1889-04-12 — Page 2

Intimations.

DAKIN

BROTHERS, DISPENSING CHEMISTS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,

-QUEEN'S ROAD.

DAKIN BROTHERS'

LIME FRUIT CORDIAL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1889.

THERE will be game of Pola (weather per mitting) at Causeway Bay, at 4:30 pm. to.

morrow,

By a printer's error in our yesterday's report of the discovery of a valuable lade at the Tamchow

mines, the yield of silver is put at $1,600 instead

of $16,000 per ton.

THE Superintendent of the P. & O S. N. Co. courteously informs us that the steamship Clyde, with the rexi English mail, left Singa- pore for this port at 5 pm, on the roth inst NICOTINE is one of the most powerful of the known nerve poisons. It is as virulent as prussic acid. There is no substance known can coun-

THE agents (Mess. Adamson, Hell & Co.) inform us that the "Shire" Line steamship Breconshire, from London, &c, let Singapore yesterday for this port

A NEW process for the production of aluminium

steel has been invented by Brin Bros., London, It consists in melting pig-iron in contact with clay nad a certain flux, the result being a sonor ous incorrodible allay, containing 1.75 per cent of aluminium.“.

A CRICKET match between H.K. Cricket Cluby z. Navy will commence to-morrow at is sharp. The Club eleven is as follows-T. S. Smith, (Capt.); Major Johnston, R.E.; E. M. Blair,

Atkinson, Russell Stokes, S. L. Darby, Major Miles, R.A.; G. A. Bramwell, (18th); A. 1. Campbell, (91st). Tiffin will be provided on the

teract its effects; the system either succumbs or R.E.; E. G. Young, RE; E. W. Maitland, Dlbs. of flesh a day, this would give a total of more

THIS is a preparation of the best and purest survives according to its resisting power,

Lime Juice, and it makes a most delicious cooling beverage entirely free from alcohol. It may be taken either by children or adults ns the mast wholesome and grateful drink for all

SCASSOS,

Sold in Quart Bottles,

(Telephone No. 60)

Hongkong, 1st April, 1889.

Ground.

clean beasts, could not have required less than 4,500 tons making a total of 5,850 tons. As a ton of hay occupies about 18 cubic yards; the quantity of bay required would fill 105,300 cubie yards of spate, or more than the entire capacity of the ark Avast quantity of grain, would be neces- ny for theseands of birds, rodents, marsupials, and ather animals; and large granaries would be required for its storage. "What flesh, says Denton, would be needed for the lians, tigers, leopards, ounces, wild cats, wolves, betra, hyenas, jackalls, dogs, and foxes, martens, weasels, cagles, condors vultures, buzzards, falçons, hawks, kites, owls, as well as crocodiles and serpents! Not one but would eat its weight in a month, and some much. more. A well-grown lion cats 15 lbs. of flesh in a day there are two species of lions; and the four. would cat 22,oco lbs, in a year. There would be, at least, 3,010 animals feeding upon flesh; and if we calculate that they averaged a than 2,000,250 lbs of flesh to be stored up and distributed. And since dried, salted, or smoked meat would not answer, this flesh must have been taken into the ark alive. It would be equal to more than 30,000 sheep, at 75lbs, each; great addition to the original cargo, and At the Police Court this morning Mr. Wodehouse had before him a divan-keeper in Holly wood. accessitating an extra quantity of hay for their food, till their turn came to be eaten." Add to road, charged with having three mare of this the fact that fish would be required for illicit opium. His Worship 'dismissed the several animals, such as ofters, minks, pelicans, a half etc., insects for the goat-suckers, fly-catchers. case. Another man, with two and mice, was fined $5, and a third, who had ant-eater, etc., fruit for the monkeys, plaintain- eaters, fruit-pigeons of the Spice Islands, etc., three mace, was fined $10.-In the course of the and we shall form an approximate idea of first case Mr. Wodehouse, with same asperity, the utter impossibility of crowding all this cargo. asked Mr. Spooner, the chief excise officer in the already trebly-crowded ark. of the Opium Farm, why such petty cases at three mace were brought before him. Mr. Spooner replied that the reason was because the Fan was losing many thousands a month, We have previously commented upon the apparent sharp practice of the new. Opium Farmers in tracing very petty smugglers, and we may again explain the reason of it. The present Farmers labour under considerable disadvant ages. They pay a large increase on the rent formerly charged for the monopoly, whilst their output, unlike that-of their predecesson: is restricted. In the Straits, where, compara-

THE following account of "A man overboard" from the mail steamer Sachsen, by an eye witness, appears in Singapore Free Press :- While the Imperial German mall gleamer Sachsen was on the passage to this port from Singapore, a Singhalese jumped overboard about 7 o'clock in the morning. The steamer was making over 143 knots an hour at the time, and was just on the verge of a tropical squall which shortly afterwards passed over the vessel. Almost simultaneously with the man strike ing the water the officer on watch detach- A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., ed a life-buoy, and another life buoy was cut away from the stern within B Tew Established A.D. 1841.

seconds afterwards. The engines had in the meantime been reversed" from full speed ahead to full speed' astern, making the huge vessel tremble throughout her length and causing rio little consternation among the passengers. The opportunity now presented itself of secing what could be done in the way of saving a man from a vessel rushing along at such a velocity, and as' will afterwards be seen the sequel was highly Before the steamer had quite satisfactory. deadened her way the port quarter boat, in charge of the 4th officer, was pulling quickly in the dl-lively, the rection of the life buoys, whica look-out from the mast-head indicated the direction in which to steer. Meanwhile the engines were again started slowly ahead and the vessel pointed for the spot

WATSON'S

PATENT DESSICATING OR DRYING.

A.

NOTTLES.

S. W. & Ch. beg to call attention to their new PATENT DRYING BOTTLES which have been specially designed and manufactured for them.

By the use of these bottles, CIGARS as well as ALL GOODS which are susceptible to the destroying influences of moisture can be kept in good and perfect condition.

Whenever or wherever the atmosphere is surcharged with moisture these battles will be found invaluable. ·

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

Hongkong, 4th April, 1889.

DEATH.

On the 6th February, at Taunton Place, Regent's Park. ANNIE LAURIE, wife of John Sherren Brewer, Government Maine Surveyor, Hongkong.

1416

The Hongkong Telegraph

Hongkong, PrivAY, APRIL 12, 1889.

TELEGRAMS

(From Straits Times.) THE NETHERLANDS.

LONDON, April 3rd. The Chambers have decided that a Regency is necessary,

where, with the aid of good glasses, the man

could be seen struggling in the water; faster and faster the little boat dashed onwards, until

suddenly the oars were bicked, and the hoarse

shout that came across the waters told those on board that the poor fellow had been rescued. Within a few minutes he was safely lodged in the ship's hospital, where under the skilful treatment of Doctor Valentiner he speedily recovered consciousness. And now let me state what strack onlookers most in connection with this thrilling incident, namely the entire absence of disorder of any kind. The men mostered at their stations with alacrity, but without betraying, any excitement, which might even have been mistaken for callousness, but it was quickly seen that they were nevertheless thoroughly in. earnest, and perfect discipline was everywhere observable. Thirty-five minutes exactly elapsed

from the time the Sachsen stopped until she was carcering on again at full speed ahead, and the result is in the highest degree creditable to Captain.von Goessel, his officers and crew, and speaks volumes for the high standard of efficiency of the G. L. steamers.

| READERS of the newspapers published in the Philippine Islands are apt to imagine that the religious and political intolerance with which they are so deeply impregnated must be part The Medical bulletin. states that the King is and parcel of the laws of the Press in vogue in slowly becoming weaker.

The Council of State exercises the Royal power until the appointment of a Regent.

THE PARNELL, COMMISSION. The Commission reassembled yesterday, and Sir Charles Russell opened the case for the defence.

▸

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TWELVE shopkeepers were fined $10 each this morning for having injust scales;

THE first newspaper in the world was published in Nuremberg in 1457 and was called The

Gazette.

It is said that collodion dissolved in, alcohol and applied with a sok brash will prevent silver from becoming tarnished, -

ELECTRIC-HEAT indicators for preventing spont- ancos combustion in ships' cargoes are being

generally introduced.

A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zelland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

the Spanish Peninsula. A slight acquaintance with the organs of public opinion of Spain is sufficient to dispet such a misconception. The last mail brought us two Spanish papers of very pronounced liberal views-Las Dominicales of Madrid,and La Solidariedad, of Barcelona. Both of these journals deal with with the affairs of the Philipine Islands in a very independent manner, and uniformly condemn clérical interference in the administration of those Islands. The Domini cales, in an editorial headed." Piedad para Filipinas," says: “Cast, oh, Spaniards, a pitiful

glance over the Philippines, and you will see the unfortunate Indian down on his knees, with arms outstretched towards Spain, asking us for mercy and redemption. What is taking place in the Philippines is really incomprehensible; it is an insult to reason, and a mockery at the nineteenth century. The very thought of it

is sufficient to make one blush for shame.

Grasser turpitude, viter infamy, cannot be found

anywhere else.

T

What have men

¡

transformed those beautiful Islands into ? what has Spain done to them? An immense monastery, a land of desolation, poverty, and misery; a huge cemetery of souls. To entrust a community of monks with the manage ment of a vast territory is an enormity and a THE case of Heighington v. Watts, in which the scandal that surpass comprehension. It is only former, an assistant in Dakin Bros. of Chios, by aggregating all ́the dakness that reigns in the Limited, sued the latter, who is local manager of universe all the nights of the mind and of history, that Company, for $1,000 as damages for illegalit is.only from the wedlock of Germanic barbarism anest and false imprisonment, was called in the Supreme Court this morning before Mr. Justice Clarke. An amicable arrangement had, how ever, been arrived at, the defendant agreeing to pay $250 as damages, with plaintiff's costs.' Mr. J. F. Webber appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. A. P. Stokes for the defenant,

Farmer obtains much better

terms, the Government protects him to the ulmost; Casés quite as, trivia! as those we men tioned are visited with fines of $50 and $100, for the Magistrates there realise how important and widespread the pelty smuggling is. But here the Farmers are positively browbeaten for attempting to assert their power to prevent this smuggling, although unless they can do so they must con tinue to lose $15.000 or $20 000 a month, which goes to benefit the Colony and the army of smugglers. A misch sterner hand in dealing with these three mace men is evidently needed.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

CAIRO, March 23rd.

An Arab Sheikh who has arrived from Omdurman declares that Senoussi has expelled the Mahdists and occupied Darfourand Kordofas, He also confirms the 'defeat of the Mahdists by Emin Facha.

LONDON, March 23rd, Colonel Hughes Hallett, the Conservative member for the city of Rochester, has resigned

his seat,

Colonel Euari-Smith is London for the purpose of conferring with Government. During his absence from Zanzibar the duties of the British Consulate will be carried on by Mr. Portal.

3. How the animals were obtained, Then 23 to the manner of obtaining the immense number of animals for the ark. The fossil remains of ante-diluvian animals show that they were distributed over definite zone and centres, a change of climate acting Miller, in "Testimony of the Rocks," says: "We most cases fatally on them. Hugh

now know that every great continent has its own peculiar fauna; that the original centres of further, that the areas or circles around these distribution must have been, not one, but many; centres must have been occupied by their pristine amicals in ages long anterior to that of the Noachlan Deluge, nay, that in even the latter geologic ages they were preceded in them by animals of the same general type. There are fourteen such areas, or provinces, enumerated by the later naturalists. Thus the white bear is ouly to be found in the Arctic circle, the grizzly bear only in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountains in America, and most of the animals existing in Australia are inhabitants of that country only; the wingless birds of New Zealand are not to be found anywhere else, and the sloth and armadillo are confined to South America. How could the Noachian family gather together all these animais? Says Denton: "A vessel nearly as large as the Great Eastern must have been employed, or a number of smaller ones, to accommodate the collectors, the animals and food for a voyage across the Atlantic. There need have been, at least, a thousand men, wandering through the woods of Brazil, along the valley of the Amazoo, the Orinoco and the La Plata paddling up the streams, scaling the mountains, roaming over the pampas, climbing the tall trees, turning over every stone and log, and exploring every nook, to discover the snails, bugs, insects, worms, reptiles, and other animals indigenous to South America, from the Isthmus to Terra del Fuego,"

As regards the attendance all these animals would have required inside the Ark, we may ask how could the eight persons composing the family, of Noah have discharged so multifarious functions? How could they have supplied food and water to their immense living cargo for the period of one year? And then how did these animals breathe inside the ark? There was but one zzin, window to admit light and air to all This multitude. Could they have survived such a 'Black Hole'? Where did they obtain water for drink! The mixture of the rain with the sea water would have rendered the whole liquid mollusks, crustaceans, sech element salt and unwholesome. The fish, as crabs and

convey to the atmosphere the moisture it took from the water. This would have led to a repetition of the rains and to another flood. To remove the whole mass of water from the earth, it would require a mighty hurricane, sufficient ia intensity to blow the whole watery mass from out of the reach of the earth's gravitation. What would have become of the Ark under the circumstances? And lastly, how are we to ac count for the means of subsistence the animals had when they went out of the ark? The carnivorous animals would have devoured a large portion of the herbivorous creatures that had been saved.

די

(To be continued).

CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.

PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE. The term patience embraces three quite different meanings. It is the act or quality of expecting long, without complaint, anger or dis- content. It is the power or the act of suffering or bearing quietly or with equanimity any evil calm endurance. It is also employed as * synonym of perseverance. That the group of quilities to which reference is here made has a very important bearing on the life the people

to whom they belong, is obvious at a glance, The disadvantage arising from a separate and 21 distinct examination of "individual Chinese characteristics is nowhere more

obvious than in the consideration of the qualities of patience and perseverance. These charac teristics of the Chinese are inseparably connected with their comparative * absence of nerves,' with their disregard of time and especially with that quality of industry, by which the national patience and perseverance aremost conspicuously and most effectively illustrated. What has been already said upon these topics will have served character, but the necessarily desultory treatment to suggest one of the chief virtues in the Chinese

involved in such incidental mention, deserves to be supplemented by a more comprehensive presentation.

prominent

the

|

Among a depse population like that of the Chinese Empire, life is often reduced to its very lowest terms, and those terms are-lterally ‘a 'struggle for existence. In order to live it is necessary to have the means of living, and those means each must obtain for himself, as ber he can. Deep' poverty and a hard struggle for the means of existence will of themselves never make any human being industrious, but to a man or a race endowed with the instinct of indoștry, these are the conditions which will tend most effectually to develop industry. The same con dilions will also tend to the development of economy, which, as we have seen, is Chinese quality. These conditions also develop patience and perseverance. The hunter and the fisherman who know that their livelihood depends upon the stealth and wariness of their movements, and the patience with which they wait for their opportunity, will be stealthy, wary and patient, no matter whether they happen to belong to the races of mankind classed as civilised,' or those called 'savage. The Chinese are a race who for ages have been hunting for a living under conditions frequently, the most adverse, and they have thus learned to combine the active industry of the most civilised peoples, with the passive patience of the North American Indian. The Chinese are willing to labour' for a very long period of time, for very small rewards, because small rewards are much better than none. Ages of experience have taught them that it is very difficult tomake mere industry a stepping stone to those wider opportunities which we of the West have come to look upon as the natural results. They are 'natural' results, only in the sense that when appropriate conditions are found, these results will follow. A population of five hundred to the square mile, it is scarcely necessary to observe, is not one of the conditions adapted to lead to practical verification adage that industry and economy are the two hands of Fortune. But the Chinese is content to teil on for such rewards as he may be able to get, and in this contentment, be illustrates his virtue of patience. It is related of the late

universal food; fresh-water fish would not have round the globe, in which it is supposed that he been able to live in salt-water, and salt-water was seen by more human beings than any fish, from 50 large an addition of fresh other single individual had ever been, he was water, would have perished. Plants would asked what was the most remarkable thing following estimate of the pressure of the extraordinary sight which he anywhere beheld, also have been, destroyed., Colenso gives the that he saw. He replied at once, that the most enormous mass of water which is supposed to was the spectacle of a petty Chinese dealer, by have covered the earth: "The pressure of a his keen competition, running out a Jew. There column of water 17,000 feet high, would be:474 was great significance in the observation. The tons upon each square foot of surface. This qualities of the Jewish people are by this time however, would be the pressure of such a Flood, well known, and have led to most surprising as that here described, at the ordinary sea- results, but the Jews are after all but a minute level; and olives would grow far above fraction of the human race. The Chinese, on the this. Still, even 'at the

level of the other hand, are a considerable percentage of the snow-line of Ararat, the column of water whole population of the planet. The Jew who was would be 3,000 feet high, and its pressure run out by the Chinese, did not presumptively 83 tona on every square foot of surface. Yet differ in any essential respect from any other Jew.. nothing is said in Gen. vii, 21, 23, about the The result of the competition would probably destruction of either fish or plants nor are we have been the same, though the competitors had told of any new creation to supply the loss of been different in their identity, for it is morally these. On the contrary, an olive leaf is brought, certain that the successful Chinese did not plucked apparently fresh and green from a tree differ in any essential particular from any which had been eight or nine months under other Chinese who might have chanced to be in water, (viii, 11.) The difficulty, that so long an his situation. It is in staying qualities that the immersion in deep water would kill the olive, Chinese excel the world. Of that quiet persist bad, no doubt, never occurred to the writer, who ence which impels a Chinese student to keep on may have observed, that trees survived ordinary year after year attending the examinations, until partial floods, and inferred that they would just be either taker his degree at the age of ninety, as well be able to sustain the Flood, to which his imagination subjected them. Of the enormous made. No rewards that are likely to ensue, or dies in the effort, mention has been already

superincumbent mass of water, he was, we may fer this extraordinary perseverance. It is a pressure that would be caused by such a any that are possible, will of themselves account be sure, entirely ignorant. The plants thus part of that innate endowment with which the immersed would have also been deprived of Chinese are equipped, and is analogous to the air and light for months and could not have. to the ficciness of the deer, or the keen sight of survived.

the eagle. A similar qually is observed in the meanest beggar at'a shop door. He is not a welcome visitor, albeit so frequent in his appear ances. But his patience is unfailing, and his perseverance invariably wins its modest reward,

quelling Duke,' by which means he was at once pacified and extinguished, Every foreigner. rending this singular account is impelled to

assent to the comment of the mother of the Middle Kingdom,' that a government which was strong enough in compol such a number of maritime subjects to leave their towns and villages, and to retire at such great loss into the interior, ought to have been strong enough to equip a fleet and to put an end to the attacks upon these desolated homes. Another example of the persistence of the Chinese government is not less remarkable, and is still fresh in the minds of foreign residents in China. In the year 1873 the Chinese general Tso Tsung-tang established himself in Barkoul and Hami, having been sent by the governi ent to endeavour to put a stepto the great Mohammedan rehellion, which, hegin- ning with a mere spark, had spread like wildfire all over western China, and through Ceritral Asia. The difficulties to be overcome were so great, as to appear almost insuperable. It was then common to meet with articles in the foreign in China, ridiculing both the undertaking of Tso, and the fatuity of the government in endeavouring to raise money by loans, in order to pay the heavy war expenses thus incurred. Within a year of his affival in the

rebellious district, Tso's army was marching on either side of the lofty Tien Shan in parallel columas, driving the rebels before them. When they reached a country in which the supplies were insufficient, the army was turned into a farming colony and set to cultivating the soil with a view to mising crops for their future support. Thus alternately planting and marching, the agricultural army of Tso thoroughly accomplished its work, an achievement which has been thought to be among "the most remarkable in the annals of any modern country."----V: C. Daily News.

NOTES FROM chinese papers.

The Sugar Refinery lately started at Frochow by Mr. Liu with foreign co-operation is now turning out two qualities of White Sugar, the first quality at So cash eatty and the second at 72 cash. This sugar produced by foreign machinery is said to be much better than that produced by the old Chinese methods.

•

Mr. C. L. Simpson, Commissioner of Customs

for Shanghai in the steamer Kiangfu on his way at Kiukiang, on 23rd March, on leaving Kiokiang

to England, on leave, was escorted by a procession of his native admirers firing off crackers, and carrying a "ten-thousand name" red umbrella; which shows the,high esteem in which he is held by the Chinese at Kiukiang

A letter from Ichong says the Kiang-t'ung, Wing, and Kuling steamers are plying on the Yangtze in rotation, gelting good cargoes up, but very little when they come down again. The Kiang Lung grounded an her last up voyage at Tien-sin Chow, a sandy island, and had to retum and unload her cargo for transport to Ichang in boats the river being sill very shallow, and the spring freshets not having yet appeared.

We hear that news has been received in official circles at Shanghai that Ch'in Kin-ming will receive the appointment of Chinese Minister to Germany, Austro-ungary, Holland, and Russia. He was, formerly Tootal at Chinklang, after which he was appointed Provincial Judge at Soachow. He is now on leave in Fukien. It is said that the "new "Minister" to England and France will be Tsui Kwoh-yin, a member of the Hanlin college, now residing at Peking.

2

At Yünnan-fu, the capital of that province,' there was formerly a Government mint for copper cash, called the Pao-Yün Küh. Orders were given last year to resume the coining of cash at this mint, and- Tản, the Governor of Yunnan, on consultation with Tang, the Director of the establishment, came to the conclusion that to obtain the quantity of copper necessary for its operations, it would be advisable to recommend

now at Yunnan-fu awaiting transport to. Peking, should be retained for that purpose. It is likely the subject. [Tang, the Director of the Mint, that a Memorial has already gone to Peking on

was formerly Governor of Yunaan, but was degraded in consequence of his want of activity. against the French during, the hostilities of

88+]

way, and that he would thoroughly considerit lobsters, and all corals, must have died in the General Grant, that on his return from that trip that 15 000.000 catties out of the copper which is

A deputation from the United Factory Workers of Lancashire waited upon Lord Cress yesterday to demand the assimilation of the Factory Laws of India and England. Lord Cross in reply said that he believed that the report of the Indian Government on the subject was on its

when it came to hand; but that he must adhere to his previous openly declared principles. been elected for the Gorton division of South Another Gladstonian Liberal candidate has East Lancashire, in place of Mr. Richard Peacock (Gladstonian Liberal) deceased, defeating Mr. Hatch, the Conservative candidate, by a majority of eight hundred and forty-six, which is three hundred and eight-nine votes more than Mr. Peacock polled at the last election.

CALCUTTA, March 25th. Mt. Hart has left for Rinchagong to meet the Amban, who will probably relum with him to Sikkim.

BERLIN, March 25th,

General opposition is arising in Germany against the proposed measures to be brought forward by Government to supersede the present Socialist Law, curtailing especially the liberties of the press.

LONDON, March 27th, News has been received of the death of Mr. Guy Dawnay, who was gored to death by a wild buffale in Masailand.

The Duke of Buckingham is dead.

BIARRITZ, March 17th, Her Majesty the Queen accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Batten- berg went to San Sebastian to-day to visit the Queen of Spain. The meeting between their two majesties was of the warmest nature. The royal part drove in full state from the station to the palace, and afterwards to the town-hall, and hall, and were much cheered by the people along the route. The returned to Biarritz this evening.

THEISM v. REVELATION,

A CONTRAST AND A STUDY,

IV.

THE INSPIRATION OF The Bible. INTRINSICALLY CONSIDERED.

II. THE FLOOD. (Continued.)

At Kiukiang some of the sons of rich Chinesa merchants, "fast" young men, are in the habit of engaging professors of the art of boxing and the savate, to give them lessons in the science of self-defence, so that when they get into rows during their nocturnal revels they may get the better of their antagonists. This rowdyism is not approved of by their fathers and elder brothers, but they do not seem to have been able to put a stop to the custom, which is a dis- race to the native society of Klukiang. One of the professors, a Kiang peb man called Hy had been for a long time getting on worse and worse terms with 's rival teacher named Lan, a gentleman from Kwang-tai, in martial Hupeh; and at last their mutual Ul-feeling culmina ted in a challenge to meet each other on 27th March in the court of the Fire-god's Temple, just outside the south gate of Kiukiang and ste which should prove the "better" man, Each had more than ten pupils under his tuition, and when the time came there was a good'y

attendance to see the sport. Mr. Hu first came on the ground, with a cotton-band round bis forehead a tight belt round his waist and tightly- fitting short garments and cried, "Where is Lan the coward should come on in woman's clothes if he comes at all. Just as the people were beginning to jeer at the absent Lan for bis pusillanimity In not app ating to the challenge, that her bounded into the arena, boiling with rage and without uttering a word went straight for Mr. Hu. For some minutes there was confused scene of brawny legs and arms whirling through the air, and then Hu, very corpulent man, began to pant and groan and show symptoms of having bad enough. This was Lan's opportunity, of which he availed himself by putting in a vigorous right-hander, which knocked out one of Hu's eyes Hu was carried off to hospital amidst rapturous applause from Lan and his supporters, and the ribald mob dispersed,

NEWCHWANG.

4. The Waters of the Deluge. Two other unsolvable questions present them selves for our consideration (1). Whence came the waters that covered the earth to the tops of the highest mountains ?—The a single brass cash, ・・

Bible says that "all the high hills that were There is a story of an Arab whose turban was under the whole heaven were covered, Says stolen by some unknown person, upon which the with Roman barbarium, of Austrian despotism

Denton: To do this, it rained for forty days and loser of this important article of apparel promptly with clerical absolutism, of the Hapsburgs

forty nights. A fall of an inch of water in a day betook himself to the tribal burial place and with the Torquemadas, that such a monster

is considered a very heavy rain in Great Britain. sealed himself at the entrance. Upon being could have been engendered. On the night of

The heaviest single rain recorded fell on asked his reason for this strange behaviour, and so sluister nuptials, all the ghouls, phantasms

the Khails Hills In India, and amounted to why he did not pursue the thief, he made the 30 inches in 24 hours. If this deluging rain could calm and characteristically Oriental reply. He and evil spirits must have held high revelry.

have continued for 40 days and nights, and had must come here at last! One is not infrequently All the laws of nature and of history have been

it fallen ever the entire surface of the globe, the reminded of this exaggeration of passive per violated by this disgraceful consummation."

amount would only have been 100 feet." Sirsistence, not only in the behavour of individual a, The Food and Provisions.—The 'next THERE was another capital attendance at the The Solidaridad says: To talk of the thing to be considered is the food which had canopy of air, by some sudden change of internal as well. The long and spleedid reign of John Lelle says that "Supposing the vast Chinese, but in the acts of the government Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night, the prin- Philippines without mentioning the friar is like to be taken into the ark for the sustenance constilation, at once to discharge its whole the emperor K'ang Hsi, lasting from 1663 until cipal attraction being Miss Amy Sherwin as talking of Spals without reference to a Frax. of all these animals-Gen. vi. 21. "And take watery store, this precipitate would forth a sheet 1723, made his name more celebrated than that Amina in Bellini's well known opers "La cuclos, and its bull-fights. As there entities thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and of scarcely five inches thick over the surface of of any other Asiatic monarch. Yet it was in the

(FROM OUR OWN: CORRESPONDENT.) Sennambula." Miss Sherwin gave a most sus- and institutions depict the physiognomy of the thou shalt gather it to thee and it shall be the globe." As to the allegation that "the reign of this greatest of Chinese rulers, that the for food for thee, and for them.". The flood fountains of the great deep were broken open," Chinese pathletic pirate Ching Ching-kung

March 15th. cessful impersonation of the character, frequently Spanish people, so the friars represent the con- began in the "aixth hundred year of Noah if the waters of the ocean had rushed over better known under the name of Koxinga, ravage'westerday in the ship of a "Bal Costumé" } **Mr. and Mrs. Russell gave their last "at home" eliciting applause by her admirable vocalisation. | stitutional anemia of the Philippine provinces, life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the land, the ocean, parts of it would the coasts of the provinces of Kuangtung and Miss Minna Fischer doubled the parts of Tessa They like so many absorbent parasites which the mouth." As Noah and bis family went in have been laid bare, besides it is physically Fukien to such a degree that the government have not said anything before of the weekly "at and Lena, dolog ample justice to both; while Mr. destroy the organic, social, and moral life of the ark the six hundred and first year of his life, the risen above its level and simultaneously on Under these circumstances, Kang Hsl hit entertainments, but I may just say en passant seven days before the catastrophe and left the impossible that the liquid element should have junks were totally unable to cope with him, homes" because they were no doubt private Stockwell sang well as Elvisa and Mr. Aphur Malay peoples. The flar is the all-powerful and mouth, and the 27th day of the month, they every shore. If it be said that the plains had upon the happy expedient of ordering all the that they in a farge measure helped us over can Sherwin was very successful as Count Roddiph. factor of the nothingness, the backwardness, and were in the ark forone year and 1y days. What sunk lower than their present position, that would people inhabiting this extended coast line, to easily be imagined might otherwise be a dreary The opera was preceded by a short plis, in the misfortune which reign in those Islands. prodigious quantity of food would have been make mountains so much higher in comparison, retire into the interior to a distance of tiny winter. These weekly delights culminated in It has been said that water rushed from the, or about nine miles, at which point what is universally admitted to have been “the which Miss Fucher and Messieurs Stockwell, Although they hold in their hands the values of required for the consumption of such an immense

Hiring freight 1 Taking the elephant alone as an interior of the earth. Taking into consideration they were inaccessible even to such, stout evening of the season. The gucks, by the care Sherwin, Clotum, and Lemmone gained the knowledge, of science, and morality, they teach instance, it is known that it consumes 400 lbs of the fact that a mile-and-a-half deep the earth's attacks as this adherent of the old order of with which the dresses were selected, undoubtedly hearty appreciation of the audience. To-morrow by means of fanaticism, instruct by prejudice, bay la 24 hours. As there are two species of interior is hot enough to convert water into things was able to make.. This strange command added to the success, but the "hippy thought” the Company will represent Balfe's ever popular and educate by prostituton. It is said that it is elephants, the African and the Indian, there steam, this explanation becomes untenable. (a), was generally obeyed, and was quite successful is due to Mr. and Mrs. Russell, and I cannot opera "The Bohemian Girl," in which they will impossible to compete with the Chinese; we must have been elephants in the ark, who Nor is it easy to account for the place whither the in accomplishing its design. Koxing felired; do justice to the splendid and hospitabla would have required 300 tons of bay There being waters returned after the Flood. It is said that a baffled in his plans, and contented himself with manner in which it was carried out. From the be assisted by Mr H. H. Lightwood, Mr. W. E. contend that modern life is an impossibility 7 species of rhinoceros, 14 of these, at 75 tons wind passed over the earth, and dried it up, driving the Datch out of Formosa, and was dark, cold atmosphere one was suddenly trans- Crow, and other local amateurs.

under the influence of the monks,

each would consume 1,050 tons, The 3,473 All that the wind could have done would be to i eventually emmöbled under the title of the Sea. I ported into a palace of light and galety, where