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The rapid fall of the barometer yesterday and the exceedingly low readings which were

THE CHINA MAIL.

have come forward in spport of thi worthy institution.

AMONG THE LEES IN HAINAN. XIL The next morning, undor the oroart of

VISITORS AT HOTELS, A, 7.

queat, and here and there hords of cattle youth with that of to-day. They could remember what Madame Bovery" was word doen. It was a relief in some caspecten scurt on the charge of indecency, bal to get out of the high mountain region. "Lia Dootcur Pacoal goan nachallanged

They want recall the sensation Me W. G. Allen which the mid indeconsles of the Fi Mr J. M. Black

giron towards midnight very naturally sa oharging 25,000 projectiles in five minutes, That the knowledgo of the financial supporod-turbaned guide, the son of the head Hal the heavy spring Tas come on, now.

TURFIN, the inreater of molinite, bas submitted to the French War Oos an electric gnu alleged to be ospable of dia. and to have a range of several miles. The apparatus is comparatively light in weight, so that it can be drawn by two bornes and worked by four men. The projectiles are small shells charged with a acest chemical preparation, spreading death for wirty yarde around. The English Government is said to be negotiating for the purchase of the invention, though scopticnt of its value.

gendered a feeling of alarm among resk dents in the colony on to the approach of a typhoon. According to the China Chant Meterological Register, the barometer at 4p.m. yesterday had fallen to 20.25, and it continued to fall after that time with somewhat alarming rapidity until between two and three o'clock this morning. From that time its rise was as rapid as its fall

REAL-ANLIAL Edgar Humann, Commar- had been. The signal of the approach of a der-in-Chief of the Franch Division of the gale was given at A quarter past Far East, who figures so prominsatly in ton yesterday morning, but befors that the events now occurring in Siam, is one of the junior French flag officers. He wa born in May 1838, and is therefere fifty- time the wind had been coming in strong gusts from a Northerly direc-five. Be entered the cavy in 1856, WLE promoted to lieutenant in 1864, comman tion. The notice from the Observatory der in 1875, ostsin ju 1889, and He resolved his stated that a strong North-East gals was rear-admiral in 1880. expected. It is not often that the meto present cremand on February 2, 1898. He has been succesively side-de-comp to orologiste of the Observatory venture to Admirale Higsult de Genouilly and Dom. prophesy, but they risked it on this pierre d'Hornuy, chief of the Staff to notation. The gate came as predicted, and Admiral Jantás, and Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of Newfoundland. as everybody expected, but it was not a His service includes the conquest of Cochin North-East gala. That is a moors matter of China, the sings of Paris, and the expedi- detail, however, and the scientists of the tian to Corea, in the course of which ho was decorated for brilliant conduct at the Observatory may be congratulated on bavapture of Kong-Hos. We learn from the ing made, at least, some kind of effort to France Militairs that he is the grandson of a former Minister of Finance under Louis supply the public with useful information. Philippe, that his elder brother is the After it was known that the typhoon had General Humacn who retired apou the exile

HONGKONG HOTEL,

Me and Mr Merions

Mr A. Massey

Mr. F. W. Phillips

of the Chinese may safely be accepted as a flattering testimonial to the tangible, we proceeded on our way, following they expected to do at any time, we should Parisienne of their goath excited; the un- Mr Hy. Crombie

for a short distance the stream which flowed have found our mountain rotreats any-speakable performances of that janrusl at MeT. B. Curningham good done by the Hospital Staf

Frand Despatch.

That I learn the Morphine Ordinance wil bo remodelled, as it we discovered after publication to be quite diferent from the one recommended by the offinors who are supposed to know about such things.

could remember tho

sodat uses of tas Mr J. Kirkwood

Me T. Mitchell

Me F. E. Shean Mir T. Tatlook

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the present day are only laughed at, They Me E. H. Durriok news-stands and book stalls thirty years ago; what kind of cagravings and what sort of books do they sea displayed to-day? They could recall the dubious stories which they need to read in secret; how. auch worse were the novels now lying openly

Mr H. E. Botakel! on the desks of men and on the tablas of

Beyond all question,' says M. Lavis Me Hart Buck

¡Commodore Boyes

Women

Mr and Mrs J. D..

Humphreys

Mrs Anderson Mr John Andrew Mr S S. Benjerair & hire Carl Jant-

zen, nurseandchi dren Mr Kladi

in words which ought to be printed in Me and Mrs G. C. Mr & Mrs J, Kramer

Cohsa capitals and posted in story place whom

pornograpble books and papers are pat on

Coral Lange

Mr W. Mathieson Mr H. F. Mayeriak....

Mrs Monteith

That I hear there will be a meeting of down the valley, and then turning to the thing but comfortable, and we now con- Conncil at an early date, at which weight into a sido path up a rough ravine.gratulated ourselves that all fears of deten may perhaps have a peep at the Treasury alight rain in the right had made every-tion among the upper hille were at an oud. thing wet and the road slippery. The Unfortunatoly for the people, however, the scent of suis ravine was quite onsy at first, rains did aut come for many months.

A we reached the lower levels, the shaded as it was by everhanging troes and shrube. Several new species of palms were abundance and variety of the oaks wors ented, and orchids adorning the trunks of gain apparent. On many of the hillsides the trees. As we drew near the head of four-fifths of the trees were oaks, thees That many Chinese residents are delighted the ravine, the hill frowned stoop and slip or four different epocios growing to

over the assurance (I can't say from pery before us. It was a tooth-and-nail gather. They were just bursting into slo- heyond all question, this litoretaro Mr Cochrano whom that the ordering of spiam piges struggle for several mindred foot. The soil new leaf-which gave a peculiar charm to makes its victims. It works haves among Mr J. B. Cought

the young, who are wearied with the mons- was hard clay, wora smooth, and now mois the landscape,

tony of school life, and who rash out, Mr Alfred J. Easton Rev. J. M. Morton, is not to come within the sphere of 'daly-

In these days of mountain travel my the moment they are free, in patsait of Me R. S. Furlonger Van Nistop

Dr. Gorlash

Mr Herbert Ogilvie qualified' persons; and there are Eura-tened just enough to make it slippory. Un

was a privileged menthoas perilnas enjoyments which the Mr W. G. HookridgeMs T. Five mura

themselves forward at every strost comer, pean residents who are relieved to know either side grew jungle grass in thick masses, horse Toby

but to clutch at this for support one was in bor of the party, having freu ratione, in every wing-room, under the eye of an

Mr W. Holland and 4 children a ch

Mr F. W. Happ dangor of sulting his hands with its sword-

a man lo lead him and nothing to indifferent police. It does woreo: it des- Mr Holland like blades. For one empty-handed this do, while I tredged day after day on foot, troys all freshness of feeling, it corrupta sarse of it. It makes womnu a ville thing. the mon with their burdans it was tenfok which prevented the rise of a saddle. My It is criminally ignoble. It needed not a climb was a most difficult task, but for all this was owing to a sore on his back, love at its very awakening, and makes a man to rise from the dead to tell us this, worse. Only by digging their toes into the friend's horso carried him faithfully every

but it is something to have one of M. Lavisus's ular and slowly, nicmost painfully, dragging day, bat on several decasions the bencatatanding in his own country and out of it themselves up inch by inch, could they and pleasure of riding him were somewhat avow the truth in this fashion. The fact

essened by the trouble involved in catch-anet. be as he atetes it. Human nature Mr J. Brown

being what it in, psychology and physiology make the accent.

To make matters worse, the land lunches.ing him when he had been allowed to fuud by being what they are, the groznové of the Mr & Mrs Gov. Erkley Mr O. Rodwell moyed more to the northward, everybody of the Comte de Paris, uud that he married that it might be safer to regulate the which we had caonpad hitherto, anticed by the way. My friend's habit was to ride on naturalists and the subtleties of the Vice-Consal P.Gavan-Mrn Redwall and 4

the moisture, began to swarm out. Thesoin advance of the party and, selecting some graphisin,' to use the words of M. Lavisse, Mr. H. Hatria

Mr J. H. Sining M Cannot bave any other result. The inborit- blood-thirty little creatures are the pest of prominent point, proceed to make observed wisdom and experience of all nations Mr&MreGeo, Holmsetas Margaret Wil- the Haican hills. En dry weather they stations as to the height of the hills, the

must be at fault if the babituel contest of Mr B. R. Joyce young natures with such a literature doen not often Bean, bal when meistare prevails

course of the gironine and the genotal connot produce in them something of its own

except the Observatory people know that the gale could not possibly come from the North-East, but from the North-West, From that quarter it duly anived about 9p.m. and continued to blow with great bat aut destructive fores until between two and three o'clock this morning, after which it gradually abated. The Chinese craft had senght shelter early in the day and were safe from the fury of the blast. No great destruction was done by the gale. Fart of the new Prays wall ni Wast Point was damaged and the road- way at several points on the Praya was At torn up by the sea washing over it. East Point a considerable stretch of the quay wall was andermined by the so The force of the wind was sufficient to up- root a number of trees and destroy plants, bat beyond this the gale does not seem to have had any damaging effect in the colony. As is usual when the Calung is visited by a gale, a namber of dust-boats were swamp- od. One was capsized while being towed hy a steam launch, and a boa: from B.M.S. Linnet saved the four men who formed the arew of the dust-boat,

A

4 YADY good story is golog round with regard to the Parliamentary fight, and its Accuracy is Touched for by a London car raspondont of tho Lerile Mecury. member of Parliament was passenger on one of the Wast End 'buses latuly, and asked the conductor to let him down at a point outside the House of Commons, where omnibuses, for the better convenienes of member of Parliament crossing the road into Falern Yard, are not allowed to stand. The conductor accordingly refused to slop, whereupon the member, who of se such, became ocarse was not known rather indignant, and insisted on the horse being pulled up in order to allow him to elsmoont. Tho condcetor bore Lis ill-te- pered complaints for a moment or two, and then suddenly silenced him with the crash- ing retort, Look here, mister, if it's a gat yer wants, cat across to the House of Commons. The conductor was just little astonished when he discovered that he had made his admirable Anggestion to an actual member of that illustrious assembly.

Is not the following (rays a correspondenti in the Westminster Gazette) ons of the most extraordinary instances extant of the freaks of modern art criticism? Here are two well-known authorities on art, Mr George Moore and Mr George Augusti Sala, writing in the Speaker and the Sunday Times respectively and simulte- neously on the recent male at Christie's of the Onslow beirlooms :-

Saya G. A. S. :-

At

Saya G. M.:- 'Mystery! But Modern picture ovorything is possible sales are to me a per when a purchaser was petusi pusle, forthcoming for Paul the late auction of the de la Roche's picture Onslow heirloom at of Napoleon Cross Christie's only 750 ing the Alps." guineas were toalised £76011! But far, by Paul Delaroche's indeed, is it from my world-famous picture intention to cast the of Napoleon Cross- slightest doubt on the ing t

g the Alps," where- gonninasem of this as an Italian land- picture. Pani de la scape by Jan Both Roche wassufficient was knocked down ly bad painter to have for 830 guineas done it. But I swear to you that I

детег Bamote detestablo picture. Far rather

Haydon's pisture of "Quintus Curtius" jumping into Mesra. Gatti's coffee-raOMB."

Denti

Mile, de Bouthilier Chavigny, one of the most charming ladies of the grand monde Parisien.

FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR That the somewhat andden death of Sir James Rossell, lato Obief Justics of Hongkong, was received with ginecra regret by every one who knew him That James Rureel was one of the most successful of Sir Richard MacDonnell'a

that a cocktail-sbaker is not included

Ordinance.

among the thres mouths' penalties of the That the mistake involved in the failure to note the beam, and the discovery of the mote in the other fellow's er appears to have been repeated in s most unaoncerned and perhaps unconscious mander in that colebrated Morphine hill,

A

csure why their decision to refuse &

should not be declared null and voil.

Mr and Mrs Sholton Mr L. Suidter

Hooper, use and Mr. H. E Wadsan Mr G. Hoppeter

children

Mr Wickham

WINDSOR HOTRE

Mr J. F. Boulton Miss McMinn

Miss G. Ricketts.

biller

children

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Mr R. Murray Adam-Capt. and Mrs Hunt

Mr V. Kofod Mr. E Birt

REFLECTED GLORY. Since my brother Mundanus has become Mrs Cobban rich and famous as the sathar and autoirat | Me A. Cumming

of the Bost-Jack Trust, I have been very Mr F. B. Deacon strongly tempted to stop working for myself Mr F. East

Mr W. H. R. Loxley

MzMacL.can

Me Modhurst

Me W. Ramsky -

'Boys, and those who knew his per. / That, under all the circumstances, it is notakin, they fasten themselves to it sa thong afternoon of the day, wa hat come to the and arrange with him for my support. Mr S. Forsyth

Chinese morphine hapace, and leave the European Dispensaries to regulate them- selves as they have done so admirably for so many years already.

han granted That the Supreme Court

rulo isi, calling upon Mit H. they literally swarm, coming out of the ground formation of the country, while Jack wea putridity. Wedahouro and his co-J. P.'s to show all sides, reaching out from the blades allowed to forage on the abundant groen the grass and from the twigs of the tross

igrans. The freedoin thus allowed him was spirit, licence to the Tramway Buffet and laying fast hold of every one who often abused, involving my friend in no pagnes and clinging with equal tenacity by little trouble in antoking him. The most either and. As soon as they touch the serious escapado of this kind was on the expected the Licensing Justices will see connected by an electric current and skill immediately back of the town of Nars. say reson to take this matter auy the blood until they grow frora thin littlelo. The path ran along the ridge, winding of drudgery is too firmly fixed on me to be Bir Thonus Howard Mr Geo. L. Tomlin

thrown off with impunity, eo that perhaps 1 about in a way that required careful inapee-shell elest to ge working; but if I do, it tion to prevent one iron going astray. On will be in the nature of a self-indulgenot the brow of the bill my friend allowed his horne to crop the green while the party proceeded down the slope. When he tried to catch him, Jack made off into the jungle bora he led his master a weary dense,

evaring, bard-working disposition, coupl-

ed with his capacity and all-round ad- aptability, were not surprised at his suc-

сена.

Thal, as private secretary to Sir Richard MacDonnell, Russell had every chanos of carting out for himself a successful career in tho administrativa service, but, having selected the bar and the bench as

his goal of victory, he won his spurs in

farther, and the interesting question arkes what will be the soxt morn on the

board.

That I hear a now bench-or rather those members of the Licensing Board who took no part in the former proceedings will have to consider the application afresh

grey bodies one would hardly notice, to

portig specimens, each the size of a large Singer.

This tvilsoms bright baving at length bsan surmounted, we looked down on the other side into freak valleys, in one of which an extensive fire was burning off the

may b

be that I shall conclude that the habit Mr E. J. Hagen

that branch more by his own merita than! That one thing is certain all the greably-out sad uptorsen rubbish from being easily concealed by the high grase ordinary man for the inconvenience and

by ontside in once.

That as Sir James occupied an endless

It would not be at all surprising, thinka theį Washington Star, if within a few years the United States should wrest from Great Britain the greatest of that nation's manu. facturing privileges the building of chips for Powers that must have them but cannot construet for themselves. From the day when pepdads became govemmental ne cessities the maller countries have pur chased their ships of war and their sea ment from England, hat it is only rezsin. able to suppose that the monopoly will be "brakau. Again and again (the Star proceeds to eay) bas it been de monstrated that American material, shap ed by American ingenuity, has no superior when it appears as the Buished product, and to this gratifying fact the eyes, of closed. intending purchasers cannot long be Every ship in our way testifies to the excellence of American bandicraft, and such solid evidence will surely not ba disregarded. No nation can produce better guns than ours, in the important matter of annouo are far in advance of all while American engines have cntaged the best fureigo mechssiset ever pot in any cruiser, With those conditions unakakenly established but little time like to cispas before the Clyde, the Tyas, the Thames, the Mersey, the Severn, and Milford Haven will occupy minor positions in the marts of shipping, while the Dela ware, Chesapeake, and a score of other water within our nations boundaries will become supremely conspicuous-[Hooray!

variety of offices in the Colonial Service here, he was perhaps the man of all men who knew most ahont the affairs of the

their minde cannot but be bismood in a certain sense on the subject.

Colony during the last twenty-eight That I hear the leader of the Opposition to the Buffet was on the prowl for new points the other evening, and failed to obtain them.

years, and at an iviser of the Colonial Office, he will therefore be a great loss. That death has been making sad havoc

among the old hands' of lato, and the ancient residents become fewer and ferer.

That of those whom we used to call Bir

Richard's boys' every one has either goas to his long home or retired from the service.

That Sir Cecil Smith, who has just retired amid a storm of congratulations from the governorship of the Straits, was não of the first.

That Capt. W. M. Desno, who retired

some time ago, was the colleague of Mr C. O. Smith; and both officers were favourite game for the caricaturists in the jelly old days of the Chine Punch, That Mr M. S. Tonnochy and Mr A. Lister (os also Mr R. D. Starkey) have pasrod away to where the weary are at rest,

and new Sir James Russell has bean added to the death-roll.

That perhaps the oldest friends of Sir Jamen Russell were those who loved him beat,

and that is the best proof of the gannins

3.

That his services to the Colony wero varied and valuable, and those who know the wants of the Island best will most deeply regret his death.

That, in the face of the verdict in the Te turtos caso, the Chief Justica displayed bis discretion in a very macked manber in declining to grant costs as against the Crown, and I cannot but regard his judgment as at once very clever, very ingenious, and withal not unjust.

That the worthy Chief Justice was not call-

mountain clearing. It was evidently in taiated Justices must bave already soon

connection with this clearing that the hos nearly all the pros and cons, of the sp-tility, symbolized by the red turbans, ħad plication in the published reports, and arisen, voices tesounded through the valley, sa of man calling to each other. At this poins, too, our guide left as to go to the place whence these voices issued, from which he rent a substitate to conduct as on out way. In the smoking billsides along which were piled heaps of brashwood, we saw the means, art and dre, by which they ros aim fresh land for gultiration. This land after a few crops have exhausted its surface fertility is allowed to relapse to jungle, minus the tteos which were ite chief prasmonte before, adding so much more to the grass-grown wilderness which covers these mountain siden so extensively.

To the left of us are several deep valley heavily covered with a splendid growth of forest trees, oaks and kindred trees A nice being prominent among them. path led into ΟΠΟ of these deep groves which we had an opportunity

That it is pleasant to read the moderately. worded address of Mr Balfour, the Co- servative leader, upon the possibility of a double standard for gold and silver. That it may not be a violent supposition to entertain that even the probability of such a standard will bo roangnised before very long.

That the Conservative leader and the Direc

tors of the Hongkong Bank evidently row in the same boat.

That the typhoon has shown its bose (or its tail) and bas passed away without doing much damage to the clony, That tho forecast of the Observatory people was sot quite right, seeing that the N.E. gale promised came Away from the N.N. W. to W.N.W.

to explore whilst waiting for the man to come up. It led into doop cool woods, entirely shaded from the aun, with a wou. derful variety of trees, shrubs and other That I hear, nu account of the typhoon-plaats on every side, most of which were

rather the non-arrival of Capt. Goddard from Swatow-the first meeting of the Observatory Committee has been post- poned.

That people say a better feeling is coming over the Share market, and I sinestely bopa what everybody says in this in- stance is tras.

E. Bischoff,

B. Dübrasen,

Ch. Lammert,

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Mr. W. Bobarison,

Mr. A. E. Skoola

Mr H. Tomlin

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maintained for mere personal case, against my conviction of what is just and right. Col. Wu. L. Barr for my argument is—and it is conceived on Mre Farmer general and impersonal grounds, and found- Mr Playortero ed without prejudtos Du dispassionats ober. Mr G. Harman

ation that a comfortable maintenance Mr G. J. M. Harman Professor Bers & valot without wark is a very moderate set-offto any Mr P. Hermpt Mc Alb. Inber detriment of having an immoderately auc- and bushes. Ignorant of what had hap-cenfui brother. The reason lies in the in- poned and unusually wearied by the long corrigible tendency of society to measure brothers by the same standard. When tramp, aggravated by the rain, I went on they are little, endiety puts them back with the coolies to the town. It was several to back and observes which is hours before my friend came in, and his taller. When they are grows, it piles their achievements or renown or incomer up appearance showed that he had had a sesure side by side, and remarks which pile is struggle in the brambly jungle, to be was bigger. Mr Reckeleller's or Mr Astor's in- scratched and toro, hot and angry-looking come may run up into the millions withont making anyone think the worse of 107 0- His cook, who had remained behind with paits; but ever since it became known him, was in much the same plight, while chat Mundanes was getting fifty thousand a

I happen to know, but the public doesn't), Tokio Jack was snorting under severe and merit-year (largely payable in Boot Jack stack, as Wi'ostook, 29. 63 59 ed chastisement. To add to their diaconit has been impated to me as a foult, and Nagasaki.. fort they had missed the right path and had somewhat of a disgrace, that my in-takings Shanghai.. 29.74 74 88

onte diticulty in finding their way to town.

were not an large. It is so well understood Foochow.. as to be boyoad argument or dispute, that in Amoy......29.51 85 83 Upon entering Nam lo I had, as usual, children of the same parents quite as math Aaping.... gona to the chief's house. The old man disparity of characteristics and abilities ob-Swatow... 20.41 80 taina aa in persons who are not allied by Cautou.... 29.42 55 was blind and his hones rather small, but blood. So also some brothers have a better Hongkong 29.26 89 room was made for us, the porch in front education, or better opportunities, or better Vict. Poak - providing a pleasant place to sit in; and lask than others. Nevertheless, however Gap Rock 29.25

conscienlicusly

may the situation of the house, well up the alone, used

ha: Macao.....29.30 toleota given bím, sad olhow... surod as of the bonefit of the breezes whatever honourable progress he may Haiphong, 29.61 When have made in life, if it be his misfortune to Bolinao... 29.62 which blew from the south-east.

here a meteorio brother, who hao sailed con. Manila..... 29.08 84 spionose where he has had to pled, and ar- 0.8. James 29.74 rived glorious while he has sweated in

September 9. patient espiration, the slower-gaited man is real head of the towe and was, of course, bound to suffer as I do by disparaging com WPostock, 29.94 68|90|2x| the one to whom we must look for what-parison with his coapot fallow of the sams Tukio. over assistance so needed. Bis house was brood. large but was on the lowest level of the man, who might have passed down into & Foochow

Lord Nelson had a brother, a clergy. Shanghai.. 29.68 76 100 towo. The house, with its ground door, respustable obscurity but for a misfortuns Amoy 20.45 82 01 B being very dusty, and crowds of people of birth which bag lugged him into history Anping.... as a person who, in spite of his breed, had Swatow... constantly pressing about and obstructing up talent for fighting, and not even a rea- Canton.... the air passages, we did not gain sub sonable regard for Lady Hamilton. Wii Hongkong 20:41 75 76

brother Horatio's title and entatos, and Gap Rock iam Neleou, however, at least inherited his Viot. Peak found in them, it is to be hoped, some Macao..... compensation for the disparaging compari- uihow.. son from which he affered. George Haiphong, 23.65 78 Washington had a brother; but with the Bolina 20.76 79 far-seeing consideration characteristic of Manila..... patriot etotraman, be bariod kim long be-0.8.Jainer 29.83- fore the Revelation. Lord Tennyson had a brother, who is best known to our time

wy friend appeared to insisted on our going to the bouse of the Chief's son, who was the

town.

PHILO-LEE.

FRUITS OF FRENCH BEALISM. The weightiest and most instructive com- mest we have seen on the recent disorders in Paria, especially upon the outbreak of the students from which the mors serious treu blas grew, says the New York Nation, ie from the pea of M. Ernest Laviesa. His is a sufficient guarantee of a thorough frank and serious and intelligent discus. siDD of the question which he sets himself to answer, and which is, Is it just that the young men of the schools should get a bad reputation from the troubles which have

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verso was not so good as Alfred's. Analo- Hongkong Observatory, Supiomber 9, 1893, gous examples abound, some of them are so familiar that it would be indelicate to 1. Banomataj reduced to 34 pisngramm Baktaf Dame them in print. What worthy and salt, and to the level of she con asien, taking have been overshadowed by the spreading 2. Tanennarozi, in lid phal, a soyages delightful men of our own day and nation and hundredths

3. Horder, in perosatage of starinn, he renown of their brothar the great poet Tahrenheit. What gifted and zealous preachers are best identified long as brathere of some humidity of air saturated with moistne sing

4. DIANCTION OF Wixa, to two pamte.. supreme genice of the palpit? There are 100,

5. Bona o Wixo, eserling 1 Bewafort solus families, to be sure, as the Wash barnes, the Adomsen, the Shermens, the

Boale. Fields, or the Potters, in which an inherit-

6. Szára or Walzanej, ance of talent sud energy has been 30 tasked dozom, à drizzling rain, ƒ tog, a gloomy, evenly distributed that the whole race hall, lightning,orecast, passing chowan seemed to climb abreast out of the raak of squally, rain,' s snow, I thunder, v visibly,

is daw (wet).

Ram, in inches, tenths and hundradil common humanity.

Such brothers as these are in a fortunato asse, and the orudit of cash one helps up the

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new to me. Palms, rattans and orchids abourdad. Birds in gay plumage and some in subdued colours listed about, but did not sing. The grateful abode made one forget the heat and the fatigue of the journey in comfort by the exchange of lodgings. It outside. The path was well worn, and I was no doubt hetter for our interests to be regreitel the lack of time to follow it the guest of the younger man, who had farther, I felt sure it must lead to come control of affairs, experience having taught okarming mountain retreat. Several heavy us the practical importance of leaving showers of rain coming upon us suddenly direct access to the chief authority in each BOWLING MATCH. One of those interesting and pleasurable in unsbeltered planes did not add to cur contests between representatives of the comfort. At one place we fell in with « German Club and Hongkong Club took company of people who did not look like place on the bowling alleys of the two Clube Chiaro and who wore certainly quite dif- on Thursday and Friday. This is the fourth ferant from any Low we had seen. occasion on which the English and German were rather short but well-built, with clear teams baro met, and it will be seen that round features. The women were dressed each gide has now scored two wins. The must like the men and were entirely free from the prevailing marks of tatooing as ed upon, in deciding upon the discretion-ure of the fourth match is a follow-

wall as the cumbersome var-ting and other ary matter of costs or no costs, to pro-

ornaments which the Lee women wear, nounce upon the management of the case

They seemed to be carrying their household by the Crown, as he had apparonlly abundant evidence of a 'trying on' by

goods with them. We learned that they ware a company of Minos, belonging to a just ended, and are older men right in con. Bodo one for whom the ship was reapon. sible.

tribe of Aborigines quite distinct from the cluding that the youth of the present day

ars ruiten ? Leas. The Haizum Miaos are supposed to He begins, by an impartial setting forth others, Bat far more ancamanly it happens That the absence of Hospital secammoda-

be the descendants of Aborigines from of the facts.. Bérenger, one of the that when high succese visits a family at tion for the poor can no longer be

the mainland of China, transported by most honorable and respectable man living, all it comes in a lump upon a single mem charged to the community of this On-

M. Lavises call him, had est an foot aber. How reasonable it would be in rush the Chinese Government to the Island. tengna for the suppression of vice, and was cases if the less fortunate members should Iony.

It seems to be the habit of the people moving, in particular, against the pablie lament the success of the lucky eno, and

display of indecent pictures and books. lay his ranown up against him! To the Barometer to live in the most secluded places among This seemed vastly amusing to certain credit of Euman astors be it woled that is Temperature the higher bille, but two or three fami- spirits in the Latin Quarter, and it was soovis vamily not to happan kat way. Buidity lies being found in one place. Their sort of huge caricature of this excellent ro- The remarkable law which decrees that he Direction of personal proparly can be packed into a very former that the famous ball was organized who has shall have more, sally proves its

where wood indecensies were planned and power, and the successia) brother, besides Foreo small space, so as to boomily portable perpetrated that the police had to interfore, the material advantages that hit achieve Weather And when occasion requires they can nove Then came the death of Nuger and the in- mente bring him, commonly enjoys an Rain at the shortest notice and with but little tense exasperation of the students against exaggerated share of the esteem and ad- against whom they had borns a miration of his own kin. My brother the poline, trouble. They ate a pesceable and friend- grudge ever since the needless sororities Mundanos, by his notorious rocces, bas ly tribe, industrious and well-disposed felicted upon their class at the time of the impaired my Individuality. Howerby hard Boulanger riots in Paris. Thus the indecent 1 fry, I can never hope hereafter to be toward their neighbonis. In anwe parts of ball, which was the cause af all, was im known of men szopá

brother of te Island they have large settlements and medialely and totally forgotten in the die Mandance of the Boot-Jack Trust, Yet i have acquired mash property in fields and turbances which saine to such head feel no resentment toward him. I rejoice cattle. Their presence on the Idland, their threaten the very existence of the Mine in him, I am just as fond of him as ever,

stiry,

and proud of him besides. I wake zo evident differance of habit, if not of race'

Taking up the question of the CAUSES affort to get out of his shadow. Our from the Lees raises au interesting quwhich have made such shemaless exhibi- families still communs togelber, and it was tions and approval of immorality possible only thing morning that my eldest son tion of ethnography, to which the by those in the morning of their days, suggested that my project of sending him BAROKKIC position noted above is the only practical M. Lavisse asserie that the young men to college was unwise, and that it would be Bolution that has yet been suggested. of modern Franes are in derger of being reatly better for him to sheive his books In our descent of this great mountain made blind to all moral distinctions by and go dove and strike his Usala Mnads- the immorality is literature. That is me for a job. I should prefer that Usta slope we caught, from time to time, sight of the cause, he siku man of fifty of the should go on with his studies, and shall so the bevad plain through which the Kom great difference, a point of dellacy, not cones! him; but so far as his disposition to say decency, in sexual matters between to get something out of Mandanus is con Yan flows and or which the important town the young men of the present generation earned, I am convinced that that is a sound of Númalo, to which we were going, is and their fathers? For ansper, he aske instint and based on equity. Boriner's situated. Wooded slopes became more fra. them to compare the Uterature of their Magazine.

That the Alice Memorial Hospital and the new Netheraclo Hospital now opened and affiliated with the older institution, constitute a combination for good and charitable work which should be a source of gratification to all concerned. That Mr Henry W. Davis is the pricao motive power of this now addition to the eharities of the Colony, and (sa De Can. die says) Dr J. C. Thomson, the medical superintendent, has been the obief slöker in the good work.

That From the interesting skotch given by De Chalmers of the rise and growth of the movement, originally made possible

by De Ho Kai, it will be seen that, sven

ENGLISH TEAM. Hanisch. (Capl) F. Maitland, A. M. Marshall, W. O Murray,

4. C. Murray,

C. F. Bacton,

GERMAN TEAM.

R. Spannuth,

0. Wegener,

1,627, 1,493.

G. P. Lammert, (Capt.)

B. Bötel

1,478. 1,412.

G. Dissol.

1.250

1,308.

1,284.

1.220.

11,178.

1.566.

1,520.

1,480,

1,370.

1,283.

1,237,

0. M. Firth,

1.213

B. A. Jordan,

1,106.

10.789.

11.178 10,789

Garmann won by

369

English Team German Texa

9.185 8,722

English won by

488

German Team English Team

Germans won by,

| 3rd Match

10,707 10,318

201

English Teams German Tran

English won by

11.312 10,813

169

German Tesc English Team,

Isi Match-

in hard times, a thoroughly good charity, 2nd Match.-—_

based upon the broadest lines, and cal calated to do really good work from the parest motives, need never suffer collapse in Hongkong.

That His Excellency, in opening the new Hospital, passed a most deserved com. pliment to the Chinese residents, for the rozdy and effective way in which they!

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