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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1892.
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Contrast with the shove the way things are
Experiments for towing barges by means managed at Ichang. There we have a great city
of electricity wore recently mide on the on a ilver open to ste:m navigation, furnished
Canal Saint Maur, in France, by M. Lévy. with a strong native garrison and have issued a decree forbidding factory women The German Government officials at Spardau communic tion. A riot breaks out and damage is done compared with which the destruction at
to work in staya darting spells of hot wealber, the Liling yamen was but a flea-bite., Yet no
Emin Pasha is now perfectly destitate, accord. one is punished, no official is censured, and to the latest news. He is living with an rating is allowed to become chronic. Why this
Arab at Tabora, and cansor leave until he re- great difference? We are now getting towards celves help. The pirates off the coast of Talchow are again the end of the tenth month, the month in which active, and several cases of plency have been
the native au horities were to have all ready reported. Not many days ago an attack was
for one Consul's visit to Changsha, but the made upon a junk, and it was despolled with matter has apparently escaped their memo. the customary dexterity. A Tacial to whom theries, for there is no word of it. The news casa was reported by issued a proclamation from that city is that things are fairly strongly censuring the various authorities for quiet. The gentry and merchants subscribed having through their lack of vigilance permitted so many cases of piracy in their district. The responsible officials are now required to bring about the arrest of the marauder,
Hardly ever ' tree breaks the | pirates' cam pelu the recesses of ibe Trumosban monotony of the scene; the intervals between near Canton and were successful in capturing the hills are rather defilex than valleys, except seventeen of these brigands, who were decapitated where a stream by its windligs cuts for itself a after a short trial. The pirates have held this wider pasange. As one advances northward the shaw for years as their place of rendervous, but hills put on a more sandy appearance. I think owing to the nature of the position where the the best part of them are in the neighbourhood camps were the officers of the law bave only of Yusnngan Fu. These contained once fair been able to obtain access to their quarters now complement of lobabitants, but the great famine for the first time. of 1877 joined to the wars of extermination carried on by the Mahomedans and long-haired rebels has not left one in ten families. You may go Bo and not meet a soul, remarked to me a dweller on the spot. Pasiing Yuanngan Fu the valley widens slightly and belog well watered is turned into kitchen gardens, reminding one by their productiveness of more southern regions, but before reaching Yuanngan Fu there is a long defile which wou'd bave an interest for woody lovers of Bass and Allsopp, for the wild hop grows nearly as fine. in appearance as the culiivated plant in Europe. This defile is called Wild Boar Pass from the presence of these
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Governor Chang outside the great West gate, batons seized and put in gaol on the ground new Governor, H. E. Wa,, had the
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TIENTSIN.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.)
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"I did not eat enough to feed a bird, and beran to despair of ever recording my health. With many
aquaintance eommended me to try Mather Seigel'a up and downs in the way of fooling, and of fear and hope, I lingered, along until July, 1800 when an Syrup. Indeed, so much was I impressed with what was sald, about this modielne that I Bent my niece four miles to procure a bottle of it. After taking the cantanta T felt better. A weight seemed to be lifted from my chest, my rollah for food returnal, and by degress I found myself la every way stronger. I conclude by saying that after haring used two bottles mers of the Syrup I was able to return to guito
since.
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ter than make the laws for his people he made its well and have had no signs of themingham WILL PAY CASH for USED
The sole act of Tennyson's legislativa career was to vote for Ballot Reform. But he did bet
their sanga
Thirty miles of underground electric railway. similar to the City and South London line, has been proposed for Berlin at an estimated expense of $10,000,000.
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Quite a number of women in England now travel about the country lecturing an cookery; most of them employed by the Government in connection with schools or local government Boards:
The laabilliy of its members, with a single exceptiin, to speak English without a German accent, or to speak German without an English accent, is mentioned as a peculiarity of the Brush royal familly i
Statistics recently compiled in London show that the number of cabs, both 4-wheeled and bassoms, is diminishing. This is probably due to the extension of street-car routes and demo- cratle Ideas,
One of the most novel wedding prevents which Princess Marie of Edinburgh is to receive will be from the poetical Queen of Roumania, Carmen Sylva, and will be a pleasure barge in the form
One hundred and sixty thousand immigrants Rusals. Many school-houses and churches have have taken land in the district of Samarcand, been erected for the use of the people.
animals. This spot will remain memorable in riot, the various incidents which culminated hand, the presidents of the colleges who figured
In a leading article upon the recent Ichang granted, for such an erection. On the other. The most powerful naphtha spring on record was recently opened in Baku, on the Taggiell the incality as the scene last year on a phobe the attack upon the Customs are recounted; the Governor Wa meeting in the Lien Fel Kung be the richest naphtha fountain in the world.
so conspicuously at the anti-foreign and anti-grant. If it continues at its original force it will battle on small scale between might-be- called brigands and the soldiers of Yean- places where the riots occurred last year are
A new dish appeared lately on the menus of ngan Foo. It seems the mandarin of referred to, and it is remarked that the outbreak received from bim a glit of over Tis, 3,000, and contracted debts in his province of Shan-i Ichang last year was by far the most.destruce warm coals of fire thus heaped upon their Swiss fable d'hôtes which puzzled every one who heads have quite thawed their hearts. We had read its name-Ariestu. Those who risked a He left the province without paying, tive one of the whole series, owing to Ichanga visit the other day from one of the Changsha trial were amused to find an old friend-Irish but kis creditors were not to be outdone and they being so far in the interior. The determination printers of anti-foreign literature. He says he determined in waylay him on the road to his of the mob to wreck and destroy the Custom has quite given up the business, and is incarch destination. Thiry individuals undertook the building, which they knew belonged to the
of some other menus of making his fortune task anit chose this retired nook to carry out Government and not to the foreigners in the N. C. Daily News. their plan, but the ubiquitons kao zao-filgrass employ of the Government, the writer regards cutter) viewed the unusual preparations with as being wilful intention on the part of the suspicion and reported hit surmises to the mob to risk the violation of the "Imperial authorities of Yuanngen Fu. After a preliminary Statute," and not an an attack upon the fore- reconnaissance, and perhaps a parley, soldiers Igners. The article goes on to condemn at were sent down to capture or dislodge the length and in i forcible manner, the conduct of intruders. The first arrival of soldiers had the the literary man who led the mob. It says, Imprudence to advance right into the defile and, while it is wrong for the country people to were belag well peppered from the heights, but become riotous and disorderly, the conduct of the literary man in leading them is certainly might not have got out of their sad plight had not the cavalry and European-drilled troops unpardonable; for the ignorant there is some excuse for such conduct, but for a man of learn- come to their aid, taking the enemy in rear. One
Ing to act thus is certainly not right. A terary of these was killed in the strife and four were afterwards executed Seventeen of the soldiers male supposed to be a man who under- had gun, and sword wounds. A military post standa Taelf, and it one fails to know what now commands the pass, and the traveller it right and wrong, how should he be classified in the category of literati?. A man of this class challenged an bis way through.
Along the road northward ruined stone villages is always looked up to and respected, and wields surrounded by mud-walls mark where human powerful influence over the people of ble com- Hic once flourished. Only yesterday the wave,munity, and his words always have great weight, of civil war might have swept over the country, often renderlog blu a more successful peace e unchanged are all things from that disastrous maker in disputes arising between members day till now. A remnant of populailon among
of his community, than even the officials. In commenting upon the conduct of the the ruins administers to the wants of the foreigners, it says their line of precedure traveller. Everywhere abandoned caverns, (for heures are almost unknown here) tell of was rash, for by taking into their own hands the dispersing of the mob with clubs and sticks, past and present famine, still the more one goes north one finds the peasantry to cling at they did, the rioters might be provoked to with more perifnacity to their fields in the hope of serious and irreparable harm. It is to be hoped, better days or perhaps in despair of ameliorating it remarks, that foreigners residing in China their condition elsewhere. It is the state of these will in fature always try to obtain redress for that is deplorable at the present moment. The wrongs through the proper channel by applying famine in most of the diatricio is an'affair of two to the suboriles, so that difficulties may be years, in some it has been a lingering affairefore speedily settled; and it would always be years, which at last arrived at an acute state, so consonant with wisdom for foreigners to avold A much so that land now goes for 400 cash that once belag present at large and numerous gatherings
fetched to,noo. In the districts of Shenmen and of the people. Cachep not even the peed of the summer crop was saved, and the autumn crop promised only * tenth of an ordinary produce if it can get ahead of the frost. In other districts a third of an ordinary crap may be collected, or better at all events than last year, but will the condition of things is worse. The familles that had a reserve last year have exhausted their store the public granaries bave been exhausted, and the
HANKOW.:
December gth.
The Tungchow is at the Bund, and as she will in all probability be the last steamer of the season to visit us, because, although the Chung- ing is wired as having left Shanghai ber getting up the river it is thought to be more than doubt. fol, for two very good reasons the first in that she will arrive on the Deaps; secondly, we have had quite a week of very fine weather though it has been cold, and the wind hangs in the N.W. quarter. Now there is every appearance of a change, and some of the knowing ones predict a very rough time for the Chungking before she reaches our "Heaven-sen! Barrier," They may be as far wulstaken to this respect and let us hope they are as they have been in predicting an early close this season, the same people say- ing last year it was coing to be a late clore; of course, they are always wrong; it appears that the clerk of the weather takes a special delight ta upsetting their prognostications. I hear there has been some friction between
of an frameuse swan.
The police force to Paris is very inadequate to the turbulent and criminal element contained is the city. So 1,300 additional gardiens de pair will be enrolled at once, bringing up the total strength to 8,000
The stagnation in the shipbuilding trade on the Clyde is apparently most serious. The North British Daily Mail estimates that there are at present between Glasgow and Greenock over 15,000 men out of work.
Notwithstanding that every year from 5,000 to 6,000 ships go up and down the river Selpe, Carry- ing 2,500,000 tons of goods, the English-Consul at Rouen sys there is no map of this important French stream in existence.
The low price of all agricultural produce la being used as an argument for allowing the Government of Egypt to apply its large savings toward a reduction of the land tax in order to maintain the prosperity of the country.
The War Office has notified that arrangements have been made with be most important Tallway companies in Great Britain and Ireland by which they will employ soldiers who have been honest, sober, intelligent and conscientious during their service with the colors.
I have done for many years, and had I sooner known Te la only just to mention that I feel better now than of Mother Geiger's Syrup I should have arolded an amount of suffering and misery which it saddens me eren to look back upon,"
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The lady referred in Miss Sarah Hawkes, of the yellow or saffron colour of the blood was caused by Lion Inn. Longmore Street, Birmingham. That the failure of the liver to secrete, or take away, the bile from the blood. Remaining in the blood it was carried to all parts of the body, and necessarily showed itself through the skin in the ghastly hus she Understand, plus, that the Gife, useful to help more the bowels, is a polson when in the blood. The entire malady - of, billonger in all its forma symptom of indigestion and dyspepsis, the scarce of most of our sohos, psins, and discases. It is no now thing to say that the success of Mother Esigol's Byrup in reriring the torpid ülgestion, stimulating the liver, and thus parifying the blood, sots it apart from all the use of ordinary drugi has been followed only by other medicines as an artiola to be relied upon when
and this remedy keeps that ruby Hver clear and clean. disappointment. The blood holds the soret of life,
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ANOTHER TRIUMPH LAST NIGHT, JEVERY ACT A Success, The Humorous Element still predominates:
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THE FAMOUS FEELEYS' IN NEW ACTS, TO-NIGHT. -
During the prevalence of the cholera scare in
THE GRAND STEEPLECHASE. Germany the army was permitted to indulgeducing our Celebrated Jumping Horses temperately in liquor as a preventive of the
man Rider desiring a mount can have ons by munificent sum of three-quarters of a cent a with which to purchase ardent spirits.***
mandarins have doled out their scanty resources, the pains of troubling the public with search people who ought to be able to form a very disease. Each private solder was 'allowed the } applying to the Manager during the day.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
For some time now our port has enjzyed the fellcity which is said to belong to those places which have no bistory, and for any news worth
How inadequate are those resources may be must be made elsewhere, Fortunately, Ichang gathered from the fact that in one distribution can always be relied upon to furnish a few items. the people at Chachou received, if we can It seems the Literati and rowdies there are having belleve report, not even twenty cash a family a real good time of it at their favourite recreation and in a second distribution a gallon or two of of making it lively for the foreign devils. On millet according to their better or worse condition. Sunday, ten days ago, they badly stoned one of No wonder that many deaths occurred in that the missionaries and his son as they were district. The people are feedlog now on what- coming from service in the native city; the lad ever the land produces at the moment-melons carries the marks of it yet. Next they favoured and beans—wild roc's when they have nothing the Consulate with a wialt, and made sufficient better, which accounts for the unhealsby colour | demonstration, to cause the Consul to obtala a of the faces one meets everywhere. Melons la guard of bravex for its protection. But the best other years are reserved för sale, but this year | fun was on Friday last, when they ralded the the demand for any sort of food exceeds the Custom House, and had a free fight with the supply. Soon the diminished millet crop, staff on which occasion the Es had to land where the ballstorms have not beaten it down, her bluejackets. Full particulars of all these will stave off for a time, for the more formatters have no doubt already reached Shanghai tunate familles, the inevitable bour of emply from your Iching correspondent. Larders. During the summer we heard of the Here we are in daily expectation of bearing roads of flight marked by corpses and the swolica that the Ichang rowdies have once more bodies of the victims, of the cries of starving made bonfires of the foreign residences. The -children-and-the- despair of parents of sold or | latest news fx that they are bolder than ever, abandoned wives and offspring, and we were coming sight up to the residents' windows, and visited by succeeding bands of famished people shouting in their threats to bum and slay, Within a few months the same scenes will be | There seems to have been à fresh distribution of -repeater-on-a-much-larger-scale-until-the-cum--anti-foreign-literature, and the latest conundrum mer crop is gathered in, unless relief comes from amongst the literati is: “ Which do you like Home quarter. The worst of this place is that | best, pork or mutton 7" (Chu, plg, or Christian; is out of touch with the rest of the world. Yang goat, or foreigner.) The missionaries are However, I could undertake to receive within a | agală requested to leave off their visits to the fortnight in Valing Fa any donation paid into city, and the latest threat is to attack and destroy Shanghai bank, say the Bank of China, towards | both Consulate and Custom House. The native
"North Shens Famine Relief Fund.”
authorities...belog.exceedingly busy with the examinations, the arrival of a new and Chintal, (prefect and general, to command the local garrison); and the passing through of a son of the Viceroy of Szechuan, have had no time to attend to the rioters. They have caught none themselver, nor even had Icfsure to examine one
HuоH, Pro-Vicar of N. Shensi.
NOTES FROM chinese paPERS.
The City magistrate left Shanghai on Monday for Sonchow, where he goes to see the Governor an important business.
At the military examination at Canton this year leveral accidents took place. A short time #goTMa ̈sprcalor-was-sbot"in the eye and died from the wound...
H.E. Chang Chih-tung visited the Hanyang Iron Foundry on the 5th inst and made minute survey of the immense works. On returning to the Wuchang side of the river His Excellency also visited the Cotton Mill, which not having been equipped with all the machinery showed itself at a disadvantage.
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of the ringleaders caught for them by the Customs people when the attack was made on the Custom
House.
This fresh outbreak bas surprised no one save, It is said, H. M. Consol, who, in spite of all that has come and gang, puis foll faith in each renewed, assurance of the pative authorities, When the last rlot was allowed to be smoothed over, wihout any, one being called to acceant for it, few acquainted with the circumstances had the least doubt but there would soon be more troubles and so long as foreign officials are per- sunded that, in such cases, their chief duty is to have every consideration for the feelings and difficulifes of the native authorities, just so long will the riots, like the poor, be always with us.
What the Chinese authorities can do, in the way of putting down riots when they have 'a mind to is well shown by the late Liling affair,
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one of the steamer agents and the T. T. & L, for doing something with the night signals on the Bar, thereby misleading one of the oldest Pilots so much that a steamer lost twenty-four hours, besides having to lighten a lot more carg. It is a pity they are not more careful in avoiding cases of this sort, as it certainly gives cause to evil-disposed persons to talk and cast reflections on their management. The Gem is a case that has caused a deal of hard talk. By the way, I heard a practical man put forward a plan the other day that might be worth trying, He proposes to begin at once and build a coffer dam round her, bale out the dock, then by digging, shoreing and wedging, to get her on her keel, and clean her out. And he says she can be floated out of her dock as soon as the ice breaks up in the spring, I have mentioned this to several
just opinion, and they all say-"Yes, there can be no doubt about it" But as I believe the expense would be considerable perhaps the directors think she is not worth it, besides which I understand the is no obstruction to the navagation of the river eas far as steamers are concerned, although she might be a source of danger to native crait, But there is a real obstruction to steamer navigation, and it Is a real danger, especially to propellers in the upper part of the Everlasting Bend round by the Match Factory, where the bunding has given way. am not aware that has yet been reported officially to the Harbour Master, but I have gone down and had a lock at it, and it certainly appears to me nothing short of marvellous how 10 many steamers can have rounded that Bend without the loss of at least some blades off their propellers; there are piles and trees sileking right out into the channel, whilst huge blocks of concrete are slipping down into the river from the Bund. The question bere naturally suggests itself in the case of damage-Who is liable Shanghat Mercury,
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It may be the afety bicycle, and it may only be the process of emancipation that is surely working out, but its a fact that not only is the idea of a woman riding a horse like a man be- coming tolerable in England, but the practice is being followed in some few notable cases.
Hamburg is almost herself again. The refugees have returned, the streets are once more alive with traffic, theatres and schools are Ireopened. The great Death has left terrible suffering as well as grief in his track, but Ham burg is one of the wealthiest towns in the world.
Rubber-tired omnlbuses will be tiled in Lon- don.
Denmark has an old mald's insurance com. | PADY.
Things American'are gaining favor with the English
Paris "sales-ladies" want more pay and shorter hours.
The recent Vienna Musical Exhibition closed with a deficit of $50.000,
A remarkably rich lode of silver has been
discovered at Oravat, in Finland,
The consumption of tobacco and beer is Increasing in England and France.
There is room for just five more dead in the "Poet's Corner" of Westminster Abbey.
It is proposed to have a winter circus and skating pond at the London Crystal Palace.
Probably the first electric railroad in Brazil has been put in operation in the city of Babla.. - Mrs; Gladstone is said to make it a point to be fadifferent to feminine fashions and styles.
Beets are to a greater extent than ever be coming the raw material of alcohol in France.
An English company is belog organised for the acclimatization of elephants in South America. The German Emperor has her lace change his costume twelve times la eighteen
hours.
The deepest mining shaft in Africa has recent
The French Journal Official has published a decies ordering a universal exposition of arts and manufactures, to be opened in Paris, May 5, 1900. It would seem from this announcement. that France has decided to have a universal exposition every eleven years, for there was one in 1867, 1878 and 1889.
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"THE PANORAMA 'comists of VIVID TILLUMINATED SKETCHES of the GREATEST WARS of the World and the scenes of the late terrible Earthquakes lo Japan, &c. &c.
The latest market reports brought by travellers from Morocco quots girls from ten to thirteen years of age at glo to $150. This is what they "fetch" 1 open market when the bidding is lively. The reports add that "the slave merch.
Is Open Dally, from and after, this date, for a "ants and the females most profitable from ten tohort time only, from TIAM, to II P.M., on the
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At length she seized the proffered prize,
A happy one, believe un;
For matrimony made her Wise; Before, she was Mlès Cheevlá.
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We allude to the great Missbdppi Elveria Americs, For hundreds of inlles of its course it is yellow with the earth which the swift current has torn from its banks Probably the Mississippi bears constantly in solation graind enough to make many s rich farm, though the amount is, of course, grester at times of Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above flood. Thus, for drinking, and even for washing, the water of the Mississippi must hrát be purified.
It is the same with anything which either for appearance or atlity is in some way thrown out of character. For instance, the blood in our body is Hear From the heart to the extremities. It is of
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CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
One of the carpenters who was the leader of an account of which is given in the Pebing | ly been opened at Kimberly. It goes dowa 1,000 matter it has picked up in its journey, the Undermentioned · BANKS will be
The salary of the Governor of the Bank of England has been lacreased from $5,000 to $10,000.
the strike at the building of the palaces in the Gasiffe of October 24th. Llog is a border city feet Imperial city, was caught it bis hiding place in m an out-of-the-way, wild, and somewhat lawless a house of fame. The culprit was handed region la Hunan,but just the kind of place over the Board of Punishments. The other leader of the wirike asmed Dup after hearing the news of the capture of his comrade, made his escape.
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Forly men have been arrested in and near Rome as members of a society of burglars and highwaymen.
A man claiming to be one hundred years old was lately sent to prison for three months la Russia, for petty theft.
Prince Colorado Manified, proprietor of a vast domain is Bobenie, has mortgaged his estate The House of Lords was recently thoroughly cleaned for the first time for forty-five years ; in fact, since it was built.
red bright dolor, but on its return through the is dark and sluggish. The reason is that when it starts from the heart it has just been purified and when it comes back it is loaded with all sorts of
other words, the bloodwhich is only food fully digested-carries foon te red current and brings away disease and death on its dark one..
Speaking of her own condition at a period about six years since, a woman writes that hardin gradually became first yellow and then of a safrom colour. Connected with this she experienced several symptoms of illams. She bad more or less pain at the sides and considerable diguity in breathing. Her appolite, previously good, began to fail, and after eating comparatively Hitle there was much distress in the region of the stomach. There was an attendant loss of entry, both of mind and body, and she felt Hirod, languid, and wonk.
where it would be no wonder if lawful authority broke down occasionally. The trouble there began in a trumpery diapote, culminating in a fight between the employés of a cash shop and two peripitatle sellers of earthenware rice An Imperial edict has appeared confirming bowls. It ended in the bowl vendors finding the septence which the Nanking Viceroy had themselves tomates of the cly gaol, These passed upon the ex-magistrate Yark, formerly were the unexplained circumstances-seo Paking administrator of Lukiang Hsien. It will be. Gasstts-under which the first arrests were remembered that magistrate Yang was brought made. Their fellow villagers were full of weath for 16,000,000 florías. up for trial for having by undue punishment at this and determined on attempting a rescue, caused the death of reveral parties. The penish-so on the 3rd of September they stormed the
How we must obsere that in case of natural ment fixed is banishment to the Amoor region. yamin, liberated their friends, and wrecked the
fatione from labour of any ezerilon rest la an unfailing abooxious cash shop. As they retired, the A dog market is held every Sunday In Paris, mely Bleen and zelaxation renew our-powers: Accounts have reached as from Kasyan Halen magistrate gave chate, and claims to have killed where it is possible to buy anything from a black. But there a kind of fatigue which rest does not relieve for which the Angel of Sleep be no healing mastiff. immediately executed. Of the execution of a Lord Rosebery fire in the theatre there was more serious than good many more than ten there is no question. ploughmen on his farms with the daily and all. She adds'i "I finally took to 'my-bed and was at first reported. The deaths from the fire in When the news of the raided yomta reached the the leading agricultural papers.
visited by abater, "who said ity liver was wrong, and the house of amusement number up to a thousand. The work of interring the remains of promptly sent against the offending village from Kingdom is a depositor in the post-office savings As I pojected to this, he said I might try a change
capitals of Hunan and Klangai, troops were
Dee person out of every seven to the Unlied had to god on Breasts motions, but t the unfortunate spectators has commenced. and both sides of the border, bat by the time they banks, which have nearly $360,000 deposits,
effect he advised me to go to the hospital, hundreds of coffine are now being shipped there from other places by boats in tow of steam anved the luckless villagers had taken to fight,
There are two places in London where clergy-upy place and went to my home at Fairford, in of air and see what that would do for me. So I gave launcher, the local stock having been exhausted. Thus wigorously was this attempt at sloting put subjects, and can be bad for every season...
and are now homeless vagabonds and beggars, men can buy sermons printed. They cover all Gloucestershire. Falling to obtain any beneft fram down, and yet we find the magistrate must be The Sultan of Morocco owns the most exper attended me for some, time, but I grew no better the change, I ooraalled another physiolan, who A force of men despatched by Admiral Ching, removed from his post and the Board is further sive cycle, the whole of the framework of which Whatever I did I eculd not scorer my strength, and of Koangtung, recently 'made a raid upon inseguested to determine a penaltys mokotelna je nickel plated, and, which cost him $2,000/ my friends thought I was in a docitomi i, M
stating that the disaster in connection" with the three in a fair tight and captured ten whom he and-ton to a huge reputed to provide is in his wings. What vlla counterfeit is t
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