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Intimations.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY.
· FLUID EXTRACT OF MALT.
THE are of that extremely valuable Food THE and Remedy EXTRACT OF MALT has been retarded by its usually viscid condition; to obviate this objection we have had prepared a FLUID EXTRACT OF MALT as easily poured out of the bottle and measured into desce sa any other Fluid.
It contains as much of the DIASTASE ■* any vlucid EXTRACT OF MALT and is there- fore fully as active in tissua forming and diges- tive power.
Two tablespoonfuls of our FLUID EXTRACT OF MALT contain more nutritive and digestive value than a pint of the strangest Ale or Stool.
In 120. Battler 75 cents. Per dagen $8,00. Hongkong, '12th January, 1893.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, WINES AND SPIRITS.
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WE invite attention to the following Brands
all of which are excellent quality and good value for the money.
The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in, wood and battled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply
the best growths at moderate prices,
In ordering it is only necessary to state the name and quality of Wine or Spirit wanted, and Goitial letter for quality desired."
PORTS. (For Invalid: and general Vu).
Par dia, Cass.
A Alto Douro, good quality,
Green Capsule............Sta
B Vintage, superior quailty,
Red Capsule....
C Fine Old Vintage, superior quality, Black Seal Cap.
12
D Very Fine Old Vintage, extra superior, Vialet Capsule (Old Bottled)..... 18
SHERRIES.
A Delicate Pale Diy, dinner wine, Green Capsule'...
B Superior Pale Dry, dinner
PA BOL
$ 1,00
1.10
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1803.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
No bird can fly backward without turning the UBSCRIBERS TO THE HONGKONG dragon-fir, however, can do this, and exp outstrip
the swallow in speed.
TELEGRAPH" ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY REMINDED THAT ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE FAID IN ADVANON.
DEATH.
beloved wife of C. Wanderlesch, I. M. Custom At Pakbol, on the gth Instant, ANNIE, the
Service, aged 38 years, dreply regretted.
he Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 16, 1893.-
TELEGRAMS.
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The wreck of the stram whaling schooner War. Whak as she lay at Sasaki, (hiba Ess, was so by aucilon on the 7th inst.. by Messer. Eyton and Prait for $1,600 The purchaser was Mr. Laffin, of Yokohama,
The schooner Norma, which exiled frags back, owing to the Captain having last is Yokohama for Honolulu on the 25th alt, put sextant overboard. She resumed Ser voyage after obtaining a new gextant...
THE JAFROCs aathorkilen have decided to shortly open a Naval Court at Magnuski to Inquire into the alleged running down of a junk on January 17th, resulting in the loss of three lves, by the Rasılan war ship Zablaka.
THE American papers have recently published long accounts of a Danish globe-trotter who is, as they put it," travelling on his check"-Mr. Swen Wien, wha is now in Hongkong, baving come from San Francisco by the Galli
THE HOME RULE BILL.
LONDON, February, 15th,, Mr. A. J. Balfour denounced the BIII, charac». terizing as a bastard comblestion of the PASSENGERS who recently arrived in Liverpool. Federal, Colonial and British systems of Govern-frem Yokohama, via the Canadian Pacific ser. ment in which the rights of Ulster were ignored. vier, report that they performed the entire The financial propessis he declared equivalent journey of nearly 10,000 miles in 36 days. This to the payment of a war indemnity to victorious | is an average of 16 miles an hour, lecluding forces,
stoppages
Mr. Redmond applauded the 'principle of the Bill, but considered that it contained grave defects which must be remedied before it could become acceptable as a final solution of the question,
Sir E. Clarke critiched its detalls, especially the proposal to retsin Irish members at West- minster and the shrence of any provision for the safeguate of Ulster.
The Opposition wiT resist the Bill, to the
Mr. T. Sexten generally approved of the Bill. It is denounced by the 17nionist Press, but is cordially approved by the Liberal papers,
LIKUT KABURAXI, the Japanese officer who was In command of the Chiihima Kan at the ilme steamer Ravenna, has been appointed Com. of the disstrous collision with the P. & O. Co.'s mander of the Offensive Section of the Yekoraks Torpedo Corpr.
We regret to leam of the death of Captain Thomas Munro, of the Britlah barque Allair, last night. The decreared had been engaged in the China trade for a number of years, and was well known and highly respected. He died somewhat suddenly, we believe, of heart disease.
A REGULAR meeting of the Eothea Mark Lodge, No. 264, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the 23rd instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm, precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
white haired grandfather, the son and the five
year-old grandion.
This month the first pit was divided among large number of Chine, who held small share in the wioning ticket. Frte March drawing only about 3,000 tickels are sold cut of 10,000, it is reported; halt of them on credit, 100, owing | to scarcity of
money about Ch seae New Year THE NIM Nicht Shimbun 'states that the
The three days of the Carnival have paused, Mikado summoned Admiral Nirol to the Palace streets were full of masqueraders, in all kinds of as usual, without a hitch. Day and night the at pm, on the 6th inst, and ordered him to despatch a man-of-war to Hawall at once, fortesque costumes. At the Club Uniao on Sum- the protection of the Japanese, in consequence entertainments. Several well known and gopular day last there were musical and dramatical
immediately convened Council of Admirals, pianist, Miss Olive, the violinst, Mrs. Guedes, of the recent revelatton there. The Minister Hongkong amatonis assisted-Miss Souss, the and it was decided that the Naniwa Kas, ut present stationed at Yokosuka, should be des paying expenses, werets be sent to the Litbon in
Mr. Grace and Mr. Crow. The pro eeds, after patched at once and she left the following after stitution Ultramarinho, which is under the pres-six to fifteen inchei
idency of the Queen Dowager, and is specially favoured by the Minister Ferreira d'Amaral, it hardly seems right to draw money from such a poor place a Macao for distant objects, when the local charities are in such a bad way for want of support. Look at the Italian Convent at San Antonio, how many poor orphans are. kept there, and how they liwa 1
1000.
WHAT Is this we hear? Two more Portuguese poblemen gone wrong! We learn from Bangkok that a celebrity from fair Macuc, named Ferreira, who performed the Vanishing Act from here several years ago and has since been rusticating in the Siamese capital, has again made a big mistake as to the relative meanings of meum et tuum and will shortly be forwarded to the Holy City for trial. He will have, our Informant says, a companion named Jesus with klm, who has also gone astray.
The following notification, signed by all the Console in Kobe, was recently circulated: "In view of the prevalence of smallpox and typhoid fever in this district, the Consuls desire to point out to foreign residents the urgent necessity of increased sanitary precautions in connection with the state of premises occupied by them, and they trust that the valuable medical gentlemen practising at this port, suggestions recently made in that respect by published in the local papers, will receive all the serious attention they deserve."
"CHARBONNAGES.”
Eat Monday at Government House there was 6mm
Well attended ball; dancing was kept up until
On Tuesday there was a dinner to the diplo matic body at the French Consulate, followed by dancing until midnight.
The French Admiral and bis staff came Ores
last Saturday, and attended all the festivities lucluding the consular party stove mentioned The French guests, on the recommendation of their consul in Hongkong, wers put up at Hing Kee's hotel.
There is nothing else of any interest to record. Business is nu dead as an overnight goda......
CHINESE STATUARY AND
FIGURES.
'LOCAL AND GENERAL, We beg to inform the Hon, G. T. M. O'Bree that there have been considerably fewer China OWING to the Chinese New Year holidays, there
New Year fires, distraints, and lawsultatblayent | pally Annamese, and number about 2,500. The variety in the statuary and figure-work, will be no issue of the Hongkong Telegraph is more money in the Colony to settle accounts, than last year; which indicates either that bere to-morrow and Saturday,
or else, less bope of enforcing settlement. Query
1.25
1.50 TRAINING work at the
proved quite a dead letter.
6
0.60
wine, Green Seul Capsule 7.50 C Mangaoilla, Pale Natural-
Sherry, White Capsule... to CC Superior Old Dry, Pale Natural Sheny, Ked Seal Capsule........... ID D Very Superior Old Pale Dry, cholce old wine, White Seal Capsule 12-
E Extra Superior Old Pale Dry, very finest quality, Black Seal Capsule (Old Bottled)
CLARETS.
Race-course thin
-which?
Near Chian Chiu in Fokien is a guild whose specialty is the making of Grurea of lime and claw. They do a large business and send their goods to markets. In every direction within x radius of two hundred and fifty miles. The Paris, are re-enforced by wooden skele imager, cast wet In, moulds, similar to planter of tons and are carefully dried in either the spen pieces are then finished, cracks being filled up, ate or in kiina afer, the casting. The rough
carted where necessary. projections car away and grooves and channels After. second thick, heavy colors. They range in height from drying the artht prints, the figures with The subjects employed ste usually domestic or theatrical. Among the former the favorites are a mother dancing her babe, a scolding mother-in-law, an ideal bride and a happy father. The latter is more numerous and includes characters and scenes from all the standard Chinese plays. Both classes deplet groups as well as single figures. The workman- ahip is praiseworthy, the modelling badag correct and not too conventionalized the coloring natural and the expression Bieliks. In the better accessories of dress and other details. Hal- specimens grest care is bestowed upon the
plus and other head ornamenta sue carefully reproduced in miniature and weapons and fari are portrayed exactly as they are. The cost of these figures ranges from fifty cents to three dollars each. In a large collection they would have great value as their number would enabl the exhibitor to give a clear idea of early every phase of domestic and industrial life on the one hand and of every dramatic clinracter and scene, upon the, other. They, lika the Tlentsim figures, are rather brittle and ihouki be handled with considerable care: In case, of breaking however they are easily repainted, the lives of fracture being very clear and distinct. They are god llustrations of Fokten artwork, but are Inferior esthetically to both the Tientsin figuren and the clever wood-carvings of Arnoy,
W. E. S. F
CLEVER SAFINGS BY BRIGHT. MEN.
Charles W. Brooke In speaking of a witness
of falsehood and a macroleam of rum" Į influence of liquor said. "His mouth, a fourtain who had apparently told an.ontruth under the
morning, owing to the wretched weather, IT appears that Mr. Andrew Velteb, of the year ago to introduce that system. Lahore shells are laid in cement antll the surface is must be to you to be surrounded by so many
Mr. Bullion-Would you marry a man for 0.75 money?
Miss Giddy I'd do almost anything for enough 1,00 money.
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PERHAPS, says the Ram's Horn, the rich man 1.00 who lifted up biseres in torment may have had very nice things said about him on his grave
1.10
1991 14
1.25
Per
CUM.
1 doz, Quarte.
A Superior Breakfast Claret,
Red Capsule...simuun$ 4.
B St. Estepbe, Red Capsule... 450
C St. Julien, Red Capsule... 7
D La Rose, Red Capsule,... II'.
Sainte For
Charau d'Anglade 12 Château Haut Brion Lar-
rivet
Chateau Mouton d'Armail-
hacq'....
HOCKS,
Niesstein.
Horkheimer 10 Rudesheimer
24
BURCUNDIES
Chablis, whlie wie
12
Meursault, supeilor white
Wilc ................... 15
Volony, very superioć" red
19
Cas * Sox. Pista.
Blone.
"WELL," sald » Chicago citizen who looked at a drop of water through a microscope, that is what I call pretty rough on a man, whà has #worn off."
BROTHER, Arnot Reld's latest perpetration Is the Straits Times is so fearfully awful that we are going to keep fualifMonday, just to enliven $ 4.50 the China New Year.
5.00
7.50 PROFESSOR--Can you cite a notable instance in 11.00 which necessity was the mother invention } 5.50 Student-Matches were not made until after 850smoking became popular. 12.50
20.00
As several false reports have been recently circulated in reference to the Hongay miacs of the Societe des Charbonnages, we have obtained an authoritative statement of the actual facts, which should set at rest the thoughtless or mali clous tongues of rumour,
The coolies employed at the mines are princi.
Asiatica) do not usually break their necks trying are paid by the day, and (as fa- usual with to do two days work for one day's pay. As piece work, with payment by results, is infinitely more antisfactory, an attempt was made about a Hongkong and Shanghal Bank, who died at contractors were Invited to supply men to do the Yokohama on the 9th inst, succumbed to comwork, for which the contractor or beadman was pression of the brain, following an attack of to be paid so much for every ion of coal cut. meningitis. Mr. Veltech, who was only 46 years This principle was adopted experimentally, on a of age, leaves a wife and three children to regret small scale only. The best offer came from a Chinaman, who was engaged to work a portion of the mines, and of course he imported his ments with them. own countrymen and made his own arrange: recently 1,800 or 2,000 Asnamese, on time work, Thus there were antli and about 600 Chinese on plece work. The Chinese contractor appears to bare got in arrear with bit payments to the men, and last month he bolted, leaving the coolles unpaid, as they say for three or four months work. They might have been re-engaged, but the near approach of the Chinese New Year (when they always cease work and most of them return home) interfered with the arranging of fresh contracts, and most of them returned to Hongkong by the Avockie this week. They have been most handsomely treated by the Company, and make no complaint whatever.
bis death
wald of Swinburne," He has wasted a godlike Daniel L. Dawson, the "blacksmith-poet," genlus in the unsuccessful Idealization of harlots,” Go. C. Boldt in summing up a famous defaulter, sald "He plated vice with honesty and the plating wore out.".
Despite the tremendous poverty of the Celes tials and the fierce struggle for existence which never ends, there is a noticeable love among them for works of art. The poorest coolle decorates his hovel with a Joss or ceiving of some sort. The demand for these ornaments is universal and the supply seemingly exceeds the demand, Unlike the architecture, which 'Is patnfally alike from Peking to Canton and has hardly varied in thirty centuries, there is Infinite
Fakien is an at industry which form figures diary. At Leh Oog near Choan Chia io Some of the schools border opan the extraor
out of sea-shells. A skeleton of the figure is made in wood or terra-cotta and on this thean aid meld who finally said, "How pleasant it James Wm. King the lectorer, was bored by
univalve and bivalve upon the Fokien coast is pleasanter to be surrounded by one." entirely covered. Every known variety of beautifal women." He replied. "It is much employed in this work. The effects are at times quite startling, I have the figures of a salot sitting on a unicorn. Baib biped and quadruped The features even down to the teeth are well teem ordinary carvings at a distance of five yards. reproduced and the glaring colors which mark
tion shows both saint and beast to be compared every respectab'e Chloese unfcern are as deep as if laid on with a palette-kolie. Close luspéc- of minute abells, about the size of the letters in colors are derived from pieces of boiled lobster which these lines are pilnted. The scarlet and crab shells; the blues, greens and olives from dystreas and tridacuas, the whites, yellows, browns and grays from litterinas and whelks. By filing or grinding whelks at whorls parallel to their major axis, a captal human eye or car is obtained. Similar treatment of Intorinas produces a fair imitation of a note or chin. Cutting the translucent parts of the thinner-univalves into circles and ovela River Meantime the main body of miners, the An. excellent petals, which when joined sfford very pretty imitations of flowers. The Leb Ong atfals pamese, are still at the mines, though the work are ambitions. Besides making their shelf-work A SAN FRANCISCO shipping paper states that, as usual, shut down for a forialgbt for the into the gutes of men, dragons, deer, birds, tigers Captain Ross, formerly of the Haytian Republic Annamese new year. On the 32nd foil, and other animals, they turn out
tables, chairs, has proceeded to Japan for the purpose of taking is absolutely no foundation for the report and soup-plates of the same materials. They operations will be resumed as usual. There vases, Bowers and flower-pots, temples, tureens command of the Zambest and proceeding with her to Honolulu and thence to Portland and the that the vast majority of the coolles have apparcelly value their labour by the number of annual holidays go; nor that "the departure of and stand which contains a thousand shells
A MEETING of the Executive Committee of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club with Mr. Fred, Dodwell, of the Northern Pacific Steamship Co. was held on the 7th ulto. to discuss the trade relations between Tacoma and the Orient. The idea was to secure the co-operation of the business men of the town in making the now line a success.
ON DIT that the Portuguese employee of one of our best known shipping firms was discovered the other day to have embraled about $poo in connection with some sales of a certain article for which the firm in question are general manager. The culprit confessed his offence and was at once dismissed, but without having to run the gauntlet of a criminal prosecution,
When Liverpool parvenu boasted that be was a self-educated man, M. P. Hardy soothed teacher 1" him with the remark, "Why didn't you kill your
Tom Mossen strack out this thought about a
rtty flirt, "The less her foot, the more it
shows."
beauty as a dairy in calico,"
Col. Frank A. Barr descifbed a matronly
Maurice Barrymore on returning from the Continent was asked which city he admired the moit. The distinguished Thexplan paused and blushed as he uttered, "Brest but not Toulouse("
John F. Chamberlla described ́a, mlser, as filings from the teeth of his dead mother." "one who would laugh as he robbed the geld
To David A. Curtis belongs the suggestion
18.00 | THE Interesting euse at R. Fraser-Smith v The Hon. T. H. Whitehead and others (Stewards of the Hongkong Jockey Clab), has Sound with a cargo of fralt efc., and has carte i ceased work at the mines," except as far as ibe shells upen a piece, A.clamay and ugly plate that "Missionaries should' always dress in sago been set down for hearing at 10.30 8.m. on March blanche, if he finds the Zambezi unfit for imme. such a number of men betokens a serious aspect commands a doller, while a pretty and artistic and oilve in order to give the idea of a saizi to
diate service, to charter lestead any of the of affairs," nor that a great difficulty has arisen numerous vessels now available in Oriental ports.#bich the directors might have been spared deer made of three hundred can be bought for / Cannibal communities."
10.00
wine MADEIRA AND CHAMPAGNES. FULL PARTICULARS OF VARIOUS BRANDS OM APPLICATION.
BRANDY.
Fer doz
Ca
A Hennessy's Old Pale, Red
Capsule...............$13
B' Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Capsule...
C Very Old Ligeur Cognac... 20 D' Heaney's Finest Very Old Liqueur Cognac 1872 Vintage, Red Capsule................................. 30
WHISKY,
SCOTCH.
A Thome's Blend, White
Capable
B Watson'sGlenorchy Mellow
Blend, Blue Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark
C Walton's Abelour-Glen!!.
vel, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark 8
D Watson's H.K. D. Blend
8
of the Finest Scotch Malt Whiskler, Violet Capsule...danum 10
13
E Watson's Very Old Liqueur. Scotch Whisky," "Gold" Capsule................................... Daniel Crawford's Finest
Very Old Scotch Whisky 10 IRISH,
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capsule
komma
3 John Jameson's' Finc Old,
Green Captulemme 10
C John Jameson's Very Fine
Old, Green Capsule...... 12 AMERICAN
GIN.
Genuine Bourbon Whisky, Fine Old. Red Capsule, with our Name & Trade Mark.....................................amm 10,
A Fine Old Tom, White
Capsult........ 4:50
B Fine Unsweetened, White
Сараите.........
4.50
C Fine A. V. H. Genera...... 5.23
RUM.
"Fluent Old Jamaica, Violet
Capsule............ 13-
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Par Hot
$ 1.10
Ist.
A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, No. 1165, E.C. will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
AIR GUNS were first made by Gahr in Germany In 1616, and the invention is also credited to Shaw of America, in 1845. Breech-loading guns were invented by Thornton & Hall, 1811, Breech-loading cannon were used by the Turka in 1553.
A SHANGHAI correspondent writes that over i
1.40 score of Portuguese clerks in the Model Settle 1.75ment have lately had their services dispensed with owing to notorious gambling propensities and other shady peccadilloes. There is a fine field in the Hongkong Civil Service for these 2.50 gentlemen who are so unhappily 'out of collar,'
TWO PARAGRAPHS which appeared in at last issue referring to Hongkong legal luminary and his dirty tricks appear to bave killed brace of birds with one stone, or two stones with brace of brick, or something of that cost. The lamentable state of the
libel law, and the notorious eccentricities of special juries in Hongkong, prohibit us from giving names; hut it looks bad when a vague remark that a certain lawyer deserves to be tarred and feathered" Is held applicable to so many !
GREAT numbers of vultures hover over Para, on-g-place a huge signboard printed This way to the Amazon river, blickening every housetop 0.75 and charch-spire. A heavy fine is imposed for killing one of these immense carr'on birde, a fact which is less strange, than it appears when It is known that they do more towards keeplog 75 that undrained city lo a state of comparative cleanliness than in accomplisbe in any other
075
way.
PHILOSOPHY up to date by Alves: To thieve from fools is wisdom-from wise men felly. Fools 1.00 wot not the whither nor the whenceness of "oof;" the wise are over on their gu: ad, Chooss marks with care, and success will ever attend 1.10 the efforts of the mearest. "Scoot with leisure and dignity, and carry spoll for the pursuers for 1.00 is ever the green-horn who falls by the way
and is captured.
4.75
■
ALVIS has not yet come back to the world, for topstely for the Governments and some of the officials are laying out unusually big sums in 1-paper and crackers, in gratitude for bring spared awkward revelations. To be quite ean did, we cannot help the king Alves never had any occasion to leave Hangkong, as there is not sufficient energy is the whole Government to have found him, unless he stuck up over his hid- Me!" In reference to the rumour which warepro ducet recentis, to the effect that Alves was safe on board the Diu, we now learn that Commin. der Asevedo Gomes and bis officers are razing wild and threatening fearlot vengeance against us for letting the cat out of the bag. We have received a challenge to fight a dad for the honor of Portugal, and we are busy polating for the battle. Why, we could undertake to wipe out the whole Portuguese Nary in ose act with our fiery untamedhaystack the fontfara, copper bottomed and Ay at Lloyd's, set to mention our terribly destructive submarine torpedo cruisers Chop Cheung and Hai Ching Chung, now reposing peacefully in the mud at the bio of Yau-ma-ti bay. Come on, Mac to
nor that "matiers have come to a deadlock."
All these statements are absolutely unfounded, and the persons who assist in circulating such lies ought to thick before they set about dam- aging the prospects of a concern on which depends so largely the welfare of all Hongkong; last year la run: to Hongay, has been (on the The steamship Avochis, which was chartered. expiry of her contract) engaged for the Saigos rice trade, which is now exceedingly attractive. By the time when work is to be resumed at the coal mines, it is expected that some other steamer will be put on to replace the Avachia Meatwhile the Kist and Cosmopolit are still running for the Company Negotiations for the reconstruction of the Societe or the introducties. of fresh capital are still pending, and may be concluded in a month or two. It is not expected that there will be any difficulty, or any loss to existing interests, and meanwhile the work is going on steadily,
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not necessarily endorse the opiniona apraised by Correspondents to this column];
·SLACK SUPERVISION IN SHIPPING OFFICES..
Te troop tim "KonaxoNS TELEORATM/
one half that sum,
From Shantung come what are known as
Tientsin Sgures. These are clay images from modelled and colored la life-like tints. The foor to ten inches in length. They are well realism of the work is increased by dressing them like the characters they represent. The beggar and opium-fiend are in sags; the gambler attired according to the conventionalism of is neat and clean, the thief and bully are North China, The artists confine their work within narrow limits mad for that reason produce finer and more artistic results than would other wise be the case. The great majority of their imagen are taken from the shadowy side of
James Henderson Connoily when asked by a taliative dame at a banquet, how he liked tongua responded, "only when it's diled."
Berry Wall"I am struck upon the stage." Louli N. Megargee-"So are many bad eggs."
well stuffed to be attractive."
Thomas J. Murrey, the chef, observed that a "good turkey, Uke « lady'a' stocking, should be
at a London pub varles from toppence to a ̈
Bill Nye remarked that "the cost of a drink
severe headache the next morning."
Frank McLaughlini the publisher belleven that "good bumor like the measles is a cons
agious disease."
professional acknowledger of corps.
Hallett Kilbours, defined z chiropodist as K
Ke. The beggar, tramp, oplum fiend and leper, the lunch back, thief. bully and assassin, the condemned murderer, execniloner, the victim of starvation and worn-out old age aretheir favorite subjects. There is much skill in their work The victim of the pipe lies upon a broken pot for a plilow; tharaga and tatters which constitute his ralment are falling from his body, co that here and there his emaciated frame can be seen in all its horror; his eyes are fixed upon the pipe and lamp with an expression so terrible as to provoke a shudder. The artist has ingreased the affect by maiding the pupils converge Alfred Trumble finds the meaning of book. toward the pipe as they generally do in the case orm to be "one who extracts everything good of hopelem victims of the habit. With equal | id a book.” skill is depicted the loathsome beggar who sta
Engens H. Levy sayı ?« revointion in Cen- tral America consists of one drink, two goo and a dead nigger " and also noticed that "the Salvation Army is the delirium tremens of religions Intoxication."
other end of his body."
the horns of the Office Goat and making ready of your columns that there are several sailing sores the bones seem to be protruding, Tass | Hulizne making his fate nature tried 10
able be
The Naval Inquliy into the loss of the steam schooner Nartikal, held at Yokohama on the THE statement published in our columns some 100 time ago that Mr. D. Cinate, Consal for Portugal 8th and 9th fast delivered the following finding
at Canton, would be appointed to succeed Bir. on the biter date p
That the master had no sufficient reason for 1.10 José Louretro de Resident and Contal-General
at Tokyo, has been confirmed by our Japan lying off and on in the Uraga Channel, and that contemporaries. The Japan Herald Com en coming on deck when called by the mate, ments What tho precies fanctions be into the first time he ought to bave verised bi perform, are at present unknown to us, but after position by taking beardogs, or using the lead. on the arrival of the French Minister who is shortlyThat on first finding the vessel to be unmanage
was in zyros in not having got up steam, expected, more will be learnt,"
and further, that be ought then to have remained on deck in place of going below. For these 6.49 NOTWITHSTANDING, the fact that the stuffed pig reasons the Court considers the master, Henry and the mandarin orange have been much in James Scow, deserving of severe measure and 40 evidence throughout the city to-day (offering a he is hereby censured accordingly. 0.50 sorry, zaake-believe that this is the season of "The mate, William Milligan floyd, on taking Celestial femtivities) things generally have borne charge of the deck, was to fault in not verifying a very faveral aspect. The strcels have been ) the position of the vessel, and he has shown un 1.00 practically deserted by business men and not utter ignorance with regard to the lights of the one sogle belog has been seen even to smile. coast. For this the Court severely censures him, Shylock has been abroad, but the Rialta is no The state of intoxication in which he was when more, having vanished like mist before the he joined the ship and when brought before this morning sun, and his mission has been as vain | Court yesterday is highly discreditable to kim, as was that of Diogenes of old, Verily all is The expenses af This Court fixed at 15.8.7 Blank and misty, for in the poetic language of equal to $32.80, are approved. our nativo Arabia, "How cap mirth be when the * Dated at Yokohama, the gth day of February, heart is black * And the heart of Hongkong 1899" is indeed as dark as the shades of Ebils, Prayers
(Sd.) JAKES TROUP, H.B.M. Consul, for "fight" will be duly offered up in our sanatura
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James H. Heverin once tro across a disagree- able person whom be summarised in this style, He could make money by selling his breath
fertilizer."
by the roadside and exposes with professional |:Hal: Homiston thus descants upon a homely, SIR-Permit me to stale through the medium pride the dicessed body, through whose hideous fat ma vessels trading on the coast of Chiba, with figures are the best made in Chios, to judge by out- certificated officers on board-the master the standard of European rosthetics. They belong some being provided with How the Consular officials concerned "clear"
certificate, however to class in art which is not of the such vessels in direct contravention to the law blood.curdling characters in Mr. Jarley's Wan
highest type and may be fitly compared to the remains to be explained in the sweet by and bye, works or the sanguinary images in the famous for it is laid down that all vessels must carry Eden Masde, ono certificated officer (holding at least an "only male's certificate) besides the master-and there should be no getting away from that.
Yours faithfully,
A SAILING MASTER. Hongkong, 15th February, 1893.
MACAO.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.).
Frank G. Carpenter was guilty of the follow fogy
“Loving in too often ended by: merrlage and marriage by loving some other woman,"
In commenting upon the poetical genius of Walter Cooper, Geo. W. Wisner said “ He writes poetry because he hasn't the courage to be a burglar...
In Ansoy is a guild which does notably good work in small wooden figures. They range from five to ten inches in height and are carved out of a single block. Afterwards they are saude papered, polished and painted in thick and heavy oil colors. The carving and coloring arealike ad- miraþle, Eventbe crescents on the finger-nalls and the amall studs and buttons of the clothing are stupid acquaintance as one who approached - Phil McDowell, a New York wit alluded to a reproduced with the highest accuracy.' As In all Chinese art, the sculptors prefer realism to con- intelligence only when dead drank.” ventionallem. The figure of the astrologor, is * Wm. F. G. Skänks criticised an actor in this adorned with a real hair quese; the literateur wise, His acting is like Beecham's Plits.** wears' flay ́spectacles made›of horn and glass and held by wires, over the care the same as in
Macon McCormick referred to a fast sopeens actual life the pipe of the merchant is a strawor, as one who kept her modesty locked up in a
piece of split bamboo ent and painted to imitate bankesaIG.
the real
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Macao, February 15th. Thle month's lottery of the Holy Konse was very slack in going off; instead of selling tickets at a premium, as before, brokers had to be con- text with a discount of 10 or 15 per cent., and those braker, who only received per cent on by tog brate headed nally; books and coconuts Ulli Nys-Hii education was such that he mission lost money in the last few days. Nover. are real though in miesture, Carrying realism so could only write when he stacie his tongue ent theless, Barbosa inaid to be planning to increase fat involves great labour and consequent of the corner of his mouth." the lasts to 20,000 tickets, at $z, and alsoto bring expense. The wooden figures of Amoy are about the lottery ultimately under the sole control the most costly on the Chinese Coast They Major Ji M. Carson epitomized the careers of of the Treasury, making it a national lottery- tako seldom less than a month in their mang. Several statesmen in the epigram, “Their gealus instead of a charitable affair, as at present, facture and cost from 88 upwards. In the was like a trombone, In an unguarded moment. paying the Treasury only 15 per cent. on prizes, stelles, the artist is assisted by all his family, they squeaked. foldedant It is a shame to invoke the name of the Lord some preparing the hair that is to make cucuce, O'Brian Moose was the father of the remark and all his Salnis, and use the Holy House of beards and eyebrows others making the diminu that the supply of patiloia depends upon the Mercy as blind te bald up a scheme for tive books pipes, bells, trumpels and other salaries paid by their respective governments," increasing the colony's declining revenue. Even articles which stand as the trade marks of the saches the the line crangement, the Holy funnie's vocation,, Domas rough-how the blocks Major Musser and that "the great charms of Houas can hardly make one third of what goes into their future shapes, while others apply the Florence St. John lies within her limbs." into the Treasury; yet the charitabla and plons | thick first coat of paint that becomes the body Institution has had all the risk—and now la to on which the finishing touches are laid. It is Willie Annia tummed up life in these words, lose what it bay worked to win)
not uncommon Lie›son; working together the * A fool contracts dobta s a hero paya thans „V