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A MAN WITHOUT ENTHUSIASMS. (From Scribner's Monthly)

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I think that neither foilfus Tcould have analysed or satisfactorily explained our mutual attraction; but it is certain that my old class-mate Manson and I were fast friends. He was a most loveable fellow,

ent lack of interest in life which distin guishes what we call a blase man; and this at times to a degres at ouse amusing and exasperating.

He was, as our old school-master once

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on descending, my friend Manson. Rerpan ding to my delighted and surprised greetings, he told me that he had suddenly made up his mind to visit the Far East, and had started without reflecting that he would reach India and southern China at just the wrong time. He had been nearly dead with heat, narrowly escaped a sun-stroke at Can

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man would have been far less efficient Indeed, nothing could have been finer than The rifles, six in number, his behaviour. were brought ap and laid said by side on top of the cabin. Ah How told me that he "sabe loadee that gun," and, to my great surprise, our old fat cook ("Buddha," we used to call him, as his countenance

voluntcored his services in this

TELEGRAPHIC CONFERENCES. Referring to the recent Telegraphle con- ference at home, a contemporary gives the following information :-

In

CHLORAL, OPIUM AND OTHER

NARCOTICS..

No. 6050.-SEPTEMBER 13, 1879.

Dr. B. W. Richardson contributes an

but after he had been for some time partner Wongpoo, or Shanghee River, that pleasant we were still quits a long way from any questiona position which has been asserts that he never mot an opium-eater slonaries. In 1859 they wrote, to Bishop

THE CATHOLIC MISSION IN TIBET. The folowing letter from Mgr. Felix instructive article on Chloral and other Bist, Vicar-Apostollo of Tibet, has conobed Narcotica" to the July number of the Cois-India: The first was held at Paris as far back as 1855, indulgenes has become so common, and posed of inhabitants of Lhansel and Trachi-

This conference is the seventh of its kind, temporary Review. The use of chloral us

"Every year a Tibetan oravan com-

but had begun, long before our college ton, and was caught in a typhoon between expressed the idea of eternal silence and On both these ocassions, the Govern. disease under the name of chloralism. The Tatslealou in the mouth of May, to barter. followed in 1859 by another at Brussels, is jurious, that it is now a recognised lumbo (eight stages from Lhasa) arrives at properties and effects of chicral uro very roady for him, found him a good Canton as well. Then we settled down to our work, Austria, France, and Belgium. The charges similar to those of the mandragorn of the servant, and introduced him at the Club. no old. I aladin or Viking ever more col for telegrams from one country to another ancients, so much so that they may be averages 800 mulsa and from two to thres He was unanimously voted a success. To lected and deliberate, and at the same time were at this time heavy and complicated; counted practically as the same. The wolf skins, lamb and sheep skins, and about hundred men, barters furi, lynx, fox, and people as busy as we all were with the new showing more of the gaudium ce taminis France, for example, was divided into no effectsjare so perniciens that Dr. Richard Not long ago a party of us in the pleasant season's toas a perfectly lazy man was a than our old used up bored member of the less than ten zones, and the French share son, who has made a special study of the 400 loads of wool, for bricks of tea. This talking about one of our fellow-passen-ference and dry eonversation were declared out of jingal range until we reached a place was no less than 1t france per zone. amoking-room of a Pacifia steamer were refreshing spectacle, and his fanguid indif- class of 166. Could we keep those jonke on a message to or from another country properties and uses of chloral, says that year the caravan masters only 400 beasts, if chloral hydrate cannot be kept for use skins, too, are double their former prise. and brings no wool at all. The furs and gers rather a poor specimen of this class extremely "good form." We could hardly of safety? They had high sterns, and the 1885 another conference was held at Paris, within its legitimate sphore as a medicine, The Obiuese are rather put out, and unk the then of the glass itself; and the oldest give him a moment before late afternoon, steersman could be plainly acon. Manson when the following Governments joined to be prescribed by the physician according member of the little group, who had been but be found another lazy man who would took his Kentucky rifle, knelt down away the International Convention :-Denmark, to his judgment, and by him as rarely as lewe intend selling our wool and part of our reason, Henceforth, reply the Tibetans, lighting his cigar very deliberately with the play bezique with him for bours at a stretch, aft and aimed slowly and carefully. Almost creens, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, possible, it were better for mankind not to little wire which one dips in spirits of wine, and declared himself quite content. simultaneously I succeeded in "drawing & Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and are it at any price." He states, however, them to the Grousso (Russian). We have fura to the So po (Mongola), who again sell resumed his sent with the remark, delivered In a few weeks I made up my mind to head" on a large man in the bow of the junk Turkey. On this occasion very important that the habitual use of it among certain not ao far to go as to Tatsianton, and wo with great emphasis

take two or three days' holiday and carry nearer to us. Just as the rifles cracked

measures were adopted. The zone system classes is steadily increasing. **Well, gentlemen, it's a dreadful thing out a cherished plan of a boat-trip on the she fell off visibly and lost way before the

was abolished in favour of at most two ražes He also states that in England, and get good prices. If it were not that we for a young man to have no enthusiasms."

Yangtee, and Manson agreed to accompany dead steersman could be replaced. Nor for each country. The charges were greatly especially in London, the use of absinthe is want tea from Tateloniou, we shall not come The expression brought Manson to my me. We had a large houseboat" of Chi-wasthe large man again visiblo.

reduced, that for France, for example, alarmingly increasing. It is made in again to barter with you.” sind. I do not know why I had not nese model and rig-a fair sailer, and very "I am afraid I can't do as well with the

"It is only eight days ago that the now orowded in rapidly upon me and I sat Wing and Ah How, and our cook were auretry. Let us both fire continually at the maximum of 15 francs to a mean of 3 franes wornwood, alcohol, and a few other in Russian roubles are circulating in the bazar. thought of him before, but reminiscences comfortable; and our two Canton boys, Ah elephant rifle," said Manson, "but I can being altered from a minimum of 14 and a France, and is a mixture of essence of

caravan arrived at Tatsienlou, and already for some moments looking out at the bine to give us good living. I was obliged, on skeersmen." We did so, with varying suc. Conference of 1868 additional d-legates with sulphate of copper, bius vitriol, &c. It now coin comes from. They are Uroutso per 20-word telegram. At the Vienna gredients, but is commonly, adulterated I asked a Tibetan yesterday where all this waves of the Pacific, and oblivious of the account of the illness of my old "lowdah" cass. Ah How and the cook loaded rapidly nice points of the discussion. Finally, it or captain, to engage a new one at short and well, but the rifles were soon somewhat were present from India and Perola, and is generally taken at first as a tonic, like Tehrangka* (Kunstau coin), he answered. It seemed opportans to me to narrate to the notice. I did not know much about him heated, and the breech-londers missed, fire England to India was reduced from £o to according to Dr. Richardson, "a more which brings them in considerable quantity the obarge for a 20-word message from bitters, but soon becomes a ucoessity, and in the caravan from Lhassa and Trackl-fumbo party some of the circumstances under and did not like his looks, but I never overal times. The junks were heavily 22-17; onig, however, to be raised to £4.10 consummate devil of destruction could not to Tatsieniou. As the Tibetans do not which my friend and I had been thrown dreamed of any trouble with him or the manned and could quickly supply the place at a sub-conference convened at Berne concocted by the finest skill of science bring far enough for the amount of tes together.

crew which he engaged. There was a gun-of those whom we shot. They also ar shortly afterwards, in consequence of the devoted to the worst purposes." He would rack in the cabin, and I had put in a couple ranged some kind of protection for the lower tariff being found insufficient to have it brought under the control of the they require, they pay for the balance in of Enfield rifles belonging to the volunteers helmsmen, although we pierced it more enable the Red Sea and Indo-European salo of poisons Act.

Russian roubles said, fortunate in his choice of a father," and two Sharps' from the hong, thinking than once. I began to feel terribly wolfish, Telegraph Companies to make both ends It is some satisfaction to be told that

His Lordship also mentions's scare among and I feared that the tenderay which I have that we might compare their performance at and so filled with rage at our antagoniste meet. This rate again was lowered by the while the habitual use of chloral and the Chinese Mandarina in Tibet, owing to mentioned would be developed by a life of a target. Manson, to my amusemont, added that I could only with difficulty control

an impression that the English wers send- Rome Convention of 1872 to £4 The absinthe is increasing in England, the virtual idleness; and when we had parted, to the armory an elephant rifle, carrying myself sufficiently to aim deliberately; but Rome Conference, having been the arst assertion that has often been made that leg su expedition into the country. and I only knew of his doings through his very heavy ball, which he had brought my friend never showed signs of an ac-held after the control of the telegraphs in opium is increasingly used by the poorer says it should serve to remind people of the The Pioneer, referring to the above letter, letters, and those of mutual acquaintances, from Ceylon, and his own old Kentucky celeration of his pulse. As regularly as Great Britain passed into the hands of the classes in England, is incorrect. Dr. Ri there was every reason to believe that my hunting rifle, which he had been "backing, clock work he took the gun from the China- Government, was attended by a British chardson believes, on the other hand, that pious devotion, which has led these noble forebodinga were correct. He made a abort he said, against all others. I laughed at man, and never fired a second before his

missionaries, through toil and suffering, in trip to Europe, a region which he des- this battery (little thinking what I was to aim was perfect. We rested a short time or portant tel for the funt time the the insinuation that totalhatically denies porila by the heathen and in the widernas, oribed as

more important telegraph, companies were total abstainers from to distant and dangerous Tibet. "slow,"

and then nominally owe to it), and threw in a couple of revolvers at last to take a survey of the situation, so far represented as to be allowed to take alcohol frequently have recourse to opium entered on a business lifo. His abilities to complete our assortment.

and could not disguise from ourselves that

or some other toxicant in its stead. He received in India from these good mis. Before now, communications hava bien were excellent, and his perceptions quick, I shall never forget the sail down the it was serions. The junks were nearer, and part in the discussions, but not to vote on in a firm, friend wrote me that when he afternoon. To appreciate the cool breeze Paoushan. There was nothing for it but being thought impossible, in view of the alcohol, and that he never knew an abstainer via Yunnan and Bhamo in about tox maintained at subsequent conferences, it in England who was an abstainer from Bigandet; their letter reaching Rangoon met him in the street, and asked him where from the south-west one must have endured to go to work again, and we did. For ten fact that upwards of two hundred millions from alcohol on whom rested a suspicion of months. Again in 1868, the late Jung his office was, he received the reply- the sufferings of the summer, and it seemed | minutes or more we kept up an incessant

"I don't know. They've moved since to blow rather from some breezy upland at fire, and although we evidently did much of capital has been suck by private enter indulging in opium.

Bahadur's mission to Pekiu sent back with bome," than from the low-lying, damp damage, the distance between us and them prige in submarine cables, to ignore the

The following on alcohol and tobacco its despatches a letter from the missionaries I was travelling some years later from paddy-fields. As we left the settlement had been perceptibly lessened. We must

to the British Resident in Nepal. The India to Europe. We had a fine steamer behind. I felt like a boy having his first soon expect to hear the report of jingals views on matters vitally affecting their may be interesting:

present-letter contains an interesting refer- "Alcohola cxaite the mind and quicken once to Russia, whose roubles are becoming from Caloutta, and some most agreeable holiday, and even fancied that the very It came in a moment more, and the clumsy Petersburg Conference of 1875, at which the pulses before they depress. Tobncoo current in the Lhassa market-Some five people on board. It was just about the time ordinary sunset reminded me some of the ball fell but little short of us. Manson fadia proposed and carried the important does not in the strict sense excite, but de- and twenty years ago, two catholic mission- that some of the officers who had served in gorgeous ones which I had seen in more turned to me, still cheery and cool. the Mutiny were getting their furloughs, favoured latitudes. We passed Woosung "I believe there is a foreigner there," with single word progression which had there are stages, which some persons always themselves in the valley of Bonga in Tibet "word-tarif" in place of the 10-word unit presses and soothes from the first, so that aries, MMI. Renan and Fage, established and fine fellows they were. My room-mate and the dilapidated earthworks below, said he, who is directing and inspiring been introduced (also at India's instance) fool, when alcohol is antidotal to tobacco, as remote a place, perhaps, as they could a stout, jolly-looking man with rod side-rounded Paoushan Point, and ran a long them. He has escaped as thus far. If at a sub conference held at Vienes in 1878. Amongst those persons who are total have found in all Asia. They leased some whiskers--was in the Residency at Lucknow, way before we anchored for the night. In can get a sight of him and can hit him, I This measure (the word-tariff) met with abstainers from alcohol, few are found who land for their mission house, and began to and was suffering from a wasting disease, but the morning we were under way in good believe we shall get rid of this junk. Since considerable opposition at the hands of the can bear tobacco in the most moderate use preach the gospel. After four years had he was a good shot and they could not spare season, and bore for the North Shore. We you picked off that last steersman of the telegraph companies, who feared that a of it. Under tobacco the heart seems passed, they were turned out of Bonga, and him; and he used to tell me how, when they had our coffee and toast, and were sitting hindmost one, she has fallen off decidedly, alminution of their profits would result rapidly to run down in power, and alcohol their house was burnt down. A treaty was kad loaded his ride, they would prop him aft, when Ah Wing, my favourite servant, Well that is not so bad," as a jingal ball from such facilities for short messges; it is called for to whip it up again, also as it made between China and Franca in 1961, up on his mattress until he could sight a as plucky a boy as ever wore a pigtail, came struck the mast. He asked Ah How to let has, however, proved as sucessful during seems. The fact is that the heart is not and the French envoy at Fekin interceded Sepoy, and then sink hack again. All these aft to speak to me.

him load the Kentucky rifle bimself, and the past 3 years in respect of messages the organ primarily concerned at all, but for them; and being enabled to return to men had been through terrible experiences,

"Master," said he, "jnasce now mi see measured out the powder, wrapped the ball between Europe and Asia, that, se we learn the minute vessels at the termination of Bongs they renewed their labours. Before but they were delighted at going home, two pieces junk home. Mi thinkee he noin a sorap of buckskin and rammed it care from Renter's telegram, the word rate is the arterial circuit. These minute vessels long they had donverted five Tibetan vil- and were generally in the highest spirits, good junk. Mi fear he 'long talle-loon fully bome. Then he knelt down and I remember that they would not turn in" (they are ladrones or pirates). Mi askee watched his chance.

now about to be adopted by the more

are under a nervous intinence by which the lages to Christianity. More missionaries All this time Ah Conservative European administrations. passage of blood through them is regulated, at all the night that we were running up that lowdah-le meuf no epeakee ploppa Wing had kept his eyes and the revolver The nature of the change agreed upon and which influence is readily modified by

were sent from Europe, and the mission the Gulf of Baez, and they were eager to his mouth does not answer me properly).

on the steersman, and our boat had done regarding code language, as

was flourishing. The Lama priests, how- in very refined causes acting through the ever, were jealous of these accesses; at get ashore in the morning. We went up to He say jank b'long he flen (is his friend). ber best. The jingal balle were getting commercial telegrams, is not very clearly organic or emotional nervous centres. The their instigations three of the five villages the hotel, built around a courtyard, and Mi welly fear he no good man."

uncomfortably frequent, and it was only a indicated by Reater. It was universally effect of tobacco on these minste vessels were attacked, and the inhabitants beaten found a Frenchwoman singing "11 Bacio"

I ran forward and looked at the two junks, small satisfaction to have sent an Enfield considered by telegraph administrations through the nervous system, is to cause and carried away captives. One missionary in the shrillest of voices to the accompani- We had changed our course and were run- ballet through the head of one gunner, just that the abuse of the system demanded a ment of sundry instruments played by com-ding west with the wind on our beam. They as he was getting bis sight. All at once radical change in the rules either by that the face of the person affected becomes lives into Ezechuen and Yunnan. Amongst contraction of them as a primary fact, so was murdered, the rest had to fy for their patriots in fez caps. Even the squalid were coming towards us, but both consider heard the report of Manson's rifle and the restricting the admissible languages or by pale and the surface of the body cold, while the fugitives were MM. A. and F. Bist. M. bazaar seemed preferable to this, and we ably to the north, and one more so than the quiet remarks from him.

reducing the number of letters allowed in a the heart labours to force on the supply of F. Bist, along with M. Desgodins (the au were turning to go thither, when I saw, other, Their character was unmistakable, leaning against a pillar, my old friend Man-as was the expression on the lowdah's face. I saw the junk fall off, saw manifest con names from such codes, while entailng an

word; but the mere elimination of proper | blood until its own vascular system comes

under the influence: then the stomach fed with most of their native converts to thor of a work on Tibet published last year) son; and but that he had a "puggery" on He spoke a few words of pidgin English, fusion on board, saw an opening for two or immense amount of trouble on merchants involuntarily contracts, and, after a time, Taska near Ta-tsin-leo in the Chinese pro- his hat, he looked for all the world just as and on my telling him to tura, said with a three good shots, and had seized a fresh in racasting their telegraphio ciphers, does the voluntary muscles, deprived of blood, vince of Szechuen, M. F. Bist, no doubt, he had looked many times at a performance grin:

gun, when I heard Ab How ery, of "Trovatore" or "Favorita "in the old

Master, hab got steamer welly near."not appear calculated, per re, to afford the convulse tremulonely, or pass into active is the M nseigneur Felix Bist, Vicar Apos

desired relief to the telegraph. days in Boston when the supernumeraries

convalsions, as in tetanus. Alcohol, on the tolle of Tibat, whose lotter has reached Hardly one of us had glanced ahead for

other band, through its influence on nervous India, were all from our class. I was delighted to even time to explain matters to Manson. If half an hour. As for the steersman and

functions, relaxes the vessels of the minute meet him, presented him at once to my anything can make one think and act quick-the crew, they had clearly but one thought,

circulation, sets free the heart, reduces the party, and insisted on his going to Cairely, it is the approach of Chinese pirates. I and that was-to save their hands. It was

muscular power, and in every particular with us. He ascented with the remark that jumped down the companion-ladder, seized with a strange feeling of relief and satis- he could not be more bored there than hea large revolver, loaded and capped, con-

counteracts the tobacco." faction that I saw H.M. gunboat Petulant had been at Suez, My companions appre- cealed it under coat, and told Ab Wing topuffing along toward us In five minutes giated his fine qualities, and as they grew

come forward with me. As I passed Man- she was alongside, and I saw my friend better acquainted were disposed to "chaff" 808, who was coolly smoking, and asked no Lieut. Graham's jolly face over her rail. him a little about his eccentricities. Some questions, I whispered,

"What the deuce is the row, old fellow ?" time before we reached our destination he had been telling us of his experiences on arrival in Egypt. He had intended to go to Bombay, but bad changed his mind at Suez the day before we arrived.

I've been there."

"No wantahee go back Shanghae.". There was not a moment to lose. I had

"Habet !"

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claims of the companies to express their

interests,

Next in order came the St.

used..

SIERRA LEONE AND THE ROAD

TAX.

The African Times of July 1st has the following remarks:--

The memorial mentioned in our Sierra Leone news expresses, we have no doubt,

"Stand by the helm, and wait for the he asked in a perplexed way. I explained the general sentiment and opinion of the

word, in case of need."

I told Ab Wing, in as mild a tone as I could command, to tell the lowdah that he had misunderstood me, and that I wanted him to turn around. He was off his guard, and replied in a rapid Chinese soutoncs, and with a chuckle.

"He talkee no wantchee," said Ah Wing. The man was nothing to me at that mo-

our

people of Freetown. The Ordinance

It would be interesting to learn what proportion of the members of our total abstinenco societies are smokera; and some abstainers who once both drank and smoked should be able tell us whether they found the injurious effects of tobacco mo pa pable after they gave up their alcohol than before,-Indian Statesman.

Wirais the present generation, and mainly during the present decade, nearly all the geographical problems left ns by our adventurous ancestore have been solved all the great lines of explorations have been taken up and worked out with a auces

A mátter.

THEOPHRASTUS SUCH" SAYS :—I never hated as a proof of my superiority, oI RO felt sufficiently meritorious to like being thirsty for improvement as to desire that all my acquaintances should give me their candid opinion of me. I really do not want to learn from my enemies. I prefer having none to learn from. Instead of being glad when men use me despitefully, I wish they would behave better and find a more ami- able occupation for their brief intervals from business. In brief, after a close inti. moy with myself for a longer period, than I choose to remember, I fed within me s permanent longing for approbation.

moderate article on the war at the Cape, The National Zeitung, in an able and

as briefly as possible, and told him that I. thought wo had almost finished the job, but he was welcome to the rest of it. He against which it is directed is one for the could hardly wait for me to finish my story, reimposition of a tax, which had been "Fellows talked to me about Grand

"You won't come with us, thon? Well, abolished in 1872 under the enlightened Cairo," said he, " oalled it an epitome of the

good-bye, old fellow. See you in Shanglas, government of Mr Pope Hennessy. That Arabian Nights, Portal of the Orient, and

Full speed ahead! Beat to quarters! Look abolition was a most popular measure; the all that sort of thing. I began to think that

sharp now, and clear away the bow-gun" reimposition is correspondingly odious, and I might amuse myself for a day there. Our

In less than five minutes we heard its certainly, unless there be an adequate cause steamer was late; we were sent through ment but a mad dog. Why I did not blow report, and saw the shot erash into the in the state of the revenue is injudi express, remaining ten minutes in the Cairo his brains out I do not know. I bad backed junk's side. We had had fighting enough clons. The memorialista deny that the that leaves to the future only the details to may be said to fairly represent military station, and all that I saw of the Portal of up to the rail and could put my hand on a for that day and concluded to push on for state of the revenue is such as to fill in. The North-west passage was com and other opinion in Germany as to the the Orient, looking with sleepy eyes through sort of belaying pin. I think I even calou-home. The junk had gone abent, but we afford any justification of so hateful an im- plated more than a quarter of a century struggle with and final overthrow of the the window of the railway carriage, was an tated the force of the blow that laid him know that they were doomed, and the roar post. They affirm that the angraented ago; the Australian interior has been Zulus. Referring to the jubilation of the Englishman in a tweed suit and a sun-hat, out on the deck, before that villainous grin of the broadside soon informed as that it Customs duties, which affect nearly every crossed and recrossed within the past few English press at the re-establishment of the standing before a refreshment bar and call was of his face. There were five men in would be quick work. Ab Wing never imported and exported article, have been years; several bright lines now break up reputation of British arms by the victory ing out, "Two and sixpence for a bottle of the crew. One was steering, two I pitched moved. He would have kept revolver so productive that there are ample funds the once mysterious darkness of the Dark at Ulandi, the above-mentioned journal re- water? Holy Moses!"

down the little hatoh, which I secured. The pointed at the Chinamen until doomsday, for making and keeping in repair the reads Continent the souras of the Nile have Soon after that we went to sleep, and just others, thoroughly frightened, did as Ab had I not told him that he might put it within the settlement in a more substantial been traced, the course of the Congo all marks that it all depends on where the as we rolled into the station I remember that Wing, not a bad sailor himself, told them. away.

manuer than has been hitherto practised, but laid down; the Russians have filled maintained, it continues, that the previone point of honour is sought. Had anyone one of the party awakened him by shouting Mansou put the helma hard down and in a Ah How and "Buddha" took the guns for the purpose; and as we do not conosive ap many, important blanks in Central Asia; disasters of the English troops were due to

without the imposition of any special tax in his ear, Passengers for Sodom and moment we had come about, the sails were below, and made everything tidy, and we Gomorrah will change cars"

drawing, and we were weil to windward, had hardly rounded Paoushan Foint when Governor Rowe to be a wisor or more geographers on the North Amerion on the English army was still able to acquire there is now so mystery to speak of for want of personal bravery, or doubted thas We had hardly time to see the mosque of and under full headway. I gave my revol-Ah Wing came up and said-

judicious Governor than Mr Pope Hennessy, Mehemet Ali and buy some attar of roses, yer to Ah Wing, with directions as to what That cook makes enquire what thing we do hope that the assurance given by the to, and nose of any magnitude on the the mastery over a horde of naked and m when we were hurried off to Alexandria, so he was to do, and no "Caucasian" could you likee chow chow" (eaf), that our only eight of the Pyramids was have obeyed more promptly and intelligent- We had a jolly dinner the next night, meet with due attention and consideration" ocean-bed have been charted, and now, at would have been a brilliant reply to

Secretary of State that "the memorial will / South; even the great outlines of the armed savages, then, of course, Ulundi · last, after a struggle bezun more than 300 Tgandula; but to such foolish assertions even from the train. None of us were "griffins," We dragged the lowdah aft, and pin- Lient. Graham and a couple of his officers is something more, in this instance, than years since, the North-east passage has been blind hatred did not allow itself to give but these majestic structares command in-oned his hands and feat, in anticipation of came just in time. They had handed the the ordinary stereotyped phrase. In the made with an ease that makes one wonder way. What the English had to be re terest at all times, and then we had borrowed his coming to himself. Manson had the survivors of the junks' crews over to the

Ordinance of 1872 abolishing the tax, it why it was not done long ago. that wonderful book, "Our Inheritance in helm, and I asked him to give it to one of Chinese authorities, in whose care was denounced as unjust and oppres of-fact Swedish professor has shown that, proached with (says the National Zatung) the Great Pyramid," from the captain of the the crow. Ah 'Wing was then told (and to rascally lowdah also was. They had made

sive." What was unjust and oppressive with a suftable ship, at the proper season, their military system in such a condition was simply this, that they did not maintain steamer, and read it carefully, so that we this day I remember how the pidgin English short work of their fight, and had no in 1872 can scarcely be just and equit this long-sought for passage. to Far as a well-ordered State ought to enforce in were as eager as schoolboys. Wo were

contrasted with the grim nature of the com- casualties. When the cloth was removed I able in 1879. The official denuncia Cathsy" is a question of only a few weeks. graning our necks to get the first sight, and munication) to make it clear to the helms- tried to get Manson to make a speech, but tion of 1873, confirmed by the approval Of Arctic feats there now remains only the every part of ite administration. The two or three of us aried out, "There they man that if the boat went one inch to lea- the only thing I could get him to say was of the then Secretary of State for the are!" Manson had been leaning back in ward her course, and to the two sailors that he was never less bored in his life than Colonies, cannot possibly be ignored by Pole will be reached sooner or later there shameful disclosures as to army organisas

dash at the Pole," and that the North journal characterises this deficiency as

cancer of long standing, and refers to the his seat with an expression of weariness on that if they moved, except under orders, during the skirmish.

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach; and unless "Go- his countenance. He raised himself slightly from the positions in which they were placed

tion which were made during the Crimean with his hands, took one look, and sank-covered by the revolver they were dead between the Old and the New World, and can show overwhelming cause in favour of incident has probably occurred so curious soldiers from acquiring a glory by their

I have not seen him for years. He drifts vernor Rowe and his Legislative Council can be no doubt-London Times.

In the whole history of advertising no war, but which did not prevent English back in his old place with the remark, "One men.

when I last wrote to him I quoted Haw reimposing an unjust and oppressive" tax, more sensation gone!"

You enbe tlue? (you perfectly under-thorne's expression about the danger of we can have little doubt that the re-enacting as that which is now under daily observa brilliant deeds of valour compared with stand)" I asked Ab Wing,

doing so until the only inheritance left him Ordinance will be disallowed. Any other tion. For several months past, and up to which the victory of Ulandi must not be He was one of the few Chinamen who in either was the six feet for his final rest

course will be at least discourteous to the this very day, an advertisement has ap named in the same breath. It then The summer of 186 was an unusually have what the plainsmen happily call sand, ing-place. But, as I had before insisted to Earl of Kimberley, as well as to Mr Pope peared several times a week, and never proceeds, with no small patriotic pride, to hat one in China. Hesidents of Shanghae or dogged grit, and I saw it in his eye as he my group in the smoking-room, it is a great tate for the Colonies, we should not foel solely of the words "Laugh and grow Fat, birth and breeding, was the first who, net Hennessy; and if we were Secretary of copying less than a column, consisting recount how Prince Albert, a German by paased their time in an artificial tempera-cooked the revolver and replied, "Alla lich- mistake to judge by appearances, and I am ture produced by "paskals" hung over tes (all right)! Mi can do."

sarer of nothing than that I shall never see over-satisfied of the prudence of Governor "Laugh and grow Fat," Laugh and grow withstanding that his life was embitte deaks, dining-tables, and beds-indeed in "At your leisure," said a cool voice, a finer fellow, on this side of Jordan, that Rowe in placing us before the horns of such Fat" and so on, repeated in one line under by the public suspicion of him, gave his every practicable situation. The despotic, "perhaps you will tell me what this is all my friend, the

a dilemma as the committing the said dis. another from the top to the bottom of the days and nights to seek out and remove the without onthusiasms. implacable sun rose each morning as it in about," and Manson lighted a fresh cheroot.

courtesy, or administering to him the re-

page. It is said that the Daily Telegraph defects of the British army. Sime" his vigorated for a renewed career of perseon-I explained to him that we had barely

buke of disallowing his Ordinance..

alone has already received no less than death, however, all efforts in this direction tion, and mocked at bamboo shades, blinde, escaped destruction by treachery, and were mother has not made all mothers venerable: UNHAPPY is the man for whom his own

eleven hundred pounds. for this single and seem to have been abandoned. The and even tiled roofs. Crews of vessels even then in a dire strait. We could not

mysterious advertisement. "And nobody, manufacture of arms alone, thinks the coming up the river were driven from alaft, expect to sail as fast as the pirates, and our

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can conjecture how the advertisers, can National Zeitung, by reason of its technical and strong men, like the Little Shunamite only hope was in their being so far to lee- MEN show their character in nothing

CHINESE have invested $100,000 in possibly hope to recoup themselves for this character, appears to have something a boy in Scripture, oried ont- My head, my ward, and in the range of our rifles. I was

more clearly than by what they think mining apparatus, on the John Day, near enormous outlay Indeed, no two people tractive in it for the English heart, and in head! In the latter part of September perfectly sure of my man, and there was laughable.-Goethe

Canyon City, Oregon. They take out at can agree as to what the advertisement the construction of huge geus England, it came the first relief-ocul nights, then at positively none in my whole acquaintance William Woodard, milkmen, of Somerville, making onesweep a week, and have fourteen

Beston, July 25.-William Hubbard and one sweep of the darrick from $100 to $600, means or can point to Laugh and grow admits, skill stands fast. But as to the last-some refreshing days. I was dressing whom I would so readily have with me as intoricated, last evening entered the laundry derricks in operation now, and expect to coming book or play. One man thinks it and individual development of soldier

Fat can scarcely be the title of a forth actual kernel of all war science the perfect one morning with a serena satisfaction in my old friend, the blasé, indifferent, dilet- the thought that I might put on a flannel fante Manson. He shook me by the hand, of Hop Lee at Charleston A dispute arose hare at least five more this season. The foreboden the dismal apparition of another the events of 1870 and 1871, from which instead of a linen cont, when my boy and said in a cheery voice, wholly unlike about the payment of a bill, and four amount of lumber used by them during comic paper; another guesses it will prove might have learnt so much, and from which announced One piecee gentleman hab got his ordinary one-

Chinsmen assaulted the two men with the season is over 400,000 feet. There are to have heralded some new patent medicine; other States have profited to such a down side, wantohee see you." Stretched on

an axe. The men fad, and the Chinamen not lose than 600 Chinsmen at work on the bat, as I said, no two people agree except tent, seem to have made as temporary in All right, old fellow, we'll beat them." pursued and killed Hubbard. Woodard is clation below John Daytown, and more are in the conviction that in no case can the impression on the English army an extension chair on the veranda. I found,

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