Intimations.
FOR
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1894.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A GRAND-GRAND-DAUGHTER of the Immortal Robert Barns is living near Adelaide, S.A.
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THE Rangoon Timer says that the low exchange is stimulating the coal fadustry of India and Bush, also the fron and steel Industries. Chenpulver, it says, meansnothing but increased prosperity for the masses of the people in India. Mr. Diggs-Im glad to say, Old Man, that marrfase is not such a faffure after mil.
Mr. Quiggs-No! So, you are getting on well, eh? locally-minde set of feath and whenever she Mr. Diggs-Beautifully 1. My wife wears a storms they fall out and she abute op
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THAT AMERICAN JOURNALIST.
TO THE TORTOR OF THE "HawaKong Telegrafi.”
CAID In
CAUGHT ON THE 'RE-BOUND.
A TRUE TALE OF HONGKONG,
Dorothy had two lovers, so I suppose sha many girls have none. She had admirers in ought to have considerad herself lucky, since so
pleaty, but among them all there were obly' interest to Dorothy's affairs, to “mead anything ♬ ! two who were considered, by those who took an
and it was thought high time that one, or both, should be brought to the scratch.
SAM
The Canadian Pacific Raliway Cols royal mall Tas stik abipments by the steamship:Picforta, stexmer Empress of India left Yokohama for which salle! from Yokohama on the 2nd | porfect specimens of nature's noblemen; gasite | although it is insinuated that Min Banks' sen rebaked her me 'occasion required, and tried Vancouver on Friday afternoon.
February, and reached Tacoma, Washington, on Eth idem, were delivered in New Yor on the 24th February, their transportatlan by the rall road from Tacoma to New York on this occasion occupying six days only,
To be affirmed that each year there is an average of 6 coo murders committed to the United States, 130 legal bangi-ga and 100 lynchings,
A NEW Japanese gunboat named the Feiszen is Dow approaching completion at the Elswick works of Messrs. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co.
THE Spanish gunboat Santandring has received orders to all for the Philppines in order to strengthen the Spanish fleet in those quarteru,
Customer-Have you a copy of "Fittor Decisive Battles ?"
Bookseller-No, sir; we are sold out. But we 136 can give you "Reflections of a Married Man."
Wr beg to acknowledge receipt of the "Medica! Reports" for the half-year ended zoik September, 1890, published by order of the Inspector General of the Imperial Maritime Customs,
THE Mission stean-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels bolsting code penzant C, between 9 and 10.30 s.m., on Sunday, to convey men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30 p.m.
AT the Masonic Ball:-
Miss Pet-Darling, are you sure you love me? Old Soldier-Dearest, I would die for you ! Miss Part-Please don't. · Any other shade- would not become you.
The Agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Carlil & Co.) Inform us that the Northern Pacific Steamably 'Co.'s steamer Victoria left T-coms. Wath, for this port, via Victoria, BC, and Japan ports
on the 28th ulto.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS. OWING to pressure on our space we hold over a full report of the finale connected with the Sperry flour CRC, which 'fizzled in the Police Court this moreteg, by an arrangement resulting in the defendant heing discharged and bearing all costs Incidental to the prosecution.
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A SHANGHAI coatemper ry learns that en earthquake travelling from the north-wast to the south-west was felt three succeeding days at Aksu, Chinese Turkestan, at the fset of the PATENT MEDICINE PROPRIETORS AND and 26th December last. Many bouses collapsed Western Celestial Mruntalny, on the 24th, 25th,
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THE Governor of the 'Stralis Settlements in his address to the Legislative Council on the and ul. Announced his intention of nominating a Committee of the Legislative Connell to inquire whar reductions can be effected in the establish. ments and services of the three Sett'ements without weakening their efficiency,
LOCAL medicos bare more on hand just now than they can well undertake. The whisky poured out at the Masonic Ball and the devil- distracting noises' attending the movements of the Chinese dragons that have been on the go through the streets during the past two days having upset quite a number of people The extension of the Lonalle Asylum is now under the consideration of the Sanitary Board. Traly the lot of a Hongkongite la hard to beat, Ir-was-lo a Hongkong school that the following
conversation took place ;--
Is your father Eurasian ? No, str
Is he a Parste? No.
A Jew?
No.
Then what is ha ? A broker, sir,
THZ "Directory for Bangkok and Slam" for: 1894, a bandy and reliable book of reference fr all classes in any way connected with the "Land of the White Elephant," is just to hand. It is nest and compact, and contains calendar, tables of weights and messures, Siamese festivals, post and telegraph tariff, notes on the ancient and modern history of the country, and official and general directories corrected up to date of E.Cab'leation. The Hongkong agents are Mesus.
Is Kelly & Walsh, Limlled.
to shelter and abet strangers under their famliy name, for livelihood. When this kind of Eng- lith woman loses her financial footing, abe considers it quite proper enough to fol- Iow in the Yankee gil's footsteps and honest penny hy her hands. I have the extreme honor and delight of having met regal representatives of the surpassing to I am an American my good Sir, who has hurtellectual type-Lady Henry Somerset, the Counters of Aberdien, Baroncat. Burdett Coutts, of our remarkably enterprising city. After others. Such women poch pooh this imitations recently arrived in the Far East to enjoy the logarious hospitality, and magnificent scenery Miss Gladstone, Lady Pauncefote and many having attended a series of superb entertain. lady racket just as the American pilgesne pooh menis, graced by queens of womanhood and pocks the Angio-maniac.
To be true ad patriotic I must contest, the cup of friendship with your officials, and appreciated your admirable governing power, Iational effort is American, I never saw or heard had almost arrived at the conclusion that the citi- of any such verbal attempt in America. How sens and citizenesses (I suppose you have them ever her work is exposing such frands as she did bere, as we do in America) of your island were makes her a 6gare which Americans would be all educated, broad-minded, generous men and proud to accept, I am ture, as one of themselves. women; but alas! Faint hope that there should Her methods are of the Scotland Yard type. I' bo one Eden without its serpent.-Here I am re I warrant you, and perhaps sensational zoo, but minded that the fools are not all dead yet and that is the way in which the social albatross het there are to be found "snakes in the grass must be run down. It takes a rogue to catch and otherwise even in this paradise-land of balmy rogue, too, and only an American woman breezes," solid comfort, and flowers. This with the English name of Banks, could repetition of the disagreeable, right in the be "cute" enough (I am told cate is quite very heart of beauty and warmth, but echoes American so I use it) to root out such infamous the versatility of tricks Dame Nature, who traffic as broken down "English Ladies some creates a monkey and a Mary Andersor, an onlon times indulge. in. Mayhap it hue that we Mrs. Fist Class: Hubby, dea! Will you peel and My Lady Jacquiest rose; the trundle American women are sensational in journaliam, buy me a sath for my evenlng gown?
big and the angelic-throated, gaiden canary: and need to be civillaed, but we bave certainly -Mr. F. C.; What colour dear?
but then were not all this variety possibla, whence scored la the criminal courts. Mrs. F. C. Oht I don't care particularly, our Darwin and the Missing Link who. only get something pretty to match my com.is responsible for the misfit editorial which plexion!
has lately appeared in an alleged naws paper known within a very circumscribed sphere as the China Mati. This mental freak way de dicated to that much-talked-over creature "The American Woman."
PATENT posumile roller skates seem to be coming largely to use. The King of Greece, a noted athlete and very fond of skating, has ordered half a dozen pairs. A compellon between trotting horses and Greenwood, a | professional skater, with Wilson's patent phen- matic skates, over ten miles, was won by the skater in a little over 37 minnies,
BIFORE THE BALL..
Mr. F. C. What complexion will you wear with that dress, dear?
SAYS the Singapors Fras Press of the aand February :-To-morrow there will be in this port as large a gathering of British-aneal strength as has been seen to Singapore water for many a long day. At present we have the flagship of Admiral Fremantle, the Imperieuse, along with the Alecrily, the Severn, the Archer and the Peacock To-morrow the Leander will cora in from Hongkong and the trooper Himalaya from Penang.
But to return to our sheep, vide Ki-ling, or in
a
this case to the sheepish monkey, it does seem sin and a shame that a s'arving reader should be obliged to pay the price of your contemperary's Journal in order to peruse a badly written modern | Ístry-tale, when by a little fore-thought and
exertion he Arabian Nights" or "Robinson Crusoe" and she might easily purchase "the con a graceful falsehood.
wish now and then to know something truthful It is for the thinkers of Yongkong, who may of American women, that I beg leave to expose,
this most unnecessary and brutal false-reasoning, In the first place, may state that I am an editorially and repertorially with the New American Journalist and have been connected York Herald, the New York Sun, a well known London newspaper and other passingly creditable sheets for twelve years, have had
Houtes, and for some time travelled about the some half-dosin novels accepted by the so-
world in search of the picturesque and artistic called best English and American Publishing
for both Cassell's and Harper's Magazines, and speaking, as we do in George Washington's land, or two about this freskish, much-maligned "on the square," I may, methinks, know a thing female-carlo, "That American Woman."
Is any Chinese residents read to-day's Dally Press before turning it over to their chefs, de cuisine a fish-wrapper, they must have been astounded to find that the Editor of that fast ac tive semi-official organ is under the impressico swing is nothing more or less than the annual that the Chinese religious festival now in full procesalon organised by the Committee of the Man Me Temple." Tialy, where ignorance is bliss is folly to be wise," and it would be sheer existence of the dear old lady who fills the folly for any one to attempt to mar the blissful editorial chair in Granny's sanctum, Br attempt ing to Induce him to make sure of bis facts and give preference rather to fact than fetion. From a decree dated the 23rd ultima, it appear that the Dowager-Empress has decided upon the mandarins who are to go up to Peking to pay personal congratulatim to her on the occasion of the axtieth anniversary of her birthday. bold, bad, wi ked, accursed, satiric sardonic, The screed in question de lt with a so-called With the exception of Li Hang-ching, the N terribly out-of-form, "Am lean Lady fournalist C. Daily News states that the remsiolog seven
who by clever means, manages to show up ⭑ those of the rank of Governor only Kang I, of in vogue, of renting out one's social prestige by Viceroys continue at their posts, while amongst ubiquitous social fraud, namely, the fashion now Kaangtung, and YO K'uan, of Honan, have the day, week, month or year for the almighty been ordered by this decree to go up to Peking, dollar, Unhappily the writer touched up The remaining thirty odd officials from the pra-American women for being the principal, pur- vinces consist of Commanders-in-Chief and chasers, forgetting that the Germans, French and others of the rank of Brigadier-General (Chinese) even the Jews a la Rothschild, have also a and Brigade-General (Manchu). The officials | finger in the ple. maationed in the decree are commanded to be I do not wish to chimplon Miss Elizabeth in Poking before the 29th of October.rexha 7 Banks, the "Black Crow," whose nose is being
hitten, for although ber erlife says she is a THE women of Hongkong owe a debt of grati-"American Lady Journalist!! I have never been tude to the almightiest of almighty countries made happy by a knowledge of ber existence. that over which the Great Eagle ever keeps bis plalons spread. Listen to the gist of what a fact that according to themost authentic and acco- This is to be bildged over, however, by the certain distinguished American Consul, when rate newspaper directory published we have one "eloqqating" on the subject of "woman, urbosomed himself of He had been round all receiving salaries, I am afraid, so much larger
hundred thousand "American Lady Journalists, the universe many times, but in no place had he than your contemporary could pay, that they will found womankind so lavishly good-natured and probably never be on "show in Hongkong, so courteous as in Hongkong." If ilfe were not and you can see how it is, there being so many so short it would perhaps be worth while "American Lady Journalists," that I may have stopping to analyse the foregoing with a view to missed knowing this particular premium decide whether this illustrious diplomat were cruelly sarcastic or whether he had realised in Hongkong the truth of the aphorism which lag It down that perfect courtesy is the flower and the fruit of perfect breeding. Ha might tell us some day.
THE “MAN MOa FESTIVAL,
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criminal.
try, to get up rum tremens scandals like We have never been able, hard as we might the Wales-Wilson-Gordon Cumming-Baccarat scandal, the Montague domestle rampants, and the Russell, attempts. We can produce sen- national women, but in this particular groove of Ladyship," we are Out-rum.
the obnoxious editorial should not have studied It is nothing short of a pity, that the writer of barbaric Americans and Americanisms more deeply. The term "lady" is never used in America except by ladies of easy virtue and ser vants. We have "Lady" Suse and
Lady.
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The married women-without diught ra~in Paget; and in turn they lectured, praised, or the colony, took a vast interest in pretty Dorothy
generally to fill the piece of her own dead mather to the girl, The matrons who possessed marriageable daughters of their own, did not half so eager to chaperon her. She was too find Dorothy halfono fascinating and were not
pretty, and stood in the way of their own girls. Wherever she appeared-at dances, plc-nics, or garden parties he was sure to be surrounded by quite little crowd of admirers, while the other girls, to whom Nalore had been less blankly, consumed by jealousy and despair! generous la the way of good looks, looked om
Hongkong, and during that time what wonder if Miss Paget bid only been a few months in the girl had become a little vain of her beauty? heads of half-a-dozen women. The only wonder She bad had admiration enough to turn tha
was, how she had escaped being most thoroughly
polit
Just four months before this story open, sha had come out to join her father. Captain Paget had been in command of H.M.S. Bluebell, on the China station, and when be at last succeeded In obtaining a temporary shore billet at the Naval Yard in Hongkong, he lost no time in sending to England for bin Hittle daughter to
come out and be with him, «
Dorothy was delighted. She had heard many girls, as a rule, bad out there What different tales of the "glerious East," and what good times
leading to England. She had been living with an life it would be to the one which she had been unmarried sister of her father's, in the country t
Minde, who live in the caverns beneath Brooklyn Bridge and we have the washer-lady, the leading lady in the Dime Museum, the scrub-lady, the lady" in a newspaper office, is the "lady" charlng-lady, and the sales-lady, but the only much in the country, Indeed, where a few blends coming in for sumper and a mild round mouse out of the jelly waste-paper basket, who washes the windows and chases the hungry So when Dorothy fist arrived in the gay little game afterwards, was considered anexelingevent.
colony, naturally she was a little damiled and bewildered, being plunged at once into a round completely took her breath away. of galely, which, after herfquiet country life,
It is enough in the land fought for and wan by women hand to hand, that the noblest, most men and women, soldiers side by side and ideal term for the highest models should bo' man and woman, and when I first read the ocean of meaningless wards addressed to the
of some sort, but latterly I learned that the unwomanliness of one of my country-women I
missing link was ignorance. thought the writer must mean an inferior woman
I am sorry that the writer of the disagreeable editorial abould see fit to deal in personalities, narrow prejudicas helped forth by strength of for editorials, to be instructive, should deal not in names, but by sheer reasoning and clear logic the two ladies mentioned as Americans are not but for the benefit of the writer I will say that Americans, and never had anything American about them. They saw the light of America when they were, respectively, ten and fifteen years of age and their parents came from Eng. land. Their peculiar practices were not agree able to the Americans, I understand, and after the expose and horrors of the Beecher trial they were literally obliged to leave America, They went to Paris, but unfortunately report sapeib, the French were not particularly favorable to them, and after wandeilog for some time they took up their bode in England and marrying an English lord, a Cooke I believe. England was the country where they found followers and many of these are among the figura-bends whom borest Britishers love to whlatie about.
The expression used about the male sullors who took part in Miss Barks' comedy, a la come pretty low down" to associate with an Scotland Yard, to the effect that they had
means that they had fallen from grace! If so, it American, in a new one to me. I suppose it is unfortunately only lon true with Englishmen of that type. They always are happy in coming low down and being caught in a trip which is balted with money.
against alther English women or men. They But I do not wish to attempt any unpleasantry
credit to the grand old Britishers, our ancestors, are the salt of the earth, and we Americans do when we strike out in new paths, trying to make life happier, more comfortable and more condu- cive to personal attainment and self-respect. Our ways may sometimes be crude, but they are always honest, and although in Hongkong a willer with bee in his bonnet chooses to malign American womanhood, belleve me, I have never heard an American speak but in the proudest, fondeat, roblest terms of English people.
Hongkong season begins; but by Christmas she She arrived la November-just when the
bad become thoroughly acclimatised in every way, and began to take all the admiration she excited as a malter of course and her due. She gave herself coquettish little sirs and graCOS,. quantities in the nature of the old Dorothy, which had been quite foreign and unknown.. when
her
she used to sit, demurely, - tá Beat colton gown, stitching away working parties which had been site to her at never-ending seam, at some of the
now-and so was Dorothy; and I am not at a neighbourhood. Well, all that was changed sure that she was not a pleasanter, sweeter, more.. loveable little girl to the old days. Her father, had not seen her for nearly three years; so when of course, was exceedingly proud of her. He the burst upon his delighted vision in all her fresh, young, girlsh besaty, what wonder if his heart swelled with paternal vrid:! She was so like her mother too; and the father's heart ached as he thought how his delight in her would have been increased tenfold, if he could only have shared it with the desr little wife who had died long years before at Dorothy's birth..
in
In the old days, fn her quiet English country home, Dorothy had not even had half a lover now she had two whole ones all to herself. Embarras de richessa indeed, for she did not know which to choose! She liked them belbe she was not quite sare that she was love with either of them. And it -which? Sometimes Captain Vivian seemed to her an beat a little wildly when he whispered tender ideal Prince Charming, and her heart would nothings to her and looked into her eyes, his awn it with a tender love-light. Then again, when she was alone with Vernon Harwood, she felt at times a subtle sudden thrill come over him. He had such a timid, clever, trustworthy her, and she would feel Laresistibly drawn towarda
attractive in the extreme. He was by profession face, not particularly handsome certainly, bat
a barrister, and ans of the most popular men in the colony. Great things were prognosticated as to his future, if only be stuck to his work and kept steady. Not that he was at all likely to do anything else, for he was now over thirty years of age, and his wild oats such as they had been.
were sown long ago.
she were anybody of any account, she would be I have a logical, preżentment, though, that if likely to remain in the "Land of Freedom," as an intellectual woman's position is more satisfactary Is America than in England. The out of-the- ordinary and above the average intelligent English woman seems most happy reading large families of children. Net but what the same maternut feeling extends across the Mill Pond, but then with the Yankee's inventive genius we are able to accomplish several things at once. The Almighty Dollar in London Society a set forth by poor, beridden Miss Banks is a
heart and hand were thoroughly different in, The two men who were rivals for Dorothy's. true a picture of life, as it actually is in London, as the world will ever read. It is absolutely
overy way, both in appearance and character.. and unquestionablly tree- fact of facts, that Adelaide Proctor, Elizabeth Bowsing, George à man sa one could meet anywhere, and women, American women all love Jean Ingelaw, Captato Geoffrey Vivian was about as handsome. the Almighty American dollar (though the Ellot, Charlotte Bronté, Hope Temple, Lady as natural consequence, worshipped him. possessor of them should be ashamed of them Wilde, Miss Fawcett, Countess Aberdeen, Mrs. Lazy, tadalent, selfish. bis moral character was scives) is building up ancestral English homer. Dorothy Tennant Stanley, Miss Dickens, and not quite all ond could with. But his good looks and reinstating English roses. I never open others of their standard, so highly that every and his fascinating manner covered a multitude unless I know wherewith i speak, on short notice invariably twenty-five in every town of seven of the man, they judged by appearances simply my mouth, Mr. Editor, unlike my learned friend, woman's club of any account (and there are of sins; no one stepped to inquire into the pature of the cases of Marlborough Churchill, Gordon thousand population) prides among the furnish took him as they found him, and pronounced Cumming, Blackwood, Mia Osborns, and Craven fogs their compositions, while the larger clabs him "charming." At least the ladies difd. With FROM
“ROM AND AFTER THE iar OF JANUARY,
although there are dozens of lesser importance. have memorial windows, pictures and statues of men he was not such a favomite. They knew am also prepared to state, that the American these high winded women of worth and genius. 1894, THE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE HONG the world. It was Childs who said to be
matrimonial" sells "were not by any means of hea class dislike and criticise the Eegiat as women who figured in most of these English
more about bim perhaps ! ... wealth of a man or women can best be told by
The person whe Imaglaes that Americans as KONG TELEGRAPH WILL BE THIRTY the numberof things he or she loves and blesses they regard is prappletor of the land. Of highest type of American femininity, and when class should commit suicide la the depths of his DOLLARS PER ANNUM, OR TWO DOLLAR: / and by which he or she is loved and blessed. | course, the Protector of Chinese could have they burst upon British Society were better known | own ignorance.
No mean sentiment for an epitaph, that!
The Hongkong Dispensery, Tientsin. London Office, 8, Fenchurch Buildings, Hongkong,"26th January, 1894.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON CHILDS, the distin. gatshed American jouralist who has just joined the Great Majority, was s man of varied talents. Through sheer hard work, backed by abilly, be amassed an immense fortune, and included in the estate he left is the Philadelphia Ledger ose of the most valuable newspaper properties
As briefly noted yesterday, there was a rather so collision between the pollee and the pro- colonists as usual, someone had blundered." The Protector of Chinese had given permission to the dragon crowd to go pretty well all over the Colony with their complete show the streets, however, are theoretically in charge of the palice, who were never consulted nor even notified. Daring the day some residents who were not enthusiastic Binophiles got tired, and made complaints to the police about the over- having no instruction or authority to vary the dose of gong. The Capraia-Superintendent, regular duty of maintaining order, at once broke up the festivities, thereby causing sa intense fellug of bitterness among the Chinese, who naturally were indignant that their great reli- having been annetion d by the officials whom glous performance should be interrupted, after
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notified the police, and then there would have there than in America-but then there it is been no misunderstanding
duardo Pagali, we have sixty-six millions and over to Torday the natives have apparently triumphed,
Thấm publle oplaton in the little world. of
ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE FAD IN AT 735 thle morning the siining'chimes of the } over the polles- tilamph not likely to Inca.cara? talesăccount of; and a few swollen frogs are \ (We pubilah 'our faly correspondent's letter wih he played tennis-unloss it was too hot. How..
ADVANCE,
BIRTH.
fire-bell echoed through the city owing to the autbreak of fire in No. 17, Salt Fish Street, West P. lat, The Fire Brigide were promptly on the spot, but before they were able to get out West (by the way, this is only another instance
much respect for the "instruments of law and arder The streets were agafu blocked this aftersson, and monopolized by gandily dressed fanaties hammering googs and capering belare preposterous dragons, tigers, and double-base
Kiss Banks' account of the beiress-chaperone nevnú missed from the swim. business is very well done, but I am afraid only too easily and diplomatically. The disgusting and fadelicate practice of an Englishwoman selling the use of her family's social position, name
At 14, North Soochow Rord, Shanghat, on the Indicating the necessity for the maintenance of drums; while the cruel exhibitions of children and fama to an American woman for so much
24th February, 1894, at 3.30 .. the wife of floors of Nos. 15 and 17 Salt Fish Street were wars continned for the delectation of the mish, Pears ago, it was tried by a very high member a fire-brigade in the western district) the first hiced up to bamboos, in all sorts of positions, per month, or year, is as old as the hills. Some
A. P. P. DE CAMPOS, of a son.
The Fonghong Lelegungh.
·HOMOKONO, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1894.
TELEGRAMS.
INDIAN FINANCE.
LowDow, March 1st. The Indian Budget provides for the imposition of fire per cent. import duty on silver,
Completely pattad, although had it not been necessary, under existing circumstances, for the engines to travel close upon a mile before they reached the scene of the fire, it would ungues tionably have been extinguished in a very short space of time. As it was, upwards of a thousand dollars' worth of damage was done, for which, presumably, Messrs. Carlowils & Co., with whom the premises were insured, will have to pay up. The origin of the fire is unknown.
About half the population of Caston is down for the show, and if there is en diagrbance of the peace before the Jamboree is over, it will say wonders for the passiveness of the Chinese..
Last night's procession af illuminated diagons, fish, sheng, dogs and even was one of the most interesting and extenire, of its kind, ever wineated in this part of the world. Some of the
of first-class society, on your humble servant, who being the grand-daughter of an English Bishop needed no such aid to respectable social Intercourse.
Hongkong where everybody knows every. thing about everybody else differed con aiderably about Dorothy's lovers. The women Respectfully,
perfomy of course thought Vernon Harwood to be not a AN AMERICAN WOMAN, patch on handsome Captain Vivian, Howsplendid the Captain looked in his uniform? How well the greatest of pleasure, but make bold to divinely be danced when he was not too lazy! oplas that had she a more perfect knowledge. And then his eyes, and his sya-lashes!" - Why,, of the precious sheet in which the article she the idra of Mr. Haswood being in the same host so cleverly mangles appeared, she would have with him was simply absurd! The men, en saved herself the labour of replying to the other hand, seld that * Harwood was worth Ching Mall is outside the pale-Ed. over for Captain Vivian, despite his good looks, American men and American women desen of the other chap, and added that Mish known to the educated world-but alas the Faget would be little goose if she paved him Tel]
Neither of the men in quilon had yet proposed. to Miss Paget, but everyone knew that a proporal. from them both was immfacut, and 'many were. the bits among the male portion of the colony anent the large. Which of them would meet; with success
IN THE LOBBY.
(TO THE LADYES. VARE DE VERE et al).
19.3.
.
It wasthe night of a "Tarantula " dance-ova. of those delightful bachelor balls which, aso so. deservedly popular in Hongkong,"
Dorothy Intended to enjoy herself thoroughly," She knew that she was looking her brightest and best her looklag-glass had told her so already and her many admirers would be sura to repeat the assertion presently, 2.
The genius who assumed the editoill lanctions behalf of your contemporary, sweetly and |
kindly hints that it was probably true thats broken fish (all coloured to the life) were over ten From this point of view the American Miss down Englishwoman offered to civilizeMia Banks.
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Fit throne for a social queen. of a fire on the British India steamship Dorunda, as a cricket and mil aglow with lanterns, and vicious and immoral teachings, We are rather on the way from Brisbane to Baigla,, The extending at least 180 feet, win. Astrange prand of our common names of Smith, Brown, An- The Opera's throng the faster cargo seems to have been thoroughly addicted to spectacle which once seen would, create %. lip,,, „drews, Blake, etc. They may hang over bake. Slipped out to the music'a strain; spontaneous combustion, for it broke out in ing impression, washould think, even within the khobs, dry goods stores or as in the case of the She followed her ford and master fames at difcrent spots, and took a great deal massive braturiige, of He the Loopbeaded and lowly Washingtos Irving, Harlet Ben With pomp in her velvet traing of trouble to extinguish. Ald was rendered by That the spectacle was an unusual and nitractlys cher Stowe, Madam Nordics, Nathaniel Haw the passing steamer Duke of Arexis, and at one one is beyond question, for, in addition to Phelpsljames Russell Lowell, Henry Longfellow,
Hat once her light step faltered, thorne, Frances Willard, Elizabeth Stuart Ward time there was a suggestion of having to rus for hundreds of European who thronged the tests Palick Henry, Thomas Edison. They may
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THE PARISH COUNCILS BILL
Mr. Gladstone has moved the adoption of the the nestart land-
་ཆས་མི་ Council's Bill under protest, and strongly condemned the action of the Pours in adopting
the amendments.
SILVER BILL
I was auch a short distance from the Naval Yard to the City Half that her pretty ball«tress stood Httle chance of geting crushed in her covered chair as she was being carried thither. As the neared the hall she raised the blind and per ed out late the darkness,
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