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COMMERCIAL NOTES.

NAM PAK HONG

QUOTATIONS.

One hundred and twenty thousand sacks of Bour have arrived for Hongkong by the s.s.Tynd-

arcus."*

This morning's Nam Pak Hong quotations for "spot" goods, basis usual guild terms were as follows: Jaya Sugar, averago quality, picul et No. 24 rough white $15.40, No. 24 fine white.16.20, No. 18 rough brown 14.60.

Rice, average quality, per picul gross weight for net-No. 1 Siam long white-superior, ald crop $9.00; superior, new crop 8.45; ordinary, old crop 8.60; No. 1 Saigon long white 7.45.

Flour, per sack of 50 lbs.-Day- ton $2.72, Banana 2.70, Motluse Fairy 2.70, White Greens 2.80,

Kingfisher 290, Big Gun 2.92,

White Rose 2.68, Melon 2.81.

MANCHESTER COMMENT.

Messrs. Morreau and Spiegel berg, Manchester, report on Decem

ber 12-

Cotton-Quotations have been considerably reduced since last report and wild fluctuations our have taken place. The Bureau crop estimate due to-day is awaited with anxiety, as the price of futures will be fixed accordingly.

Yarns.-in American baly a limited turnover is reported at irregular rates. Egyptian are easier with not much trade.

AMAZING FEAT.

PERILOUS CLIMB.

The remarkable performance of a drunken man was described at Marylebone, when Arthur Strange,

BADGER-BAITING,

ETON BOY'S LETTER IN 1761.

A typical letter written in 1701 by Master Thomas Frankland in'] Forest" (Nisher, 12s. 6d. net),

a heavily built costermonger, of by Erie Parker, illustrates, the Clarendon-street, Paddington, was difference between those times and charged with being drank und disorderly and with assaulting us. The spirit of badger-baiting. Police constable Buckingham. Police-sergeant Robbings and bus certainly died hard, and may

bo

Police-sergeant Robbings said that Strange complained that he had been ejected from a public house.

He persuaded him to go home, and, shortly afterwards Strange appeared at his front room window on the third floor, and, shouting, "I will show you what I will do with you" threw a chair.

It knocked witness down, and

Strange then began to shower ornaments and other missiles on the police, one of which struck Police constable Buckinghant as he ducked. Eventually someone in the house opened the front door, fearing that Strange would jump out of the window.

The police rushed upstairs to find that Strange's room door was barricaded with heavy furniture, They forced the door, and then, 'to our amazement," said Sergeant Robbings, "Strange was not in the room. We rushed downstairs again, expecting to find him in the

said to have oxisted till yesterday. It is feared, how

that it is longer since ever, any Eton boy made cowslip wine and kept it till: Bartbolamowtidó, The evil that boys do would appear to live after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones: Here is the letter

1761, April 21, Tuesday (Eton). Dear Pupa, hops that you re- coived my letter safe, and that I shall sometimes have a letter from you, to know (how) you all do at Kirby. I am quite well and in very good spirits. I was out at a badger- baiting last night, out on Eton Corn-. mon; we warried one to death almost with the dogs; then turned out another which was very big and huge, it was a huge as the twenty ingons.

At lust it broke its cord and we mn it about a mile over hedges and ditches, and gates and stiles, and finished our sport at eight o'clock, and dul nót All it, but it is to be area below, but he was not."

Information from the large crowd-funted to-day again with a pack of led the police to another room on hounds, and it is to be ten minutes the top floor.

before them, which sport I shall not Strange had climbed from the have the pleasure to see, for mone one window to the other, with but the fifth and sixth form boys go practically nothing but a bare brick wall-to cling to.

to it.

Cloth. There has been some increase of enquiry. Madras is asking both for Grey Shirtings and Jarconets, and apparently is de-

Mywatch is very woll, and goca sirous of fixing up business, where he was he rushed at them am a-making a bottle of cowslip As the police entered the room always exactly by Eton clock. I Offers such as one hears of for with an iron bar in his hand, but wine, and go every day out of Calcutta, Bombay and Karachi was seized and over-powered and bounds for to fetch cowslipe; it are quite out of the question. taken to the station. SOBBED LIKE A CHILD. For Java Dyed goods are men-

goes on very well, and I intend to tioned and Cambrics are offered for,fect in length was produced, and feark it up close, and by that time. A-list of convictions about two keep it till "Bartholomew tide, and while Fancles are wanted for the Strange was sentenced to three it will (be) ostremely good. HEARING THE WORD Straits. There is a small China months' hard labour on each charge

demand, and there are offers of assault-six mouths in all. from Egypt, which are not abso lutely hopeless. For the. Con tinent one hears of bids for small lots, and these are spoken of also for the Home Trade and the been received for South America, Colonies. A few enquiries have but on the whole the market is quiet. The drop in the market and the continued speculation and have undermined confidence and conséquent fluctuations in prices led to a suspension of demand. A great deal of cotton has been bought and unless to-day's Bureau

Harry Isaacs, a fish caterer, of Kingsland-road N.E., waited three and a half years after his engage ment had been broken off before suing his former sweetheart for the retur of a £40 diamond ring.

Judge Cluer, în Shoreditch County Court, upheld the action, and ordered the ring to be return ed, or the sum of £25 to be paid.

MOTHERS-IN-LAW.

CAUSE OF MARRIAGE FAILURES.

Fy give my love to all my sisters, and give them a kiss all round for mo. I hope mamp will not be affronted with my not bườ- ing mentioned her befɑre... sisters, | but indeed I had quite forgot, and to make her amends, tell her that little trumpery boy is quite well.

Postscript.ium extremely glad to see that Nua is so much unproved in her writing as to be able to write a letter.

Thomas Frankland to Admurai

at mothers-in-law are solemnly

Humorists who aim shafts of wit Frankland justified to-day by the Legal Aid he did not know it, was writing a That little trampery boy, though Society, which for 47 years, has monial shipwrecks among the poorer classes of New York.

against themselves," but in this baum, also of Kingsland-road, said Report is satisfactory, Manufac- devoted itself to repairing mattle bit of the social history of his

case there were extenuating cir

cumstances.

A bunch of violets was thrown into the grave by the boy's inother.

THE TRAINING OF THE IMAGINATION.

We have received the report of an address delivered by a pro- mincht English school teacher, whose remarks are worthy the

attention of all interested in the

The girl, Miss Hey Faigen- Isaacs borrowed from her all his-turers wants, and she, in turn, incurred Lancashire. heavy debts to keep him.

Whenever she asked him to look for work, she said, he would break down and sob like a child. -After waiting for 18 months she sold the ring for £20 to pay some of the debts owing. on Isaacs'

account.

LOCKED IN BATHROOM,

GIRL'S WEDDING STOPPED.

will lose heavily in

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Messrs James F. Hatton & Co., Ltd., Manchester, report on December 5 -

time.

The society lays the responsibil ity for most of the 3,600 marriage failures with which its officers have THEFTS FROM TEACHERS. had to deal within the last year, at: the door of the mother-in-law.

It ascribes three reasons:

LEAVING THE JOB TO FATHER,

Trading in the cotton makets has been exceptionally active during the past week but the general tone

1. No, mother thinks, any other has grown increasingly nervous as woman's child is good enough for prices have advanced. Continued her own. heavy, trade purchases of actual 2. A mother sees in the marri-

On the father's promise to give cotton both here and in America age of her child the thwarting of hun good thrashing, Mr. Lan- was chiefly responsible for an her own plans and ambitions. education of the young..

kester, at West London, did not advance to a new high record of, 3. Where a boy has been His contention is that there is a

Zys for FlyMiddlin's american a wage earner a mother dislikes order a birching for Augustus Ston- possible bad side in the increase.

current month, at Liverpool on sharing her accustomed income ford, aged thirteen, who, with of learning, multiplication of sub-

A broken engagement-led-to an also that prior to this the specula-

the 29th ult. There is no doubt with another.

Frederick William Larkin, was Herts, systematisation-of-methods,

Statistics of the society show charged on retand with stealing £8. cataclysn of school books-all the action at Wandsworth County tive element had again freely that after the first tilt with her machinery which has been brought Court, when Mr. Williant Henry entered the markets on the bull husband the young wife invariably teachers. Larkin was discharged.

from Fulbanı Woinen school into play, to aid us in our desire to Court, of Somerset-road, Norbiton, side, and following the new rise, goes to her mother for sympathy Anew, and to reduce the art of ten-sued Miss Florence Gertrude this has been the main cause of a and advice. She gets both usually, that. Stanford obtained the money Evidence at the inst hearing was ching to an exact science. The Pritchard, of Greywood-street, author hopes that his readers will Streatham, for the return of an sharp setback. Trade interest has the society says, with disastrous by going to the houses of teachers,

not abated and there has been results. Mr. Court, said that he was demand for actual cotton, but very little, slackening in the formerly engaged to Miss Prit- chard, and the articles were bought American crop forecasts, specul- owing to somewhat increased in contemplation of his marriage ators tuve taken, fright and sold. Later, however, the engagement freely. An appreciable break, of

agree with him that the object of education is not to know, but to ..live...

We are in danger of trusting too much to books and systems, too little to the living influence of mind оп mind; too

engagment ring and furniture.

BRIDE'S CONSCIENCE.

while they were at school and repre- senting that they had lost their purses and had sent him to get some money,

Larkin denied the charge or cath and Mr. Leslie Smith, who defended him, urged that he could

was broken off by Miss Pritchard, much On one occasion, Mr. Court add-about 114d per lb, from the OMISSION THAT STOPPED not be convicted on the uncorro-

to rapidity of learning, too little

to development of power. Weed, the girl's father locked her in highest point reached, has resulted are in danger of organising the the bathroom to prevent her from from this liquidation. It only soul out of education, of a ten-getting out to marry him. deacy to look to the accumulation

goods with the growth of the vital powers conferred by

education.

proves, however, the dangers of, a Miss Pritchard denied that the large outside speculative interest

SHOT AND HANGED,

When we meet a learned man, it does not neces- -sarily occur to us to wish-to-be-like-

him; it does not even follow that SUICIDE OF YOUTH AFTER he is an admirable, or even a truly educated man. Knowledge, in short, he conceives to be mental

food which, taken in moderation. and duly digested, enables the mind

olive and think and grow.

A SCOLDING.

A seventeen-year-old youth who both shot and hanged himself left the following letters:

such as has developed recently and

crop

ap-

A WEDDING.

The Boy's Father: Yes, sir.

Mr. Lankester: It looks as if he wanted, to model himself, an Captain Macheth. Perhaps be Opera has been to sed "The Beggar's The father said he had caned and thrashed the boy.

borabed testimony of this young |thief, 'Staniardi

Mr. Lukester: I agree, and I A marriage ceremony in a Lon-shall discharge hire, though I think of facts as an adequate result, engagement was broken off by gives an example of the violent don register office was stopped he is a very foolish man, and has though they may lie like lead in her the brain that bears them; in a Judgment was given for the re-fluctuations it is likely to gause: when the bride, in reply to the only his own folly to thank for word, of confounding the mere turn of the furniture or £20, its Ultimately it appears more than usual question regarding the mar having anything to do with this

likely that prices will advance riage, whispered an affirmative wicked boy. capacity for housing mental value.

further yet, for even-supposing and began to weep.

Continuing his Worship-said, the American

The bridegroom attempted to "This boy is a thorough young proaches. 10 million bales,

remonstrate with her, but she per-rascal. He is quite a clever boy as is now rumoured, there will sisted, and told the registrar, that an extraordinary boy-but he ought still be a serious shortage of sup-she could not ko on with the to be startly punished. Has he plies for the season. The present ceremony as-the-licence was not on reading these shoekers uncertainty is likely to be main in order. tained until the next

The bridgeroam then admitted Bureau ginning returns are issued next that he had not lived at the ad- week. In the Manchester market a dress given on the notice of the large demand for cloth has again statutory period of 15 days, been in evidence. Offers improv although he had signed the declara- ed somewhat but the rise in the ton on the notice-form that no A well-informed man, therefore, My dear BillDo please forgive garly part of the week very effec-legal impediment to the marriage is not more worthy of regard than a me for this, also for any wrong. I tively restricted the amount of existed, well-fed man. The brain, indeed, have ever done you or Jessic, I am business which could be arranged. abroad immediately on business night, but I think he ought to be Ho explained that he had to go Mr. Lankester Yes, that is all is a nobler organ than the stomach, very sorry to do it but I can't help In spite of this, however, quite a fair but on that very account is the less it. The devil has got me absolute turnover, resulted. The drop in and had wanted to be married birched in a serious way by the to be excused for indulging in rely in his own power, and I can't cotton has unfortunately disturbed quickly so that his bride could police pletion.

torn against him, however hard confidence agelo and many buyers accompany him.

Mr. Webb, Industrial School

application of ideas to life that this will be a shock, to you but That a faire ubstantial trade has wedding should be postponed under n buching, because that woula mn's existence Is rendered | don't let it worry you. I do lopp been done recently, la ovident aptikthe bridegroom's return from mean a conviction, and it: the boy capable of Improvement. That that God will bless you, Jessier and from the engagement of manufac abroad, unless he could postpone offended senio be would have to be there is but one power, that seems Lily, and that you will keep Lily turers.. Makers of sized goods and his departure, for two days and sent to a reformatory, not to an

like proportioned to our highest good. I remain in the clutches of tow, and medium printing cloths thus complete the necessary industrial school, aspirations and our deepest needs the devil for ever. jente i continue to fare worst. Local period of residence, after which a He added: "This boy, has no **Imagination is that, sacred Chapman, the son of a Tutbury demand for yarns has been brisk, new licence could be issued. mother. He is a scholarship boy,

man, was found hanging in his and a large trade has been done in power,

and it is only within the last few Imagination ofty and refined; father's slaughter-house, fine counts for the Continent.

months that he has gone wrong, s At the inquest the youth's mother Prices are advanced ad per

Mr. Lankester If his father said she had chided the boy for 1b for coarse counts to 2d, per lb.

promisos to give him a good thrash ing I won't order a birching. I

The father promised to do so; and his Worship cepted: the father's shailz to bring the boy up for

He concludes that it is only by try and I have tried. I expect are awaiting further developments. It was finally agreed that the Officer, asked his Worship not to

Tis hers to pluck the amaranthing

flower

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Of Faith, and round the suffererstanding talking to girls. Sher. China has taken a few grey

temples bind

Wreaths that endure affliction's

heaviest shower, And do not ghrink from sorrow's

Keanest wind

--From 0. Liberal.

Ho had been writing to a girl in waltes and fancies. India bas pur London, and that was why she chased dhooties, light, fancy and spoke to him about going with dyed goods and a few shirtings. girls in the village

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