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Yokohama Marriage.
Ruamond Sherman,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1918,
Take home some
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert VICTOR DANCE RECORDS
A. Sharman of Eye, NY..., wa married in Yokohama on the 25th alk to Mr. Edward F. Vorplank manager of the Standard Oil Company's office at Newchwang, Uhins. After the legal ceremony had been performed..at the American Consulate by Mr. H. B. Eltahcock, Vice-Crutal, the wedding service was held at the home of Mr. and Henry LoomİR, 223 Blof. The couple left thatị night for Kimfara, where they will spend a week.
Spotted Fever Fatality in
Shangbal.
It is with mooh' regret that we; (sare the Shanghai "Mercury of March 28) sancanos the death, which occurred from cerebre- spinal meningitis as the Victoris Narsing Home, Shanghai, of Mre. Edith Mildred Jory, the wife of Ur, Henry Jory, chief cfficer in the China Merchants Steam Navigation C. The deceased lady, who had only been ill a few days, wae the only daughter of Mr. and Mr. George Bowell, of the Ohins Inland Mission. She had been married about three monthe, previous to which ebe was one of the most popular nurses at the Victoris Nursing Home. Deep sympathy will be extended to her husband sad to Mr. and Mrs. Howell in their sad bereavement.
Hilegible Handwriting.. In regard to illegible hand- writing, story is told of a com positor, who Wsa dreadfully worried over the M.S. of Thomas Carlyle, which was often almost andecipherable. It got on bis serves to such an extent that he eventually resigned his situation, and left London for Edinburgh, where he took service with a well-known firm of print- HER Just se lack would have it, Carlyle's publishers about the same time transferred some. of their printing contracts to this Edinburgh firm, and oor friend the compositor had not been there. a week when some of the Carlyle MS. was banded to him to be set upin type. 8 soon as he saw the old familiar bandwriting be threw up his arma in despair, "D it all," he said, that old beggar has followed me up to Edin- burgh!"
Once Four Millions. The German Government bas offered, to give a premium of five hundred marke to every poor amarried woman who bears a child and to contribute to the child's support doring the first fourteen years of its life. Sach children will be soúaidered legiti mate. In 1650 after the thirty years' war polygamy waalegalised in Germany. The population bad sook then from seventeen millioca to about four millione,
· mostly famsler, and it was legally ordained that, owing to the necessities of the time and the reduction of the population by: eword, pestilence, and famine: every man should be allowed to take two wives for a period of ten теата. The Emperor Karl of Apetria has already published a decres legitimising the numerous illegitimate children born in Austria since the beginning of the war
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