offence
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1899
THE SCHOOLBOY CRICKETER.
ATHLETIC WOMAN.
"FAIR GAME,
He stopped!!
Co Sall practical and hemmed saw him so vividly that There was the indistinct murmur of a chen's
showman.
of the principal European cal joking. is as ethnological problem. They are
Negritos; they have resemblances to all of
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"Donald I"
sight of him. He took no notice of her, but Lady Meredith started back as she caught,
with his back to the light walked straight to the man who was standing
Cunningham you here!" he exclaimed. Dolly, what does this mean? How do you
fear, her angets nervously closed over some But Lady Meredith, her blue eyes dark with thing, made no reply. this man? Are you not aware that he is *"How," he asked sternly, "do you know received at no decent house, that he has been posted at the clubs for cheating at cards?
tory, Meredith; only old fogles remember that Cunningham Laughed. That's ancient his
sime
It was long before Lady. Meredith's Donald took a step forward.
THE FOLK-LORE OF BORNEO."
souls of those who have died a violent death, that Graham was a wrong un, and further any Chiness mandarin now en evidence, who believe every person in the hall was laughing go to Long Julan," where brave women also investigation revealed his identity with the "could" baput, forward to play an important instrainably, I was embarrassed, suspecting met his wife maid. She starte
As he crossed the hall of his own hous Probably the most popular and interesting 80 Tan Tekkan is the place to which the hatless guest of the Shrewsbury Hotel, diplomatic ranie off like own bat. The actual something was the mattes with my cravat, col address on folk-lore yet given before the com- suicides are sent, while Ling Yang, is the Graham is said to have boasted to his High Central Goverment of Chinn is the Cabinet lar, or clothing, but a glance downward and the evening."
Ah Madame did not expect.. parative Literature Society at Camegie Lyceus abode of those who have died by drowning, and bury friends that bis business brought him which attends every meming at the Palace. It nervous fumbling showed they were all right know. Where is your mistress 2 was that delivered the other day, by Dr. Will stillborn, children, who are considered exceed in from £20,000 10 £10,000 a year. This was would be to this body as in the case of an And then I begun laughing, and for a time-the iam Henry Fumess of the University of Penningly brave abola, go to Tenyu Lalu."-The probably an exaggeration, but there can be no English Cabinet, that the finister would have to audience and myself gave way to mirth without promptly. She
Madame is gone out, answered, the girl sylvania on The Folk Lore of Borneo, Hish Timesse
doubt that for several years this redoubtable ultimately turn for collective, responsibility and taik ended with a series of stereopticon vows
spider of real life-all will recall his famous support, If Chinese ways would permit of it. That something like quiet was restored, and I pro mured Donald as he slowly mounted the stairs. a sentence having been uttered. By and by Gone out How Very imprudénti" mur- Dr. Furness said the people of Borneo were
prototype In The Silver King-made an fh Foreign Minister should be a member of ceeded, but that was the most responsive" She ought to have savages, but of a high order, possessed of a
income that most of us would only be too glad the Cabinet would be batter, kis
i was of civilization far above what we usunily.
in pay the tax on-oven at 8d in the to keep feniously and intrigue down,
enough
audience I ever met. At the dose the corpu
The sound of his under slaves to be implied by the tone forged made of the Clifton house, match a corapen: IN DEFENCE OF THE MODERATE
Apropos of the big cricket score recently
what lent gentleman to whom I have alluded intro wife's voice came to woul
have to encounter together
duced himself and explained.
clearly through the what might be termed
from 1
Pred drawing room doert. Land Rosebery's communities they practice the When I was a boy, nearly a third of a century dent makes the following Interesting remarks: co-operative
While we are waiting for you,' he said, What guarantee have 1," he heard her say, arts of weaving, forging, rough implements of
while Li was at Tientsin, may
Hot to
of the experiences of "that this blackmail will not continuo P iton, farming rice and esculent plants, and in 8, made by Adam, when and where I forget. the highest score on record was one of
be cited as proof pro fanto of the possible when you stepped upon the platform and voice, and the same moment Donald, with house-building, boat building, manufacture of
lity of the change: Of the convenience and cloth, and of weapons of defence and
Then in the early or middle sixties. the cricket they show a desire and ability to ornamentt
What we have to do, though we seldom seem economy of nervous force that it would warded that you were the genuine, original A. white drawn face, threw open the curtained their
world was startled the news that a score of able to do it, is to "clear our minds of cant, to effect, there can be no doubt,
by
could hold in no longer, and I reckon door.. work and make it not only useful, but pleasing by E. F. S. Tylecole. This was beaten a few things that are justly comparable with one the onus of translating despatches should be wished to engage Browne to deliver forty
It has been it was the same with the other." 404 had been
a school match at Clifton see things fairly as they are, and to compare suggested, also, that the time has come when madain
When a gentleman in San Francisco who: to the eye us well.
"One of their most serious faults,
ts, however, years later by L. G. B. Ford, with a score of another, and not unjustly. For instance, why thrown on the Yamen. It was necessary, is their adherence to the custom of head hunt- 415, in an intercollegiate match in the long choose out the selfish callous young women first instance, to address the Imperial Govern- asking him what he would take, he replied, in the lectures along the Pacific coast relegraphed, ing, and a sirice observation of the principle of vacation, at Cambridge. This a
and ment Chinese for the obvious reason that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. This by a score of 419 made by a Scotchman in a thing on earth but her biceps and her feeling a despatch in European would have been
"Brandy and water, and made the recipient keeps the different households, even of the match at Chichester against some fairly good of "atness ;" and then put in opposition to her. it a sealed book. There are plenty of Chinesa published of some of his doing's show that | know this man 7 g
of the telegrain pay, the cast. Accounts same tribe, il constant warfare With each other bowling. This was beaten by Stoddart's score the particularly gentle, altruistic, graceful now-scholars of the Tung Wen Kwan and more than once he narrowly escaped personal The origin of the Borneans, as well as that of of 485, in a local match for the Hampstead maiden of the most ideal type, who, according students abroad who have a working know violence on account of this fondness for practi most of the inhabitants of the Polynesian Club. The only other scores of 400 and up-
to Dr. Kenealy, made jam instead of records" wards are McLaren's 424 in a county match, and was a sunbeam in her home fill an adoring acquired, for the most part, to pean languages; Islands,
It was after the war had begun that he refer not Malay, neither are they Mongolian ner and W.-G. Grace's 400 against a 7 in male gathered her to his bosom, with a vision each Foreign Minister address the Chinese red in one of his lectures to the peculiar "forts" the year 1876. In that year W. G. Grace of jam-pots literal and figurative that would Government, in future, in the language which these races, but not enough to any one of them scored 1,000 runs in three innings, wir. the last a life-time of wedded blias? Why not he would use under similar circumstances at a
of public men, Of Washington he said his to claim it as the parent stock. Furthermore,
400 just mentioned and two scores of
compare the first girl with her real prototype, Western Court. One effect would be to compel present time resumble him to an alarming forie was not to have any public mon of the there is a certain amount of evidence in favour recollect aright, on Clifton College ground. spine strapped to a backboard to counter foreign experience as well as a knowledge of Pillow had been compelled to give up or flee and 318 not out in county matches, both, i the selfish, vapourish, hysterial creature, her the employment, at Peking, of men possessing extent. It was about the time that General of the theory that they are the result of succes sive migrations of tribes from India and from ground in a house match. These large scores
Now comes news of a score of 628 on the same act, the effect of the embroidery frame foreign tongues; and that alone would make from Fort Donelson. After mentioning savered
her mind given up to yeunings for a for enlightenment—~1. 3a C. Express. are attributable to two things. First, the large "beau" and an "establishment," her energies
prominent men, the speaker said: scores made by the Graces (E. M. and W.G.) In dissipated over a poodle, or in more or less the early sixties gave an impulse to batting, prulient gossip? Who can doubt that she and the result was that bowling was neglected existed? Who has not caught the last rustle making up amateur elevens, no thought was last sentimental song to the harp, which now. by amateurs
especially For some years, in of her trailing robes, the dying fall of her
dea was to choose men who could make long mouldy than her memory? If any man or given to a man's bowling powers. The one stands. the gamet, its baire cover no more scores, and as the grounds were everywhere woman, doctor or layman, tells me that she much improved enormous scores became the made a better mother of the race than the order on the day. But another, cause of the robust, loud voiced creature, very wholesome, larger scores has been the adoption of a boun- trifle vulgar, rational and cleanminded to a dary all round the ground. Many balls, when degree, with a laugh that does you good to hit, now get through the field to the boundary hear it, and a step that might be more fairy and count for four, when in former days the like with advantage, I simply cannot but think hits were run out, and only one or two runs him or her to be mistaken. Of the two ex- were got for them. If we analyse such scores tremes, the last one is surely the cleaner and sixties, and compare them with scores made by as T. Hayward's und R. Carpenter's in the early even the more lovable. And it is with extremes that extremes should be compared, not with that in the former case half the score was made Hayward's son at the present day, we shall find moderates, who, after all, are in the majority
and never anything but very fairly sensible. up of two's and singles, whereas now half the score is made up of fours, This does not mean that the present generation are harder hitters, but that their hits, reaching a compar atively near boundary, count for more; and they are credited with four, where the only men only got two or three, and had to run for these. Of course the reverse is sometimes the case. I pavilion end of the Oval which reached the pal Baw G. Anderson once make a drive from the ings at the far end of the ground, and eight were run for it. At the present day this would have counted as a boundary bit, and he would have been credited with four only. The Clifton ground, owing to the proximity of the boundary has always favoured long scores-Rangoon
Anam
"The inland tribes of Borneo, by which in clade all the natives except the Malays aciled along the coast, are without any definite forms of religious worship they make idolsofwood. They are the children of Nature, and as such have inherited their parents' disregard for life, and this feature of their temperament has kept them in a constant turmoil of warfare, Communlites build for themselves a common house wherein they live, ever ready to tum out in force and resist the attacks of hostile tribes. In many instances these houses are as much as a quarter of a mile in length, and shelter as many as 400 persons. Each household is presided over by an Orang Tuah, who in turn is governed in a measure by the chief of the tribe, known as the Penghulu. The government of the house- holds seems to be conducted in the quietest manner. I have on several occasions lived in these houses for several weeks, and I have never seen anything approaching a violent quarrel between two members of the same house, nor have I seen the Orang Tuah or the Penghulu submit any of the members to what. might be termed harsh treatment."
The speaker said that the people are not active minded-or industrious in any sense. They yield to the influence of the somewhat pleasant but depressing climate, and, following the example set them by the vast dense jungle on every side, accept life as easily as it comes, Each pool, each tree, each mass of rock, is the home of the sprite, and all the mysterious noises of the forest are whisperings of spints, man of danger or to advise him which course
On every hand are signe and omens to warn
to tako.
Many of the natives of the interior live and die with never glimpse of the sea, and to them the tales which traders tell them of lands beyond the horizon where white men live are as incompréhensible as are the conjectural ac counts which 'astronomers tell us of the canals on the planet Mars. Every tribe has its
of the tale of beginning of all things,
Dr. Furness gays an interesting account of the Kayan version of the story of Genesis, there being no trace of a Supreme Creator in the legend. For this reason, he argued, the people and evidently heard no account of the creation from the Malays or from other outside sources. The Kayans, be explained, are of Northwestern Bornes, and have had little communication with the outside world, except through occasional Chinese or Malay traders. One of their ideas as shown in the legend the wooden sword handle is the
source of all life, might possibly come from the fact that the word for chiel "penghulus derived from "hulu," meaning a sword handle, and the prefix, "peng," dent ing agency, so that the whole word means literally the master of the sword," and thus the ruler or chief,
Gazelle.
THE GENTLEMAN BURGLAR.
SPIDER" IN REAL LIFE. The Weekly Disapich has furnished some remarkable details regarding the life of the "gentleman burglar Robert Graham, who was sentenced at Shrewsbury Bessions recently to" five stretch and seven years' police super vision for having, in concert with one Peter Stanton, relieved the shop of Mr. Evan Jones, a local jeweller, of £700 worth of watches and other costly trinkets. The arrest of Graham occasioned considerable consternation among the bout low of Highbury and Holloway, and no wonder.
a
asunder.
ARTEMUS WARD SHOWMAN,
SOME AMUSING" ANECDOTES. striking personality than Charles F. Browne, The world was never charmed with a more
admiring public as "Artemus Ward, showman." who a generation or more ago was known to an At the time he was adding to his fame as the foremost of and humorous writers lectures, I inquired of him by letter whether his arrangements would permit him to stop in and give for Justy, where I was then living in the affirmative, named the train by which he give us one of his addresses. He replied would arrive, and told me I bad only to select the handsomest man on the platform as himself, while he presumed he would have to do the opposite to identify me. The suggestion was hardly followed to the letter, but we had no difficulty in recognising each other.
The syndicate that invited Browne to Trenton was composed of three young men, of whom i was one. Browne had named as the re hotel I handed him an envelop containing that muneration he expected, and on
the
way to the sum. He declined it with the remark that he would wait to see how we want on, for he could not consent that three men with such mar therefroms. vellous faith as we had shown should suffer
and the audience in consequence was very It happened that the night was unfavourable, small. After the lecture, when I again pressed upon Browne the honorarium promised, be insisted that I should let him know all the expenses we had incurred and the sum total of the receipts. When I had done so he refused to accept more than £5.
was an
The forte of General Pillow is-but no: be hasn't any; it was taken from him."
Browne told me once, when he made this
"No, don't apologise," said the other cool Jy. I've no doubt Lady Meredith with explain everything to you; but if you'll allow me,
"You shall
can't you speak?" this " cried Donald furiously,
"Dorothy, haven't you anything to say?
remark in the West, he saw a lady in the audi. I not stir till I get to the bottom of ence break into tears. Upon inqniring the
make any allusions that could possibly wound cause, be learned that her only son was killed at Fort Donelson. Never after that did he a heart among his listeners. spelling, he said.
Once when I was laughing over his unique
..."
"I am going to quit it; if what write mast depend upon bad spelling it doesn't deserve to live,
"but witty spelling: you will make a mistake "It Is not merely bad spelling," I replied, if you give up that in which alone you are master
orthography until toward the end it was fault He persisted, gradually dropping his queer less. I am still convinced that it was a mistake on his part, for it was one of the most original and attractive of garments, which though but a garment was to a certain extent a factor itself frail frame was unable to stand the drafts made Charles F. Browne died in England. His upon it, for he was fond of lively company, and not always careful in his habits. He never married, but was devotedly attached to his mother, to whom he left the moderate fortune he acquired by his writings and lectures, in adding to the sunshine of existence did his Browne was a genial, kind-hearted genius, who part towards making others happy r
DOLLY MEREDITH'S VISITOR. "I've more than half a mind not to go, Dolly you don't look well, and
Donald, how absurd! Just because your wife happens to have a headache you throw over an engagement."
"Don't you know I'd throw over half hundred if"
with a laugh. But, all the same, it would be "Yes, yes!" and Dolly Meredith turned away too silly. The Farquhars expect you, pour dears; they've taken trouble enough to get. Dulcis married, and, as her trustee, you must be there, and take proper care of her set tlements."
Sir Donald, "making a chap rush down to "It's a beastly nuisance anyway," grumbled Windsor for that. Why coudn't Mrs. Farquhar come up to town? Well, I suppose I must go
or I shall miss the train. Anyway, Dolly, be back tonight; they'll want me to sleep, but I sha'nt."
She was trembling violently, and the paper she held slipped from her fingers. Before she could reach if her husband had seized it
Donald, don't read it!" she cried, spring ing towards him, "For pity's sake, don't. Lat me explain. It is not so bad as it seems on let me tell you everything, at man my honour, it is notl Send that away, and
But a hard, stem loole had settled on her husband's face. His very lips white as he and smoothed out the crumbled paper disengaged himself, from her clinging grasp
Dear Lady Meredith-1 will bring you the letters this afternoon; but I must ask you to let me have the five hundred in notes cheques in these cases are apt to lead to difficulties Yours to command,
Donald seemed to have forgotten Cunning "These letters-you have them? Give them ham's presence. He turned to his wife to me,"
"Give them to me he repeated impa- tiently.
With d fearless sob, Dolly draw from her pocket a packet of letters. They were neatly tied together, and covered with a slip of white paper. Cunningham seized the opportunity Meredith tore the packet open, and the con- to noiselessly glide from the room tents fell. pell-mell upon the rug at his feet. He unfolded one and glanced at it, and then an exclamation burst from his lips,
Yours ever, Phil Dolly, what does this mean? These are letters from Phyll
could have borns at that moment to have learnt bing violently. Donald knelt by her side ho
But Dolly had hidden her face, and was sob
anything his relief was so great de you? She dared to
And Phyllis got frightened, able business-you/
and applied to into this disreput drag you
and she was afraid to ask you. It happened as you think only her husband is so strict, "Oh, Donald, indeed, indeed it is not so bad
inst year when she was at Monte Carlo. Oh, and save you this! the sobbed! I'd have given anything to have helped her
"You gave him the five hundred, then asked Donald
Of course quick | |
THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN." · "
Majesty the Emperor of China agreed to By Article V. of the Treaty of Tientsin "His nominate one of the Secretaries of State, or a President of one of the Boards as the high officer with whom the Ambassador, Minister, the Queen shall transact business, either per- or other Diplomatic Agent of Her Majesty sonally or in writing, on, a footing of perfect equality." The clause was propounded at a time when Chinese and foreign ideas of diplomatic intercourse were far as the poles The Treaty was signed on June 26th, 1858. When Mr. Bruce arrived out twelve months later, for the purpose of chang- ing ratificatious, he found the entrance of the Feiho closed by a boom: Admiral Hope's at Like most humorists, Artemus Ward tempt to force a passage was repulsed; and that inveterate practical joker, sometimes at the risk repulse entailed a second campaign. How of unpleasant personal consequences to himself. hopeicasly divergent were Chinese and Euro- When riding in a carriage with a congenial pean views is shown by the language of Imperial companion through Maine he acted the part of decrees and communications. wau, Bruce," had been distinctly told by Browne was as firm a believer in doing a thing "The English- an escaped lunatic, in charge of his keeper, Kweiliang and Hwashana that Taku was thoroughly as was the new member of the strictly guarded, and that he must go round minstrel troupe who invariably rubbed burnt by the port of Pehtang. Notwithstanding, he cork over every part of his body before going actually forced his way into the port of Taku, upon the stage. He had a rope around his destroying our defensive apparatus."The neck, and when led through a town to the hotel result was one of the first links in a chain of made frantic attempts to break away from his experience which the Chinese have forged for. "keeper, whooped and danced, and sent the themselves. Systematically resisting all de sympathising crowd scampering to cover when By day "Robert Graham, Esq.," of 3 High-atically punished by having to acquiesce, ultim- seemed on the point of breaking loose.
mands for intercourse, they have been system- with a wild shout he plunged toward them and bury-crescent, was a dapper, good-looking little ately, in more extensive concessions than were At one of the charming towns in the same gentleman, whose acquaintance his neighbours at first required.
State the two decided 10 remain for a day and were honoured to make. He was to all outward Although taking the precaution to exact the night. Laying aside his character of a crazy appearances a highly prosperous "something right of residence at Peking, Lord Elgin had man, Browne confidentially informed those in the elty" regular attendant at church, agreed that the right should not be at first with whom he came in contact, and they the owner or a carriage and pair, a leader exercised. One of the consequences, of the were numerous, that his companion was a in local charities, kept most excellent cigars affair at Teku was a revocation of that compro- famous pugilist whose name was then of and good wines, and was most hospitable mise, and insistance on complete execution of public interest, that he had just completed withal His establishement was kept up the Treaty. This revocation was characterised a course of severe training, and was on in a style which betokened a full purse, as "unreasonable, and the whole despatch his way to England to battle for the inter- and the local tradesmen were well content was characterised 29 to get their bills paid once a month. By and extravagant for serious discussion, to could not understand why he was the object #too insubordinate national championship. The gentleman referred night Graham was a bold and skilful cracks Then come man. He despised the large suburban residence occupation of the Anting Gate, and the per words that he overheard gave him the clue.
the expedition of 1860 the of so much personal, admiration until some and the country seat, and confined his opera.manent installation of Foreign Legations at tions to well-stocked twellers' shops, where in Peking. Another column. The idea of win the championship of the world, was one of By and by Browne intimated in his off-band a few minutes he could bag trifles worth stitution of the Tsung-li
was the con- way that his friend, who would undoubtedly thousands, which were not only easily concealed transacting business through the medium of a the most generous of men, and was not averse about life person or carried in a small bag, but Secretary of State was as foreign, probably, to to giving an entertainment in the town hall could be soon placed beyond all possibilty of Chinese nations as the idea of negotiating with provided the proceeds were devoted to some identification by being dropped into the melting Baron DE STAAL at a Cabinet Council would charitable object. pot or broken up and re-set by an assistant be to us. Their instinctive idea was to
"It is be-ugh," and with an effort she pulled Graham employed for this sort of work.
herself together, and stood stately, if very Graham's method of working was daring and invented; and it was taken us evidence of a effective. He would travel down to a town dawning perception of realities, that three sucks son, Browns insisted that the poster should as fast as swift hansom could carry him to test held in Paris, Mile. Jeanne Donal, of the
constitute a Board; so the Tsung-li Yames was pouce, printed and posted on every spare
white, as the servant announced-
Mr. Cunningham.” which he had selected as a suitable field for
Meantime, Donald Meredith was speeding As the result of an international beauty con
FRANCE WINS A BEAUTY, COMPETITION personages as Prince Kung, Kwelliang (a senior noon. his enterprise in a first-class carriage. On Grand Secretary)
members. By successive additions needn's necessarily represent two men in a let his thoughts run in pleasant places. It was winner of the first prize. One or two English and Importance was signified by personal vided it was a work of art. The best the printer said as he looked back he wondered how he described by a correspondent society the number was gradually raised to ten: pugilistic attitude anything would serve, pro- by a six months later they had been marri women, and a number of Americans who are
a year since he had first ioen Dorothy identification with the Grand Connell, most of whose members were, commonly, mem-
could do was to display a representation of a ed, con and a calf
women," entered for the golden bersalse of the new organisation. The to Iluminate with which he was accustomed had ever endured existence without her. People changes of persons have, naturally been nu the farmera
ate his placards advertising of had shaken their heads and looked the advice consolation or second
and be
foci; and it is a time-honoured trafim that Mme Sarah Bernhard, Ro
precipitous paths of life. Donald's fifteen years prominent feature in a duel arising our
running wilfully into the steep places and
sustained puncture in bit seniority to his fiancee had been a splendid peg About the Queen, of, Beauty there
as to whether Hamlet was there was something a little forbidding about ing the first prize to Bille. Dortzal on which to hang homilies and forebodings, but no dispute. They were unanimous Meredith's countenance whenever a preface Paris correspondent has interviewed bo unkind to say disappointed dames and which are situated, somewhat high up for was attempted, and over anloveit were of these beauties in their respective apartments, dowagers had changed the subject, and wealth hat
rapidly hastened to offer their congratulations, only absurd when one came to think that Lady On Mile. Dorttal's table were lying two yellow confiding to each other" that is really was vory NOT VET FOLLOWED FAME Philister, Meredith's younger sister, was years backed novela which had just been sent to hea older than Miss Eraline, ge "L'Art d'Etre Heureux (The Art of Being Phyllis Philister. She was uitm smart, very handled them curiously eva
Dolly herself had been rather afraid of Happy") and - Les Amants" ("The Lovera pretty, and not a little patronising, and it was
Browne wrote out "copy" for a flaming which was set up at the country print available before the close of the after-
declared
can take me to supper at one of the restaurants, Very well, dear. If my head's better, you if you like. There'! do hurry, or you'll get to never knew the numbers of notes, and if he Donald shrugged his shoulder Women Paddington and see the train steam out."
did No, it was best to let things slide and window and watched her husband's cab drive to the awful terror that bad taken possession of Dolly Meredith stood at the drawing-room the mere money was a little thing compared
a sigh of relief."Oh, I thought he would But when Lady. Philister positively off; then she went back into the room and gave him a few moments ago. –
brute may be here at any moment! How I wish remote island to which Sic Donald's interest never gol" she exclaimed wearly; and that she would not accompany her husband to the it were over!" and Dolly Meredith shuddered got him appointed governor, a few moments "If only I can mange not to let him see how conversation with her brother caused her anxious; I look ghastly. desperately frightened I am!" She glanced in rapidly to change her mind; and every one the mirror. No wonder poor old Don was thought it rather mean of the Merediths not
given to the Philisters before they isiled ng to be present at the farewell dinner that was
of afranging her hair. A loud peal of the bell Lady Meredith stopped abruptly in the act had struck her car.
JUDGMENT OF PARIS,
an interpolation that is where the two birds, arrival fe lunched at one of the best hotels, appointed) and Wen Helang were be ornamented with a picture of same sort, It Paddington. He smiled as he loant back and Vaudeville Theatre has been declared the
A legend with
1
When Browne had finished they had not dared to one. It is not ever veruj awarded to Elias AVAI
20 calmly:hen an old bachelor marries a young, wife he culptor, and Catulle leding the f
tendency seemed to be, however, to regard it awaited results
was
is
recently.
Rher critic
The Dyaks, another tribe" continued Dr. Fumess, who are closely akin to the Malaya, and have no doubt borrowed the greater part of their folk lore before the spread of Moham medanism, give an account of the creation differing in every particular from the Kayan ry." This Dyak tale was of the creation of story." a man and a woman By two birds, out of a kumpong: tree, which has a strong fibre and a red sap. These were very inferior beings which became the ancestors of the Maias and the monkeys, from which man as now known there developed. The manufacture of man out of wood, said the speaker, is quite in keeping with a purely Dyak origin to this tale The Dyaks carve their bowls and dishes out of hard wood, otherwise it seems to me that city would have suggested steelf of them as the most suitable substance whereof to have made man, Another item looks as if part of the story were
as related, wers 16-well pleased after making and then he would saunter out for a smoke. man that they rested. This had a suggestion He paid particular attention to the shops, and, of the Grat chapter of Genesis. Likewise in having found out the situation of the beat the land of Kaburaz, It is told all the Jewellers premises, would take rooms at the animals lived in perfect harmony with one nearest hotel to the shop he considered the another, which was a garden apot of the world, most accessible Adopting an assumed name, Garden of Eden Bergman as he lost no time in acquainting himself with merous, and the influence of the fame has we might recognize a certain similarity to
I to the oats and an Kayans seem to know the jeweller's shop which he had marked. and tako Post relating is that connected. Sometimes he would spend a week or as a son of secondary Council; and the Em- Unsuspected by him, his friend, who was though custom of head so closely watching the movements of all the peror's instruction to it, to disquis reforma shadowing him, slipped into the office and every effort is being people connected with the place. At the hotel projects with Kang Yi-wel, may serve to changed the copy so that the full name of by the rulers of the island this custom,vertheless it fe still the one the best of everything. In the smoke-room he is said to have reversed that tendency. There, one of the great pugilist, who, having attained he occupied the best rooms, and, in fact, had illustrate that phase. The Empress Dowager Charles Farrar Browne appeared as the proper passion of the people. It is really a part of was the best of company, having an inexhaus however, the Yamion still is the recognised so much success as a "comic writer and lec: their religion, and no house can be prosperous tibia fund of anecdotes, which is not decorated with a row of human. Having affected his purpose, Graham nover Government and Foreign Powers, and a fitting tity known to his esteemed follow citizens of medium of communication between the Imperial turer," was now quite willing to make his iden kulle, and ne man can hope to get to the hurried away from the scene of his explolt, but expression, in Its cumbrous Inadaptability of his native State. happy.region known as Apo Leggan unless apparently made it a tule 10 leave behind him the impervious stupidity which has brought the
has added a head to whatever tools he had to use. He at any rate Empire to ruin
The poster announced that the notable pugi the household on. The legenda Funs dever used the same rapléments twice. But It has been suggested that we should hark to any one whom he could not vanquish in four list would meet all comen and pay go in gold that the great Tokon
out on there was on article of his burglarious kit to back to our Treaty rights and demand the rounds. The tempting offer brought many war raid, was told by
that he should which he was superilously attached. That appointment of "e Secretory of State, or Pre- aspirants forward, but the universal hopes cen always take the
tead of simply was a small mask, consisting of a piece ofsident of a Board, as the high officer with tred upon a brawny young blacksmith, whe taking black cloth, This mark be regarded as his whom our Ambasador shail transact business, had the opportunity presented, would have the rivere When alf man, and he firmly believed that it would The transition would not be easy for made short work of both the humorists. Need of the stream was: bad day for him
When he lost it. And so on - waï have indicated, the spirit | less to say, that when the doors of the hall were evident that she rather resented any, one comte med exclaimed Nile, Dortzale with
of Chinese administrallen boing mutual opened and there was scarcely standing room ing out his last robbery, at Shrews-
administer through Boards. That away, wondering as their horse jogged along man of the guest who returned bare a a departure from the custom is possible, how in the moonlight how matters were going in
Talbot Hotel having been ever was shown during Li Hung-chang's town. Grahn was soon afterwards arrested, heyday at Tientsin. The admiration which it The personality of the showman, baldheaded,
Upon the dejectives paying a visit was the fashion, once, to express for the old middle-aged, somewhat corpulent who indig
scent they found in a bureniu statesman has turned to contempt since he drew nantly refused to surrender his three-guines coo-worth
all set with a conclusion unflattering to British importance watch to the clerk of the hotel, well knowing the subacquently
lden-from the caucial episode of Port Arthur Still, latter had plotted to act fra to the building so as eries in the time was when Li was practically Foreign to secure the timepiece in the confusion, was so seems, Minister. The Chefoo Convention wasnegotiated indelibly impressed upon the public that cur
any between Li and Sir Thomas Wade, at Chefoo. ous results sometimes folloyed.
ker When Sir Harry Parkes came to a standstill in negotiations with the Taungi Yaten, he was wont to appeal to L But Li's are scarce The great Viceroy was able to play the part, not only because, as possessed in a certain degree the instinctive, intelligence of foreign affairs which muit, in Chins, supply the place
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as part of the anceeds"
Que night, said Browne, “I was late, it getting to the hall in Troy New York A11 went upon the platform and stepped to the desk to begin foticed a large fat man seated in front with his eyes fixed on me. Just as I opened my mouth he bunt into uproarious laughter which was so infections that acote owledge, but because he en". Joined him. I waited until absided, and TOBARAUNIEKE funique, as sale iskan diarred, butï had not said ja dosen words
Awouldst Alaouit to polas tol when the explodid=arughan
ing between her and her brother, for Donald's extravagant sister. But Lady Philister was beauty was born lis Algeria at Nemours There was not the least use in in 1875, of French, parents, in putical
up Dolly's back, as she expressed it, a Sheik fell in love with ma and so the had raber gone out of her way to loved him too. My father turned
nately be nice to her sister-in-law On a souvent house. In despair he sought a dud with the desoin d'un plus betit que kos, she reflected as father of a naval office, and was killed. He did she thought of various bills past, present, and, not wish to live Then Lquarrelled with my alas to come,
Donald, as bis cab drove on, lost himself in the stage. My mother bad not approved of the
father who was also opposed to my going a thousand-and-ons happy memories of Delly, eftentions of the Shelk, but she He felt that it was very ridiculous for a man about the theatre. So I ran
reed with me to be so absurdly in love with his own wife, and left Algeria, and my
róm hom but The cab drew up sharply By Jove, ma first studied with Wo only a minute to catch the train ed as he caught sight of the clock
Ho placuilat servatoire, and afterwords with Inevitably he ran against people, dodged
the Odeon and 1 shall make Vaud porters, and arrived on the platform Just a train steamed out
as the How Dolly will chair be turned back towards: Faida Squre declars did it by p
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