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rauch as possible, and they will be out of place, or removed to some other part of the Empire, long before any considerable portion of such a loan would be repaid. "Just as we required, on the part of the community, fun mouths ago, that accounts of the aubsoriptions for the relief of the Yellow Hiver districts should be furnished by the Chiness who diatributed the money, so the foreign public will demand before long that some such system of relieving distress by employing labour as we have indicated shall be used by the officials; otherwiss they will withhold their charity. Al present a great and wide-spread distross is to be relieved, and no doubt foreigners
present small, slippery, easily lost, half- | no employment whatever, and no prospect pretensions to classical scholarship, wrestle | description of the Tai-wo Man, or gate, and will liberally subscribesto alleviate i
TRAVELLING SCHOLARS
The extreme difficulty which men of some education oston find lir ke ping from starvation, gives rise to a class of persons known as Strolling Scholars, (3 rino), who travel about the country, vending
dresses them as
a
ot
WIRLS ARE NOT EDUCATED.
the building.
THE is no limit to the age at which a any make a fool of himself.
Live virtuously, and you cannot die too sou, nor live too long-Lady B. Rassel
ALSO A ŠODVRNJA —Kirby—Lend me a
dressed by Woleridge To a Critic who quoked an isolated passage, and then de clared it unintelligible":
Most candid critio, what if I By way of joke pluck out year øya, And bolding up the fragment cry,
Ha, ha! chat men auch foola bould be 1: Behold this shapalese mase and bo Who own'd it dreant that he could see!" the joke ware mighty analytic But should you lighy not writiu?
notation. Hookove, Janitary 23.
No, 8129-JANUARY 25, 1889.) A CORRESPONDENT writes to us as follows: A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TURNED OUT AT A SMALL PAPRE MONEY.-There is quite employs a variety of set forms, such as the accounts of a great commercial people like FIRE IN THE IMPERIAL PALACE,
such a medium, acems indeed singulur. An
· SPBOJAL TBLKUBANS TO THE 'JUPA* As read your review of the past year ENGIMATORT.One of the most intereating buzz in the City over the proposed intra- he has received year epísti, nnd respectfel, the Chinese, should be settled only through
Dapers in the State &t New York is the duction of anali paper inenny. The feeling"
Poking, January 17th, 12.35 p.m. it struck me that you might have added to Stenmary, a weakly newspaper published at in favour of it ems to be rapidly growingly bathed himmll bol re he ventured to expert arrives at bie conclusions with
are famouiar with ordinary reckoning Emperor's Paleen st
A fire broke out in the Taiwo fall in the your story of work done throughout the at the Elmira State Reformatory. It is It is estimated by financial authorities that open it (a very exaggerated inence of surprising celerity; but even those who become puzzled the winment that a problem
am today. à year a record of work promised hat an-written by convicts, printed and sold by the annual lose on the sirenlation of our hyperbole), but he very likely neglects o convieta, edited by convicts, sot in type half-sovereigns is about £22,000. If all
presented to then boyou the sape of large number of high officials have gone to The cause of the ordinary rules. If one adult reecives a amist in extinguishing it. accomplished a sort of account of unid by convicts and intended mainly for the fight coins wore called in and in their inform you from what place his writing promissory notes. For instance, speaking convicts distribution and reading. It is place the Mint authorities gave paper and if he is reporting, for example, a law
half as much, what amount should be
Peking, January 17th, 3.20 p.m. of China, you might have; ut in your little not typographically, well written, edited tokens a loss of perhaps a quarter of a mil-suit, he probably omits altogether zuvura pound of grain every ten days, and a child the fire is unknown.
with a much care as nama daily newspa lion would be converted into a gain of wora
allotted to 227 adults and 343 ohildren, for The fire at the Imperial Palace has been "list" the opening of the Uppor Yangtozo, pera, ad the kind of news in printed which than Bve millions. On the score of con- ttams of vital importance to à correct com
would be of most interest as the readers. 750i000s opinion, of course, differs, but prehension of the case. In a majority of murth and a half? Orer a problem extinguish The Two Gato is barat,
As simplu as this, wo bave Beon but the Hall has escaped uninjurod. always about to happen but never yet no
There are nit pages set in differont sizes there is a growing tendency to believe that
Dr Welle
Williams gives the following complished, the creating away of the bartions of type, with the leading prison nows, and a strip of paper is better to handle than the instancea be is miserably peor, often has group of Chinoso, sooo of whom had in the Canton River, the opening of the alan loent and foreign news.
sovereign.
of obtaining any. If he becomes acquaint for half an hour, and after all, no two of the Tai-wo Tion or Hall of Highest Penco:
them reached the same conclusion. Indeed The visitor is led through the Taj-wo Man West River, the abilition of the likin
od with a foreignar, you are aware, hofore be the greater their learning, the leas fitted de into a second court paved with marble, and squeeze, the Audience question do, &c. It would be difficult to equal the following
Bad Sven Co-A home papar says:has made three calla, that he . In quest the Chiness seem to be, in a mathematical terminated on the sides by gates, fruticos
way, to struggle with their envir miscut,
and pillared corridors. The next building, Then turning to Hongkong you might have explanation of the seasons, written down by
at the head of this court, called the Tai Fo nated that we had been promised bills London School Board pigil no later than Ninely live thousand pounds' worth of of a situation. You inquire what he can font years ago. The so goes round on its forged silver coins in circulation Thero
All that has been mid hithert in regard tien, or Hall of fighest Peace, is a superb dealing with the kidnapping evils Chinose axis. The earth's axis is a pole put through coins, which range in value from three- do, and with a pathetis simplicity, he s
to Chinese schools, most be understood to warblo structure, one hundred and ten feet gambling clubs, the rating of insurance the centre of the sun, which torns it round, pener up to ball-arowo apiece, we read, auses you that he can do same things, and
and thus we get the seasons; or, the equa- cannot be called spurious, for they are is really not a useless person. Ho can refer to the education of boys only. With high, atxuding on a terrace that raises it byer, will you, old boy? I'm desa broke Companies, extradition, &c. Reference tor is a live rousing through the centre of hande of god instal; but her silver has
woor. Why don't you hook it? Kirby- might also be made to the fact that, not earth. At one end is the Tropic of Can-fallen during the past two years about four indeed, write from a copf, or from dieta- the exception of some wealthy or official twenty feet above the ground: five flights Mozcy-Fast's pretty good she
penes per unge, and hence there is a large tion if an eye bo constantly kept upon him excessively rare to find any woman who open through it into the next court-yard. decaased truther, MoxeyWell, my
families, it is, in the northern part of China, stairs, decorated with balustrades and
sculptures, lead up to it, and fiva doors Couldn't you know. It's a souvenir of ; at the other, the Tropic of Capricom ;' withstanding the complaints of merchants, the Nile in the only remarkable river profit on their manufacture, ranging, it is to provent the notation of wrong elaracters' read. The very idea of teaching girln and ship owners, nothing has been done in this world. It was discovered by Dr.antenlared, from 50 to 70 per cont. Many towards lighting the boys in the barbour, Livingstone, and it rings in Muugo Park. of these coms are clever imitations of old But it will not be surprising if his omplcyeems scarcely to have entered into the in grost hall of sou, nty-two pillars, money is a souvenir of a dépensei fattur.
Chinese mind. Yet, when the exauple has reasuring about two hundred feet by ninety The Boers are the wild people of the Capo coins in circulation, and they have been ra. er finds that at whatever task. he is sot, he
nuce been sat by foreigners, and when Chi-broad, with a throne in the midst. Hero Day-day, oli-fol. And he walked off
I Ruasis they are trying to find come or regulating them in a systematic rannut, Colony is not bad; though it is far in the snad by the Bank of England only on the
either do it ill, or cannot do it at all. nese maidens have been taught to recognise Alt Emperor holde lia lorees on New Year'a
were characters than their fatbors, and to Day, his birthdays, and other state ucca- way of solidifying petroleum, and De nothing done to improve the zigualling of rear of that despitch (from Downing Stront) ground that they have not becu iaued by
recognize them more correctly, their parente sone; coridge of about fifty huusohok Kaufman claims to have done it by heat- vassela, nothing done to improve the which suggested that the chaplain at Fort the Mint. Perhaps there would not be so
anunt help being proud of then. Ages of courtiers stand tear him while those of ing the oil, and adding to it from 1 to 3 Elizabeth might do duty at Pietermaritzburg many false sixpences about if there were sweeping or maintenance of our pabllo on the same day; or the reported opinion of more genuine ones. For some reason the
contemptuous Reglect have not destroyed uobis and inferior diguity and rank ataud per cent of soap, which dissolvas in the oil
in the court below in regular grades, and The liquid, upon cooling, it it said, becom throughfares, which whenever a shower an Admiralty clerk to the effect that Pot-Mint keeps us very short of small change.
or weakened the capacity of Chinese girls when called upon, fall prostrate as they all like tallow and is hard to light, slow to cheletroom might be attacked from sea.
to tonen. A girl is as likely to inherit her of rain falls become almost impassable, There is only a trilling outing up of itens
father's intellectund qualities as a. boy, and
make the fixed obeisances. It was in this burn and without smoke, but develops hall that Titsingh and Yan Braum trare į koucl
ouch heat, The 'idea in to", make, the that the guns for our defence have act in the mind of the boy who makes Gibraltar A NovEL STEAM LAUNCH.At the American
experience shows that the fortuer earn a
latter, But banquated by Kienlung. Jaunary 20th, patroleum available for fuel. made their appearance &c.
I have only an island built on a rock, and discovered Institute Fair is being shown just now a
quickly and as well as open were the passibilities and the practical 1790, of which interesting ceremony the Nous antiquary, says the Critic, bas ro- mentioned what came first into my head. I 14 by Sir G. Rooke. The following novel type of lannch, burning kortene and description of Cunatantinople, if lacking with the boiler and engine at the stern of am sure if you were looking into the waiter something in accuracy, is notable for its the brat. The suethod of Gring the boil paper, pictures, lithographe of tablets, pensadvantages of the eduention of gids thor. Daten ebendor gives au account, and sently unearthed from The Keepsake of over you could draw up a much longer list. Asplundid comprehensiveness 'It is on the is also now. Instead of atomising the oil, and ink. These individuals are not to beoughly understood by the Chine, thore is ince which event no Europan has entered half a century ago, the following lines ad
Golden Hora; a strong fortress; has a uni-as formerly, it is vaporised in & oil by confounded with travelling pellus, who, ne probability that the system would be which would not even eecar to an Oc statement of things left undone need not versity, and is the residence of Peter the heat, then driven out into the fire box and though they deal in the same articles, generally adopted, and this for resnon
The gas thus formed
BIGE OBINESE OFFICIALS AND necessarily be a reproach to the Govern Grand Its chief bailding is the Sublime mixed with the air,
burus without smell or stacke, and does make no protension to learning, and gen- cidental. Chineso education is largely ro-
THE DISTRESS.. ment or the authorities concerned.
They
not foul the tabes or sides of the boilers erally convey their goods on a wheelbarrow, garded na a machine by which reputation Thegenerate is of 2 horse-power, its dimen-
daughter is a rapidly than without it. cannot do everything at once, but it is woll
The N... Daily News says:We have been asked what the Viceroys, Govoruers. to keep hammering away of them about MIN SIMILAS TO THOSE OF THE STONE AGR Bions 12 inches wide, 12 inches cep, 24 whereas the Strolling Echalar cannot money or both, may be acquired more what has still to bo dour, as that is the Now LIVING IN CENTRAL BRAZIL Dr. inches high, and weight 150 lbs. It is manage anything larger than a peek. When person who will be incorporated into an-
Karl von den Steinon, the explorer of made of Damascus ste-1 and drawn-brass a Strolling scholar reaches a schoolhouse, other family, and who will then be wholly and higher officials in the distressed dis lost to her aWN. To spend time strongth-triots are king for the relief of the poor only way of getting things done in this Brazil, in a recent lecture before the dar tubes, tested to 600 lbs. hydraulic strain, ha entors, lowers his bundlo, and makes lethargic quarter of the globe. By the man Scientific Association on the state of Three to four minutes, it is said, is ample profound how to the Teacher, who, (though and ones in teaching & child who will and hungry beyond colecting and distribut. time to get up steam and a working pres- much displeased at his appearance), net son leave home trever to return, and who ing alme? Have they employed large num
if any bens of men and womo un public works, way, you omitted, I think, in your state-onlture of the people of the Stone Age 1 sure of 140 lbs. The hull has no crature the courtesy. If there a large by her education, vill benefit
Brazil at the present day, described the most of work done leat year, ens very Indian tribes on the Xinx, & Emzilian trance, well rounded bilges, and a long, pupils, the stranger bows to them and ad- une, a family other than her own, is such as would be undertaken at euch n bis Younger Brothers. an idea which would strike most Chinese crisis in suy other country in the world? These people, he clear run. The wheel, well dipped, meets
as not more rational thau to erect buildings These questions were not asked by ouo who important improvement here-the draining tributary of the Amazon.
a very small said, sal belong to the Stone Age; they plenty of solid water. Length on deck, The Teacher than makes me inquiries as
nothing of metals, and use only slono.22 feet G inches; bram, moulded, 4 fast to his name fe. If he turns out to be a upon land, the leass of which will in a few dusired to diminish the flow of clarity, +)PIUM-Now Patna, cash,.. 172,
which is so much needed at the present of the Happy Valley. At
mere pretender, without rest scholarship, years expire.
kimo, bet to draw attention to practical the Teacher drops the conversation, and cast 1 vast change for the better has been teeth, bees, and shells for their weapons, inches: estimated spead, b knots an hour.
measures, by the adoption of which the very likely leaves the acitool-room. This is made in this beautiful valley. If Mr implements, and aruaments, which they Scientific American.
The scholars of the Chinese Empire way people who are now safering famine and know how to carve with great artistic skill
a tacit aigual to the larger scholars to get Price's name is to adhere to any of his
They are now as they were in the tice A NEW SWIMMING DRESS-A swimming rid of the visitor. They place a few ash be represented by the figure of a pyramid, the country would be beneitad, Possibly works in Hongkong, in default of the Columbus, and have not changed in any dress, resembling a diver's dress, and made on the table, perhaps it more than five, at the apex of which are the comparatively new public works wight be allowed to staud Bower or Conduit Road being rechristened degree since they were discovered. They of double india-rubber, has been adopted in ce oven three, which the Strolling Scholar for who either are or have been in ofice. over until the extra business, which the are, however, by no acaba savages; the the German navy. On the chest is a valve picks up, and with a bow departs. If he Below them comes a wide stentum of famine has thrown on the mandarins -why it should be named after the wind customs are decent, they are monogenists, through which air is blown into the interior sells anything, bis profits are of most the pectants who wait for othee. Still farther has been got rid of, but such things as bag I do not know-I should propose that although there are no mariage ceremonies of the dress, which covers the whole borly, moderata description--perhaps three cash on down are the Selected Meu (Chu Jen), the roads, canale, bridges in China always second rank of graduates, and at a great stand in need of extensive repair. Yet with their children. Their mode of life in the animes from being too much to sod With a view to this class of demands, Macneile, or something of that sort.
simple, but not barbarous, and there is not about by the sun the space round the chost small fund is sometimes kept on hand by eat is Flourishing, (Hsia Ta'ai), who to give employment to thousands and that
aa having just entered sauds of men and woute on these. the least immodesty in their lack of clothing, is especially large. The swimmer wears the larger scholars, who compel the young are regarded The different tribes live in villages contain bekk, which divides the dress into two parte, er ones to contribute to it.
If, however, school. Still lower down, fes the broad distress is peculiarly sharp in Shantung, as SAUDLED WITH A BABY.-Men have been saddled with efray babies in railway caring at the most 350 persona, neat to the to presents too great loss of air if the dress the Strolling Scholar is a scholar in fact, so hand composed of those who have studied aversi correspondents have informed us, riages, in omnibuses, ander all manner of rivers, and usually some days' journey from were torn about the legs, and consequent well as in name, so that he attainments ha-hoping to get a degree, but who, for varions and in the very parts of that province
the Teacher is obliged to roanons, have been blighted in apparent, terrible circumstances; but the most awful each other. There is little communication dificulty in swimming. The swiminer wears predicament a man was over in must have between them. They are acquainted with shoes with leaden soles to secure his equili- treat him with much greater civility. Some aspirations, and who have practically the worst condition. The roads in the dia- the notion of private property, but it plays brin, and for his defence a dagger, which of these roving pandits make a specialty of abandoned them. These are the under-tricts we refer to, and very likely in been that of an American recently bathing no great part among them, ie the differ: is fastened to the girdle. This swimmers are historical anecdotes, and miscellaneous crust of the Literati of China, using that others, if not in all the province, were at South Beach, who was the cynosure fence between the capacity for production of all eges in his splendid blue and scarlet individuals in of the smallest. Thefts are to be employed for the blowing up of mines knowledge, and in a general conversation with term in its broadest sense and it from originally fine broad eart-roads, but and hostile craft, and are peoridad with a the Teacher, the latter, who has not improba them that the great mass of the school neglect bus reduced them to a very bad bathing suit. Presently, as he posed like a merman on the bring brint, fashionably comotion committed from other tribes, bet box containing on explosive charge, which bly confined himself to the beates routine of instors in draws. Although they have condition, as bad perhaps as they are in nos in the natuo village. A great bindrance they have to fasten to the mine or craft and classical study, in at a disadvantage. In secured no degree, the years bestowed upon any part of the empire. The tupairs of dressed woman advanced and begged him
10 development in the absence of all ignite. Before the explosion occurs they is exes, other scholars of the village are their studies are not regarded as lost, be there could now he commenced, and made to give her baby a dip. The young man complied, tas two-year-old splashed and domestic animals, even doge. The people are out of reach of danger. The winning perhaps invited in to talk with the stranger, onuse by means of them is enjoyed a re-economically, and would be of great servica kicked, and when the dip was done, and the hurt and fisli, and, in a certain degree, dress has bean already tried in Germany, who may be requested to write a pair of spect which could not otherwise have all kinds of people. The works would It is mainly to this give eraployment to thousands in the dis- dipper waded back to shore, the young carry on agriculture, but this latter is most During the attack on the harbour of Kiel, scrolls, and asked to take a meal with the been attained,
ou August 29, svimmore were despatched teacher, a swall present in money being class that whas has been said of Chi- tressed districts, and relief of this kind-Wire
58 scholars, is intended to apply, would preserve the morale of the peoplu, mother had disappearad, snd the young primitive. They rogard themselves an in man was bei: slote it his splendour with a close consanguinity with animals, the from the ironclads to destroy the mines made to him of his departure. Te is related
that a Strolling Scholar of this sort, boing There may perhaps be sonia to whom the which subsistence on charity, no matter baby nobody owned, or would relieve him Bakari trace their descent to the jaguar, and closing the port.
the Trumai people, whom they hate, acd
present when a teacher was explaining the teprosentations as to the mental obtuse- from whom it comes, cannot fail to injore. who are expert swimmoors, are believed to
Classics, deliberately took off his shoes and boss and general incapacity of some This, however, is a view of the case with be 3 species of alligator, and to sleep at
stockings, in presence of the whole school. of these so-called eoho'are, may appear which the officials are not likely to trouble gst The son
Being reproved by the teacher for this suggerated, and doubtless there is a wide their heads, all they care for is Taz Straits Times Baya--The question of night at the bottom of the stream.
brunch of propriety, he replied that his difference in different localities. Bat we through the winter somebow, and with as protection for qualified medical practitionera is to them a ball of the feathers of the red ara coclosed in a pot, the cover of which is
dirty stockings had as good an odour as can assure any who have followed us thus little trouble to themselves as possible. sgainst numerous persons who practice in
the teacher's classical explanations. Talfar, that all that has been said upon Bat as a matter of business the employment the Straits without the usual recognized raised in the morning and closed in the
The plan of Ohianse study has been spy This the tenoher naturally replied by a cha)- this point, comes very far aljort of exhaust of the people on public works is the boat Labour of adopted. qualification bas not attracted so much in- evening, and the other celestial phenomena terest even in the medical profession as it are all connected in a similar way with the called intellectual infanticida. The outcome lenge to the stranger to explain the Classics ing the truth. It is only by a careful course that could be deserves. In other British Colonies, says animal world. The sorearer among thora is of the plan of intellectual infanticide, is that himself, that they might learn from him consideration of the educational conditione all kinds ronat now be abundant and unable Taken at Mesire Falconer & Co.'s Premises, the Strads Law Journal, and indeed in near- a physician rather than s priest, he has no the village scholar who has the entire Clas. The Strolling Scholar, who was a person of already described, at the same time taking to find its ordinary employment in those considerable ability, had been waiting for account of the enormous number of districts of Shantung, so that the much- ly Brory European Colony, the authorities Diviuc position, and indeed they have
opportunity, and taking up practical failures which they imply, that wasted repairs could be very cheaply effect- have stringent regulations to deal with this notion of a Suprania Being Soul and body alus at his tongue's end, who has bosa ex- just stich
which requira
help. It is quite true that mattor. In Australion, for instance, all donare regarded as separate, for during sleep amined before the Literary Chancellor more the explanation, went on with it in such an we shall form any true conception of what ad, and the same in the other provinces At this time sud for a month or a litle tors desiring to practice must appont before the latter is at rest while the former
examination assay, that the testhor was a medical Board, produce their papers and wanders about at will. Hence a sleeper times than he can remember, does not know elegant style, every sentence being like an the Chinees system of education really is.
more, the sour and front will probably deciare apon said that they are the paraons must not be awakened suddenly lest the fast from fiction, ner history from my-assed and shamed, and entertained him
provent any road making or canal repairing referred to thersin. The basis of this Bar soal should not have time to return. The thology. He is not epttain whether a par- handsomely. If a teacher were to treat
Uting undertaken, but in the inestime the is the British Medical Acta 185 to 1885, language is not poor in expressions, and
people should be employed on preparing abviously superior to his own, ho would,
che materiais to be used when more and all qualifications recognized by the scarcely narrower, says Dr. von den Steinen, ticular historical character lived in the Han with disrespect one whose scholarship was the Ming Dynasty, expose himself to disrespect in turn, and eneral Medical Council of Great Britain than the speech of German pensant in Dyanaty,
gariad weather comes. The amount of arebognized by the Bard. It seems retete place, but structure or system dose though the discrepancy involvas, a matter might be disgraced before his own papile, what he does aut like
A NEAT PHRASE Children sometimes work done in this way would perhaps occurrence which, an very desirable in the interests of Europeans not exist-Ladies' Treasury.
xious to
hit upon a phrase which conveys more than not be up to the average, but still it and Britial subjects that a similar Board
avoid. should be formed for the Straits Batdementa,
In China the relation between teacher pages in whith their elders have stripen to would be something, and of a very bene Our readers will remember that when and the wisdom of such a plan does not, so
and pupils far more intimate than in ast forth things clearly, and an incident was ficial and useful nature. far as we can eve, appear to be in any way
Western lands. One is supposed to be afforded recently by a girl of six. She had under a great weight of obligation to the been present while her mother received a sulecriptions for the relief of the auf. doubtful
KLOW
THE VARIOUS RANKS OF Scholars.
the little lako should be called Lake and have the most Affectionate relations and lanves culy the face free. To prevent [cach pen, and two cash on each cake of ink. ! listance below, the students whore Tal-wo have not heard of anything buing doo
of-Weekly Times.
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CHINESE EDUCATION.
ITS DEFECTS
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MODESTY and humility are the sobriety
Bs who says what he likes may hoa of the mind.
of 1000 or 1200 years. He dosa not profess to be positive whether a given THE CONFLICT IN SAMGA-The San Fran page represents a real person, or whether cisco Exuminer says:-The current nuit may not perhaps have been merely one ber of the Nineteenth Century contains an article that is of pullar interest of the dramatis person of a theatrical master who has enlightened his darkness, call from a neighbor, one of those immes-forsta by the floods in the Yellow River
the
inst at this time. It recounts the Historyplay. De cauhot mame the Governo e or of the Samoan troobles, from the tius Governors General of three ont Bismarck cart an evil eye upon the ther happy islanders until the outbreak of the Eighteen Provinces, nor does be ke present revolt against the usurper Tamasese. capitals of a third of those Provinces. It is a pathetis atory. It sows a gallant
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and if this roaster should be at any time insurably voluble women who are the terror districts were called for some forteen need of astirince, it is thuight to be no of their friends, and after the caller badutha age, a correspondent urged that the Tax Intent news about Samos in the Aus
more than the duty of the pripil to afford departed she said to her mother with the tuney raised for that purpose should be tralian papera is contained in the Sydney
the it. This view of the case is obviously one utmost seriouanela Mamma, I don't withheld until the high Mundarius gave a Morning Hera'n of 21st Dec. from which zo take the following extract :-By the
which it is for the interest of teachers to think I like Mrs. Blank. She leaks words pledge that a proper survey of the river would be undertaken, That was a practi- North German Lloyd's steamer Entwek,
perpetuste, and the result of the theory all the time. which arrived last night from Touge and people sacribed to diplomacy-to the in-saacgh for him that any particular place and of the attendant practico is that there MABEL's Quotation and Amendment-F. cal suggestion, but we do not propose that Apia, in the Samoan Group, news to the solenon of one great power and the timidity in China, the location of which he is are many desayed teachers roving ebent, W. Farwell has two little daughters who are anything like it should be employed at the present time to indues the Mandarins to do living on the precarius generosity of their very cute. Constance go a to Sunday school their duty to their proviuses and to the Ho never foriner papila 11th instant is to band: hut very little can of two others. It is not pleasant reading ignorant of, is 'eauth-sida *.
nud Mabel, theron and a half years old, wanta be gleaned relative to the fight between for Americaos or Englishmen, and ought
So she asked her mother to teach her a poor within them. But where there are Tamaster's party and the followed of not to be for Gensane. On the whole, the studied any geography ancient or modern,
verse, After many attempts she got so she foreigners in the districte in which relief is Matsale. A fight did take place on flovernmout of the United States appears he usver saw an ancient atlas nor a modero
We have already adverted to some of the could say correctly, The Lord is my shep given, they should bring to the notice of the 29th altimo between the parties to better advantage than that of either of with loss of life on both sides. The the other powers, but the best, is bad map of China-neveriu fact beardofone. An principal defects in this routine of Chinere herd, I shall not want. When the time came the officials the wisdom fundertaking those battle appears to have been fought out enough: Germany, in this affair, aquaintance of the writer's, who was a pupil schools, but there is another which should for her to recite the worse she had it thus: other public works to which we have refer- to the last, and with a certain amount simply played the part of the bighwayman. in a mission school, sent to a reading man
woman or child in China, who will potaperda Lord is my shepherd, and I don't want red. If this is done at que a portion of anything. Seving averybody laughing at the contributions which are expected from of determination. The latest news is England has sometimes amplained and somewhat at variance with that received sometimes truckled to Germany, but has of his village, a copy of a Universal Ge-a considerable fraction of his life in handling her, she turned to cister, and whisper a home might be used in this way, at all'ostock. 30,22 9 by cable from Auckland on Tuesday, sud never taken a really manly stand. Theography in the Mandarin Colloquial, the brass cash, in Inger or smaller quantities.Tonny, the Tords my shepherd, and Irevents after supplies et food and those things tokio &.08 shows a decidedly different aspect, as the United States has always been on the right explanations of which, would seem to render individual, to be able to reckon, if trab
It is a matter of great impurtance to each de rast nume thing, Paul Globe rich they want most have been given to Nagasaki.. 30.97
the poor. Further fade will be needed, Shanghai.. 30.40 36. APOTEZGME. following obtained from a correspondent side, but has not always had the serps to mistake as to its purport, almost impos-rapidly, at least correctly, so as to safe
bus barely the Provincial high officials Amoy 20.27 55 The heart of man is like the love of the would be able to supply them, iter from lengkong 30.26-53 will ahow. The correspondent states that enfores her decisions. America's great since his last report to November 10 things opportunity was missed when our Govern sible. Yet the recipient of the work, after trouble, and what in tothom of ; fur more importance, money I scoms al
their treasuries by leans or contributions Haiphong 30.18 G1 Laughter and sung and the bestt's rivers from the gentry and the well to do atasa, iu general have bem quist in Semon, but wont refused to sustain Consul Grassbaum protracted abudy of it, could make nothing most incredible that for intraction
Boliano.... 29.97 82 Manila... 29.05 89 | 67 and as istance might be got from Peking, goes on to say that the representatives of the in proclaiming a temporary protectorate
Life is a continual reutine, whatever gaiss The ways of Chinese Brands are myster
JANUARY 23. United States may be considered to be re-over the jalauds. That, moasare proved whatever of the volume, and called to his in this most necessary of stie, there is no
provision whatever. To add, to substract,.,
it crymer sponsible for the disturbance in Samos, itself a brilliant success. It proved that aid two friends, one of whoin was a literary divide, to multiply, to know what to do
ions to foreigners, and though it may be Wostock. 80.38, 10 tu
A amilo through tears in the soul's minken for granted that all the high Fokio and it was they who incited the rebels the highwayman's pitio was ok loaded graduate, and all three of them puzzled with decimal fractions, these are daily u bow of peace.
officials are in want of money for some Nagasaki, 80.27 (Mataala party) against Tamasese, and When a German squadron of theoo war
eqzsition of every one . China, and yet promised to assist them from the ses ships was about to dspoen Malicate, the ever this maps and text for three days, these are things that noone teacher. Such
The amenities of life make the true purpose or ether, they not infrequently shanghai..30.41 33 by bombarding "Tamasese's fort at Lustu sght of the American fag, without a single the end of which time they all gave the mat processes, like the art of hook-keeping in
beauty of living.
Show themselves be in possession Amoy anua. Fortunately, the statement goes versul in the harbour back it, repelled
The simple faith of a little child is the of unsuspected funds, with which they ter up as an insoluble riddle, and determined Western lands fifty years ago, must ha a, the German sorvette Adler arrived the attack and the pirate Rest mailed away.
inset emergencies. The Peking Guzelle Our correspondent frIf the paralysing traditions of non-interven-in despair to await the return of the donor learned by practical experience in shops world's truest homage. on tho scena.
Good braeding is like affection-one shows that the Viceroy of this pro he village and places of busines ther stated that Captain Leary had tion, inherited from the pacific edzinistra of the book, to explain what it was about! schoolmaster not only does not teach the uso not have too much of it.
vince was able to find a considerable written to Tarans se the day before the son of half a century, had not been This trakk of intellectual obtraume, is of the stuens, or reckoning board, but it is
Dreams are ofttimes the fulfillment ofta for the Emperor's marriage, although battle, stating certain conditions and their fatally strong at. Washington, the consul
the money did not come from that parti The power of forgivens is the noblest cular department of bis easy where in for N. winds are decreasing Cool, nitimate results; but in spite of that loiter would have boun eustained, and Bismarck far enough from being exceptional in Ohi
prophecy within ourselv an attack was made on the 29th of would have had to look for some other rese scholars. With a carlatt elpas of them, in the United States where the school-boy stiibuta in the human character.. better times it might have been. If His clondy sad rather damp weather prevaile
Let no day glide into aternity without Excellency adopts the suggestion, we now November, and also on the morning of the held for his colonising activity. It is not
hout Exellency adopts in suggestion, we now
Coners DIRECTE 90th alkima The result was that the set too late to do our duty by Semua; to cam early recognized, it is the rule, and it is taught selling of the rules of arithme-
To be autocratio in to be unjust to our able to find many to carry it wit, with the rebels were repulsed with great lose, and fall our tresty obligations, save our com-iss narural outcome of the mode and tie at school, and whers be is obliged, if he, extching a glanzee of Heaven's so
desires auch knowledge, to learn the in- on Bevoral dcussions without having taken free from destruction at the hands of a procean of their education. Although the pls rules of addition, de, iroz que persires. No man is audien untership: belp of his subordinates and is one a fort or position of Tames's Accord Carman monopoly, and rescue from op
of
of the Liang king, Sush funds could be 1. Bonoursax, reduced to 32 dagrees Fahrané, ing to the statement of the rebels, they pression the people who have trusted an education of a Chinese sobolar is almost son, those for compound authors from Despair and
another person, not improbchly fin Jost 48 heads" (that is," heads actual. It is not a question of fighting. If it were ardusively devoted to acquiring facility of tank village, the mesurement of land linked that cab ja riven by the west of Applied to the formation: of public works | belt, and to the léval of the van in fachas, tenida
during this coming ring. In Western and hundredshetr overed from the body) and 70 killed, we should have no trouble, The Adams
the other. →→ Detroit Ergo Precarim smistries the money in exported wuald be 3. Taurasaroko, in the shade in degrees basitles a great number of wounded, who could blow the little German gu boat Adler composition, it is composition of one varie from yet third individual, no
be treated. out of the water and the Trenton, Watty only, the exanimation emay. Outside of them holug set of a valuable remedy which would within a given time reimburse
him all An Important Lazoormax is announced reowered by some public taxes or tolla Fahrenheit,
3. ECMENITY, bu paroentage of sátoration, the were takon to
the help he requires. The thingmer Tamaneno lont 18 killed, one died the next Ballen, would be quite a match for angol of czemination belir, however, the examing-board is no doubt a very ingenious cut for bervond debility, physical tanation, ither the community which guaranteed the edity of air sainated with muskelte being day from his wounds, besides 25 wounded, the Germán vessale in Pacião regions. But who were conveyed to mad mured at it is needless to think of such contingencies.nation essay, aran in Chios, plays a com trivance for facilitating compatalion, but it and premature decay. The discovery was loste te the unders. But unless the Im-500
is neverthelme a very clumsy one. It has made by minaisuary in Old Mexion; ipari Government found the
money, and
5. Fonan un "Warn, köcording key: Hainfark Halsalata. Tamasene was very proud this Not what need be fired. All that is paratively qualipart, and a person whose tal defect of leaving no trace of the Anved Lim from a laissralde, existence and thereby pit Itaste in the conition of lender, he did not lose any honda Thas rebels accesary is to notify Bismarck that the sole forisis the production of such days procence through which the results have an arly grave. We kath that the Boy. The way in which offon prom and held i 8. Brats of Wearts), 3. hins sky, 1 do who landed at Salumista some days ago bamoans are entitled to govern themselves were driven out to ask on the day of the and that we will too that they have the often shows to very littis adsstage in any been reached, so that if any mistake netu Jo Holmes, Bloomsbury Manous Olina will provent the provincial authorities weke dlords, a defaling, cain, for, glome Aght (November 20). It is now expected
raiterative principle of the House that Jack and the prescriptat, free of charge, on now administering pabilo affairs have fuel. In the present state of Europorn especially as Captain Leary loft Bames with palities he la not hunting a war, lesat of letter, without allowing the noten empty Built, until the raget, or is supposed to receipt of a saltadressed stamped enve- rocoup thentaiver for the money they paid, snow, a domider, è visinillige
for their plecos, and to enrich thêmas POS NA | Bán, la inches, terike med hundendčins the das
all with a power like the United States particles to tyrannies over tia pen, Helhe correct. That all the cumplicated upo,
by no means certain that he ouderstands it
himself. Imagine place in England"
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happiness.
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The barometer has fallen and gradients
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Hongkong Obernatory, January 23.
“. Drascgion on Wind 10,kro poista
that the rebel parig will loss in strength, rege. The German. Chancellər is not a slape Hus of business. He anapot write a fi necomer to repeat them all, on the Bloomsbury Square, Londen, ::W; Ch. will adopting any nou, ping, hoa who are hall; ; lightning, o prereal, y passing showára,“
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