means of cheap and rapid translt. This will all come in der time and the sooner the betten
Leaving Wukang on and December, we tra velled slowly down the sluggish stream to Shul bang, where we rzrived at noon on the 3rd. Halting here again for a couple of hours we sold another 15 books and tracts, and at night reached Melki where there is a wide open expanse of deep water; we archered for the night. Here we lexired that the small stream to Kaochon, go # dlvan', could not be traversed by our bost and that we would be obliged to go out of our way nearly 220. H.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1893..
The London Financi ›¡News anys $350,000,000 will be left in 'Aroerica as the harvest of the Fair. Géreral Footh 1ks for £60,000 mots to carry on bla "Darkest England" generation scheme. Sigurd Ibsen, the only son of Ibsen himself, has mariled Froken Bailar Bjansen. Sigurd lives on a very rich father.
The expense of organizing the Russian section of the Chicago Colombian Exhibition will smeant to Foo apo roubles.
The Salvation Army vainly fought the Bale, Swizerland, police on a recent Sunday in an effort to retain possession of a hall,
The German Kaiser has presented 50,000 | CRIÑA COAST METEORU, OGIVAL marks to the Society for the Promotion of Actial Navigation for the construction of a colossal balloon, which will be fifty-six feet in diameter and as tail as a four storied house.
The surplus bedding out plants from the royal parks annually distributed at this semiona eagerly looked for by the poorer Londoners, and from Hampton Ceun Palace Gardens alone half
a million phin's have been given away,
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Prospero Mostra, who has just died at Milin at the age of seventy-nine, bas left his entiro fortune, nearly $6,000,000, to the city, with The Athens correspondent of the Independance Instructions to estabitats labor schools and log-10.1 Baige announces the betrothal of the Grarevitchings for homeless and unoccupied laborers.. and i rincess Mary of Greece,
German plano manufacturers are reported to he in great distress. Formerly they sold many instrument in Fuesia, but the present duty of 10 $100 on a grand piano and $60' on an up-ight, has almost put an end to the › xport of planer.
About a quarter of a million of Jews have left Rusala within the past two years and arc prohibited from returning there.
The Bishop of Manchester mys that dis- establishment would do no harm, but that discadownicht would be very serious,
A woman without armı hat been married at Christ Church, New Zaland. The ring was placed up n the fourth soe f her left foot.
The Pope is already receiving presents for bis Jublice, which la to take place next year, the first gilts having arrived from America.
It is rated that Sir William Harcourt has promired in favorably consider the proposed colage of silver by the Colony of Victoria,
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The daughter of the late Bishop Colenga is continuing his benevolent work among the Zulus, who have been furnished with her translations
of portions of the Bible. She has also taught several of the chiefs the English language.
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According to the statistics compiled by the International Telegraph Bureau of Reree there were dispatched in Europe during the year 1891, 207,595,000 telegrams; in the remaining | Taker portion of the world, 68,422,000, a total of
We spent the Sunday at this place sachared between a gun ok and a likin halk Boat after bost, inden in the water's edge, cima in alongside the latter and pild their tolls after a Ittle delay and then proceeded on their way. On that day alone seme husdreds of dollars must have been taken, hesldes articles of cargo. Walking, after dinner, al ng the shores number of rough fist ermen tried to scare us and cans rashing up to us shouting and with impedent gestures. W-walked at a slow pace and looked. Sternly at them but did not speak a word; it was amusing to see how abated they look d and bow they quietly slunk away. A for two above us was anchored a large raft bound for Hakow and valued at about 160 000. One of the men sked at why we did not go away
on our juny
294,017,000. We told him it was Sun day and we did not do únåetrasasy travelling on that day. He then told us he had heard about that and the Jesus religion. He invited as to go on the raft, which we did shortly after, and 1 preached to a large crowd of raftsmen, fishermen, and balmen, and afterwards gave away to them
■ number of potions of Scriptures and tracte These rough flows received us right royally and were mos prite and wirdThey listened most attentively while we preached to them. These men have a hard time of it and the nature of their work and manner of life make them of a rough xlor, but when one gels at them in a right way they have human hearts and will treat one w-ll. We very much enjoyed our work amongst them.-N. C. Dity News.
(To be continued)
THE CHARGE OF THE MARTINETS.
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The flowing verses celebrate the case of Trum Mall, of Windsor, who was sentenced to be disni sed from his regiment and imprisoned for 18 months, for having been guilty of porting up in the canicen a newspaper account of the recent alleged mutiny in the First Life Guards
Ikili fatigue 1 drill fatigue |
Saddle-irths sundered I
Soldiers in mutiny 1
Os nt to reason why,
Osts not to Jily,
Hit nut wub bard breath,
Som one bad i lundered. How could the tri oper dare Pin up the p-per there, Hutiba in this fair Someone in manner vile
Surely had blundered ? Field-marshals hear of it, Cport.mailial sits on it, Marshall in midst of it :
Sentence is thundered."
What though he served them well 7
O, the a shime to tell
Long must be lonely dwell
Lecked in a prison cell
Live Ing with bated breath, While a deep silence fell, Everyone wondered,
Mad with the blame of it,
Sunk neath the shame of it,
Sck of the game of it,
Standeren, and plundered-
What though he served them well?
She must not rebel.!
Juice in Heaven my dwell Here there is bate of bell, Dwn, down to prison cell, Flung by irjastice fell!
Who but has wondered ? Down with the martinet ! Down with the red-t-pe set 1 Can Figland thus forget-
Wongs by the hundred ?
-Chronicle.
NEWS AND gossip.
Berlin ha: 4000 dwellings that cannot be let A newer has set in for P.lestine, says the Hebrew Journal.
Tentyson makes the list of burials in West- minster Abbey 1,173
The Exyptian isxed go cents on the palm fre- than grows in his gaidan.
Perefices in Lendon handle 250,000,000. letters in the course, of a year.
Lord Rabery's reported engagement to the Prince of Wales daughter is denied.
To every 1010 men the British army only eighteen ase over sx feet in height.
Some enterprising people are going "to build an elegant American hotel in London."
The London Damewic Serrats' Union la 'zow fully established in its headquarters.
Grand Rue Ernest Renan is the name last give to an important thoroughfare la Paris.
France is to have's new subildiary coinage, which is to be of some metal beside copper.
working as well as owning its tramway lines.
A beautiful white swallow was recently captured at the vi·lage of Birchington England."
On the 1st of December a universal census of the cattle in the German Empire) was to take place.
Dr. Lu her, a Herlin physician, descended from Martin Luther, reprezented the Luther familly at she consecration services in Wittenberg.. The loss of traffic on account of the cholera epidemic at 7amburg has caused a deficit of 1,000,000 marks in the revenues of the Altoos rallway.
Peony **vings banks are connected with pubile schools of Belg um, and 170,000 of the 600,000 pinery pupils have deposited over 500,000
Sir Charles Topper's negetistions in Parts for the car clusion of a commercial treaty between Frarice and Canada sie making favorable progress.
During the month of October the output of the ahiry rds on the Clyde was fourteen leamers, Pggregating 12,894 tons and two failing vessels, 2.330 tons.
Street car conductors receive only 611 cents for a day's wages in the city of Berlin. The day in eighteen hours long, with a half holiday once in two weeks,
Theatres in Paris are not paying. There are eighteen leading play-houses, and their receipts fell off from 22,000,000 of francs in 1890 to 17,500,000 in 891.
Swizerland bas tor telephone exchanges, 12 595 talions, 3,275 miles of line and 1 mils each subscriber to 800 cogvestations in the Course of the year,
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Maria Immaculata Caroline Margarelbe Blanca Leopoldine Beatrix Anna Josphine Rafaela Michaela Stanislaus Ignaz Hieronyma Cambro Catherina Petra Çœcilin is the name which has been conferred upon the small daughter of the Archduke Stephen.
The telephone has appeared at Roumania, but it is not yet a success, "becuase of an official order that, when a person desires to telephone to acother city, he must arrange with his cor- respondent to be at the lastrament at a fixed hour and minute.
The new Duke of Mariborough is physically a contrast to the general run of Churchills. He is small and slim, with a nest-fiture, His feaitres resemble these of the first Duke of Marlborough He has a high forehead and an aquliine nose. He is now at Trinity College
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Approved of hy Medical Professors of the highest Standing.
Great reduction, of Charg's to the meet WONDERFUL PANORAMA Is also open in the same Street The PANORAMA constes of VIVIDLY ILLUMINATED SKETCHES of the GREA- TEST WARS of the WORLD1, and the scenes of the late terrible Earthquakes in Japan, &c, &c., &c.
Open dally from 11 AM 12:11 PM
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FINAL PERFORMANCE." SATURDAY, 7th January, 1893,
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HE "SONS OF NEPTUNE,"
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Flerometer marly steady, Chendients rather strep fær north-ans! winds. Weather cloudy, cool and damp. (Tuned at 10,45 MM ) -} word to level of the ses in inches, timtha and -Temperature in the shade in degrAER, BRIS reshest Herafiliy la percentaga of saturation, the of the wind to a very quadrifo «- Foros of the wetzl kconndlay 16 Į. He fort scale. A--štnik ul the wensker, i Bilan sky, e Dutachad clon, Delading min, / For g Gloemą, & Tiai, i Tághalaşı *Evercast, a l'tong ihawas, z 3grally, + 3 sla, é Suay, 7 The new Duke of Marlborough is one of the
W. Danac, tes the and lovordradilĽ ablest students at Trinity College, and was Rangliang Observatory, 6tli January, 1893. engaged the night before his father died in writing an article du modern railway cars, based. upon ideas that were suggested to bim by recent accidents en English reilways,
humidity of air tetract with motations being 100 Dienation in the Original, Sparkling, and Novel Nautical
Entertainment, entitled. "T ‘E VOYAGE OF H M.S. "ALBACORE,"
IN TWO ACTS.
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Hotels
WINDSOR HOTEL, (in Connaught Buildings), QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG.
THE Private Hotel heretofore carried on in
WINDSOR HOUSE has now been removed to CONNAUGHT HOUSE,
Culoine under European management. Each Bed-room has its own Rath-room. Hot and Cold water. Passenger Elevator to all Floors.
Charges from $2 per day uowards. .Special Estes for Families or Permanent Borders. Offices and Rooms to let Unfaralshed, And Rooms with or without Board, by day or mants. Apply at the Office, No. 37. 3rd Floor.
Margkong 23rd August, 1802
BAY VIEW HOTEL.
R. OSBORNE begs to remind the Pubile
been made for the comfort and, convenience of Visitors to this populit Summer Resort. "BAY VIEW" occupies the best situation on the Shru-kl-wan Road, commanda an excellent view of the Harbour, and is 'always open to the cool breezes from the Southward. Steam-launches cin at any time come alongside the jetty adjoin Ing the spacious lawn,
M that every possible arrangement has
The Cuisine is unrivallet in Hongkong, wad only the best Brands, of Wines, Sphilis, Cigars, etc., are kept in stock. Private Dinners or Tiffins prepared in First-class style on the shortest notice, and Meals can be served at all hours.
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BISHOP'S BAY, MACAO, THIS HOTEL is situated on the sea shore
in one of the best and healthiest parts of Macao, and commands an admitable view facing the South. Its accommodation is unsur- Every comfort is provided for Vialtors, with an excellent Culaine, and Wines, Spirits and Malt Liquors of the best brands.
THREY, Flow wwl. you Rats in ische Giving Graphic and Realistic Description of/ passed in the Far East.
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The Duke of Connaught, who will receive $50,000 as Commar der-in-Chief of the English army, gels as much more from the civilist sa royal Duke, and for acting as Colonel of several regiments, $5,000 each. His elder brother, Duke Direction of wind...... of Edinburgh, does even better
The Tourist Zeitung publishes a list of Alpine accidents for 1891. There were 12 fatal-
In Paris e o her day a man nearly died of the "hiccups." He had them for forty-eightitles in all, 26 having occurred in ascents with- hours at half-minute intervals. He was cured at last by hypnotism.
Prince Bismarck has suddenly changed from pestimist to an optimist. He expresses a belief that war cannot possibly break out for the next two or three years,
Temperature,emasiona Humidity:maalane
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Highest open air tanperature on the, sikumus meng Lowest open ala, semperature on the ghumannings
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out guides and 6 with guides. Twenty-six were tourists and 6 were guides. Ten were caused Hongkong Observatory, 5th January, 1893. by attempts to gather edelweiss.
The profits on Charles Dicken's works are about $40,000 x year, it is said. Since hidrath, Chapman & Hall, the English publishers, have The town of Gucima, la Algeria, ju now sold over 640,000 coples of "The Pickwick lighted by electricity, the installation having Papers," while the sales of other ediifans would
cently been completed by the Societe Franco-probably swell this total largely. A gerienne d'Electricite..
The Carriers of Bavara, Baden and Wurtem burg are almost unanimous against the new German army bill. This is believed to portend -the defent of the measure.
The home of Napoleon III after he left France in 1871, Camden Place, at Chiselhurst, is soon to be cleared away to make room for new suburban residences.
Several important chiefs on the narib-western frontier of India, have visited Kajari Kach from Wane, and have expressed friendly residecals
toward the British Government,
Dr. Hansen, the Norwegian explorer, will. start for the North Pole next June, going by way of New Z mbla, He will try to find the Arctic carent, and may be gone five year.
Marleaubirous, who is said to have witnessed the fist miraculous apparition at Louid in 1858. dled recently in the same house in Lourdes to which she lived at the tine mentioned."
Some French capitalisis engaged in an attempt to form a new company, with a capital of $10,000,000, to take the assets of the aid Panama Company and continue the work.
The Hamburg Senate propose to wilen and drepen the river Elbe ibe polet known as Koelfieth. The work will cost 1,000 oco marks, which will be raised by a municipal loan.
In France they try to make a public office pay Its way as it goes along, and the most of them do it were handsomely. The pe fits of the Paris postoffice last vest amounted to Broc0g Co.
The "grp" "la beginring, la rovages again, with the cold weather and bas laid siege to Paris, where many are down with it is said to he more contagious as d virulent than ever.
The Reichs Anzeiger of Berlin publishes
a
Seven years ago a Scotch woman estab'i bed in Loodan a "Home for the Dring," ten beds The being prepared for the dying pople, applications for admission b came so pumerous and pressing that steps have been taken 10 enlarge the institution very preatly.
The City
Berlin is to have an "L" road. Courcil has agreed to it and the Emperor will sanction it. Semena and Halske's perfected plan is that adopted. Each car will have two electric mators at each end, thus equally.di tribuling the power over the whole dr.
A correspondent of London Truth has found a terrestrial paradise in the Loinden Islands, off the coast of Norway, north of the Arctic Circle. "The Gulf Stream warms them all the year. round," he says, "and the consumptives of the. world enrich them by taking their cod liver ofl."
The value of murderers' relies to such places as Men. Tassaud's is considerable. Clothes and things belonging to the murderer Neill were refused by that show on account of the very high price asked, but the kitchen in which Deeming of Australia did his murders brought nearly
$3,000.
The Methodist congregation in Vienox has been suppressed by the police. The Methodist clergyman has been prohibited from speaking in public, and, should a member of his former congregation visit him; "a detective follows into the house, which is under constant police surveillance."
The Italian right of franchise ombrices all citizens who are twenty-one years of age, who can read and write, and who pay tax s to the
amount of $375 a year. In go the number of enrolled voters was 2 826,055 in an estimated population of 30.58,403, and the vote actually
cast was 1,477,573,
At a recent meeting of the Society of Engineers at Vienna, Herr Kositer described his invention of an electric railway, calling into use a loco, motor which will travel 123 miles an hour, The bu iding of a railway of this dese ip ton_is pra- Jected, to be built along the banks of the Dabube, from Vienna to Bada-Pesth
Ministerial cuscolar prohibiting the circulation in Germany for two years of the Autenomis, a German Anarchist paper published in London.
The French victory in Dahomey sppears to be complete. The strongest African State bar at last succumbed to civil tios, and an entire change may be expected in that part of Africa.
The proposed underground electric railway in London, if sanctioned, "will be sixteen feet under the Thames, sixty-eight fre: beneath Regent'stain of an English cycling club, his body was Prik, and eighty-five rat below Oxford street.
The Pope will point to English Cardinals, as previously decided on, but, it is said, will not elevate so many French, Austrian and German prelates to the Sacred College as was expected.
In obedience to the dying request of the Cap.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.
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everyday life on board a Man-of-War, Including Dances, Topleal, Nautical and Comic Sones with a Choras
of over 70 Strong.
As performed over yo umes with immener success at the Royal Naval Exhibition 18gt, and before the Royal Family and several of the Crowned Heads of Europe,
Under the Social Patronage of` H.R.H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES,
By klod permission ef L'ent -Col, RAVENHILL -and the Officers of the SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY, the BAND will perform.
The Performance is given under the Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency "Sir WILLIAM" ROBINSON, K..M.G, Vice-Admiral the Honourable Sr EDMUND R. FREMANTLE, KC.B., C.M.G., |_ Major-General G. DIGBY BARKFR. C.B. Commodore H. ST. LA B.- PALLISER, R.N. N.B.-Proceeds will be handed to loca! Charltles.
Doors Open st.1.30 PM. Performance at 9 P.M. precisely,
PRICES
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Tickets can be obtained at Messrs. LANE CRAWFORD & Co., where Plan of Theatre can be tern. Books of the Words can be purchased A Messes, NORONHA & Co., Zetland Street,
Price za Centa,
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EDUARD SCHELLHASS & Co., Hongkong, China & Hamburg,
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Hot, Cold, Shower and Sea Water Baths. Large and well Ventilated Dining, Billard and Reading Rooms, and a well supplied Bar.
A small Dairy is attached to the premises.
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THE SHAMEEN HOTEL. BRITISH CONCESSION, CANTON.
HIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL, admirably situated within a few minutes walk of the River Steamer Wharves,' is now open to receive Vluitors,
The Bed-rooms are cool airy and comfortably furnished, and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting Rooms, and accommodation generally will be found equal to the best Hotels in the Far East
The Table D'Hote is supplied with every luxury in season, and the culsion is in exper{. enced hands.
Winer, Spielis, Malt Liquors, etc, of the best quality only.
A WELL APPOINTED BILLIARD-ROOM,
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HAUENSTEIN'S HOTEL,
A MOY.
THIS First-class FAMILY HOTEL
situated on the beach at KULANGSOO and has First-class Accommodation for Visitors, An EXCELLENT TABLE is kept, and WINES, SPIRITS, and MALT LIQUORS of the very best quality,
Terma Moderate.
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PEAK HOTEL,
OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
Toasted of "htt HOTEL, situated at a height of 1,250 feet above sea-level, having been Leased by the Proprietors of the "VICTORIA HOTEL," is NOW OPEN and will be run In conjunction with their HOTEL in Queen's Road, thus enabling R., ADALBERT KORFF and Mr. them to offer special inducements to Visitors and
NOTICE.
MADA HAUT have been admitted Residents,
PARTNERS In our Firm from this date.
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Hongkong, 25th October, Ros. TRAVELLERS HOTEL,
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The healthiest spot in the world seems to be a little batter in Frat ce named Aumone. There Glasgow is about to try the experiment of are only for inhabitants, twenty-three of whom England, as welsh mumcated death have in, with GERS "CONFERENCE 399 WISSION AGENTS under the Style of LAUTS, WINE
An English company is being organized for the acclimatisation of elephants in South America,
Prison ships are said to be in course of con- straction en the Clyde to taka Russian exlies to Siberia
There are seven Jewish members in the British Heute of Commons, all of whom were 8 ected this year:
The Government of Austria has resolved to take conuel of the telephone lines in the Kingdom.
The important Information is exbled from London that Mr Langtry now proposes to "et jy la
A freight car thi.ty-feet long has been balit of steel la Manchester for the Mexican Railway Company.
In-Bohemia there are 160 societies-and- cluba which have for their object the advancement of the cause of women,.
The sex scupent has been seen off the coast of Africa, according to the testimony of some hundreds of spectators,
M. de Glers, the Russian Premier, who is staying at Monte Carlo, is gradually recovering from his revere illnesa.
A number of Japanese metrenien aro preparing foarf on a four in Europe to Llustrate the mativa style of acting, "
Flies are a very active medium of comment cating ciclers, according to the report of the Hamburg Medical Socie1y.
The Scotch Home Industries Association propokea to reproduce the collage of Robars Burny as the World's Fair
are eighty years of age and one is over one hundred.
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Monte Carlo is losing none of its popularity as a place of either gambling or pleasure in general. Never before, it is reported, has there been so great an fi flux of strangers so early in the season.
A magnificent monument to the memory of Emperor Alexander II is now belig ballt at the Kremlin, Moscow. It is in the It do Bysinline style, and will contain a colossal' bronze stalne of the Car
carried to the grave uron a platform draped in black and ent cted on four bicycles, four men in the uniform of the club acting as beers, Pre-
HE Undersigned has received instructions ceding the coffia was a contingeal of the mem. bein of the club, all riding their wheels,
from H. B. M. CONTUL to Bell by There has been an extensive outbreak of AUCTION, at 18.M, o¤ SATURDAY, the 21st typhoid fever at Easington, county Durham.Jngary, 1893, unless previously disposed of, occurred, and which has much ·| her and TACKLE, as she It has been traced to the water supply of the present stands in Amoy-Harbour,
Por particolata apply to the Underalg,.ed.. district, from wells, the water from which in drained through an adjacent churchyard.. $450
W. WILSON,
Amor, 31st December 1897.
An account of electricity as a life saver coraca from Scotland, where a man while bathing was seized with a cramp and sank, being two pinutes, below water. When reached he was thought to- be dead, but after two applications of the elect [c The curren current animation was restored, was passed between the nape of the neck and the heart
A Mr. Grundy aldat the Manchester Diocesan Conference that church service should be "bright, beautiful and brief," and that church.
ahould be condensed and sermons should not The new General of the Trappists is Padre rxceed ten minutes at most. He could see no Sebasilano, abbot of Septfonts, born a French-reason why siring and, brass bands should not man, and before entering the Trappist Order an take part in the services. officer in the Papal Order, who had disttagulshed- himself in baule,
Minhomason, en English woman, has per formed a notable feat in horemanship, riding 220 miles in thirty-seven and a half hours, from Inn.bruck, the Tyrol, through the Brenner going ought to be more social: han lt in Prayer Pass and back,
A number of German dentists Eave been heavily Sned by justices in Prussia and Saxopy }.for'advertising themselves as doctors of dentistry on the strength of diplomas received from American colleges.
The late Toomas Nelson, the publisher of Edinburgh; left $300,000 in legacies for the erection and equipment of five workingmen's clubs and reading-rooms, Mr. Nelson's estate amounts to £1,500 000.***
Queen Victoria bas presented a brooch to Miss Kale Marsden, the lady who devotes herself to remote parts, and giving the lepers medial and the founding af leper colonies in Siberia and other other comforts. She is on her way to the United Staten to ask for help in her benevolent porsuits, The brooch is formed of a large pearl, on which stands an angel of gold. Across the sugel's breast is a scroll with the words, "Victoria Regino,"
FOOD for Consumptires,Scott's Emulsion of The Empress of Rossla's court dress, which is Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites g valued at £3,000, has only been worn on one Lime and Soda is a mest wonderful food for the occasion, V, at the coronation of the present Consumptive. It not only gives strength and Emperor. It is covered with magnificent Increases the flesh, but hesis the imitation of the embroidery in real alvert it became throat and iangy. It is very palatable ; children The unfortunate cialment, allas Sir Roger take it like milk, and in all wasting diseases Tichborne," makes his living by appearing at both for adults and children. It is a marvellous county music halls and by exhibiting himself: Zood and medicine, Any Chemist can supply it. nightly for a fixed sam as well known "pubila A. 8. Watson & Co. (Limited),RAIN, IN Bousca in the subgips of London, ijina iela) Hongkong and Ching.-
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