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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1889.

The charge of assault brought by Lewis Ellis, A.B., against the first mate of the British barque Mauna Loa, was again before Commander Rumsey, at the Harbour Office, this morning, but owing to there having been no decision given na yet by His Excellency the Acting Governor with reference to a Marine Court of Inquiry, the case was again remanded until Monday morning, the 9th inst., at 10 o'clock. The plaintiff in the case was also absent,

A METHOD is described in En Samaina des Constructeurs for preserving cast iron from liabi- lity to rust, at the same time insuring a pleasing: surface. In accomplishing this, the casting is first throughly cleaned, washed in diluted acid, and, when dry, the surface is well rubbed with a metallic brush or a file, and then painted se- veral conts with raw pet cleum, care being taken that one coat be throughly dried before the next is applied. On the last cont becoming dry it is to be well rubbed with a stiff 'bair brush, the result being an attractive dull polish, capable of resisting a high degree of beat and not sus- ceptible to any attack by rust. This condition may be ir definitely preserved and improved by the occasional application of a single coat of petroleum, followed by brushing.

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MR. PETTIGREW, of South Carolina, was as Lamed for repartee as legal acumen. occasion, he entered the Court of Common Pleas, Abbeville District, clad in a linen summer suit. He had to take a jury suit at once, and, borrowing a black sobe from a fellow-barrister, South Carolina has all the old went at it. English forms and fuss, and the judge said, "Mr. Pettigrew, you have on a light coat. You cannot speak. Pettigrew replied, "May it please your Honor, I stricity conform to the law Let me illustrate. The law says a barrister all the latest improvements in the trade. shall wear a black gown and coat, and Yes,

Houor thinks that means a black coat,” The greatest attention has been paid to appil replied the Judge. Well, the law also says. ances for ensuring purity in the Water supply, to that the sherrif shall wear a cocked hat and a secure which we have added a Condenser capsward. Does your Honor hold that the sword able of supplying us with 3,000 gailons of distilled must be cocked as well as the hat ?" Pettigrew water a day, and are now in a position to compete was permitted to go on. in quality with the best English Makers. Our Sweet Waters cannot be surpassed anywhere.

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A RUSSIAN general of more energy than education, witën in charge of the local military transport of a remote district in the South of Central Asia, not far from the borders of Afghanistar, began to consider the feasibility of employing elephants instead of horses or camels. He consulted an ex ert, and was rather startled to hear the latter rate the amount of an elephant's food and its probable cost, at a figure which seemed to him extravagantly high. “He must be joking," whispered the general to his secretary Surely one elephant couldn't eat all that!" "May it please your Exellency, "an wered the secretary (who was as full of learning the general was devoid of it, and nev. lost a chance of dragging in a fine word), "it is a hyperbole.' The word "hyperb te" was far beyond the comprehension of the worthy general; but he would rather have died than admit as much, andhe rrse to the emergency. "Ab, it's a hyperbole, is it?" said he, looking as knowing as he could. "Well, that, of course, alters the Inattes; I dare say a hyperbole might be able to eat that amount, but I'm sure an ordinary elent couldn't."

ACCORDING 10 advices from Ching Chou, Hunan, a great fire raged over that cily, comi mencing at id o'clock on the night of the 6th ultimo, and lasted until 5 o'clock on the after noon of the next day: Part of the southern portion of fire city wall was burnt down, causing The fie to exted without the city, into the suburbs E estimated that nearly twelve thousand houses have been burnt, and that about one hundred and seventy-five men, women and children lost their lives in the conflagration. Owing to fires being of rare occurrence in Ching PURE FRUIT CORDIALS: Prepared from the juice of the finest selected Chow, the inhabitants of that city thought that they were under the special dispensation Fresh Ripe Fruit.

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LADY LAWYER: "I demand the discharge of my client, your Honor." Counsel for Plaintif: "May I ask upon what grounds "Lady Lawyer: "Well-because."

WBAT was it," asked the Sunday school teacher, that first caused the downfall of man ?" The forbidden fruit, replied the class in concert, "That's right. Ad now what kind of fruit was is There was a silent pause, and then the offspring of a newspaper funny spoke up. "] don't know what it was then, but it's a chestnut pow."

THE Chinese newspaper at T* Ya published at the China Mail office, although a conspicuous financial failure for the late lessee, is reported to have been taken over by a com pany of Chinese in this colony, who intend to make it the most liberal Chinese paper published in Hongkong. It will not be connected in any way with the China Mail, except so far as the connection between lessor and lessees are con cerbed. A Cantonese of reputed high literary attainments has been especially retained as "leader" writer.

seasonable weather which has new set in has CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS. improved the prospects of the grain crops.

August 19'b.

The "Peninsular, which was ashore in the Bitter Lakes, has floated off and proceeded to Brindisi,

belonging to Admiral Baird's attacking fleet of Admiral Tryon has captured three ships

Ushant; two turret ships, two gunboats, and. three torpedo vessels are guarding the mouth of the river Thames, owing to a rumour that Admiral Baird comtemplated an attack on the port of London,

A colliery explosion occurred at Hanley to-day, three persons being killed.

tenced to a year's imprisonment on account of his prize fight with Kilrain, having appealed against his conviction, has been admitted to A chapter of horrors is exciting interest at the week's end. The, editor of the Londoner killed suicide at Stratford. A mother and three his wife and daughter, and then committed children have been burned to death in the house at Exmouth, and at Bromley a woman has been outraged and murdered, and the body, matilated.

John L. Sullivan, the pugilist,' who was sen

PARIS, August 19th.

to thirteen thousand French Mayars, President At a banquet given yesterday at the Exhibition Carnot made a speech in which he dwelt upon Republic, which he said was unharmed by the evident progress and solidarity of the factious enterprises.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 19th. The Czar gave a dejeuner yesterday in hon our of the birthday of the Emperor of Austila, whose health be drank.

is no certainty that the conflagration of 1895 may not at any time be repeated. The great want is a proper water supply. At present the only certain supply, in case of fire, is from the harbour: From there, for five or six hundred feet, the tiers of bouses stretch away in clusters "p the hill-side, and, above that, many large very important indeed a "burning" question, terraces are acaltered at varying altitudes, A

for many years has been-How can a tiream of of water be obtained there for fire-extinguishing purposes? The mains are not to be relied upon The Robinson Road tank distributes Pok-fu-lumn water over Caine Road and a few upper streets, which run-one, eastward as far as the City and a lower tank feeds two seven-inch mains

When the houses are supplied there is a mode- Hall, and the other as far west as Tai-ping-shan. rately strong pressure obtainable from these pipes, nearly all the twenty-four hours, in the summer time, but in the winter, when the rain-bail fall is practically nil, the supply limited to a few hours daily. Fire-plugs are distributed yards, generally where two streets cross. But plentifully, there being one about every hundred fire-plugs are useless unless there is a pressure behind them, and at present that is too precarious THR Scientific Americans tells us that sugar, forto, be relied upon. The much-vaunted Tytam centuries after its introduction, was used only the least use; there are no pipes laid for its supply, that was, turned on last December, is not medicinally. Even in the tenth century it seems distribution, except as far as the Victoria to have been unknown as an article of diet. But Hotel, and it will probably be a couple of the same was true of ardent spirits. · Alcohol in no form was used as a drink in the Middle Ages. It will therefore be seen that the only cer years before the mains are down, and filled. Our foods and drinks of to-day are almost alto-tain apparatus for extinguishing fires in the gether recent inventions and discoveries. Our colony are the fire-engines. On the level, near fruits are new, or so greatly improved as to be the Harbour, they are all that could be wished, recognizable; and the same is true of our vege but how about fires that occur above the Cnitie tables. Potatoes and tomato-s came into general Road, above the Pokfulam level? If a fire that another century will place on our labies a use at a very recent date. The probabilities are broke out there to-day all that could be done great deal of food produced directly in the labor- pump water to another on Queen's Road, which would be to set one engine on the Praya to story, as sugar is, and not a product of natural would force it, in turn, to the Hollywood Road growth.

level, where a third engine would send it on to gs. After the great fire of 1878, to which we Caine Road, Higher than that they could not

have referred, the question of constructing a réservoir at a sufficient height to supply water at any level on which buildings existed, was mooted; estimates, shewing that it could be done for something like $50,000, were 1repared, and backed up by the unofficial members. But matters of more immediate importance absorbed the attention al the Surveyor eneral-the Hon J. M. P. bad a few monuments" in his eye- and, although the question has never really lapsed, nothing has ever been done. It has been revived recently, by the Hon. H. E. Wode house, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, but the idea must be considerably expanded of it is to take a material shape to-day. Extensive building has been, and is still going on up the bill-side; the Albany, Queen's Gardens and other residential localities claim protection. and to construct a reservoir of the required capacity, somewhere above the Albany reservoir. would be very much over the original medest fifty thousand. We don't think it couli ever have been done, for the latt r sum-Mr. Price never intended to

go through with the scheme, to the strangling of his own costly bantlings, so he estimated, at random. But such a work, if proceeded with at once, will take a long time, and the need may' arise very soon. But till either it or the Tytam supply get under way the Fire Brigade will be helpless. Mr. Wodehouse, besides ngitating in this matter, has devised a very useful apparatus for use wherever any pressure can be obtained. It is called the "Hydrant Despatch Box,”— apparently because it isn't a box, but a barrow, It has three compartments, each containing a hundred feet of hose, and there are also a stand-pipe, for attaching to the main, a branch-pipe, or nezle, a fire-plug key, for pulling off the plug cover, and a spanner, for turning the water on. The Superintendent's idea is this ;--

THE one-cent fines which Mr. Robinson Imposed yesterday have not passed without comment. Mr. Dennys attended the Police Court this morn- ing on behalf of the Opium Farmer, and applied for a re-hearing of the smuggling case reported in last night's lasue, in which a young coolie who was caught with thirty taels of opium on him, was fined a cent, in consideration of his stating the name of the individual. from whom he got it

Mr. Dennys urged on his Worship that the fine was most inade quale, and that the Opium Farmer, who con- tribated some cleven hundred dollars a day to the public purse, was entitled to the most stringent protection, but the magistrate, whilst agreeing that, in the new light which had been thrown upon the case, he might have been more severe, declined to re-open the case. + C was right-it would be monstrous to review a sentence for the purpose of increasing it

A TELEGRAM has been received by the Chinese officials at Canton, to the effect that His Excelency Li Han (hang has asked and revived the permission of the Throne for one month's congd, on the ground of sickness. From this meagre telegram, those who are au fait with matters official, think that they see the very probable reault that the Viceroy-Elect of the Liang Kuang does not care to come to Canton, in spite of the express wis es of his younger brother, the Viceroy of Chibli, Taking the matter in the light of the regular methods that obtain in such cases, this theory is a plaus ble one. H.E. Li Han-chang, having obtained one month's leave of absence, will, after the expiration of the term, ask for another month's holiday, and so on, unul at last he will actually refuse to come on the ground of old age and the consequent lafirmity. HE. Chang Chin-tung appears to believe in this theory, for he has ordered all the public works to start again which, after the Ed et came, he had ordered should be temporarily stopped. This mans that Cbang Chitstung does not intend to leave Canton for some time to come.

THE SANITARY BOARD. Quite a good meeting of the Smell Sages this afternoon. Only the three doctors and Mr. Humphreys absent. Cooper had places at the Board, and the King of Mr. R. K. Leigh and Mr.

Siam was to attendance. Board plunged at once into the orders of the day. First item -Correspondence relating to the enforce ment of the Drainage Bye lawa It was read.

The Houghang Coleg superhuman fair one) do not for a moment doubt which implied incompetence of the firm's over-

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1889

There are fire-plugs very three or four 1 undred feet, so that no fire can occur very far from one. Anybody can run with the barrow to the plug nearest to the place, lift off the cover, screw the stand-pipe on, aitach the first length of hose, and then trundle the "Despatch Hox" towards the fire, paying out hose as he goes. The end of the length will have to be disengaged when reached, and attached in the second length, if been obtained the jet must be screwed on, and necessary. When a sufficient length of bose has

will take it whilst the man in charge hastens some reliable bystander-a policeman, say,

back to turn on the water, trial was made near the City Hall, yesterday afternoon, and a jet was obtained in from 2 to 2 minutes. These Boxes" can be made and fitted for about $80, and if the idea commends itself to many private individuals, as it probably, will, they will be so spread over the city that one will always be handy. Until they become general, Mr. Wodehouse's idea is to have a few established by the Government at regular stations, where a constable or any one else can existing provision of extincteurs, hand-pumps, readily get them. They will supplement the &c. The model which gave such satisfactory results yesterday may be seen at No, 5 Station,

LATE TELEGRAMS.

CAIRO, August 17th. General Grenfell arrived here'to-day.

(A DRAMA, written in more or less distant times, by an amateur, contained the following speech

First letter, a satirical epistle trom by the hero By the intervention of the in- Mr. Cooper. Second one, a letter from Messrs; visible hand of Providence, I have been prevented Danby and Leigh. Mr. Francis suggested that from precipitating myself at your feet, for the Mr. Leigh should unburden himself on the catire absolution of the collectaneous calamny which has been se slanderously conglomerated subject. Mr. Leigh accordingly did so, Said in upon the unblolled and unsophisticated face of my the first place, that the Board's Surveyor had stainless reputation, and with which i have been so Dever formally approved of his firm's plans, as maliciously circumvallated, that I apprehended their "Bye-laws said he ought. Then, again, 15 the most mountainous, colossal, and Herculean

difficulties in perfectly disincarcerating myself the Surveyor had not surveyed some drains from the criminous machinations, in which I had | within the proper time, and imperilled a lot of been so unmercifully immured. But, O thou work. Also Mr. Cooper's satire, the moveless stability and fathomless profundity seems, Ventilated a variety of grievances against of my love for the monocular autocrap of day | the Board's officer, and wound up with an shall cease to irradiate the umbrageous recesses" sapurance that he had no interest in not meeting

ST. PETERSBURO, August 18th. of the forest the translucent queen of night | the Board's views, Mr. Cooper was then desired shail cease to perambulate the diaphanous and to let himself loose. Reply feable, taken all

The Crar storts for Copenhagen on the 21td stelliferous concavity of the cerulean heavens; round. Didn't get up to address the Board, for inst, and from thence proceeds to Potsdam or the horrizonous roaring of heaven's artillery one thing. Mr. Francis summed up. Thought the 16th September. shall cease to bellow forth its terrific peal; the it was the Board, more than either Mr. Leigh that the Queen intended going for a sea trip is It is authoritatively announced that the report forky corruscations of the skies shall discontinue or Mr. Cooper, that was to blame. Bye-laws to blaze forth their sulphurous, igneaus fulgor very defective. Suggested that the drains, over without foundation. The Queen visits Llangalien from the igniferous clouds before my love which the trouble began, should be passed,. Mr.

on the 26th of August, and drive twenty miles shall be extinguished; and oh i angel of my Comper wouldn't. Board evidently with Mr. through the Vale of Llangollen to the seat of Sir heart could the manifestation of the keenest Cooper in requiring an inpection of every.

BERLIN, August 18th. pangs of consc, de, raise me but a millionth bit of drain, as it went along. Mr. Leigh thought part of an inch into thy favour, I would at once the Board didn't know how to read the Ordin The interviews here between Prince Bismarck begin to pour forth such a food of tears, that were ance the section about Inspection meant that and Count Kalnoky have led to a modification the world, on fire, they would drown the wrath of the Surveyor should inspect sample patches. of the terms of the Austro-Germanic Treaty of heaven and quench the mighty rain." Discussion thereon cut short by the Pre-Acti interests of either antios was to be

pointing out that the bye-laws could the vital interests was to beneful, he might mention that he had rear used are "any menace of the vital interests of up bys-and-bye. As Surveyor, repelled by both. In the revised treaty the terms son to believe that there was a good either.” deal of dissatisfaction among that section of the commpaity interested in the Public Health Ordinance, who thought there were many modifications of the byclaws desirable. He suggested that these individuals should be asked to send in an expression of opinion to the Board, for its consideration, Mr. Francis moved that the plans in contention he let go, this time. At the time of going to press, Board still discussing,

TELEGRAMS.

MONSTER MEETING OF STRIKERS. LONDON, September 1st. An orderly conducted meeting at which 150,000 persons interested were present, was held in Hyde Park. Speakers declared that the strike would be persevered in unless the demands made were complied with.

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PARLIAMENT. Parliament is prorogued, until the [Reutar omits to name the dates.Ed., H.K. Telegraph]

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited TWELVE thousand and twenty-seven candidates, including fifty-nine Manchus, for the degree of Manchu Childen, attended the examinations at Canton last Saturday, The stalls were so crowded that temporary sheds had to be con- structed for the surplus number of students. FROM, an advertisement in another column, it will be seen that Professor Ruchwaldy and his company, will give their first performance in the City Hall on Saturday evening. The Professor has visited Hongkong before, and if be only does as well this trip as on that occasion, he will

have a full house.

WHEN the China Squadion is here, we hand periodically, after “general liberty" days, bad be to record some misdoings on the part of the British Tar, but it must be admitted that Jack ja a lot more bearable on these occasions than the "furrin" man-of-war's man. Yesterday after. noon a lot of sailors from the Brazilian corvette got down Talpingsban way, and, following there instincts, began to "biil-dote" every body Some of them went into the Globe Hotel, and had drinks for which they wouldn't pay. De tective Sergeant Haddon, who was passing, was called in, and was very quickly surrounded by a lot of the rowdias, For about a quailer of an hour a royal row raged, a few more constables HONGKONG'S FIRE-EXTINGUISH- and a great many more Brasilian sailors shipping in. In the end two men were arrested, but their captors, particularly Haddon, were pretty badly used up, what with kicks, blows from sticks, and rolling in the gutter, A third sailor was caught in a "tea-chest maker's shop, under rather Iudicrouscircumstancer, The shopwesobstructed with a pile of boxes, and when he took refuge in the place he tried to clamber over them, but fell down, and got so jammed that all the bozes had to be taken away before he could get out. Mr. serious nature of the disturbance, only fined the leading spirit $5. and the others $2 each.—It is | Hongkong is, a mighty awkward place when said that these Spanish and Brazilian sallors fires do break out, from its configuration, bring kolves ashore. If any are caught using and although we have half-a-dosen fine steam them, wohope a thorough example will be made. · dis-engines and as many, manuals, there

ING FACILITIES.

The effect of the Fire Inquiry Ontinance, added to that of the combined action of the Insurance companies In refusing small Chinese risks, has been that this year we have hardly had a dozen fires altogether, Instead of a hundred, as in similar periods in previous years. But our comparative immunity from this scourge has not

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LONDON, August 18th,

'CANEA, August 20th, The number of Turkish troops in Crete is to be raised to thirty thousand men. Disturbancer between Mahomedans and Christians are less frequent, and the Island is quieting down.

VANCOUVER, August 201b. «

An American revenue colter has seized the British sealers Pathfinder and Mingie in Beh. ring's Sea, and boarded and searched others

STRASBURG, August 20 b. The Emperor William arrived here en-day and met with a m.st Cordial réception,

ROME, August.

through the window of a hall during a concen A dynamite bamb was maliciously thrown last night. It exploded, exus ng injuries, more or less serious, to eight persons.

LONDON,,August 20th.

An express train on the North Eastern line was derailed last night near Surderland. One passenger was killed and many injured...

During blasting operations at the mines at Donan ( Durham), a dynamite cartridge ex plded, causing the death of five miners."

The Queen has sent a life-size portrait of her. self to Prince Bismarcke.

August 22nd.

The Queen starts to-night to pay her long pro- mised visit to Wales,

August 23rd.

During a westerly gale the ironclad Sultan, which was floated, drifted towards the land, and now rests on rocks and has partly refilled with water.

THE ABSENCE OF ALTRUISM. IV, Enough has already been said to make it ap parent that there is in most Chinese bemés abundant material for domestic conflagrations, seldom any permanent lack of fanning. The if it is duly fanued; and unfortunately there is Chinese are a most leguncious race, and even the dullest of them can become eloquent in defence of his rights, real or supposed. woman in an American court begged the judge to grant her a divorce, on the ground that she had been married seventeen years, and that all that time her husband had "Jawed. constant," Whether his meals were or were not ready,

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whether his buttons were or were not sewed on, whatever the conditions, be "jawed constant," This grave criticism is applicable to many homes in nominally Christian lands, but to vastly more in China. Indeed the precise observation of tho woman Just quated acquaintance, who made the life of his daughter- was made in the writer's hearing, concerning in-law a burden. The occasions for this unreas- ing jaw are as numerous as the objects and interests with which human beings have to do. Money, food, clothes, children and their squab bles, a chicken, a dog, anything or nothing, will complicated tangle of quarrel, which will not go serve as the first loop on which will be knit a

far without words of reviling which increase the speaking of the Social Typhoons of Chinese fury of the disputants in a ten-fold ratio, In life, these quarrels have been already fully described; and need only be mentioned here, in order to illustrate the manner in which the absence of altruism acts in the details of everyday life. Such quarrels, in which the principals lose all control of themselves, shrick out words of reviling abuse at the highest possible pitch, and jump up and down in Paroxysms of fury after the manner of a perio dical geyser, are yet not inconsistent with that peaceableness which we have seen to be a distinctive Chinese trait. The water that boils over with rapidity when the pressure of the at- mosphere is abnormally low, will likewise freeze quickly under a sudden lowering of the tempera tae. It is the same water, but subject to vary. ing conditions. One of the most enigmatical characters in the Chinese language is that which is used to denote the rise of passion, and which Sir Thomas Wade euphemistically translated wrath-matter. The word ch is a most im. portant one in all kinds of Chinese philosophy and in practical life. 'CA'' is generated when a man becomes very angry, and the Chinese believe that the e is some deadly connection between this developed wrath-matter' and the human system generally, so that a violent passion in constantly named as the exciting cause of all varieties of diseases and ailments, such as blind- ness, failure of the heart, &c. It is, mast fortun- ate for the Chinese that they have not the habit of carrying weapons about them, for if they had revalvers, or swords like the former samural class of Jap.0, it would not be possible to predict the amount of mischief which the daily evolution of ch'i would produce. When a тап от Д been deeply wronged, there is no power on earth woman is once seized of the idea that he has

which can prevent the sudden and often utterly ungovernable development of a certain amount of th's, or rather of a very uncertain amount of it. We have heard of a man who applied- for baptism to en old and experienced missionary, and was very properly refused, whereupon he got a knife and threatened to to the tile of initiation by an ordeal of battle. att. ck the missionary to prove bis claim Happily this method of taking the kingdom of heaven by violence, does not a mmend itself to most noviciates, but the underlying principle is of Chinese social life. An old woman who will one that is constantly acted upon in all varieties bot take no for an answer, asks for financial assistance, and throws herself on the ground in front of your carter's mules. If she is run over, 'so much the better for her, for she is thus reasonably sure of a support for an indefinite period. An old vixen living in the same village as the writer, was constantly threatening to com. A writer in the Singapore Free Press, in an

mit suicide, but though at her neighbours were article which he contributes, draws a very fair willing to lend their aid, she never seemed to Peninsula have to go through. Referring to picture of what the prospectors in the Malay accomplish her purpose. At last she threw herself,

into one of the village mudholes with intent to Johore, he describes the track as passing through drown, but found to her disgust that the water low swampy bush country, covered with succulent was only up to her neck. She lacked that versaK- rapid growth and dense patches of interlaced tility of invention which would have enabled her thickets and tralling plants. Here elephants to put her bead under water and bold it there, may be seen in numbers, and their tracks, but contented herself with reviling the whole crossing and recrossing the path taken by the village at the top of her voice for her contretemps. traveller, are so confuming that a guide. The next time she was more successful. If x fortunately easily obtained, is absolutely wrong has been committed for which there is no necessary. Even the natives frequently go legal redress, such as abuse of a married daughter astray for a few miles, but their general know- beyond the point which custom warrants, a party ledge of the country and guidance marks, of the injured friends will visit the house of the unintelligible to others, enable them to recover mother-in-law, and if they are realated will their direction where a stranger would be engage, in a pitched battle. If they are not is on the higher ground it is pleasant assailants will proceed to smash all the crockery hopelessly lost. As long as the travelling resisted, and offending persona have fled, the walking enough, if it were not for the in the house, the mirrors, the water-jars,

and letches, which simply swarm on the Eastern whatever else is frangible, and having thus side of the range.

Bad enough on the allowed their ch's to escape; they depart. . Îf their bills, they are something truly awful in the coming is known in advance, the very first step lower forest, even in this, the dry season. is to remove all these articles to the house of Parangs must be kept going all day removing some neighbour. One of the Chinese newspapers them at every few yards from feet and legs, recently mentioned a case which occurred in while all along the track they can be seen on Peking, where a man had arranged for a wedding the dead leaves, waving about on end as the with a beautiful women, who turned out 10 be “au vibration of the approaching tread warns them ugly, bald beaded, and elderly woman." The dis- obtained on the sandbanks thrown up by the struck the go-betweens, reviled the whole of a possible meal. Sleep or rest here must be appolated bridegroom became, greatly enraged,

streams in flood, the only places free from these company, and smasked the bride's wedding times, tobacco, salt, alcohol, etc., are of no avail, same way, if he was in such relations to his voracious little pests. Deterrent applications of outfit. Any Chinese would have acted in the

streams or swamps which have to be crossed, fre after the preliminary paroxysms of cf bave for they are promptly washed off again by the environment, that, ba dared to do so.* It is quently kace-deep. The European way farer had opportunity to subside, that the work of the must make his arrangements on starting on the peace talker that useful factor in Chinese understanding that boots and inexpremibles are 'social die--is accomplished. · Sometimes these wet through all the time. As for danger, most essential individuals are so deeply im Master Stripes is by no means a myth in the pressed with the necessity of peace, that even forest, his tracks being visible half a dozen when the matter is not one which concerns them times in a day, but I only actually saw one, and personally, they are willing to-go from one to beaded a stare at the intruders on his privacy, the other making torus, now to this side, and bounded off into the jungle. We slept at night now to that, in the interests of harmony. ald not see or hear any thing more bloodthirsty books and the Sacred Edlets' of the emperors In the open without fires, but except the leeches, Chinese moral maxims, the common virtus

than mosquitos, and not many of those. Ele abound in exhortations to forbearance,' a virtuo but a discordant chorus of which lightly affirmed to be superior to that

In the House of Commons, Baron de Worms replying to a question said that the revenue of Labuan was inadequate to maintain the colonial administration. Government bad therefore asked the British North Borneo Company to remain a British colony, and not be ceded to the administer the island, which would however Company. The terms apon which the Company will take over the island have not yet been settled.

THE PLEASURES OF PROS- PECTING.

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The P. & 0. 5. N. Co.'s, mail steamer Penin bowls from sular, homeward bound Lom Bombay, bas run alwys sent them off. One snake only, was seeny of this latent forbearance among the Chiucas, ashore in the Bitter Lakes and Suez Canal.

and non-venomous at that. As for the as there bas need to be, to preserve society from asked whether it was true that during the visit eet of pleasant fellows, patient, cheery, willag. heard may serve as a type. A former employé In the House of Commons, Mr. Labouchere natives, they turned out to be a very peaceable ruin. The strongest case of which we have of Emperor William to England, the British obliging and strictly honest. Some 50 or 60 are of a wealthy man fell into a rage, vented all his Government promised to, support the Triple camped at Sungei Mas, when not wandering superfluous AV in the streck, in front of the Alliance against France and Russia in the event about the jungle, can be engaged at 20 house, procured a large knife, and with violent of war between the two latter Powers and cents a day and a little food and tobacco, to threats stuck it into the outer door of the estab the Powers forming the alliance, Sir James carry to lbs of goods 20 to 30 miles a day, lishment, at the same time reviling everyone Ferguson, in reply, confirmed the previous Tough why little fellows they are, but if the therein in the most outrageous manner. The assurances he had made on the subject, and traveller is unduly fastidious, he must see that master of the house was prudent enough to allow enld that no such engagement as mentioned by a leaf mat is interposed between his goods and this fit of fury to wear itself out, after which the Mr. Labouchere existed'; England, he said, was the back that carries it, for four fifths have cuta bafiled servant went off and got drunk, and entirely free to don as the pleased in any neous eruptions or affections of pronouncedly during that night died in front of the man's eventuality. Mr. Smith, replying to a further disagreeable type. At the Western end Tenang, door. Under ordinary circumstances this might question, denied that the British Government it is not so easy to get men, but certain power- have been made use of "as a most serious friendship existed between the said that perfect ful pocket arguments will overcome objections handle with which to extort money from the rick there as elsewhere. Approaching the rice fields, mes, but under the circumstances, this was out The strike of deck labourers in London is the European must be careful about endeavour of the question, and the moral was plain to illas extending, and at a meeting of the strikers held ing to fraternine with the buffaloes, those Forbearance in a virtue sure to be rewarded as yesterday, it was resolved to continue the strike ungainly brutes having the same decided objecWe have just remarked that in Chincac life, tion to the white man as elsewhere, and Ra The French Government will not demand the demonstrative in expression thereof Alligators extradition of General Boylanger, que de are in all the rivers deep enough to cover them, The heavy rains which lately prevailed in but the natives do not seem to care mach about England and which were seriously interfering them, only avoiding the deeper pools of stili with the harvest operations, have ceased, andiks 1 water, the saurian's home, shop sanda

two nations.

SOME experiments lately made at the Royal Polytechnic School, at Munich, show that the Wodehouse, who did not seers to appreciate the Jolled the authorities into a false sepse gl security, until their demands were granted. strength of camel-hair belting reaches 6,315 pounds per square inch, while that of ordinary belting ranges between 2,330 and 5,260 pounds per square inch. The camel-kair bek is un- ́ ́affeciéd by acids.

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