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ELAYAN bundred and forty-five writers have|ACCOIDING to Chinese papers the Empress contributed the articles. for the ninth edition of [Dowager has ennobled the ancestors of Sir the "Encyclopedia Britannica," the last volume | Roben Hart for three generations.. of which has just been issued.

A PRIVATE telegram was received in Shanghai from Tientsin on the 24th ulto.. stating that it was certain the breach in the Yellow River had at last been closed.

Ax Emergency meeting of Victoria Lodge, No, 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Tuesday, the 5th instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

TAVERNS may be traced to the Thirteenth century. According to Spelman, in the reign of King Edward 11 only three taverns were allowed in London. Taverns were licensed in England

in 17:2.

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A "TOTTERING lily" in. Hollywood-road bor-

rowed two gold bangles from her mistress to go to a dinner the other day, and forgot to return, them. She will dine at General Gordon's establishment for the next four months.

An enormous number of animals are killed in Siberia yearly for their fur. At the last summer. Fair of Irbit, which is a market for only a part of the furs exported from Siberia, no less than 3,180,000 skins of squirrels were offered for sale. of other varieties there were 11,000 blue fox, 140,000 marmot, 30,000 polecat, 10,000 badger, 1,300,000 hire and 2.000 fox.

Sux had auburn hair and he wanted to say something very cutting, so he observed: "In soms parts I believe they light the streets with read-head girls." "Humph, that never would do in your town," answered the girl, "Why A CRICKET match-K: Cricket Club, Navy, not asked the young fellow."Why, you'd will commence at 11 am. to-morrow. The be hugging the lamp-posts all day, as well an -following members will represent the Club-half the night," was the crushing reply.

Major Johnston, R.E., (Capt.) E. M. Blair, R.E.,

G. Young, RE, E W. Maitland, Le Barff, A J. Campbell (91st) Capt. Calder, R.A. W. Greig, G. A. Bramwell (58th), and two others.

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MR. Sangster's next Organ Recital will be given.] in St. John's Cathedral on Monday next, at 5.45 p.m., when the following programme will be produced:- *-Offertoire

Wesley. -Anther The Pilgrims... Lesko

(Cathedral Choir.)

•f(a) Pechide.........a.... ............. 26 Linder......

Chapla Schumano.

4.- Duel */ muited for the Lord". ...... Mendiolascha. (5%. Humphreys and Mrs, Desson) 1-Andang-{F minor),

6-Anthak "O Saving Victim Wesley.

Victim"............Gounod.

15ato) Mr. Humphreys and Chair. 7.-Adagin{From ilk Symphony)...........................Beethoven, Choral Marci From Boadicea Dr. Fridge The usual collection in aid of the Organ Fund will be made. -

A FRIENDLY shooting match has been arranged to take place at the Police range, Kowloon, on Saturday next, between teams, eight aside, representing the European Police and Garrison Shooling Club respectively. The conditions are seven shots at two, four and five hundred yards under the usual regulations ne to scoring, targets,' etc., one sighting shot being allowed at each range. This will be the first time these. teams

have met in friendly rivalry, and as they are all first rate marksmen some tall shooting may be confidently looked for. Proceedings will

commence at 2 p.m.

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Tux Band of the A. & S. 'Highlanders will play In the Public Gardeni, to-morrow, commencing 13.30 pm. The following will be the pro- gramme

A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 575, | relating to the construction, of buildings 'in the will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, Colony of Hongkong. He said it was 'n two fold on Wednesday, the 6th instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm. | measure, and its first object might be classified precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited. | under four heads -firal, conditions relating to increased stability, by the use of better materials in building, second, the better disposition of those materials, thus preventing those accidents which had been so frequent, third, provisions relating to the prevention of fires by prohibiting the use of inflammable material in certain parts, and fourth; to provide for public security by removing dangerous buildings. The second object might be divided into three provisions-for the pro- motion of health, by ventilation and lighting, the prevention of damp in floors, which had been

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AMERICANS are very fond of sticking, an initial in the middle of their names, in the "John P. Robinson" style, Captain Field, of the Adam W. Spies, had occasion to testify at the Police court this morning, and announced himself as Mr. Wodehouse. "Oh, it is nothing; I never had Amassa D. Field. "What's the DP" asked

any name to it," replied the captain. So Amassa Dit had to bc.

TIENTSIN and Peking would appear to be again open to the world. The following stedmera were under orders to leave Shanghai for Tientsin on China. Cos Kowshing, El Dorado, and Sin the morning of the 26th February :-The Indo-

Nanning (the last named via Cheloo; the China Navigation Co.'s Tungchew and Huchang; the Formosa Trading Co.'s Smith and Cass; and Hazan, and Poochi. the China Merchants' Co's Haeshin, Chintung,

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fertile source of fever and beri-beri, and the provision of privy accommodation under better sanitary conditions. It also contained less im- blasting. He then referred to the existing laws portant clauses with regard to damming and

on the subject, the Metropolitan Building Act of 1855, and the Model bye-laws, and said that this

been found to exist in those Ordinances. "It would Bill was intended to remedy the defect which had

not affect vested interesis, s'operations not being retrospective, and would only affect any existing › buildings if they were half-pulled down. It was,

population of the colony, both among Asiatics a necessary measure, owing to the increasing

and Europeans, and the extensive works in progress for housing them. He desired that the Bill should pass its second, reading, and any discussion reserved for Committee.

The Bill passed its second reading, and the Council went into Committee upon it:

A NEW CRAZE IN "HÒNGKONG.

TATTOOING IS FASHIONABLE.

is commonly believed that tea was first taken to England from Holland by Lords Ossery and Arlington in 1665. Its use soon became fashion- able among the wealthy, who, while it was sold for $50 a pound, flone could indulge in the. luxury. The Dutch and En lish East India Companies both chim the honor of its earliest About ten yards' put Arsenal „Street, on SAYS the Hupas At Wu-chang Fu, Capital importation, the probability being in favor of the Queen's Road East, a sign hangs over a first- of Hupeh Province, outside the Pao-ngan Gate Dutch, though it has been asserted that a floor verandah intimating, that Hori Chiyo, in the suburb of Sün-sze Ho, lived an old man few pounds were imported into, Englapd "best tatteer from Japan," is within, and when who made a living by selling hens and ducks

direct from China as a present to the King as business in slack the individual himself may be As these are sold by weight, the old man madearly as the year 1664. When first brought seen leaning over the balcony, exhibiting a pair AT the Police Court this morning, before. Mr.

a ptice of filling their crops with sand, which into Europe and offered for sale as a beverage of arms which in themselves are quite an art Pollock, thice Chinese cooks in the mess in he would pour down their throats, forcing the met the most vielm! opposition, and, curiously gallery. A Telegraph reporter went to see Mr. the 91st Regiment were charged with refusing san again in the evening out at the bills of enough, on the part of those usually best informed. to obey lawful commands and ass sulting Pioneer those which had not been benght by the deluded learned Frenchman at once launched a pretty Japanese girl, showed our representative Hori Chiyo the other day. Mr. Chiyo, a very Reid. About ten o'clock this morning, it

customers. The fowls which had experienced torpedo against what he turned" the impertinent into the operating-room, and went to wake Hori appeared, Reid went to the cookhouse and as this cruel treatment at his hands were more ovelly of the age? In Germany tea-dealers ́ | ̧up, which gave the reporter time to look around, usual ordered the cooks to clean the place up.

numerous than the sands of the Ganges. The were looked down upon as immoral and The walls are quite austhetic with fans, kaki- They all refused, and on his attempting to turbold reprobate, havi g xm:sted a competency in dangerous persos. "An eminent English physi. monos, &c, and there is a big "Notice of them out they seized various weapons, including

cian wrote that the pretended virtues of les Engage," on one side to remind the proprietor broomsticks, fire-irons, &c., and set on him.

were set forth merely to advance the traffic. In of some professional visits; he had to make One of the three who were charged stuck to his

lolland in 1670 it was ridiculed as haywater." during the week, on a partition being another arm whilst the others attacked him, and he was strucic on the head with a stick and on the foi

announcement worded as follows:-- with a hatchet If some ladies had not run down and raised an alarm, indeed, he might have been severely amaulted. One of the men was fined $4, or three weeks, and the other two $7 each, or five weeks

SAYS the Foochow Ecko-A eward of Tis,

business, retired, and forgetful of the suffering he had caused so many innocent fellow-bipeds, expected to live many peaceful years on his ill-gotten gains. But Nemesis followed him, and he was suddenly smitten with a strange disease of the throat, an obstruction which made him bring up again everything which he attempted to swallow. He is at present lying at the Lrink of death, in great suffering, and the neighbours, who can do nothing to relieve him, say it is a visible retribution from Heaven.

WEED'S MARIONETTES opened last night, in the City Hall, with a fair audience. If frequent laughter was anything to go by, they have no lost their power to amuse the elder generation

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NOTICS OF GURIT

1 do not bulness of fiddled.

HORT CHIYO. over it that was for the victims. By and bye Near the light was an arm-chair with" a rug` the proprietor turned up. He is a young man and was dressed in European clothes, and either only half-awake or else just recovering from

patron, and at once produced some sample little private fuddle." He took the visitor for books, filled with colored drawings of all kinds dragons, birds, insects, mythological figures, protesques, and so on-quite refreshing after the monotonous flags, hearts, and anchors of the minute in detail as they were. At the bottora

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AT the Police Court this morning a case of assault preferred against the mate of the barque Adam W. Spies wa beard by Mr. Wodehouse. Colonel Withers, the American Consul, oca pieda seat on the Bench. The complainant was James Wilson, seaman on the American barque Adam- W. Spies, as next friend to the man assaulted 1,000 has been offered a few days ago by the

second mate. The evidence showed that the the defendant being Charles Wesley Carr, the Viceroy Pien for the apprehension of the owner of the native Bank in the city called Sit Mee,

vessel arrived here on the 22nd January, after a who failed and absconded a few days after the

voyage of fifty-two days from Newcastle. Among Chinese New Year. The liabilities of this Bank,

the crew was a young Swede naine & Carl Carlson? Rubrication; but at anence of the writers, not necessarily for according to what has been reported, are only for a couple of hours. In the first part a number who was of weak intellect. When the ship was

Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Telegraph will always Tla. 3,000 It is said that H. E. the Viceroy is of separate figures, including the Female Blondin," coming to her anchorage in the Harbour he, with. British "blurjacket, wonderfully artistic and employed in Steamers making short voyages be open for the fair discussions by Correspondents of all questions determined to take rigorous steps to punish the the Animated Skeleton, the Arabian Nondescript several others, was getting ready to let go, and

from Hongkong;

owners of any Bank failing without satisfying / &c., were introduced. They were wonderfully was standing on the pin-rail, some five feet of each was the price, varying from a dollar their liabilities to the public, and that a proclama manipulated, and kept the interest up con- above the deck, when he was struck on the chest tion to this effect has been already posted at all tinuously. The Christy Minstrels were a frost, for no apparent reason by the second mate, and Advertisers are requested to forward all notes incanded for the public thoroughfares for the information of owing to the programme selected. There were knock to the deck, fallin on another sailor's those concerned, and at the same time warning nothing but conundrums sandwiched in between neck." He lay there a minute or two, and began the vocalists suffered still more through having seen there still vomiting some time afterwards to sing behind the scenes. But that part of the He continued to be ill-until-next day, but only entertainment, will be much improved to-night, complained of his head, saying nothing of having In the second part the pantomime of "Beauty been assaulted. He behaved so aurangely and the Beast" was worked, the whole concluding Dr. Lockhead was sent to see him, and of bright flowers; the upper biceps was occupied with an extremely pretty transformation scene. ordered his removalto the Hospital, as he seemed Mrs. Austin Power song "Una voce poco fa" imbecile. The other men were paid off, and and "I can't get a good night's rest" and there lost sight of their comrade, but we understand were several choruses. To-morrow afternoon that the condition of the man in Hospital caused there will be a special performance for children. Dr. Atkinson to make a report to the authorities, No well-regulated heads of families will allow and the Governor ordered the ease to be investi their offspring to miss going, we are sure. gated, with the result that the charge of assals was brought. The defendant does not look a

of the Principal Government Officials, the Lead ing Merchants, the Foreign Consuls, Professional Men, Justices of the Peace, &c.

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for three butterflies to an elaborate. group marked $100. When he found out that he was in for an interview he showed his system of operating quite readily. First of all, by request, he carries about with him, on his pictorial armis The effect was peculiar: Looked at in one way. it was repulsive, yet in detail it was curious and

Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not brdered for those who shall create any disturbance, thus realy tɔngs like "Father, take me home," and to vomit. After a while he went forward, and was he took off his coat and exhibited the paiteras

fred period will be continued until countermanded. „The Hongkong Từgmph has the largest circulafon of Lay English newspaper published in the Far East, and is therefore the beat mediums for Airaters. Teras can be learns on application,

The Hongkong Tiligraph's number at the Telephone Centra Exchange No..

Subscribers to The Hanghong Telegraph are spectfully minded that ail Subscription: are payable in advance,

TO SUBSCRIBERS,

BIRTH

At 18, Nanking Road, Shanghai, on the 23rd instant, the wife of N. SMERDLEY, I.M. Customs, of a son.

DEATH.

On 1st March, the infant son of WALTER and EMILIK JUDD, aged 2 days.

causing a tun to be made upon the Banks, that severe punishment will be meted out to them

It remains to be seen how far this proclamatio will affect the people in general,

At the Supreme Court, sitting in Summary, Jurisdiction, this morning, Mr. H. Ruttonjee turned the labies on one of his ricksha coolies very nicely. A few days ago he gave the fellow seven or eight dollars to pay chair coolies, and as he did not pay them Mr. Ruttonjec told the other two to take him in his ricksha up to the magistracy to lay a complaint. They refused to 278 do 13, and he discharged the lot. He laid the complaint, but did not appear, and the embezzler was discharged. To-day all three summoned their late master for eighteen days' wages, and

first mentioned coolie twore that he had never || received any money for the chair coolles, and offered to go and cut off a cock's head in the temple to prove it. Unfortunately for him, bow ever, thres witnesses were called by Mr. Ruttonjee who had seen the money given to him. His Lordship summarily committed the man to gaol for a couple of months, and gave the others

The Hongkong Jeingraph

jošam Boligraph the cast came before chief fiatice Russell The

HONGKONG, Friday, March 1, 1899.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,,

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IT costs about $350 a page for magazine matter, properly illustrated. Of this the designer gets $125, the engraver $150, and, the author what's left after paying composition, ele.

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HONGKONG is about the only English Colony particularly rough sort of a man, and it is stated where the invaders never seem to take kindly to that Carlson, who was a quiet fellow, could not the native language. Fy-fi and man-man con- do his work readily, but nevertheless the Hongkong-born, eked out by the ridiculous at least another cass of assault occurred on the stitute the vocabulary of most residents not reputation of American ships is not spotless, "and

pidgin-English. With regard to this latter ship on the voyage, a sailor having his head means of communication it has often struck us laid open with a belaying-pin, for which the curious that rio attempt is made to improve offender was fined a dollar by Colonel Withers the angrammatical, childish terms out of it, and The case was remanded, that Dr. Atkinson give the Chlocis a chance of speaking good | might attend. Bail of $100 was accepted. - English, as they do in the Strafts Settlements.

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There pidgin-English would be laughed at by MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE any Chinsman who knew any English, and yet

we bere go on perpetuating the idiotje "This no

COUNCIL.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

VOTEE

nint unattractive. On one shoulder was a group

by conventional Japanese girl's head, whose robes went round the elbow hallway to the wrist, and the tapering part was filled in with a scroll design, the wrist; being finished in blue like a cuff On the other arm was tattoed

annther Japanese girl, surrounded by a dragon, every scale of which was well-drawn and carefully shaded. On the fore as was a His name, in English letters, spread over his wavy design, meant, the wearer said, for "watab.” breast-bone, and on bla manly' bosom was depicted a Bgure resembling Noth having a game of skipping rope. It was Kafinokamf, the God. of Winds, Hori explained. There were four beneath, but they did not seem much use perpendicular, lines of Japanese, characters to the owner, unless he could take his head off and hold it in front of him, Ho trapalated them thu" Spose I am young tattoo look very nice ;;spond I get old, no want

chee." In other words tattooing showed well on A young man's skin, but was not sweetly pretty

Mr. Ruttonjes paid them what was due to them, blong ploppa" style of conversation. Even a A meeting of the Legislative Council WBRU

on a withered-up old fellow. The man who light acquaintance with Chinese would be held this afternoon. There were present i wrote that was about right, at any rate in the HERE are some facte, says the Golden Argosy, preferable to this, and there is very little excuse His Excellency the Governor (Sir William des second parts Hori wanted to show the reporter about the "people" who compose the population nowadays for not possessing that, for every five-Voux); the Colonial Secretary. (Dr. F. Stewart)his legs, but the latter took his word for it. His A TELEGRAM received in Shanghai from Tientsin of the world: There are 3 064 languages in the and twenty minutes some handy and most care- Mr. A. J. Leach, vir be Attorney-General; Mr. hands, by the way; were not tattoed, Then he on the 24th ulto, stated that there was only a world, and its inhabitants profess more than one fully explicit handbook on-the subject is fasued H. E. Wodehouse, Colonial Treasurer: Captain brought out hit apparatus. It was a small box, thin coating of ice on the Peibo,

thousand religions. The number of men is about by Mr. J. Dyer-Ball. His latest production W. M. Deane, Superintendent of Police; Messrs. containing a slab of black Chinese Ink, some equal to the number of women. The average of in a companion volume, to "Cantonese Made J. Bell-Irving, C. P. Chater, P. Ryrle, Wong vermilion and dark red powders, and a drawer- life is about thirty-three years, One-quarter die Easy" and is entitled "How to speak Shing, B Layton, and Mr. Setb, Clerk of previous to the age of seventeen. To every 1,09> Cantonese. In the former work a copious list Councils. There is not space in the compass of a

persons only reaches one hundred years of life. of those most necessary perplexities, classifiers, Ordinary Advertisement to detail all the informa

To every 100 only & reach the age of sixty-five, are given, together with short lessons in com

· tinn introduced into the work, but it may be fairly asserted that no such Directory has ever been

and not more than 1 in 500 lives to eighty years | position and a few pages of short sentences. published, either in Hongkong or any other past Yes, Dajay, dear, we can tell you how to make of age. There are on the earth. 1,909,000,000 The latter production is even more useful. It The following votes were recommended by of the East, at such a low orice. '.

an oyster ple, Take a'yard and a half of oysters, inhabitants. Of these, 33,033,333 die every contios fifty "conversations" on ordinary H.E. the Gaversor:-£3,000, to be vested in "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND fut them bias, and stuff them à la tournura. year; 91,824 every day, 3,730 die every topla, covering most of the ground of everyday trustees for the benefit of the widow of the late HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" offers Put in a lump of butter, crimped and hemstitched. hour, and be every minute, or every second busbess. Mr. Dyer Ball is too old a teacher of turnkey Pereira, the trustees to have power to Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium. The paste must be rolled thin, and box-plaited, The married are longer lived that the single, and the public to waste time on such fraudulent pay the interest only to ber during her life, and It has an extensive circulation in all Parts Trim with a floral border of crochet work. Set above all those who observe a sober and sentences as "The gardener's son gave the on her death or re-marriage to divide the pin-1 between Singapore and Newchwang, in the the dish in a hot oven and go home to your industriqui conduct. Tall men live longer than neighbour's daughter a flower like the old cipal amongst the children; $492, coat of Prays Australasian Colonies, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges

shorter ones. Women have more chances of First French Courses did; his system is more survey in front of the Naval Yard and Military has been fixed at an exceptionally low rate,

life in their favor previous to fifty years of age pracipal Qa one page he gives the English | Cantonments ; and $137, for scavengers at Terms can be learned on application.

THE entire responsibility of governing Hongkong than men have, fewer afterwards. The sumber sentence, with its translation ja Chinese type, Hungham Market-They were referred to the will soon rest on the shoulders of that very of marriages is in the proportion of 75 to every and, on the opposite leaf, the sound of the Finance Committee,

Dupa 24 estimable gentleman the Hon, H. E. Wodehouse, 1.000 individuals. Marriages are more frequent Chinese words, with marks of intonation for

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