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Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co.,

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Intimations.

MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (MITSU BISHI CO.)

THE CHINA MAIL.

HIS MAJESTY. THE DEVEN

The ministering imps of the Pres were aradited with. så informal origin at a very early stage in he history of printing, According to the absurd old story, which still crops up quisually, Johann Fast, oft Mentz, one of the earliest Germap printers,

was the origins of Dr Faustus in the legend immortalled by Goethe. Fest kept his knowledge of the art of printing scoret;| but when peoplefound him offering books at a price below the usual oest

Intimations.

ORDER TO-DAY

OR

COAL DEPARTMENT. of manuscripts and supplying copies You will

OLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA. ▷ SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO,

SÖLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW

WING KEE & CO.,

Nos. 47; 48 and 18, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL

| HIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS, COAL

MERCHANTS, &c. &c., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING. " SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED. TO GIVE US A TRIAL,

FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager. Acaskong, Angas: 12, 1908.

LILY

ORIENTAL HOTEL

No. 2, Quoon's Road Centraă.

A THOROUGHLY FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL. CITUATED in the most cantral position. Large and airy Rooms. Hot and Cold Water Baths. Gas and Electric Light. Chisine entirely under European Super. vision. Frivule Bar and Billiard Rooms. Monthly Rates for Tidin and Dinner. Terms nodarate.

FREDERICK REICHMANN, Proprietor & Manager, (late Manager of J. Lyons & Co. (Trocadere) lending Caterers in London and of the

TELEPHONE No. 197.

Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo), TYLIGRAPHIC ACORisa Corca, Hongkong.

Hongkong, December. 1, 1909,

and KAMIYAMADA Collories,"

with miraculous rapidity, they st ones. came to the confusion that such wonders could only be wught by diabolical agency. and to give lepel colour to the suggestion they pointed t the boys whe ran his errands, and who, like their, Buccessors, were liberally backed, and called them his

SOLE AGENTS for KISHIDAKF, 511-duvila. The upshot of the matter was

YAO, and SIGIO-KOMATSU Ooals.

HEAD OFFICE :—TOKYO,

BRANCH OFFICES"— | Nagasaki, Moji, Karatsu, Wakamatsu, Kobe, Osaka, Shanghai, Hongkong, Hankow,

that the printer, to save his" lifa,- war obliged to reveal he now process, and so, fof ccpiren. lost is chance of exclusive profit. 1 is not try probable,, however. that, this comical history of Johann Fust had anything to do with the tragical history of Dr. Faustus,

To another of the early printare is sonte- times adjudged the honour of originating TYL. ADDEMIES for above:+WASAKI.the devil." The famous Aldus Manutius, Code:-Á1, ABC 5th Ed., Western, Colco. the founder of the great Venetian printing.

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AGENCIES:

house, is said to have employed a black. slave who was thought by the ignorant to be an imp; no Aldus issued the following proclamation, which, by the way, is prob

THURSDAY, APRIL 31, 1910.

To Let

PEARS

PEACHES

SLICED PEACHES

"DEL MONTE

LATE

Aldus Mazutius, RETAIL DISTRIBUTORS : printer to the Dogo, have by this made public

YOKOHAMA: M. Asada, Esq.ably apocryphaal:

Co. CHINKIANG: Mesers Gearing.& Messrs Macondray &

Co.

MANILA:

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PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITION

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H. OISHI,

Manager, No. PIDDER STREET,

HONGKONG.

Hougkong. January 9, 199,

exposure of the printer's devil.

All who

think he is dot flesh and blood may com

and pinch him "an offer doubtless much apprecinted by the unlucky black

Boogkneg, February 8, 1910.

STRAWBERRIES;

APRICOTS

APPLES

CHERRIES

ASPARAGUS

JUST ARRIVËD,

Messrs LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

and MUTUAL STORES.

VARSITY DINNER.

BRIDGE DINNER will be hard on WEDNESDAY, April 27th, in the BONG KONG CLUB. Mecbers of the Univer. sities iztonding to be present should notify the Gudersigned

But apart from these somewhat mythicalTHE ANNUAL OXFORD and CAM- origins, the name of printer's devil, derived from the blackness engendered by the nature of his excupation, was certainly ia 816 existence at an early period in the history of the Press A seventeenth century writer, Randle Holme, in his "Academy Acmory," gires explanations of a large

OWEN B. WILKS & CO., of Abuse she cras and instruments that

GENERAL & COMMISSION

AGENT.

STOCKS EPT OF

SHIFOWNERS ANTIFOULING

COMPOSITIONS

were then in use in various sits and trades, and his notices of printers' terms are parti. cularly full. He does not forget the attendant imps of the press, for these boys,

F. W. GOLDRING, Orford, H. L. O. GARRETT, Cambridge. Hongkong, April 13, 1910.

RUBBER

485

ESTATES.

he remarks; "do in a printing house com- AGENTS, ACCOUNTANTS AND

monly black and bedaub themselves.

FOR SHIPS BOTTOMS (GREYHOUND BLAND), whence the workmen do jocosely call them devils, and sometimes spirits, and some. ANTIFRICTION METALS,

times dies."

Foote, in his farce of The Author,“. speaks of "printer's prime minister, called adevil?.

GRIPOLY BELTING, METALLIC FILAMENT and other. ELECTRIC LAMPS, FANS AND

sheets from the tympan of the press, but T. 208, the title is now enjoyed by the errand boys TELEGRAM, WANDEROOB.

977 of printers' establishments. Punch onco defined an author's paradies as a placa Hongkong, August 2, 1900.

where there are no printers "devils," sinco It is the devil" ho vexes the souls

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SINGAPORE. Fabrasty 17, 1910.

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4

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Hongkong. February 24, 1910. GENERAL MEETING of the Share- Offices. St. Georgs's Building, on SATUR bolder will be held at the Company's DAY, the 30th April 1910, at 12 o'clock NOON, lor the purpose of presenting the REPORT of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts to 28th February, 1910, and electing Directors and Auditors. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from 16th to the 30th April, 1910, both days inclusive, By Order of the Board of Directors,

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO.,

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NOTICE.

491

Roporta and Valuations undertaken by TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Patiourship heretofore subsisting Ma W. DUNMAN personally.

between us the Undarsigned carrying on business SHARE and GENERAL BROKERS at No. 5, Queen's Road, Uen- tral, Victoria, under the style or firm of ong VERNON & SMYTH has been dis- TEKNUN YEUR in the Aid bra has anonsibility comsed as from the 31st March, 1910.

All debts due to and oxing by the late frm of VERNON & SMITH will be received and paid respectively by the Under-

SINGON

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to carry on the sail business ander the

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to the THE bird in the band"

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Hongkong, April 12, 1910.

MOTE

#RSILI/S

"copy" and whe, prry the proofs to and

fro.

A hundred year ago it seems to have been not uncomme for female "devila “

to attend the press In Boswell's "John. Swatow

son there is a rec of a conversation in the presence of thepetor and Sir Joshua Reynolds, when certain respectable author was spokens having married a "printer's devil."A priater's dovil,

**Why, I thought. Bir cried Sir Jos

a printer's davil waresture with a black face" and in Yes, sir,” replied Johnson; "but I se he had her face washed and put clothes on her,"

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