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No. 8115,JANUARY 7, 1889.)

THE CHINA MAIL.

England waituil for an apology, as lu bu visit to bis contrero the French Conaal ante to make, what awe of it I think right; avon the Eneid; it is impossible not be study), until at the age of 60 he had an pew hospitals is due to H. R. II. Prindity, ob, hoa 1 oh, hoston

en; our business, is to fuater and nourish enter moro and more into public life of its that sentiment and avoid indignities of either indifference to their interesting work or contempt for their feelings; the contemp- tuous donunciation by the Prime Minister of England was not the way to increase the feeling of loyalty,

assured the latter that there was absolutely no truth in the rewoun

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no boss of life. The rossel struck on a rook old Kings of France, the King of the 80- were confided to serious and honorable no means portsin, to remain narrow, and extension of the presont, gable, coness-roud happoned to be the one connecting Alas that Shakespeare did not tell us if

French Guiana, ended in filastrious career LOSS OF THE STEAMED BAN WHIT HIN.'- The Singapore Free Fress says:-For several in the insido of a Franch prison,' weeks past thero have been doubts enter course we do not say that the denone- tained as to the safety of this steamer We have on one or two occasions referred most will be the emne in this case. How to the matter, but in the absence of any ever, the process of distribution waamuch the definite nowe did not venture to express in eamo. Dicerations were almost to be had words the fears that were felt. Now for the asking, so auch so that Hoogkeng are sorry to have to record that she has been lost near Suganon white on her voyage would soon have been filed with cheva- from Simporna to Bingapore. We are lies. Imitating the simple of the good glad to be able to state that there has been about seven o'clock on the morning of the 5th of December. The wolle were sounded, and Guding that tho ship was making a great deal of water her course was alteres and she rod for Segaton whore she arrived alter about three hours' steaming. Her hose pipes wors under water and the in now submerged till up to the sumhings of lor hatchwaya. The Ban Whatt. Hin is a built in 1896 at Fort Glasgow by Messrs comparatively now steamer, having been Blockwood & Gordon. She is an iron grow steamor of 10 tons nett and 361 gross tonnage and was bought by Mr Eng Long about two years ago for the sum of $45,000. She is insured for only about half that amount and had besides a full cargo on board for Massrs Behn Meyor & Co by which frm the was chartered.

flow of soul' was especially strong, he knighted the whole staff of a local news

kindly undertaken paper which had to espouse his canes.

So much for the King of the Sedangs in longkong. We will now give a few extracte from a letter of Father Guerlach to Le Courrier d'Haiphong, which should show the true character of the män ---

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CHINESE EDUCATION.

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Only cry Oysters I

Bombay, 17th December. -The Bombay expected on first hearing the shay-that your cousin Blanchy get his loam of 46 mil. the writings of Aristotle and Plato, and positively disgraceful. A venerable tascher patients which have already made use of Kaiping line, who stood alone at that lions and all will be well." I have quoted the bald notation of the Spring end remarked to the writer with okarming the larger one at Wang Lang (some 250. critical juncture-Kinder contra mundum. Gazette's London telegram ays that Mr the German Consul gave him no encourage word for word. The letter, which ends with Autumn Annals by the side of the history anivete that he had never understood the men, women, and children) it is clear that Chinese Times. Gladstone in Beech at Limehouse con-

In fact, on the story of the request for 250 dollars, was not addressed of Thucydides, when the Book of Odea is allusions in the Trimatrical Classic (which noh an institution was urgently needed. Bured Lord Salisbury for being expressions mont. which have given fence any millions alleged cession reaching his ears be paid a to me, but the addresses has sotherised contrasted with the find, thu. Odyssey, or stands at the very threshold of Chinese Maob praise for the success of both of thes

SONG for the farmer-The spring je da of fellow-subjects in Todin; the "public in.

and I thought it proper to reproduce the marvel at the anonsure of success which an opportunity to read a Universal History, Krom Mun Damrong who, toll i lettere. lieved the people of India waitert for us:

story of this imaginary interview to show attended the use of such naterala in prepared by a missionary, in witch for the and spirit, har strictly and conscientiously the pablie the morality of this person. T China. Considering what, in spite of their first time. Chinese history was tunde acces carried out His Majesty's wishes and placed Ir seems appropriate for Jay Gond d the people of Iodis were in à condition

took the latter with me to Band and show defacts, the Classics have done for China, it sible to him. The encyclopedias and works Bangkok in a worthy position as regards house to stand on the corner. Pittsburg most interesting to every wino qualified to Meantime the work of the kingdom was od it to General Bagin, M. Parreau and the is not surprising that they have come to be of referance, which the Chinese have com free medical aid to the sick poor of every. Chronicle Telegraph. ponsibilities of English dominion: they are going on briskly at Hosigkong. Receptions Resident General who put the stury in its regarded with a bibliolatry to which the piled in overwhelming, abundance, are a claes, the mist universally popular form of JAY Gould likes the oorn becase comprehend the large principles and res-

true light. A people of awakening mind and desiring lu at the Queen's residanco were hold every eral now knowa who The Resident Gep history of mankind, affirds few parallels, useless to the common scholar as the banovalence, to our mind, which an ex- covers up a wan's tracks so nicely.Shea

the wrong has been. It is extremely difficult for us to compre- hieroglyphics nf Egypt. Bo never saw lightened and generous Government aan Louis Post-Dispatch. tight. Grand suppura und dinners were given done, and he knows that the missionarios hend the uffect of a narrow range of these works, and he has never heard of ka

OLD Lady (to tramp who has asked for and decorations were showered on friends among the savages love France with all nudies on the mind, because our ex- them. The information condoused into a

something to eat) What kind of rictuals willing to serve periguco furnishes no instance to which the small volume like Mayora' Chinese Reader's

do you mostly got when you beg bita 1 The King of the Sedangi', in truth, mems to their heart and are

her with all their power. In a' few cass of the Chinese can be compared. Let Manual, could not be drawn from a whole HAILWAY EXTENSION IN CHINA.

Tramp-Cold shoulder, ma'am -Courier my retum us for a moment imagine a western scholar, platoon of ordinary scholars. Information

It may now be ouusidered certain that Inve followed the example of abrother "Klug' days I will be again on

journey, and after the agitations of the past who had unjoyed a profound mathematical of this sort, the scholar must pick up on within two years from the prosect fime the

SPEAKING of the sloth, Bydney Smith: of French origin, who after stablishing a

suspended, sleeps kingdom in a district on the borders of mouths I wish to return to the calm of education, and other education what he goes alonk, remembering everything journey between Tientsin and Tungchow days: Ho

the apostolic life. Whatever happens, I ever. Every one would poneider such that be reads or hear. and much will be made by rail, and the difference this susponded, and, in fact, passes his life in do with the wind ill-talonood. Yet much of the ill of it will be derived from cheap little will make in the conditions of life in the suspense, like a young clergyman distantly will have nothing more Mayrina' affair. I consider it an entirely effect of such a narrow education would be books badly printed, and full of false char capital ung well be pronounced incalcal-related to a Bishop. finished, Icast na far as I am cuncurred, countorasted. Mathematical certainty, is actors, prepared on uo. oasignable plan, and able. It was impossible that the line be. SmatrHope-Acort-Modas, can't

In conclusion. may express nish, infallible certainty'; malliematics teada up, covering no definite ground.

tween Tiontsin and Tung-ebas, running induce your husband to take out a life in Through desert much ouly sarging a col-surance policy for $10,000 in your bonefil The missions to far off and unknown conto astronomy, and a thorough noquaintance

NETHERLANDS INDIA NEWS.

liory, could long remain the sole represent Madam-I'll try but I have any doubla tries require serious men and not persons with astronomy is of itself a liberal educa ope wishes to get rid of, who have much tion. Ersilea khía, được man woskarn

ative of railway enterprise in Cain. The about the benefit. John's got the constita audacity but very little conscience and lands cao fail to come into vital contact

CABLE MATTERS,

irony of the thing wax. too much even for tion of an ox=" of iterated. Explorers of this sort spoil Gruthe called the Zoit-geist, or Spirit of And there le what

The Eastern Extousion Austra asia, and the Chinese in that the only piece of road. A ROSE by any other name would amell as of whom the moral sanco has been with other minds.

Chiga Telegraph Company, with an oye to in the empire over which a journey could the cause they pretend to serve, Rad the Age. But in Chins a man who is edu- the additional cable to be laid bet woonbu made in comfort was just where

A maxim quickened by Shakespeare's it would be desirable it sorious missions cated in a narrow line, is likely, though by Java and Australia, has applied for an wished tu go, while the adjoining section of

touch, there is no Chinese Zeit-goist, or if there is, ion granted to it by the Netherlands 'Gov-populous cities with the capital of the Ba dangs showed a remarkable affection for

Le Courrier d'Haiphong gada at the end like other ghosts, it seldom interposes in roman The extended concession bas pire. And yet is must be admitted that a literature; and

been rahalle granted on condition of the sound discretion was exercised in making one night, when the of the letter:The letter of Father human affair

Querlach antegorically denies the assertions

The average Chinors, scholer is at a great cable being laid within one year of the date the first experiment in a part of the country taph on the t. mbstone of a man who died of M. de Magrens: Our roaders will be disady antage in the Jigs of the apparatus of the document.

where the bɛtueles to nonatruotion word able to appreciate on which side is truth for study. In a western land, sily man Povery AMONG THE PASTIG

reduced to a winism where laud in of from and right.

with the slightest claim to be called a Signs of Samne mpevorahment among small value, population above and below. scholar, would be able to answer to a short the people dava have becote se alarm-ground scant and vested interesta til. Even time, a vast range of questions. with intol-ing that the Government, » short time ago, h the existing line it has not all been plain ligent accuracy. This he would do, not so instaveted the Residents of the dideront sailing, as a reference to our translations zas VILLAGE SCHOOL AND ITS SUCCESSORS.much by masne of his own miscellaneous provinces to inquira low matters really from the Saik Fonduring the past two yours

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY is andögreed Written for the China Mail) informativo, ae by his booke of reference stood. Their reports show that in most of will show. There have been troubles with

The variour theories as to the location of the the Residencies, the people are indeed the populace bere and there, and the grave in the Paris Figaro,' of a valuable remedy Every pupil is naturally anxi us to get Garden of Eden, the dimensions of the poverty-stricken, The Locomotief calls question has occupied muclt of the ntten- for nervous debdity, physical exhaustion, into the class of scholars, and this he does Great Pyramid, the probable authorship of attention to one characteristic feature of tion of the Directors of the Railway. They mad premature decay. The discovery was the Junius Letters, the highest latitudo these reports in their hearing on the furdon are wet all theau difficulties in spirit of made by a missionary in Old Mexico; I After referring to the rather indiscreet as soon as he gives all his time to study, for reached in polar exploration, the names of of taxation upon the pur people. The conciliation, preferring where necessary to saved him from a miserable existenes and letter writion by the French Resident at whether he is a real scholer or not, the generals who conducted the fourth Residents curly admit that, to pay taxes, pay fall prices for worthless land, and even on early grave. We learn that the Rav. Quin-hon, M. Lemire, recommending M.he plaiuly belongs to neither of the other Peloponnesian WRC, these, and thus the cultivators have to sell their produce.in some carrying the line quite out of its Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, de Mayrena to the protection of the misclases. We are told in the Confucian ands of similar matters, could be at ones cattle, and furniture, or pledge them to proper and natural cars where the Blocowbury Square, London, W. C., will

elucidated by means of a dictionary raise the money,

owners of graben were influential and obsti sand the prescription, free of charge, on sionaries—a letter_for which the Resident Analects, that The Master Raid that The of antiquities, a manual of ancient

ACHEEN.

nate. One of the worst cases of the latter receipt of a self-addressed stamped enve- die The Achinase, by last ndvioeg, have kind occurred near Tung ku, and no sooner fopa. ss, we believe, got rapped over theacocmplished Scholar is not a utensil,". The or, modern history, & biograph the slackened in their aggressive efforts. At was the line made, and ita directions tɔa

To knuckles from his superior officers, Father commentators tell us that this means that tionary, and an encyclopedia

ordinary Chinase scholar, such helps as the at ports, all is quiet. At Edi, a certain extent spoiled than the parties con Guarlach goes on to my that he has since whereas a utensil can only be put to one these are entirely wanting. He owns very threatened Achinese attack had failed to cerned removed the graves voluntarily and tent Dadthat the Kingdom of Anuaia and con-use, the accomplished Sobolar can be used few books, for in the country where print come off. The enemy fully intended to at their own expense. It would be imprs. ing was invented, books are the luxury of take the offensiva, but could not carry out sible, under auch novel circunstances, to sequently the French Protectorate daim the in all varieties of ways, ad omnia paratus, the rich. In order to attain success in their design owing to a consigament of 120 avoid a certain amount of favourisism, bat country of the Moises belonging to it as faran as Dr. Lagge paraphrases it. This expres Chinese composition, it is necessary to be rifles and a barrel of gunpowder shipped on the sum total of the drawbacks arising very serious, The French siou is sometimes quoted in banter, as if in acquained with the forms of every charsetheir account having been seized at Penang, therefrom has not boen the boundaries of Siam. Government would therefore never think oxouse for the general incapacity of the Chi-to, as a means to which, access to the stan- The attack was meant as a feint to cover and on the whole the people have boun satisfied with what has been done. But dard dictionary of Kang Hei, would seem the landing of the arms and ammunition.

now that the China Railway Co, has been A VACCINATION FARK. of handing over this country to an explorer,

to be indispensable. Yet this invaluable work is not in the possession of one scholar He says I have heard it said that M. de

in fifty. Its place is generally taken by a the establish gant of a moshination park at they will have to make the most of the lea- The Homs Government has authorised entrusted with a wore important sectim, Maytena was sent to the Mois, to be got rid

small compendione andagus tu what we Buitenzorg, in Java, next year. The obsons of experience which they hate learned Towards Peking the of beuraso be was becoming troublesome at

should call a pocket desiduary. This isject in to draw Vaccine lymph direct from on the min rzina. Saigon.

Tant man boisted on

very often, the ons known is the Wu Fang the calf in Jara, instead of getting it out difficulties will be magnified in every re- Yu, Yin, in which the characters are from Europe. One of the overnment Pot, Populous places have to bo served, arranged according to the sound, and ant medical officers in the island suggested and the land is almost all much more valu- according to the radicals, na in Kang Ho something of the bind eight years ago, and able that on the north-eastern section, the and marans who have spent years at actually securing animal lymph from several Pupils are seldom taught the 214 radicals, prored the practical nature of the idea by school no idea how to use Kang Hsi's estvas. He has since done his utmost to dictionary when it is painto their hands. farther the good cause, by vaccinating pan Within a circle of eight or ten villages, ple for nothing with lyraph of this pardon- there may be only a single enpy, and if it is 1er kind. necessary to obtain murs accurate informa ti then is to be had is the pocket dic tionary, the inquirer must go to the villago where there is a copy of Kang Haf, and borrow light there. But such an extreme measure is seldam considered necessary, The incessant staty of the Classics has made all the characters in them familiar. Those who write essays, can compose them with the aid of these characters only, and as for miscellane characters, that is those not found in the Classics, why should one ure for them? A godition of Kang Thai, with cleat type

THE KING OF THE BEDANGS. SOME INTERESTING RIVELATIONS.

Some fire weaks ago there arrived in oar mides a Fronchman named M do Mey rens, calling himself the King of the Se- dangs. His fame had gone before hite and Bengkung received him with considerable cordiality. The country, uvor which he was alleged to have been proclaimed King, was totally unknown here, in fact almost annown to all the world. The story which the goi-disard king told was a strange ons, bus fact is sometimes struger than fiction, and there was nothing very improbable in his adventures. The King had a good the alarmor that he had been com erated presence, was a fluent taller and was a King by the Bishop of Quinton, while master hand at theatrical effect. His claim to was reproaching Monseigneur and to have come of a good family was incon the missionaries at Quinhon for not testable. There is no wonder therefore calling bir sire and majesty. that M. de Maytera soon made many that his kingdom was full of gold friends at Hongkong. He gave out that and that if one pat one's fuct in hin kingdom was a mine of gold, that the brook, on withdrawing it, it would be Fathers were his friends and would back found, covered with spangles. He said

when the King landed in Hongkong, but the item, small as it was, caused consider able trouble in the royal breast. Ho gave Itent that the Chinaman was a member of

nose literary man he is not a utersil. The schular, even the village scholar, not only does not plow and reap, but he does not in any way assist those who perform these necessary pets. He does not harness an animal, nor feed him, nor drive a cart, nor light a tire, nor bring water-in short so far as physical exertion goes, he does as nearly as possible nothing at all. The scholar is Be said not a atrasil,' he seems to be thinking all day long, and every day of his life, until one wishes that at times he would be a utensil, that he might sometimes be of um He will not even move a bench, nor make any motion that looks like labor. Almost the only exception to this general incap acity, is an exception for which we should hardly be prepared; it is a knowledge, in many cases of the art of cooking, in so far as if is necessary for the practice of the scholar, who often tehoben, in a village other than his home, and in this case be generally lives by himself in the school

The Chinaman seked money, Mayrena ra. plivd I have a straft on the Fathers of Hongkong. The Chinaman followed May vena to Hongkong, but did not get the house. dollars, for the draft was nowhere. A

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From an ardent pietist he became a pro- † teuds that in ordet to arrive at Pakat, he had poor, that he was obliged tu sond his Tabiiy cidents which they have thus cited, they saits which the nitimate extentions in the best guarantee «

was nothing of that kind. --The termination of the line at Taugehow is also a wise concussion to the prejudices of Feking, for In the Batavia Nieuwsblad Mr N. P. Vanabeerd as it must set to strangers to arrest Don Burg, an expert in such matters, extt the railway communication within twelve matus the sugar erop in Java last year at miles of the Capital, it is wiser. pro | On New Yorkers him up financially and otherwise. He also, that man, that the mission had signed talked of buying up the str. Filipinas and a letter of credit for $200,000, bemuse he

upwards of sir and a half millions of picule, ceed by tentative steps to neutralize the largest crop sinos 1881. Both quantity the conservative opposition which has offered $50,000 for it. During the first had left us a box of gold dust. And it was

and quality have cocidedly improved of late

its stronghold in Peking Time will work wonders, and when a succession of few days of his stay he was burning with by these false stories that ho deceived an

owing to the hard timas, which have com. płaty. He threw himself before the altar unfortunate Chinaman, from whigan he order

pelled plantors to cast about for means to officials have been conveyed with infor

konomis working charges as much as pox.

over-the sixty miles from Tientain with an effusiveness and ardeur that eclip-ed 10,000 costumes for his royal wardrobe

sible, by greater efficiency acermpanied by Tungchow in a couple of hours, they will begin to cry out on the barbariam which sed the devotion of the sincerest Oatholics.

reduction in expenditure.

condemns them apend six hours over the The Fathers exclaimed 'Soo what a pious

retaining twòlva miler, and in a purgatu PROGRESSIVE SIAM

rial pain. The movement now begun is man he is!" So matters went on for a day

as much as the village school-master would rosire for his whole year's work, At The Bangkok Times mya;—Oriental ua-

destined to go on, with perhaps an ever- orso, but the fathers, although they adwired

examinations for a degree below that of tious have for a long a period been regard-insrassing mowankum.

Each section of We have already alluded to his piety, were not to be mored fusncially.

the Chu jon, a knowledge of history as said to ed as beyond the aphere of active general railway completed makes another necessary M. de Mayzen hed a rather inconvenient pretext was made of the sickness of the great over-supply, of teachers of schools. be as superinous as no ccquaintance with progress that it is with sorce dificulty we The Tong-shan Railway in being extended attendant in the shape of Mr. Afong, of Ton Procuror General, and the Chinaman was Many of them, owing to their lack of the dictionary. Nine out of ten candidates realise the rapid changes which have recent towards the city of Kaiping, which is on

at the lower examinations know little, of ly developed amongst even the moạt con-

the road to Shan-hai-kun, and that point kin, who wished the small stim of $1,000 put off with goud words, coming back with adaptation to their envisament, are the history of China, except what they have servative of theme hitherto exclusive reses. also will donbtless be reached in the near from his Majesty as a contribution to the a deficit. He had lent money however to chronically on the verge of starvation. It learned from the Trimetrical inssia, or 11 wo simply turn to India as an example, fatare.

This mode of progression we regard as outfit of the warrier hosts of the Sedangsing" and he did not lose confidence, is a roserable mazim that Poverty and picked up from the Classics. The perusal a country formerly garded as the land of The royal tromanry was mok quita empty believing in the existence of the famous prida go aide by side, and nowhere does compondiams of history, even if stuh curiosities and luxuries,, wó̟- now so her sounder, bath-economiculty and politically, r'a=RMONETER—9 A.More.

are available, is

the employment of becoming wholesale producer of this the great schemes which are always in the air for constructing trunk lines through treaty. It was my feller of the 25th Da- this saying find more forcible exemplifion leuro, and the composition of sny staples hitherto solely manufactured reamber which showed him the true position, than in the case of a poor Chinese na busca unes entered upon, there Europs, and her inhabitants showing the empire on the Baron Hinck prin

scholar. He has nothing, he can do no is no leisure. One occasionally meets a in many things points of superiority ciple. The sadneity of some of the these erinl *aokemea of matters. We belire this is the Mr thing, and in most cases he is unwilling to teacher who has made a specialty of his which cannot be overlooked. Taking Siam promoters of

Without knowing Afong we referred to, and we may add da srything. In short, viewed from the tory, but these tuen are rare. Historical as another instance, the development, is really desirable.

stand-point of political economy, he is good allusions often lio aflost in the minds onorgy, and determination displayed by her, an inch of the ground they subscribe a syndicate that wished to advance him that he did recolta some money in Hong for nothing. One specimen of this class, of Chinese echolars, like gustches of postry, is not only adopting the app inners of wast to projects of the vasteet dimensiona which

era civilisation, bai in acclimatising thora, by their sheer magnitude scare ths Govern monoy; but as this story would scarcely kong, although not all that he wanted, the writer once saw, who had been set at the origin and connection of which are hold good for long, the Chicaman was Father Gerlach then goes on to refute the work by a banevolent foreigner molding ako. Many scholars, who have the auto speak, and in making her people not ment even from the modest enterprises coal-bals, oraployment which doubtless knack of picking up sad appropriating such only the users, but at the exponents of which, left to themselves, they would an Anally appeased. The King, not dading the various statements made by B de May. sppeared to him and to the spectators, as spicules of knowledge, acquire the art of nodera cystems of progress, she has bo- dertake. So far as they have yet gone, how- Fathers in Hongkong as amiable and pliable rena about his expedition as follows the substantial equivalent of the chain duxerously weaving them into examination come an active competitor for the foreign ever, the Ohines Government are to he ́as he daxired, executed a coup d'état or a In his latter of the 8th October in the B, and yet, to the surprise of his em essays and owe their success to this cream-rice, teak anther trades of Indo-China, congratulated on the culion that has re

Tyto extend that position. gnlated their steps, and their encourage- ployer, he accepted it sather than starve, stance alone, whereas if they were examined and ent volée fate of a rather remarkable character. | Courier d'Haiphon, M. de Mayrena pre- A certain scholar of this description Tan upon the historical connection of the in- Her plement to industrial par ment of the China Railway Company to but the commencement a large its sphere and solidify ita funds-

of safe. back to her other's house, to save then would be unable to reply. But as long as of an

progross The laws of to swim across rivers. That is fales. Fale frous, starration. The wife being a skilful this use of inch allusions in essays is feli-t is impacts to forecast, but carteis it is that could be gireit

There is nothing very diffiait in the hús kingdom allowed the chiefs to have is also the story about the war. He says I needlewoman, was employed at good wages gitous, no questions ars neked, and tho that thin country's present, active computi more wives than one; and he, being the placed warriors barring the road, and the in a foreign family, but when her husband desired end is attained. The Cat that tium in the teak and rice trade rust soonor ougineering of the now extensius, excepting heard of it he was very angry, not because catcher the Rat is a goed Cat, says the or later pridnen very marked effect upra perhaps the bridge over the Psito, which head of all, would naturally have greater Prussians learning this state of affairs with ho was inwilling to have her accists with adago, and it is no matter if the Cat is blind, the European markets. The capabiitios of river will undoubtedly be pressed at Bi-ku, privileges. At any rate, it was advisable drew from the right bank of the Mekong." foreigners, who he was kind enough to say and the Bat is a dead sine The Peking Siam, as a producing country, in the widest above the confluence of the Paling river to find a Quees and she was found. That is false. He pretends to have the were very respectable, but because it was Gazette occasionally containe memorials seuse of the term, may be regarded as and Buin-ho. Must important, of course, vory unsuitable that he, the wife of from officers asking that certain sums be immeasurable, their development being it will be to provide against the consequence Then he became an admirer of the opera command of 10,900 #arriors. Now the Scholar, should work for lire! The wife set apart for the maintenance of a libery only limited by the means of conveyance of floods which nearly every summer cover wand with royal prodigality distributed tipkots villages which have signed the consti- had the sons and aspirit to reply, that if in some central city, to aid poor students and distribution available to those by whom the middle part of the area which the rail

way will traverse; and it is most likely that tehir Entende. - A royal uniform was obtain-"|| tation have a ictal population of these were his views, it might ha wall for in the prosecution of their studies. If such her industries are directed.

him to provide his family with something to libraries existed on a large scale in It is not, however, in teak, rics, and other tho embankment will form an importaut ery for the Queen and ber 18,000 persons. It would be rather dif- eat, to which he replied with the character-erry District city, they would be valuable agricultural produce alone that Sinns is auxiliary d.fence against this annual devast Wostech. 30,37-5

Tok u Sv.12 friseur "purchased, « A chair and ficult to ges 10,000 warriors ont of that, istio and ultimata argument for refractory and match-needed helps. But so far as npadvauding with such rapid strides, for heration by neglectell river watere,

peats, for all practical purposes, they sourcely Ruler is not oblivious to the education al | It will now cambrinus to everybody that Nagasasi.. 30.47 draped with regal seches, were The legend of the king with the broken wires, actely a sound beating!

While the cauditions of the life of exist at all. The Chinese method of weit his people. Mouth by month schools are the selection of the left bank of the Peiho Shangha... 30.56 34 at he set up his kingdom in sarm is invented in all its detalle by May the village scholar are thus unfavouring history, is what Sydney Smith called being opened in every part of the for the line connecting Theatain with the Amoy...... Hongkong. When the lustre reba. Whatever is trup in his description able for his success in earning the antediluvian, bat namely, in whic the country, a fact which, roves that Governmouth of the river was the only one that fuugku (30,21) 60 atrical coups had momewhat of the country is taken from the works of living they are not mine favorable writer proceeds upon the bypothesis that ment in aware that the application of know, cold for a moment be defended. Had the aphong. 30.12 68 80

to bis own intellectual development, the life of the reader in to be as long as that ledge-leads to worthy end, and by the city of Tionis.n been connected directly olmaq 29.99 ing deigned to talk finance. the missionaries. He speaks of investiga- The chief, if not the excinive murces of of Methuselah jacted upon this trag dination of providence, wht anaintance of a distinguished tions. He never wide any. As to the his mental alimentation have been the mendous slan, the standard histories are ever efort it take the real and per two or three little tubes de gold he shows, Chinese Classica. These are in many ros not only libmries in size, but are enormnus maneat advantage of the lower classes, 12, and spoke to him they are all his stock and worn mostly pects remarkable products of the hamam ly expensive in price. In a certain Haion will ranol to the benefit of bumenity and

to work his great kingdom hought by us, for Mayrena wished strongly mind. Their negative excellencies, in the Districs, ur onunty, it is a well known fact, the world at large.

a greater actual distance from the centre of "Tokio m Hongkong are keenly to carry of a sample of the precious metal. hence of anything calculated to corrupt that there is only one such history, which In conjunction with the free education of popalation than the present line, but the Nagasaki..30.50-

Ibaye been asked if the mines in the the morale, are great. To the lofty and belongs to a wealthy family, and which one his people, Siam azulur bas lately conferred Grand Canal and the two other rivers shanghai 30.55 86 BSE of commercial develop country are so vary tich an Mr Mayrena ard of morality which they fit, may be could no more borrow than he could" bor-another vast benet on the nation by the mentioned above would have had to be no

were favourably ro sya. I know absolutely nothing about it, ascribed in great measure their abounded row the family gearogard, and which ere bailding two large free hospitals, the bridged in way to admit of the pas Hongsen 90.34 61 ons are somewhat I have seen mountains very rich in quartz, and perennial influence, na inflaenes it it could be horrywel would prove to affairs of which are controlled by liberal and sage of large boss. This presentar-aiphong, 30, 11 61

but I do not know if that quartz contains which has no doubt werfully tended be wilderness of learning sufficient to lost enlightened officials.The establishment of tangenuent requires only one heavy bridge Boluso.... 20,96 8062 geword, then gold. The natives wash the mand of the to the preservation of the Empire, at less oris. To late truth a pro- these sylabus for the sick is an event of bo hetoad of three, is die it brige. now Man.... . . ds; and the disbrooks that con at the foot of the moun- Apart from the incalcalable intinence verb, the Be that would know things an ordinary haportance, and will be ad regard hang erected for the seemdation of the

The bar meter has fallen in the south 16 advisable to tains, and they tell me that after a month's which they have eastted on the count cient and modern, must peruse Eye varied by all who desire the well-being of the goueral trafig ut being reck mod.

end gradients are very steep for NE search they get three ut funt grains of gold. Jem willions of China for many ages, loads of books at even after this labor, Siamese peuple. The important considers-was also a saving of over uses if distance wide. Cindy, cold out rather dry was ficial sources. To give one arapla out of thousand of there are many passages which in and of his range of learning, ganged by Ocidentalition in the initiation of all shuilar, enter by the loft bank route. Couldered as part ther prevails.

a truk lipe the secessity for avad u that this fellow is its ant to know themselves are remarkable. But taken suudasde, 100 ideas, the rises in Bangkok-the wherewithal to keep

Well whole the most friendly critic linda. it adequate. According line ideas, the the wing is in the present instance of the right bank is oren more Apparent, for would not have just come from Band, where I saw forean Itel upon him at every page, that | proper object of kuswledge and Little cousequence, sive His Majesty the to the numerona bridges which would have Bangkong: Elmore utory, Junsary 7

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large-hearted and liberal-minded as been required at or puse Teutsi wa turned his the Resident General aud Generi Begin whatever their meri varded me the sole generally and at the close of the Ming Dryer, has undertaken to defray all expenses have had to be added grading of one 1 234 mond to 5 daga Baran I received on both hands a very cordial Laxe books for best nation they are fact many bout 35 years ago, any ons out of his own private game. Happy is the sort, perhaps by atenin ferry, et laku, trait, any tri the level of the use in faible, per tha visited ception. The General presented me to Mly defective is are

and has fi cur only to learn of what has happen, ation that has the fortune to be rated by may soon, superdigone to espatlaté un atson and hsnáredthe, with the Parreas to whom he said This is a great too limited in their range Epigrammatic ad fince that Line, he can be gratided by such monarch.

self-evident propositions, but it is well o -đe Tenzurazuar, in the shada la degener pitals rolanced te

tu sad remember that as late svou as isu years | Feurohet. hot sure madman whom I have known for a years, moral maxima, marape of biography, podnies waiting a fe decades couturies, when

4. U curópy, in percentage of saturation, the He has not changed a bit but he has it of a sort of political economy,zbila of his the dynasty shall have changed, and the nittsted, one at Wang Lang, on the west go, they were not selfervlent. On the

aidan maturated rails mulatten þating iron character and the tuergy, of the devil lory, rules of etiquette and great varists of the Great Pure Dynasty can be back of the river, and the other near Fort contrary, rust of the candidates for rail- Interview | 11. Patrosu said to me. 14 We are not think of other, aqbjects, are cotomingled withouli parnally written. Imagins. a. History of | Malinctul, outside the city walls. Both way construcción planned an'l estimated for tre rumoursing of doing you any harm. You are plan, akuinstry, or progress of thought his hich should foll a halt at the fare duvoted to the healing of the sick und Tontain Tau line, the Britdicates wer

understood als by the letter of the The chief defects an already, magested; an Huse of Hanover The result of the the pronioti t of Earprea science among all in favour of it, and so auch teliance

did the Chinese officisin place on iva defepta in the syster of is shown in the trastorns of patients, gentle you have gained the posting Moraligigian Innes 103 Lan, toegeungy of a thin i

Ematian kietman Who the Confucian Arzalocteter, in that unltitudes of Cogwhatever, their creed or patiouality. Sevediet them that the Takn line was on never com over, France, uwes a debt

SMI KON VE to nothing about matters rat medical optionson, baye girea proms he pufot of wing carried against the Tong, new, I HOTATIN tude to you as having prevented the, are compared, for bined with an adventner like Feusina from going there. Har Pal Memorabille akt

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gard to which we should conédér ignorance to hospitals, and from, the number of persistence of the Engineer of the originalen, house a prachon, wahr und bin