weapon.” and the from 206 to 100 A.D... bring himdreds of dollars worda: t have to speak of dyna- | 'wo commend attention to the case of Conchit
Idels, called "Josses." They are manufactured, wholesale and retail, Moderns. and Anil gués," orthodox or to order as may be desired
am sorry
so be obliged to state that much of the foss business is fraud, plous and otherwise. The regulation Joss is either very fat and placid gentleman with a large genius for folling. or a digolded, virtuous female with super fluous number of arms and bands. You could have your bedroom filled with images of this sort without having a nightmare or causing A now hired-girl to shrick on
the entering
A new generation has arisen which cares for to ten cents each. Those of the Han dynasties, We is said to have occurred there on May 23rd.
We give the statement in the missionary's own
.* It is the first time
fine though they grind slowly. For an example
THE LAW IS THOROUGH.
The courts offaw, like the' mills of God, grind of the thoroughness and definiteness with, which the Couris do their work, even after many yesri, old one, which loved the blade for its past, in each when in fine preservation. These troe rapidly dying out. The consequence is that antiques are found in, ancient tombs and ruins, miters in this obscure part of China, for never vers Conchs on which the House of Lords young Japan with admirable thrift is putting the Several hundreds were discovered in Amey this before this desib-dealing chemical com pronounced: a final judgment the other week. weapons of his sires and grandsires in the curio year is digging a grave, when the labourers broke position known here. The village of Kangbos in its own real way this case shops to exchange them for yen and sen, the Into an old tomb several feet below the surface is situated on a branch of the sea running at the an that of Jamdyce ersus Jardyce which dollars and cents of their mint, In China the of the soil. The coins lay in a rather pretty foot of Has-tai-but. Here avery three days a Dickens made famous in fiction. Nay, Concha Mandarin has sold his grandale's blade and earthenware far, and were encrusted with regular market is held, attended by some thous verres Concha is the more extraordinary care of carries an umbrella instead: So many have thin layer of malachite, that here and there sands of people from the surrounding villages the two: Had its history been embodied in taken this course that the market is more than had been changed by moisture into azurite. The and beyond the hills. In this maricet dynamite novel the critics would have turned. glatted. Two thirds of these weapons have coins were sold by the lucky coolles in the next has been introduced by means of Jan's coming noses superciliously in genuine amatement and tasted-blood. All are interesting majority twenty-four hours and are said to have brought from Hongkong, and so secret has been its have written it down thus Babi These simply superb works of art. The prices
interesting
their
stand certainly this could not have happened.
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nent. But these styles didn't suit mereka sre, very handsong, while word bundreds are a dollar aplece an immense suas to man work- fatisduction that nobody had 'scented it until' a' fellows write about things they do not under" TULE LIFE PRESERVER.
desired to astonish their folks at honit” zor. nam so low as to be laughable, get times ing for 13 cents a day ). To succeed in collecté | poor Christian, was bemned to death and his shop that has happened in Conche "owsus" "Concha
moble
wespons
occurred at
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81. Br.go Bringcaab, a person must be a due Chinese blown up in the market place at Kangbde, b
on the gard of May, Anything: The tune has been in the Court for natasionaries who risked to horily hayseed con- and oven 7 and go cents is pro malers have severe as to predlade most collectors from in the market day, The Christian, married man thirty-two years. It arose out of the pecuniary gregations with tales of woe and gore. So to such Broadway and Strand
dulging in the pleasure of a large exhibit to say so years of age, went to his shop to get his remains of Juan Jose Concha, who had traficked please these two classes of customers the frequently told for $50 and upwards, re
securities. Peruvian Mongolian Jou maker with a keen eye for the The low prices have pat minny:
Ereat extent,
the amal transactions of petty, com largely and successfully han a hundred
helving by the For more than a
generations, the meres
and was in the dust floor, having a window He had married his cousin, Maris, and he had one mala chance turns not an assorted lot of clay to ignominious uses. Here and there in rich
for hobgoblins, warranted to freere the blood of farming lands the oriental goes beyond the has been a galld of artists in their populous proe behind him. Through this window projectile daughter, Adelinda. Left without father small boy or produce hysteries in a nervous and Biblical prediction and tame the sword Into vince of Foxien whose life work to the conversion was thrown, which burst, butat the poor man mother, this poor girl was beset by avaricious carried it a ploughshare, dyspeptic girl
rasping hook, a 10 this category come tha than with the Howe kalfa, a csryer," a' poker and even a skewing of the goarked and laterluded roots of the tea" "from his feet to his neck, 'mada large holes is his relatives, who attacked, she will kid One tree into things of beauty that is, beauty from
round); without leaving, aby ballets, Bowever,
ation was complicated by the dies and istocions fangs, the so-called God of day in two fisher roseting one bade which Celestial point of view. The harbhore farlegt, and inthe food (angy deep into: Court, where it has delace remained. tween gladden western paistes in the fonts of Delong. A bed which was in room burner circumstance that Den Jass Born in Chill Hunger,”", who is only an every day, half starved may have SWED
Baronganishagen Bryson and Souchong fat hardy plant and faker while of the shop opened wide, and the rod Tall (ved In Pere, made his wife Eogland, and splum stacker, and the Sonce God to China and Th Probably phase of Calriem tremens, None There is no more handsome ornament to a draw firm hold on mother earth. It took seem to dewan Aled In Trance The cosaplication comes stop atmost to sarp of a provision of Paruvian law to the offset that of these belong to Chiloese art. They are simply. Ing-room or library than a trophy of sims, and of have no regular law of growth. Sometimes tory The man's nelabors did their
the property of husband and wife is marred in at 1105) fakes made for the markets of Christendomy there, the most attractive are a set of old esstem develop very much as a beard, sprouts from the the life of this moths of cre
pornmon fund, which, at the death of aldar is Jous-making in very simple. The manufas swords, with their exquisitely carv, d hilts, their chin at others they separate and move alongpongin medicines an his mo
"Alvisible among the murriyor, and, the raprenent turer's calel stock Sagrado sonstate of wooden noble blades and their fantastle yet ever beautiful parallel Hoes as if they were a lignose centipede. "and called the two pesmu v LÀ MON of metal moulding in these the was clay is pen I scabbarder it is to be hoped sincerely that in general 13 may be said than: they make one. Falker Pallips and Falken Lamas To Me are of the dead. Of thus mater
ta
Creolin
nowledged by the scientide world as the SJEFFECTIVE DISINFECTANT
RIBER and GERMICIDE ASE ther polsonous nor cemetic, may be used body without the slightest apprehension