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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1903.

THE JAILOR AND THE GOLF

BALL,

The Indian Planters' flatable in susprud

C. WESTERMANN,

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sible for the following, story about the PIANO AND ORGAN BUILDER.

superintendent of a jail somewhere down | country': This estimable man is fond of the game called golf, played as we are Informed with a bundle of sticka' and 'n wee bit gutty ba'we merely quote from the itamture upon the subject--and, in order to perfect himself in the pursuit ho practisce driving a ball over a large-sized tank in his jait. Whomever he misses getting over ho has an alarm parado and makes all his convicts divo, and find the The other day, however, he happen- bati. od to engage a new subordinate, who was as nervous as a cat about getting banged on the head by a mutinous convict, and who had rend iho jail regulations which empowered him in event Kunden alarm to send for a regiment of ị maldiurs quartered not a long way off the prison. So, when he heard the alarm, he telephoned to the Colonel Come at once,' It was a hot sort of day, and when the regi- j cent arrived with hand and all complete expecting to have lo rescue the gallant jai- ler and his warders from an infuriated mol of laga' the Colonel gut quite angry when ; ho was toll that it was only a gul ball t had got into the tank,

A MIGHTY FLEET

A Nasuho telegram, dated 23rd Nov. ember, say Tho third division of the Japaneso Standing Squadron under Ad. miral Deva, consisting of the Chitose (flag ship, Yoshina, Polisago, Kosagi, Akņaki, Aum, and Liyei,, which bava fazen cruis ing along Hakota, Karatan and mari, reached Snsche on the 20th ulto. The first division of the Standing Squadron under the Commander-in-chief Adreira! Tako, consisting of the Shikishia (lagship), Hot (Admiral Nashiba's flagships Asoby, Mübaer, Buji and a portion of det flestroyers, omisting of the Kevumi, Abateaks, Shizubing and dachio

hed Sasoh on the 21st wito. The econd division under Admiral Kamimura, consisting of the Idiumo (Hagship), Iwate, Semu. Tukinu, Yelume and Advise andü the destroyers Indian, Umekumo and Jurakuno entered Saselo on the 22nd ulto. Thus with the portion of the Standing Squadron already in the Admiralty Port, consisting of the Yushima, Malushiou, Baiye, Ochima, Chokai and Kutsurayê, with destroyers and torpedo boats, the whole Squadron now consists of more than fifty war vessels. This formidable gathering prosents one of the grandest and most Impressive assemblages of naval strength ever seen together in the Far East. After taking to cost and provisions, this mighty En unknown quadron will proceed to destination, perhaps in the Korean rea near Chin-nan-pho.

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A telegram from London on the 18th ult. reports that Mr Socratary Hay and the Panama Delegates had already prepavel the draft of a Fenains Caual convention. Mr Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the United States Treasury, speaking at në bunquot in New York, said that he was jealous of every hour before a beginning was made in shovelling the earth of the Panama Canal, which equals voting a anhsidy, to the commerce of the world. Vesela from Great Britain ck the Cape of Good Hops beat vesse's from New York going round Cape Horn; and that was one

of the most important reasons why Ame ricsus must have the canal,

Arming the Mangols.

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