KOREA.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1805.
and trade well-nigh Impossible. The Yellow River floods have been lostrumental In re-peopling it, Manchuria, concludes Mr. Agassiz. (FROM OUR OWN COREKSPONDENT.)
already stands before Newfoundland, our oldest CurmuLPO, December 23rd, 1894. colony, as an Importer of manufactured goods, The captured Tsaoliang has come to and in twenty years will be herd of Turkey Chemulpo and after a few days stay left within Europe, British Guana, and the Columbian number of Japanese soldiers for an unknown Republic, and may take precedence in this desinalan. She has been painted white and respect of Portugal, Mexico, and Cape Colony.
in a number of ways.
Then, as now, Great Britalo, America, Germany, magister! 1
towns, Sesso in Chyoan and with a larger than than at present, Japan, chrengel and Ko-now, and Mowchyang in
will be the chlei parilcipants. Chyrld,
have
been burned to the ground, not astri le house romstring. One of the towni containedfion artis, nur den houses and another 300 11
trees. The cause of the disaster is not yer lemnown,
In the north the Tohaks have been making the felt. A number of Japanese mer- chands how been killed, and the Tonghaks ** now *xending
operations into Penn A few ive beer. In Cherutpn alsh, Twn have been arrested and imprisoned for a fee is, hut were afterwards released, as the evidere appinst them was tranfficient. Yeater day the compter (com Seoul was stopped
and the
WANTED-AUSTRALIA FOR THE JAPS.
Prior to 1657 tea was sold in England for $50 a pound.
There are nearly 70,000 post-offices to the United States.
The population of the United States in 1790 Was 3.929.241.
The first copper cent was coined in New Haven in 1687.
The estimated population of the world in 1893 WAY 1,500,000,000.
Damascus gave to the world damask linen and the damson plum.
Taking the world over there are tog women to every 100 men,
The State of New York contalas 50,000 more
women than men,
Caracas, the
where it føytus a perfect rokd from the top of one mountsia to the top of another,
The bow is first seen "epicted on Egyptian monuments about 200 B.C. Ita form then did nat differ greatly from that in use among boys at the presuni day. It was used la European War fare'as lato na 1540.
CHILD starving to death on account of thes vellous font and remedy, in Scott's Emulsion of inability to digest food will find a most mar Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hynophosphites. Very palatable and easily digested. Read the follow- Emulsion in cases of children offering from Ing testimonial:—"I have prescribed Scott's wasting and mal-no'sition and can report most
Australia's bogey has changed its mask, and three centuries Capital of Venezzela, was founded | favourably of its good eff·ct; It has been in:
from Chinese become Jananese. The incidents of the current war establish definitely and, to all appearance, Gually a conclurion which a few well-informed people had previously reached, but which was opposed by almost the whole vague mass of popular opininh-the conclusion they are not united by any spirit of patelolism, that the Chinese are not fighting race,
that and that individual apathy and national
ago.
Ninety-seven out of every 100 Arctic explorers have returned alive,
Coffee is so called from being first brought to Europe from Caffa
Is the oldest known plant that has Аврагария been used for food.
thousand years
Cavier wald that
old.
|
whale might live to be one
mall-bag opened and the envelopes torn. This tion make them incapable of any organised | fige korinth, about the time of Christ, twenty
The old Cableet has been replaced by an entirely new one composed of that clan of unenviable reputation to which Kim-ok-kun belonged, and their sympathiser, Pak Yeng-bo, Mnister of the Home Office, Syö Kwang-pem is President of the Board of Justice and a number of exceedingly questionable characters are scattered here and there throughout the Ministry. They all agree on one thing, however, and that is that Japan is a model of civilisation and an Infallible guide in everyblog. How long this preposterous notion will obtula in officist circles God only knows.---N. C. Datly News.
was sun and to have been done by Tonghaks. for the common benefit. The Chinese but I doubt it. A good deal is attributed to the To ghaks which does not properly belong to
scure is over; but it looks as if
mach them
* soon, with More TEBRON,
a Japanese sense will succeed it. For East, North, and West, the Japs are pouring into Australis. At Port Darwin and They of the pearl fisheries; at Mackay, Gerala.n, Taland they have
established virtual mone Ty and Townsville
hundreds have bren many
bren introduced as labourers on the sugar plantations: and ld Weatralla, while the mara come to fish for pearls, the japanese wome
women come by scores to fish for men. The Jap le patient, intelligent, and adaptable; and it is only a matter of time, till he gets a permanent footing of which it will not be easy to dispossess him. For the chances are that Japanentoelastic, warlike, a and patriotic will not submit to be treated by Australis an contemptuously as China has been. le quite conceivable that the rights of a Japanese subject tienal diplomsey, and that we may be asked to in Queensland will soon be matter for interna. redress grievances at the muzzle of a rifle. Everything goes to show that Australla
two only
alternatives-free
welcome
MANCHURIA.
has
or
Writing on "Our Commercial Relations with Chinese Mancharfs" in the December number of the Geographical Journal, Mi. Agassiz, of the T1 Maritime Customs Service, maks the following remarks which are complete exclusion. The former is unthink- especially interesting at the present time
Marchouls is rather larger then Afghanistan, shle by any democrat. With all his virtues, a crust preemhl- in geographical features a cheap Inbouret of the most audi test inperiance of its altution, Fer onpleasant kind; his race-quality does not fit
Caucasian
عادة
the
him for luter and on equal terms
SDY
of
tan-
adminteste purpose is divided into three
The Goul
The treaty port, numbers will unquesilanably degrade the Neocutright miles from the mouth
dard of Australian civilisation. The fact that er, no telefono people, and is in many vital points of character he male e de The permanent Europian almost zquil, to ourselves, makes his rivalry all equal, or Piluledier ettiren, consists of about the more dangerous. Yet Great Biltala, true And wall, about five miles to the worship of the golden calf has just con- ls the eldes of the city, the other claded with Japan a treaty which throws open goyards wide. The Japanese markets to her trade, and in return Bem 16 and peld for by public
Mr. Az also notices concedes to Japanese subjects the right of erity Fort and settlement on British soll. It is provided Samleg is the centre of that delet on with the Russians
the Australian provinces may be stans made parties to the treaty if they express & desire Khka by means of boats to that effect on the Sanas and the Ambor Hunchan
any time within the next two is up it hath 16 trade and strategy.
years; and already the journalistle organs of It is to close proximity to the Russian
commercial opportunism are polating out the. a! Kan frembre. Only thirty miles away
great benefit which would result Australia 1 de abr
from extensive meat and wool export to Japan. Melorging to Russi and with now hours steam of Vladivostock,
a benefit which should be refused without A Dzme mebleh
the slightest besitation. the
Trade is too dearly WAY, " manny, by c
Mastery Over the
puintion of Manchuria is said bought by the ruin of national life. Men are worth more than money. Australis will never Bulletin. sell her birthright for a mess of pottage.—Sydney
the gl
res
A
10
to be about ten anions. Transport is defective. There a little water traffic, owing to the torestial charcher of the streams. The long fors make the mails good for traffic, and cartage pudorio te The Che,
carrers are mostly small
11
FIVE MINUTES.
farmers, forcedly late in wirter, and willing to Cart at a figure. A hundred weight can he
Either by a mental or psychological perversion casted too miles for four prace, Against this a
--and there seems no other name for it-five rallway could hardly compete, but it could in
minute la almost universally accepted as the passenger traffic. A passenger carl drawn by apit of time in describing any event or occurrence the porter can only take one person. Its hire which is not measured accurately by a stop- in three hilings, dax, and at
watch. At Illustration of this peculiarity of time the rate travelling the cost per mile would be nearly three measurement is offered by the story of the man balfornce, to say
who fell down on Sway nothing
time.
slippery street, and in par- No estimate has been made of the number of catis and draught cattle to the country, but in 1890 for the perind of one hundred days, there entered the town at Newchwang daily 547 carts, drawn by 2140 animals, mally mules and poalce, bringing shatt
shout ros,uca tans of produce,
the
of loss of
rating, the story of
of his misadventure declared feet again in less than that although he had fallen he was up on his
five min
minutes. How reldom
we who use "five minuter" in
Bon the 'v. dyes are better than carts for part in the 1/2 OCH Playing an Important
Pia, winter. Telegraph
the conventional sense stop to think what it really means, or how much action and sensation not Asm vhe supposed, under such circumstances
Can be but is continually crowded into the of traffic, Innkeeple furishes. Avan Instance space of time which five minutes represent. If clock is beati pendulums to round out fire of the "rosley trade d-ne by Marchuelen inn-
seconds it requires three keep t
thereis hostelry on the high road from minutes, and it in
hundred beats of the བྷཏྟཊྛུསྶཏོ། ངྒྷ
districts to the place where water car-
lly
conceivable that this play can be pt card for the coast, st which there of time
me may cover three bandred separate, com um den of pak, the favourite vland,
individual actions
and history of the world. Let us see, briefly, what may be done in five minutes.
Taking up locemo'lon fire, for the change from one place to another in the shortest modern civilization, it will appear possible time is one of the great factors of railroad train will cover five miles in five minutes
that s that an expert bicycle sider will do at least half it a very fast
as well; that many frotting and pacing horses will almost equal railroad speed for five minutes: and that man, unaided by anything but muscular power, can run a mile in considerably less than five minutes. In the question of transportation,
us the unit.
graph lines connect Aeloper towns with Newchwang, which is ad with Tien ain and Peking. The of Man boria to suited to Germans, Safin ers, and Scotchmen.
men. Severe winters, dream-phes, and boiste nus winds in spring cateuch complaints as neuralgia, rheuma thm, and umbre; but, apart from these, no dingen, recurs with uru ual fremsency. The strule end of the
of the people is bas-ling, kind of antet der ment of brant, and a smell
ard
Chloe-and deer-boras, also used in medicine!
affords employment to a large army of workers, beatmen, milis,
cultivating it. goods, woollen goods (very Title)
optum, British-Indian commerce
bas
vau
dexterity it is simply amazing what may be When we come to mutters of mansial skill and accomplished in five minutes. A very skilful stenographer will take from dictation 200 words a minute, 1,000 words in five minutes, equal to this column, and will reproduce it with Hteral ACCOTACY. A good typewriter will take Bo it out letter- words minute-400 in fire minutes-and fard it out letter-perfect and ready for use in In which it
DIRY
or
from
|
ID
ID
brought a cents.
Leather trunks were used in Rome as early as the time of Can
Football was crime in England during the relen of Heary VIII.
is a corruption of Jersey, where the Kersey is a fabric was first made.
The carllest attempt to use iron ore in America was in 1622.
Calico was first introduced from Calicut, s stuff for men's clothes.
Out of every nine sudden deaths reported eight of the number are men.
The old Chinese nickname for the Japanese was "the monkey men.
The mean temperature of the whole earth in about 50 deg.
deg. Fahrenheit. The Missouri Penitentiary started in business to 1835 with one prinoper.
The flattening
the pole of Jupiter can be Been through
the telescope. Europe at the present time.
There are 4,570,000 more women than men in
The average annual amount of dew in England
to five inches of zain, equal to f
The serpent moves by elevating the scales of Its abdomen and poling Itself along..
Of the white population of America only 8
per cent, are unable to read and write.
A telegraph line now traverses the Gobl Desert, in China, 3.055 miles in length.
each
M.R.C.S., Medical Superintendent. Butleigh case taken most readily"-W, PERKINS, Hospital. Any Chemist can supply it-Sole Agent for Hongkong and the Empire of Chios: -Chan A Fook, abWatkins & Co., Hongkong.— [Adet
To-day's Advertisements. D'ARC'S
BIJOU THEATRE, (NEW PRAYA RECLAMATION).
D'ARC'S
FANTOCHES FRANCAISES
(MARIONETTES)
WILL REMAIN OFEN
A FEW NIGHTS LONGER FOR
SPECIAL CHINESE PERFORMANCES.
DOORS OPEN AT 7:
COMMENCE AT 8.
CHEAP PRICES.
I Row or BOXES RESERVED FOR EUROBEAMS. GRAND MATINEE, SATURDAY NEXT, FOR EUROPEANS.
PLAN at Mestre, KELLY & WALSH'E, LD. Hongkong, 30th January, 1Bay.
AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB.
PANTOMIME
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The first person to be hanged in England was THE SECOND PERFORMANCE OF THE private in the reign of Henry IIF, la 1241. The population of Philadelphis at the time the city was incorporated, in 1705, was 2,500.
acres
The French paper La Practician says that 4,847.600,on propie die during each century.
The United States still owes about a billion
of land. One-third of this is in Alaska, Dr. Edward Everett Inte says that only 11 per cent, of the American people are illiterate.
Goldfish were first known in China, and were brought to Europe in the Seventeenth century,
The pornlation of Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar is said to have been 3,000,000.
The human body is cavered with minate scales, each scale covering from 10 to goo pores. Lake Acubo, Chile, has 20 area of forty-five square miles and is 12,530 feet shove sea
have sea level. Russia has the largest standing army and Great
Britain has the largest navy in the world. Previous to this century stoves were unknown. All cooking was done before in open fireplaces. Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, in the highest mountain in the world; it is 39,001 feet
bigh
The backlit of taberculosis cause the death every year of 150,000 persons in the United States.
Labrador has goo species of flowering plants,
lichens, over 250 species of mosses and
The Pacific Ocean covers 67,000,000 of the 188,000,000 square miles comprising the earth's surface.
According to Muller the total number of words, or rather ideas, expressed by Chinese characters
43.598.
bones as through the flesh of very young The blood flows almost as freely through the children,
New York, Parle and Berlin combined lack forty-two square miles of having as great en area 25 London.
It is calculated that the men and women of to
"ROBINSON CRUSOE," MONDAY, 4TH FIBRUARY, 1895. Will be ander the Patronage of COMMODORE BOYES, R.N.,
and the
OFFICERS or H.M. FLEET.
The dates of the other Performances will be :- FEBRUARY 6th, 9th, 12th, 16th and 23rd. Life Trams each Evening 15 minutes after fall of the Curtain.
TICKETS and BOOKS of the WORDS OF THE FOTOS can be obtained at Messrs. LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.
Hongkong, grat January 180s.
CATHAY
No. 1165,
f8z
CHAPTER,
A CHAPTER will be held in the FREEMA-
REGULAR CONVOCATION of the above
| BONS' HALI, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the gist intent, at Ego for 4 o'clock precisely, Visiting Companion are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 31st January, 1895.
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"MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
THE Stenmahlp
*GHAZEE," Captain T, Golding, will be despatched as above on or about THURSDAY, the 7th February,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWILL, CARLILL & Co.
Agents. Hongkong. Ist January, 1505.
FOR SHANGHAI AND KOBE.
day to nearly two inches taller than their THE Steamship
ancestors.
Only vix persons out of each 1,000 live to be seventy-five years old, and only one reaches the century mark,
if the United States had a great a relative population as Japan it would have a population of 950,000,000.
The first screw steamer to cross the Atlantic, the Great Britain, was commenced in 1839 and floated to 1845
Man bae never seen inside of some of the Egypilan pyramids since they were first built,
so far as known.
trukow
know
"ORMISTON,"
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Captain Outram, will be despatched for the above Ports on FRIDAY, the 8th February.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
TATA & Co.,
Agents, Hongkong, 31st January, 1805 [177
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ON
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OR FROM
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5. BUND, YOKOHAMA.
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The Hotel stem-launch attends Steamers arriving and departing. Passengers are met at the Rallway Station.
VISITORS have the option of measing either In TOKYO or YOKOHAMA, without extre charge-the only Hotel offering such an advantage. EUROPEAN HAIR DRESSER on the Premises.
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TH
HIS POPULAR HOTEL has recently been thoroushiv venovated and, under new and experienced Management, offers Accommodation at most reasonable rates to BOARDERS and VISITORS, unsurpassed in the Colony.
The BED-ROOMS
are Commo-lous and Comfortably FURNISHED, wIth HOT, COLD and SHOWER BATHS, and in xdddition to a WELL APPOINTED
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The CUISINE is in able and exprelenced hendi, and only the best brands of WINES, SPIRITS and MALT LIQUORS are kept
For terms, &c., apply to
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OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND, HIS commodious and well appointed HOT aftasted at a height of 1.250 feet above sea-level, has just been thoroughly re-decorated, renovated and re-furnished, and i NEW WING has been bullt, which commands magnificent Views of the Harbour and mainland of Chins,
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20.00
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MEE CHEUNG, PHOTOGRAPHER, TOP FLOOR OF ICE HOUSE, IN Ice-House Road.
now in a position, in his New and Com- ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED modiour Premiues, to eclipse, sa karatakan, in the Colony or in any part of the Far East.
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13. Queen's Road, Hongkong, 24th August, 1894.
Harbour, and is always open to the cool breezes J. DENIS, HENRY MOUNIÉ & CO.
from the Southward, Steam-launches can st THURSDAY, the 7th day of February, 1895, any time come alongside the jetty adjoining the
AT 3 FN. ON THE SPOT,
spacious laws. To the other attractions of this popular resort have been added, and LAUNCH runs from BATHING PAVILIONS
the NEW PEDDER'S WHARF to BAY VIEW every half-hour after 5 F.M. dally.
It was customary, a hundred years ago, when gentlemzo bowed to a lady, to scrape his foot upon the
The phical Magazine says: There In The SEVERAL LOTS NUMBERED 1 to 35, tribe of people in northern Asia who do not en Plas to be seen at the Auctioneer's Rooms now how to laugh.
for erection of BOOTHS and MATSHEDS on the Government Ground adjoining the RACE- COURSE, North of the Grand Stand enclosures,
TERMS OF SALE :-Cash,
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In some Hindu temples In South India the collection is taken up by the clephant, that goes around lib 2
u darket.
of
The share of land falling to each inhabitant f the globe, in the event of a partition, might be acl down at 231 SCTEL.
ye de prate called shromi. Pork is cheap and therefore, five minutes certainly cannot be taken plens, cunt heel and mu tan not scars and 11h Bands The Sungarl is full of Salmon and cad, price, soles, mackerel, while bail
pravu,
, are caught on the coast, Strange in sy rice is only eaten by the rich, Grates, pears, Stherlan er b-apples, walnuts, and plums are grown. In spring and actum, fowl, geese, ducks, and tell are very abandants En are hare, pheasant, parisidge, enipe, curlew, bustard, and golden plaver. Deer, antelope, and tiger keep the sportsman buy in the Kirla
la fifty years ocean steamers have bem Hel-lung-chiang districts.
bas needed. A facile writer in lengthened 400 f feet, and they are three times as Among the exports of Manchuria are king, long-hand will write from thirty to
to fifty words a Large as they were in 1845. gtuseng - medicinal root, highly prized in minute-RY 200 words in five minutes-and Ovar
French women were made 1,000,000 even more under the whip and spur i of necessity. Widown but by far the most important product is bean arts," an average compositor will peter from respiratory surface in the human lungs le not
dows and over
3,000,000 children (atherless More than this, in the " art preservative of all by Napoleon'a comvalgus. oli, exported to all parts of China for lighting and cooking purposes. The hean preponderates fair of
Lieberkuhn estimates that the extent of sir copy, seven or eight words &
words a minute, over every other cereal in Maschuria, and 35 to 40 words to five minutes.
Less than 1,400 square feet, These are ordinary and easily understood Iceland, in the North Atlantic, the fals of in the bean-cl but there
illustrations of what five carters, employds in
minutes really
Мап means,
and Island, in the South Padic, in addition to the thousands engaged In
an easier and simpler way it is sald the Chileans never anterioare a
Fa Phicalta
Women Auffrage The chief imparts are cotton measure this lapse of time. If any our wants
know
what five minutes really are, let him cab, tramcar or other pubila vehicle without metals, and to
undertake to sit still and motionless for that time bowing to all its occupants. enffered
a watch held over him, and before the by the remarkable faillug off in the importation with wate
The dominion of Russia takes in about one- sixth of the land surface of the globe and one- upwards
• of fie fakubitants. when
"Eva suy than really
mlazies" mean five seconds, * Wo lent due to a change in the habits of the anal sense, without any purely conven, tären chariots to drive abreast:
one hundred feet high and thick enough for the term "five minutes" in people, but to the cultivation of the poppy in
definite iden of the The famous tower on the Isle of Pharos, at Manchuria itsell, yet, In spite of the falling the term is harmless, but cases can be imagined II hthouse of undoubted record.
time it really covers. Usually the misuse of Alexandria, built about a B.C., is the fant off in the
the importation of Indian opium, where the use of the term might be or become an enormous. Increase Ive that
of ather Bonds kas
taken place.
For the period
matter of Hie or death. A winess on the 1881-1891 It has been at
in a criminal case, for example, who the rate of 292 per cent. In 1891, of the Lonnage of the
Ar to five minutes when he actually salppin entering the port of Newchwang 58 of conviction or acquital and of a miscarriage per cent, was Billsh, and 28 per cent. German, Third in order came the Chloene, 7 per cent.
of Justice. All of us, in short, are entirely too Waste lands and the absence of commerce,
tres in the use of the purely conventional terms. BAYS Mr. Agassiz, are the natural entcome of
"fire minutes"-San Francisco Chronicle. mfiltarism. To this rule Manchuria has been no exception. Before the conquest of China the
IR respect
which the profession of arms was held was alone sufficient to show that the country bed little commerce. Acres by the thousand remained uncultivated. After the evants of 1844 numbers of Manchus left the country for military AD. service la Chios, Little was exported but gold. dust, the country was infested with belgando, 1 yo
of opium. In 1871 its value represented and won has elapoed he will be in a state of hopeless
of 60 per cent, of the total value of all forelentusion between Time and Eternity. Most fourtesat was fifteen miles by, nies, the walls -
goods
imported; in 188 It
It represented
least
16 per cent.; In 1891 less than 2 per cent. This
of us
meant five
VA
"
seconds might be the Instrument
BITS OF INFORMATION.
Flying frogs are numerous in Borneo. Whales are never found in the Gulf Stream),
Bells were ant placed in churches about 400
The wheels of a watch travel 3,5881 miles a
J. M. ARMSTRONG,
Asiatiesseer. Honghena, grst January, 1895.
TO LET.
180
HOUSE NO. 4. "BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,"
facing PARADE GROUND. HOUSES" No. 1, 4 and 97, "BULILION TERRACE**ROMISON ROADS.
ROOMS * BEACONSFIELD ARCADE," QoS ROAD.
GODOWNS is DULCELL STREET,
Apply to
BELILIOS & Co. Hongkong, 318 January, 1895.
Masonte,
ZETLAND
COGNAC.
ESTABLISHED 1838.
Private Dinners or Tifins prepared in First- class style on the shortest notice, and Meals can be served at all hours,
TRADE
EXTRIED
Hongkong, 15th Anzust, 1804
fro
AT
FUJIYA HOTEL,
MIYANOSHITA, HARONE.
Four and a half hours from Yokokamą.
FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION.
NATURAL HOT SPRINGS, THE ELECTRIC LIGHT IN ALL THE TBUILDINGS.
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LODGE,
No. 55, E.C. REGULAR MEETING of the above
TWO ENGLISH HILLARD TABLES. EXCELLENT CUISINE. SPECIAL_RÄTes made for A PROLONGED STAY.
9. N. YAMAGUCHI,
Proprietor. THOMAS' GRILL ROOMS, (Corner of Queen's Road and Duddell Stred.) THE Undersigned has always thought that
mach a place as this was the one thing needed to it in between Horal Luz and the PRIVATE BOARDIG HOUSE-providing it be First-class in every detail. A place where one
A held in the FREEMABONE ble GRILLED OF STEAK
In the museum at Mayence, Germany, there are several iron-tipped piles which were used by the Romans 2,000 years ago.
A report shows that there are 2,173 persons In the world known to have six fingers on one hand and 411 with seven fingers.
When terrified, the ostrich is said to travel at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, and cleara twelve to fourteen feet at a stride,
HALL, Zetland Street, TO-MORROW, the rat February, at 8.30 for 9 pm, precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.
Hongkong, 28th January, 150g.
ST.
JOHN •\(+/
The wettest place in the world la Cherapung), in Assam, where the average_ralofali for Ritzen years has been 493 Inches. In 186x it was gog.
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at any hour of the Day, up to 11 P.M.; or later if noiles be given. He is also prepared to SUPPLY MEALS to PRIVATE PARTIES per MENU or Ordza-the Parties sending Diskas, dc., for mme-and Cash, Terms: Breakfast...per meal $0.75...per Month
W $0.75... $3.25.1 Tifid and Dinner... Breakfast and Tifla
SPECIAL TIFFINS 304 DINNERS served
W. THOMAS, Honghong, 14th June, sipër
Tile and Dinner
There were two total eclipses of the run in the AN EMERGENCY MEETING of the shere Year 1712 and two la 1889. This rare pheno. 117. Z km SATURDAY, 2011 menos will not happen agala until the year s057; Juhendry, mi KONT
in Eucellent Style at short notice. LODGE WHI Ne-bald in the FREEMASCHT.
The largest and oldest chafa bridge in the guria is said to be at King Tang, in Chias,
Visiting
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$40
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STATIONER 11ALL
EXCEPTIONAL PURITY
AND EXCELLENCE.
Proprietors of large Vineyards und Distilleries. Apply to:--PIERRE MARTY, Esq., Hongkong, M. OPPENHEIMER & Co., Paris, Agents.
FOR SALE.
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PRICES VERY MODERATE.
ORDERS repectfully solicited by the Under- signed.
MITSUI BUSBAN KAISHA,
4, Queen's Road Cosenă.
Mongieaug, yoš January, 1894.