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Dalgado, with wonderful coolness and great dignity and grace, madó a brief speech, but it could not boheard by the spectators beyond the soldiers, The air was filled with the per- fuae of the flowers just opened by the more- And the af brilliantly Lochbroom, Boas-abird, in proportion to its home population, contains, perhaps, mare aged wore the only benedictions they heard. The one people than any other parieb in Scotland. General thes addressed the swarthy firing There are tenisauriaus of both sexes, hat squad- I will ask you, gentlemen, not to tits oldest of them all is. Mr. Hugh McLeod, bit me in the face, but here," and his right residing at Moorfields, about o miles from hand pointed with a quick gesture to a apot Ullapool. Octagenarians remember Bugh over his heart. Then in clear tones ba spoke
a grown up man in their earliest infancy, the worda. "Are you ready?"
The rifles were pointed directly at the fear and middle-aged people romembne him as
could took into the muzzles of Each an old man from their childhood, for
Jaring the past 30 of 35 is external appeat blok
he bag undergone the instruments of death. No eye. wos band. aged, no arhi was tied. Over sack barrel the little or no change in
Hondoranian soldier looked snee. Born in 1788, he wore the along its ebining surface and into the cool, far book into the time when
George Third was King." He was 14 years of age calu effoere nested by the wall. When they when the poet Burns digd, and 37 years of beard the quotion a murmur announced that age when Queen Vistoria was born. Being they were ready. Then came from the fro
er hips of Delgado, "Fire (" only 11 years younger than Sir Walter
wae no ratiis, no scattering shots, There Seit, Hugh was thus in the fiftieth year of
tono sharp, stinging report, and the four Talist died in 1882. but o Bin his age when the great
an of- Though in the 105th
year of his age, he isnien, for belf a second remaining still quite brisk and lively, and apparently right position, as if still unhart, rolled over, able to weather a good few winters yet. A limp and bloody-dead. The man had been Achnahaird, Coigach, in the esale parish, true to their promise, for three bailand Thore lives a bale old woman named Mrs. penetrated Delgado's heart.-N. O. Times Catherine M'Nichol; who is. 109 years And during her long life abe has evor travelled many miles from her birthplace.
The most common pests in Mexico are the Mrs. M'Teay, who resides in Ullapool, is a most remarkable of lady, and storaps or scorpions, for during cert.in deserves more than a passing nosies. She seasons of the year they are as minerous sim, Lochbroom, in 1795, as flies around a sagar house. They are Lockmelm, and was married in the year of Waterloo to within the cracks of the wall, between the late Mr. M'Lay, of Rhidorroob, hy bricks of the tiles of the foor, inding inside whom she had 18 children, and her descend your garmenta, daring everywhere with in- read conceivable rapidity their tails which bold the fourth
generation are now spread con ever Scotland, England, and the Colonies, the sting, ready to fly up with dangerous the slightest provocation, Tara
(OF CALCUTTA ). themselves
a corner up gether, they would of rexpectable colony or a good-sized village, you disturh a colony of them shuke yourHE Undersigned are prepared to GRANT POLICIES on MARINE RISKS at And yet Mrs. M'Leay knows them all by shoes in the morning and out they Å;
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., name. The following if their mutaber up to throw your bath sponge into the water and
Agents. date as far as knows, viz., 18 children, 94 a half-doman of them dart out of its cual
uad and depths into which they
[17 grandchildren, 105 great-grandchildren, and
wiggled for a
Hongkong, 27th Septembar, 1886. 13 great-great-grandchildren, or 225 in all rest and like a dose of medicine to be well short, every article you toneb must
NOTICE. bo treated Although Mrs. M'Leay is in ber 92nd
ber 92nd year shaken before taken. The average scorpion she ie quite active, and with unimpaired faculties. Sho reads a great deal, and vines is mahogany-hued and about two inches vante. Mr. long; but I have seen them as long as five vely interest in pussing avante. Hugh Freer, of Eliptin (15 miles from inches. Thes
most dangerous, and their bite is most Ulapool) also desetres to be mentioned. tidered in all, yellowish variety are con- He is in his
зін year, but moni vigorous and apprehended at midday. La Durango toy
95th lively
than many a man of 60. Besides beare black and sa alarmingly numerous ings goud walker, he undertakes considering been allowed to breed for centuries in the able journess on borseback. Ata gathering deserted mines--that the Government offers rather per tail) to head (or -of-croftare, bald-seine time again competion a reward per
with the land agitation, Mr. Fraser challeng whoever will kill them. Their sting-is 801- dem fatal, but it is more or less severe, at- ed all the eroftors present to run at a cording to the state of the system. Vicins with him, on condition that he would get a start of one yard from the competitors for have been known to remain for days in cou overy year be exceeded them in age. The vulsions, foaming at the month, with stotnich ewelled as in dropsy; while others challenge was oot" accepted.
not suffer most more than from a bee sling. The common remedies are brandy. taken in sufficient quantities to stupefy the BAN HUY, EST LINCOLN ON OFFICE-SEEKERS. I heard a story repeated the other day as patient, aru zonia, administered both ex-CHAN J Chor Esq. Q. Hot CHUNE, Esq. an" Abe Lincold story," but which is older, ternally and internally, boiled silk and and must have alumbered somewhers for unisca. It is also of use to press & large good whilo. Certainly it is not one that the key tube on the wound to force out part politicians would he likely to ropeat on the of the poison.
because it reflecte on their craft. Ae most of my renders are aware, this
aft. In atus? a little group at the Parker House, & rather species of insecta genua of Arachnids of noley young politician from the City Hall was the order Falmonaria-is distinguished from raanother spiders by having the addomen articu- cohcing the cyntiments of Benry Watterson, futed, with a sharp, curved spar at tis ex. and defending the principle that the spoile
"I see no reason, asid treraity, beneath which are two pores from belong to the victor. be, why any Republican should be kept is tall the venom Bowe, supplied by two a Federal ofico here in Boston, while 1, Apuison glands at the base of the aegiment. Dinoers, who have worked hard for the Tu auterior pair of feet, or palpi, are medi-
That re
*fied into pincers or claws, like those of party, as left out in the cold,"
and an elderly men, whom att lobster, br which it soizes its prey, while the lawn would recognize if I were to describe the other feet resemble those of him, "of an incident that I heard of early in spiders. Naturalista. divide the genes into Lincoln's Administration. There was a local sub-genera, according to the number of politician who went on to Washington to get their eyes, whether six, eight, or twelve..
eggs of spiders,
and also feed an office that bo felt gre
bie only awaited application to be given to him. In a couple on beetles and other insects, piercing of weeks he came back. Well, did you get prey with their stingers again and again
No, said fore beginning the meal. When alarıned or your office? friende asket.htm. be. Did you see the President? Yes, of, irritated orpion abowa aght, running
What did be say?' couree.!
Well, we
we about and waving bia sting in all directions, went in and stated our errand, He heard for attack ue defenes, csidently aware of its us patiently, and then said.dentlemen, I power. sin murry that I have no office for Mtonishingly frequent intervals, the mother if I can't p
that, I can tell you a story." you We thought best to hear the story and let displaying far more regard for her offspring hum go on.. Once there was a certain that their vicious natures seem to justify King," be mid, "wha kept an astrologer to During their brief infancy she carries then forewarn bin of coming events, and espco-about clinging in great numbers to her back, ally to tell him whether it were going to rain limbs and lil, never leaving her retreat for when he wanted
to go on bunting expeditiass.& moment, enless overburdened by their
relaxes weight her hold Le had started off for the forest with
from the wall, and family in a wad. The ungrateful children Good morning, farmer," said
munde
มห
Ond
day
exper
do
They set the
erdinary
the
The young scorpions are produced at as
his train of ladiesarid lorda for a grand hunt, down falls the whole isrally reward the i
on the road.
the King.
farmer; where
это
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ear period, and receiving for his Policy & VENTS IN HONGKONG AND THE SCALES, BICYCLES. seemnulated surplus spportioned as a dividend.
cash surzonder value together with his sherd of
If death gear, the fall amount of the Polley will Arranged
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all got habite, and have become RHE Undersigned having been appointed
in
when the train mot a farmer riding a donkerternal devotion by destroying the mother old enough, touring fer said they soon as they are
will ties greatest ferocity.. Buat piecemeal
Betsy and Lause ourselves by you'll all
Lynated estrologer, of course, and went to the catching them by the tail with lasunes of PRE AND LIFE Current Rater.
suspending theta is forest; bat by mid-day there suo va a ter thread, afterwards sup rific storm that drenched mud buffeted the hotties of alcohol to send to microscopically
to be out of incliued fris Happening to whote pary. When the King returned to bis palace he bad the astrologer decapitated loob
wet!' said the farmer, The King
bik
and sen
Agents for the abors Company, neo prepared to GRANT POLICIES. against
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Hongkong 28th April, 1885.
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST:
RECORD OF INFORMATION YOR MONTHLY
PLANTEES OF Tea, dacan, Cinabens, Coffee, Indirubber, Sugar, Palms, Cotton, Cardamom, Kola, [685
Coos, Cinpareon, Nutmega, 'Fibrens Plants, and other Products suited
for Cultivation in the Tropics.
GOLD FOIL (dry)
do.
(extra dry),
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FOR SALE.
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the court astrologer,' alrouted the King. It conjecture, Happily this tty toward in London, or at the principal Ports of India and the West Indies. From all sub-tropical
was done, But the King always declared
crease is ffaet by their biller
Hongkong, 26th February, 1887.
NOW ON SALE.
IMPERIAL QUARTO.
Sin Kanzing
1433 Store Nordisk
Yung.ning
NGLISH AND CHINESE
DICTIONART."
aloobel one day we put a captured scorpion IEE LONDON ASSURANCE
INCORPORATED BY SOYAL UHARTER OF HIS for the farmer to take his place into so empty bottle. Remembering it a rent to lock, when lo! Law's ke,' said the farmer when be ar.ge
week later, wo
MAJESTY KING BEORGE THE FIRST Now fifty-ever
A.D. 1780. rived, it ain't me that knows when it's goin' where one had toen were
was only the tobut. whether it was
mother and kér
has now an assured position in its largo to rais, it's toy donkey. When it's going t
scorpion THE Undersigned taving been appointed THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST the Ones of this Paper, be fair weather
estries children, or whether the origi that donkey simaye carries
original
Agents for the above Corporation, are circulation in Ceylon, Southern and aran Cer- bis eare forward, to. When it's goin' to rain had arrived at the dignity of great-grand-
tral and Northern India, the Straits Selfiements, Samatra, Java, Borneo, Northern Australia, MARINE DEPARTMENT, he puts 'em backward, so. Mato the dunkes parent in that longth of time, was food for propated to grant Insurances as follows:
of 10-
Policies at anrrent rates payable either here, Queensland. Central Amorios, Natal, Martins,
planting settlements we have had cordial apE that that appointment was the greatest mis all others of their kind, and the perpetual China and Australia,
proval of the pitlication and an epoturaging TIRE DEPARTMENT, taks he ever made in bis life."
warfare they wage upon one another thins
cause. Policias issued for long or short periods at measure of support The English, India and Why ped there.
their ranke more than any other did be say it was a s
Colonial Press have spoken in commendatory take ?wa naked him. "Did the deuter Scorpions are exid to barbour an expecial Fearrent rates.
terms of the T... ne also Direators of Public An du bis duty?" "Yes," said the President, pite against brun tor, and to loaso blonde
downwards, and so have all planters. but after that time every dankay in the people comparative, unaolested. The In- sted for sms not exceeding £5,000, Gardens from Sir Joseph Hooker, FILS.
]ut reduced rates.
HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. The shout of diana cat them after palling out the sting, a country wanted an office!
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