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Intimations.

DAKIN'S

HERRY TOOTH PASTE Cleanses the Teeth, Strengthens the Gums, and imparts a delightful freshness to the Mouth and fragrance to the Breath.

50 Cents per Jar.

DAKIN'S

INSTANTANEOUS HAIR DYE, Surpasses all other Dyes in the purity, delicacy, and natural appearance of the Hair after application.

$1 per Case.

DAKIN'S

ROSE HAIR OIL,

A delicately scented and elegant Hair Dressing with all the Colour and dour of Red Rose Petals

Per Bottle, 50 Cents and $1.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,

DISPENSING CHEMISTS,

HONGKONG.

(Telephone No. 60.)

Hongkong, 13th June, 1889,

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Black Currant Red Currant Orleans Plum

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results.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1889.

commence operations on the wharf." But all the same they have an undoubted right to search on board ship. As this is a most important subject we propose dealing with it fully in the course of a day or two; meanwhile we need only remark that Ordinance No. 22 of 1887 gives the Opium Farmer all the powers he has yet exercised in regard to the right of search-vide clauses 21, 22 and 23.

TELEGRAMS.

BOULANGER. 、

PARIS, June Lith. The trial of General Boulanger is expected to take place immediataly.

FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN.

THE Women's Paper of London claims to be the only paper in the world conducted, wrliten printed and published by women.

THE steamer Glamorganshire arrived at Singa. pore from Hankow on the evening of the 12th inst. with a carga of over 4,000 tons of tea or board. She left for London after coaling. We are informed by the agents (Messrs. D Sassoon, Sons & Co.) that the steamer Japan, from Calcutta, left Singapore for this port yester day, and may be expected on or about the 27t

inst.

It is notified in the Perak Govirsment Gazetle that no officer of that Government can act as a paid agent for any business firm or individual. and any officer so acting, without the special consent in writing of the British Resident, will render himself liable to dismissal from the service of the State.

TO-MORROW morning between and 19.30 o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel

pennant C. to convey men ashore to fam service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, returning about 12.30.

Cik (toindustrious clerk in Government office) ment in question, which seem to require at least Dr. Huss of Sweden says that half his nation Why didn't you dot the " in the last word a passing notice. Opinions are divided as to are annually consuming an average of forty of your report last night ? Industrious Clerk-1 how long the Exclusion Act, pronounced consti gallons of liquor each; that new diseases have beg your pardon; but you see the clock strucktutional, is to remain in force. Many lawyers of appeared and old ones have increased fearfully four just at that point, and I didn't care to work standing hold that it will continue until repeated. in prevalence and intensity, and that in conse.. overtime.

The only reason to believe that it is limited in Iquence the Swedes have deteriorated in statoro duration is furnished by the title which declares and physical strength. The testimony from to be supplementary to the Exclusion Act France and other nations of Europe is similar. heretofore prased. But it is said that the title is really no part of an Act of Congress. It i only in the States that Constitutions most) require that the title should set forth the com tents of the body of the enactment and be barmony with it,

THE Singapore Lat Pau and the Hongkongit Shun Wan Yil Pau bive (illen out abort the coolies on board the German steamer China

Some time agn the Lat Pan said that Deli was a very bad and an unhealthy pince and that no matter whether women or men go there it is very bad for them to return, and that it would be prudent of the coolies' to refuse to go. The Shun Wan Yit Pas retorted that the Lat Paris knew nothing about the place, and that as some 5 persons had lately come back from Deli with plenty of money, it must be a very good place. The Lat Pas had been listening to grumbling coolie brokers in Singapore. The. Lat Pau

·rejoins by saying that the Shun"Wan Yit'Pau, though a very good paper, has been misinformed concerning Deli. Hongkong is at a grent distance within easy reach, with passengers continually going and coming. Of events happening in Deli, Singapore gets the news long before Hongkong does. The Lat Pau says that it gets information about affairs in Deli from the best authorities, despite assertions to.the contrary.

have exchanged most cordial visits, and the

The Prince of Wales and President Carno: Hag will call, alongside any vessel haisting code from Deli, while Singapore is close to it and will require that the present Exclusion Ac

-public appear gratified at the Prince being present

at the Exhibition..

"COLLARS AND CUFFS."

· LONDON, June 13th. 'Prince Albert Victor of Wales will visit India in November,

RUSSIA AND GERMANY,

June igth. The Car will meet the Emperor of Germany shortly at Kiel.

CAPTAIN CARR, of H.M.S. Orion, the Straits Times is informed, has been offered by telegram, and has accepted, the command of H. M.S. Cam- bridge, gunnery ship at Devonport. Captain Carr will leave for England next month, and f is expected his successor in command of the Orion will be Captain Andoe

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DISASTROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN IRELAND. Whilst two excursion trains filled with school A NEW steamer, says the Penang Gazette belonging to Mr. Chuah Yu Pung, called the children were ascending an incline at Armagh,Nam Yong, arrived from Cardiff on Sunday the hind portion of the first became detached, June 9th) laden with coals. She is an iron and ran back upon the second train, killing screw steamer of 983 tons and 130 horse power, and is well adapted for the trade between Penang seventy children and injuring thirty.

and China, for which she is intended. THE Singapore Free Press hears that the action. for damages brought by Mr. H. A. Chopard against E. P. C. Ralph for illegal arrest, will be heard in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The arrest, it will be remembered, took place outside the Town Hall during Misa Amy Sherwin' engagement there. Damages are laid at $1,000 THE commercial statistics of the trade of Tonquir, and Annaie for 1888 have been offici-lly published They show a tremendous falling off all round. The imports for 1887 were 38,369,724 francs, and in 1888, 28,233,33-nearly ten million, francs less whilst the exports bave fallen offover $2,000,000 There is a deficit in the Budget of $78,904 and the expenses have been higher. All owing to a detestable fiscal system.

THE FRENCH NAVY. Admiral Krantze, French Minister of Marine. has given notice in the Chamber that he will ask for a vote of sixty núllions to build ironclads and otherwise strengthen the Navy.

(From the Courrier d'Haiphong) THE PARIS CAB-DRIVERS.

PARIS, June 13th.

The cab-drivers of Paris have struck work.

THE PANAMA CANAL "The Government has sent details of a scheme to the Chamber of Deputies by which the liqui- dator of the Panama Canal will be empowered to make further calls to the extent of 34 million) francs.

GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND.

June 14th.

The negotiations between Germany and Swit. zerland have been broken off at the outset by the former nation. The diplomatic relations between them are considerably strained.

HAIPHONG.

HANCO, June 15th.

M. Piquet, the new, Governor-General, will visit Haiphong on the 23rd or 24th June, in connection with an official tour through Indo China, to confer with the Resident. He will examine, the financial report of the Municipal Council, and the list of works required at once The sub-director of Customs will be replaced short, and return to Saigon.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

FROM the 1st July all import duties will be abolished in Pabang, excepting on spirits and opium.

THE moustache is said to be losing ita popularity as a part of the hirsute adamment of the masculine face; it is always getting "in the srup"

IF you refuse me I shall die " he exclaimed wildly. "Then you might give me a proof of

proof?"Insure your life in my favor."

THE ex king of Annam, Ham-Nghi, now in Algeria, with a pension of thirty thousand francs from his owners, the French Government, is by no means hopeless,. He sent a red visiting card to the Resident General of Hué, M. Rheinart, on which were two Annamese characters and the sentence, in French, "I hope you will read this compliment with pleasure." As thetwo characters turned out, to mean War to the westerners," M. Rheinari did not. He sent the interpreter back to Annam, and Ham-Nghi was told to be more civil to a country which had always treated him with consideration and which had only

robbed him of his country.

ELLER Morris related in a Windsor (Ontario) Baptist church, the other evening, that one of his recent converts had a fearful vision few nights ago. The new convert, who is a young colored man, saw hell, a place of liquid, boiling flames. rolling over and over, and gray-haired men rol-ing over and over in them; also he saw and heard a lot of young men popping up in the Homes like a lot of pop-corn in a stove fire. The elder drew a frightful picture of Gehenna, scaring his hearers so that s: veral women went into fits, while men groaned and wept amid great excite. ment. The day after this sensational exhibition Mr. Morris was notified to drop the old-fashioned hell or stop preaching.

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We find this in the Petak Government Gazette of June 7th :-"The Selama tin lode continues to attract attention. The following report on some samples of ore submitted to the Assay Office, George Yard, Upper Thames Street, in 186, will be of interest: No. 7 has of metallic tin 59 per cent, oxide of tin 7498 per cent. No. 6546 per cent. No. 4 has of metallic tin 3225 per cent, oxide of tin 41 per cent, No. 2 is a very rich sample of tin-stone

LABUAN COAL..

from

The coal resources of Labuan will shortly have a better chance of that development they need in the interest of the island. Undeterred by the failures attending previous enterprise in direction, the Central Borneo Company Limited" has undertaken to give the Labunn coal mines another trialy and has obtained a con- cession for the purpose from the Crown Agents, on condition that £25,000 of its unallotted capital should be issued and exclusively laid out in opening, developing, and working. the coal deposits in question. The Company, which commands capital to the amount of £100,000 to work a concession taking in -15,000 square miles of land in the north central section of Hornco, including the whole Sultanate of Brunei, anticipates profitable returns thorough mining exploration in the main land. working the Laban coal mines, pending Preliminary research in Labuan is said to have revealed the existence of seams likely to yield three millions of tons of excellent coal, the supply being deemed practically inexhaustible. The prospectus of the Company speaks in glowing terms of the outlook, when the coal raised there will not only outrun local demand, but will niso be available for neighbouring ports especially Singapore.

The mineral, wealth of Labunn likewise is said to include petroleum, which has been found in the northern part of the island. The existence of the oil in north central. Borneo has also been ascertained. We must all wish the Company every success, Cheap and good coal from so near à locality as Labuan will always find ready safe at Singapore, which cannot but be advantaged by the opening up of the sister island, on the lines the Central Borneo Company has marked out. The call for capital has been met, and the Company intends to begin opera- tions in Labuan at once, and the manager there

has already taken preliminary steps, and is now instructed to go ahead with the knowledge of £25,000 being behind him.-Straits Times.

NEW " TIGHT-LACE" DISEASES.

of Wines of Spirits produce excellent and piquant your love before you die."""What kind of 3 has of metallic sin 51's per cent, oxide of tin manifold diseases, some of which are fatal, whilst

Price, 75 Cents per Bottic, or $7.50 per dozen

Case Assorted.

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Price,

$1 per

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BIRTH.

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On Saturday, 22nd June, 1889, at No. 4, Blue Buildings, the wife of Mr. E. M. HYNDMAN, of

a 100.

Quire a novel engineering: feat was recently performed on the line of the Panama Canal-sample of this degree of richness from a depth nothing less than the lifting of a steam-launch of 4 or 5 feet is very rare in tin mining, No. 3. over a bridge, under which it could not pass. The remarks upon No. z will alap apply to this A "KOBIRAJ "in Bengal claims to have discovered

sample."" a cure for hydrophobia in the juice of the acoonde, a common jungle plant bearing a light purple flower. Two very bad cases at Mursbl dibal are said to have been treated with complete success.

MESSRS. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Line, inform us that the steamship Parthia, which left Yoko hama on the 6th, arrived at Vancouver on the 18th inst. This is by far the quickest passage ever made between the two ports.

We note from the Sarawak Gasitie that the 1780 wreck of the American barque Mount Lebanon, lying off Rajang mouth, was sold last month to Messrs. Chong Seng and Shallong Mowe for

at high tide the water is over her deck.

elegraph 3750 She is deeply imbedded in the mud, and

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1889:

THERE is a paragraph in last night's China Mail regarding the powers of Oplum Farmer's excise officers, in which the writer says that their conduct in searching Chinese passengers on board the river steamers is a grosser violation of the law that he at first thought. This conclusion Is arrived at after "reading more care fully the sections of the Opium Ordinance 1884." Some people understand what they read; others don't. The China Mail

THE second compradorp and two coolies employed at the Messageries Maritimes' godown at East Point, who had been committed for trial

THE Crew of the "blue note" barque Constance which arrived about a fortnight ago, are just beginning to awake to the fact that they have not had quite an ideal voyage. A sailor named Paskell summoned the second mate, William Reilly, for assaulting him at sea, and the Harbour Master heard the case to-day. The

assault consisted of several blows with a belaying pin. Reilly admitted striking the man, but said he did so because he made a motion as though he intended drawing his knife. He was fined 85. The captain and mate had to burry out of the office afterwards, as a number of the crew, who had grown' valorous on water- front whisky, were lying about to attack them with sticks, and no constables were about.

FACTS ABOUT THE INDIANS,

THE Indian agencies are 51 in number.

Number of houses occupied by Indians, 21,232.

Estimated number of Indians in Alaska,

30,000.

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as the recent Scasions for stealing preserved stores, were before Mr. Wodehouse again to-day, Number of Indians living on and cultivating | the case having been sent back. The first was | lands le 9,613.

sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and the

The total Indian population of the United other two to three and four months' respectively," States is 247,761..

Number of Indian church members in the THE Straits Times of the 15th feat, says: United States in 28,663. -The Moskwa, the first of the Russian steamers with seas for Odessa, arrived yesterday afternoon, and after taking 800 tons of coal, was despatched by the Borneo Company Limited early this morning. The Moskwa made a very fast run from Shanghal, having passed the Glenortney, which sailed some hours before the Russian steamer. The Glenartery is also bound

for, Odessa.

Number of Indians fo the United States who can read English is but 23.495..

There are so Indian training schools located in different parts of the Union.

Number of Indians in the United States who wear citizens' dress is 81,621.

Number of Indians in the United States who can read Indian languages is 10,027-Albany Journal.

The Medical Ännual, a scientific record of the medical progress of the year, devotes a good deal of space to those diseases of women which are generally believed to originate from tight lacing. "During the last few years,” says the Annual, "several affections which are found in women with much greater frequency than in men have been, claimed by independent writers in different parts of the world as the result of com- pression.

The most important are anamin, ulcer of the stomach, gallstones, movable kidney." This is a formidable array, and it must be noted that it is not a catalogue of all the diseases said to be produced by tight lacing, but only a list of a few which have been recently added to very much longer acrica. "Anamin itself. in its "pernicious" form, is, asa rule, rapidly and hopelessly fatal. But even when it is not "pernicious," it is the prolific parent of almost all are extremely disabling and distressing "Uicer of the stomach has an alarming sound not nearly so alarming as the reality. When a even to the "lay" car; but the sound is

doctor is convinced that he has met with a case of undoubled ulcer of the stomach, be anticipates weeks or months of misery for the patient and of harassing care for himself. He knows that recovery is possible; but he knows also that in many instances the chances are largely in favour of death. Treatment in many cases is quite powerless. One day the patient may be walking about, filling the air with complaints of her troubles. The next she may be dead, with a amall perforation in the wall of the stomach as the result of the ulcerative process. "Gall- stones" it is unnecessary to dwell upon. The pafa and danger of these are known almost "Movable kidney," though less universally. immediately painful and dangerous, is a condi- tion which no woman who wishes to be well should for a moment run the risk of becoming acquainted with. This is the barest summary of facts, which might be so set forth as to appear truly appalling. Will any woman reader be frightened into reason? The answer, unbup- pily, is not even doubtful. She will not. But in case such a phenomenon should occur, the following suggestions of the Annual are worthy of her consideration. "The one thing that is most objectionable is the formation of anartificial waist... To simply order the removal of stays will be found altogether insufficient,

On the other hand, it is argued that as the Act declared to be supplementary to the previous Restriction Acts, the supplement cannot have longer life than the statute to which it is supple mentary. These st tules expire by limitatior, the first in 1893 and the second in 1894. No les an authority than Senator Stewart is ranged on the latter side of the controversy. It is a maltes of such great importance that it is not safe to be dogmatic in relation to it. Abundant cautior should be reinacted at the latest by the Fifty. second Congress. It is not improbable that by that time it will need some further strengthening There are four classes of Chinese who still have the right to enter this country. They are teachers -whatever class that may be-traders, students, and travelers. Hut they must present passports from the Chinese Government, or, if departing for the United States from another country, from the Government of that country, describing them, vised by the American Consul or diplo malicofficer stationed at the point of embarkation to entitle them to enter.

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It may be that some attempt will be made by the man-dealers to open a fresh breach by mean of these classes. It is worthy of remark that i was on that line that the first attacks were made on exclusion. The long procession. of coolie! masquerading as merchants, and of slave boys pretending to be students, still lives in the memory of our citizens. Several thousand coolies got in by this dodge before a stop could be put to the fraud. It is within bounds to stair that' if any attempt should be made to revive these practices the pretended teachers, astudents, traders and travelers will have to "go,” as the coolies had,

Nor are these effects confined to inebrintes and to those who indulge in the more fiery. fiquors. Sir Henry Thompson, after over twenty years devoted to, hospital practice, as well as to private practice in every, rank, testifies as follows:

"I have no hesitation in attributing a very large proportion of some of the most painful and dangerous maladies that come under 'my notice to the ordinary use of fermented drink it" quantities conventionally deemed moderate, There is no habit in this country which so much tends to deteriorate the quality of the race.”

WHAT IS "SOCIETY?"

Discussion, as to the number of people who are "in society" in this city would be more intelligible if it were accompanied by a definition as to what society is meant.

When Mr. McAllister limited the number, off- hand, to 400, he had in mind, as he has since explained, those persons only who give large and elegant entertainments to people of wealth and recognized social position like themselves. And when lately an acknowledeed arbiter of fashion sent out 1,20p cards of invitation to her first

recepillon, it was promptly explained that this did not mean that all these people were " in society," Many of them were had-beens, some of them were would-bes. In other words, a loss of shrinkage of fortune has left many of the "old families" out of the social swim.. They may be as refined, as elegant, as acccomplished an ever, and as fit personally to grace any banquet hall or drawing room; but they no longer "enter. tain," and so they are only on the outer edge of the society that gives itself up to entertaining and being entertained.

The would-bes are aspirants. They either have not had their money long enough, or their pile is not sufficiently large to admit them to the inner circle. And so their social letters of credit are paid only in the great clearing-house of "receptions or by the liquidating device of "afternoon teas,"

The truth is that society in this country is represented by a wide expanse of concentric circles. The small, cầmmòn centro represents the Four Hundred." Entrance to it—or at least retention in it-depends upon money.

Only one discordant note has been heard in the general satisfaction felt over the decision in the Chas Chang Ping case. That, as might be expected, was given forth by the disappointed agents of the man-dealers. There was a threat of commercial retaliation in it. But this was probably nothing more than sound and fury If anything of that kind should be attempted, we think that it is quite possible it can be made

It is the "aristocracy of the dollar." But very warm for the Chinese merchants who are

dollars are not enough. It is rather vulgar located in this city and elsewhere.. If American to make a fortune one's self A rich products are tabooed in China, Chinese products grandfather is necessary, or, better yet, a must share the same fate here. A discriminat-great-grandfather. He may have been a ing duty against Chinese tea and silk, to the great advantage of Japan, is among the possibi- lities in that connection. But we do not appre- bend that anything of the kind will occur. It would certainly be quite foolish to attempt it, Sentiment is something that does not often enter into trade. In the case of exclusion no injury is inflicted on any but the unconscionable and sardi man-denters of Hongkong and Canton.-S. F. Bulletin.

WHERE THEY GREW FIRST.

Spinach is a Persian plant, Horse-radiah is a native of England. Melons were found originally in Asia. Filberts originally came from Greece. Quinces originally came from Corinth. The turnip originally came from Rome. The peach originally came from Persia. Sage is a native of the south of Europe. Sweet marjoram is a native of Portugal, The bean is said to be a native of Egypt, Damsona originally came from Damascus. The nasturtium came originally from Peru. The pea is a native of the south of Europe. Coriander seed came originally from the east. Ginger is a native of the East and West Indies.

The gooseberry is indigenous to Great Britain. America..

Apricots are indigenous to the plains of

table.

The cucumber was originally a tropical vege-

and China.

The walnut is a native of Persia, the Caucasus

Capers originally grew wild in Greece and

northern Africa,

Pears were originally brought from the east by the Romans.

The clove is a native of the Malacen Islands, as is also the nutmeg.

Cherries were known in Asia as far back as the seventeenth century,

Garlic came to us first from Sicily and the shores of the Mediterranean..

neddler or a small shopkeeper-it doesn't matter. Money, Tore "in the family gains #inl virtue. Just why it j« mare respectable to inherit money than to honestly earn it dees not appear, but so it is,

Yet the Four Hundred should not consider that they monopolize “arriety." The circles of the Four Thousand and the Forty Thousand have their society, to and a very good and enjoyable

one it is: mbre distinctively' American than the smaller ses, and often quite as refined and cultivated. There is a great deal of sociabilly in thle glarines "Republic of equal citizens !— NY World

ATHLETICS AFTER FORTY.

1. Ifa cenaus vere taken of the habits of pro- fessional and business mén who reached their fortieth year, or are beyond it, it is believed that not more than 10 per cent, wruld be found in be thoroughly devoted to any form of athletics na a matter of principle, in the development of the bodys and in keeping it in good condition. Athletics are regarded as cord for young men and young women who are pursuing a course of study, and it iseven conceded that athletics should become a part of the student course, in whịch proficiency counts as much as success in mathe. | matics or in the languages At Amherst College athielies are nuit upon this braid and high basis, and the result is that every Amberst gradunie || turned out a well-developed yourg man, with a physical organization which will sustain him in | his intellectual work. But the majority of men In the middle of life to-day were not brought up an athletics in their youth. They did not side bicvrles or enjoy the activity and spirit of the saddle, and they have never done much to keep a sound mind in a sound body, There can bo no doubt that a large number of the sudden deaths among our business and professional men are due to the constant mental strain in which they have lived, and the too free use of the nervous energies of life, without the building up of the physical vigor and strength by proper

Asparagus was originally a wild sea-coast | exercise. Indeed, you cannot go out on the plant, and is a native of Great Britain,

The tornato is a native of South America, and It takes its name from a Portuguese word..

Parsicy is said to have come from Egypt, and mythology tell us it was used to adorn the head

of Hercules,

Apples were originally brought from the east by the Romans. The crab apple is indigenour to Great Britain,

The onion was almost an object of worship with the Egyptians 2000 years before the Christian era. It first came from India.

Cloves come to us from the Indies, and take their name from the Latin clavus, meaning a

ail, to which they have a resemblance.

The cantaloupe is a native of America, and so called from the name of a place near Rome, where it was first cultivated in Europe,

moths from their garments and in the time of Lemons were used by the Romans to keep

ALCOHOL AND DISEASE.

for stays are undoubtly a protection against they they were considered an excellent poison

They are natives of Asin. tight ligature of skirts which accompanies their use. The only satisfactory way is to abolish upper or under garments, is to be made in com. beth. ... Every article of clothing whether of bination, or without division at the waist, The weight of each garment is then borne mainly by the waist is necessary." the shoulders and bust, and no constriction of It is useless to appeal to the wearers of ladies' clothing, the case must be carried to the makers. Will Worth do any thing? If he will not, will those educated and talents to the art of dressing their sisters, come to the rescues There is a splendid field for enterprise and originality of mind.

titled ladies who are said to have devoted their

THE CHINESE QUESTION IN

AMERICA.

street, or into the counting-room, or visit prá | fessional offices, without noticing that men are nervous and excitable, spending their physical strength too fast, or that they are fat and lay after forty, pushing their nervous forces at the expense of their physical vitality, and quickly getting ready for apoplexy by the time they arg fifty or sixty years of age. The almost total neglect of bodily exercise among the men of one's acquaintance is characteristic of our own generation, and it would be hard to estimate the number of men in the prime of life whose death 'is attribsted by the verdict of the physician to what is commonly called overwork-which means the use of the mental faculties at the 'exponas of the whole vital system, wash

Many of our best men die in the midst of their activity from Bright's disease and apoplexy, who three score years and ten. They would seem to would seem to have the endowments for reaching have an incomparably better start than George

Bancroft bad, who, at nearly his ninetietli year, is able to do his day's work with almost. undiminished vigor, and who attributes to bis long-distance daily gallop in the saddle his ability to: "work with; a clear brain': and a steady. indulgence as temporary, as if the man were all have preceded hits to the grave. Mr. Bancroft Many persons think of the effects of alcoholic hand, when nearly all his contemporaries right again as soon as he had slept off his intox has simply been faithful to his body and icatlin. This is partly true, for in this, as in made it the respectful servant of his eliminating the poison from the system but not living solely that he may eat and other cases, sature at once begins the work of intellect, not neglecting its functions, and

certain disastrous effects are lift behind.

drink, but using the body- as the servant of the scribe is evidently one of the latter class.

Moreover, the recuperative force grows weaker | brain, and kreving It, like, his borse, in capital THE Chicago Tribune gives the following as a REFERRING to the recent trip of the steamer

and weaker under repeated potations, till at last', 'condition. - He is one instance in a thousand of Again, some people are rogues, whilst woman's proper weight according to height:- Carisbrooks to the coal mines at Honray; the

it is lost altogether. There is not only a ten-the proper combination of outdoor activity with others only belong to the category of fools. 3 feet in height; 100 pounds; 5 feet 1 inch, 105 Straits Times reraarks:The coal found to

dency to numerous diseases which are directly professional life. It is possible to recall the We leave our readers to properly classify pounds; 5 feet a laches, 113 pounds 5 feet 3 far is of the Cardiff kind, but is not quite up to

caused by the alcoholic poison, but at the same names of hundreds of men who started out in life Inches, 119pounds; feet 4 inches, 130 pounds that standard. The visitors, it appears, were

time the system is rendered susceptible 10 with no better equipment than Mr. Bancroft had, the shuffling apologist of Mr. Rrain's feet 5 inches, 118 pounds : 5 feet 6 inches, 144 handsomely entertained on the spot, along with

diseases of other sorts. In fact, the condition but who, recklessly squandered their physical recent exhibition in the Legislative Council. pounds: 5 feet 7 inches, 150 pounds; 5 feet & the Residents of the three neighbouring provinces,

is one of physical deterioration.

strength or neglected to develop it to the point What is worse, this deterioration tends to where it could properly meet the burdens After quoting an extract from an Ordinance inches, 155 pounds; 5 feet 9 inches, 163 pounds; and the speeches and toasts overflowed with The opinion of the Supreme Court of the

5 feet to inches, teg pounds; 5 feet is inches, confident good wishes for the prosperity of the United States in the case of Chae Chang Ping, perpetuate ituell in the man's posterity. Says they laid upon; it, and who have long since which, so far as this point is concerned, 176 pounds; 6 feet, 150 pounds: 6 feet's inch, Company but perhaps the confidence was delivered by Justice Field, is more than an expo- Dr. Richardson, of London: Not one of the paid the penalty of misusing their mental has been entirely amended, the China Mail 186 pounds.

heightend by the excellent cheer, charmingly sitten of the law governing the matter. It is a transmitted wrongs, physical or mental, is more and physical forces. There is great need st set forth with glass and silver these latter historical review of our relations with China, certainly passed on to those yet unborn thua are the present day, among thousands of brain- oracle arrives at the conclusion" that any A SAMARAHAN dyak died on the 12th May, says being casential to successful inining and being which will elevate the controversy over the those wrongs inflicted by alcohol,” met twoikerp in bith, day and country, who harp excise officer who attempts to search a the Sarawak Garells, from the effects of diving. always laid down at the first start of all mining coolles to a plane where exclusion will be more Saya Dr. Forbes Winslow, of London: The passed their fortieth year, that they should, Chinaman on board a river steamer, event

The accident arose from a case in which a dyak | operations. Of course, we with the Company thoroughly understood at the East. The mit human race is morally, mentally and socially give; place in the ordering of daily life to was accused of adultery. The woman admitted ¦ all success—a success which would be of much siozarics in the shape of opium "join!" promo- deteriorated by that polson,” and the celebrated | athletic exercises, which shall neenmplish for If his, suspicions are strong, violates the the adultery, which was denied by the man. ... în interest to this port of Singapore, which consumesters, highbinders, and lepers, who have been | Dr. Ansilo writes s ! When drinking has been them what, the athletic-professor of Amherst law and is liable to arrest on a charge of order to test who was telling the truth, the yearly about three hundred thousand tons of sent from the Chinese quarters in this city to strong in both parents, it is a physical certainly seeks to accomplish for every young man who parties each selected a man to dive for them, coal, When these and the Labuan mines answer that section, have done much already to alter the that it will be traced in the children enters that institution, which is that he shall pay sssault." Bosh! The Opium Farmer's against the advice of their headman. The also the expectations of the investors, abundant tone of publia sentiment there. The elaborato Among the inherited tendencies is that strange the same, attention to physical health that he officers, don't attempt to search any divers were both exhausted when brought out of supplies of cheap coal will gladden the hearts of opinion of Justice: Field will supply the higher paroxysmal and irresistible craving for liquer pays to ble menial training.There is no time, Chinese on board the river steamers, they the water, and the representative of the man shipowners here, and give a powerful impetus to knowledge which the case is now demanding hich conies on at intervals, it may be of months, in many life when he can let up from this care died from the effects of his prolonged immersion the steamer (tride." Until then we must rub | One or two facts have come to the front since. though meantime the man is absolutely free || for the body. We are told to care for our souls, wait until the passengers, land, and two days afterwards,

at along as we best: can.”-

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