"A" DISPATCH from Chibà to the Otaku Asaht "wiates that the palicamen who were recently arrested on suspicion of having tortured, a prl- soner to desib, were acquitted on the raih inai, by the Yokkaich! Local Courts. It would be feteresting to have the evidence in this care, but the Kobe Chronicle says the Japanese papers scarly ever think it worth while to publish evidence given in a Court of Law.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER-23, 1897.
CRICKET.
The match between the H,K.C.C. and LR.C. was played on the Club graued to-day and resulted in a win far the former by 171 runs to 79. The W.Y.R. hand lent an additional plessare to the proceedings and the weather was besnil- fully fist. The scores are as follow —
RK, C. C
Cal. Gordon W... o Atkinson b Valings. 16 A. C, Wanda seduces u PA Co Atkinson 5 Vallingu,musashian sangarten F. R. Gillingham à Vallingsbakke st J. R. A. Hastings, xx. h Valling
P. G. Davies, a, ¤ Johname b Vallag .............a voj - Maldende aandoekt indiándorreastat Lt. Bowden Smith M., 15ọt diet 13 mus dait coom veurem
Mackensie Villag
r. H Keb Valilaga ang pagsangebo
Tozal
L R. C
Surg, Col. Johnston A., b. Hastings. 31 Capt. Harger, RCA, c. ♬ Smith, b Hishiga ...... Dr. Atkinson, a. Maidand, b. McKenzie
CW, Gerdoa, w.ra, c. Maitland 5. Haulugs....... F. L. Luppen, .t.x, c. Xie, b. Hastings amusa Ritebla & Andersen, b. Haaringsjaar maan ~~Capt. Langhorno, x A, n. Mafðand, b. Morris
H.S. Moberly, ix., b. Haalʻnga muna an Rev, G. R. Vallags b. Hastlog
P. P G. Wodehouse, not out ........
R. Morri
Total
THE SHAN STATES.
P
GIBRALTAR ÎN Not without its aïver quesitor, Its Gavernor-General, Sir Robert Biddniph, kes just reported to Mr. Chamberlain that the actual fass statalued by the Government in making neces- sary remittances to England amounted to $1,000 pesetas. The value of the doller, he adds, in 46 a par, but it has fallen to 31. 1ỏ, and the Governor his reason to beliews that it will sustain a further fall. There was considerable increase in the tomonga of foreign, shipping that entered Gibraltar daring the past year, but the Governor has to report, with regret, a large fal- ling off in the number of vishing British ships. Tux mit be a good many people in the Fat East to whom the aızival of the Ja- panese baldeship Fuff, says the Singapore Pria Press in its "Toples of the Week," dianera à penser as our French friends say, The Russian will see in her the strong. el fighting plece, the Queen, to the game ol paval chess, an she will be played" some fice day. The Chinese will have an object lesson In the right way to spend Chinese money; for it was Chinew facts that paid for the Fuji The Belts will set in her Dravance one more guaran tee for peace and the "Stand fast" to sival am.
The wandesful incrasse of prosperity in the bitions. And therefs analker to follow. And s
Shan States, in which for a generation before bigger on the stocks. Yer; Japan means to have the annexation of Upper Baims there were the arguments all ready before the debate begins. §. consignt scenes of anarchy and bloodshed, is Quirt a disturbance was caused in the neigh-Instanced by the town of Moog Nal, Four years bourhood of Rochere Road, Singapore, on the 15th. An orang alam belonging to a Bengall got loose an excaped over the illes, finally des cending la Rechere Road, where he was caught by soma rikkakin arolles. "At first the coolles did pot feel inciled to give the animal up, and the Police were called to. Inspector Bugden ap- proaching low near the beast received a blow from the shoulder which laid him flat, but even inally the orang utan was secured with his arms Jashed to a fong pole and removed in safety to his quattorn. The owner, however, will be called good to mate gooi all damage done to the thas Aight.. of the roots over which the animal passed in his
DROMEDARIES (according to the Cigarette World) as particularly fond of tobacco smoke, and can be made to do almost anything under Its influence, Travellers in Egypt, it is asserted rely more on tobacco smoke for their contral
over there bage has than anything else, When travelling o lang Journeys the dromes daries are in my eares required to travel sight and day without rest, and the beasts are kept up to their tasks by smoking cigar. The driver carries a triangular plece of wood, which is pierced at one pelat like a cigar-holder. This inserted in the mouth of the beast, the cigar being. Jit and pressed inic the hole in the same fashion followed by man. The dromedary Ima mediately closes its eyes and puffssway through Its nostrils till the cigar is burned away.
On the afternoon of the 5th inst., the mem- bers of the Tokio Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Merchants and Manufacturers, and the Keishia Club entertained Mr. George Anderson, the Canadian trade commissioner, to banquer at the Imperial Hotel, Taklo. Count Okuma, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and alto for Agriculture and Commerce, Mr. Komers, the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. In the Foreign Department, and Mr. Minors, the Director of the Commercial Bureau in the Agricultural and Commercial Department, and other prominent officials were present, Count
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so it was a collection of straggling bamboo huis Now there are nearly 1,000 houses, many wall built of timber and Iron, and the commonest of timber with mat walls. There are two bastars large and well attended. Trade is brisk and twice, a week numerous carls come into the town from a radius of thlaty miles. The streets are kepi neat and clean. The roads near Mong Nai are looked after by the Chief, who finds in the prosperity of his subjects a sure guarantee that his own position is secure, Mr. H. A. C. Müller, Assistant Engineer, Pabile Works Department, has 'bran of great assistance al Kengtong in advising the Chief regarding roads buildings etc. His record of the thermometer readings at his station is of interest, showing that for three months of the cold weather the maximum was seldom above 80 whilst the
minimum was as low as 41 ona dey to February last. Mr. Hildebrand, C.1.E, Superintendent of The Southern Shan States, notices in his report that thousands of cartloads of rice from the Shan States have been this year sent for the first time to the famine districts of Burma. This record of progress of cultivation and trade in tes years la noteworthy. The Shan States, with peace and order guaranteed, might, if they word joined by Rallway with Rangoon, prove the real Erary of the whole provlace, Rice, wheat, and almost every cereal and froß grow there to perfection,
NAVAL NOTES.
the mother of Baita binejickety," has done Miss Agnes Weston, known in England as more for the uplifting of the English allor than any other woman." She has established many "rest" and darleg the thirty years of her labour
CORRESPONDENCE,
(We do not neommarly underse the opinions expessoal ky Correspondents in this column. J
THE NOBLE ONE HUNDRED,
To vakarron or tw# “Homonowo Tulearkim,” SIR-When the "Raya!" Horgkong Gell Club was sprung upon the commualty I con- celved the erronesos (den that snabblem In Hongkong had obtained a' pinascle beyond | which it was impossibla for the most lafly ims. gination to moar, and thai to trace it backwards through all its peculiar ramifications it would be recentry to have,the iron serve of a black- smith unless one wished to sw(7)¿umb —
1 am, Sir, an old man getting inch by such bald wad must confess to iceling = trifin scored at the fallaciousness of my own puny judgement Why, "Sir, you will hardly believe lí, they have started a self constituted committee of the C.C. with power to sảd in their number. Do you think this is Whe! I diens hear the like o't before.
Oh gallant one hundred
Your seawatawy's blundered
Bat maly you can tell me if his true Does "exclusivo " rule the "clay
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And the C.C, bare to pay For the dinner at the Kelub given by you 'Z #m, Sir,
REVENUES AND HOW TO RAISE
THEM
To v Karon or trx “Hongkong Tagastare,“
STUDIES IN CHINESE STŘRET
LIFE.
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| an Xnglishman could hear a hundred yards away. "In the midst of a Buddhist "service" ko will call to his companion in loud tones to take note of the intruding foreigner, whereupon va has an adrastrable opportunity for nothlag those who are apparently praying with the spirit and those whore devotion is merely Up-service. The former are the obliviour; thelatter the Far Easi- ca altualists.—N, C. D. News.
H
A REMARKABLE STORY OF RUSSIAN TREASON.
More than a century and a half ago the read ing public af our English tongue were laught the wholesome lesson that "The proper study of mankind in Man." We must not pride ourselves that even yet the lesson has been taken entirely to heart.......But we may fairly, congratulate our- selves on the strides that have béen made in the direction Pope would have had us go. For is it not a fact that the tendency of modern study is
The inquiry into the recent theft of mobilisa. toward the practical rather than to the imtion plans from the office of the headquniter practical to the physical, not to the meta-staff at St. Petersburg (sys the TelegrapÀ's phytlesi; to the natural rather than to the correspondent) bas just been concluded, and it supernatural ?
now appears that the culprits-M. Parounoff, a Councillor of State, dis daughter, the adjutant to the commandent of the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, Lieutenant-Colonel Tourtshaoleoff, officer of the Turkish army-merely stole and Color et Abdurahman Suleiman, an ex- tentative draft of mobilisation plsss, which possessed no real importance, and sold it, with the aid of two Austrian objecta resident at Vienna, for the sum of 2,000 roubles. The dccament was obtained by Tourtsbaninoff and Abdurahman, who passed it on to Paronnoff, and the latter in dis tarn sent it to Vienna in charge of his daughter, who received the 2,000 roubles. Moreover, the Austrian Governmnest promised to give another 15,000 roubles if they were faralshed with the rest of the twenty-five mobilisation plans, which being printed at St. Petersburg. In the canse of the investigation which has just bean: completed there was found at the residences of the defendants a whole mais of compromising papers received by Parounoff from the Austrian
ATS
So far as our knowledge of the Chinere goes most of us are content with very superficial knowledge of the business capacity or the political weight of those with whom we come la contact. Their social ile ts as sealed a book to ur, except In the pages of Dolittle, ma curs is to them. Few except the missionaries," "Ever go below the karlace, and of the area which that presents we know only the portions bounded by the office and the Bubbling Well Road. To sto native ilfe in ker native atate so far as our Kettles ments will allow, we must seek for the lanes and ONE WHO AIN'T GOING TO BE alleys where the advent of a foreigner is an event to be noticed. Once there the first thing SHOT AT.
that impresses itself on the mind is the marvel lous fertility of the people. Children everywhere. Babies at the breast, little toddlers and sturdy arching meet as by the core. Every house seems to send forth its contingent of lads and lasses, chubby, grobby, and glad. For there seems to be a wonderful fand of good temper amongst these lower orders of Chinese. One *** quarrels now and then, usually in the neighbourhood of wine shops, but amongst the Mialsters for War and for Foreign Affairs, private residences (save the mark!) kindly good Amongst this correspondence was discovered a nature appears to be the ordinary governing highly characteristic document, which set out a power. Everybody is busy, even the Intant start of tariff of prices to be paid for various Ras- le happy over a problem connected with 25 to 35,00 zoubles. Parounoff's daughter bamboo plaything. Seated in his go-cart he pleaded that she did not know what were the looks the image of a budding Stephenson contents of the envelope she received. She simply was ordered to take it to Vienna, where Or Watt, so gravely does be examine in she would be given the money which was to the "works" of his marvellous toy. His
| save her father from ruận. All the prisönerS ALS mother takes little heed till hunger makes him restless, and he in tura asserts his presence and
now interned in the fortress of St. Peter and bis needs. The butcher, the baker, the St. Paul, and will be tried by court-martial. In candle-stick maker" and every other trade all probability the officers will be shot, Parauns!! may be found somewhere near these streets.will be hanged, and the girl will be sent to per They know nothing as yet of an eight hours' petuai exile in Siberta. | day." Eighteen is much nearer their mark, and they have co Sunday, much less Saturday hall- holidays.
SIR,-Aprovas of-the contemplated increas in the charge of rates and texas by not per cent, future to s to vield $10,000 annually to meet Permament Memorials, I think the Coleay could the deficiency in the cost of the Diamond Jublies be spared in the necessity of the adoption of this counc
NOTANDA
CALENDAR
OCTOBER.
·Meteorological means dased on tem'ysarg' sbservations to 1895, Barometer...................19.991
Thermometer ..................................763 Humidity 70 Rainfall...1155971863419484813 4.78
TO-DAY, WEATHER REPORT.
O dan data
To am
Barometer 29.97 Thermometer karar " Humidity.. Rainfall
74
29.87 78
39
THIM
TO-DAY.
Saturday, 23rd October, 1897. Chinese-28th of 9th moon of Bird year of
Kwong-ril. (Fête of Hwa Kwang, the God of Fire, and Ma, a deified Physician,) Jewish-871h Tisri, 5658. Mohammedan-161k Fomada 1., 1916.
San-Rus
- Bkr. 1mhAL. Sots Moon-Is Equator 11hr, a.m. High water-Morning ....... Bkr. 18mke, Afternoon ...... TAr. Limita, Low water-Morning Okr. đêmín, Afternoon lär. 9min. ANNIVERSARIES.
1
1849-58 Firatica! Janks'destroyed by H.M S
Fury and Colsamečina nest Hongkong, 1855-The Arrow was commented. 1868-Earl of Derby died. 1895-New Mosque of the Hongkong Regiment
opened at Kowloon,
TO-MORROW. Sunday, 24th Octobež, 1897.
Kwong-tü. Jewish-8th Tisri, 5968. Mohammedan—trik Jomada 7., 1915.
Sup-Res
During the course of, next week wo shouta the breast. His brother, a year and a half older. | slán secret State papers. This tariff ranged from chinese-29th of 9th moon of Bård year of
know whether the fees to be offered for the Opium Farm for the next terms of thres years wil
exceed the present oplum revonne by not less than $30,000 per annum. If the Government had well studied the interests of the Colony sa apprecedented substantial increase of revenus from this source alone would in my humble opinion result.
increasing the Colonial revenue with the con
There are many practical ways of permanently
resorting to increase in rates and taxer. sent and applause of the taxpayers without
There are persons who would be only too readyto pay additional fee for the licenses of rickshas mounting to an increase of about $5000 per annum. At the present rile at fee charged for a license, ricksha owners make an annual furs of 100 per cent on their outlay. A lee 25 cents per head for the Veterinary Surgeon's examination of cattle that land in the Colony can be charged as fi done in the Straits, and as an average of sixty bullocks are dally slaughtered another $5,000 may well be added annually to plating the building of sixteen public latrines In the re-ente, 'The Government is now contem- different parts of the town, a very wise step, from which an acadal increase of revenue by about $10,010 can well be expected. What is enormous increase of revenue would be added to OUT
Treasury If the Government would put up buildings on the reclaimed ares in Taloing shan and receive ise rents therefrom until the
tima arrives when purchasers comas forward to take the losses over from the Government, The sale of the 102 frontage of the Central Market and the plot of ground at the western end of Prays Central, on which we now crected some
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·THE AVERAGE 'MAN'S VOCABULARY.
Many ittle bit of insight one may get even by a casual visit to these alleys and laces. That the Chinese is at heart a countryman and The number of words in the English language fond of plants is plain to all. Soon through the single room of the sext honge wa pass, and there has been a perennisi subject of discussion: ever in a backyard with, perchance, an area of since Samuel Ursus.Major Johnson started the twenty square feet you will see a low pois of race al Belifab and American lexicographers, flowers, and perhaps a dwarf plant or two. It speculations on this sub]:ct'havo been as ziío sa is but a little thing, yet it tells its tale.
Sets
............ Gar. Smia. souomu får. 27 min. High water-Morning ............. Tår: 19min. Afternoon Thr. 35mba. Low water-Morning um Ihr. 25minu Afternoon as Ihr, 37min. ANNIVE-SAREES.
1860-Peking Convention between China and
Grest Britain signed. | 1875–Missias left Shanghai to lavesilgate the
Margary murder. 1578-Samart rebellion at Kumamoto Japan. 1882-Loss of the s.s, Paladin off the coast of
Halpen.
1883-Sir George Bowen returned from Peking. 1994 The Japanese army crossed the Vala. 1896-Chan Tal Yan sentenced to death for the
murder of a mafoo at Causeway Bay, CHURCH SERVICES.
St.
John's Cathedral :-Communien, 7 8.38, Roman Catholic Cathedrals AC Ở BID.,
Matine, 11 a.m., Evensong, 5.45 p.m.
7&t
8 mm. "and 9.30 s.m. Benedicties, SP.D. Union Church Services, 11 x. and 6 pm German Bethesda Chapel, West Point
St.
Morning Service, TI LL.M.
guesses at Chinese population, and, with about As much diverity. Of course, the question nor can and never will be answered: as long as Americans and Britons go abroad among all the nailons of the earth and fight crude nature as misers, colonists, or traders, there wit be a lush and rack growth el ase English words by the processes of theft, adaptation or coinage : no books can ever keep a part passu record of this Now environment produces new growib, thoughts, and the latter inceliably beget, new Inven words nearly every scientific discovery of los brings to simultaneous birth a new vocabu lary, and the process is endless. Dr. Murray's ples," or as it is now widely called, "the Oxford Weskyon Methodist Church♪–Services, 10.ga Dictionary," is, up to date, far-and-away the best
a.m. and 5.45 p.20. authority on the subject, and is probably the finest taken in the West. The quarterly instalment published in July completed the letter D. and a
St.
Francis Church, Wanchal :-Man (Chin.). 6 a.m., (Port.) 7.30 am., Besedlellan, 5 p.,
Service(English), 9 .m. Joseph's Church, Garden Road s-Morning
Taksiz, the Director of the Commericial Bureau bas done much for the canie of teraperanceden sheds, would I venture to way bring opinion. It is the custom of his land where "New English Dictionary on Historical Princi. / St. Anthony's Chopil, West Polat :—Man, 8
Another polat bich strikes a foreigner directly is the lack of privacy. It a Chinese ever has secret, it masi box matter of extreme difficulty for him to keep it. All the family affairs are open to the street. The meals are in public, the family confab" is public; vittore are acceived in pubile, and it would scarcely be golog too far to say that men are born and die la public. Ossides of strict privacy is one which the ardhary native cannot comprehend, Why things should be conducted as though they were full of igeason to the state or danger to one's fellows he cannot understand. He wants to listen, to criticise, to put his ear in and give his newspapers are unknown, and contracts have to be public to be binding.
To one accustomed to Chinese cities the newer appear quite Occidental in their cleanliness and comfort. Almost a model of such quarters is to be found a Hela east of the North Chekiang Road, Henry Bradley had already finished E, five Shunghat, where thereiss block of foreign-design letters are now fully lastalled. These include ed and neatly executed Chloarehouses presenting or extremely archaic, while 2.516 are alien 97,600 words, of which nearly 16,000 are obsoleto, bighly agreeable contrast to others we could
The Immigrants they do not izcinde Scotch or name even within, rettlement bounds.
dialectical words. In other dictionaries these people look healthy and well cared for, the alleys are well paved across their whole width, the baldines are of a more solid description than those of most nailye tenements, water is laid on and the land well-drained,,
trs.
Okama spoke during the evening on the advant. 1 especially requested her to mail the magazin consequently additional taxes would be derived 1 quarters prepared for natives in the settlement and most imposing philological work over under. St. Peter's Siamin': Church |--II - RL. End
ages likely to secree from the development of -trade between Japan and Canada"and expressed- desire for the strengthening of the relations
beiwwen the two conatales.
THE smount of gold paid out at the Osaka branch of the Bank of Japan on the 6th insty was 36,000 yen, of which 15,000 yea for convertible notes and 11,000 yen for allver. On the 5th, 256,180 yen in cold was givra in change at the Kobe Specie Bank, Of this amount, 350,000 yen was paid to the Chartered Bank. On the 6th, a total of 308,120 yan “was. pald, 100,000 yen being for the foreign banks, The following amounts were exchanged at the „places mentioned on the and last, 10
...Silves
Notes. Total. Tokio.......sse' 4,840 - 63,740 68,480 1,185 54 444 345,030 Osaka ........... 30.000 747,000 107,000. Kobe. tiovos 13.950 123.960.
Yokohama 104,
West district,.**
Nagoyant 380 Helkaldo
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www
1,850
2,00 380 1,850
among the tars. Her temperance magazine,
thers and Affist, has met with such flattering home over two lakhs of dollars. The rents success and the United States authorities have of houses in many parts of the Colony have during the last alz mootka teen lacreased and hereby. When buildings are put up on the mons increase of revenue will be added to the "reclamalloni Dow nearly all completed en ebor.
to American warships.
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The Spanish armored cruten Cardinal imanes de Cisneros, lately launched at Ferrel, | is the fth vessel of that type completed since 189, She is eight feet longer than the Infanta and 7000 tons displacement. The horsepower Maria Teresa, being 347 feet on the water-iins is 15,000 and the speed to knots. Her armor contists of bait 12 inches thick, tapering to 4 Inches at the ends, and the main armament is composed of two IX-inch and the 5i-inch quick. firers of the Hostario pattern.
Treasury.
There are other and various ways too ng merous to describs, of enriching The Treasury without resorting to the increase of rates and tuxer which are even'at the present suficiently
high,
It is very unfortunata that this mode of raising the ravenna has appeared in pilot, especially in some Cbinete local daliter, as it is well known the price of land has, since the opening of the West from Canton and interior ports can now and River, shown a healthy tone and capitalista then be found to invest la landed property in
Of the twenty-one British battle-skips in the recent review at Spithead fourteen were built since the Jubilee review to 1887. The battle-ships built more than ren yexru” ago ween the Alexandro, Devostaiton, this Colcay, Infexible, Dreadnaught, Colazımi and
wood. So rapid and great have been the changes in ships, machinery, armor and guns in this period that denbin are expressed by experts (f such ships as the Feffexible and the Alexandra can now be included in the list of efficient bat- tie-ships.
Yours Truly,
A. RUMJAHN. Land and property Brokır.
SIX WEEKS FROM. TOKYO TO KOBE.
The French Minister of Marine is said to be THE ADVENTURES OF A LETTER. about to form an establishment of a military corps of workmen to the arsenale. In time of war the moblisation of these men would take away all those employed in the actual building of warships, and, in addition, all those working in the faland naval eztabil hments whose age randers them fit to be included in the mobiliza them. As this would practically result in the singenty of work in the dock-yarde and other naval establishments if is difficult to discern Just where the advantage comes in to the Govern-
ment.
in our colomas last year we gave the particulars During the progress of the "Postal Flory"
of a telegram which took six months to reach Kobe, thewessage having been "mislaid," as the Post Office remarked with beniga simplicity en delivering the belated communication. We
Very old people are the excopilon. They are as few as the babies are many. An old lady is Occasionally seen sunning herself by the side of a wall Generally she is mambitng something in a far-off sort of way. Nothing seems to have Her present life may further interest for her. Hes entirely in the past, and relanse will doubt. less be a relief..
letters contribute about of the whole: but la the "Ozford' It is anticipated that they will be between one-quarter and a fifth." It is Just possible that half-a-millon words may be tabelated before the work is falshed, but in any case the total will far exceed the supposed maximum in our or any other European language.
6.30 p.m.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS,
MAILS DUE: Tacoma (Tazama) agih fast. French (Malbourne) sõin insi, Indian (Sutrang) 18th font, American (City of Pekteg) `n1st Inst Canadian (Empress of India) 1st prox. English (Rowita) ist prox. American (Dovic) 9th prox, German (Bayern) 28th pros,
THE P. & O. steamer Caylon, from Chins, arrived. With reference to the above It is interesting a Landon on the afternoon of the 16th fast, to recall the curiosa fiction one so okaa sees dellberately stated as fact by other wise and well
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informed wilters,-ibat the average uneducated WE pre informed by the Agents of the Austrias man bau a vocabulary of 200 or 300 words at Lloyd's S.N. Co., that the Company's steamer Whether a recent incident in our expertencemost, and that the range of the educated his debema lett Singapore for this part last
between 1.000 and 3,000. This is sheer non- night. .. was a touch of nature, a bit of remenilc realism;
We once tried an experiment in an or s plece of well-thought-out imposture, we did average child of 8; sitting in a room we pointed THE Agents (Messrs. Jardian, Matheson & Co.j not puute to enquire. We came upon a poor in succession to every festure of the table and inform us that the steamship Suframe, from Total 166,025 773,435 930,460
woman halk-eluting, half-lying, in a corner. Her we got 100 different words without trouble Calcotia and Stralis, left Singapore for this port face was towards the wall, and in her arms she from that alone: these words did not include | yentoiday, the axud lost, at 6 p.m. held a new-born baba. Beblad her lay another verbs, adverbs or particles, but simply such words Few folks have an idea of the cost of running" one of the fxest Contrders, and the income
child of about two years of age. A little group stop, bottom, leg, round, square, fist, bigb, low, derived. The crew numbers from fasty-five to
of salive women had collected round, and were tall, short, cloth, red, blue, carpenter, tonis, fifty, including captain and four officers 50
urally exhibit ander similar circumstances, simple and mostly monosyllabic words used to evidently full of the sympathy that mothers wood, paints, tree, leaves, Tools, &c. $4., the ats employed in the engineering department and 130 are employed in the passenger and
There was a cloth spread for contribution, and denote concrete things and their qualities. Had Fictorioustermer, from Hollow upan li wa depasited our mile. Due notice was stewards' departments, or, in round figures, there
we taken a whole room 67, still better, a well are in all about 300 bands. The Altarie erp.
old, and of the fact that the mother's face was taken of the well-led condition of the two-year-equipped shop, the number would easily 180 tains salaries very from foo to 6750, but in
lito two or three thousand, Yet one had not the record-breaking greyhounds they
hidden. But the apostle's Immortal chapter on amount
even touched on the bundreds of everyday ob charity nowhere mentions the calculating kind, now have the fellow to that incident in the LACCO Der year. The monthly wage-billans to The excessive vibrations of torpedo-box's, about fac02. The coal is a costly item. The large and small, when going at a high rate of Account of the adventures of a letter which lies
and even if it did, he must have had a Scroogelike known to the humblest and densest chaw. Campania, with her yon fumaces, burns, en speed, have altberto been a very serious in-
gift for Bgaran who could have pasted that babe bacon to the natural worlds of vegetation, namored. So if like her sister Mercy, Charity beans and abstract ideas as shooting, talking before us. The letter was posted in Tokyo on the
animal life, &c, nor the simplest of the verbal tons a day, the estimated cost of acout and home convenience to the people on board and also 31st of Augurt and arrived in Kobe, according to Indeed twice blessed, the giver of a cup of cold love, duty, brotherhood, &c., &c. Voyage coming to 4000. The food bili varies injurious to the hall and machinery. Laird the postmarie, on the rst September. The address water may at least console himsell by the an authority quotes it at 4000 for a single Brother of Birkenhead, who have balit gaite
thought that even is a case of imposture his ordinary Intercourse an uneducated man kas no What these writers probabiy’mean is that, in Toyage, or £7000 eat and some paturge in the A number of destroyers, ballare they have Was written clearly and unmistakably (in Eng dad will be sure of half its just reward. busy season. The cost of repolis is great. A overcome the dificulty and are making the lab), the final word "Kebe" being as plain as
occasion to wire more than 200 or 230 separate BIE ship Involves an outlay of 1000 per month, beats habitable and longer-lived. In experi-print." But it plessed some official at the Kot complete without "fors-pidgin " of one sort of
No Chinese street, Izze, or alloy would be words a day, fa, il a phonograph recorded his not including the extensive orarinaling which meats canled on with the Quaff torpedo-beat Post Office to whom the letter was handed for other. There is a story of a Ritualistic carate speech, the daily analyse would like totally di takes place sveży year or tw. 300 per monik destroyer two balanced weights, geregaling salation, and who does not seems to have on these huge steamers you in zapplying the 145 pounds, were fitted to the high-pressure known the difference between "B" and a ball's
who had grown so accustomed to intoning his than 250 separats words. This is a
ferent blog frons implying avice that he could keep up his regalar mono- recall the names of the thousands of comESOR Tatchang....... ell for the machinery Cost of Insurance in crankwab, and two weights of 645 pounds foot, to translate "Kobe" as "Jinsen," Away €1000 per month. The original confis about collectively warn attached to the low-pressure the letter went to Jinsen, where the mistake was
roze and make mental comments on his congre objects which daily affect g.tilon at the same time. "Dearly beloved and mouth, and that therefore his vocabulary is | Hermann «mm....... half a million ready for wes.
crankwebs. The angises were run as various discovered and the letter immediately returned. Batisten, he would say, the scripture morethimited. We have a similar scepticism abou speed, and at 380 revelations the vibrations It reached Kobe after its Hula voyage on the 4th
Dreswell In the B.lish Consular Court at Kobe on the were only one-half of what they were before the September hat ze ne ose into whose bands it
sundry places to "--Ah 1. "Jazz.
of the average educated
Astral mu? 6th, inst, an action was brought by Meurs | weights were attached,
man in writing : it is said to be easily Lanace Bros, against the Northern Pacific Steam The longest period during which any man-of- telligeneric inquire why the missive was return wander II old Soaker was drusk
came at the Kobe Port Office bad sufficient again-lais of course another new hat 7 sathe limits to the verbaga
acknowledge and confess our manifold sing
many thousands of words ile hidden in the me Carill & Co, to recover the sum of So11.30 Royod Wallam, built at Chatham in 1670, and the blue-pencil post-office scrawl, back the letter
youngmory of an educated man waiting and willing to damages. In respect of 810 kege of olía, shipped; nöt broken up until 1830. She was originally a
gentleman & as his counterparts by the thousand mouse forth as the mental procezon require thats WAS sent to Jinsen, reaching the Korean port on frem Tacoma per the steamers Macdufnd 100-gua skip, but was cut down to eighty-four on the 23rd of September. Apparently hopeless one of two things with a perfection that written nearly 600 words, and of there nearly in Far Cathay. Your jest performer can do ald. Why I In these thyen paragraphs we have Braemar, The keys ware align-to" have" guns,..., During her 1zo yatre* existence she was of getting the Kobe Post Office to recognise that tolonliable. „Ha can become so absorbed in his do not ɑrecur; and yet we have hardi | HorozoNG AND WHAMPDA. DOCK RETUREL, been by ken and damaged and the value repaired in numerable times and little, if any, of "Kabo" did not spell Jtars, the postal official davotions as to be entirely oblivious to his referred to common objects or their attributes at t of the calls greatly depreciated in value the alginal material was in her when Anally there kept it until October 6th, when, impressing aureandings, or be can do as the curate thereby The defarsdants in their ang broken up. During the time of wooden vessels the local stamp upon it, he again sisited the did, keep up his sing song and attend to mu swer to the palition, Wald that if any of the life of a shipel war was counted as thirty missive upas its return journey. Reaching Kobe dane affairs at the same time. He never misses Sants greatly desk of famaged, or io.com. Tears wall nor with apparently indestructible on the 11th October, its reappearance seems to a strokejapon the wooden fish-head, bis blows are THE great value of Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Galle
depreciated in value, it was due to material of constuction, the Heal usefulness has have caused ingairy and consultation at the correctly timed, and his tonen sufficiently nasal, Liver Oil with Hypophosphites in Wasting W York momen In cluence of the palette of thisis arguts, beam apparaatly reduced to abest aftteen years. Kobe Post Office, which occupied another tie is, in short, it wing, for the time being, a dual Diseases is shown by the accompanying state. Sham
picking the m010 war matenly with improved pilates pulmonary
Adefendants further As mater of fact; so rapid have been the two days, when, becoming at longià convinces existence. His thoughts are the earth, earthy, meat from D. C. Freeman, Sydney, Aust. Chessang ............
passer Tarneaed Ave years ago am now so sexrly the letter was finally delivered at this office pin case in and 21 out. In the one case, his attacks and gradually wasting away for the obaslata: as no longer to fignis as first-class in yesterday morning.
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oblivion is such that the temple rool might be two years, it affords me great pleasure to testify Buch a plais, unvarnished tale of how a blown off without n inking him aware of it. In that the above medicine has given me great hollers, leglelly and the changes of succesfally, letter, posted at Tokyo on August 31st, reached the other, he has an eye los every new comer relief, and cheerfully recommend it ball sufferie 186) [arried" motive power to waty Kobe on the zat Geptember, was sent to jingin, and an ear for everything that leppoists. There is similar way to myself, In addition I work alues togething Wh elckel-simal and was returned shaace, was, again sent to fianten, te le lot not need at "alasne kandiory ormant my, that it fi viry pleasant to lake == Any
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