EXTRACTS.
HANGING AS A SOURCE OF PLEASURE.
which is how they kill sharks in the West Indies. They beat a stone red-hot, and then wrap it up in an old blanket and throw it into tho won when sharks are about f conres a shark swallows it at once, and st If those are to be believed who, having frat he likes it, but after a while the stone been more or lesa banged, base been rene-barns through the blanket and begins upon citated, and have narrated their experiener, the shark's insids. Tan't there a commotion the mach-commiseratal victim of the law's then! At 1405 Cha atona huras its way clean is not wholly miserable. It through the shark's inside, and he comes to extreme penalty ia
par coll
done," be the surface doad. Often seen In its ameliorating conditions or
tben Eufforer in atancer, One
the religious
Mr: Gladstone, who is credited with baring in France is
to hars"
"aomplained"
Riven up all the good atations formerly rcuss
was called back bo
to cussion 1
Army-Canada. Occupied by the British from an experience of surpassing delights Corfu, &c.
Canda was! Ab, what a
quarter in which he enjoyed the pleasure of gazing Moose calling. Salmon as thick as minnow upon the most beautiful
The scenery.
osquitoes and the rivera But the immediate
sensation of pain is momentary fiest A man who has been and it would appear not unlikely that, in Onnoda takes the opportunity of relating The anxiety for the avoidance of weedless how he was shooting in the Backwoods,
INSURANCES.
THE DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 30rm, 1887.
【MPERIAL FIRE ÎNSURANCE COM PANT. The Undersigned, Agents for the above Company, are prepared to GRANT POLICIES against FIRE to the extant of $10,000 on any
88,
FIRST-CLASS RISK.
RATES ON FINNI-CLASS GÓDOWNS £E. DUCED to & PER CENT, NEDT 20 ANNUM
GIRB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agente
would seen that even death "Bu padds. The company to ahnas FROM THIG DATE
מרי
Annoyance to those wOR
and
or none
their
pumpkin
Imperial Fire Insurance Company. Hongkong. th May. 1881.
18
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
THE
INTIMATIONS.
TENNENTS ALE..and DAVID CORSAR & SONS
AND
Morchant Navy") Navy Boiled
Long Flox
Crown
SCANVAS.
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Ca. Hongkong, 11th May, 1867.
* H IM TAI,
INTIMATIONS.
ORTLAND
SHIPPING IN. THE HARBOUR.
CEMENT
VÉSSELJ,
DATE OF ...RETVLİ
CAPTAIN.
SLAG AND HIG.
TONK,
J. B. WHITE & BRO.S SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA
HOLLIDAY WISE & Co. Hongkong. 11th April, 1869.
ESTABLISHED IN 1852.
20. P. FISHER'S NEWSPAPER AD-Angers
GOAL MERCHANT, has always on hand LARGE STOCKS OF Evay DESCRIPTION OF CO A L FOR SALE AT A MOPERATE Prick,
No, B, PRAYA CENTRAL. MAIL TABLES.
5
1897
MAIL TABLES. 1887
1887
MAIL TABLES.
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YOW BEADY
THE Undersigned, Agents of the above Com- pauy, are authorised to INSURE against FIRE at Current Rates
GILMAN & Cn. we may be act it to death judicially and that coming one morning carly tha
raufferings | Battler's clearing be a tali stout mLD | Hongkong, lat Jasmazy, 1882. diminishing ibeir pleasure. The instan- posning down the wide garden path towards GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE innoogte deutba have all the pain and little bigi; how the man got leisurely over the -ASSURANCE COMPANY.
none of the pleasure. Slowly induced stile, and he did not find out until
be congestion of the brain may be the lezet got close to him that the apparent HE Undersigned having been appointed painful, and if only the blood pressure beinan was a "gringly" with a
Agents for the above Company, effcctually raised at the centre that sose, the under each arm ind ene in bis monts. With prepared to GHANT POLICIES against
FIRE AND LIFE at Current Hats, Iautiful light and charming ecenery pra en-
PUSTAU & Co. ̈ jared in the highest perfection, feuch stories our friends onliven the
ven the evening, sub-
1685 Hongkong, lit April, 1885. swallow "You swallow
my story and the new view of hanging experience tends yours." Such are mesi-room, stories, tra- FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF 1877 In make
the.
death penalty increasingly or
vellers' tales in fact; for if we take all the deterrent, but is is right that both sides of
round s table we shall bardly a place on a question which the late Mr. Whalley era of a inized company sitting
the globe that someons present has not been to. This practical experience of the in itself a liboral education, and an world advantage such as the officers of no other Army in the world possess.-Broud Arrow.
e is a grim one, and we are not sure that A-sort-of-tacit agreement-of
once excited the merriment of the Houss of Commons by describing as “a poor man' question should be carefully considered at all costs.-Lanest
MESS-ROOM STORIES
It is a quent-night with the old "Smash- ere, the Mashers" aro.dining-with-them,
and the "Crashers," who are in the same
The
iness
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
and
Apply to
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garrisou, have sent samo of their most feativeHE GOODWILL STOCK-IN- members to de bonour to the occasion,
TRADE of the old and well-known 'Queen's health" has been drunk, and Establishment "The HONGKONG SODA War tongues are generally loosened. It should IANUFACTURING CO. Hollywood Road, Nos. be observed that ther Mushers" and 12AH”
Sanghars" have served together in Indi whilst the "Smashers" and "Crashers" have served together at the Cape. If is unsally aid that men who have been at the Cape are
JUST RECEIVED. inclined to draw the long bow with regard to their exploits, whilst the exaggerations of
✔UARANTEED the very best Quality those who have served both in India and HOLLAND GENEVER or GIN in Casos of One Dozen or loss, White Crystal Glass Bottles, Kay Brand.
1960
the Cape all bounds. Consequently
рабо what between the wing and good followship,;
Abo GENEVER in Stana Bottles and
• and a natural desire to
promote the POMERANZEN BITTSES. conviviality of the mosting, the stories get a little tall." The conversation, like that of Othello, naturally fernson atirring incidente RIDGES, SHOT, 3, &c., &a.
"
by flood and field." Campaigning
GUNS, RIFLES, REVOLVERS, CART-
The RING ilope Suis TOBACCO from
J. F. 80HEFFER
are and the colonel observes on Nelle, (Rotterdam)
lutaries—jims, tianed mosts, turtle
soup, and so forth,, “Ha," anys he,
young follows are
sare spoilt nowadays
you
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when
was a subaltern in the Mutiny my boarer
brought me an omeletta ka lind made for
21, & 23. Pottinger Straet. FOR SALE.
HEIDSIECES
breakfast, dipilian glad to get it, gave bir C CHAMPAGNE, 1530 WAITE SEAL
bapps
& repan at once, didn't act where he got the eggs, ate it, though it tasted odd, asked. about eggs, scoundrel confessed they were vultures-egun. Held on to it,
hut however, I have never eaten an omelette since." A "Smaeber" take up the bail, and relates how he was abooling in China with a favourite painter, and lost his way, and how he had to spend the night in the jungle, and bow he would bare been starved if a thought had not occurred to him. He sut off his dog's tail, cooked and ate
And ate it, and gave the owner hia
bones, and so saved both their lives. The conversation shifts to reptiles, and the neplantness of cobras in your bedroom in descanted on. A "Grasber" releres how he was lying in his bungalow, half asleep on his sharper, with a hookah beside him at which he took an occasionál pal, and how, putting his band to the ground, be took up the tubs of the hookah and put it in his mouth without opening his eyes. "By Jure," says he, "found it wouldn't draw a tit, anddenly felt it wriggle, opened my eyes, and fuand I and got the tail of a obra in my mouth, and the remainder of him on the ground, damned angry, with his head up. This
stors creates considerable imprraine, especially among the youngsters who have sever been to Indis. Hereupon another, not to ba outdone, relates baw he was ange nt
Natal
$22
$23
$34
313
par case of 1 dozen quarts. per oase of 2 dozen pinte. PAUL DUBOIS & Cola CLABET, GRAND VIN LEOVILLE.
... per case of 1 dozan quarts. CLARET, CHATEAU LARONE .......... per case of 1 dezan quarts. $14... per esse of 2 dczon pints., FONTET CANET.
$9.50
$7.50 $6.50
$8
per cass of 1 dcson quarta. PALMER MARGAUX.
....... por ease of 1 dozen quarts,
per case of 2 dozen pints. LORMONT.
$5...pcr osso of 1 dozen quarts. JOHN WALKER & SONS' OLD HIGHLAND WHISKEY.
per case of 1 doron bottles,
Azao. CUTLER PALMER & Co.e
WINES AND SPIRITS.
SIEMSHEN & Co. Hongkong, lat January 1884,
191
FOR SALE.
Collection of about 464 DNPOLIS BED
AGRAS Can be seen on application of the Office of this Paper.
Ilongkong, 26th February, 1887.
FOR SALE.
Į439
HAMPAGNE "MONOPOLE."
-HEIDSIECK- & Ço.~~-
MONOPOLE RED SEAL (medium dry). Do. " RED Fott | (dry).
Da,'
Do.
GOLD FOIL
ču. (extra dry).
CARLOWITZ & Co", Sole Agents for Herck & Co., Res
For Hongkong, China, and Japau. Hongkong; Let July, 1885,
by an imabs fan two miles; how sba antural, like ear periods of prosperity described by Mr. Gladstone, advanced THEY with leaps and bounda, and that he barely escaped with his life,
There ie a a gen- eral agreement that
stations the Саре nowadays are bonetly places, sport all done for; but the older offers who have known it years ago talk, of the days when the shooting was first class, and one relates how he want shooting with John Dunn in the Zela country. He tells a story how he had wounded shuffalo, and was spooring it Lorough scattered bush, when all of a sudden it emerged with a bellow from behind a bush where
lying in wait for him, and
it bad
hey
before he bad time to
Tarn
and fire, caught.
FOR SALE.
AT WHOLESALE PRICES.
ACCONE'S SHERRY, PORT.
CLARUTS, CHAMPAGNE. HOCKS, BURGUNDY. BRANDY, WHISKIES, ALE, STOUT. MACHINERY, LAWN MOWERS. SCALES, BICYCLES.
bim fall in the stera and tossed him elen PAINTS, OFLS, VARNISH.
on top of a "Camel Dorn," whose thems
And
$6
are six inches long and es strong sharp as packing noodles. The Capers here
get good innings, and ouo rulates how be atalked stalked On one oncasion he and Tauws, and when very
near them, behind a piece of
of « speckboem, "" they suddenly rose and flew close over bis had. He covered the leading bird, bux did not fire as it was so close, and he goes
it
ou to
dead
to relate how
fell down suddenly at his feet with fack, and how he procently promptly shot the other. Paws introduco ostriches, Au
and another Caper relateg bow bie regiment
Apply to
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AY ALMANAC rou 1887.
On Paper 10 Cents each, or One Dollar
Also
Unde signed. Agests of the shors per Dozen.. On Cardboard 20 Coats ench RISKS at Current Rates
Company, sro Prepared to ACCEPT
PUSTAU & Co
Agents, Hongkong. 18th January, 1884.
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1177
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