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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1901.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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HONGKONG

WATKINS, LIMITED,

CHEMISTS, PERFUMERS, ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, & GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS.

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Beecham's Pills.

Schlitz American Beer.

James Watson's Dundee Whisky.

Berkfield Filters.

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Serravallo's Tonic.

Esset's Disinfectants.

Cyrus Noble American Whiskies.

Brecket & Roger's French Brandy.

Manila Cigars-Factory, ‘Germinal.'

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ONLY.

Factory: MASON'S LANE. «

THE VISITORS' BOOK.

www.

entry

66, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG.

To Let.

T LET.

CHAT ROAD,

1 WILD DELL' WAN- Apply to

SANG KEE,

198, Praya Central. Hongkong. August 1, 1901.

TO LEF.

NO. 1. STEWART TEKRACE, The

PRAH.

Apply to

Irishuan. His

was in George, "ever read that extract I fear her glad to be in a land whove every boy is į language was more forcible than polite. There is no better way to relieve the borna gentleman. In a little inn in the Possibly, indeed, it was something like: annui of a wet day in the country or at north of Scotland I once came across an that actigipted by a visitor to another. the seaside that to got hold of your entry which must surely hara beda hotel not far away, who expressed hia, host's Visitors' Book,' and con the in-written by a southerner whose head, self thus The weather has brim very pressions of the guests who have preceded only accustomed to the mildly-stimulat-cold during our visit here, but cia: lngel you. Not all the criticisins you willing effects of hottled beer, was unable to charges bave been fairly wata, and 1 find are strictly just; a fow are even stand the mutchkins' of Highland fancy that the landlord's language will, ; scurrilous. At the same time a study whisky of whah he had evidently when he reads this, be warmer still.' of the book in question will often yield participated during his visit. I to Curiously enough, I have trumbled noroes a half hour's quiet amusement, During that his contribution snacka strongly of most of these opinions' in small hotels a new years' travelling up and down the literal swelled head, as it read as follin out-of-the-way villages, and in middle cvantry fa correspondent says in the ows: Fools may stand in slippery class boarding houses, where the not Liverpool Post) 1 have come across in places; but don't drink the whisky dere too-wealthy tourist hies himself in the the "Visitors' Book" many scintillation if there's ween the ground.' Inn buard- sammer months. Yet it was in a vary ! uf read wit that would have brightened ing-house in the Isle of Man at which I swell boarding house that a gentleman, the pages of the best of our comic pa once sojourned, a couple of visitors were signing himself B. P.,' wrote — The pers. One day, for instance, 1 was in a evidently for from plensed at the preval-boarding have is good, but the bols. ORMSBY TERRACE, ence of 'visitors' who were not exactly ave-well so hard that it's sometimes little village in Wales, where the two principal hotels were named respectively paying guests, One of the visitors the difficult to know which is the boarding! the King's Head and the King's human ones, of cours--had written Aime. I stayed at the fornier, but a[0, the deas! the frivolous fleas t gentioman who precated me bad evident-They delight just to smite and to bite

y sampled, both, as his entry in the

at there ease;

and which is the bed:" To this the landlard had added the undernoted grunt:-- Humpl! lie on them myself. The landlord find better have taken the joke

book ran-The King's Head," as The ten plagues of Egypt were nothing in good part and laughed at it, as the

to these

Fearless and fat filibustering fleas !

vory next visitor taps the landlord's note with the crashing retort: W′yes;

This particular boarding-house in its but you cu lie anywhere. In mother carlier days can hardly have been an hotel at which I stayed the cheese had alinutive resort, as the above entry evidently bean as odorous as the we was followed by another rather severe criticism, which read :—

divinal waters for which the resort was famous, for a patruà (en his honeymoon

You talk about dens-but what prien probably) had burst into rhyme :-

Come into the garden, Mand,

the cockrunches)

might be expected, is King's Apns,”** On another occasion I was fresting at a small seaside sillage in the north of Iceland, where there were one ther primitive salt water bath. It is neces say to joint out that the said batha were on the verge of the vülnge green, and also that the well-known song "The Wearin' of the Green was in that district popular or unpopular according They come on Shanks's pony, on cycles, to the politics of the list-and in coaches; listener. I had been going to the baths very day for a fortnight, and on the occasion of my last visit. Murphy, the attendant, asked me to write something about fleas in his Visitors Book. Here is what an immediate predecesser had written:- *I went unto friend Murphy, and took

him by the brand. Sail Tow is the bathing now, and

how does it stand?"

They come in battalions, swarming like

bees--

And yet you've the check to compiran

The surroundings must have been equal- ly distasteful to the ogni vidi customer of a Staffordshire batel, who flippantly wrote - I came'; I saw, I-hooked it. Bet the landlord somewhat wetblanket ed the flippancy by adding Yeg, and

Said he "There are more bathers now without paying his bill, too." In a York shire village inn once encountered a than ever yet were scan. So many come here daily that they're specimen of caustic wis at the landlady's

expense that was not entirely undeserv weaim down the green.” That poet was a bit of a wng. In theer The name of the inu was "The sanc book, wos un entry not so easy as Chorge and Dragon, and the cynical dingnose, and readers must judge for guest had written Yes, I know the themselves whether the writer was a landlord's name is George but why does Sarcastic Englishman or an enthusiastic the landlady give herself away? If Ms.

Till that gorgonzola's flowa; And if I'm to kiss you again, Mand, For heaven's sake let it alone!

It is to be hoped that Maud obeyed the summons before the cheese had time to

cbase her.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.

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TO LET

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KOWLOON. Apply to

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TO LEC

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1399

For Sale,

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G. C. ANDERSON,

20, Des Voux Road. Bangkong, Jane 14, 1991.

1231

R

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COALS.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES. THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

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TR. GEORGE P. LAMMERT «il

M PUBLIC Action, at his Offices, Duddell Street, on

FRIDAY,

the 23rd August, 1901, at 3 o'clock p.m.,-", THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY,

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Situate at

A BLUE BUILDINGS, No. 3, 28 SHAURIWAN, IS THE ISLAND OF HONG-

FLOOR.

THE RETREAT,' MOUNT KELLETY. Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.

1381 Hongkong, August 1, 1901.

TO LET.

XONG, CONSISTING OF SBACKINAN Lots Nos. 18, 19, 20. 21, 22, 21, 125 and 885, which are held as to Lots Nos. 18, 18, 20, 91, 92, 93, and 12a for the rosideos of several terms of 300 years and as to Lot No. 255 of the residue of a to of 75 years.

Particulars and conditions of sale may he

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1640

AND LOAN CO., Lu.. No. Sun's Bead Wert. Hongkong August 6 1001.

TO LET

TARGE BEDROOM, with BOARD, in PRIVATE HOUsa, Suitable for Two Gentlemen.

Apply M. W cChina Mail' Office. Hongkong. August 19, 1901

TO LET FURNISHED

1731

For 2 or 3 Mouths from, 1st August. -

MESSES. DEACON & HASTINGS,

10, Queen's Rond Central,

Vendor's Solicitors,

ME. GEO. P. LAMMERT,

The Auctioneer. Hongkong, August 8, 1900.

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Reprinted from THE USA REVIEW.)

A WORLD WIDE REPUTATION.

21.

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