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DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY, HONGKONG.
WHISKIES.
LIQUEUR WHISKY (QUARE BOTTLE) THIS is one of the anest Whi kis ever Imported to China. With Aerated Water, er Hot Water and Sugar, it is simply del clonez pār esse.
SCOTCH
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1893.
bar of the Hongkong Club, but It is taken for granted that the Directorate of the Hongkong Hotel is formed of choice ornaments of the various local aristocratie social institutions, else how could they have displayed such crass ignorance as is indicated by their line of policy? That the abolition of the iniquitous chit system, which has been in vogue almost since the first days of Hongkong, would have been a god-send to the community generally had it been grappled with many years ago Is, we believe, a solid fact, but të Instigate a crusade against it at the present moment is childish folly. If the Directors of the Hongkong Hotel Company
are acting in the interests of any particular Temperance Union they have chosen one LOCHABERE M llew Old Scotch Whisky of the most effective lines of action that
with f flavour.- $9 per doren.
even a lengthened experience in the GLENMURRÍE-A Post M-li Whisky. Ex-business could have suggested. But have cellent value for the money-$7 per the shareholders sanctioned this polley? We doubt it. And having absolute grounds for these doubts we ask what do the shareholders propose to do? To sit quietly down and witness the ruination of a business which, were it given anything Toe very fe tengerable.-$8 per dim like a fair chance, would be a veritable goldmine? This is a matter which affects the shareholders only; that which does affect the public, and consequently the Telegraph, is the inconvenience that is bound to follow the Introduction of this recently hatched fad. We have it only on
OLD TOX-A ny five weetened Glo, Bottled
expressly for us.- $5 per dexen; KEY BRAND-In small W▸le Glass Bottles
CHARTREUSE, CRA ́ON, DOM., &C.
All previo quetions cancelled. The above prices are catelules for a 7j5} Dollar.
Hongkong, 25th October 1993-
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second band authority but we believe that the judgment of the manager and of other experienced employees of the Company went for nothing; experience led them to VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS. belleve that what was required was proper
SEASON 1893-94-
supervision of the daily "chits” and not total suspension of credit. But of what value is matured experience in the sight of our indi. ated new-broom-like Directorate? None at all. Fees must be earned by action-be the action what it may.
THE FIRST SHIPMENTS OF OUR Supplies of GARDEN SEEDS
for this season hove artfved, and we are now
Dame Dawson's Whisky and be “O'r a' the illa að lifa victorious."
AT Rawalpi di, last month, a native artillery man attacked biste plug e mrades with sword. killed ten before belog shot dead by the guard.
BROWNIK," door, do sack your interpreter next time he gets drank, and we will lead you Wilhelmina Capricornia for a bit. No smeszt of Juggling with Tonkle telegram can make
DAWSON's Perfection Old Scotch Whisky.
MR. H. E. POLLOCK Bd Mr. F. Robinson the Namos. The Colony is out of danger now i returned to Hongkong to-day from Foochow by for about a fortnight it had had only two bar rlaters to defend it and such a pair they were 1
THE Mission steam-launch Day Spring wil A FOXION scientist has a new test of death. call alongside vessels helsting code perniat CWith a candie produce blister on the band or between 9 and 1030 am on Sunrice, starter foot of the body. If the blister, upon being ashore to the 11 o'clock service, retarias opened with a needle or other instrament, is about 12.30 p.m.
found to contain fluid of any kind, there is still ile in the supposed corpse. Should it contain steam only, however, the vital spark bas flown. Ar a meeting of the "Odd Volumes last night, presided over by Mr. Sydney B. J. Skerichley, some twelve Portuguese, eight Englishmen, six Scots, four Germans, three Ilshmen, two Frenchmen and ten nondescripts resolved, by about three to one, against a motion-- That the time has now arrived when Great Britain shonid grant to
"Kusse" stand
for Chloa.
tha
MR. FRIESLING, et ist engineer of the China Navigation Co.'s steamer Whampoa, has been appolated chief of the Chinglu; and Mr, J. Mitchell, chief of the Chingtu, gons into the
Ireland Home Rule. Whampoa in the same capacity. On the body of a paterious brigand recently from Imperial lexislation, by a Parliament control of domestic legislation as distinguished killed in Turkey was found £4,000, and a note book which showed he had murdered 193 mes; proceedings were varied by Mr. Cowen intredec in Dublin, elected by popular franchise." The will he was not half so obnoxious a member of ing a comber of amendments, all to the effect that bis community as is "Brownle" of this, the Society should attend to his own work and Oxx of the signs of Britain's decay :-Wext can interfere with the progress of the Home Ruta full its own promises before attempting to be shipped from Wisconsin, 1,500 miles from question. Uimately the amendments were all New York, to Liverpool, which is 3,000 mejected and their mover was "aspended for from New York, forile a ahliling basket. English moving them. The debate then died out at once. farmers cannot send wheat to London for the same price.
two Chinese were convicted of preparing opium Ar the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. Hanifags, at Rosario Street, yesterday, and of being in possession of a quardly of unlawfully prepared opium. The principal man was fined $75 and bis analstant 825—both prid
CORRESPONDENCE,
We do not necessarily widorse the optatona impressed by Correspondista in this column,)
kaow about baby-whales, when they were hatched and how they were spawned. So I told him that once a year he cow climbed on fee-berg zod me a nest in which she laid = dozm egKS, shells were so consthated that when the young about as big as bashel-baskets ; and that the
uns wa tipe, the lost cracked'em and the young oses Ropped into the water, The dood thanked forget it me for the Information and said he'd never
Anyway I ret him a week afterwards and was lucas ha didn't, but told it to some fallow who would's pull ble leg as I did going to give him some more fairy tales, when be said, 'No, you don't, you lying old devil,' and
conld. ran away as bardas ba
Another yarn that would bring the blush of
envy to the cheek of Baron Munchausen roos winter, I was lock ng for a school eff San Joan In this wise. de Fuca. 1 spied grizzly afloat on a cake of ice kad made up my mind to capture him. I lowered the boat and pulled off towards him When I gat within a hundred yards, I levelled my nfl and put a ballet in his left eye. He for the beat. I grabbed a blobber-spade, which gave a goar, jumped into the water and swam
sad forehead into flinders. I couldn't get through you know has a sharp edge, and cat bis nove the thick hair of his neck, but his face was all bone and blood. I got desperate then and hard with it, that it went through his chest, took a whale lance and abbed him to through his heart, and out at his back. He gave the cefallest roar I ever keard, stopped swimming and with his declining strength caught hold of the handle, pulled the lance out of the wound, and, as the blood rushed out in torrents, brandished the weapon in my face. As It swang around be gasped and died, anf sank under the water. I tell you, he was game!"
About twonly years ago, one
The
In conaccifon with the white elephants at Badgpalo, prayers wera eff red up yesterday (`s is usual when the Siamese have any fee), ard to-morrow mamine the ladies of the Patice will it was the custem for the ladies to carry the go and effer presents to the priests, Formerly
piesents in baskets, like the market women, bat thi s year it will be differently stringed-they are to present pumpkins, carved Ike cups, and
ordered to be made by the Princes and chief filled with rie (y^kno), which is the seed of young rice belied with sugar. These cops are nobility-one esch. The man who can cut form are la great sequent, being paid up to 8 tiealș erch a day, Bangkok, and it is expected that all will be The Court is already prep sing return to the 1st November A-cord ng 10 preserta range
ady for the celebration of the Jabiles here by ments the clef event will be a great processi on the first day, in which his Majesty clad in tra coronation robe will take part, together with all the princes and nobles, in Count dresses. A number of ladies will receive tin decoration reserved to noblemen. Other decorations, of of Chulalongkota Klao-an order Alberto
course will be given.
· A few days ago a Siamese priest went to a pawnshop in Sau-ching-chx and stood in the doorway for a long time. The pawnbroker something, whereupon the benze began black addressed him, thinking he wanted to rawn guarding him, and dancing frantically in the road. On complaint being made to the Chief Priest of the war (Mabata) the man was sled up and otherwise punished, by being made to carry several hundiai buckets of sand, and sweep the whole war,
One of the most i teresting sights slang the New Rand in the police station at the top of the Custom House Lane, with Inspecter Sheriff bold. irg court somewhat in the manner of the sadf. If the tout ensemble bu fateresting, it is still Ings of the respected Inspector as he holds for more instructi gto witness the Impartial ple d-
the functions of judge, advecate, jury, plain- first for one side and then for the ether, coop ing tiff and defendast, with admirable tact, per- severance and fasight into naive hablis and peculiarities. Mr. Sheriff holding Court is an fateresting a fonction as one could desire to attend, and what appears very satisfactory, he generally succeed in pleasing both sides, not to speak of the valuable of clean to the mess. under his orders. There was such a Court on. Tariday last, when two fall ladies from Jaran became entangled in a dispute about refresh- occulon, and though a couple of fights, two. ladies, an agency, rf-cshments, truises and wo sperto disentangled the skeir, calmed the ruffl d cents appeared inextricably involved, the T- fee lugs of the disputants and awarded the 20 cons with the wider of Sloman. There is. mach to be learned from a sitting of Mr. Sheriff's
If you ever meet the Captain, do not mention the Friendly Islands in his presence. It involves CASH VERSUS CREDIT,
a good story of which he is the luckless victim. To u Koro OP TE "flawɑKONG TELEGRAPH."
It was told by Captale John H 1889 says Hall, SIR-Apparently common-sense bas no show
Seabird of Philadelphia. "Io 1858," THE steamer Riversdals, with 2,500 tons of on the subject of hotel_chits just now. For a coal, left Hongay on the 18th October for very long time-almost from the first days of the bad great lock. He took in about 1500 barrels "Hamilton was whaling in the South Seas and Chinklang, where (according to the Courrier) colony, if 1. mistake nat-the Hongkong trades-
of off and tren encountered a lot of heavy storms the Société Fr reise des Charbonnages du men, hotel-keepers, and others have carried on Hla bargue was so badly Injured that he went Tonkin has acquired a market for its product. a more or less Judicious system of credit, with to the nearest land for repairs. This was a little The Edendals le also to be ebartered to run the result that money has been lost wherever Island called Tawo in the Friendly Group. He prepared to book orders for prompt or forward taking cognizance of the other hotels that Not much more than a month ago a Glasgow system, but they have failed; nowhere on earth
We have purposely refrained from between Hongsy and Hongkong,
esation slept, but practically nowhere else, Several want more than anchored in sala barbor efforts have been made to introduce a rigid cash
when he was attacked by the natives. He and execution. Complete Catalogues with concise have followed, like lost ducks in a thunder-school-master was going over a chapter in the is credit unknown, nor can it ever disappear from killing or wounding do out of about 100.
Lis crew fought well and beat off the savages, directions for sowing can be obtained on appll-storm, the example of the leading hostelry. New Testament with his class, when became to the world of trade. There is no rewton why it
moment they made for lard, the Captain lowered his boats and followed. It was kill or be killed, are responsible for the action and are
"Now," he said, "can any of you tell me what thoughtless and car less persons suffer by it- responsible to no one but their bankers, is meant by dive's diseases A smartwell, they would suffer under any system. One
as I said, was small and they had no trouble is The Hongkong Hotel has already been able took him suddenly aback by piping out, local hotel two years ago bad to confess shootleg every male Indian in the place. Tony designated a first-class morgue-what will expected to smile at this.
"Waiter in the heid, sir." Only Scotchmen are to $31,000 worth at bid debis-polar sal for home. On the day of departure, every
spent two months
making it be when the chit system is stopped? One
the result of gro's negligence, it the fault dead house is more than enough for Hong-
in every trade, ard the hotel "duffers have of the chit system. But 1ere are "duff »" woman on the island, about 75 altogether, came down to the beach to say good-bye, and every kong; two would tempt the ordinary sinner
recreed the abolition af et . First the Hong- blessed one of them c.fed like a spanked baby, to suicide. Seriously speaking, this
kong Hotel, then the Victoria, Stag, and In 1868, I put into the island for water and was | Court. Innovation has been singularly ill-advised
presumably all the rest, se slapping chits. The very warmly received by the naives. To my and is altogether uncalled for. Absolute
result will be, of course, a great lali -g-off in sur riso, all of them were women, and every one irade-I need not detail reasons, for they are and unfettered management is what the
well enough known, and you dealt with the
on 'em bed a ball breed sia ordiughter about Hotel requires and what it must have.
matter quite recently-until at last the old
8 years old, and a good "sa too--and every on: was as like Jies Hamilton as peas to a poď 1o system will return. It must come to that, before long,
Yours, etc..
A SHAREHOLDER.. Hongkong, 18th October, 1° 93.
(ation, or will be posted to any address. In theen They do not count-their proprietors alone the words, "and healed divera diseases." | should; for it ir eminently convenient; and " and he wisely preferred the former. The island, } mentu. Mr. Sheriff, however, was to the
Catalogues the seeds are margiority numbered la Zglish and Chin-se, and when ordering it is qulie sufficient to state only the numbers of the klads required. Orders from one person, of from $5.00 to $1000, A lowed 25 per cent, discount; over $10.00,
7
1 13
sa extra per cent.
CLAY'S FERTILISER."
A high class Fertiliser for Pot Plants and for use in the Garden generally; it supplies natural nourishment to the soll and assists the procèKE of su›imilation, thereby aiding the plants to attain to their full size, vigour, and beauty.
Sold in Tins containing to lbs. each.......................$1.50
78
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RANSOME'S "NEW PARIS " LAWN MOWERS. The best and cheapest machines in the market. Kept In lock and supplied at Manufacturer's prices.
MANUAL OF GARDENING
FERMINGEN'S
FOR THE TRofics.
of botany and to the practical gardener, and
TELEGRAMS.
INDIAN FINANCE,
LONDON, October 16th. Tenders have been invited by the Treasury for two midians sterling in six months Indian bills, payable in London in sterling.
REUTERISH.
There is no truth in the rept that there was bitch in the Anglo-French negeilations at Parls ; they are proceedlog quite sails{uctorily.
LOSS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK"
Yesterday afternoon a telegram was received here from San Francisco by Mr. W. H. Ray, Hongkong, stating that the Pacific Mall Com
A CURIOUS phenomenon has been discovered near Eddy, New Mexico. In Dark Casyon, about three miles from Eddy, a number of annels were run in order to tap streams of water to get a supply for the waterworks. The water was found running is small natural pipes, made by the deposit of lime from the water. The whole space cut by the tunnels was found to be perforated by these lime pipes.
A vana. to be passed by members of the Inavi- tale of Marine Eaglocers. Class distinction was surely never more clearly marked out than by the young glɛl who on being asked by a shopman the other day if the 'laces she wanted were for a lady or gentleman replied "A gentle. man ↑ Naw ; they're for ms brither," "Well, he'l require gentlemen's laces,' explained the amazed shopman. "Him a gentleman" returned the yourg 'on, "he's only an engineer 1
A GOOD story is in circulation in regard to the
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repairs and thea set
WHITE ELEphants in SIAM.
held at Bangpain in brnour of two recently On the 14th and 15in lost, a great jetz was discovered "alle" elephants. The folowing particalars of the ceremonies were supplied to the Siam, Observer a day or two prior to their
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SKIRTS.
THE LONG AND THE SHORT.
In this age of progress and improvemet, when we boast of our emancipating frem appression of every kind, rhyalcal, moral end
skies at times and in pros where sheet ones intellecusk, why do Intelligent women con i nue to fetter and hamper themselves by wearing Long would be a much more sensible, convealent and becoming? No one who knows anything of woman's dress can c'efend long skirts for our door wear on any plea ·xcept that of custom and 1-ablon, and we know very well that if the become quite as fashionable as the present one. custom were to change the new dress would voop. The hygienic arguments in favour of short skirts are, ways an American exchange too well- known to permit of teprilikon. There is a
(Spun for the "Teligraph.") The bright particular star of 'San José lua
nilicature in the ceremony will be the variation in the gifts for the wless from rostred whales, Captain James A. Hamilton. the customary presents to yakeo (oiled rice He saw light in the Twer ties in the "Nutmeg seed). This has not been done since the time. preliminary examination held at Leedi last
Stare" and still preserves the musical but some month of candidates applying for membership of Yankee. He took to the sea in his babyhood, presentations. In AD 1549 (Slamese era 011) what pasal twang which marks the true blue Slam there are only three references to similar of the old kings of Ayuthia. In the history of the Socialy of Referees. A reverend gentleman, when he fell into the harbor one day and wis who is well knows in football chris nearly drowned before heing fished out by a by-King, named Fes Maha Thamaracha, who was stuffed the sul set off male apparel, from whate King MabaChackra Putr went to visit the Second substantial grement ameng all who have questioning a candidate who killed from Colliery district. The parson said, “Supposing and before he was thirty he was master of fred at Planalok the King, Matos cong | the skirts and the ducarding of much of the
stander. A few years later he was's cabin bay,
*ck at Pissnulok, When the royal
ever point of view, in favour of the shorten ing of you were referee in a match in which a kick at
stout a ship as ever left New Bedford. He had
Chackra gal was being taken, and the ball happened to drop on the crossbar and lodge there, what
Putr, ordered that there should be a feast for the heavy underwear which mast necessarily tax the the Wat Maha Tadin, Plaangisk, on the day of boat. In lieu of a multipicity of under-giments the king observed the water fete, "loy kin tong the knee with kakkerbockers, or
the sensib'e di esa reformers of the day w gethat
returned to Ayatkis,
1
a very venturesome though profitable career and
This work is alike interesting to the student | manager of the China Traders Insurance Co., i would y me call it ?" The reply was prompt and made a bandsome fortune with the harpron and Priests, and they were present:d with yakoo.at / strength of those who are compelled to carry it
comprises a large number of plants which for and was not expected to be get off again ; but { generally hoped that this gentleman has passed the first who sought the leviathan of the deep in doing three days, after which the royal corlegs if that word be not too outspokes, and from pany's steamer City of New York was strandeň, § unexpected. The budding referee wald, 7 the blubber-keule. He was the fast skipper the full moon of the rith month, at which period warnen's legs should be clatbed from the bip to
the convenience of reference are arranged in separate groups and are headed with their ordinary and botanical names,
THE CULTIVATION OF FLOWERS, VEGETABLES, FRUIT TREES, &C
local Baren, up to noon to-day.
The
should call it a bally miracle" Locally it is with honours,
who
trouters,
ever entered the Okhotsk Sea, and among that the treasure on board was saved.
The Arctic Ocean beyond B hring Stralis. Des Nothing was known of the accident by the
manager of the P.M.S S. Co. Mr. Vas THE development of Tonkin is going on at a break a bottle with equ:1 ease and accuracy,
pite his years he is as hale and hearty as a boy and can throw a lance, dance bomplge, or City of New York was timed to leave magelficent pace. According to the Courriers San Francisco on the 26th Oct ber for Japan milliary authorities on the 15th October that was on the briny, he had on an averard one But it is an a story-teller that Captain Jim "Alt Europeans in Bacle were notified by the
excala, During the twelve th asend days ho and Hongkong, so that at the time of the
extreme caution must be exercised in every adventure every day and each as remarkable in disaster she would probably be near the "Golden Gate the entrance to be bay of stopped on roads, bridges, clearings, etc., other skippers la Sanford, able seamen who direction. For several days work has been character as to deserve recording. There arb In piscifcally deall with, kad Pruning, Grafting, San Francisco. Fogs are frequent to that everybody is afraid of being kidnapped by the
loc luy at this time of the year, and there are wares These people on the 11th, at I? a. nuntical long-bow in masterly fashion, but the Pos Chao Pra Sart tong, wide, to stay at the | "opportunity for variety of material and taste i
can spin a blood-curdilng warn or draw AD. 1650 (Siamese Era torg) when the king From the fact that the treasure (which, of
made a raid on the Yoshiwara a mile out of course, is an bem that ma'erially affects the the town
cannot hold a candle to Uncle Jim. For this palace Pra Nakon Laing, on the Basse river, of Bac-le, presumably in the
taw envious rivals bavo dabbed him reason
he ordered yakao ries to be presented to the Insurance companies) was saved, it may reason. expectation of finding a few Europeans there
en pra chun, near to the ably be inferred that notloss of life occurred, to be carried off, but they were disappointed. Ansolas Hamilton, but to all the rest of the priests at the Wat Thep
community he is known as
palace... Trathini-James. The latest news is that the captors of M. That he deserves the sobriquet is borne out by Siam named Somdet Fra Rama. Telbdi (Pra According to "Lloyd's Register, the City of Te
AD. 1678 (Stamese Era 1010) when a klag d New York is single-screw tron steamer of 3.020 Boyar have put him to the cangue during the fact that be is willing to make any number Maral Maharoch) was at the palace at Loph: df
Chester, Pennsylvania, for the Pacião Mato hasten the payment of ransom) and M. Frits | Ash-ixies. A beauty which few sea stories elephant, perfect In i'rm,' near the wat Sarki | tong skirts on dusty sidewalks or across wet an'd' the daytime; M. Roty has been trinred, in order of affidavits as to the truth of each and all of his bare, an elephant gave birth to white male is that of brevity and precision, but it close to the Catholic mission, and not far from
and Manuring thoroughly explained.
Price $7.50
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED,
The Hongkong Dispensary, Established A.D. 1841.
Hongkong, 4th September. 1897.
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jongkong Vélegraph.
HONGKO' O, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1893.
THE NEW REGIME.
numerous sandbanks about the "Gate."
tons, ballt de 1875, by J. Rosch and Son, of
and after being transferred to the Panama
inand of, Capt, F. H. Johnston,
has written to his friends for provisions, as the
| possess
the
Song That went to Supin fr the purpose of or damp weather, with leggings. Cure this AD. 1605 (Siamese Era 967) King Pra Chan the knee to the foot with stockings and, in cold worshipping at the shrine of an old Baddha in should be worn a single skitt, the length of which the wat Para-ral at the time when the rice seeds should be made to depend either on the taste of were young. The king, commanded that jakos | the Individual or the mandaten, effishion, but who assembled in number to correspond to the inches from the ground. Such a dress as this is should be made for presentation to the priests, in no case to come nearer than from five to eight
year of the ing's age.
comfortable sensible and conveples, and we need not pelat out that it offers gale as much. making and draping as does the longer skirt.
Fet indoor wear there can be no vald objec loss to the continued use of long skirts, even trained skirts, for such garments are worn for adapted to preserving their cleanliness only a few hours at a time and in rooms specially freshness. But because a woman wears a train asd two or three yards long in the drawing-room It certainly does not follow that she shoult trafi
all for every imaginable kind of dirt and+:setinas:f.
ran Here is one of his was again sent out here this year, under cons the same paper says:-"It is rumoured in alakert experiences —
Haiphong that M, Benyer has been murdered
#WA, li wan in 1880 sometime that a coffee honour of the auspicious Avant-be" first hela | How women who, as most of them do, posić s by his captors. A European who recently strived here from Phudang-thuong sinter that it saved, but the cargo, some 5,000 bags, went to steamer were last off Mazatlan. The lives wers
from
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
outside the capital.
as definitely reported before his departure that | the bottom I dropped along two weeks aft on record in Siamese history....which BM;been can beer to convert themselves into a te
M. Bouger had tried to escape, but had falled, wards, and got becalmed about ten miles and was then hanged by the pirates. This the place of the witch. It was hot as the hinges
remony, what not be lakan 'except with the W
Tur ancient though, somewhat homely DAWSON's Whiskey, aphorism which affirms the sweeping CHEEK is the appropriate name of a dentist at greatest reserve, as it is at present impossible to Wo lay there dve days liede besit of al
qualities of new brooms seems just as Bangkok. applicable to Hongkong as to any other
place we wot of. This is particularly | Dawson's Whisky bas obtained gold medals noticeable in relation to the action of the wherever exhibited,
recently Incuba ed Board of Directors of the HANNIBAL, was the first and only general who Hongkong Hotel. These gentleman had no
crossed the Alps until the days of Napolcon. sooner tasted of the sweets of power than
one
today.
...
they looked around for a vent sufficiently An Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No, large to accommodate the tremendous 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons Hall, bulk of reformatory power that they had Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for go'clock Jointly hatched upon the vary eve of their precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. selection (or would not direction be the more Fox being drunk and disorderly, and manaulting Atting term?) to the Board. A queerito police and others with a knuckle-duster, in medley truly At that solemn conclave Chinese barber's shop in La-car Rów yester- director whispered in sepulchral day, a sailor named Davies was fined $16, e tones the suspicion that had been fity days, by Capt. Hastings in the police court haunting his midnight...lumbers for months past vanishing hams, etc, from WHEN "Jumb÷"ike' celebrated pet of the London the store-room; another bethought him- Zoological Gardens was dissected, a pint and a self of the cheap lines that might be half of gold, silver, copper, and bronas colae was secured in Blood Town brandy, and found in bis siemsch. In the lot were coins of saving thereunto attending this i three kingdoms, two republics, dvs dukedoms, but it was left for the genius of the family wonder poor "Jumbo filed a premature grave! two principallites, and one dependency. No that the right and proper mode for them Where was the "penny in the alot machine P to earn the honour that had been put upon them (vida election as nominees of the STRANOZ za It may seem the last cenzur showe
the
thit the number of Scottish people south of the
almighty Wayfoong" copper dollar Tweed la, relatively to the population, nowhere shroffing Institution)
to WAS run it beside the gumber of English people month on the lines of the immaculate Bank fiself,
thereal. In fact, the number of Scottish people and stop all credit. Fools! Have these south at the Tweed in 282,241 ; and the number men any notion of the changed condilons of English people north of the Tweed in 111,973.. of affairs in Hongkong and did the In other words, whle 2.6 per cent of the unwieldy nature of the local currency population of Scotland in English, rather less weigh with them at all in their deliberation? than 2 per cent, of the population of England: le Scottish. Moreover, the atum; ey of Englishmen
We doubt it. We have never seen Mr. Ho and Irishman in Scotland is almost as gent, not Tuxo hobnobbing with Mr. PARFITT OF only relatively hot absolutely, as the number of any of the other: Immupulates at the Scotsmen in England and Ireland,
anhenticate the story."
INTERROGATORY!
I climb Panausus' height
To sing about a wight
-Bored by time's Sow,
A gay débonnaire spark (Who kept his merits dark) And prefaced each remark
With "Don't cher know ?o
A soldier lad way be, And brave as brave could de --Could tie a bow--- "This collar'a rather Hight,
... Old chap, now, honour bright,
Does it pan out sil sight,
Don't cher know ?!
At Polo he was keen And going strong did meas,
Could ride-so-io "We're really not to blame It is a douced! akame
·Our ponies all aro lama
Don't cher know?" Kowloon, alas, he knew 1- Cristher, Twixt me and you,
The shekola go)
And so he passed away We mourned him for a day- ---Than wandered Kowloon g
- *Don't cher know ?”
*
Far from his former corps (Amid the battle's rear)--
He lleth low The colours to hja bennut. Hla dying hands have pressed ; He'er iscked he so wall dressed
“Don't cher know ?".
**MANKAS
ghese extracts are from a
wery rare book
standing
without breath amused ourselves fabling. On the last day we pulled up a ground shark 39 feet long and eat him open. By Gosh, all he had inside of alm was coffee, good Mastian coffee, about three hundred weight, and the fuoptest thing of all was that every grain was roasted a right good perlod a French priest added to it up to the sack woman wearing long skirts picks them up handsome brown,
The present fets at Bangpain is the second the characteristics of neatness and disintine se,
called Phings, witten in Latin, and printed at what are the held outside the capital.
sweeping machines is one of the thin
that the dense masculine mind has never been able to about this period of the sack of Ayathing The But what are the reasons and arguments that sather wail Portuguese priest, B., Jonas 54 pin be adduced against the adoption of short me, who was personal fiend of the far outdoor wear? Certainly not the fear lived in Ayathis upwards of to years, and died first place there is no reason why sa ankle shoald (Pra Maka Thum) of Plannlok. The priest
of the exposure of women's ask 20, for in the
in 1693 (Siamese Era 964) aged 82, in which not be exposed as freely as a band or foot, and in the sand place, as every one knows, a
year the book was first priated. From that
It is little wonder that shaika ezert a strong ƒ of Ayuthia,' when the volumes of Fhitsawonga · Wer ankle and the surrounding stocking than's.
were completed.
SIAM NOTES:
(From Exchanger.)
Bangkok, October 13th.
to avoid mud or dust or water, and shows'mors of “woman, whose skirts are short enough not to need to be picked up. That argument must, therefore, be left entirely cut of consideration.
The novelty of the idea must be glwm des weight, that is, the idea of a woman who has been sorustomed to having her enkes covered uncovering them, but when we stop to think of ↑ "The French coust cruiser Siya, barbeito ledus the vagaries of fashion and the changes ty clad, is expected shortly in the Gulf She will women's drets which have taken place from be able to enter the river, anly drawing a feet time to time we shall uca/very readily that the of water. A strong Indo-Chins Squadron has feeling of embarrassment or morification way id been resőlved Marine, having its headquarters at Saigon come below the knen the saw fashion wo
spon by the French Minister of be very short-lived. Il 'women's skine ditat Reliable information was received here from conse to attract attention within a month, ald Paknam on the 13th fest, to the effect that the A pretty ankle might be admised, as a pretty face body of a European hid been seen floating in a new, but that would be the ins and substance the river there. The legs were ded together of it. That the fair tex can face the expositie the authorities. The body was not scared by of their ankles when they choose is de mens Mud Mrs. 1. G. Scott with Captain the fallon, and where går jenta are we in fre stratable at any seaside rose it where bath ing is Kirby and three officer of the Swift, returned quently which leave but it is to the i here on Thursday from Bang-pading where of the spectators
imagination siter an audience of the Klog and a trip to spe the white elephants at the anglent capital; they were entertained at dinner by Prince Damrong
fascination upon the vencious Captain, so many and so marvellous are the parts they have played: in his adventures. Speaking of them ere eritters,” he says, "they beat everything hollow. Thirty years ago, rear the Aleutians, we caught a buster and thought we'd have some fun with him. We hoisted him on deck and after a hard fight managed to fasten him down quite securely. Then we cut him open from his chin to bla tall He must have been pretty hungry, as his stomach was as emply as a San Francisco hoodlum's We sat to work and to k out his heart, liver, stomach and all his end-rails and threw em averboard. That done we checked kim over after'em. He struck the water and seemed dared at first. Then be started and swam round the ship as fi nihing bad happened Bimeby he saw his innards floating about, and quicker'a a flash he went for 'em sud swallered em. We nigh best a-laughing, as they come ost as quick as they went in. Five minutes siter, he saw em again and did an encore, That was shoot noon. As five the wind sprong up and we left and the fast we saw of that quter devil às was still swallering his tealdes is lively as a duck in an April shower ** Although the late foundations up the cams.thip but reason ward Logic, and also because
young Sometimes Harpoon fim, as he was styled years ago,eindaiges-in" grim humor, Iailers tell the unth," he obe ved but now and then when I meet a tarnation fool, I have to give him #ghost story. One day a dood ran across me and aged all sorts of questions about salt water, He had never been pr the sea, and he was too
with m
duce little or no effect, because fashion it female It may be conceded that this article will pro dress li and always has been regulated Fiy-mayw
have caused delay in on the Kort Rollway every woman who read it will make a (personal the erection of the buildings is belog poshed on, application of le to bet self sod willasy to herself, at the Bangkok Tamiaus da Klong kutsuant think I see myself, walking down the street A few days ago the store godowns of the "with skirts only to my knese, Even the women Department were given over by the contractor to fatos this kind of dress reform mo rement and Mr. John R. Cimit the Ki R. De archited in theory shuink from offering ismiel yas ne is already bury on the fagadations olika laceones & plassert in the field of actual, triorny and wo
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