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THE CHINA MAIL.

Thursday, July 32, 1897.

HONGKONG MARKET PRICEL

Corrected to Saturday, July 17, 1897.

PIRA,

Plaloe,

41 1090 Cash per Dollar Mexican,

Pomirst, White

200

Chinese Namos.

Pomfret, Black

140

·熱膽

·Butcher Mest.

肉食

Pramos,

.. 250

Bay.

Bacon, English,

Ib.

Ame. Bugar oured,

300

E

TEMA

來路姻猪肉 Rauch,

Book Fish,

90

-

##

Toochow,

180

**

FI

福州烟指肉 Bhark,

Salmon, (Canton),

200

馬友魚

50

in Japan, cured

180

"

BABA lako;

100

Beef, sirloin & prime cut, calty. 140

JETERS Skate,

10

魚

Corred,

- cally

340

鹹牛肉

20

Rom

130

燒牛肉

Shrimp,

Snapper,

140

220

立

Soup.

100

"

肉

Bolen,

160

"

Steak.

120

牛肉

撻沙魚

Tench,

魷魚

Bullock's Braine, . per set

DU

50

牛腩

Turbot,

140

**

Tongue fresh, each

250

牛腩

左口做

Turtles, small, fresh water,

550

心

corned

310

**

鹹牛利

Whiting,

. catty

70

長速

Hoad,

500

"1

牛晌

White Bait,

IND

蟹傲仔

Heart,

100

牛心

*

Hump, Salt

catty 180

牛麻

Fruits

Frot,

each 60

60

牛油

菓子

Apples, (California),

• catty

Kidney, Tail.

50

牛腰

(Tiental),

100

—

牛蹄

»

(Japan),

17

LAVOR,

+

. catty

70

4-**

»

Bananas, fregrant,

17

Trips (undressed) catty 60

Calves Head and Foot, ast

Hama, American,

50

牛肚

PR

(bridon),

"

500

牛仔頭聯

Obestnuts, Chinese;.

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金山本菓 R

天津平集

230

日本平集

诣 香蕉

60

山香蕉

150

"

麻果

(b. 300

花旗大腿

Carambola,

100

>

Chinear,

240

金華火雞

梅树

Coconuts,

each 50

++

English, Now,

440

榮路

I "}

"

AL

Japan cured,

240

日本大版

11

Ground Nuts,

Grapos.

.batty 00

170

21

Shanghai,›

180

上海火腿

鮮機

18

Lemona, China,

120

J

"

Mutton Chop,

180

-

Pasl,

椒餅

#

Log,

رو

160

Lacheon, Dried,

260

"

Shoulder,.

120

"J

21

Fresh,

150

"

荔枝

Pigs' Chitlinge,

catty

70, 60

Linas,

#1

檸檬

110

Fost,

Fry,

100

**

71

Head,

BOU 458

10

Heart,

EO

40

Mango, (Balgos),

Mangosteen,

Oranges, Sweet,

Bach

(Manila),`.

+

#

鲜花

.docop

山竹子

catty

15

新會業機

Kidneys,

. pac

70

Green,

"

ETL

"

请槛

**

Liver,

lb.

160

π

Rod,

*1***

Pork, Chop,

calty

160

Olives,

白機

Corned,

12

Latg

Fat or lard,

37

190

Fine-Apples, Pozza,

coal B0

本地發厰

catty 100

**

沙梨

100

(Tintain),

300

"F

天津巴樂

Shoops' Head and Feet, set

360

Plum, Red,

60

"

紅菜

Eeart,

50 .sach

40

Pamelo,

each

130

酥核

Hidney,

20

(Bimo),

osity

80

19

*

Liror:

lb.

150 140

Peach, (Sweet),

120

當桃

Sucking Figs,

Bach $1.75 $1.25

仔

Raisins, Muscatel,

И

Susi, Beef,

Ib.

110

生牛油

Pudding,.

21

珠奶

Mutton,

300

Tool,

calty 130

11

生羊油

Water Chesnata, com,

40

JJ

16 19

牛仔肉

Mandarin,

60

33

桂林馬骨

Wahuta,

180

Poultry.

生口

合機

Vegetables, &c.

Chicken,

, antty

260

Capona,

#

Ducks,

16)

11

DoFol

290

each 140

Egg, Hun

don, 120

Duck,

110

.1

Fowls,

catty.

190

Gems,

160

**

Harsu,

Munk Dost,

Partridge,

#

Pigecil,

160

Plant,

brece

Eloe Birday.

dos.

Qual

mach

Halpe

11

Turkeys, Cock,

Hes,

1

catty: 480-

350

19

4ch

Wild Docks,

pale

Fish,

Barbal,

natty 200

80

Bream,

#

Bombay Ducks,

Oton Fresh Water Flah, catty

100 pieces 250

100

仔 蛋蛋

菜蔬

Artichokes, Shanghai, catty

LY

Beans, (French),

Beat Root,.

120

*

Long,.

60

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HA

60

紅菜廳

Brinjala, Groon,

satiy

1**

Red,

200

か

紅糨

Brassica,

40

M

Bamboo Shoots,

"

| Cablago, Chiness"BİZE, 3

Ondbago,

Caalidower,

Caizola,

Calory, Chinese,

80

21

sach 100

Carp

Cadlab,

Codfish, Bait,

Crabs,

Kettló Ziai,

Duby

Dacu

Dog Fish,

Esis, Conger,

„Frodi wataty

Bela, Yellow,

Fila Fish,

Frogu

Fresh Fisk,

Charoups,

Gudgeon,

Gurnard;

A1

20

English,

海鮮

Chilies Driedy

Red,

Curry Stuff, Englis

Chombet,

Bittar Squar

Gaello,

Ginger, young,

Horse Radish, S'hai,

Indian Corb,

Lattice, (English),

Mushrooms, Fresh,

Oziens, Bombay,

Green,

Shanghai,

Japaiy

Pariley, English, » Potatoes, Sweet,

Shanghai, Japan,

American,

Foocher,

Macao,

190

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bundle

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THE CHINESE TRADERS AT OSAKA,

THE DIAMOND. Professor Crookes delivered a very in We learn from an Osaka contemporary teresting lecture at the Royal Institution that the Cantonese merchants at Osaka on the diamond. He said that the recently proposed to withdraw to Kobe. greatest addition to our knowledge of the This is said to have greatly alarmad the Liamond had been made by the diary Danka morchenta having dealings with of the mode of artificially manufastaring them, and the Chinese merchants almost diamonds, though diamonds of a very succumbed to the persuasive eloquence of minute, indeed a microscopically minite the Japanese dealers who wepted them to magnitude. This was discovered by Pro remain. According to the Osaka Mainichi, fesser Moissan. Half a pound of pure iron the reasons given by the Chinese for pro was packed in a crucible made of pure posing to withdraw to Kobo are these carbon from sugar. This was put into an The

Chinese

electric furnace, and a powerful electric merchants import rice, mw

are formed above it hatween carbon polas cotton. expert marine produce from Osaks. They

minutes boat-

Intimations.

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and other articles from China and he iron capidly melted, saturating its/U. FALCONER & Co., AEE AGENTS FOR ROSA’A FÁMOVS TELESCOPES. D

have offices at Kobe, and branches at Osaka with carbon. After a fow

for the convenience of

b imported by the

ience shows that the rice

to a temperature above 4,000 centi- grade, the current, was stopped

Cold

Water

As

Chinese merchants is generally sold to the crucible plunged into Kiushu,

Shikoku and Okinawa, only a small till it cooled to below red-hea Pizon

in bulk when passing from portion being sent to districts east of Osaka. iron increases

Hence they recognise that it would be more the liquid to the solid state, the solidifying convenient to call rice direct from Kobe and iron exerts an extraordinary pressure on the

dispense with the services of Osaka middle carbon, and leaves the carbon in a transpa a similar course rent cryftalline form, in fact as diamonds, tako son. They propose

ચા in the purchase of marine produce, which though diamonds of the inost minute kind. ukoku. This shows the chemist how the diamond chiefly comes from Kiushu or

expenses of maintaining branch offices pipes in the mine come into existence.

After they ware e piorced.

front below, at an

The

at Osaks, as well as the fighterage frisamente depth under an extreme pressure,

Kobe and sundry other charges, will

Saved.

Moreover it is the custom the diamonds were thrown out with a nud a discount volt wo. The much larger dimensions of allow

for Chinese merchants

of one per cent, from the port of shipment these natural diameTHIN

to the port of landing to cover

is due the FAT

greater prasauro developed in thair produc-

tion. Grust as are the forces.uf seioncu,

818

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to Kohe only, and all the damage which.

may be done to goods in transport from

Kobo to Osaka must be borne by the

buyers. The Oaks

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adds that over

the-go coolies.

labourers engaged in repacking, drying and cleaning of marine produce, are employed by the Chinese merchants, and when they withdraw these people will be thrown out of employment.

Only few weeks ago one of the Osaka papers was bowailing the fact that the Chinese had not been ouated from Osaka by energetic Japanese men of business i Kobe Chronicle.

1.

REFORM IN CHINA.

AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE CHINESE OFFICIAL, The following is taken from the Notor on Local Topics' in the Merminy -

The following extrach from the leading

|

Laboratory of Nature can dispose.

DOMINANT IMPRESSIONS

ON CHINA...

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DIFFICULTIES OF MISSIONARY EFFORT,

John R. Mott writes an interesting paper on Dominant Impressions on China" to the Chinese Recorder. Dealing with the combination of difficulties that have to be faced by the missionary, he writes ;--

When we remember the difficulty of acquiring the Chinees language which stoo one has said requires lungs of braas, tho of a Loisette, the patienos of Job, and the age of Mothuselah; the dwarfing conservatism and over-running pride of Chim, which looks only to her own past for a model; ancestral worship with its terrible

a

article in Tuesday's Daily News was evi dently based on the correspondence below: The Committee (China Association ?) seem hopeful that a British Commissioner might idolatry verssade the proincid system. The on

of

CATALOGUES.

PROGRAMMES.

MODERATE PRICES.

MODERATE PRICES,

COMPANY REPORTS.

BUSINESS CIRCULARS.

BILLS OF LADING.

Coast Port Orders receive, careful attention. “

WRIGHT'S HOTEL,

grip on man, woman and child: Chi-The nose, Buddhism with its ignorant, im- moral priesthood, and gross forms

the 30,000,000 Mohammedans of of

the Western provincos with the same fan

Pcterizes the Fallen

No. 40.

YOKOHAMA.

No. 40.

cheapest and most conveniently located First-Class Hotel

in Yokohama. Rates from $2.75 to $4 per diem.

HIS

of the Consulates and of the Railway Station, Poal and Tolograpa Ollis. Fino

- W N. WRIGHT, Proprietor.

origant now Hotel is close to the Landing Pior, and in the immediate vicinity

Islam everywhere; the universal ignorance view over the Harbour.Bath and Toilets Rooms on ssolt Fist

respondence we rufer to is between two ofaticism which the highest officials in the land at whose ideatity, we can, of course, only hint,

FROM LIANG KIANO TO LIANG HU.

June 1st, 1897.

The foreign devil, my dear Hu,

Has got a proposition;

("Tis but a supposition)

He thinks our money matters may

Be bettered, if a minister

On kindly thought intent,

Should visit and confab with un:

I think the move's well-meant,

But foreign devils, my dear Hu,

Know little of our books;

Of virtue, the superior man,"

Of manners, rites, or spooks

They're ignorant sa sny dance.

But the weather's now a war,

I must condense. Their moral code

-Holds but one word-Reform.

Aad so to that they think we may

With one consent agree.

What say you, my dear Hu? Shall we .

Iwok into it and see

*

*

FROM LIANG HU TÓ MANG `XIANG,

June 8th, 1897.

My dearest Kiang. Tis hot indeed,

I'm fanning, fanning, faquing

Tis hard to bring one's mind to bear

On anything like planning.

I therefore in reply can say

Few words in times like these:

But, my dear Kiang, do tell me what

Reform' means in Chinese,

*

#

FROM LIANG BIANO TO LIANG HU.

July let, 1897.

| My dear friend Hu: Pray pardon me

For this my long diny.

I could not write before, becau

I know not what to say.

I himted high and low to find

The word 'reform,' but blow it !

There's not a book that's got it, nor

Does any scholar know it!

So, as the foreign devils say,

I felt quite up & tres, Until I thought of Sing Ko Fun

Whose foreign lore might be

Of use to na. To him. I sent..

Your query as it stood

His answer I subjoin. It is

As torso se it is good,

Your greattivas! thus he writes to me

**The English word contains

Two parts; prefix-Re; a root-word-

fortn'

Which thusly he explains:

*Fe, means again; and *form' to minke,

As plain as plain can be:'****

We're to make our fortunes o'er again !!·

Dear Hu

you agree?

+

*

FROM LIANG HU TO LIANG KIABİG.

(Dy Telegraph) July 2nd, 1897.

Dear Kiang; the foreign devil's word

Is Batisfactory;

And to the new reform schenie, I

Agras, pes, I agree.

which enslaves tite

people to a

ta-thousand kucunde si materialian and 1012:

avarico

falsehood

; the

all classes; the

tho dis of deception and entering into every relation of

life; the widespread dishonesty which is the result of the fact that China is the logical

nation of

of gamblore in the world

catcoin Bita onnameable farms; the

Curre which ww. which cost

year

4 WONDERFUL MEDICINE.

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$220,000,000-enough, se one ha sid, to want to 100 Foric the utter TOR

human beings; the

make 10,000,000 opium slaves and bring

amount of

ia Buffering which in-

credible and

abgence of medical science, apart f

ipart from one medical missionary to every 2,000,000 people; 'the terrible insanitary condition of the whole country and

and the utter disregari of all hygienic laws, judicial torture with all its horrors still in full force; the literasi and official classes who are the most obstructive element to all progress, and who are the chief source of all social ind political Corruption; the 180,000,000 women who are virtually is slavery when we remember all these things, and the dreadful fact that here is a conalty regulated not by the living

but by

Morrison's

the dead, can we question that Chirs pre sonte the greatest combination of diffenities of any mission field. We believe that prayer before he was appointed to China was literally answared the prayer |that God would station him where the dif ficulties were greatest and to all human appearance the most insurmountable.

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They Toxin

I say that,' said the elderly fan, speaking Kochi.. apparently to the wall. But I know. Of | Naga course you won't believe it, but she watches | Kagosh me take, my bicycle" all to pieces without | Goizele offering a single suggestion."

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Sharp P

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to

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