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Prifover at Tower Bridge (to ergeant who accused him of drunkenness): Didn't I walk with you to the station at the rate of four or five miles an hour?-
The Sergo ni (somewhat pert ly): Impossible; I couldn't do it.
A Good Möméry.mi William Federick, a New York Enlet mar, bears the distication of being the only man alive able to quote the whole of the Bible from memory, Without any desire to make show of his powers, bat. simply for his own benefit and for love of the book, he spent 18 years committing the Bible to memory. and can repeat any passage in it from Genosis to Revelation and state exactly where it may be founit,
History for Chinese School. The Ministry of Education has been recommended to insert chapters on the country's dip'a matic blatory during the past half century into al ó 1 tex:-bauke e as to argos:nt students with the weakness of this country and thereby to arouse their patriotic spirit. The board facts will be given in plain language in table for the text-booke, and great care will be taken to avoid any aug gestion which will tend to create anti-foreign feeling.-Exchange
Opium In Shenst and Kahsu. Apart from certain qua ters bas reached the Chinese Govern ment taring that the prohibition
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Supporting Chinese Industries, last Monday, following My happily passing away; but in this TO LET.-"La Hacienda" E. chaite and gentry of Shanghailaron of businese had to be put sively little interest in distant Apply to CHATER and MODY, Ear through the Taoyin submit through. Since then the average faite. And we are almost 5 Queen's Road Central. ted a petition to the Government has been about 2,800 bargains equally indifferent as to whether per day which is less than in the Italy joins the allies or stands out. practical mesenres for the er early days of the reopening of the John Ball bas got his teeth in and done. Daniel ssked when these UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. couragement of the sale of native Honse.
will not badge whether he has terrible times were to be, and he goɔde. The petitioners desire All this is very distressing, but allies cr not, although, thank was told that when the King of that the President should instruo: there are several quite adequate goodneis, there is no wavering the North went against the King the Ministry of Agriculture and explanations for it. In the first about France, Russia and Bel of the South that was the begin Eastern Extension Australasia Commerce to reduce the lax on place well-informed opinion giam. Is the City to-day we ning of those times. No more
& China Telegraph Co. ustive goods so a lo encourage tended strongly to the belief that were far more disturbed about a northerly kingdom than Russia is the people to are native products, the allies would make a string circumstantial report that the over likely to go against a more They also suggest that the Gov-forward movement in April, Lusitania had been torpedoed southerly kingdom than Japan. If ernment should is:us orders to or as soon as the weather favoor- and sank in the Atlantic. You I am correct in tto e items, viz, the cficiale of the Central Goved" as advance.. The first will know the truth long before that the Kaiser is that Prince that ernment and the Chiang Ohua move failed through miscalcola this appears as the moment I should arise shortly before the ent Governors of the provinces, tiona-partly avoidable, partly the cannot get confirmation one way Antichrist, and that the Russo- to take the lead in promoting the reverse-and the second did not or the other. We are all suffering Japanese War was the beginning sale of native goods eo as to set materialise owing to the employ from nerves, but they will come to of the time that should end with anxample to the people. ment of a-phyxisting gases by normal in a day or two.
the bastle of Har-Ma-Gedon, thon detung Rid of the Caterpillars, the Germans. So far the time
we can tell what the principal School children in New York being there is another deadlcok,
events of the next six to ten years | State, a report of State College of except for a few hty contested
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sarda where fortune favours first 830,000,000 tent, caterpillars last one side and then the other. Now
war will end at any moment, but almost certainly before, say, next year.They collected.4,150,150 egg the weather for a fortnight o
March. Turkey will be complete- maises of this pest, each mass more has been absolutely perfect
ly cleared out of Palestine. The averaging 200 eggs. One school and impatient peop o begin to of thirteen pupils in Clinton fear that we have made most
Jews will immediately rebuild the templa-they have the funda County collected 55,525 of these rerious misclaoulations and that
ready. It is estimated to take egg clust:9,, and thus aved
Germans have itll new the
The following, which appeared about three years to build. Countless apple, aob, and lum devices up their sleeve that will in the Cheltenham Echo, has been The Antichrist will appear very trees from blight. It is hoped that render the ultims to task infioitalt seat to us for re-publication. the children of the State will do
shortly, and wars and rumours of The second coming of Christ. preater than was anticipated. even better work this year in
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enemy has descended to methods"A Hellieh Brood" and Jewish ritual and sacrifices ere hai. frait hat keep the trees green and which nearly everyone believed similar items in other papers, I only to last, I believe, for 18 attractive to the eye, ::
had been abolished off the face of wonder if there is anyone who months, which will bring us to the earth for centuries. And this does not believe this is the lett the year 1919, when the last great
Panama,
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eto, part of the money is paid by the canal rights. Panama will people would have been taken out be mistaken for the Anti- coming of Christ. The orthodox ing up." Personally, I can't see neger become an industrial State, and hanged toencourage the others christ. Well, I should think Nero Christian, of course, believes that how we are going to fight our and we doubt very match if the to try and do better. That is the was probably called Antiobrist, Obrist will come so that everyone way to Berlin without terrible
kin res. Him. The Spiritualist, and overwhelming losses, yet canal will ever bring wealth to feeling of nine men out of ten certainly Napoleon war, and now. the country. It is evident that irrespective of party and I can the Kaiser is so-called by a great says the eyes of many people am equally orrisin that German
Prince should arico in in the same way as Elisha's and the nation severely the business will always be of a confidently assure you that our many. But the Bible tells us (not everyone's) will be opened Kaiseriem" will be smashed up punished. mare or less transitory character, momentary pessimiem is only a that a Prince
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