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THE HONGKONG rELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1912
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General and Rumour-mongers, KING EDWARD
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
that makes Grania an heiro THE RUN ON SHANGHAI and the torst of London, where Dis is starving in rage; and (Continued from Page 5)
the manner in which she re- nounces her riches in favour of SwissLady Abducted in London.
hor unworthy lover. Mr. Mo- Carthy has such a pleasing pon A young lady of Berne has been abducted in London, whore
when i the mood, that his public will find it hard to excuse suck aho was paying a visit to an F
A writer in a literary paper remediooro production. However, glish fataily, whose acquaintance! sho bad made while staying at cently declared that poetry was from another man, we might at Adelboden last summer. Her rapidly' dying a natural death and least command it, as serving to father, who was stopping at a that the time was in sight when fill up a dull evening. hotel, went to join his daughter not only would no postry bo pro-Patches and Pomander: By with the family, but discovered that both the family and the girl had disappeared. Steps having been taken by the Swiss Lega tion in London, the polico immo diately mude an activo search for the missing lady.
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Chen Ying-shih, General of Shanghai, has issued the follow- ing proclamation-The British corporation, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, started a branch in this port and had enjoyed the confidence of the countries of the Arthur Brebner.
world. Recently some parties An intricato plot, deftly han- istence would not be read. The adled, is made out ofa design to put spread rumours here to the effect sertion seems to be too sweeping. forward an alleged son of Prince that the branches of that bank It is undoubtedly true that the Henry as the true heir to the have been affected, causing the vigk oứ, 16th Ján, 1912.
throne of England, occupied by local people to withdraw--their- tendencies of modern times in Charles II. His Majesty is deposits and cash their notes.
Death Through Jealousy.
cline strongly to the material and prominent, in the stry, which The effect of this upon the
piracy, the study market, will be considerable. The daughter, aged five, of that the stros and strain of life concerns
of Black Arts, and mach Its ascertained that the capital cabinet-maker named Bernard,to-day leaves little leisure for living at Sasse-tot-le-Yauernaut,
Mr. Brabner mimius rosurveuolit and such eventualities in the Saine Inferieure, has died reading of a higher order. Alsoles that is comintic or mys of the bank is ample and its from jealously. The child's mo- it is true, as the Psalmist said, that very well the style of the period, are unlikely-Have-discovered ther gave birth to a baby a weak there is nothing now under the and introduces a love element that the Manchus in the north ago, and ever sincs then the little sun and it is difficult to conceive that serves to keep interost awake bope to wreck the money organ girl has had succession of the possibility of any grout now when the muin narrative flags.in the south and have sent mon hysterical fits, and has besought
He makes no show of historical to Shanghai, intentionally to Uudet poem boing created. But during learning providing simply a tak-iuvent such unfounded rumours her parents to send the babynway, On Wednesday night, when hor the last century there lived manying story, lightly made of alight to mislead the people. I have mother reproved her for her sel-groat posts and though to-day materials used to the best advant-deputized officers to detect and fishuess, shogid she could not hear there does not appear to be any age. Anthony, the unconscious arrest such rumour mongers for to see the baby receiving all the bright particular star at all"Prince," and Dorothy, a pirate's avere punishment and it is meet daughter, stand for the milder to issue this proclamation infor attention, and then fell in a fit,
events in the English-speaking ingredients in the dish-ono worth ming the people not to be misled." dying shortly afterwards.
A Notorious Brigand Killed.literary ficmanisat-there is no tasting, and likely enough to The Turkish newspapers publish reason to suppose that the foun-atisfy the appolito of the lover tolograms from Smyrna annuntain of poetical inspiration has of quasi-historical romance. The cing the end of the famous brigand ohief Tehnkerdjiali, who had been an dły. killed near the village of Brza-| While human passions remain bazaar, in the vilayet of Aidin, what they are; while love of in an encounter at the goadar-country, kindred, and "the love 'morio, and congratulate the authorities on the event. Teha divino 'twixt man and maid" kirdjiali was true disciple of continue there is little danger of Fra Diavolo, and has been the poetry ceasing to be written and INTELLECTUAL GAMES. terror of the vilayet for the past road. As the natural voice of
RECENT REVIEWS.
14 years, and was hitherto always love it is immortal. succeeded in frustrating thoofforts to capture him. According to the estimate of a local Smyrn journal, Tehskirdjiali was guilty. of 600 murders, and the ransons obtained by him are computed at £T200,000.
Fortune Lost in Two Hours." Considerablesonestion has been created at Monto Cr-lo by lorr
spurious gallantry of the age finde due expression, while the King's intellect is permitted to show it self in something of its true colours. Altogether, a very road-
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LOVE IN NATURE.
Right through the animal king- dom signs may be detected of Poople may talk as much as the power of love. The most as they please of the brainiuess noticeable are, of course, those of of our forefathers, and how dili-birds. As the mating season The Lady of the Hundred
cult it was fo shine socially in, draws near Nature gives thom a Dresses: By S. R. Crockett. In this novel Mr. Crockett for- for example, the eighteenth cen-special dreas to wear,
Oas extraordinary case may be when Conversation was an Lury, sakes the "Kailyard" for the Art and the wittiest man was the mentioned in the feathered world domain of sonsational drama, most successful. Pormonally, we where the female courts this male. Out of the are inclined to think that either With the cassowary, an Austra with some success. merest shred of material he has our forefathers overrated then- lian bird, it is always leap year. selves or we are a very much When the hen cassowary falls in Wolff, of Hamburg, who daring fashioned a story which not only brainior lot than we suspect. For love, her wattles become enlarged play at roulette during two days dofies description, but provides of late years we have noticed & and brilliantly coloured. Bacho- resulted in losses almost un- precedented in the annals of the excellent entertainment for those tondancy on the part of hostesses lors are doomed if she meets Casino. During 73 turns of the who delight in wildly exciting ad-when giving little parties to them, for she fights like a domon. Insects make as pretty lovers guests playing a whool Hot. Wolf staked on each vanture. It says much tor Mr. occasion upwards of 2168 on an Crockoit that although his-plot/numour of "intellectual" games as any other of Nature's many 12.00 uson to 1.00 pln.
-ho title is Rot, Ours children. The grasshoppers and occasional rocs mumber, 32,
is conceived and developed on which were certainly unknown crickets believe in the power of which failed to tua Xp on a
our rude ancestors. Those music, and regularly serenade single occasion. Only once did the accepted linos and so-called to lierr Wolff fail to loo all he had sensational" fletion, le never games naturally vary in detail, their lady-loven. Among spiders but the main idea of them all is not insects, by the way-tlie on the table, this being when the winning number was 2. I overstops the limit of possibility, the same. Each guestis provided fomalo, as a rule, is" boss."" less than two hours he lost nearly or becomes bizarre in his effects. with paper and pencil and a set she lets her husband do the £13,000. Mr. Firzroy Erskine, Naturally, the credulity of the of questions, which have to be courting.
Fish are not above courting. As answered within a given time. brather of Lord Rosslyn, won in reader is often taxed while read. Sometimes the answers have to the breeding season approaches, the space of a few minutos ng Tao Lady of the Hundred be found in the title.of a popular for example, cho familiar £360, with an initial stake of five Dresses," but it is never tried to song for novel; or, again, it may stickleback clothes himself in
the breaking point, and for this be that all the answers have to glowing colour, and his nature JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BUN, The number of ladies going we thank an author who has al- begin with the same latter of the becomes extremely pugnacious. into business and professional ways stood for moderation. Talphabet. But no matter how the particular game goes, it is quite occupations in Paris is quite describe the plot of Mr. Crockett's clear that the test of the intellect atriking. Such experiments are new phase in fiction would bo to is complote. We know, for we generally made by English and Americane, but there is a similar attempt the impossible in a short have won the booby prize at one if limited, tendency amongst space. It is mainly concerned of those contests ourselves, which was an excellent thing French tomen of the upper class. with an assistant in a big London for our pride, though it was cer-Head Ofina for the Far Eis-18, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONGKONG I have just board (writes one firm of jewellers, and with a clever taiuly a shock to find there wors SHANGHAI: 2-3, Fuochew Road, YOKOHAMA: 82; Water Street. Paris correspondent) of a woman and famous Continental jewel so many intellectual people ga0- of title (of American birth) and
thered together under roof. Still, an English woman, well known thief, whose wife is the lady of that is beside the point, and TICKETS SUPPLIED EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP
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ers plots and counter-plots. She vigour of intellect and the soli- BAGGAGE listed, forwarded and insured at lowest rates. to take the premises on a long more than once helps the hero in darity of mental power that is so clearly rampaut among us at the lense. One of the best hotels in his attempts to unmask the thief,
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