Then slowly from that busted bank
The stranger wandered out- A sun-dried vision, long and lank,
Oppressed by bonest doubt. One tearful eye at length he shut (His parentage was Scotch)-
"I trusted all my mosey, 1st
They didn't get my watch.”
E. F. in Sydney Bullition.
BITS OF INFORMATION.
The Rocky Mountain rangea are 300 miles wide.
A perfect ruby is more costly than a perfect diamond.
There are twenty-two kings or emperor now on Caill.
The hottest place in the United States is Death Valley, 140 deg.
In 1866 the motto "In God We Trust" was first placed on American coins.
The coldest place in the United States in the Interior of Alaska, 80 deg, below zero,
An earthquake, wave once crossed the Pacific is twelve hours, or over six miles a minute,
The only European country which has lost in population in the present century le Ireland.
The wilter of the Book of Proverbs has been called the best paragrapher the world his ever known.
"
In the French Army thirty-three men per 1,000 000 die yearly of drink.
The Coliseum at Rome has held 87,000 people; St. Peter's Church, Rome, can accommodate 58,000 persons.
There are more people of German descent in the United States than there are of any other nationality,
The English language contains about 100,000 words; Geiman, Fo.000; Italian, 40,000; French, 30,000; Spanish, 20,000.
In 1468 the army of Flanders used wine that wae regularly cut from the gudgeons with hatchets and served in the shape of ice,
The sidest tree on earth is'sald to be the Boo tree in the sacred city of Amarapoora, Burmah. It was planted in the year 298 B.C..
The oldest artesian well in Europe la found at Lillers, France. From Its mouth water has flowed uninterruptedly for 746 years.
Lake Superior is equal in area to Ireland; Lake Michigan to Belgiam; Lake Huron to Greece, and Lake Erte is equal to Sardinis.
Alexander the Great Is the only celebrated men of history of whom it may be truthfully said: "He was born in Europe, died in Aila and is buried in Abica"
Columbus brought eight hogs to America on his second voyage, and from these, according to Las Casas, sprang the immense number in the Spanish settlements,
Tobacco received its name of Nicoting in honor of Jean Nicut, envoy from the court of France Portugal, who seat some seed to Catherite de Medicis.
Henry VIII put to death 71,400 persone as citmluals during his reign, but most of them were innocent persons. He banged 300 beggars in one year for saliciting alms,"
Comfort for the fat and the lean may be derived from some recent medical statistics which show that at the age of thirty-six lean men generally become fatter and fat men leaner.
The Red Sea is for the most part blue. It gets Its name from the fact that portions of it are covered by minute animal, ulic, which dye the surface of the water red where they float
Mount Ararat the resting place of the Scrip tural ark, is in reallly two mountains separated by a valley. The highest peak is 17,210 feet and the lesser 13,000 feet above sea-level.
The word mausoleum comes from the name Mausolus, the King of Caria After ble death Artemisi, bis wife, determined to bull in his honour the most magellicent tomb in the world.
The saltest lake in the world Is Luke Urtimia in Persia, situated more than four thousand feet above the level of the sea. It contaian za per cent of salt, an against 8.5 per cent in the Dead Sea.
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
England imports eggs from Rusala. Holland has 2,950 miles of railroads, -Men's corsets find lively sale in England.
Brussels is to have an elevated cabis road. Queen Victoria's crown in worth $1,200,000. England used the telephones 66,409,000 times In '92.
The theatres in Londen employ over 13,000 people.
Paris sewer-workers are free from symotic .diseases.
In Glasgow- 15,470 women have municipal suffrage.
The Edlaburgh Ganette styles a woman clerk A clerkess,"
A divorce can be got in St. Helem for leas than 30 shillings.
Sarah Beinbardt has made a four years' en- gegetent in Paris,
A new ballet just brought out in London is enulled "Chicago." -
The woman physician to the Queen of Coies gets $16,200 a year.
The plans for the Paris Exhibition of 1900 are assuming definite form.
Dr. Keeley es facitated a suit against the London Lancet for libel.
Sir Charles Dilke wants the British Govern- ment to get out of Egypt.
The Johannesburg gold mines produced last year 1,535,394 ounces of gold.
An award of £103 has been received by a London florist for a cerbation,
A iste Paris amble reads "No tali for seven weeks, oɛts and meadows lost,"
There are now twenty-seven royal families in Europe, with about 400 members.
Steps are being taken to effect a combination of all trades uniors in Great Britain.
Racing has been overdone la Australia and all the jockey clubs are getting into debt
The total length of railway lines in Europe at the end of last year was 143,653 milles
A census of the trees of Paris shows that the French capital has 88,000 green growibs.
Influensa has broken out extensively, but not severely, in Paris and other French dilen,
Mary Benton, aged one hundred and two years, was recently married at Grimsby, England,
The Austrians are cald to use more tobacco, relatively, than any other nation on the earth.
The trustees of Shakespeare's birthplace report that 6,000 Americ. Mis visited Stratford-on-Avon In 1892.
Prince Ferdinand of Batearis has you servants his court at Safi, and eighty Burses in the stabics.
The popularity of the study of Dante has of Iate years bad an extraordinary growth in England,
A remarkable increase in the use of oana
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1893.
A Berlin Inventor has patented a walking-stick with an incandescent electric-lamp attachment Archduke Joseph of Austria has assumed editorial charge of a journal published in Vienna The "Municipal Connell of Parts is building outside of the city a phthisical hospital to rellora the city hospitals.
Hairy Forsist, Pune's caricaturist, calls this season's fashions the most foartistic and ugly that ever calated.
Russian cotton-spinners boast that they will soon be in a position to dispense with American cotton altogether.
Scotland's population in the middle of last Year was 4,063.452-1,961,401 males and 2,102,051 females
Adelina Patti has commissioned the Italian composer, Emile Pizzi, to write a short opera for her American tour,
The British Consul at Bordeaux reports that last year's vintage, though large in quantity, is of very poor quality,
Fouricen minor planets were discovered during last month, bringing the total number of small
planete known to 375-
Magnesium light for lighthonics will take the place of electricity on the Engliak' coxat, as the
stronger, light is much
The new Canarders Campania and Lucania will earn a subvention from the British Govern ment of £19,000 per year.
In the exhibit of hand-made laces sent from Britain to Chicago, is an apron given by Queen Elizabeth to Lord Fairfax.
Fair a collection of dolls to show the use of London hospital will send to the World's
certain surgical appliances.
An International- exbiblijon to show the development of the public press will be held in Brussels during the summer.
Bicyclists to the nomber of 5,539 rode their wheels through the fifty-five gates of Paris one sunny spring day recently.
The late William B. Astor's personal extate to Great Britala has been returned with an official valuation of $1,320,000.
At a dlanet given recently by the Prefect of Parts every guest was farnished with a menu of solid silver set in a red velvet frame.
The Norwegian Preserving Company uses large quantities of reindeer meat for canning, and when fresh it is considered a delicacy.
It is proposed to celebrate the beginning of the Twentieth century by an International assemblage of some sort at Jerusalem.
The drummers of the Austrian Army havO been armed with the regulation rifle. This adds 4,904 available fighting men to the amy.
Japan's foreign trade for 1893 exceeded that of 1891 by 20,000,000 yen. The principal increase was in the values of silk and tea.
The French have invented a system of tele- graphing with electric lights from high poles which can be seen from three to ten miles.
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An Irish woman Bamed Mrs. Todd died recently at Donaghmore, Newry, at the age of one hundred and ten years. She well remem besed many of the sirrlog scenes of the rebellion of 1798.
The Shah has written to Queen Victoria kladly offering to pay her another visit, and the prospect has given Mrs. Wettin the merims Meanwhile, the disinfecting corps is being” aug- mcnted.
A Spanish englacer proposes to build a bildge of aluminium across the Straits of Gibraltar, The project is being scientifically discussed in the current numbers of La Naturains of Madrid.
In an effort to cope with the rabbit pest in New South Wales, 632 miles of rabbit-pros! fencing have lately been erected, at a cost of £1,000, and 404 miles of similar fencing are building.
The city of St. Petersburg is preparing to build a bridge overthe Neva to cost $14,000,000, The plans and specifications were drawn by M. Eiffel, the distinguished French architect and englacer.
There have been discovered among the treasures of the British Museum some curious votive tablets set up in ancient Greek medical temples by grateful patients who had been cured of disease.
Marseliles is the headquarters for the sale of false hair. Twenty huge bales of Chinese human hair recently arrived there, and #1. be manufactured into curls and frizzes for fashion- able ladies.
ble French Sensic has thrown out the pro-
posal, recently passed by the Lower House, to tax pianos tes franes a year, and has also reduced by hall the tax on cycles, making it five francs a year.
The revenue tenent of Queensland and Wes- fern Australia for the quarter ending with March show, in cominon with all other Australian colonies no far reparted, decreas, compared with last year.
As the result of the prohibition against thea- trical performances in the Russian language during Lent: the greater part of the Russian theatrical profession was reduced to a state of the greatest poverly,
The telephone has well nigh superseded the telegraph between fandon, and Paris. The average time for sending and delivery of a tele- gram is half an hour, while the telephone gives instant communication.
All the smokeless powder made in Russis during the last eight months has been found to become uncless shortly after having been stored. Efforts are making to remedy the defec, but so far they have been fruitless.
In view of the frequency of such accidents to
bim, it is of Interest to note that there is a popular superstition in Germany to the effect that the Kalser will ultimately meet his death through a carriage accident.
Dr. Nansen; who hopes to find the North Pole by letting his ship drift with the ice for three or four years, is now in London, making the final arrangements for bis journey, and intends to start within a few weeks,
Nearly 500 women are employed as railway station agents in France, but they get only half as much pay as men in the same positions.
Seven hundred tons of butter anived in London in ons, shipment from Australia a few weeks ago. Its total valda was about $340,000.
The doll trade in England has received a dis- In Germany 200,000 familles are supported tlact boom from the publication of articles about from the care of the forests, upon which about the dolls that Queen Victoria used to play with. $40,000,000 are expended annually, 3,000,000 A portion of the Nicaraguan Ralfroad and people more. finding employment in the various telegraph lines and the steamys on Lakewood Industries of the empire. Nicaragua are in possession of the revolutionists.
It has now been decided to light the whole of the Southampton docks with electricity, while the cranes will be worked by hydraulic power. In France there is a canal on which the boats are propelled by electricity passed through an endless chain that rests on the bottom of the
caral.
May time in Europe Reds the Triple Alliance virtually off-set by the Franco-Russian "entente, " each serving as a check to the ambitions of the other.
A Demerara paper reports the death in that colony of William Mayers, at the authooricated age of one hundred and twenty-six years Six chlidren, fifty-two grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren survive bim.
To-day's Advertisements.
AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA TION-COMPANY,
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NOTICE is hereby go that, FORGE
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General Manager, Hongkong, 8th June 1893
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Amusements.
James Bryce, author of the "American Com- THEATRE monwealth." is in trouble with English Civil Service R formers because, as Chanceller of the Duchy of Lancaster, he has appointed as magistrates only stanch Gladstonlaas.
It is officially announced in the London papers that Mrs. Bradley-Martin gave her daughter "All the Archbishops of Ireland, Protestant and $1,000,000 on the wedding day, and has agreed, Catholic, have signed a document in favor of aif the Earl of Craven's facome falls short of bill to make Sunday closing in Ireland per- $75,000 a year, to make up the deficiency. manent.
Dr. Nansen's Arctic expedities is threatened with failure at the very outset. The explorer cannot abiain thaney enough for the necessary. equipment
The late Lord Derby was considerate enough to bequeath £100,000 to his brother with which to pay the heavy duties entailed by the latier's
succession.
The filthy water of the river Neihe is purl- fled for use in Antwerp by being passed through revolving cylinders containing small pieces of iron.
Thirty miles of underground electric rallway, slmliar to the City and South London Line, have been proposed for Berlin at an extimated expense of $10,000,000.
A new postage stamp was issued by the Italian Postoffice on the silver wedding-day of the King and Queen, bearing portraits of Umberto and his spouse,
Sir Andrew Clark, M.D., once prescribed, by cable, for a patient in Victoria, B.C. The mes anges passed between the London doctor and bis patient almost hourly.
The European correspondents of the Engilsh press are devoting a good deal of space to stories about the new "bullet-proof" uniforms invented by Herr Dove and others.
"The desik-rate of Paris continues 50 per cent above the average, attributed to grippe. Murders. and suicides are hourly occurrences, for which the malady la also blamed.
Amlicare Cipriani, the Italian revolutionist, who has passed most of his life in exile or prison, is paying a visit to his friends in London, among them Louise Michel
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has written to the Fope, suking him to canonlee Christopher Columbus, because he was the first man to also the cross of Christ in America.
For three years there has been in England an❘ annual "literary ladies' dinner." This year the same ladies will sit down to a "women writers dianer." The change is official—and significant, The Countess di Brasza, sent to Chicago by Queen Margherita to watch over Italy's collec. ilon of lacer, is an American, who, before her marriage, was Miss Cora Slocum,
The large balloon umboldt is still making ascensions la the service of the German Society for Air Navigation, Positive resalts are expected from present work with this balloon.
Two fine and historia London mansions- Campden House, Kensington, and Lord Revs stoko's mansion, in Charles Street, Mayfair-aro soon to be brought under the hatimer.
At the latest English fashionable wedding that of the son of the Duke of Westminister, the llat of presents was published, and annexed' to it was a list of "gi te to the bildgroom."
Joseph Wilect, who was intimately associated with George Stephenson in the bulding of the Brat rallway in England, died in Liverpool three weeks ago, at the age of ninety-one years.
The Jerusalem and Jaffa Railroad Company is said to have inaugurated a real estats more
fael on Russian ralloads is stown by recctment in Jerusalem to have laid out additions
statistics,
There has been a decided decrease in
crimes, as murder and brigandage, ia Egypt of
jain years,
A newly married couple in France were forced to spend their boueymoon in a chciers hospital
as suspecks,
Felix, the celebrate 1 Parlalan dressmaker, has, it in asseried, always condemned crinolines
in any shape.
A general rise of prices in the com markets of Vicans and Buda Peeth has resulted from the parere drought,
Mme. Patti has written to a friend in the United States that with the exception of going to London for a few concerts she will stay in Craig-y-nos till October. Then she and her hus. band are to sail for New York in the new steamer Lucanía.
A circular directing all the Governors of Cen- tral Russia to carry out within four months the Imperial ukase for the removal of the fews to the territory set apart for their habitstion has Just been issued by the Russian Minister of the Interior.
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The memorial to be erected in honor of Marshal Davout is to take the form of a light-be boute on the coast of Bittanny, bis daughter having left $60,000 for the purpose; to this the French Government has added $30,000. The lighthouse will be 195 feet high.
The picture of the Panama prisoners is de scribed as a pital one. M. Charles de Lesseps spends much of his time sitting in a chair with Bls head buried in his hands; M. Blondon pre- sents symptoms of paralysis, and M. Balbant seems to be rapidly becoming an old man.
The London Daily News says: It is believed that there is no previous record of such a rainfall as that which deluged the neighborhood of Brisbane, Quezasland, causing the disastrous floods early in February, Altogether there foll in four days seventy-seven inches of wiler.
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A lato Train will leave for the Foxk 15 minutes after the conclusion of the Performants esch
The late Alfred Mame, of Todru; France, wAR the greatest publisher of Roman Catholic Hierature in the world. In less than a year his | Dight. establishment used up 40,000 sheepsklas in binding books in parciments, and the mere sweepings from his glider's room were sold for $10,000.
A statement recently published by the nulbor ties of Munich gives some startling information as to the increased consumption in that city of dog flesh. So great an appetite seems to have developed for that food that the authorities have thought it time to interfere for the protection of dog owners.
Crimsan typhus is what the epidemic that has braken out in some of the Paris prisons is callei. Owing to the seriousness of the situation the Prefect of Police convoked a meeting of the medical officers attached to the city falls and energetic measures are to be taken in order to prevent the malady from spreading.
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Hongkong, 5th June, 1893.
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The Prussian Railway management, has now: constructed a special train of vestibuled saloon | carriage, first and second-class, to frsasport the
passengers from and for the New York express 8 T. JOHN | steamers of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company betwm the City of Bremen and the | port of Bremen, Bremerhaven, a distance of
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A few wockigo 120 employés of the Pasia Post office, about a fourth of the Lorce, were disabled. LODGE will be held in the FREEMATOONS REGULAR MEETING of the "aboyo by the disease, and every doctor in Tours WA over-busy treating influenza patients. In the latter place nearly all who suffered from "grip In 1890 and 1891 are again afflicted.
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REASONABLE PRICES,
"CARDIFF, AUSTRALIAN and JAPAN COALS, supplied at the shortest motion to Steamers at lowest market rates. Hongkong, arst October, 1892.
THEY LEAD THEM ALL,
100
THE CELEBRATED “AN CALIFORNIA WINES, from the well-known Vineyards of Messrs. KOHLER AND VAN BRRORN, San Francisco, and JULIAN P. SMITH (Olivina) Livermore, California
Guaranteed to be Pure and Unadulterated. Pure BLACKBERRY BRANDY and fresh Consignments of BARTLETT SPRING MINERAL WATER by each Steamer.
Pricen forwarded on application to MACONDRAY BROTHERS & LOCKARD,
Commission Merchants,
No. 30
„Water Street;
Yokohama Yokokama, 11th August, "vigac
I Notices of Firms.
A. E. SKEELS & Co.,
Telegraphic Address "SODRIMOs," Hongkong, (A,B,C. Coda 4th Edition,) AUCTIONEERS, VALUERS &
GENERAL MERCHANTS. No. 17, PRAYA CENTRAL, A Under Messen. Deuglas Lapralk & Co.'s Offices,
Messrs. A. E. SKEELS & Co. under. tako Sales Privately, or by Auction, of any class of Goods or Property. Prompt Settlement Guaranteed. Immediate Cash "advances, on Goods for Auction
Cargoes received for Storage, Insurances effected, n. 4.
Hongkong, 18th April, 1893.
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
A LASOK. QUANTITY OF
[170
MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY,
AUCTION MART, 17, FRAYA CENTRAL, ON SATURDAY next, the roth June, 18931 AT 230 PM. SHARP
Comprising GOLD & SILVER JEWELLERY, SILVER WATCHES, CLOCKS, BLANKETS, FLAN- NELS, TWEEDS and BROAD-CLOTHS, HOSIERY, SHOES, WINES, BRANDY, WHISKEY, AUSTRIAN and JAPANESE BEER, STATIONERY, CUTLERY, CIGARS, TOBACCO, CIGARETTES;"
See Expresse
AE SKEELS & Co.. **Auctioneers & Vajuniors:
Repository Sale Room,
17, Praya Central,
·Hongkong, 71b Jane, kägg..