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THE HONGKONG – TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
An Anniversary.
our memory
5. 1991.
FRIDAY. AUGUST-
DAY BY DAY.
THE BOOKSHELI..
(By “Librarian.”)
ON DICTIONARIES. Io its original form
adjectives ready examples are frat Dutch govamor of the Stralis protean," for mach-changed, Settlements. She chits several from the mythical wizard who pearls got from oysters found in GET THE SCENT IN YOUR
was credited with the power of a river in the Malay, Peninsula. transforming himself; Time effaces most things from NOSTRILS AND KEEP YOUR NOSE
and On leaving her host and hostess, "pybrris," for TO THE GROUND, AND DON'T
costly, from this Dutch giri gave them a small yesterday and
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, whose box containing a large pearl: the provided one of the clearest WORRT TOO MUCH ABOUT THE
the victory over a Roman army cost size of a pea with a blus spot on. instances of it, August 4th, waS END OF THE CHASE THE FON allowed to come and go without ON THE THING'S IN THE RUN dictionary was essentially a one-in so many troops that, as be it, and two others not so large
a few
mare such The box was then put away and one single public reference to the AND NOT IN THE FINISH.-G. H. man work, stamped with the in confessed,
Lorimer,
dividuality of its compiler, auch auccesses would have meant the locked up. Several weeks later | fact that it witnessed the begia-
as made the Great Lexicographar annihilation of his forces. The Dr. Legge took it out and en A man living at 345 Reclama. / world-famous. Of course, alerical list might be extended indefinite- | opening it discovered more than papera commented on the matter. tion Street, Vaumat, has reported assistants might be employed, so numerous and varied are Time passes quickly, 300; who to the Police that his wife, aged
this was merely for the copyist's the examples. would think to look back that is 30, has absconded with a servant
task. Nowadays this kind of
calis undertaking
for seven years ago since the news girl, eleven years of ago, |was firat received in this Colony
whole society of collaborators. Innumerable supplementary Yesterday's tween Germany and Britain. We shows that there were two non-work an encyclopaedic character. return sections are appended, giving the remember all the excitement of fatal cases of plague and one Even in regard to the part which it, the days that followed it which fatal case of smallpox. All the may be called the dictionary was witnessed the mobilisation sufferers were Chinese. of the Volunteers, the forming of
not even one of the local news-
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small. Astonished at the pheno menon, he called his chief servant, a Portuguese, who expressed no amazement but declared it to be a common occurreace. 'n inquiry. Dr. Legge found that many of the Dutch people had jars of pearls. Morny
large and small, which had It is fair to say, perhaps, that years later he related the incident accumulated in this way. Some proper, the subject is handled with such wealth of detail and the permission given to l.P.'s to at dinner on board ship. Paris. guards over German prisoners,
the Stonecutters' guards and the A Chinese passanger, 37 years specialised knowledge as to call introduce their wires into the captain was a cautious High Lights duties; how the young of age, on the steamer On Lee for the co-operation of many galleries of the House-from lander and said nothing, but two men went away in their twos berthed at the Hau Tak Wharf, hands. A page is filled with the which all other "stranger
rears later he happened to meet and threes sometimes died suddenly yesterday. He was names of the contributors in one still excluded is an
Dr. Legge in Hongkong and said American production of the kind instice, and completes, in a sense, to him: "It's true, Doctor!" -until Hongkong had a list returning to his native village.
that I have been glancing at the House of Commons for mom-What is true?" of men at the front of which it
"What you could be proud. And then came We learn that Major H. J. F. library in itself, may
The modern dictionary, quite aber wives have long had a told us about the pearls." The definite if generally silent share captain added that he had dis- the conscription, first for local Wallis, Wilts. Rgt, arrived by the averal volumes, but the one-book in their husbands Parliamentary believed the story at the time, but purposes then for active service."Kitano Mara" on Tuesday, for form appears still to be preferred achievements. In later life, it bad investigated the master on The day of all days came too, duty with the 2nd Battalion, in
the compilers, sometimes is true, Mrs. Disraeli generally his voyages between China and November 11th, 1918, and never relief of Major G. Le Ruquet. to the inconvenience of the user. contented herself with waiting Calonia, and had found sub- to-be-forgotten scenes. It all
Assuredly the Post Office would in her brougham in the precincts stantial confirmation of it. seems a long way behind and we have travelled a long road sinceed at Kennedy Town Bathing and
Another thief caught red-hand-¦rule it out of book-post, its bulk till her “dear Dizzy" could rush
avoirdupois being
out and share a pionic dinner We are back to the days of peace, beach was this morning sentenced appropriate to a pantechoicon.
mors with her in that confined space; The old order changeth, even busy with our trading, buying and to three months' bard labour and Nevertheless, there are scholars but members' wives have general- | with 'Hansard."
The greater selling. waiting for better times four hours' stock by Mr. G. N. heroic enough to engage in such ly looked on when their husbands freedom of utterance which mem- commercially. watching with Orme.
enterprises single-handed.
were making great orations, and,bers of Parliament permit them- anxiety the course of interna- tional affairs in Europe. The
example is Prof. Weekley, whose in the more or less dark ages, selves in these days is reflected ALLEN-To Mr. and Mrs. H. Woodward Allen, at the Peak world is not out of the wood by a
The body of a young Chinese Etymological Dictionary of the the wife of one famous Minister in its solemn pages, though dark- Not long Hospital, on August 4th.. a son.
long way yet, but we are getting mate was found floating in the English Language" (John Muris said to have put on a man's ly, as through a glass.
ago Mr. Ronald McNeill was out in spirit. There is soon to be Harbour near the M.B.K. coala. 42a) is storehouse of dress in order to be able to creep
entertainment AS a conference at Washington to yard, Yaumati. There were no
wells of into the Strangers' Gallery. Nor faithfully reported in referring discuss the all important ques-marks of violence and the theory enlightenment. Particularly inter-ip the days of the old grille were to his opponents as "damned
the
House stupid. Following the general passions of the tion of disarmament and is that the boy was accidentally eating is the lore which he has
from gathered concerning words deriv absent
the the world's men and
Ladies' newspaper usage, “Hangard” dis- women drowned. are, in published thought
ed from names, Ullustrating the Gallery. There were stories not pensed with the Victoris dash,
so long ago of process by which proper nouns, and daily act, striving to eliminate
a decidedly and printed the horrid w, rd in full. The remains were sent to the through extended usage, gain vigorous interchange of repartee But somehow, try za it may to re- that led to the catastrophe of male, aged two years, who died for other parts of speech) all the prejudices and jealousies public mortuary of a Chinese wider currency as common nouns between two p litical ladies dur-fect accurately the colloquial and ing a time of stress. And it is popular, the Official Report still which yesterday was the anniver-in Polo Street, Tai Hang, whilst sars. And the common hope of carrying two baskets of segetables word tram derives from a Mr. wives of rivals will be able now Speaking the other day on the A long persistent myth, that the perhaps just as well that the retains an elament of rigidity. mankind is that they will suc yesterday afternoon. He collapOutram, the reputed inventor of to set a suficient distance be-
sed and died suddenly.
tramways, is exploded by the dis-ween each other when feeg is
running high downstairs. With the statement of Col. Amery (Financial Secretary Our Birth Rate.
A Chinese was admitted to thening in English collieries long covery that "trams were run- to the Admiralty on the introduction of the Navy
Government Civil Hospital suffer-before this worthy gentleman Way Estimates the average Britisher will find little to complaining matters in the Government back, which was caused during a tramways." Tradition is right ia are scarcely more surprishig than
There are one or two interesting from a knife wound in the born, the railed roads being called the artificial cultivation of pearls the
The stories just published of Now that a conference in relation to disarmament has been reports which have just been issu-street fight. fixed after a lengthy period of expectancy and disappointed that deserve passing comment.detaining this man in connection vehicle famous in literature, and graphy of the late Professor The police are the mattez of "hanson" cab, this an incident related in the bio- ment, there is at the first look of the thing a certain If one looks at the figures regard with an assault charge
so popular with some literary Legge, remarks e writer in incongruity about embarking upon 1 constructioning births and deaths one can
men as almost to have become Home journal. While he was easily find where it was that Mrs.) programme. Col. Amery's speech demonstrates that such Neville Rolie went astray when yesterday from Batavis with 66 ed by Joseph Aloysius Hanson, Legge gave a home for some The J.C.J.L. Tiitaroem arrived their place of abode, being invent-living at Malacca he and Mrs. a view is illusory. Since the war we have been resting on she recently accused Hongkong undesirables on board. The Sec-in 1834. Macintosh we owe to months to a granddaughter of the our cars with a view to obtaining a more definite idea of of having such an appalling retary for Chinese Affairs is an inventive Scot, Charles Mac- the plans of the other maritime Powers. This passive ashamed of being a
Ideath rate that she was arranging for their repatriation.intosh, who patented a waterproof attitude has been carried to an extent which some critics have already been told that arrived from Saigon with &- unde-
Britisher. The steamer Soi Saoz bas cloth in 1823. regard as perilous. As the Admiralty's Financial Secretary the Chinese will not register sirables on board. stated by way of explanation, such a course of action was their children until they are at only possible because of the unique war experience with least a month old and that in a which our naval personnel is equipped. During the period great number of cases they don't since the war the very existence of the Empire has been completely staked upon the high moral and the professional efficiency of the Navy; but, as Col. Amery pointed out and as is sufficiently obvious, these qualities cannot be sustained indefinitely upon obsolete ships.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1021.
THE NAVAL ESTIMATES.
ceed.
births are never registered at all.
others
*
Between
Housing Bill. Lieutenant Com- mander Kenworthy was making the point that legislation which favoured the moneyed classes did more than Communist propaganda to promote disorder. "It is not twopeppy-ba'p'ny pam-
phlets which are scattered about the 2d. pamphlets," says the the country." he said. It is not Official Report. But there is a much greater difference between "wopenny-ba'p'ny" and "244d." and tweedledee. than there is between tweedledum
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter,
There's lots of folk who think when the truth comes out. To
Ye've
"Boycott" is a gift to the world: from Captain Boycott of Lough Mask House, County Mayo,, Mr. Ellison, timekeeper of the whose prosecution by the Irish Taikoo Dockyard, has report Land League in 1880 brought it register the girls at all. Striking ed to the Police to-day that into use. The remarkable thing proof of this is forthcoming on Wednesday night someone is that this word has passed into the fact that during. 1930 the entered his bedroom in The many European languages. "Boy- there's a call for plain speaking sir ones views is human and by number of note the dim. Bungalow" within the compound cotter" and boycottage" are dow on many matters of public con- totalled 3.54, whereas the num- of the Dock and stole jewellery good French. ber of births that were actually and other articles to the value of tionary has its "boycottieren," but as a rule it is not talk of
The German dic-cern.
switching the truth a train of There's no lack of talk, lies is soon made up. And a half We are now in a position to judge of the comparative is obvious that more children
registered only totalled 2,113. It $45 from the room.
the Dutch its "boycotten." whilst the right kind. The voice of measly beside
truth makes a whole lie look extent of the respective Fleets, and the particulars could not die than were born, and
Russia has appropriated "boyco-expendiency is of: heard while
it, I've submitted to Parliament respecting construction by the so it must be assumed that 1,520
Following on the seizure of tirovat" (to boycott) and "boycotthe pen of conviction is allowed gets a chance to dispose of his noticed too that when a man tsels of raw three leading Sea Powers give cleat support to the assertion large proportion of the local of the value of $3,604 on board
opium tirovanie" (boycotting).
to rast, Wit all our big ques- troubles be aye heaps up the that the programme of replacing tour obsolete ships by one has only to walk around this the sir. Chungva, four Chinese child of the city of Buncombe, of talk, much of it airy and that think that it's a privilege
"Bunkum," it appears, is ations its aye the same, plenty 1925 does not contain any element of challenge or provoca Colony to know that thousands Orme at the police court this that a pompous orator. baring a man to get down to brass tacks.
measure. There's lots of folk too, were charged before Mr. G. N. North Carolios. The story goes therefore uncontrovertible but ask tion. There is much ground for regret that this limited of Chinese children thrive and do morning with being in possession bored the House of Representa- to get his elbows four-square on
to listen to their tale of woe. building plan should be necessary in these days of well and that the birth rate of the druz. One of the prisoners tives with a wearisome speech, a desk and commit his chatter
There's some letters on the industrial depression and high construction costs. but here be considerably higher than the admitted that the box in which a
other hand I get that are no the British Admiralty is providing only against other fleets 3.96 pet thousand calculated last quantity of the opium was found was not speaking to the different colour altogether.
was taken to task by a friend. to paper and it's a dog of a very got to watch out for that kind.
as silly as they look. F-ar from the From the Washington birth. actually bunt or in the process.
registered" The birth rate among claimed any knowledge of the replied.
was his, while the others dis House," the speaker candidly
A rolling stone gathers no mo.s conference a great deal may be expected in regard to the the non-Chinese was 19.15 per contraband notwithstanding that Buncombe his exacting con- perfectly willing to waste half-
Yo meet a man in the street but it's different thing wi' the "I was speaking to chockfal of a grievance that's rolling joke. It's easy for a sharp restriction of future programmes, but it is improbable that thousand-a hopelessdiscrepancy they all occupied the same cabin.stituency. the other Powers attending the conference will offer to if one were forced to take the For the first prisoner, who was
man to make a tool oat of a duil- an-hour of your valuable time scrap ships being built. If there were any probability, or of course, it is not. We and that bail was fixed in the sum of $20,- word "burke" innocently unaware but just you ask him to send plain damned fool. Second-hand Chinese rate as accurate, whicb.epresented by Mr. Leo D'Almada respectable writers have used the fact on an Eifel Tower o' bibles "pawky" but better that then s
It is possible that many quite and is ready to awant to every be careful. Some folks ca' ye.
ONC. So that's why ye've got to even a distinct possibility, that a cessation of this the death rate among the Chinese 000, whilst the kind would be agreed to the Government at flume might (including all dumped bodies) was admitted to bail in the sum of foot of the scaffold upon which and that's the last ye hear of it new and what's more forbye, it were of the fact that it was born at the ye a line or two on the subject experiance is almost as good as well have held its hand for a few months longer: but, un-22.78 per thousand and that $250 each. fortunately, international confidence does not yet attain to among the non-Chinese 179 per
William Burke was hanged at Well, that's easily understood costs ye less. Some folks in this Edinburgh, on January 28, 1829. in a way. this pitch, hopeful as there is reason, to be concerning the sand. If the death rates ap-
The sudden death of a Russian Upon discovering that dead bodies to giving bis vocal chords and here should be like the laundry a man's maybe used Colony think that the newspapers proximate so nearly as that one conference in the autumn.
is justified in assuming that the woman occurred on board the could be disposted of to surgeans his imagination fall play but that advertised On the technical side chief interest attaches to the real birth rates do also. A copy steamer Hwab Cbie moored at the rate of £7.10.0. William when he sees their concrete form declaration that the British Admiralty adheres to the of the report we are quoting from The woroana Strs. Taraussin but, finding the basiness rather think of all he ever know about Having got all that out of my
night. Burke resorted to body-snatching, in black and white he begins to your dirty work."
"Don't kill your wife-let us do capital ship as the basis of sea-power.
This, notwith-would give Mrs. Neville Rolfe in company with her husband tedious, began murder on a whole the law of libel and bow after all system standing the amount of discussion that has taken place, is furiously to think."
and two r. latives had just arriv-sale scale. Fifteen persons were his plate lies under so many ladies tell
I would just like to only what was to be expected. The United States naval
ed On the steamer from disposed of, but the fearsome busi-in
the man wbo
WIOLO Java, and authorities have openly proclaimed, by word and deed. Western And Eastern.
embarkness came to an end through this Horatio Bottomley kind Sheung Shui that I'm no* on Colony and-well, re shout his fare from their belief in the "big ship, and the procedure of Japan In connection with the report
on the steamer Nile to-day Barke's companion in crime torn-jo business doesna' pay after all for making ony comment about and other countries follows the same lines. Apparently of the Tang Wah and Kwong into bed last night, Mrs. Taraussin duly hanged in the present of an end though very often the news fare. The fact that the Govern for Shangbai. When stepping ing King's evidence. Burke was so he loses no sleep in the hinder it. He was charged the correct the special committee of the Imperial Defence Committee to note the growth of the po- dropped to the deck dead. About round the scaffold: Bak bim, nave this sort of news source on to golfers who go from Hongkong Wah Hospitals it is interesting uttered a cry of pain and then immense crowd, who onted papers lose a good stofy. We ment give excursion return rates». the appointment of which was announced at the end of pularity of wateru medical last year but of which no news has since reached us, has treatment among the Chinese of P. Mrs. Taraussin took some Burke bim!" Thus was the word the one hand
medicine and it was an hour later handed down to posterity, taugb nade at least a preliminary pronouncement in this sense, this Colony, It is stated that
to Sheung Shui doesna' make the when she expired. and the lessons of Jatland are interpreted by the Powers among the in-patients of the Tungsart
Whether happily one speaks of parking the thats aye looking for trouble and Hf be had enquired politely from One the other, we have the chap slightest difference in bis case, generally as reinforcing instead of destroying the case for have European treatment against will be determined by a post-
Wab 51.18 per cent. elected to of medicine was the cause of death sinister meaning.
failure or an overdose question with somewhat less crossing more bridges before he the Stadionmaster he would have the battleship, which is also the verdict of Germany's 43.8 last year, whilst among the
comes to them than our P. W.D, got all the necessary information. Old Sam Johnson himself was could ever hope to see built in Does he think I'm fool enough to Grand, Admiral, von Tirpitz. One point in the cabled out-patients 15.24 per cent, wanted mortem examination.
responsible, consciously of generation He's the kind of ask, eilly questions concerning messages of the debate in Parliament certainly calls for western treatment against 15 per
consciously, for a word of this chap whose ex-parte brain runs the whys and the wherefores of comment. The report concludes with the laconic announce-cent. a year previously. In the
type, as we say "Johnsoname" for away wi' him and whose sole differences in fares on our rali ment that outstanding Votes for the Supply Services Ag Walaspital the figures tion that these medical institu- composition of the ponderous object in life seems to get a grouch way just because do vos talle amounting to. no less than £240,000,000 were passed cent of the in-patients had west edatek our Chinese to leave their invented by the engineer of that trouble to verify onything bat back. Not much. I'm ao going. are even higher. Eixty-two per tions are doing when they have order. Then we have macadam" out of his system via the news enough to get stranded as Sheung fer a style of road-making papers. He'll never take the Shut and bad to pay $1.60 to get without discussion. Battleships are expensive articles bat ern treatment against 58 per cent. of Hongkong Chinese to leave their not quite so expensive as this suggests; and even if the last year wh lat mong the out-own ways of treatment ways that ame. Among verbs we have to leaves it to others (supposed to dirty my nest through his Votes include other matters than naval the news makes patients 78.4 elected to receive are by no means inefficacious in bawdierise," signifying to vary to have nothing else to do) to allly cbit. Bgmade i strange reading after the announcement that the Govern in 1919 and 65.3 in 1918. It says foreign (and more enlightened) who
European treat pant against 20.6 many instances and adopt the the rendering, from Dr. Bowdler, accept his abortive mis-state take. It's Winslow be should ment had decided upon retrenchment in earnest.
expurgatedments and to bear the brunt of it have written to, no-Mac Whiner something for the work of educg-methods.
in the harbour last
were to
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