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THE "DOUBLE ACROSTICS. FOR THE SERVICES."

Tho "Double Acrostics for the Services" aro

boing connected with tho Naval and

restriction applies to the lights.

entertained.

tions by New Year's day,

ANSWER TO ACROSTIC NO. VI.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

No. 5116-NOVEMBER 29, 1879.

THE ALLITERATORS. We want to welter in the blood of the

A DAY WITH THE RAJAH.” cordant stong. It is some national song of the amount was 483 tons, according to Try not to laugh, dear Vanity, I know the chief's ancestors and of the old herols the invoice the quantity was 818 tons.

ON EXCHANGE OF MONEY, you don't mean anything by it; but these days. The place of carousal is a baro spot As regards the Kranjoe and the planks, His from home to the Far East is a few thou- blamed blatherskites who perennially per

The best thing you can bring with you distinguished by the two principal words indian kings are so sensitive. The other near a large and ancient well out of which Honor saw no reason to doubt from the evid- sands of pounds in English gold. You sist in aiming at "apt alliterations artful.

day I was translating to a young Raja what grows a vest peopul tres. Hard by is a snoo that the cost prices were as charged in will then appear respectable and ein visit aid in all articles appearing in their par professions; such for example as "Val Priosep had said about him in big little temple surmounted by a red flag on the invoice and the amount of over insurance the library and publio gardens without ticular papore. We want to welcome all Marling-pike," "Platoon," &o. No such "Purple India" he bad only said that he the drooping bamboo. It is bere that the admitted upon them seemed correctly eati- | blushing. And when you come first to well-wishers of our common country, of was a dissipated young ass and as ugly as a Ganger and Dastakra solemnities are mated. The insurance effected upon the Shanghai, change say a hundred pounds our corrupted commonwealth, and our Mail Office, by noon, on the Friday fol- bekaa to ory, and I had to send for the Reja slowly cireles his horse; ibou jerking plaintiffs amounting only to about 15 %, it charged four abillings and two penna to the this sign of sensationalism, and dreadfully lowing the publication of any one Acrostic, Political Agent to quiet him and put him the thern-bit, causes him to advance puuga obvious that the 4th plen (No. 2 above) dollar, and you will have the advantage of drabbing the driveling, dreary and drooling our aid in seizing upon with the word " Acrostic" on the envelope, to sleep. When you consider the mattor ing and rearing, but dropping first on the cannot be supported. The case of Ionides v. Any arriving subsequently will not be philosophically thero is nothing per se ridi- near foot and then on the off foot with Pender had been strongly relied upon by the makes you feel rich and important and

a nios heavy weight in your pocket. This draff, and driving it from the columns of: culous in a Roja. Take a hypothetical case; admirable precision; and finally, making defendants as showing that such an over- A premium of $10 will be given to the person picture to yourself a Raja who does not get the white monster, now in a lather of insurance would so vitiate the policies. There know a young man who did this. His causes you to look down on people. I once

contemporary collocations of composition. giving the greatest number of correct solu- is

How direfully and distressingly disgunting · · to the lover of light or lofty literature to Every Saturday a, now Acrostic will be given, not catentatiously unfaithful to his Eve-and-hind legs, the Raja's performance concludes decide the paint himself. Having gone caro-ly termed a British traveller. He had with some such sentence as "Dear Daniel gether with the solution of the one of the twenty queens and bis five-and-twenty grand amid many alot of wonder and delightfully and at length into that case, his Honour heard people talk about making mouey, Drew Dond," or "The Boston Batters protious week...The successful names will duchesses, who does not festoon bis thorax from the smooth-tongued conctiers. The said it left the law upon the subject as it" On Change." He changed a hundred

abdomen with curious cutlery and jewelu, thakorea and sardars now exhibit their skill stoed before, and it was thus laid down in sovereigns, and received $480.00 for them. Furious," or "Morky Murder Mangles alao bo published.

Beaten Beautifully," or " The Fire-Fiend who does not paint his face with red oobro, in the manege until the sundea of night fall, the last (1877) edition of Arnold on Marino He was so proud of his exchange that he the Mortal Manes of More Masacred and who sometimes takes a sidelong glance when torches are brought, amid much Insurance page 303, immediately after refer- walked about the streets all day long fin- Men There is a kind of meaningless, at bis affairs, and there is no reason why salaaming, and the cavalcade defiles, ring to the ease of lonides v. Fender. "Ingling his money. He paid his way in gold musical madness about this literary luuscy you should not think of such a one as an through the city, back to the palace. Lights fixing the valuation of goods," Lord Ellen- and refused to touob upon his stock. He that decidedly deceives ita devotees. They Indian king. India is not very fastidions;

are twinkling from the higher casements borough said, "the assured may add to the considered he had found the Et Dorado of think they are doing donghty desde wi so long as the Government le satisfied, the and reflected on the lake below the gola first cost the premium and commission and, exchanges, and was about to write to Punch their queasy, quorulons, and quixotu people of India do not much care what the slave-girls are singing plaintive songs, drum if he sees fit, the probablo profit; or as he an article on the philosopher's stone. In quills; whereas they but mechanically ma- Kajas are like. A pesnant proprietor said and conch answer from the open courtyards. elsewhere puts it he may stipalate that in his wisdom he changed his Mexicans into nipulate meaningless maunderinga, mary- to Me Caird and me the other day, "We The palace is awake. The Raja, we will ease of loss the loss shall be estimated accor- Taels. He then ran down the Bund blessing meretriolous mouthings and mouratul nto poor cultivatora; we cannot afford to romantically presume, bounds lightly from ding to the value of like goods at the port sing" every one except jinrikishs coolies. mutteringa with mendaciona and mediccre keep Itajaa. The Rajas are for the Lord his horse and dauges gaily to the harem to of delivery." The learned judge thus dis- He had received so many bank notes matter. Out on the outre and outrageou fing himself voluptuously into the luxurious tinctly admitted that the assured might value that his mind was deranged. He be- outpourings of these outcasts, these out- The young Maharaja of Kuch Parwani arms of one of the five-and-twenty queens, his goods in the policy so as greatly to exceed came a monomaniac and fancied him- laws. Oust them if you can; outdo them. asauros me that it is not considered the OT ORO of the fivo-and-twenty grand the invoice price, in order to cover the ex-self the Bank of England. He rather If you can Boston Transcript. thing for a Raja at the present day to duchesses; and they stand for one delicious peoted profit. And indeed, as Mr Stevens ignored Rothschild and called him a govern. "A really swell Raja amuses him. moment wreathed within each other's em remarks, this is the real advantage that novus home and an ignoramus. He said self." One hoards money, another plays at braces-

valued policies on goods holde out to the those words over on the Poolung side, soldiering, a third is horsey, a fourth is

merchant. Conformably, therefore, with where there was no one listening. An Irish- amorous, and a fifth gets drunk; at least

the law as he understood it and taking into man told him that these were High Coin With rapiera and bright cuirasses, and 50 Kuch Parwani thinks. Please don't say

consideration the evidenos adduced on behalf tools and that if he had the "raal Chinese" of the defendants by the witnesses who were he would have more of them. The China- called not to establish a custom nor even a man had paid him at the rate of a tael for practice but to state what they think ought dollar and a half-320 taels. He changed to be the practice under sirouaistances which them into Chinese taals and had more 825 in their experience have never before arisen, of them. the Chief Justice said he found himself rapidly making a fortune. This made him He now considered himselt brought to the conclusion, that the 3rd ples go into the Astor House, and stand drinks (No. 1 above) of the defendants as well as for the crowd" and pay for it in gold. verdict must be entered for the plaintiffs.bim and yelled. He shook with sobs and the others had not been made out, and the He then went out where no one could see

bridged from Straits Times.

the tears came into his eyes as he thought how silly the Chinese were, When about starting for Japan he thought he would John Chinaman gave him 380 of these change his money into Yen Sateu, and valuable papers.

Correct answers have been received from

"Silenus," and "Tueping." We regiot that "skates" are net generally employed on land.

VII.

Stately in ponderous masses, we sweep on

our.onward way,

doublets flaunting and gay; Ancestors we of our second, our second more

nimble and keen, Whose skill a proverb is reckoned, where'er

a warrior is seen.

1.

Without their help this beauteous world

were waste,

Yet with their aid, whole nations are eluced,

2.

Enthroned in gorgeous panoply he comes, Midst oymbale clash and tuck of Orient

drums.

3.

O'er scorching sands and arid plain I roata Untamed, I make the wilderness my home."

4,

Of social scoundrels thou art for the worst, In every age by God and man accurat.

5,

Can the leopard change its spota

Or the child of Ham his skin?

Yet spite of outward blots

Souls may be white within.

6.

Ingenious artifice to raise the wind To fly a kite, quite useless you will find,

7.

Chieftain with faithless wife necurst Brave victim to a tyrant's lust.

8.

My acorching breath follows o'er land and

So make all haste to get away from me.

ዓ.

Compelled for love's sweet sake and jealous

вропе

To-wander-where the lowing-cattle-browsc.

10.

In canting, parsons' mouths from year to

year-

Bridegroom and blushing bride, the pretty

dear.

11.

On land and on water it runs and it floats; 'Tis often on borse-back and often in boats;

Sabib,"

that I told you this. The Foreign Secre.. tary knows what a high opinion I have of the Rajas, and indeed he often employs me to whitewash them when they got into scrapes. A little playful, perhaps, but no more loyal Prince in India This is the kind of thing I put into the Annual Administration Reports of the Agencies, and I stick to it. Playful no doubt, but a more loyal class than the Rajas there is not in India. They have built their houses of cards on the thin crust of British Rule that. now covers the crater, and they are ever ready to pour a panofkin of water into a crack to quench the explosive forces. rumbling below.

the acrid after-taste.

While soft there breathes Through the cool casement, mingled with the

sigle Of moonlight flowers masic that seems to rise

From some still lako, so liquidly it rose, And, as it swell'd again at each faint close,

The ear could track through all that maze of

chords

And young sweet voices these impassioned

words-

"No, you there! fetch us a pint of gin; and look sharp, will you

shores

a

Miscellaneous.

one recent week to 18 per 1,000 persons THE mortality in London, which declined living, is considerably below the average of the past ten years. 22 other large towns was 10, and ranges from 14 in Oldham to 20 in Liverpool.

The death rate in

THE distillery of Sir Edmund Hay Carrie and Co., in Bombay, was destroyed by fire on 16th ultimo, the damage being estimated spirits were consumed. at £400,000. No less than 40 000 gallons of

For who, in time, knows whither we may vont The treasure of our tongue, to what strange

ME. Arobibald Forbes, whose health has greatly improved since he return from This gain of our boat glory shall be sent,

South Africa, says the London Athenæum, To enrich unknowing nations with our stores I

THE JAPANESE YEN. What worlds in the yet unformed Orient

We hear it said that the Japanese yen is

arrangement, and proceeding to Alghanle contemplates postponing his leaturing May come refined with accents that are ours! becoming somewhat common in Shanghai, The amiable chief in whose house I am But, dear Vanity, I can see that you are but very much doubt if any Chinese shroff louder than before and wont rejoicing

At this he laughed tan as special correspondent. staying today is exceedingly simple in his impatient of so-nos whose luxuries steal,

or dealer in the Settlement would be through the Inland Sea. Still he paid his before leaving Ceylon, applied for permis ME. J. Wilson, of the World Olzug, habits. At an early hour he issues from spite of yourself, too deep into your soul; prepared to accept it at pet with the expenses in other money, fearing to touch ston to catch twenty elephants for the the zamans and joins two or three of his besides, I dread the effect of such warm Mexican," notwithstanding the recent the pile he bad made. thakores, or barons, who are on duty at situations on a certain Zuleika to whom action of the Japanese Government and changed his money again-obanged it into

In Japan healrcus. Court, in the morning draught of opium. the noto of All Baba is like the thrice-foreign banks in Japan. However desir- Japaness silver. They sit in a circle, and a servant in the distilled strains of the bulbul on Bende-able foreigners and Chinese in Shanghai equivalent of 220 silver yea in ten-cent sanity comes within the pale of criticism, They gave him the Ir is all well enough to say that Weston's contre goes round and pour the kasumba meor's stream. Ho let us electrify ourselves might feel the replacing of the "Mexionn out of a brass bowl and through a woolen back to prose and propriety by thinking of with the yen in China to be, and however and erected Grecian columns with them paid a dollar to see a walking-match.. pieces. These be jiugled unceasingly but it has not been discovered that he ever gloth into their hands, out of which they the Political Agent; let us plunge into the willing they might be themselves to accept on the table. Suddenly be tools another lap it up. Then a cardamum to take away cold waters of dreary reality by conjuring the two coins as of equal valus, the process fancy for Mexicaus. De wished to know

Y. Comm. Advertiser. One hums drowsily up the image of a figure in tail-coat and of supplanting the Mexican with any how much he had made. From the number figure, good features, & fearless glance, CETEWAYO has a stately air, a tall, sinewy two or three tara of an old-world rong: gold buttons dispensing justice while H. other currency would be necessarily a very of ten-cent pieces he was ia poagaasion of he beautiful testh another clears his throat and spits; the. the romantic and picturesque Raja, slow one. Unfortunately the desires of expected about nine hundred. He received his shoulders, and a velvet, skin. Hig

head splendidly set upon obief yawns, and all snap their fingers, to G.C.S.L, amuses himself. Yet we hear people here in the matter have not

one hundred and ninety-eight. This made tire is likewise impressive-n $2 table-cloth prevent evil spirits skipping into his throat; cries from the gallery of Vive M. le to be consulted as mach as those him vehement and talk of "wolching," but of the ordinary red and green pattern. His a late riser joins the circle and all, except Raja; vive la bagatelle !"

millions in the interior, among whom the the innocent Chinaman did not savey what captivity does not seem to affect his spirits; the chief, give him tazim-that is, rise aud salaam; a coarse-jest or two, and the party anathemas of the Foreign Office. Do not Chinese are proverbial for their dislike of to come at once or he would disinherit him. chats pleasantly with his wardens and en- So say we, in faint echoes, defying the Mexican" is the recognised coin. The thing." Just then his uncle sent him a letter he is perfectly cheerful, has a good appetite disperses. A crowd of servants awarm turn this beautiful temple of ancient dava innovation, and it is more than possible | He went home, and when he arrived in Lon-toys his daily walk. round the chief as he shuffle slowly away.

into a mere mill for decrees and budgets; that the Government at Peking may be in-don, the bankers gave him for his 198 Three or four macbearers walk in front but sweep it and purify it, and render, it a daced to enter upon the coinago of a cur- shouting, "Raja. Mabaraj, salaamat ho; fitting shrine for the homage and tribute of rency for the country before the millions speak on the subject of swindling for about tive," said the teacher, is seventeen feet, Mexicans £89 12d. Od. This made blm "THE driving wheel of a certain locomo- nigarakblo "-" Please take notice: to antique loyalty that proud submission, of poople in the interior can bo induced totes minutes. His uncle was so glad to sslington to Mount Pleasant. Now, if a fly ̈ ̈ the King, the great King lat there be

that subordination of the heart which kept accept Japanese yen for "Mexicans." It him that he bought him a pony carriage clings to the edge of that wheel, how far 9ay. It is twenty-eight miles from. Bur- salutation ?" A confidential servant conti-alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of nually leans forwart and whispers in his

an exalted freedom." With tail-coat and ear; another remaina ologé at band with a cocked-bat government "the unbaght silver tea pot containing water and wrapped ur os of life, the cheap defence of nations, up in wet cloth to keep it cool; a third the nurse of manly sentiment and herois constantly whisks a yak'a tail over the enterprise is gone."--"Ali Baba" in Fanity King's head; a fourth carries my Lord's Fair. -sword--a-fifth his bandkerchief; and su

un.

SUPREME COURT OF STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT ON INSURANCE

MATTERS.

must be admitted, however, that the Ja panese coin is one that should recommend a genius for exchange. I knew him when at and a rocking horse. That young man had itself to colestial" favour. Apart from school to exchange an alley tor" for a its intrinsic value, it is a handsomer, better" commoney" at a manifest loss, ne all well coined, and perhaps a more reliable pioco versed in the subject of marble playing will of money than the "Mexican." There is understand. Calum non animum mutant also less savour of the Western "barbarian" qui trans mare currunt. about it. It is, in oue sense, half a familiarly of the Faw East "and mentions He still talks Chinese coin, for it is impressed with the Bourse and "Change" without blush- Chinese characters, aud glorios, if weing. A man once told me that his case was recollect rightly, in a dragon of the most not a rare one, but I cannot believe him. approved pattern, and of the largest dimen No one could ever be so foolish except a sions. Let the fate of the Japanean yea be broker.-M. MacM. M. la Shanghai Mer what it may, it is hardly possible that cury. matters of onrrency could be on a more unsatisfactory footing in the Far East than they are at the present moment. The first nation of the present day to possess a

THE USE OF A WOMAN'S GLOVE. pucket is to a man. But it is more ez- A woman's glove is to her what a vest

does it travel while the engine goes from bad boy, in tones expressive of supreme Burlington to Mount Pleasant P Smart disgust. "Twenty-eight miles, in course, What did you give it away for?"Burling ton Hawkeye.

the father, while lying the grave within "THE remains, which are of John Brown, decay, however the soul of him proceeds forward contionally," is now a popular song in France.

ABOUT 30,000 telephones are now in nes in America and about 500 in England. Things are so close together there, says the them. Philadelphia Bulletin, that they don't need

The grandma of a little four-year-old

"Tia seen on the ocean, yet when on the lie down where they ara, draw the sheata of insurance to recover sums of $6,500 and coinago, or what may pass for one, no pacious, and in ninety-nine Instance had been telling her one day not to say.

ع الماني

"Tis sometimes on two legs, and sometimes

shore

on four.

The easiest thing to give, The hardest to remove, Not easy to forgive

And harder still to prove.

YORICH.

GENERAL GRANT AND THE ST, ANDREW'S SOCIETY,

BY GEORDY BEWHUNIN

Tune-" Donald McDonald." Hoo, Donald's around in full feather,

And Sandie's gane clean up the bill; The Thistle, defiant as ever,

Now gracefully wags wi' good will. Free the gowd-bearing slopes o' the west To the land of Plymouth's famed rook, Ken-the bird that is oock o' the nest

Is a chick frae the auld Scottish stook, CHORUS Brogues and brogans and a', Kilted and plaided an' a', Proudly the trants trad the heather. Stout liearts and braid claymore an' a'.

Auld nature is ne'er democratio;

Her kings she will hae, spite of 'a'; She rears them in cellar er attic, Awaiting her hour for to ca', Whatever their country or nation,

Their domains as wide as the sea, And crowned on "the special occasion"

When genius commands victory.

Brogues and brogaus, eto, Columbia's reat chieftain admiring Her hero, the pride of the lan'. Fo' vauntie, we can't help aspiring, To ca' him a St. Andra's man..

The grand emblem-ye ken-o' a Scat,

A volcano covered wi anaw, And, brave Grant, gin ye only tak thought,

Is measured by that best of a'.. Brogues and brogans, etc.

We ken weel the canny douce speerit, That chooses its ain time to leap, Dashing genius has learned for to dree it,

Sae sturdy it is, at a coup. It dwelt in the vale and the mountain,

Where the clansmen the heather stained

red, And Grant's veins are filled frae that

fountain

Of a' that's herois în bluid.

Brogues and brogans and a',

Kilted and plaided an' a', Proudly the Grants trod the heather, Stout hearts and braid olaymore ans, Francisco Evening Post,

(Before His Honor the Chief Justice.) TAN TYE AND ANOR, V. THE UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, This was an action on two marine policies $2,500 respectively on Insurances effected by the plaintiffs with the defendants by their agents, A. L. Johnston & Co., upon certain timber shipped by the plaintiffa in the Magnolia for a voyage from Singapore to Shanghai, which timber was wholly lost during such voyage by the periis insured against. Mr Davidson appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. Donaldson and Mr Dunlop for the defendants.

rested their case at the trial upon the last The defendants. pleaded several pleas, but three pleas, the last two, however, raising the defences that were principally relied upon; they were as follows:-

1. That at the time of the defendants subscribing the policies they wrongfully concealed from the defendants the fact that the amount to be insured upon the goods and their valuation was greatly in excess of their real value.

i

Where is he going? He dawdles up a narrow staircase, through a dark corridor, down half-a-dozen steep steps, across a courtyard overgrown with weeds, up an- other staircase, along another passage, and so to a range of heavy quilted red screens that conceal doors leading into the female penetralia. Here we must leave him. Two servanta disappear behind the parda with with their master, the others promptly: or blankets which they have been wearing

untry of any pretensions is now more out of a hundred it is much better regu over their faces and fest, and sleep. About

deplorably situated in this respect than lated. noon we see the King again. He is dressed

Chiua. At Canton they chop up the small change, four matches, half a dozen mistaken. Her grandmother, to amuse her, in white flowing robes with a heavy car

foreign coin for reasons which are held to toothpicks, a short pencil, and yet not be told her a bear story, which was a tough A man wil oarry 8200 worth of people lied, but rather that they were canet of emeralds round his neck, His

be insurmountable. Meetings have been able to find a nickel or a match or a tooth one to believe. After she had finished, the red turban is tied with strings of seed pearls

hold in Hongkong on the matter, and it pick or a pencil or a card when he wants to little girl looked up into her face, and and set off with an aigrette springing from

has been held that it is impossible to put a Not so with a woman. a diamond brooch. He sits on the Royal

stop to this mutilation of the currency-bit of a glove, and in that glove she carries mistaken I ever heard."

She has the least exclaimed: "Grandma, that is the biggest mattress, the gaddi. A big bolater covered

impossible to prevent the people from the tiniest baade and a wad of bills and the with green velvet supports his back; his

panching dollars to pieces, and impossible memoranda for her intended purchase of sword and shield are gracefully disposed

A well-known carpet-drummer gives the before him. At the corner of the gaddi its

faced coins in payment. Here, in another checks and may be a diminutive powder goods, 116, sold, 98; been asked the news, to refuse to accept these horribly de- dry goods and our tickets and matings following itemized account of his Spring a little representation of himself in minta

part of the same ecantry, a rain is to be bag. We have no idea how she does it 5081; tald, 2210; lied about it, 2160; didn't operations Miles, 3964; trunks, 4; shown ture, complete even to the sword and

practically thrown out of circulation by this how she manages to squeeze those know, 691; boen asked to drink, 1861; shield. This is his adopted son and heir,

same mutilating, and the cry is for clean thousand and one things into that we drank, 1861; changed politics, 46; daily For all the queens and all the grand an-

dollars. When a Chinese committee were space chesses are childless, and a little kinsman

consulted in Hongkong with respect to this the glove never looks the least discomposed expenses allowed by house, $8; actual

But she does it every timu, add had to be transplanted from a mud village

chopping of dollars, at the time the matter or plethoric or ruffled.. And when a woman average, $7; oleau profit, $1; cash on hand, among the cornfields to this dreamland

was

taken into consideration by the wants any article concealed about that glove palace to perpetuate the line, On the

Chamber of Commerce, we recollect they she doesn't seem to have the least. trouble

$2.60; been to church, 1. corner of the carpet on which the yeddi

suggested that it was necessary to shroff in the world in getting at it. All that is evenings since, & Scotchman requested in Ar a private party in this city a faw rests sit thakores of the Royal houso, other

2. That at the time of the defendants the coins thus-necessary as a ready as required is a simple turn of the wrist, the Irishman, who was seated at the piano, to thakores sit below, right and left, forming subscribing the policies they wrongfully surance of their genuineness. There might disappearance of two fairy fingers, and the favor the company with "Erin go Brawl." two parallel lines, dwindling into sardars, concealed from the defendants the fact that he something in this argument did not the desired article is brought to light. It is "I can't do the beautiful theme justice palace officers, and others of lower rank as they (the plaintiffs) were the shippers of a practice at another port in the same wonder that no savant can explain. they recede from the gaddi, Behind the large quantity of other guods, timber, by country, and in all civilzed countries, de-

replied the gentleman from Erin; but I Chlef stand the servants with the emblems the same vessel Magnolia, parts of which monstrate its absolute fallacy. We notica

might substitute for it, Scots, where were of royalty the peacock feather, the fan, goods were insured by the plaintiffs under a statement in one of the Japan papers THE MOST MARRIED OF WOMEN.ye when Wallace bled the yak tail, and the umbrella (now furled). other policies with other compuies for large that, following the notifications of the The confidential servant is still whispering amounts, greatly in excess of the resi values Government and the foreign banks, the Smyrna, N. Y., in the 82d year of his age, Some of them never have s pair of lovely Benjamin Abbott, who has just died in MARRIAGE improves some women's beauty, into the ears of his master from time to of the goods. Both these facts, it was set shroffing of the yen has been already active.

wed the seventh husband of his widow, who black eyes until after they are weded a year time. This is durbar, No one speaks, forth, were known to the plaintiffs at they commenced at the Japanese ports. The survives him. This much-talked of and or two." unless to exchange a languid compliment time of subscribing the policy, and unknown Hiogo paper says that, having occasion to rauch-published event (for it went the with the chief, Presently essence of roses to the defendants and material to be known pay over a quantity of these coins. to a rounds of the Press of the nation), when

Now that Cetewayo is caught, the real and a compound of areos nut and lime are to the defendants and material to the risk native merchant the other day, that worthy he for the second and she for the seventh question, says "Atlas" in the World, is, not virculated, then a huge silver hukka is of the policy. The insurances effected threw out twenty-five of them, apparently time bowed before the altar of Hymen, whether he shall be kept at Cape Town or brought in, the obiel takes three long pulls, altogether by the plaintiff's for the timber for no particular reason. Another took occurred on June 30th 1876, he then being on Robben Island, but what he has done to the thakores on the carpet each take a pull, with different companies amounted to the same coins an hour later without hesita76 and ehe 82 years old. Mre. Abbott's deserve imprisonment for the remainder of and the levee breaks up aid profound $38,000; of this $14,000 was upon policies tiou. The chopping of dollars is only one history in the marital relations of life is natural life. The unfortunate monaroh salzams. After this dinner, opium, and affected with Messrs Hooglandt & Co., and of the many ponderous difficulties and stands, perhaps, without a parallel in the may have been a little rough on his own sleep.

$15,000 upon policies effected with Messrs drawbucks under which currency mattera records of the nation, and tradition has it people; but that was no reason why we In the cool of the evening our King Maclaine, Fraser & Co. The timber shipped have be be conducted in the Far East.thers is to be yet another. It is currently should attack and depose him. Sir. Bartle emerges from the palace, and, riding on, by the plaintiffs was composed of Bailow Shanghai Courier.

stated without contradiction that some Frere, no doubt, framed a very clever bill prodigiously fat white horse with pink and Darroo beams, pieces of Kranjie wood.

years ago she had a vision in which eight of indictment against him, but scarcely any points, proceeds to the place of carousal and planks. Three documents were put in A long train of horseman follows him, and to prove the quantities of timber so shipped, inform me where my family can go on regarded as prophetic of the number of dangerous military system, which for ever CORRESPONDENT: "Will the editor please pressive manner, which she has over untrue to call Ceteways the author of a men stood before her in a peculiarly im- of the charges were sustained. It is quite footmen ran before with guns in rod flannel a copy of the ship's manifest, a memorandum govers and silver maces, shouting "Raja, enclosed in a letter from the plaintiffe' undage and be cool and comfortable, conquests she was to make. The eighth is threatened the pence of his neighbours. Maharaja salaamat," de. The horsemen lawyer, Mr Koek, to the Captain of the ship without danger of being crowded!" Anawer, just as likely and as reasonable as the That systera had been in existence for more Immediately around him are mounted on declaring the measurements of the timber by the Rochester Democrat: Go to church. seventh, and already public goseip is begin than sixty years, and throughout a greater well-fed and richly-caparisoned steeds, with for freight, and the invoice. As regards the all the bravery of cloth-of-gold, yak-tails, pieces of Kranjie wood, these documents all misstatements of his wayward sister, is of the next conquest. Her maiden name was Natal borders without being exaggerated AND now the average boy, correcting the ning to mark this and that man as the victim part of that time remained close to our silver-chalas, and strings of shells: behind agree that there were 50 pieces, as regards impelled to pronounce the name of him Williams, and she has been enacessively into a dangerous menase. Chaka and his are troopers in a burlesque of Faglich the planks according to the manifest the whom to-day San Francisco delights mast Mrs Traux, Mrs Riggs, Mrs Farrow, Mrs Zalus certainly overren Natal about 1820; mob of cattiffs on skeleton charges, masquer morandum and the invoice the number was anfform; and altogether in the rear is a namber was 1,899, according to the me to honor. Is it not Ulysses?

Wallace, Mrs Berry, Mrs Pratt and Mrs but then there were no white people settled ading in every degree of shabbiness and 1,995, but no particular question was raised he comes home at 2 a. if.

WHEN is a married man a bird? When she has married widowers, some of them Kaffir and Kafir. The real inventor of the Abbott. In every instance, save the drst, so far north, and the fighting was between cavalcade passes through the city. The pieces was a matter of considerable discus for the married faction) we explain that to the Alnis House and took therefrom camp in the early part of this century, saw, rags, down to nakedoess and a sword. The as to that, although the value of those benefit of bachelors (it not being necessary occasion in her early married life, she went wayo, who, when a fugitive in the English P. S.--For this with a good namber of children, and on one celibate man-slaying machine was Dingis bend to the ground. Red cloths and white there was an over-valuation on the Kranjie his wife makes him quait inhabitants pour out of every door and son, It was admitted by Mr Davidson that when a man comes home at the hour named three children and raised them. She never admired, studied, and eventually imitated, veils flutter at the casements overhead. You wood of 484 per cent and on the planks of

had any children of her own. All her life our military organisation. Chaka was a would hardly think the spectacle was one 43 per cent With regard to the Ballow AFTER the Claimant's compliance with has been spent near Smyrns and all bersoldier la one of Dingiswayo's regimente, daily enjoyed by the city. There is all the and Darroo beams the quantities alleged to Dr. Konealy's request to stand for Not basbands were buried by the same under and when he became supreme, he, developed barrying and eagerness of novelty and have been on board varied very considerably tingham, there can be no doubt that he taker,

and improved what his chief had begun. curiosity. Here and there a little shy in the three documents, according to the will so a step further, and, im tating his

Cetewayo administered, therefore, to the crowd of womer gather at a door and sainte ship's manifest the quantity was 579 tons, politics, sponsor, give his support to the “Tax iron entered into his sole," and the gacy of his predecessors, and, like them the Chief with a load shilll verse of dis. 47 qubic it, according to the memorandum Imperial policy of her Majesty's Govern-stricken sinner paused and pulled out the he would probably bave left us alone had we

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