1887-09-12 — Page 3

No. 7510.—September 12, 1887.)⠀⠀

Owing to the inclement weather there will be në performance at Chissini's circon to

hight

TWENTY-FOC Roulisurvation has been imposed at Suck on all vessels from Bom bay: cholera seems to be increasing in the prendonos

THE Hugriu states that irti ruumare în oicial circles that ex-Detective sac St- before he can be released to perfcrta his yung will have to be bunbound and cangued

Glial duties towards his parents.

A quer in the Poliza Court this morning The Daily News Pans Corrodent had a somewhat surprising wonment, insalates that the York Herald wan seized the other day for infinging Brunch much as, the prosecutor and his principal copyright by publishing the song respecting witniese foind at the end of the trial that General Boulanger without persion. they had changed places with the defend- nnt. A man named Wang. A Kray was charged with stealing a silver watch and chain from the person of a fishmonger named Tee A San The complainant stat- ed that while he was standing on the Praya the defendant snatched the watch and chain from him and bolted. Li & Son went into the witner-box to give evidence 28.46 his having seen the theft cornmitted, but his 'story was not satisfactory on several import-

sat puiola" After hearing farther erulence downward are praying for rain; and meat For Foocher authorities, from the Viceroy Mr Mitchell-Innes said he did not believe is forbilder. Drought is also prevalent in Manchuria; and, according to a correspon a word wither of the story told by the condeat at Port Arthur, moulards of app plainant or that of the witness Li & Sunate fasting and going about în ralu-clothea He ordered the complainant to pay 80 to 80 as to draw the rain. the defendant or suffer-two months' împri- amment. Li A 5 un was fined $10, with the alternative of two moiths' imprisonBIENĖ.

-THE CHINA MAIL

THE TYPHOON.

The typhoon seems to have passed by Hongkong, the oily effect experienced here

to deal. It may be taken as ugly cor reat that half of the sabor are men and half are women. The women as a rule do pot road. There are exoptions, and there are necasionally womon distinguished for scholarship. All cases will are covered if we estimate that of the 112, TULLER. I per sent, or 1,125,000 in all, are able to i read. Of the 112,500,000, or it is o litoral estimate to any that 10 per cunt,, or 11,250,000 in all my boreckoned ar roaders.

Patting this intimaker forin e lave Total population Less children under ten, per

cent

75,000,000

223,000,000.

must rest on a solid basis of fact, Presby

rian Messenger.

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Quotations. HoaxoNG, September 12. 40-Now Patun, cash,.. 4823

Old

baah, 4811 Now Benares, cash, 475 Old

oanh, điệ Now Malwa, cash, 620 Allowancy, Tuola... 48 Olu Maiwaj cash, 540/60 Allowance, Trok........48/64 Persian Oily, cash 420/530 lowance, Tauls... None Porsian, Paper tied 315/610 Allowance. Tanis... Nano

On Lalon --

115,000

Total number of routere... 13,370,000

This is, da" have said, only on estimate,

Exchange

DowWRONG, Sept. 19

Bank, Wizo,

On demand,

9, 30 days signa

4 monthяigh

Crodite, 4 11

3/2

Documentary, 4 months' sigle 3/27

Pari-

Oni domand,.... Credits, 4 months' sight,

4:02

4:10

On New York-

Un demand,.

Credits, 60 days' siglat,

AFGHANISTAS news of the 23rd August ing. The most of the junks and boats gina of rivers are the chiof breeding-places Ralgian, ent open one side of a man's faco than 13.000.000 the sake of a round On Bombay-

with a bottle, for which he was fined $25 tako 13,000,000

heavier Buntence than a usually indicted, and cost,aunting in all to 304,50, number, and, if you will bara patience

analyse little Forther

Wire

demand,.. On Calcutta

...)

Wire, On demant

On damarád 30 daya' night.

322 222)

Acconero to a well-known American book curious question: How is it that while GEOG SHOPS AND THEIR KEEPERS: jobber the sale of the Revised Version, mosquitoes, bath male and female, cu

IN NAGASAKL throughout the United States his fallen live entirely on vegetable matter, the The Nagasaki Express gives the following dead-dat Hundreds of thousands of famas only bite and are partial to bundseription of the disgraceful position of copies remain on-the-sliclyos of the boox- bland?

grog-shops in Nagasaki stores. The theory is that alter the first. Mbaquitoes abopad in dearly all trošeni ¦

It is undeniable that there are among curiosity to compare the Roland Edition regions; and their Spis name howsose who run thoes grogshops gaitas nun

Europe.bor who, der propor govern, would with the old was aatished, people returned that they are not strangers in to the King James version, to which, in all Esen is England you can tot them in very ung ere he have been forced into reforan probability, they will stick as long as the hot seasons in marshy places, and intion or relegated to life service in in unclean portions of large towns, I was amat probably the latter! Deinking, world lasts

frat made aware of their existence here no Sghting, and every other duzeciption of hot August some yeh "go, when, in my dotauchery, day and night, seems to bothe andergraduate days, as I was rowing up the sight of their ambition, and the only freshman's river in Cambridge; I renghind thing they live for. Braking one another by its bite the too familiar mosquito of my hande with bottle and clubs, thus disfigur Sometimes a fine distinction is ing each other for life; accics to be locked country. drawn between snoeqnitous and goats, but upon as gentle pasticce; and if the

Total adult population La busa z Powder Patent. The Shanghai being a pretty still gale, which began to I cant make myself believe that the prout neid way of the treating much Mercury ears from Tientsin that Li Hong-blow yesterday evening about five or six insect which bit ein that lovely, bends of offences in ountifued they will sub- chang has bought a patent from some Ger- o'clock and continued to about midnight. diferent from the minaqaito; and I find class of pariah's thetuseives are concernnd, of 112,500,000 women, 1 pat

die Cam

in any way materially come of, daily occurrence. So far as this of 112,600,000 mm, 10 percent. 11,280,000.

Dividing by 2thia gives us. gentleness for making brown gan-The barometer doting that time as gradus that I am supported in my view by several it might perhaps be almost well to let powder for about Tla,118,000.

ally falling and reached about 29.20 | English authorities. An authentic story them fullow the reported example of

moderated and the barometer began to riss hotel, the proprietors of which thought that naik anda. Luft of life but the procese Shortly after midnight, however, the gale 123 arrated that one years ago lots of certain cats of Kilkenny, who fought until mosquitoes were observed in a London nothing ranged ut them but their the gradually, being this fring nearly 20 they were imported by the South American would be a very long one, and very de- higher-then the lowest point reached last rangers who were then confug there; moralising to others while it Inated. Cou but it has boon carefully-made, and I have night. About eight or nine steamers sought dreds of the noxious insects were breed other than these hitherto in force, should be possible so na not to strain the figures in fa- but on inquiry it was discovered that hun soquently it seems necessary that measures mado the percentages of readers as large a shelter yesterday, in caso the typhoon shoulding in- filthy part of the hotel, where adopted, and that without delay. To go our of my argument. visit us, but they all returned this mora.

there was always some stagnant water..

back no farther than the present-130,000,000, as often said, there are less. We have found then that, instead of Stagnant water of ponds and bushy mar- the early par, a.man naraci Vestappon, a

in China. Let us have not yet loft their harcas of safety of mosquitos in the East, and myriads of Testerday we feesired two telegrams from which intervept their passage to inhabited themake by be seen hanging about the trues the Spanish Consul; according to which it localities. They are most prolife, each hot navertheless a preposterously light one Wu Jinre now to consider the affect of would appear that the typhoon had been di Lasing as many as a hundred orga ata tima. for an offence which deserved nothing short variety of dialost, and relation of the dia-

The insects, after being hatched, live for of a rigorous term of imprisonment and fouts to the language of banke, vided into two parts, ongof which was in the the most part on the anrface of the water deportation. A more recent case, which gehend 13,000,076 of renders may speak On Shangba China Sea, travelling W4 NW., while the where the eggs wore first deposited: 4curred only a few days, was blant of ane their vernacular eitlior the Mandarin other was going towards the E. of Lazon res: prelivity is their second stags being Aunorisan sailor being all has killed by a dialect (which has these main Dems, Te The Director of Hongkong Obeersatory mist, so that the head is dragged along time he hateside here, on several occasions dialecta ar one of the six Saleen Sporcizia,

that these naimalenke go always tail fine-au and Bodner, who during the short sides actial varieties and minor related Gold Leis, 100 fa....

nel moving north-westward, but whether throw out in advance of the mouth a couple position. Bedner is a Swiss by birth, and tow, Cauto, Hainta, and of the Hak-ka(Taken ut Meyrs Falconer & c.'s Promics, speaks of a typhoon in the Formosa Chan behind When in search of food-princi hus gained an urges viablomstoriety for drun- dialects, namely, the vernsoulges of Foo-

pally

decomposing vegetable matter konness and a dangerously quarrelsome dis chow, Amos (used also in Formosa), Swa- this is one of the Manila typhoons or not of very fine brushes, each of which spins there is no Uousni for that nationality here.

Temperature. are they

districts. he does not say.

round and round, seizing and gutting into The following day, a few of the Creole re

The Book language, or mual language the mouth what comes within the sphere of sidants who sympathised wish the assaulted of books, coramaonly spoken of as known its core. They are not, however, strict stiler, scuing that thuassilaut was not going all over the Empire, is a distinct langungo vegetarians, even at that time, for they sat in be brought to task, for his offence, der by itself, quite different from all these. It barometer has fallen slightly in Tonkin and the shells which they have recently quitted, took to set the law in notion by arresting would reach equally well all the 18,000,000 Tx-34.

and often the heads of some of their own him. They seized lum, handcuffed him of ruadors, but it would address one of in lawhere. He also gives the follow scies They then undergo sent change and leshed him to a handcart, on which them in their own vernacular. It is a dead til they reach the third and anal stays,Consulate, and afterwante o Japanese which never was a apoken language, and At niduight the typhoon catered Çăiua a

when, attaining their fall size, little to the cast of Hongkong. It bleweed to dry situations fo sexruit of pro- police station at Meyasaki, where he was reaches all China nearly in the ante sense

blond locked up until the following day. On that Latin reaches 1] Europe, hard in Amoy last evening during the first The boorging bum of the approach, the Monday be left for Yokohama, tenailly It has been remarked that in India part of the night and there was a high sea irritating attacks, the sharp sting, the cun- for the purpose of obtaining coilress for book must be translated into some tweuly

ning, and the audacity of mosquitoes are his illegal arrest and imprisonment.

languages,

whores in China one printed and wet weather, This moming the well known to thead who have ever lived in

page reaches all This statement is weather is squally with fresh 5.E. wind, the East. They spare either sex nor ago,

ssentially malanding In China, too, the BIG FIRE AT BANKOW."

printed page must be translated into gach which indicates that the remainder of the assauling anybody whom they find exposed

in any part of the body. It does not On the ard inst, wo (Shangkat Courier) of the vernaculare of the different, districts typhoon is still moving N-westward on the matter how many times you remake them, published a talegram taken from the where it is read, but the translation is upt

or how

many of them you kill," their pipes with rodmbled iron, they blas Due to the effect that there had been a big done on the pristed page. It is left to

Direction of Wind vigour, and at fire of Bankow. Our correspondent sends done by cach roadur for himself as he reads tack you with andching persoverance, ue a few particulars of the conflagration, leaving you with unsightly swellings and which soumed to have uxoreded all previous The consequence is that vessels plying word from Manila that the big typhoon has blood-spota as evidences of their successful resin magnitude, on the Yangisza for many difficulty in the way of reaching the people and body the Late of 11 pm, og er der the Biotisli flag between Singapore and split into two, une section going in the di-ne fruales that bitgaand boy.com surate in a ten been on the Hukom sido utiles Then road abadus it standa in quite al-DBINA COAST METEOLCLOGICAL

asaanit.

As I have said before it is only years paat Te breke at about 3.30 s. 8th and 6 p.m. on the 9th inst. The wide. It seems thaz esine tide ago

pts in the Archipelago, manage to sat t the rectisu of Touquin and another hoveringy to relish a stranger, attacking him more river Hat. It was blowing fresh at the intelligible to the hearers, and when road the then Rezident of Surabaya Ueside that about the E. coast of Lazon, and now we Furiously than they do the native of the time, and the fames spread from houring in public, as the Scriptures are read-in the provisions of the ordinanco baring have remainder catering northward beautite curdles up ue's blondes venous to house with torting rapidity, and soon charch, it is necessity for the reader to

We have received some hack numbers of a political and scientific magazine pablished in Seoul, the capital of Corex It is called the Hacking thou-pan,

states that the rebels have defeated Chotain Haidar Orakzat Naini, eighteen milus south of Ghazni The Amir's General Lost many temps, and large stocos of umuni- in The Fasses of southern Afghanistan are closed, and all traffic stopped.

au coupinetaratz the Queen's Jobile and Centenary of the Settlement at Penang, by the creation-of-tower and statues of her Majesty, hoa'quite crowded faster proposal had many supporters, but it ent the suggested Sailors Home. The way not brought forward at the proper time and place. Stoxits paper -

This forenoon Dr Daberek writes that the

and is issued from the Bould of Learning

etery week on Monday the 1st of May of the present year it had already reached the 6th newer, so that it mast huye baan mommenced about the Chian Now Year, 1886. 11-is printed in pamphlet form, pp. 34, on the tough semi- transparent paper well known as Japanse. The Shunturi Mercury sure? Messrs Mac- The language is Chinese, and the peuting Say Zong stables on the 6th inst.

kends as Cu put up a mob of 16 Gribios at is dime with small movable types, the was a Tather good attendance, but the bid Common 3 line-diamond, apparently with ding was not very spirited. The dealers brush, lamp-black and water in the aspal were jucliged so de busness on rehable isg-not very definite-or-lucid-information in the body and organic devolopment, ma- they trundlcà hi first to the United States lauguage-or rather is a literary vehicle -

offers. The ponies, which on the whole Chinese way, being very much blurred.sers a likely lat, were sold as follows: In style aral I matter it is about equal to the Three fetchet 50 tools; one went for 50 tala; another one for 40; two real sed 38 average of sinilor publications started in tazla; one 30 taels, three Zo taels, and five China of late years The science is all found no biddera ind Боголвал:

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OVERLOADIS steamer is rife st Surabaya, paisancescording to the local Courant. Regnations

Tu mocturnal-godg-and-drum still holds gaily on its way. This morning Tang Pak Shan, rosiding at 101 Hollywood Noad, was charged before M: Wodehouse,

in the Police Court with allowing gongs

drums to be beaten within his po

constable who made the charge said he told

the defendant three times to stop the noise,

are bear framed against-it, but, somehow or other, erading themescounters mainland.' diffidly. The harbour muster is the official charged with carrying them out, which he 6nds he cannot do satisfactory she inherenty, and lack of clearasas

There appears to have been considerable tojumbling among recent typhoons We have

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and by each public zonder afresh for cash successive audience. This is the crowning means of booke, Tao printed pago

Landful of the Bon river was.com Vornacular. This he does it intu

beat, did not apply to heas on the mainland. The ous-good-future is them com-anaviy sitted on your } plutely-blocked with junka and the fluore or less essascording to bin

and

but he took to notice Frug sapera pause their daming point was police constable, said he lived opposit Singapore, and ne sme p

port is-

Nethor that all these yphous sectious of a ty the defendant's bottse but do hear any land India. From the mutant, these phoon Reem to fiava steered clear of Hang disturbance during the night or morning in Surabaya excessively overloaded, a

ress:ls have bees at liberty to leave kong question. The defendaur explained that can ying too large a number of pazzengers: the ceremony that was taking place on the neured, this evil has been met by So. far as overloading with passengers is occasion complained of was presided over another ordinance lately promulgated. by Buddhist priests, who don't use gongs

and drums; these instruments were used

constable sater that the noise in this case

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the thought that Afghanistan will some thy history of organie life in this place during tracing, you are not safe from monquiteus. destroyed is said to exceed 500.

of ruins, and the number of houses to exten of this character. Scholarly inen Shanghai 29.12 82 91 NE 5C

we learn that for muscular strength, for chamber at this opposita end

end of the protect the sleeper from their attack. A faina. Now would be the time in- of the people.

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(By Rev. J. G. Give, of Swatow.)

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W. Dosenos, -Government Astrosomer.. Hongkong Observatory, September 12. 1. BIRDMASTER, reduced to 32 degrees Fahre it, and to the level of the 20 in inghes, Leathe ind handredths

2. TEMESNATURE, to the shade in-degrees, Luxury, in percentage of Eaturation, the

very piping of the

blood and, -vahundred-houses were demolished. The translate from the Book well-guarded you may be you will-Gud forehead, al-enjoying good-qaaff beton spread from the house on here ability, and one is very often pained you are cron aware of their near aperuch. to the junka and it is said 600 of by hearing men with a fair knowledge They even penetrate dotues which offer but then wore destroyed, the fire extending of the Book language-giving most a fecide resistance to their sharp lahes-with-wholesale destruction Frain the blaz incorrect, halting, and often incumpra- and the agwies onderod by the lightly-clad ng junke the houses on the other side of bonable; zonderings of Scriptae into the A STORY OF ORGANIC LIFE

natives of Eudia and other countries aro ex- the flau river sgalted, und froto sume dis. Vornacistar in public rending.

Few of our Catistian worshippers can Haiphong. 29.57 95 93 18

Manila.... 30.60 82 89 of 2.05 IN SINGAPORE

cromoly site, the sensation experienced lanes above the quarters of the Custoza Very little is known by the general pub-being like that of pricking with red-hot examiners, mund the corner, and up to rand for themselves, and for their know-Hongkong 29.23 60 82 or strust of where the examination pontoon leds of Scriptors they are dependent on Amoy 29.30 84 79 RN#ed Hie hero about this interesting subject. We need We have hardly become scenatomed to therefore propose to exaining bridge whers the climate is delightfully cool and sweep

Even in high a latitude as Cashmere,u-the-rain-river is moored, is a clean their recollection of puttic reading which is Toochow 29.16 81 91 ENE 4 op only by the Tasist-pricate. Another pee

be divided between England and Russia, say, the last twenty-five years: Let us fires Indeed, these insect pesta are the only slur of lifp, cspupially afloat must have boon in the Book Innguage, geeking to make Wastock. 29.79 63

The lose have spent lang teil on Biblical translativas Nagasaki. 29.82 when a writer in the Westminister Periceosquire, what is organic life? The answer. was drums and was carried on till 130 Lintroduces Persia to ur as the "Afghanistan is obvious: life as conuicted with organs; Sheltered by the lilies and other plants, 1 for his hone in Shantung, bad, a very var: form reach the bulk of our church ment Manila... 29:8080-4-00 5|2|org ·!

on the fair fans of thas happy valley very great. Ex Tautai Wo, who was on there both faithful and elegant, but the Bible of the fetare: He says: Persia of to-day exactly so Well then, about twenty.re, i daze in aanmer mouths can the margins of

bari a junk with his family ready to start is they have fren it to us does not in that is the Peria of a thoussid years ago in Xars ago Mesars Walker and Component the lakes, rivers, ant narrow walisz-cursos, scorpo. His soldiers aged to get bors, Thoir Bible to the ever-enying of Balion decayery much in decy, but still the out a large organ to St. Andrew's Church, Ax-extraordinary general meeting of the same. Nunes cvilization has awept away Singapore, and Mr

Terry, the organist,

springing, however, into great as

activity as him ashore, but for a long time no news ten patelied and buzglad readering Which Haiphong 29 61 88 96 wrt China and Manila Steamship Couping was its mouldering institutions, no fresh growth came with it, and soon, proved he had the soon as they get the scent of their human could be obtained, of his wife and family, is produced anew and extempore at every Hougisong 20. 14 20 37 held this forenoon at the Company's Office.

of ideas has choked its antiquated customs power to make it speak. Hore then was prey. They descend in hundrede, Lad Ultimately they were found at a neighnerrien or noting which they attend. At Any: 20.65 33 55. 5 anye Bat this cambot coatings. Already organic life. It was confined at that enveloping you in a mist, hasten to feed on housing Youou all for and

its best it locks faithinlness, Shanghai.. 29.72 Mr. V. H. Forbes-presided, and the assis presser hasily against the northern time entirely to the play, and the Ear mon than the juice of lily leaves.

in a mint, hasten to feed on housing gejaagie, fill of Manchester peneanulita at its worst at bosornés à 2017 822 946 15 were also present: Mr J: S. Moses, Cap.Inter, and makes its ind tence felt chuir, drawn, no doubt, by some as yet

goods, all in full blaže, drifted down bungled patali-work, in which the mailines Woátyak, 29.94 50 92 ss 1 6 throughout the neighbortion provinces, unknown law, sal close beside it. Let us

Various substances are used to drive the river across the bows of the of the mowing as hardly be diverned, tain R. M. Taloot and Mr Robert Shewaz, which, indeed, lie at Russia's and pass over ten years, during which period quitous way. In some parts people China Merchants' Compary's, upper hulk, and where life and spirit are early at The baronise and fallan slightly in Ton- Secretary. The Chainman said the meeting

wil-tail into her hands w whenever it kis

never if its all went ou quietly and welt But now at their bodies with-tish-oil-as-a-proter and for some time there was crust excite.. The Bible in the Book language is read quin and risen elsewhere. The temperature! her convenience to take them. When that change was to occor: A surpliced choir to against them. The Chinese are said men and alan for the sifaty of the bulk. by a few, and is taught in all Christian and the humidity are rather high and the was only a formal one, called to continue happens, it is not unlikely that England was to be seen walking with lingering to be very clever in the use of such protect in the largest fire that has occurred at seluola and it is invaluable se a basis for weather is overcast, yet and squally round resolation that was passed at the presious will be competed, for India's sake, to steps and slow down the aisle, and taking

tire auguents. In India, mosquitoes are

Hankow within the memory of the oldest touching; but this Bush hangtinge is not the Chian Sea Directions to fire the gam moeting to the effect that the present Articles me the protectorate of the southern half its place in the chancel, and lo! a second smoked out of a men by burning chips of inhabitant, and it is noteworthy that our in any part of China the language of the ope round were given at 7.05p and at In this connection Paraia is discussed as a orgau, built by Mara Brycezon and Comwd and incense. A few sprigs of worn correspondent makes no allusion to any people, and I venture to prophesy that the 10.351 to tiks down the North Cone. At of Association be altered by adding at the resraising ground for our upay army, and pany, was heard breathing soft melody from wood placed about, the flow sometime is made to anest the progrees of the Bible in this form will never be the Bible 10.33a the following telegram was a

s addressed end of article 4 the words: The Company

to the Treaty Ports (and the other stations:) may from time to time reduce its capital hardiness, for codarence, and for faithful church. Here again was more organic life, correspondent of the Standard asserts that press on the minds of the native inficials of Now as to souken dialects, the real ver- •At midnight the typhoon ontored China a ness to hir paymastar, the Persian geldier Was it the Apontaneous work of Natural if a piece of raw meat is hung over the the valtio of fire engines and a supply of naculars of Chion. Those are not usually little to the East of Hongkong It blew On the mation of Mir Moses, secmier by is surpassed any country of Asia. Nara suoritus, and the Ast to greedily on to it, leaving the bungas being Here, a fire bins net the least, chances of nativa tunguus. If all class of the people part of the night and there-mes- high soa by sleeper's head, the amosquitoes will fasten-water like that we have in Shanghai-written in any form though they are the hard in Amoy last evening during the rat Captain Talbot, this resolution was dulsij Dias, however, seems to be thrown on a yard in the choir murah, hich to peace. In the morning searer of the spreading, and I will never be our duty to But the most widely extended of theta and pot weather. This morning the wea

few moving spurtis, and the result was was at that moment breathing in the creatures can be destroyed by dip record a conflagration in Shanghai equal in the so-called Mandarin dialect can be ther is equally with fresh. S. E. vind, which the Chairman said the matters relating to The story of the wounded collie who was and here is the fat September 1887, and wa Dark, damp, or ill-ventilated rooms are the properly as that which has just occurred at / ustive literature exists in this form (usually is attil moving N westward on the main

chancel We must now skip fifteen years;

the meat into a bowl of boiling water dimensions and so dienstrous to life and written in Chinese characters, and a furgs indicates that the remainder of the typhoon other articles would come forward at atided by two terriers to King's College find bot our organs somewhat, or rather

favourite hanita of musters, who icldom Hankar. ather extraordinary meeting They had to Hospital in order to have his wound dress very much, in want of a complete over molest you when you sleep in the verandah.

called Mandarin culloquial) This-con-land. stitutes a versoslar literaturs for Norther pass this resolution first, because they had is very remarkable but there are still haul at the hands of a real organ-builder.ut the louse-rouf or if you have the pankab

and Western China where the Mandarín stratger instances of canina saxacity...! The formerly no power to reduca te gal

THE NUMBER OF READERS INdialect is the spoken language of all chees such a climate as ours, where noth and going all nightorer you, with the douts and Extrick Shepherd for example, possessed IS

rust, and heat and various other windows wide open, you are pretty aufer

CHINA.

of the people. Books in this style, whoo cullis which, through long, and faithful wils cabins to do taschief an orga But the boar Nateguard against the insect

read aloud mtheso districts, are at once un- sence, bad come to bear a striking-fact saffers auch, and it is not wonderful if at night in the raquite curtain, which Mit Ford's expedition in tibe Qubion River | Reynihlaste 20 litet rastos. This dog was thany a pipe which formerly gare forth furniture. Fren-milli thus, que has to he jees on which the greatest misconception | China, or way about seven millions of rea derstood and do not require translation bas, as we indicated on Saturday, resnited an assiduous cllarch-goer, and gould even clarion torse to the delight of the cong carefel. You must instruct your Borventede. The missionary sits down in bis aulae by books in

forum, in Tudia, a necessary part of the beThe bumbot of roeders in China is a stros Probably over phetult of the renders 16 in very quiserous additions of plants being occupy ita marter's pear on occasions what tion, now hes tileut, tongue-tied, the prey to fan away any mosquitoes that night study sud writes s book, and it can be read The languages written is, Loverer, very humidity of air asterated with insure being

exists. The Chiese-are reading lers could by reached in their own vern-Paurenheit. made to the gardens and the herbaring himself played truant from diving of dust and dirt. How viridly did Shaker

inMandaria colloquial.' On the Monday after one of these The number of interesting and beautiful excesions, when indisposition had kept the Peare with marvellous foresight know th when you retire into your" netted chatial, by 400,000,000 of people."

stealthily lurk in the curtain-folds.

Even when be wrote

The same differ from the general Book language, 100: Shepherd at home, the minister of the

hiding defance at the piping host outside. printed page can be read by nearly and is not easily traderstood in that lurge & Dication or Wine, to two pumta, tion is great, but inrcade matte persistently

parish wiled, and found Hogg sitting on

you are sometimes rudely awakened after ofter 1aade at home, and are very mislead. speak the Southern dialecte named above. 300,000,000 people. Such statements aro section of the Empira where the people

6. Fond. Ward, vecording, to Beaulor But now we enma to serious business inre arm. You dart up with a sturdy lan an hour's sleep by the stinging bite on your into different parts of the country ar graucher. Woel Jance,' said the minister,

Basle. itg

6. STATE OF WELTHED, 'lias sky, a de For them the general Book "I was glad to see you at the kirk yeater A Gratelass organ-builder Blessis, Walker'sjn band to knock down your foes, but they dually plants foreman) is here, to

language, with Μαν. great many explanations are all the drawbacks which I hare described,hii, I lighting, sorgtrast, passing showers, tacked clou la, drizzbní, rain, / log, gloomy. ence. The recent expedition has met with | gerces at the dog; the dog, too, said of af which places splendid instruments, by their joyous blast from a cautions distance stato if the cast, and I must ask you to able for the conveyance of thought. -

is the only litorary vehicle at present avail-equally, it snow, i bander, v visibility, iis dus share of success in this respect thing, but his eye twinkled, and he placidly Mastra Walker, have lately been erected at shape of

dew (wet) The Southern dialects, with the morning you fad the breach in the follow patiently an argument which is

7. RAIN, in inches, tenths and hatredtha.” Attention was paid to the collection of live by Hogs himself, an inapeachable public spirit show at both plasty ring Asia, the ends of the curtain must deres hundrathonist-apprexiauto cal to writing by the Chinese to any con-

cord of the not word or displaced.ssarily a little intricate..

tion of that of anten, have not been reduc ing plants and seeds for the begeht of the witness. It seems to indicate an even as a hint as us bere not to be too sle-pylly folded it under the bed, or else it But when we spel: of readers a vast deduc- taro in Cantonese chamotor colloquial, estimate of the whole popilation of Obina. aidorable extent. There is a populliters gardens, and to the collection and presetfathast ansedote attested by the secretary such mattera The Priestor of our taka sakepassage to the watching iduoquitap-on teost be made. “Tlie stato af adunation ; and in the Swatust district there are a few

eller ninement of, cauine intelligence we wish to keep in the running at all in the blown about by the breeze, giving tiesof plantsas dried specimens for herbaria and porter of King's College Hospital.

reinsmber how I suffered one night varise in different classes of society, in small books of popular ballads and such thedral have engaged Mr. Burdokin to put through my neglect of this precantion. On town and coututry, in Northern, Central, and shinge in a style similarly adapted to the Of dried plants somewhere about three

our chair-organ, which is in such con- thousand specimens have been brought CA AZ MORALTY IS Paris The stant use, in thorough repair, but to the waking up in the midst of a horrible dream, Southern China, and it is extremely dificult use of the unlearned. But it is only in Jan- back. These will greatly enrich this Co- statistics just published by the Royal available funds will not be even enough high feast on my exposed shoulders, with estimates may be masla alac according to the of

food a

I about efty mosquitoes were holding

to make a general estimate. Diferout tonese that a literature of this kind exists long's harbarian at the Botanic Gardens, Statistical Encesa 10 Berlin resposting for this outlay, there will be no way of the accompaniment of their trumpets; some view taken as to what constitutes anyone a vernacular can be but very imperfectly of Morn

of any considerable amount. I Svatow births in Prassis during the year 1863 getting our larga organ put in good condi- of them quivering with delight, others so reader. Mady know the forms and sounds representa in this besides supplying duplicate specimens for point to interesting camelusions

tion except by a subscription among all It

charact a go zumber must be added to the greatest herbarian in the world top that the number of children those in the community who would grievengeably bloated at toy pense that of a low oharacters without being able to of ndo up National Herbariuo at Kew Gardený--

daring the year was 1,168,509, and of to see what has been a very fine instrument they could not help letting themselves be understand the weaving of a sentence in the those ordinarily used in the Book lang

killed on the spot

simplest book. Tradesmen often learn anage, though thesoare already far ton nom. 1,017,296, or 91-77 per ceat, were fall into rain. Our predecessors took pains where they will be of great use to the legitimate, and 91,218, or 823 per cunt, and gave money to procure it surely we

fov characters used in their trade, so as to erode for convenietice. In Auer the a be able to read and keep ecerunts, and yet five scholars have always declared that it is authorities, in the new and important work este births. According to the reought, at least, to keep it in order. The

present opportunity may not occur again! The latest ides, in mementres to be vires ability to understand e booksprition in sinese characters, and no such literature or High water

could not raad anything else. The true testimpossible to write their vernacuaron Chi Ligions ovalession of the mother, 690,047,

CALIFORNIA is nothing if not original. ** on the Chinese Flora of which some

per cent, sera Protestant;

for very many years. A thoroghly com

stapleyle apon any non-technical subject:ists in that dialet, hara stres le been published 4 larza 397 11 ur- per cent, Catholier petent man is here, and it resis with our by a lui-mun to the one of their am I limit the test to not-technical boole

mber of Eving plants have been 2,121, ce 0.19 per cent, belonged to ethers to act with proper spirit.-Singapore and quite Californian. Of course ho gets beuse any work on special subjects icies at present-available for reaching the

bor who is leaving the is quite unique

To sum up, then, the two written vesi- Christan arends and 10,310, or 0-93 per

Free Press. tained,mongst theat may be deal, were Bester. Of the Protestant

dinner, and after dinner every one of likely to contain number of unusual Chinese people are the general Book fan- tioned some beautiful der spacies of chillinen borg, 02,863, or 1031 per sout,

the guess writes his mma and an appro.haracters, uush of which would be a stub guage ind ho Mandarin colloquial Jasmine, Clamatia, Begonia, water-les, were legitimate; and

65,164,

priate legend in lead pencil on the frontling block even to a fairly good roader, If a bok be issued in Mandaria colliquial 9.46 126

MOSQUITOES.

On this basis I have made many inquiries it might magaven millions of readers in of his dress shirt, and the guest kas itachof Chinese and foreigners from different their own tongue. If issued in the vaul orchids, & pretty white flowered L4-372,291, or 9377 per cent were Trail (By & Hinton in the Singapore Free Press) freed in lush and hang up in his mot part of Guios, aut from their replied, con- Book language i might reach thirties mit-

„Flegitimate; dễ the Catholic

children, gerstrugi (orfps-fower), and a lovely cute, sur 21,739, or 623 per cent, legi The writer of an interesting article on

bined with what one can gather from trust-lions of readers (including the seven wil littis shrub culet Abelia Hin, white of Christians if other creeds, 2,061, flies, in one of our last year's issues, Box (to young Mr. Featherly, a guest worthy writers, I should offer the following lions just referred to), but would scire to hears white flowers, delici-ully so.7 per ceas, were legitimate, and 60, finishes by asking a curious question at dinner) - Do you live on the t p for of ss the highest termissible estimate of tire than all in an acquired Ingudge, and something like the English hawthorn One trees, 18,151, or 37-57 per cent, were inc), spare the ladies! Well, perhaps they Why Bubby (indiferently) Oh, acth at 300,000,000 From this ictal we must printed, it would be quite unintelligibló tu

illegitimate; and of He. Why is it tast flies, while so amoring to your boarding-house, Mr. Featherly Mr. number of readers in Chips.

Featherly -No Bobby, second floor, front Let us take the whole population as shove for himself. If read aloud as it stands would need to be translated by each reader of the water lilies is the Euryale fresher. Thus the illegitimate births that they contemplate them from a spellings unly when a an Clars game koue Grit deduct the number of children who are the heares

Legibmate, and 959, or 351

are so enraptured with feminine charms cent spontes which produces haves, onored on among the Jews were only a fourth of bound distance. I must confes, however, frout the theater at nighthey were say to young to read-say, under ten yests of the upper and lower sides with fierce the amongst the Christians, and those that have noticed no such distinction in ing something but light in the upper age. Taking these at 25 cent of the popu.couraging I do not think as, and I you may say, all this is very dis spices, batween two and three fact they adongst the other Christians, going the year round. Now I shall begin my paposed Father-Raher will you are ull. Deducting the so we have 235,000,000 before close but we must brat face the Tho

amongst the Catholic were third less hot climates where dies are saso nearly all boty, au as they were talking about you I ton, they could mehe 75,000,000 in and have plenty of onconizement to par by percentage.

gar on Mosq affuus! by making.

SC Vi può tužicu York SunT as the adult population with which we have difculties that exist, and what is done -

plants in China, which are not yet in cultic

diameter.

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