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THE GODS OF THE HEARTH. Only a piciers, diuimed and emitahad By any a weary your
4nty a ulant, with a ragged stain,
Its scant feras frail and sece.
Dnly e-book, ite pages torn,
Its dainty binding stained.
Only harp, with its music jarrel,
Its strings all dumband strained.
Only a parse, that alrikes thi nr.
As awkward, dull, or coll
Only a ring, with its josel flaws,
And rust on ita tarnished gold..
Yot, that portrait stira eno aceret heart,
As no matter work can do.
Those towers for one ontbloom all bola,
Of royal scent and be
No poet's gulden utterance
Charms as those pages did,
No lute hae melody half so syout,,
In its measured cadenco bid. A
Those roug's frank wards a courtly phrase,
Sunda scarce so dear or true.
No appaire shrines the glow that onco,
The poor pale turquoise knew. -
Life Bushes on its varying way,
Each takes his destined part.
The wheel revolves, the sunlights glit. Some roar, and quick rains fall.
The thorns grow thick on the rose's stem, Death strikes, to end all;
Bet oh it is only his mighty hand That enn hr theo from their throne; The Gods that Home, and Heart, and earth, Ja Love unite to own.
-All the Year Round,
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BHAKER bitten by the venomous tiger anahe Hoplo To any one who has never been under cephalus custus), and completely cured by the
610, in loso lude where the deadly meccassin and cobra di capolo huve their ammoniacal injection. Since then the rainedy homes, it will sound lite fiction to be fald has been extensively need throughout Aus- So that generally with euCCARO,
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ons, is lod hope five hundred and fifty-four of hor Majesty not certain in every case, we lave got hold subjects died in India from anake bites and of the right throad, and that by following it
number as
ber as up, we may soon be in possession of a power Long below the annual average. If tion wore available and collected front avery effects of the serponta fang.-J. EDWARD part of the world where snakes abound, the BBOCK-The firror. figures quoted above would represent but a Yory small proportion of the total deaths from this canse. And yet with these start-
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Thore is no one elaraeter in Vanity Fair" ling facts before us, we are bound to confess which can be deemed perfectly satiemotory our inability to cope with the subtle fluid not that the public always cares for that, developed in the poison glands of the riperide, preferring sometimes the most thorough plazed vor, with all our bouled science, have wa villany (viewing outliership as a question of been able to discover even the nature of this arty to the most superlative virtue. Becky Not
Sharp, the principled governess, Las been Gendly venera. aie with the physician unduly detested as Amolia Sedley has boon Abore 1 month and notĮ,
To see any one standing empt
of all resource, is a sorry too lavishly praised. There is nothing in that has ever witnessed the ourlier chapters to prove that Becky sight, and being, in the flush of manhood, crumble as Sharp was naturally and entirely unprincipled The Gods of the Hearth they reign supreme it wore to pieces from the prick of a serpent's and unserupulous, and it was evidently the On the altar of the beart.
has fehold that which is at puse sick-intention of the author to show that socioty fang, ening naturally appalling and such a sight might justly assume a cront portion of the sponsibility for the after-development of little effort has been made to place a power those qualities. With certain ground. to in the physician's hand whereby he might work upon, and given conditions as adjuncts, euccessfully combat with this fearful eaeny the influence of society on natures liso Becky to life. It is curious to see with what Sharp's would be le ennast them with coifish
and spre patience and perseverance, and at what cost,
saperiecuso complete hypocris If the condition of distant countries is sought heroine there be in the novel, it is this clever after; how, in quest of
diamonds, gold and
advanturess, and except on some half-dozen and the bowels of the earth are anatomize];
occasions it is sourcely possible to avoid a aw, even lately, & man-of-war has been pity approaching tocontempt for the chariotor
intended to equipped to basket up the bottom of the sea of Amelia Sedler, who is into per- in search of protozoa. And yet, with the sonify the good olement an author generally in countries where stakes abound, Captain Debbin, is overdrawn, and one is abbody serms. think it Grande's paper on the blue color of the any great effort their duty to make well-nigh tempted to wish that he had a in trying to discover a little less virtue and a little. Belfishness. atcosphere, in which it was attributed to a antidote for snake poison. So the deadly der While we love bio, be has a tendency to make change of refrangibility due to partial abde lance, the dabeia, the ophiophagi, and us angry. The west masterly touches in the sorbtion of the chemical or ultra-violet rays, horrid tie polonga, together with the whole volume are those in which the portraits of In 1970 M. Collas, in an article in Les tribe of venomous reptiles, still bold their the Marquis of Stoyue and of Sir Pitt Craw Mondes, attributed the blue color of the Lake own against man, and thousands of human of Geneva and other waters to the quantity lives are every year sacrificed through the of siles held in solution, which is brought want of some mesue to counteract the fatal the tributary teams from the ofects of the poisoned aliva. It is tire down
by straia through which they pues. Numerous that tho matter was locked to in earnest, be- observations since have induced him to
ea proper scientifio staff appointed, with up- lieve that the hius color of all the water of limited fans at its disposal, to ransack the the globe is due to the same cause. The air sverywhere contains more or less moistnie earth from homisphere to hemisphere, until dus to evaporation from tlie water of the core has been found, For as snakes exist. of the principal reasons for the success of Glebrev -
3 does an antidote for their poison lle sume the book. Wo feel the satirist at our elbow earth, the water (irus evaporated always son- where hidden in naturg's resesses, and awaits he is not enveloped in thick folds in the dis- Kinshan tains a gresser or less quantity of extremely the perseverance and energy of umuto discover as we rend his trenchant observations Kin-Kiang I
Silex, says fiue inoinble partiole.
i. In the whole range of natural enemies, and withering sarcasm, we can ainiost ade the Kwangtang Colke, is cha
is one of the most common insoluble from the stealthy tiger to the hideous to glances of scorn or of pity which he would MacGregor substances in nature, and through evaporarantula, man has none so treacherous, so assume when engaged in his task. Well Maced tion, performs the sand function in the blue deadly, or as dificult to guard against, es might the world exclaim that this was no Patoxet why that he believes does in the blue waters the serpent. Overhead in the branches of novice who thus wrote of its masarnesses and Poyaux- in the earth. He believes his theory is con- the banyan, or the tuft of the cocoa tree, in its glory, its virtues and its vines. The novel Sir J. Jovjoebbag firaud by the intense blue of southern skies, where evaporation is so much greater than io the colder north.→→ Nutare.
M. Collas, of Paris, comments in Zer
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more
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the alime of the swamp, or the tall waving lifted him at once, and justly, into the posi Tolge jungle grass, this wily foe may lurk, unseen, tion of one of the ablest writers of subjective White Olond rnbeard; aud by dropping from the tree, or action. It is especially remarkable in con- Yangtze springing from the ground on to the unwary nection with Vanity Fair" to note the Yut-tang passer-by, «bical one the temple of the extremely little conversational matter in
and steal the lite therefrom," almost as cuickly as the assassin's dagger. Few of the
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stilling and sultry, with an overoast skynse who have only seen reptiles coiled uptrength of the author lay tot in the
courantional groove of the novelist, but in Activ
Aprara
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sun is what seems to be witbered branob Review. fans, and the surging of the waves was quite Suddenly, and without the slightest warning. extraordinary, considering the width of the the branch becomes inflated, and the deadly river which was bere not more than
puff-ador flings itself almost with the mile road. The lightning quarter of a
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Australian reptiles this is perhaps the most deadly. Its maximum length is about two and a half fat. In colour it is a silver gros, and is found only in sandy places, where it coils the hollows, and so is very
apt to
I had bunted kangaroos in Queensland and a trolden upon. Its bite has been known New South Wales, and I will say a word or to prove fatal in the course of half an hour. two as to that sport. I confess that in the rapid is the action of sunke poison on bas been absence of fox-hunting I enjoyed it very much. the system that, when a person Four of us went out in Queensland with four pauctured with the fang, thero is little or no few minutes of amidst timber that was not time for thought. Within kangaroo-dogs thick, and found game in plenty. The the bits its effects are felt. The patient grows kangaroo-do-heving that special name giddy, the pulse, heeses intermittent, the and rigid- throughout the colouins quite es assuredly as pupils of the eyes dilates, numbness any kind of bound has his own babe in Engly follow, and, then when the poison has land--is & large rough greyhound that buats been carried the circulation through the oth by sight and by nose. The difficulty boart-death. And yet, strange to say, that consists in getting the dogs to settle upon rapid as in its action when absorbed in the any one-head of game, and to settle upon the blood, the samen may be swallowed with in one kangaroo which the sportemuan may select. punity, thereby suggesting the idea that its ddafis further difficulty in Laffecte are neutralized by the noida of this -getting the men who are out to join in the stomach.
It has been recommended to those who The hounds scatter and the same choice.
Retter, and it will often happen that should have the misfortune to be bitten by a a mau is a tempting to ride down a kangaroo deadly, suske, to immediately cut out tot wibout a bound, and a hourd making the punctured p
who possesses sufficient
men
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will be allowed to all contributors.
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TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE," 137, LADENHALL STREET, LOUDON ESTABLISHED: 1849, risks on behalf of this Offics, by First Uudersigned is authorised to acept ass Steamore and Sailing Ships.
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Seaman's Brido Sea Mow Shooting Star Starlight. Sumatra Tulee.
M. Uriarte Watt Horreneche Hulvat
Amr. bk
Feen. br
Landelein & Co.
Order
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Brandno & Op
783 Master
202. Curlowits & Co
RECEIVING VESSELS & JULES.
283. Harbor Master
1000 F.& 0.0%
$15
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LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
LED CHIPA IN THE CHITA SQUADRON, - CAPITAL-£500,000-
THE "Undersigned having been appointed gent for the above Company, is prepared
Hai attempt without a rider. We found of a scot, but it is not one person out to accept proposals for Life Augurances.
nerve to
or
kangaroos in very largemote-03030 occasion perform such an operation; and in many cases where it has been done, some important Ishonki think some hundreds ofthem together.
13p
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that "ike cares
like,
For Butes of Premium, Forizs of Proposala, Avon any other information, apply to
CHAS. H. MORGAN,
549 Hongkong, 8th April, 1873,
Captain,
Capt. Wo. H. Whyte Shanghai
Name.
Rig.
doub, s. gue VS.
Adventure Cadmas
ke, at, transport Stem Corvette
400
4 120 Comr. Patteravn 2100 In Reserve 14
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Rivaldo
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On such occasions a great deal of cross-vein or artery has been severed, so that death ricing takes place before any united action has ensued through loss of blood. can be effented. If possible, a very large, or Not knowing the nature of the poison in. "old man,
kangaroo should be cut out and jeeted by the soake, it is most dificult to tell One followed. They are very stout is running, what prophylactics are to be used. lat net so far as the docs and young ones. thing is certain, that out of the wary medi-
taken the
stomach kangaroo gets the of triod, nothing ing ground in his favour, le bounds at every lie ever proved effective. Therefore, on the
auch distance that it is possible homeopathic principal
to be the to keep near him. It is, of course, known by injection into the veins would seem to be the all readers that the kangaroo enak, or rather most fational treatment. And jumpe, with his bind legs paly. When not latter course has been adopted, surprising and thereafter disease among Policy holders molested his arms come near to the ground, results have followed. The writer of this annually, in cush, All the profits of the Princess Charlotte bet when pursued be carries them high, and paper had the good forture some time ago to Underwriting Business pro rata to amount of looks like some mixture of a man and deer vituose many curious experiments in Mel-premium contributed. springing through the forests. The pace in bourne, made by Professor Halford, for tha hunting them is always very quick, and it is cure of snake-bite. To this gentleman is dire necesary to turn with the greatest rapidity the credit of having beon the discoverer of among the fortat trese. Ten minutes or a the liquid ammonia remedy, Professor Hal-
war will ofan boor quarter
generally see the end ford Eus spent many years in his endeavours of a rau. By that time, either the bounds to discover an antidote. And no man know are at the throat of the animal, or else he has better than be the deadly nature of the enemy wars, or Dock, and the Cargoen of wach Ships; made good his escape. We killed, I think, he has to combat with. He anyatlass snake also, Ships Ruilding and Repairing: Barges seven in two days, and had other runs in poison whether dried up into powder by the and other Vessels on Navigable Rivers and. which we lost our
sun, or converted into hard gum, thick or Canale, and Goods en board such Yessels, The "old way sar prey. kangaroo, wien hard pressed, will tare round ihin, freal, or stalo, will, if ones introduced throughout Great Britain and Ireland, and in and fight the hounds, or fight the man whe into the blood, show its vitality as surely FOREIGN COUNTIES, FROM LOSS OF DAMAGE comes to knock him over And he fights aye, even more surely, than the dried seed FIRE.
ap with
placed in the ground and watered. great power, inflicting terrible wounds la with his fore-paws. In New South Wales saw a kangaroo which we were hunting catch
-
Thistle Zebra
RUSSELL & Op...
Agents. Thuis 1089 Hongkong.. 9th July, 1872, IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.
Insuring Houses and other Buildings Goods, Wares, Herobanding, Waunfactur ing and Farming Stock, Ships in Port Har
The Undersigned, Agents for the above Com The old treatment of large doses of ampy, are prepared to grant Polisies against
Hospital
150) Aeting Comdr. Digby
60 To be Suid-
20
4 4120 Comr. J, B. Barnett
Ourolina
Adella
Conlonkyle Dupline
Meridian
Georges Alfred San Francisco Forget-me-got Rolling Ware Ziska
Charley Cbisitain Columbs
Gummydea
Koodza Finser
Вагод
In pori 10th April, 1873,
Brit. eh Amr. bt.
Nor, sch Dan. bk
Brit. bk
Nor. bk Ger.. bk Siam.
636 Boyd & Co. 34 Bord & Bo 274 Pasedag & Co 379 Boyd & De
305) Peterson & Co 856 Chine 442 Bord & Do
2215
Pasedag & Co
294 Boyd & Co.
FOOCHOW.
-Zu port on 25th April, 1873.
Fabterloh Zetterland
::
Aur: ach Fren. bk Ger, b
3.7 Master
495 Master
833 Master
270
Scapleburn
Wills Gaernon Rovet FAI
Smith Sloovita Sclavo Mackie Youdgeon "Alenler
Munday For
·Awr.seb Hrit, bg
Master
159 John Silverlook & Co
SHANGHAL
In port on 24th April, 1879.
The names of the numerous steamers, tuge, Balme du receiving botka memployabi
on the Yang ters are nci included in this table.
Amr, sob 261 | Morris, Lewis & Co Amryk 510. Ohapram, King & O
Busnell & Co
J. H. Mackio
Mackentie & Co
·BritUk 9-15
Brit. L Brit, bk Amr. bk
Where át,
Admiral
B. Armar
Shanghai
Brit. bk
959
Hongkong
ABT. bk Brit. bk
319
344
Tientsin
Ang. Heard & Co
E. M. Young
Shanghai
Giffrard
Comdr. B. W. Bar
Hongkong
Harmun
Brit, sb Brit. b
316
Russell & Co
315
A woy
Hilda
Davy
50%
Win. Pratan & Co Nils Molier
Hongkong
Huntly Onitte
Macauly
Junio
Percy
625 Fruzar & Oo 300
Morris, Legis & Co
Amoy
Jylland
S
80 Leat. Whish
Lizzie and En
Dalberg lagan
Hongkong
Dr. Loney
Hongkong
Northam Gailla Varune
doub, so. gun vl. gun-boat gun-boat
4120 4.
Comdr. Grant
Bingapore
Vests
Marstul! Diederick Peroy
Dan,- LE -267 Brit. k Brit, th Ger.tk 487 Apr. k 300
300 298
50
Lieat. Comdr. Bond
Singapore,
Receiving ship
| 16
80 Lieut. Comr. Fairlie,
Commodore Shorts
Hongkong
Hongkong
scrow stoop
7200 Comr. Parsons
Yokobaran
doub, se, gan v
180
Asting Cour. Dicken Amoy
pud, des, vessel
2: 4·120
250 Hon. A.. Littleton
Amoy
doub, c, gas v). 4. 120 doub, so. iron sb. 14 800 gun-versel
Military Hospital - Naval Hospital
doub, zo, gun v Steam Corvette. doub, so. gan vai acrew sloop
Cups. W. Arttor
ordered to Hongkong
Hankow
Com. Hon Fitzmaurice Kobe
6400 Capt. H.B. Woolcombe Singapore
4. 120 Cour, H. K. Leat ou passage to Tebow 71,900 Com. Hon. A. Denison Hongkong
FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR IN HARBOUR.
Alexandra
Hd. Schellbans & Co Aug. Heard & Co
Wm. Prsian & Co Morris, Lewis & Co
Fruzar & Co
TOKOHAMA,
ton 4th April, 1873,
R. Gravert
Order
In part o
Amoy Trader
Kubl
· Aretia®
Brit. bk Hulk How. bk 330
306
Dader
430
Catherine
Chance
Name.
Nation
Tons.
Captain
Eastern Star Ellen Bood
Emelic
James Paten
Abbott Gotlier MoKenzio Goiter
Yantic
US gun-boat
410
Byron Wilson
Jurgen
Lord of the Isl
-Petrie
Mazila
Maria Tanz
Hereirra
Parmenio
Cocorane
860
M. Verary
Tiptree
Stapleton Hondli
Halk
1557
Stora ali 1650
P. &,0.06
ouin by the mouth would almost seem to
FIRE to the extent of $80,000 on any one First Class Hist.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1867.
Vezeal,
be absurd, for it is probably at once con-
bilo. the
By the
the
INGOKFORATED BY ZOYAL CHATTEE
up a terrier in his arms, and carry the little animal in bis embrace throughout the run. verted in the stomach into hydrochlorate of He was not, however, able to hurt the dog, aramonia. If passes the stomach it meets who, when the affair was over, seemed to with the alkaline secretions of the intestines,TE LONDON ASSURANCE coué quite undismayed out of his difficulty and caixes with the fatty matters of And I was also a female kangaroo, when the In either case it has to be absorbed
MIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FIRST, bounds were after her, throw her kid out of stomach or intestinal veins, pass through.
A.D. 1790 Bad the porch in which she carried it. On that liver, then to the right side of the Heart, ocension the kid was killed and the other thence all over the body. And long bolora craped. They will carry their young ons as it can have performed this journey the soake adersigned bering been appointed Ses Gril
Anne An Agents for the abure Corporation, are Thales 14)F){ A it is possible for ikers, and then throw, poison will have dond its work. ND. AC prepared to grant Insurances as fullova
Georges him out almost without losing a stride. In wording to Professor Halford, the direct in MARINE DEPARTMENT
hanting there is not much jumping, but jection of caustic or liquid ammonia mixed Policies al errant rates, payable either her Jean Sands what there is requires a very quick horn with two parts of water, avoiding the internal in London, or at the principal Poria of India, Jenny The turne are rapid, and the ground is strew laboratory of stomach, spleen, liver, and in China, and Australia રો. ed by prostrate forest trunks. There is testires, at once mixed with the blood, which FIRE DEPARTMENT,
dilutes its sufficiently danger, too, of riding against trees. This,
its caustic powers. Within Policies issued for long or short periods at Ocean On-One-occasion, I did with great force, twenty or thirty seconds of its introduction current rates
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SHIPPING IN THE CHINA WATERS.
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Brit str 69 Apboong Rentwell. Brit, sir 180 Acheong
77
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BAILING VEENILS.
flot, bk 650
Brit., sb. 681 Aug. Heard & Co Ger: 297 | Melókers & Co.
k 850 Carlowits & Co Gor. b 94 Chinese Gerbk227 Sohelikass & Co
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Destination. Shalimar
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Young
Finch
Leifaro Hartaiann
A. N. Love
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Gregion
Kedar
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Jussen
Godsil
Carlowitz & Co
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·H.L.Q.M. 18-bi
Ching-Sing
E. Obox
Fognter
FIO.M.
Oben-to
Chun-boi
Robinson Demse
TLOM.
g.b.
Bb.
Dastoms Chop
and could not use a leg for six weeks after into a vein, it passes to every unit of structure
LIFE DEPARTMENT. the accident. In de ale, Lowever, of aus. of the body. Wherever the serpent's poison Falleles issued for suma not exceeding 35,000,| Chenja): shing better, kangarooting is good sport. lorke, there the amsonia, is, and by the end on reasonable terms.
HOLLIDAY, WISH & Co. From "Australia New Zealand, by of one minute has twice made the circulation Anthony Trollops.
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of the body.
ALOM.
Den. bk 914 Order
Gir.bk
Brit, bk
3254 Onder 349
Order
Storo ab 1016 Walsh, Hall & Co
400 M. J, B. N. Hugt Pr. Halk
Brit: bk Brit, k
Brit. bk
Store ch
571 Strachan & Thomas 580 Wulet, Hal & Co.
·280 | Order,
817 Waleb, fall & Co
369 H. Cook
Peru bk 370 Captain Brit; bt 461. Order Brit, bk
Wilkin & Robison
Ger, k
SHIPPING IN MANILA HARBOUR.
Tarid uy
Yesario.
Captain
Hig
¡Fana...
Autorita
Span.tk
559
Candelaria
Span, bk
Clarke
Brit, bk
Manis
Faiza Albtn
Brit. bt
Gravin
Span. Lg.
Iy6 Hernenos
Panay
Pasig
B. de los Angelos
Stagna
Consigases.
Smith, Bell & Co
407 F. Heyes
648 P. Habbell & Co 583. D. W. Morton Clark
246 F. MunoR JA
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