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SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1804

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THE CHINA MAIL.

What are we drinking Z, le always one of | Magistrates for not keeping their house in guarantee of the tips of the phy se to the That auch burels are has overorowded, I than in the living forms. It is no the most Interesting questions answered in a cleanly condition. Since the Sanitary | bond fides of any application. in it has

the Badgat appears from Sir W. A man will be held on Tuesday next Harcourt's statement that while less coffee to the Billiard Room at the Offers Meas, and cocos, strong wines, and spirits, were Jast your than usual, there was more Kurray, Barracks, to discuss the questionsumption of tes, light and sparkling wines, than a corresponding increase in the con- of quininer gynokbanas.

and beer. Tos shows an increase of 6,000,000 lbs., and in clearly susting coffee even as a breakfast beverage,

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To-konnow morning, between 9 and 10.50 o'clock, the qisam-launch Dayspring, carry, ing the Bestie dag, will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pannzat 0.; to convey men lahore to 11 a.ut, sorrice at St. Puter's (Baamon's) Churoif, zatorning, about 12 30.

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A large exodus, to the home untry of refugees from the plague takes pla daily, which is somewhat counterbalane, by the

kang, immense influx of scared people fm Hong-

Recent advices state that the lagun is now beginning to make its apprance in Fatsban, Chan-sharp, and Tong-in,

Beard came into existence, the dread of Dow scoured the service of a ptor sur- legal quibbling soras to have saared the named Ko, well known to sanitary officeara froga paping house-to- this kiad of plages dia, to be te to stare house visits. It occurs to one that of the apprentices who hase, it le salute matme of detecting guipus of the most disease, have also bear primary duties of the manitary officers that qualification as regarde the ong of the engaged round important. The matter that, wo ara givan the various hospitals of the oltto prova to understand best beamah before the their abilities Sanitary Board, but tbb bager of legality Tas 0.8, 3. 02's steamer Falinurus

haring been raised the house-to-home visita left fidempore on the morning of the 24th

waza stopped. Whether the matter has or | itat, and may be expected here on or Zaligotske, near Zietomar, in Eassis, by in the pist, it is pretty certain to receiv

A KEW fashion in dustling has been set at has not coupled the attention of the Board moon termoon of the 29th inst.. schoolmaster and a lawyer. The pair hav-acme attention in the immediate Intare; ing quarrelled about some trutapory matter, and it will then be interesting to, watch 711 9. d. 0, 1, 4. Oceanic, with maile they arranged to fight a duel with whip. what attitude the individual members will Soon after the engagement began the same on a subject se materially affecting dom Francisco to the 8th instaat, schoolmaster sncceeded in knocking his the public health. It is more likely that kkturiral at Tokobanie, and will learsedreteary's whip out of his band, and then the existing plague is duemera to the so-

THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDY. for the port to-morrow morning, the 27th reded to hit him several smart strokes oumalathus of dirt in the Chiness houses The arunt Qsteen's Birthday pade took on the back. After that, honour was and the drains of private house than to the place at the Happy Valley yestery after doclared to be entiafiod.

prusence of noxious gas in the pablis sewers But there are many who sat down on The weather condition were the disease against the evil-amelling sewers wholly unfavourable, and oals amall and storm water drina; sad to these per number of spectators visited the alloy to Duit dont reaim to give any opinion 7 witriens the pounds. The troops, adet the the Colonial Secretary's proposal to flush command of H.E. Major-Genera Barker," Dourd the public sower with

erd should refuse to give any opinion on

proposal to do so was first made by a

water

were drawn up in line frem forth to correspondent through our columns, and South, iscing the saluting base front of peragraphs have, from time to time, been the Grand Stand, the Asiatic Artery o of drains in French torms by son at the Volunteers (Field Battery wodklaxis) published relative to the successful flushing supying a position on the right buk and The members of the Sanitary Board- hesitancy in condemning the present of them do not show much fearity or on the left flank. The other cor regno drainage system, and there are times when seated were the let Shropsbico Light In- they seem to consider that they have fantry, the Hongkong Regiment, Royal Ar- good deal of important truths to enunciats tillery, Royal Engineer (with Chinese

for taking a story to obviate the unisance of mist have felt sarbres, the bon, wore smella. But when it comes-to-supporting With the exception of the Volunters, who

proposal, made apparently in good faith, badly-smelling drains, the members of ad their capes. This naturally detested Pros Board-tone of them become excued- ingly fivical and discriminating what

of the parade. The effect of apentacular apportaina to Sanitary Board duties. The Volunters and Asiatic Artillery difded Colonial Secretary was, in the opinion of fred a feu de joie, after which three

of sauce of 21 gons, and the other troops cheata A FLORENCE Correspondent of the Wattine some residents, quite entitled to his sucer says that when Quen Vistoria received when he ventured to express the opinion on Commanding of out. Taste fors to

the Queen

call the of Maestro Mascagni on 6th it, she said to him that he thought the Sanitary Board had the

ho entered, immediately, in good Thalian, something to do with public health. To all evolutions, and at the conclusion of the I am very fond of Italy and the Italiane probability the plague would have broken slutes and obeers the troops were marched The day was ob- Continuing the conversation in French, out even though the pablie sewers had been back to the Barracks.

general holiday, there was some for the visits Her Majesty paid to and continually label-

A CANADIAN COFFEspondent Frostly sent to the Spectator theas unaware to questions put at an examination at a High School in Her Majesty's dominions in North America, The genuineness of the answera is vouched for by the correspondent. In an account of Queen Mary, one papil «dded — AL my death, Game Calais will be found in my wlomach, graren on my heart, evidently due to a remark is. Coller's forth name of something which has no real Another defined au abatemat zoon as the istence, se the virus. Mau of the chief instrumenta of tyranny under Charles Les behested was one of the A more advanced student wrote: In Old

On Monday and Tuesday next, from 2 gm, to 6 pm,, an exhibition of the products of Victoria (Australia) will be givaran Room No. 10, Victoria Hotel. All interested in the development of trade with Victoria are invited to attend. Mr S. H. Rowe, official Representative of the Govardment of Vie- English, the pronouns of the first and on the subject of drains and offensive Submarins Miners), and AsiaticArtillery.

toria, will give any information regarding

the products.

Fox stabbing seaman named William Inner, another sesman, named John Ese, was out to prison for three months by Mr H. E. Wodehodes this kerning. The men had quarreled in boarding house in East Street, and adjourned to the street to

the Stuarta. 4. The axe with which

poristed in Middle English In explana- duel fdtall and both tion of: Tim O'shantar catch by warlocks in the mirk, watlook wea defa ad as the tuft of hair left on the top of Indian's head..

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miserable in thin white

time when the native community hare so and Jave, but is absent from Borneo, mstow to

prebie

Foking, are quite furry. Hence all we pas and owned by leading residents in the cesary to go into these details in legitimately lafer from a shaggy, pOLL, Ja Oolony, are facts which have been ro order to read the story of the tiger aright, that the animal wearing it may havo litad realed by the house-to-house visitations, We start now with the knowledge that the in regions where the winters were cold, and and the quution vow arises whether the tiger's family is one of the oldest of the there is no ground for inferring any great law as it stond (1.7., plus the non-ent-roo- mammalia, that it has representatives pretty severity of olimits. Any ous who, like my. ment of the overcrowding clauses of the well all over the world strong proof of self, has ridden a came across the desert in Health Ordinance) war powerless to antiquity in itself and that the present a driving rain, knows he has relined Me check auch manifest invocations to pesti distribution need not of necessity represent thick cost in spite of the heat. If we like lence in our midst. ⠀---

the original habitat,

sitting on, a' moskod sponge. The moral as That all there considerations will doubtless Now ase over what are the real all this is that the former times North Ant be set down as after thoughts, and more's tiger reuma. He is peculiarly, probably was warmer than now, that sheep the pity that the hideous condition of our exclusively, Asistio. To the west, be it offmate lared many warmthdowing areations slums was either not suspected or was found as far as the mountains of Ararat and northward, that as the climate deteriorateE not dealt with antil a full month after the Caucaine, and the range extends along most of these died out, or wars stives the plagie was known to be in Canton, the southern shores of the Carpian, into soothwards; and that a few adapted them« and until it had been in China-town for Peris, Heret, and Turkestan. These it selves to the changing verditions, and don - ten days

extende over a large portion of Central Asia, ned great-coats. That, independently of all criticism, the embracing Bouthern Siberis, to a line some, Now as to the geologioni history of North- generai penyer in now that good may distance north of Irkutsk and the whole of orn Asia. In Tertiarys, timed continpous -come out of ori).

Mongolia as far eastwards as Amarland, and land existed, perhaps match as at present, That the Hoare: has undoubtedly revealed the island of Sagbalien. Southwards it and the climate was certainly milder. Thes

the evil or weak side of the Chinese, for extends through Olins to Burma, Siam sad come dopression, and all but entais blah, the oldest inhabitants Dever remember the Malay Península. It renches. Sumatra | grounds wore covered with * still mider then hopelessly given way to wholesale belief From Ansure it ranges throughout India, bringa na nesr

And round in foolish and wicked rumours as they but is missing from Ceylon. Cariously, it what we now call the Pamire the roof o have done at

absent from the table-land of world-lived the tiges and the elephans Thai Chitra, tread of Western pea- though, this regina lie in the very contre and the thiupersa, the ladd gradu

:81261 of a a medical and sanitary nature, of its range. It is also absent from Afghan appeared above the waters

the objection of the native to domiciliary istan and Baluchistan, and from that part of region grew tolder, dries and laju fertile, ..vísits, and perhaps, too, their reluctanes Fortis lying to the south of the Edburz Mong. Consequently the indigenous nana, Klá- to be made over-cloats, are advanced stains. It has therefore, a range of about olnding man, bad to pain outwards to find reasons why so much antagonisen has been hundred degrees ontado, and sisty statestion from Central shoes bey

Asis-which per shown to the thoroughgoing action of the degrees of latitude. Very few memmals Sanitary Authorities to stamp out the have so wide a range as this, and of those haps not finished yet. Driven by attest Plague.

which baye, nearly all are carnivoren, sosh tamine northward some species azotumika That it has also been suggested a desidadly as the wolt and brown bear, and many are some adapted themediyas to the new cond

anti-forsigo feeling has been introduced oats, anoh as the leopard. The only tions. An the slimato grow colder tas tigers into the riotous reais ance offered to the herbivorous animal that can compete with among others, was driven southwards, massures taken to stay the pestilence. the tiger in extent of territory is the African as he is being driven at this moment, i fod

while," the birds and no forthy in FA That it may be those Chinese interested in elephant.

of the inner lits

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Gght out their - differences. - Innes mangni said that the Italiaan word vary fushed with sea water several months #89 ↑ display the shipm 41 Harbour | That it is to be fosted some of the s

stabbed in the back during the fɣhf,”sid knd to kept in Hospital for a fortnightenin

Taz neond annual exrbine competition of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps was held at the Police Range, Kowloon, this after

sad the

"Jack was diepusynd at Gor. bis country, and hoped they would being the continuanos of the drought, but repeated for many years. Qusen Victoria, there was, least, what sporting men arament balldings throughout Los Colgay.

A correspondohs writes:-Aby question of would, in their peculiar phraseology, call then sent for Prince and Princses Battenberg, and begged Mascagni to playhave tended to mitigate the disinse.

Henry of

an off chance that the dusking would which might arise as to the advisability of holding the Queen's Birthday parade something on the Bechstein instrument

under ordinary circumstances, ju

euch Not the slightest opposition is beslag weather must yield to the dearability. that aloud is the room. He played the

the house-to-house piaitation. At the rea display on this occasion. The turnout quest of the Captain Superintendent of of such a force and the stir and attention Police (Mr F. H. May), six dostore from attracted by its movements, and yell cale the fung Wat Hospital

Buxom the

theonlated to impres the turbulent plemanta air parties who visit the houses, so

of our Mults and Gibraltar of the East.

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the continuance of overcrowded rooke- It - is 'n law in geographical distribution which had been isolated by the filtersacita

That Soubtless the Colony will come out of the existing mammals were using on in thing was brought the

ries have something to say to the opposi-that an extensive habitat implies antiquity: ses, spread wastorards, and these offe tion, while the mature doctors may par-and geology makes this even clearer. At Europe eastwards, becoming semok had want bape also have a band in the pie.

the close of the Tertiary period, when find in the process, until the pressat the ordeal right enough, but one of the fores, the fauna of America, Earope and With regard to the tiger,

"He has been lessons taught to the observant will be, As were much richer than at present; and feature appears the how little effect our forty or fifty years the dying out of so many forms was by univereni administration has had upon the mass of confidently attributed to a glacial period Indie The Boyd

Bengal Te affented almost contemporanees have which the people, and how little we really

cherished type the species know at the life of thading which reosetly born throws upon the sidequacy of We have seen that he is absent have any claim this hight tille cross about the Hygeia might have been this explanation : abia which filled the though the Leopard is Ind svoided had Dr Ho Eai (as suggested)

minde of

adgeelf. land, avery who, like

so are the pesco had

spent years in with some of the leading Chinese visited the glasial uposh in WasterA ESMENT. Phows that walo (39 P251 tibat Hospital and assured the lid. disseny: I four, tes, not unmingled, wild | certainly been ably figu

Сырева landers of the

bean a certain amount of pity, and buat have

ya busy misleading their fellow countryman knew, wo could demonstrate,

# tás on this occasion, and if their identity competent observer could gainsay, the wide. pheasant, and a host of other would be but proved to the satisfaction of spread sotien of ice. It showed itself in the to China and India, have got the authorities, I fancy the Storernor ocurred and furrowed mountain sides, in the why has got the dres? Frob would be fully justified in ridding the think layers of boulder olay which cover same reason that so many other Oniony of their preseDOS.

pleats sof archio

typen and the sted In India before the

had migrated so far south, mere, did well, and no one will begrudge When we crossed the Atisatio, we found, as the votes of thenke and general laudation the American geologists had found before us; mammals, is of opinion, that the tiger passed at last meeting of the Sanitary just as strong and unmistakeable evidences. comparatively covent itumie wat into with Buned.

Central Park, Newern Indis, for, as he remarks, most of the Every rocky kusil in

ather Indian mammals are found on but the cooks, boys, and coolies, and even the every bit of Rastern Canada is stamped with sides of the Straits of Falk. Then too. more intelligent antires, who shake in the almost indelible impress of the icy hand. sigee is most impatient of the fierce bakul their shoo because they expect to be com- Vancouver on the Pacific shores, toile the Ladia, especially in the dry bonaga, tha pelled to drink cartilo nid and Jeyes2 same story. The ovidence seemed complete, always taken shelter froin the bursing TRYA, Huld!

But there were those who, like Sir Henry This is not like a trepisal That the wet weather-sided, perhaps, by Howarth and Sir John Evans, refused to bow rather like the habit of a recent co

the plaguest a wet blanket over the down to the house of Kimmel; and me grifio. Again, it would seen that the calebration of the Queen's birthday fo thinks they wore the remnants of the true finest examples came, not from Bengal, but Hongkong,

prophets, and we had succumbed to Basi. from the cooler regions. In ine, taking

the House at 2001 must of Decurity be a diding plenty of evidence of the glacist far more a temperate than a tropical in

alzont whole

noon. There were twelve events, for which | zo from the Cavalleria Rusticana shown to the police and others.engaged in one might almost any necessity, of misking That it must be admitted the Sanitary and in the foil counties. It manifested itself | absent from Caylon that island was

Medical Staffs, so soon as they began to fossil animals of equally aretle character.anford, our highçat adibority on Ind

carried out by a Special Committee saidos, sofforing from a cold. Her Chinese can have no ressou notha hady 6.16 p.zz the troops were in posta, That I am sick over the stolid stupidity of / York, 13 a convinsing diagram of ice work:

WAL

THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG.

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breaches

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Fa-

gons

Although the daily statistics do not to. This officer had considerable dificulty ia gupe) were on the right; the Volunteer and That ary Loves or Exception at Government I came out to the East full of expectation present and pset range of the fa

rard, Acting Commandant, was umpire,

'THE Lady of Lyons' was played by the Potter-Bellew Company to a fairly good bousson Thunday night. In the sharmotera dicata mnoh decrease in the number of of Pauline and Claude Metnents, Mta Potter persons sticked by the piague, the Saul and Mr Ballew furnished their audience with try authorities entertain the belief that e highly-finished illustration of good sesing,they are now got a grip of the dinedes, Opinions may differ as to Mrs Potter as Mr Francus special capacity for the more intense parts to of the situation at Thursday's meeting of

tu

and two ploces from his new aper,

■ lige number of entries were received. Ratelife. The Queen rose from her seat The arrangements for the competition were and took a chair near the piano. She then asked Masesgni to sing, but he declined, he could not sing like Tosti, and tinting of Lient. Chapinan and Buttery Majesty then rewinded him of the repra none before-for supposing people suffering and the line looked wall notwithstanding Forgt Major Duncan (Field Battery) and soutation of the Cavalleria at Windsor from diseases other than bubonic plague the downpour Lost Adamson and Glanner Davies Castle, and added that she was delighted will be taken to the Hospital. (afarim Gos Corpo). Lieut-Galanal arata at sins, la tiniguation icon lid on their gimbal,

represented Artillery.

and-You beauty of the scabery.

with the plague has been brought to our lantests the line taking up the whole netide. A week agos young girl, of the Eastern side of the Valley and ex- auffering from plague, was found in a house tending right across the upper and lower in Kut Cheung Street by Sergeant Malver.nds. The Asiatic Attillory (with field

The the girl's relatives to allow him on the left.

ceremonial remove togel to the Hospital. He had few-de-joie de Fere gone through. No to perform his daty, however much he trooping of colours or marching prat book sympathiend with the poor pepole, and the place, and the troeps returned to quartas,

where she received all the

ourse of action praise, treatment and kindly nursing which the very own with the addition of full band patients on board the flygeia and in the showed up in grand form The ease and Kennedy-town Buspital have all along re

of their transter fron Kowloon rapidity be found in the dramas of the new French the Sanitary Board. While there is no received. Fosterday, the girl was discharged hither is a factor to note in these days of School whereis declamation and dramatin.laxation of vigilance on the part of the cured. Sergeant Bolver and oceation to re surprise tootide, It was noticeable that, visit the street one of the worst for plague whilst all other arms were coats or expen, or power after the Divine Sarah model are suthorities, it has been found possible to cases-during the day, and was overwhuis both, the Volunteers were without either. required. Be this as it may, the Pauline of reduce the hours of labour of the men en-ed with thanks not only by the girl herself The cost is a relic of barbarian in this At but her mother and friends, all of whom are climate, but it would be well to equip_our Mrs Potter is an impersonation which would gagad on koose-to-house visitation.

The Field of the skill of the citizen soldiers with a cape." loud in their praise wholesome English school of Bramo; and it some of the polica allicers, who bare trees and others associated with them in strong, must bave received the full benefit,

brunt of the work, the care of the sick Instances like this in a drenching sense, of the downpook. was admired and applauded on Thursday had to bear the night in

'FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR

caterua

rather tame affair, and the ambition of H. epoch, and found none. I analdinot, he and I am inclined to think wa nikii hiv 18 F.. the finwards of a domingos | TH WE SWUra“ 10 mua öven the townchly draw the same conclusion regarding ila versary of her birthday does not now rise gre signa; and I found them: nat. Thầy kanil

to an after-dinner reveption, as was the custom of old.

fashion, but in some ensos "ndlarence to has to be Radical tendencies are the old ouston is even better than any such -new-fashion. That the Queen's Birthday Parade and the feu de joie took place in the absence of H.E. the Governor

8B J

INDIAN TELEGRAMS,“

with TW. Kingsmill, the veteran and beat geologist-Chine has produced, I worked out where the tiger comes to the rescue, with the early history of North China, and this fo other animals. In fact I now me that wo have been led autiny by, na geologists, baving been nurtured on the shores of the Atlantis

A NEW SANORI and m and that the Pacifio hos ita story to tell, and

Simla, May 7.--Last year Colonal Wil it is a different ofe from that of Western mot sobmitted a new modified pattern of period, war local; not univerzal, and this is

the 16th Lancers for trial and report, jo the key to many a hitherto unsolved

THE BEHAR AFFAIR problem.

London, May 7.-A letter spEARD IS I now believe, and think it is demonstrable,

far from having expe- to-day's Timer from Colonel Malikod, în that North Asia, rinsed a glacial epoch in compartir alarmist article in Saturday

which he supports the view taken cont times, is calder now that it sees lile the smearing of mango demonstrable, that North Chias, and mush

be appreciated by admirers of the more the commercement of this special work, foreign dua'ore and of the kindliness of the Battery, whose turn-out" was exceptionally That Shanghai must be added to the list Europe and Easterri America, The glacial the jointed lanse, which has now beśki sent

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ne were on duty from ten to Giteon hours

are required to counteract the propaganda.

of the opponents of Western science.

This morning a Chinese stoker dird

manger which left doubt as to the access of the fair a day, a fact which it is to be hoped will artist, Mrs Potter's rendering

of ports whers sensible views about qus. rantino prevail, That it is gazione China and Japan should furnish the only instances of liberal com- mon-sense action in regard to the treat ment of vessels from Hongkong and Canton.

was not de overlooked when the 'official awards at the Naral Dockyard. The cause of That the worthy Colonial: Surgeon has That I see the Shanghai Mastofpal Council been, I believe, too, and think it es readily which has lately taken place frestiblon tag

of honour' take place in connection with death is believed to be bubonic plague.

all the more effective, in our estimation, because it was marked throughout with the suppression of the plague. It has now quiet, subdued unt dignified self-possession, been possibis to reduce their working hours She excelled herself in the exeur of her to six hours a day--three hours in the humiliation, and took the house by storm in forenoon and, three in the afternoon. The the last act of reconciliation.. Mr. Bellow's soldiers are heartily sick of the share they Claude was everything that would he wished have to take in the house-to-house visita-

Thin man had been absent sick for throu days, and returned to the Dookyard only on Friday evening, for hours before he died. He is supposed to have been living in the Taipingaban District. The Chinese quarters at the Naval Dockyard have been thoroughly cleansed and fumigated,

stated, in the Sanitary Board, that no this plague has come the Government will have to see that the whole of Tai- pingeban is drained.

That this may be briefly put in another form, viz, "Look the door after the steed is stolen.'

-porfeet representation and an admirably- tion, and it may be possible to dispsoas in charged before Captain Hanga'at the That a correspondent of your morning

contemporary is very indignant against the separate system of drainage, and leges the plague to be the child of that bad system.

Have called upon residents there to clean up their houses and oat-offiers, so as to deprive the disraes of the chance of mak ing its appearanos there. That this is as it should be, and Shanghai is but a fortnight or three weeks befind time, as we were here in Hongkong.

THE TIGER.

of Siberis, is quite recent in date; that till circulation of the chapatis match took pisca. far within the human spoch, much of these before the Mutiny of 1857 sun bespa regions under water; that as the new macaping. lands appeared above the waters the climate Simla, May With

Router grew gradually molder and dryer.

| telegram to-day Thave interview the authorities in Simla for the purpose, Now for

some

of evidence. It detail

would be out of BROWNIE.

aad zoology alone shall geological ascertaining their views as to the mai s in Behar being a sign" of interio be pressed of seein into There are certain groups and mutiny Sir Antony Macdonnel geners that can be with certainty ascribed no impurtance to the fact and bellaves to given climatic habitats, and if we find be a local agitation to promote the

abrino. outlying species is uncongenist places, some of a particular As we may now add Felis tigris to the canes must have led them to wander. This consider it purely a local matter

ik, importance outside Behar.. fauna of our distziet, at least as an is the first general proposition. The next is,

London, May 1-A, lestar bas Desional (and unwelcome) waiter, few that we osa draw a marked division between

A ZOO-GEOLOGICAL STUDY.

scene was really excellent. The other parts The work of cleansing the houses in the found the body of a man. The nylon That, as I have already said, & CRAFötable notes on the natural history of Mr Stripes the arimala and plants of the Indo-Chinese om Sit Alfred Toali in which bại

Chung Ching, young married woman, Magistracy this morning with failing ta balacopd. omnception of a character which is a few days with their services, which have report a case of plague. Private Thomas cometimenrapt to be overdone. He was not certainly been most valuable to the civil Sullivan, 1st Shropabite Light Infutry

stated"

that on the 24th inst. he visited a too malodramatio, and his noting in the last authorities at the unfortunate jupoture. dwelling house at 22 Station Street, sod person were well 5lled-Miss Sallie Booth taking infected district has been excellently in the room at the time was the

dant. Constable Angus Macaulay, who the part of Madame Berobapelles, and Mrs organdeed, and the work is being push the body, said the deceased mat b Grofion that of the Widow Melotte Mred on expidlysis consistent ind fra

and the doctors ·5 tim Sam were of the same Farmer apposed as Colonel Dumas, and Me with Stintinoy. It must open the eyes opinion. Tho defendant was endlady of Brady showed in the wall part of Gaspard of member of the Sanitary Board the the hous. The case was remanded, bail that he has the power to elicit hearty apteks the trouble to follow the work of the being fixed at $100,

The following were the statistics for the plans in other branches of the ark than house cleaning contingent to learn some that of low comedy.The Company make thing of the state of filth and squalor trenty-four hours to neon on Friday, 26th their farewell

Kannedy Chinese..

cewell appearance in The School amidst which the Chinees have been living

inal:--

for Scandal' this evening, when a number for many years in the Taipingelian and Admin of amateurs will maint

Thi lokal number of splodles now used in

the cotton-mills throughost Japan is said

Western Districts of the City. The condime

rea. Tava. Hospital, City, In

tion of the houses is no bad, in many in- The following are the statistics for the stances, that the wonder is not so much twenty-four hour up to noon to-day :- that disease of the charsetor of bubonio.

Hy. Kennedy Chines FEA, TO. Hospital. City. tal

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Under Treat

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30

to be about 720,000. The Jiji Shimpo ex presses an opinion that if at the spindles plague has broken out amongst our Chinese Aduom

Deaths.......

be fully worked the supply will greatly fellow citizens but that the outbreak has Under Txcamente 14 sarpass the dematid, unless new export been postponed so long. From the ground Salli ba oponed wpist

foot of ons house wa many, na four cartlosdy

of filthy robbish were taken out, and in

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trees

Finally we have a very remarkable ART, MAY B

doght exists whether the separate system may be interesting; sepecially as the sub-region, and the Palearctic region, which she public about the spring of

in Heher and bellagan, le dich is the best form of drainage for the foci han close bearing apon the question of includes North China, Japan, Siberia, ko

the origia of North China, and tive action of Hongkong realdenta

ty between the flute of Japan In the first place, an everyone knows, the Western Europe. Speaking broadly, the har mud-danging the flowers That, at the same time, it seems prettiger is a cat, and a near ally of a lion, No birds are mere like those of Britain: than the organisation is one which mig ture to pronounce so decidedly upon this one could mistake the two species when seen those of the intermediata. Asiatis region. tain circumstances give trouble question before the separate system in live or stuffed in a neum; but the re- Forty species are identical, and many others theory which Gorerament are nof

lationship is closer than this skin-deep dif- are alosely allied.. My friead

lote night of... That, howevet, completed.

forènge would lead on to suspect. Indeed, bohm, the Siberian traveller, sud author of movement has ang definite. Abier That it is true the opponents of the separ- it requires some sequaintance with so- the Birds of Japan, pointed out to me bass seat beyond mers prganlasses

that the Beber pessantry parative anatomy to disaritats between in which birds varied from a Biberian type loyal, is to go beyond (he

the the skalstons of the two species. In eastwards to Japan, and westwards to lion the nasal bones do not extend upwards Britain. Why should the extremities of the certained fack bayood adice joining the termination

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to system, seem to. munka a point when they say the Colony may be decimated by disasse before the patent Chadwick Cooper system is in full working order. That the choking of sewers cannot surely of the upper jawbones in the tiger they do. and the intermediate, and immensely wider, be zut down to the discredit of the spar Bat it is in the teeth that the most interest wastry differ? An answer is here at ato system; for it ought to be the first ing difference scoure. On the inner side of tempted. duty of the Desings Authority to see the upper flesh tooth there is a taberele, that the sewers under his charge are which is quite small in the lion and strong- Into the Manchurian Region, as the dis- Sowing

ly pronounced in the tiger. Now, this trist embracing North Chion, Japan and That it in some twenty years ago since Drtubercle is a relic of the geolegiost ancestors Manchuria is called by cookgists, there ex- Area caught a serious illness during an of the large exts, and so the tiger'e tooth is tend vartain animals that belong rather to the extended inspection of the native town, nearer the old type than the lion', we sy het than to the temperate zones. Of these we may cite monkeys, found north of so the official reporda cab soarcely be reasonably suppose that he appeared on the A BIOFER'a telegram from St. Palersburg

to the cendition of the Chd-earth mooner than bis more modified relative, Peking, and peacocks and pheasants, which blank

Tran tigers are not know in any hot the are normally tropical forms, Into this class says that two Russian gentlemen, named several cases the rubbish from one bouse (From the Chinery Mail + Wah Ter Yat Po.')

Presumably following the segregation pa

rene ruckerien Delese and Landberg, left, there on 16th has been darted away in loada, Thin, alone, Hey of. Hongkong in regard to the dealing That it is a question which must come up / most recent rocks; but a foseful beast, the tiger may cose, but in prehistorio times- mit on hieycles for Eydikuhoon with the

for serious consideration, whether the Machairodus fatidens, the Babre-torthed it ranged right up into the srotic engions, intention of riding across Europe to Naples show that the majority of the Obi with the plagas, a proclamation has been

disease which has scared the community Tiger, a found as far back as the Pliocene where its remains have been found in the and book. The ride is undertaken under nese, with their primitive notions of issued by the authorities stating that s

more or less of late owes its origin to the or Newer Tertiary, and continued his fell New Siberian islands, associated with

the

The ele those of inherent 61th collected for years in existence in England long after our early phant and rhinoceros lingered in era

mammoth, the auspices of the Moscow Cycling Club, order and cleanliness, and their almost gentleman, Lan Hole Sun, belonging to the Second Official rank has now generously total ignorance of the laws of hygiene, have offered to build a spacious hospital at Wong

Chinese hovels, rather than to the now ancestors teak possession of the land,

The true cats, the genus Felis (exone antil the dirth century of the Chriecian Ebo mammoth spread all over North Chine sence of drainage in main mudgua Tax late Lord Tweedmouth's personal not yet reached the level when they can be Sha, near the Western Gate, specially for ostala of (6850, 403, which includes a large interent, ie Mons and Co.'s brewery, he expected to lodge in houses built on En-he treatment of patients afested by the That, so judge from the picture given by of the Lynxes are

bye-witnesses of the sovemulations of in-family up fewer than Afty sizing North Asia, Europa and much of North On Londo plague. The Hospital will be easily acous

describable filth found in cellars occupied species being known to naturalists, and Amerion. It is closely allied to the Indian been charged with £26,020 for prosto and ropesa principles, without being closely rible both by land and water, and, for re- serate antion. If Me Labotahere's sobeme

graduated death andies, had been supervised. These vast accumulations of moved from the congested parts of the city by one or two acores of human beings, the twenty foil forme have already rewarded elephant, and the few specimens and of findiy

over the world, both living and fosall forms, covered with long hsfe Gosis was its in-force the sharge would have boos 15 por dirt did not get there in a day, or even in a Though there is strand one bospital at the existence or non-distance of drains would the geological investigator. They pepar all ings we possess of it, show that it was

Northern Gate for this purpose, ita accom- seem to be a secondary affair, cent, on the amount of the estate, and the few years. It la surely somebody's duty to modation is now inadequate to meet the That the great danger of overcrowding with some remarkable exceptions that will compagine, the tinkerbine rhinoceros; and dasjes levied would have been £97,561, see that the houses are kept healthy, te le ingressing demends made upon it, oving seems to be that no one of the crowd of presently be mentioned. They are found as it has been inferred rather hastily de 1

coupants of a human pigsty soonis to far back in time as the Miones, or Mid- now think, that this is s proof of the pres On Park to the continusace of the plague, and so

Tertiary, and perhaps as the Eocene, or valence of arctic conditions. But it may On evidently possible to have jusanitary this sharitaalouffer will, it is hopil,

sasume the rôlé of SCATenger, hcuses-apart altogether from the fascina be largely availed of and appreciated. To That the result in the accumulation of Older-Tertiary Singular to may, the oldest very well only show that the beasts had ho- Ored by more t Tex Teskin Nippo declares that au Onska- ting question of drains, from the discussion the poor, medicines will be dispensed free of every species of insanitary abomination, forms are as highly specialiood as at present, estamodated themselves to temperate elios Berlin Dowd

And (on of is drought) the i tine showing that we are still far from kav.) zintes in which the winter'd'ould negessita led 3 On New York while it u optional for any one to charge,

ingrat deding fathomed the story of their birib.

a protection cornring. We me the same Joint slook Company, the Shosungamal of which the Sanitary Board seems unable seat the patients themselves there. Cullma

plague

They are not limited

thing climate, for Cher bing in the figure from Manchuris Godby carrying on busináns 18-shipping-agonis Kings last Septembar, kas bean angget in to tear itself away to do something more will also be given to those too poor to bur Thas it would, jochana be unlair, as jet tond alike in the hottest parts of the Siberia, Their combs are far more stagży. On Bon series of extensivo frande apen the than talk; and there are few citles in civilis. them, but the selection of sites for burying meant blame to the authorities, the land

will be leis entirely to relatives.

owner, or the Sanitary Inspectors, be kropios, sed in the old regions of Siberis than we are accustomed to xos: the pall of Onstams. It employed three ex-Customsed connines where such a large number of

trails of Magellan. Their perfect the Bengal tiger, and see very saldon Gave The OF THE Shin Tong comes

Caso the cocamion was made some and the Straijeet again to the Wine sheir sittance sod tha

matter of charitable, até years ago, and the overcrowding causes adaptation on carnivorous animals, aces to a chance of examining & morth artisan. On Gales gods of candan In basanitary houses could be allowed to exist front tu

In tre Esaith Ordinance were bedensel to have been early developed and to have The hopard, too, pats sa & warm care in undergone comparatively little modification, the winter, in northern parts of the range, PROTON LAN camilies of for any length of time without being dis- Beside the free dispensation of Medical xid

It its swo

temporary benches in Honam, it have been exported fres

snoodled by any other mammals. It is bad a tamo opund that I got quite in its | On dem Juan sex Franta by soumors of the Danka overed, otherwise than by meade of au has now prodhimed throughout the city that That the enforcement of 9130 caber feat of that, in time and space, thele range is not and the may be an old habit, Sur I once On Br

pses for every occupant of a basso, fa chesestier is mid to have epidemic. Prior to the petablishment of in order to facilitate the quick disposal of

vary different thing kom crowding forly burime, too, that the widely distinct mar- babyhood in Abyssinia, and it had fairly:sy day! To the Bapedatendons by em the Sanitary Board 1, oso are dead bodies culine can at precent be pro-

human being loto moderate-size gellar, supials of Australe here also hit upon long far, quite a contrast the aleck coat of Bolu F 100 oured by rybne giving the name and siumissed, and he has formed a infrequent.corremos for house address of the dead, thus setting aside the

ventilated and lighted only by the outer this carnivorous type, which is even the mature animal. Sa also, the northern Soraradan (Ban

more marked in some of the fossil qisoten. monkeys, found by #bby David, north of Silver (per cs) aquiry into th

holders to be brought before the Polles-former restrictive regulation as regards the

The difference in this instance would have bem mere than £60,000.).

dour.

the occasion

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