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EXTRACTS.

A FRENCH LUCREZIA BORGIA.

A woman named Bluchet, who lived at Brienon, a small town in the department of Yonue, bas just been condemned to hard

and it

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sont generation, I do sot, believe. The power bag boen thers bofors, but it hai not been atilised. Of soares the increase from that of the ancients to that of the modoras, which I think has taken place, has been gradual; a

going on, and in the of time may show some effect. But the

Tenements at Nel per Annum. 19 & 14” ed her husband and a lodger in her houses of the present state of affairs is to be On First-class Godowas, This woning, having exhibited a weakness

& Merchandise stored for the company of a local barber, was na found, according to my view, when at the

therein

st Net par Annum. result of improved appliances, in thegrastre- turally romanitrated with by her husband, riguldurias riskant years of the interest taken On Con

at Net per Annum. as easy-going, ricus, kind of person. The athletics,

Patroleum In H which has

schoolboy used the

caused Godowos..............at 14%. Net per Ånazo. au ofderly man named Fargest, Indger,

On First-class Chineso to commence early to develop ventured to point

out to her the wickedine generation

Tenements at 2 Net per Anium. of her ways, and thenceforward became a their powers, and lms aisa brought many math for bus ravage. Blunket, stung by the bealthgiving institutions in its train, such On Second-Clain Chines

thing

Tenements...st24, Net por Anyan. reproaches of the two ruan, reaalred to put as tho daily batir, abich had beeame

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of cho past? thom out of the way, and with that object instruction, an athlete receives; to the extra in view began with her husbad by putting power wirish he is able to bring to bear from doses of arsenic in bis poup. She treated For-Power gest in bo same fashion, and after the lapse the accurate knowledge that be bas of what of a few days the old man sickened and died, baa previously been done (and it must not THE

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accurate knowledge of self is doing at the moment, which

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as happens very often in Prevet rural equally ricts, even in the presen: epoch of civili

ino 5 YEAR DIVIDEND POLIOT its been possible comparatively recently, the bodies were buried without the ononograph has bon perfected; and his Policy sacarnate the insured the option ation, questa being held. The unseemly laste is thus somelicas able to know that s THIS

of terminating his Tanrsace at the end of enderouring to ind nes the barber warry of however, which the murdereas displayed it trifling more exertion on his part, if he can any 5 Year period, and receiving for his Polioy

only her immediately after her husband's death rod"); and lust, but by no means, least, comolated surplus apporticued as 'dividand.! aroused the suspicions of her rural neigh-

be paid immediately in proof of death, together bours, who leat no time in communicating to the severe competition which exists at death occur, the fall amount of the Policy wil with the local poline. The charming Bluchet present day a competition unit with a Mortuary Deviiend of El per Cent. of all

slims as it was not many yours ago. Eo ond, tow, was than arrested, the bodies of hier victims

which death may happen. were disinterred, and the murder was enter oue district, or even one country, bri received during the 5 Year period in worldwide in its character, and which brings Prospectus and full particulara tay be had on She bad waed enough arsenic in the accom- plishment of her fell purpose to poison half-the ablest exponenta in cach branch of application ta

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co. a.duzen men.

Acting Agenta. Hongkong, 18th January, 1887.

NOTICE.

ATHLETES OF THE PRESENT AND TAST.

the

athletics in cantout one with two other, go matter where their home, to, the advantage of all-Mr. H. ELLINGTOR in the Nineteenth Gentury.

INTIMACIONS,

FONG,

PHOTOGRAPHER

Nearly all the performances which are mentioned in ancient history are mythical; but occasionally we fad ɔne, such na the account of Leander asimming the Helles-Hajast added to a GATION pont, by which we can gauge their reputed of VIEWS was NEW SCENES and Photos acts, and then we generally find them, as in of NATIVE TYRE, copies of which are obtainable

Would be This

thought nothing in bis Studio or at MesSTS. KELLY & WALCH'S instance, what

ITORY MINIATURES of Superior Quality and of at the present time. Years ago Byron, writing of this feat ways, as Mr. Ekenhead of Excellent and High Finish. PERMANE เกส I

did" nod there are dozens of swith. ENLARGEMENTS of PROTOS, and VIEWS and if not bentreds, who would be ready reproductions of the sans vai Paper, Canvas, or Thers,

ready Opal.

to perform it to-day at a moment's notice. INSTANTANEOUS VIEWS, GROUPS and POR- The 14to Captain created an

to Captain Webb some few years back TRAITS are taken in any stato of, the weather. an immense aetisation by ivimping and all Permanent Precumses, are executed on from England to France across the Straits Moderate Tyrios.

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Hongkong, 26th February, 1827.

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Nanshan 21st instant.

The Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's steamer T. Ospock

Parthia tania left Colombe on the 6th, and is due bere on or abone the ith instant.

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1958

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of Dover--a feat infinitely greater than Teander's. So far he is the only person wlio has ever done so, and bia record still stands. Bat be lost his lifrin-ttempting to anim "down the Niagara Ripids, a fost which has just been successfully accomplished by an American. Not, however, that I look upon Are the Newest said Best published, have the this as a tool of athleticism, as they were greatest degree of permansney and are moderate simply foolhardy attempts, one of which in price. chanced to`ancered when the other falled.

FOOT SACES.

Take again running. It would seem that our modern athletes are able to accomplish more than those of ancient Greece. The

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which became the prit of the Chirk road Hosure, being 600 Greek feet, equal to 606 LARGE feet 9 inches English, according in fr. W. Smith's comparative table (other authorities, however, differing slightly

from them); twice over it-that is, from one end to cbe. other and back again; and the third twelve, twenty-four times over, for the twenty, various reporte are not clear as to which it was. Taking the longest distance, thieLINERE TAILORS AND THE Undersigned are prepared to 4RANT

would only be 14,5062 English feet, or just over two and three-quarter miles; and yet, when the

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it was DAVID CORSAR & BONS' on completing this course, apparently it was matter of great surprise, not considerat

wonderful for it was evidently thought a performance for an athlete to be able to run Ear. Now our runners would make light of unch dirtance, and races for twent? milea and more continually take place. I am quite aware of the saying that it is the pace that kille," and we have no means of telling at what pace the competitors at the Olympic gainea wet-possibly at one as great that ov person of be

Hiring could emulate; and of course

possiblo

to use so much exertion in running a wych - less distance than two and three-quarter miles that nature could not stand the strait. But it is only reasonable to suppose that a Grecian 1. utáleje v would consider the distance be bad to run, and regulate his pace accord-

agly, and would not attempt to "sprint”—-- that is, to run at the highest possible spaud -for the whole way; and I am rather dit- posed to the view that the men of the present day have greater physical powers than the abcients.

IN PROVED TRAINING,"

To return to the moderne. No matter to, what branch of atliletics one looks, the sa mi increase in resulta ia fogad as that described in biepeling. In running at nearly every distance have recorde" been recently

Hongkong, 11th May. 1367.

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"cut," the same with rowing, swimming, J. cricket, de How is this to be accounted Rooms for? Training, no doubt, has something to du with it. The systora of diet and work N.BADVERTISING BOLICITED for all Nows- which tends most to develop a man's mur papers ablished on the Pacific Coast, the Sand- calar powers is far better understand now wich Islands, Polynesia, Mexican Parts, Panama- than it was in the past, and the quite recent Valparaiso, Japan, China, New Zealand, the but there is a great deal vet to be Anatralian Colentes, the Eastern States, and past tan; b learnt, and there is too much tendency, CTE Enrope. Files of nearly every Newspaper pub kept constantly lished on the Pacific Coast now, to respect traditional ideas that bare

othing

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The "HONGKONG DAILY PRESа" is kept on fild at the Office of I. P. Framer, who is anthe af rised to receive Advertisements.

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I only refer to comparatively modern times,

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that we do of their ad to-less, if possible, than we performances. From what little wa gather, it would seem that the notion, which has not even ret gaite vanished, and which in fall force very few years ago, that mest half-cooked developed strongth and muscle, was accepted by some of them as a true one. Not quiversally, however; for we find that many of the Grecian athletes in training did riot eat meat, but principal lived on fresh obesse are dried figs and wheat.

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one,

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