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Curlous" Wills.
The will of Sir John Bingham, just proved, disposes of £340,000
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1915.
“NOTICE,
in jou sisety words- Commend Ten Victor Records
able as is such brevity, it does not break the record of the man who disposed of all his worldly posses8- ions in three words-"All to wile." Sir James Fitz James Stephen
drow up bis will in nine words, which should be in every home
and Matthew Arnold his in thirteen.
Another group of ten records which are among the favoritës in the Victor Record catálog.
Baby Falls from Express. The five-months old child of Captain Harwood, of the Royal Naval Reserve, fell from its mo ther's arms out of the window of 64470 a carriage on the four o'clock ex- prese Im King's Cross to 64300 Grimsby. The baby was picked
74408 up by a platelayar practically; uninjured; but Mr. Harwood, 74406 being so zad with violent hysteria, had to be taken to Hitchen Io. 87.198 firmary, where she was detained.
Number of Cremations. Last year the number of crema. tions in the United Kingdom wa
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1,279, the largest on record. 33519 Since cremation was firét lexi
Thy Beaming Eyes (MacDowell) Braslau
(Song) Marionettes-Scherzo (Cilbert) Powell
(Violin) Samson-Total Eclipse (Handel) Williams
(Song) Parsifat-Amlostas Gebet(Song) Whitehill Rock of Ages (Toplady) (Duet)
Gluck-Homor Mammy Jinny's Jubilee Medley Somebody's Coming to My Military Bont
House Medley
Miss Caprice Waltz Boston,
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A Hungarian Rhapsody, Nő 2. (Part 1) b. Hungarian Rhapsody, No 2, (Part 2)
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ed in 1885, the number of ore ma. tions has been 13.585-at Wok 35352 ing, 3,817; Manchester, 2,001; Glasgow, 640 Liverpool, 717; Tull, 203; Darlington, 109; Joester, 148; Golders Green,
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A Whistler Story.. The recent anniversary of the death of James Whistler remiɩdaj us of a new anecdote about thej painter says the Globe
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infantile sketches be had done. From Our Own Correspondent.) Some rather amazing things None met with unstinted praise, London, Friday July 23rd.
are happening in this war. "How -however; so the lad ran out 'off
the grizzled veterans of the the room, and returned with an-
(Continued from Yesterday.) Service clube, reading their news- other drawing-this time framed. Another "Josie" so we call 'em papera in the same armchairs in Whistler exploded in his cackling idvertises "Bay-to-day and trust the same West End bow-windows laugh. "Good lal, good lad," to-morrow." You do, after on bave that Thackeray knew so well, he exclaimed; "he knows the sampled his vintages. You trust must rub their eye-glasses these value of a frame!"
to-morrow will come damn quick afternoons. Almost all the most I went to the opera the other day, dogmatic progocatioations of the Faust." It was very good. The leading professors, and nearly all The United States War Depart old devil shot up the star-frap the most cherished precepts of ment has effec el a saving of amidst hell dames, quite in the the textbooks, have been scrapped money by the adc plion three years sound old 18.0 way. He was a fine by 's year's experience of ago of a system of correspondence devil-a very good actor with an the real thing". Infantry designed to eliminate what are equally excellent olce. In fact all practice has been turned topsy. termed "superfluous phrases of the principals were good-buttarvy. Cavalry have been struck TO LET-Houses in "Torres
complimentary character," the chorus! It numbered twenty-purless into trenches. The Royal
Buildings" Kowloon Cheap Both military and civil officials two all told, and the stage was a Engineer has returned to a sort of rental. Apply to SPANISH have rigidly to avoid forms of large one. It was worse than ascond military childhood. The DOMINIOAN PROCURATION. address and signature involving Hoses singing in the wilderness, aboriginal earthworks have tri- the use of "Sir," "I would re- (He did sing in the wilderness, umphed over the boasted steel- spectfully," "I have the honour," didn't he?) And they had su clad modern fort. Napoleonic and so forth. At the head of cachorchee ra of about sixty. You strategy has sagged up against a letter it is elated by whom and only heard the chorus when the few strands of barbed wire, Hand-to for when the letter is written; conductor stopped to turn over a to band fighting with bayonet offoere signing as only their page. Four of te went and paid and hammers has replaced long- names, as their rock figuren in bobeach, and had a box: Cheer range baules. Subterranean im- the heading.
0! You ain't been to the opera in mobility has destroyed the pomp box. We could have got one for and circumstance of awilt open Qas resort" bava
The State Council, Peking, ban sixpence, but, after all, one must movements. awenk a bit at the opers. It's made the weather and the way completed the drafting of the Eastern Extension Australasia THE WINNING POST SUMMER
& China Telegraph Co. M.P., to be Chief Justice of the
a ripping opera house, with a the wind blows as important as Chinese Peerage system which Valentis High Court, Mr. Sinder nice, Royal box all complete, when our archers drew their cloth has the unique feature of restrict
sdcceeda Sir Lawrence
with Lerfect acoustics. yard "bhafte at Cressy, Band-ing the enjoyment of the privil
Khanmohomud Oil Company akine, KCIE., who will retire There's no doubt these Italiano thown bombs made out of pickle eges of the peerage to certain
J. M. BECK, November next. The new people take their music as we jare have played se large a part numbers of generations in the
Superintendent. of Justice has been Unionist English take our beer-seriously, as shrapnel, Mediaeval shields linnal descent.
er for the Appleby Division In addition to the opera we have and even body armour and steel
Hongkong, 26th August, 1915. tmorland since 1910, and picture houses, where the worn headpieces have been resurrected. has been Recorder of Wigan and weary pictures of yester-year The British infantry have actual Bince 1901 Sir George Slapylton splatter reluctantly across the ly used bows and arrows, And, Barnes, K.C.B., Secretary to the preen the Belgian Army retrest in an immortal episode of death Board of Trade, has been spling from Lourai; Nat somebody, and glory, the regimental cooke punted an ordinary member of jor other, the famous detective, of the RH.A. bave met "and the Council of the Governor-chasing criminals across America, vanquished the Prussian Guards. General of India, io successo so in fluent Italian (A. D. 1889); Hardly anything has fallen out Sir William Clark. Owing to passionate Italian love dramas as experts were fully entitled to pressure of work at the Beard of where everybody staba or exprot, and nearly everything has Trade, Sir George will not take drowns everybody else, in Part happened that they would have charge of the Department of Com 5, because everybody loves come-been justified in dismissing as merce and Industry (to be re- one they didn't ought to. grotesque. The fact is that when linquished by his predecessor) This is a first class popular line the great crash so long expected antil next March.
here. I went into one of these finally came a year ago the whole Chiness Postal Administration. places one night with the pip, to colossal business was largely in Notwithstanding the rapid de cure it, and came out and nearly the nature of a desperate and valopment of the postal brainees took absintle. (Slight interrup- tragic experiment with the un-Viscountey: The peerage inher in this country, the Ministry of tion. Havo just arisen to marder, known. The latest kind of · ited by one lineal descendant Finance bes found that each year in the Italian manner, a black aeroplane swoope overhead, but investel with baronetcy it loses come hall million dollars beetle about 1 inches long.). The modern science merely succeerle Baronetcy: The peorage is not Shanghai. in this branch of administration population of Malia consiste of a completing the vicious cirols
hereditary. Its privileges and with a view to making up ante, beetles, lice, lizarde, bags, down below. Perhaps
are lost to the family on the this low, a prorol has been and a few people. I booked an is so primeval a thing in ite baron's death. made by the Ministry for, an earwig out of my ear at 1 a.m a very bones that the reversionmitted to the Military Comman The above plan has been sub. increase in the present rate of morning or two ago. Teat life to first principles ig in- ders and Commissioners of the. postage. It is anggested that
gives you splendid facilities for evitable. The conspicuous moral Provinces for their opinions. It hereafter the postage on letters studying the fauna of this island. of it all, however, is that is thought more likely that the delivered between different cities of the country should be four Yesterday I had to take off my there is no astety in dogmaticing above scheme will be laid before against the established order of cents instead of three as at pre that crawled down my neck, and that its metto do, though convened next your.. D. knowledge of the identity of any. huge beetle about so essentially an art as war, the National Congress when it is the Government, or who has gent. An increase of one third of (Meanwhile I've got my eye on a
modern scienceyoked withanoient News. the present rate is proposed on spider as big as a blood-alley, barbariem may still farther brat- other mail matter. It is estimated ready to do battle with him if he alise them, remain as statio and that this will not only enable the comes any arater to the candle,) inoradieable in the great essentiala Government to make up the loss I'm taking your advice sai grow-se does poor bumanity's fighting but will also yield a corplas.- ing a mouslache. This is now instinct. War envisages Death, the fifth day, and it is quite black and Death is immutable. Wo may
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ited for three generations successively invested with, earldom (countship), ·Vis- countey, and baronetcy.. Earldom (Countship): The peerage inherited for two generations, successivoly invested with viscountoy and baronetcy.
SEDITION IN 'EGYPT..
Proclamation Under Martial Law.
Cairo, July 19.The following and busby. Further details (with give it long scientific names, but proclamation was issued here to IF you have lost your appetite probably photo) later. And the the grass grown grave is at the day by General Sir J. G. Max- ore of the big variety of youngster winds up with some end of it. The greatest soldier, well, High Commissioner for dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- rathetic inquiries about old Fleet pomors than the wilicat politician, Egypt DRA JAFE is sure to tempt Street and some rumours he bag in Hamlet's grim phrase, can Every person who has know
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