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Entimations.

DAKIN'S

SPARKLING AERATED

WATERS

ARE UNSURPASSED.

PECIAL TERMS TO LARGE BUYERS.

SPECIA

COAST ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO,

No Extra Charge for Packing.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,

LIMITED,

CHEMISTS,

HONGKONG.

(Telephone No. 6a)

Hangkong, 23rd July, 1889.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1889.

the "Pre-eminent in Grief" ought to bave | paid the piper. If a chair-coolie gets leave of absence from his employer to "chin-chin joss" | over his great-grandmother's bones, he always provides and pays for a substitute. This is a fair comparison. Queen Victoria is paid a stated salary by the British nation for, the performance of certain more or less ornamental and nominal duties; she does not see fil to carry out her part of the contract, but sends a substitute in the person of the Heir Apparent, but the leaves the nation to pay the extra wages

and 398 first-class toadies la the House of Com mans actually support what is a contemptible "squeeze" of the meanest description. The fact that 16 members had the courage of their opinions to publicly oppose this gross imposition on a country that is groaning under a burden of taxation without parallel amongst the great nations of the world, may be taken as a pretty plain indication that the day is not far distant when the so-called Princes Christians, Tecks, and Battenbergs of the Fatherland will have to look elsewhere for §. haven of refuge.-Ed, Hongkong Telegraph.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The Shanghai Courier of the 24th July 14th inst. says: We were somewhat premature in stating in our last nights' issue that the above case had beed settled by arbitration. We learn to-day that information has, heen indirectly received by the counsel for the plaintiff that something has been done towards the settlement of the case, but the full particulars are not yet to hand.

Tux San Francisco Chronicle sarcastically desultory notes, jotted down during my travels, remarks The Queen of Great Britain may afford toaterial for amateurs and students recently cabled to President Harrison assurances of manners and customs, or may perchance of her most distinguished consideration and supply topics for convers tion over the winecup sympathy with the sufferers by the recent flood or at the tes table. Some of the facts recorded in Pennsylvania. The charges for cabling were may not be new, and fo that case I would ask paid by the English Government. The Mayor fadulgence for the repetition. of Dublin about the same time sent $5,000 out Written by the master of Ts'ang-shan; copied of his own pocket by cable for the relief of the by Hsiao weng of Siling. same sufferers."

A Java contemporary says that "the kingdom* | of Cotie, on the east coast of Borneo, is now coming into prominence as a field for mining adventure. A gentleman named G. Murray bas already applied a concession to seek for geld there." If this sort of thing goes on much longer, we shall have too many gold mines it the market. We have a gold mine in view at present, and not so far away as "the kingdom of Cotie." There's plenty of gold in Victoria Peak

if one could only get at it.

"Hoo's 'wi' ye, minister ?" asked Donald Established Church clergyman, "Oh, brawly. McAlpine of his minister, an old-fashioned

Donald, brawly; but the glebe's no' doing weel: at all this year. The turnips are fair rotted nway; I'll need to do something to bring in a bit o' money. May be get some city lad to tutor or something." "Could ye no' dae something in way ! What die you menn, Donald ?" "I see the Highland Railway's advertising the noo for sleepers, an' I wis thinkin' ye had mair in the kirk than ye bent what to dae wi, an'" Here the minister started in to give him such a High and railing that Donald has not been to church #ince.

THUS the Fava Bode:At Edi, on the Achinese coast, hostilities have stopped. The Dutch troops inflicted such heavy losses on the Achinese

invaders there that the latter were fain to beat a

retreat. They proved to be from the neigbouring petty States around, the rulers of which have in Consequence been fined $50,000 for allowing the been instructed to collect the money. Meanwhile invasion, The Assistant Resident in charge has the disaffected take advantage of the inefficiency as well as to export pepper without payment of of the blockade to import arms and ammonition. duty.

The western custom is to give precedence to the right hand, and to honour the woman rather than the man; hence when walking together the women will precede the man, and when sitting will sit on the right, he on the left.

Husband and wife go arm in arm along the street, yet no one smiles; a husband will perform any menial office before his wife, and nobody jeer at him.

passing idly through the streets, they must walk When three or four are in company and

abreast, and net in any straggling fashion. If they meet a woman, etiquette requires them to make way for her, and in so making way they

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THE WRECK OF THE

"ALTNACRAIG? ·

The Diamante this morning brought up from Manila themate, chifefengineer, and twelve sailors belonging to the steamship Alinacrafę, Captain Buyers, which was wrecked in the Philippines on the 14th Inst. The engineer, Mr. Anderson, obliged us with a copy of La Opinion, of the 23rd, which contains the first detailed account of the disaster, furnished by M.. Alexander Nicolucft, the travelling correspondent of the Daily Tele- ·| graph, the Figaro, and El Tarik, the leading journal in Constantinople.

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From it we learn that the Alinacraig, which was owned by Messrs, Adams & Co., of London, and was a three-tasted steamer with a capacity of 4,000 tons, left Iloilo on the 13th inst. for Singapore, with a cargo of 3,400 tons of sugar consigned to Macleod and Company, Delaware, crew of thirteen eight passengers, and a Europeans, besides native firemen, &c. The passengers consisted of M. Nicolaeff and his wife, an Iloilo merchant, with his daughter and three grand-children, and a young Englishman

A. S. WATSON & CO.. LD THERE are over 65,oro Chinese in the Philippine the contrac' way, dae ye think "Contract trade is not, in itself, the whole gospel of social mark of respect may none of them smoke. After named C. Leneva (?). All went well until the

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CHIARINI opened his "mammoth aggregation," etc., at Yokohama on or about the 20th inst.

THE English mail is on board the Ganges, which would probably leave Singapore to-day.

CAPTAIN G. W. Conner succeeds Capt. Wilson Walker, in command, of the Japanese steamer Saikio Maru

THE New York World says that there are probably a thousand men in New York who wear corsets, but the number is becoming gradually and beautifully less,

At the Sanitary Board meeting to-morrow, the

only business before the Board will be the con sideration of the bye-laws under sub-section 6

of section 13 of Ordinance 24 of 1887.

AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, SC will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

We would remind our readers that the "Military Mummers" will perform the farces "Bot and Cox" and "Chiselling,” and a musical offe, at the Garrison Theatre to-night, commencing at 8 o'clock.

A LITTLE tiff between two engineers formed the subject of a magisterial inquiry by Mr. Pollock, this morning, at the Police. Court. Frederick Griffel, late chief engineer of the Amoy, was the injured party, his complaint being that Mr. Beck, the present holder of his position, had used language to him which was calculated to make him break the peace in several places, if he were a man who cared about that sort of thing. His evidence was not very clear. He offered Beck his place some time ago, as he intended going home to Vaterland and living in the ancestral castle on the Rhine, and Beck said he didn't want it, and yet after all took it, and after going to Whampoa the two met in that aristocratic hostelry "The Land we Live In," and Beck called him, worse names than he would throw at a cat. Ilis Worship decided that the language was not exactly Chesterfieldian, and bound the defendant over in bonds of $to to keep the peace

unbroken for three months,

THERE was an eminent serjeant-at-law some years ngn who had a cork leg that was triumph of artistic deception. None but his in- timates knew for certain which was the real and which was the sham limb. A wild

To show how ideas have changed in regard to free, trade in England, a prominent Manchester paper recently said: "Already we have lived long enough to discover that the gospel of free

progress, and that it is in the main only a nega- tive doctrine." A London paper, once a free trade organ, also says: "All is changed. We recognize at last that, though commodities should be cheap, they become dear when the wages of flesh and blood are cheapened down to starvation point. The gospel has failed, because it was too shallow, too much concerned with the selfish ends of capitalists, too little with the needs of the laboring classes. We have only to take John Bright's words about the slave in Americs, and wonder why he did not press them home to the slave in English manufacturing districts,"

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WITH reference to the stranding of the Kaifong, We regret to learn that telegraphic news has the Shanghai Courier of the 27th July says:- been received of the stranding of the China

Company's steamer Navigation

Kaifone, Captain Gyles, on Rees Island, situate midway between Swatow and Amay. She left Swatow on Thursday, bound for Shanghai, and the news received here is to the effect that she is

ashore at high water, jettisoning cargo, and requires immediate assistance. Another, tele- gram gives the information that the company's steamer Wapsung was to leave Swalow to render the stranded vessel the assistance she could. Hopes are entertained that the Kaifong will be got off. She is one of the latest additions to the fine fleet of steamers belonging to the China Navigation Company, and is quite a new steamer, not having been running on the coast

more than twelve months.

must pass to the right and not to the left.

When taking their places at meals they must wait till the women are first seated, when the men can occupy chairs next to them. The meal ended, they disperse in the same manner,

While the women are at table, the men

a dinner they must leave the table and go to another room to smoke; or if there be no smok ing room must wait till the women have gone out of the door. Occasionally when the women have finished eating they leave at once, purposely letting it be known that it is done out of com passion. This is regarded as a gracious courtesy on their part.

As mealtime, morning or evening, comes round, ail, men and women, must change their clothes before sitting down to it. However_young child may be be must do the same.. In taking soup you must not make a noise over it; any thing put out of the mouth should be left in the plate. At a banquet it is proper there should be music: at the very largest hotels, there is always music at every meal.

If a visitor calls not only is he offered no tea,

but he may please himself about smoking or not. But when he enters and when he leaves, he and Iris host grip each other's hand. In seeing him out the host does not descend the stairs or go outside his door.

When friends are sitting talking together they mention nothing nasty. If a man were to speak of ordure, filth, or the like in company his hearers would be astounded. Some would perhaps get up and leave without looking at him, wondering how the man could so misbehave.

Men and women out of doors all wear gloves, which they take off when they come in. At meals they take them off too; white is con sidered the mat distinguished colour, and is worn at Audience with the queen, and by actors when they appear on the stage.

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morning of Sunday the 14th, when, about eight o'clock, the vessel ran on a reef that was not marked on the chart. Everyone run on deck, and M. Nicolaeff joined the captain on the bridge. With a coolness which the former could not but admire Captain Buyers directed him to save his life by getting into a boat with the other passengers, as the ship would go down in a few minutes. For himself, he intended going down with her. M. Nicolaeff refused to go if the captain stayed, but the latter led him down to the side-ladder, which the other passengers had already descended, and lifted him into the boat. Then he went up again. Four other boats were out, and being rapidly filled by the crew. Aboutthe coolest of the lot wasthe young English passenger

he seemed to look on the shipwreck nu a matter of course, Mr. Gayen, the second officer, with three sailors, took the passengers' boat away four sailors occupying the next boat. Nothing from the ship, the captain, chief engineer, and

of any value or utility could be saved, as the Altnacraig was settling steadily, though slowly. Fortunately the wreck occurred in the daytime, not far from land. Ten or twelve miles away was the luxuriant but desert island of Destacada, in the province of Paragua, but the captain decided to make for Puerto Princesa, forty or fifty miles away. The men pulled willingly all day, although the wind was contrary, the current adverse and strong, and incredibly heavy rain fell. Towards evening another island was seen, and, better still, a ship. The shipwrecked people called to those on board, but without eliciting. any response. They got nearer, and saw that

stood

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CHRISTINE NILSON's finances may be judged from her competition at an auction with the

franes for a Madonna of Mabuse she offered 40,000 france and got it,

TUR Nagasaki Rising Sun says it is reported that the Government proposes opening the ports of Yokkaichi, Hakata, Moji, Karatṣn, Kut- chinotzu, Misumi, Shimonoseki, and Fushiki to forrign irade, in order to facilitate the direct export of rice, coal, and sulphur.

young wag of the fouter bar" who knew the serjeant pretty well once thought to utilize

in a green, newly-fledged young barrister. The 1erjeant was addressing a special Jury at Westminster in his usual earnest and vebement style, and the wag whispered to his neighbour, You see how hot old Buzfuz is over his case; now I'll bet you a sovereign I'll run this pin into his leg up to the head, and he'll never notice it, he's so absorbed in his speech. He's a most extraordinary man in that way." This was more than the greenhorn could swallow, so he took the bet. The wag took a large pin from his waiscoat, and leaning forward drove it up to the head in the serjeant's leg. A yell that froze the blood of all who heard and the Judge's wig almost to fall off, rang through the court. By Jovel it's the wrong A BORDEAUX Correspondent defending French leg. I've lost my money," exclaimed the dis- claret says that it is quite true that "largeyed and conscience-stricken wag, quite regard

less of the pain he had inflicted upon the learned quantities of so-called wine are yearly manu. factured in France from dried currants; but it serjeant. cannot be too widely known that none of this decidedly inferior article ever reaches the foreign market, being consumed solely by the French lower classes on account of its cheapness.”

THE past season at Monte Carlo is said to have been the most successful ever seen. The number of wealthy gamblers never was equaled, and the accommodation praved entirely inadequate. In

erected at a cost of a million france,

on bible-reading in the Popular Science Monthly: Greatly to the surprise of many of my friends I have always advocaled the reading of the Bible and the diffusion of the study of that most remarkable collection of books among the people. Its teachings are so infinitely superior to those of the sects, who are just as busy now as the Pharisees were 1,800 years ago in smothering them under" the precepts of men ; it is socertain, to my mind, that the Bible contains within itself the refutation of nine-tenths of the mixture of sophistical metaphysics and Old World super- stition, which has been piled around it by the so-called Christians of later times; it is so clear poison which has been mixed with Christianity, to the intoxication and delusion of mankind, lies in copious draughts from the undefiled spring, that I exercise the right and duty of free Judgment on the part of every man, mainly for the purpose of inducing other laymen to follow my example. If the New Testament is translated into Zulu by Protestant missionaries it must be assumed that a Zulu convert is com- petent to draw from its contents all the truths which it is necessary for him to believe. I trust that I may, without immodesty, claim to be pat on the same footing as the Zulu,

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Men and women alike wear hats, but of very

ever, though it may be the depth of winter, they must take them off and bare the hear, and when out of doors, even in midsummer, must keep them on.

When two people meet it is considered polite for them to take off their hats ; some only mise their hands to the tip of the ear and wave them without removing the hat. This would be the off hand and casual course, whereas if they grasp each other's hand, they are more intimate. Though one be a man and the other a woman, no scandal is aroused.

and called out in Spanish "We are English," "No, you are Spanish; caramba!" was the reply. And all that the fishermen. could be induced to do was to shew them the were received very hospitably on landing, where a body of soldiers were. They way

the best room being put at the disposal of the two ladies, and much-needed food provided. They were stil 15 or 30 miles from Puerto Princess, and next morning, under a hot sun, re sumed their journey, but this time with a favoring breeze. As they had forgotten the sails, in their them out of flags, handkerchiefs, &c. Puerto haste to leave the steamer, they had to improvise Princesa was sighted, with much pleasure, and hospitably received. the Governor, Senor Volers, coming down to meet them, and, entertaining them as well as his resources permitted, even supplying various articles of necessary By the sides of the main streets are trees clothing to the ladies, whose tailette had been left affording a close shade, continuously for some unmade on embarking, Captain Buyers and M. miles; ander them it is usual to place benches Nicolaeff returned to the scene of the wreck the where people can rest. In between are laid out

same day, in the Mindoro, but were unable to iron seats, ranged in rows and let on hire, some-locate the exact position where the steamer times a hundred or more, at the most a little. had. disappeared, so that none of the more over a thousand.

valuable property was recovered. On the 18th the party left by the Gravina for Manila. The captain and the remainder of his officers and crew are expected to arrive on Sunday, and an inquiry will probably be held here next week.

Juge proprieties of the well-known, Cinchona consequence another gambling hell is to be it, that made the hair of the jury stand on end, that the only immediate and real antidote to the visiting cards of mourners always carry a black not a few prayers were said. They were agala

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1889.

TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL BOULANGER.

PARIS, July 21st. The General has issued a Manifesto scoffing at the charges in the indictment against him and accusing the Ministers of shameless subornation

of witnesses.

MR. FARNELL.

LONDON, July 22nd. Mr. Parnell, speaking at Edinburgh, refuted [professed to refute] the idea that an autonomous Ireland could ever be hostile to Britain.

THE ROYAL GRANTS.

July 18th.

THE Siam Mercantile Gasette of the zoth inst. informs us that the "Rev. W. C. Dodd and Miss B. R. Eakin, both members of the American Presbyterian Mission at Chieng-Mal, were married on the 16th inat, at'he residence of Rey A. J. Eakin, the brother of the bride. All their friends with them much joy, happiness, and eminent success in their missionary work,"

Nebraska. Six girls stand in a row, while one ONION parties are a fashionable amusement in

bites a small chunk out of an onion and a young man pays to cents for a guess as to which one it was. If he guesses right he gets to kiss the other five, but if he doesn't he is only allowed to kiss the one with the onion-scented breath. This amusement is said to be highly popular with Nebraska young folks.

THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High landers will play the following programme at the Sanitarium, tomorrow, commencing at 5 30 p.m.-

Valso

Grand MarchSliver Trumpia"?

Viviani: *Icon Domba" Waldautal,

Allegretto Scherrando from Ith Symphony...Bothart, Selection. Olivetto".......Audema,

God Save the Queen,

Beaction***ipey "L* Thiers,

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A "YOSINITE BELLE," addressing a well known fashion writer, thus holds forth on reform in women's dresses: God bless you, dear lady, for coming to the front in the cause of dress reform in giving to suffering sister woman a peep into the beauties as well as the comforts of loose garments, something that will allow the blood to course freely through the system, that will give elasticity that nothing else can bestow, thereby muscles greater play, giving to the form that bringing back the fading colour so universally replaced by cosmetics and for which great boo the next generation will rise up and call you blessed, as indeed every one should who can appreciate the value of health, especially those 'who expect to be the mothers of our future states

prettily graceful they appear in those soft flowing men. Could our young maidens know how robes, giving Just a faint butline of the beautiful form designed by nature's architect, they surely would welcome in a style so very becoming. The easy, low soft shoes which accom

this suit give buoyance to the step and a pany motion not to be obtained with the tight buttoned boots, those vein compressing instruments of headaches and torture. Oh, may they be banished to the days of future Inquisition. And all Joy go with those who dare to come boldly forward in their light, graceful, flower-laden bats, easy shoes, flowing robes and buoyant step. Good-by with out regret to the stiff corset and welcome to the

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HONGKONG STEAM LAUNCH

COMPANY.

The first ordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Company was to have been held this after noon, in the Hongkong Hotel. Mr. D. McCulloch (acting chairman) took the chair at the appointed J. W. Noble, E. B. Jorey, three Chinamen, and time, and there were present Mesirs. A. Woolley, Mr. A. G. Gordan (secretary), After waiting half an hour, and no one else turning up, the Chairman announced that, there not being suffi- cient shareholders present to constitute a quorum, under the Articles of Association, the meeting would be postponed, until. Thursday next, at the same hour.

CHINESE VIEWS ON WESTERN

CUSTOMS.

For mourning black is used, and not white, and they wear mourning for their juniors. The border. Women wear black crape banging far down from the back of the head. The horses which draw the funeral cars and coaches are invariably of a black colour.

Plantations are thick and flourishing; you see them everywhere. The Government has passed a law by which everyone who cuts down a tree must plant another in its place. Though he may have bought the hillside and planted it himself, the owner must observe this law. Yet though woods are numérous, wild beasts and birds are country in any direction for hundreds of miles exceedingly rare. You may travel through the and not see a single songster, remarkable

circumstance.

Of the trees the oak is most common, and next to that the pine and cypress. Aspens and willows are exceedingly rare, and the wu Fung [Eleococca verrucosa] is altogether unknown, Bamboos are numerous, but do not form groves. The names of the trees I do not know," Lofty trees are few and far between.

The streets and main thorourhfares are either formed of large stones, or of square stone blocks placed in rows and firmly rammed down. Blocks of wood are also laid down to form the roadway, over which when carts and horses are driven there is no sand of wheel or hoof. They say that such roads will last a long time, becauRG the earth is dry and not damp. Where, there are rallways under the street, the street is

easy waist with suitable braces for the weight to (Translated specially for N. C. Daily News.) invariably laid with wood, as it is both light and be removed from the hips and waist, so long burdened with voluminous drapery of the fashion.*

EDITOR'S PREFACE,

noiseless.

THE AMERICAN MINISTER

TO CHINA, Notwithstanding reports to the contrary, it would appear that it is even now uncertain whe will be the new representative of the United States at the Court of Peking. On this subject the New York Harald of the 19th ulto, has the. following

Both naval and diplomatic circles were some- what surprised to-day by the announcement in an evening paper that Admiral Shufeldt had been tendered by Mr. Blaine the mission to China. It was also stated that the Admiral, while not declining the mission, asked time to consider the matter, hesitating on account of the loss of his way as a retired naval officer that would be involved in the acceptance..

Admiral Shufeldt, however, when I spoke with

in short order. There was not, he said, the him regarding the report to-night, disposed of it

lightest foundation for the story so far as he Places of worship exist in every country but

knew. He was not an applicant for the places are most numerous in Italy, where they are of it had not been tendered to him, and moreover Incomparable height and magnificence. The

Ae had not seen Mr. Blaine for a month, g wood and stone work is most elaborate and

More probable than this report is another extravagant. Some are several hundred feet has been in circulation for several days to the high, and cost many millions, the reason being effect that. Mr. Kasson, of lows, one of the that the Pope's capital is situated in that country: Commissioners to the Berlin conference, will be Nons of their dwelling houses are bungalows, sent to Chius to succeed Mr. Denby, of Indiana, bat have all of them upper storeys. Counting our present representative to that country. from beneath upwards those houses which have the most storeys are thought the best. To thematic circles that Mr. William Walter Phelps, .... The fact seems to be generally accepted Indiplo. eye a building may seem to be only 8 or 9 Kasson'srepublican associate on the Commission, storeys high, but the observer does not know will be appointed to the Berlin mission. If this that below the house are one or more excavations, be done Mr. Kassob's friends will insist that at: Hence the houses are really lottier than our least equal honor be shown to the Town statesman and as the mission to China is one which would no doubt be very acceptable to him there is at

When storeys are doubled so that steps would

ACCORDING to the recently published educational statistics of Prussia, constituting about two-thirds of the German Empire, that kingdom bad in its THIS chaste little item is from the Shanghat Oflate years, since the old maritime restrictions employ in 1886 a total of 64,750 masters in the Courier of the 24th inst.We hear that Mr. W. were relaxed and trading vessels have come from public schools. The average salary was 5,274 V. Dummond bas been retained by telegraph all parts, gentlemen of energy have taken to marks. The 22 419 teachers engaged in the city schools averaged 1,559 marks, while the 43,331

to proceed to Hongkong to conduct another going abroad to see foreign lands and enlarge interesting case in which, the parties, we believe, their ideas. Once arrived at any place they in the country villages averaged 1,134 marks are Meairs Wotton & Deacon and the defendant promptly bring out a journal of their travels, but annually. On this meagre sum of $300 a year, in the recent Rope case. We have a few while distances by sea and descriptions of cele- and even less, the master is expected to live aud

words to add to the foregoing. Messrs Watton brated spots are all set down with great minute support his family, which would be impossible and Deacon may be the "parties" in this "in-ness, nothing but a vague outline is given of the with a people that understood less thoroughly teresting case but the nominal plaintiffs character of the country and its inhabitants. than the German the secret of making every are Mesars Ipseph and Fredericks, a well My friend Yuan Hsiang-fu, a Magistrate of dollar do the full daty of 100 cents.

known firm of local share-brokers. And remarkable resolution, in the course of a journey we don't quite see how Mr W, V. Drummond which he took last year through the Great West, AWRITER familiar with theuncivilized Esquimaux can "eonduct" this case. If report speaks made the most particular enquiries into every-pagodas, of far Northern Alaska says that they are the truly, Mr. Drummond is a very long way from thing he came across, from the system of govern. most adject beings he ever saw. They neither being a flyer in the "bully and blackguard" meat down to the habits of the people, and from be too numerous, or people's legs get too tired, least a fair possibility, that it may be given to wash nor comb their hair and they wear dirty, Hine which pays so well with Hongkong Juries; the careful record thus made compiled a volume they use a mechanical truck to ascend and pim Mr. Labouchere's amendment has been filthy garments year in and year out. Esquimad but even were he a "Eureka" (with apologies which he styled Darultory Notes on Western descend by. All one has to do is to sit in the negatived by 398 votes against 116.

means "raw fish eater" their diet is chiefly fish to Mr. David Sassoon) amongst the be-wigged Customs. This I borrowed, intending to copy truck, and start the machinery with his hand, - It is the President's intention to send only a [Labouchere contended that the Queen ought and game, kept until it is in a state of putrefac genuises who pile up dollars out of an easily it, but before I could complete it he asked for it when it will rise or sink of itself as far as may The only person whom the President has looked man of undoubted; ability to the Court of Pekin. to pay out of her own immense fortune- tion, when to them it is most delicious. Raw galled public, we fail to see how he can con- back, and so it is only such portions as I could be desired. estimated at twelve millions sterling, and every |"blubber of the whale is great delicacy. Their

duct" a case in which the Acting Attorney remember that I have been able le transcribe

upon with favor for the place is Mr. Chester W. cent of which has been made out of British manner of eating is dog-like, Fixing their teeth General has been specially retained. Messrs.and send to press.

Whether the upper floors are three or four, or Holcombe, of Connecticut, who formerly held taxpayers—the proposed additional grant of | in a piece of blubber, with a dull knife they saw Josepha and Fredericks, likewise their solicitors,

seven or eight, in number, the staircase ascending the post of Secretary of Legarion at Pekin. For £36,000 per annum to the Prince of Wales, off the portion which the mouth will not admit. may not be aware that Mr. W. V. Drummond may take up this book and run through its pages, stages. Although all are not of the same pattern tire appointment was regarded with strong To a gentleman of character at home, who to them is in the form of a spiral with successive some reason, however, Mr. Holcombe's prospec- and, with the 115 independent members The men hunt and fish, whileall other work is done must take a very far-back seat when engaged each country and its people will appear much as of the House of Commons, we entirely.concur by the women. They know nothing of marriage in a case with the Acting Attorney General of they would were he travelling within the borders, Each house must have one large and one small

the workmanship is always exceedingly fine afavor by the Chinese Foreign. Ofice, and the In the senior member for Northampton's vows; they cohabit, separate, and take, sew Hongkong, but such is nevertheless the case, and and conversing with the inhabitants, of some staircase, the large in front, the small behind; from his Government, notified Secretary Blaine Minister, at this point, acting under, fostructions contention. Notwithstanding Mr. Gladstone's partners at pleasure, one man often having a fit be true, as has been generally reported, that western state. And so at his own table and on precisely as families in the Middle Kingdom that Mr. Holcombe would not under any circom opinion to the contrary-there is still succession of wives. The old-time custom of Messrs Leach and Drummond are not quite so his own mat he inay indulge himself in a peep distinguish between the front and back doors, taint of the old Tory larking in the tattooing the face, arms and breast is still prac. chummy as David and Jonathan were of old-abroad.

stances be received by theme bosom of the Grand Old Man we say ticed. The women wear ivory studs in the way, the probability is that they won't coalesce

Though the dwelling-houses are very lefty that since the death of Prince Albert the lower lip, in which is inserted their sewing. In the amicable fashion that is necessary to give

and spacious it is only wealthy merchants of Queen has not done her duty to the country needle for convenience when not in use. The their attack a fair show of success. The Acting

rich people who have house to themselves she has not earned, nor has she expended, men also have these apertures with bone or Attorney General will scarcely tamely submit to

the rest are all sublet, so that a houses of 6 or 7 the £480,000 annum allowed by a generous Ivory studs in their cars, in which rings are Feing slapped in the facem.this is, of course, a

storeys would be divided among 6 or 7 familics, country for what is called the Civil List. She inserted. This same fashion prevails largely in metaphor by his ancient pard" being elevated

or even a dozen. The higher the door, the lower has hoarded it up at the expense of trade in South-eastern Alaska. “Out of the fashion, out to the position of first Eddle, and we fancy that

is the cost, so that the very highest are the the metropolis-and, low be it spoken, at the of the world, is as true of them as of us. There Mr. Drummond will also fight shy of acting as

cheapest, the very lowest the dearests but the expense of Monarchy. If the Palace of Wales is much case among them and it would be hard wet-nurse to his former Junior partner. There

ground floor abutting on the street is only let has performed numerous functions which to find a more conservative and conventional may be some fun in this business, and we whail

for business premises, the Queen ought to have attended to, then | people..

be there.

The Chia-shen year of the Kwang-hai, sum- me, in the 4th moon [May 1884]. Recorded by Hsiao-weng of Siling at his house at Shanghai,

**** AUTHOR'S PREFACE. Some westens customs are identical with those of the Middle Kingdom, others widely different, When first observed these cannot fall to excite surprise, so strange do they seem, but when one is accustomed to the sight of them they are looked on as a matter of courses. The following

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(To be continued)

This, of course, setiled the matter so far as Mr. Holcombe was concerned, and if the President does not appolat Mr. Kasson, who it the only gentleman now spoken of in connection with the calssion, if may be some weeks or even months before Mr. Denby, who has made an admirable record at Pekin, is relieved.

The new Chinese Minister to this country is expected to unive, about the 1st of next Septeme |ber, and a little later the present Minister will

depart for home via London and Paris,