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CHEMISTS.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1890.

BIRTH.

At Koolingson, (Amay), on Saturday the 7th June, the wife of Dr. E. DE PRREIRA, of a daughter.

DEATHS.

On the 15th instant, at the Peak, THOMAS GORAN LAMONT, Foreman in charge Aberdeen Deck.

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Al Shanghai, on the 13th June, ALICE, the beloved wife of THOMAS BROWN.

The Hongkong Telegraph

„Hopazona, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1870,

THE JAPANESE and theiR FLATTERERS.

ALTHOUGH we have rarely had occasion to

Our make of this popular beverage is not interfere seriously with the affairs of Japan,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

H.M.S. Linnet nurived at Shanghai from Wen- chow on the morning of the 12th inst. A TELEGRAM received to-day from Shanghai by an insurance office here, stated that there were bones of saving, at any rate a portion of the cargo of the Vangiste.

discourse, and we think it will bo generally admitted that a more pungent or plain- spoken, criticism of a public man has rarely appeared in any newspaper in the Far East. How far the writer's sictures and comments may be justified, residents behind the scenes in Japan will be better able to judge than outsiders, but as

PURELY Imaginary-Patient-I am afraid some- Captain BRINKLEY has never been parti- thing in the matter with my head, Dector, cularly mealy-mouthed in dealing with Doctor (examining patient's head)-It is all men to whom he was opposed, and with imagination, sir'; there's nothing in it measures affecting his self-interest, or to THE Sessions will commence to-morrow morning. which he had conscientious objections, heat ten o'clock. There are eight cases and fifteer prisoners for trial. The case of embezzlement can claim very little, sympathy for the by a Portuguese is held over until nex1 Sessions, unmerciful drubbing meted out by the

AT the Krupp works at Essen there are 1195 correspondent of the Herald.

furnaces of various 'constructions, 286 boilers. 92 steam hammers of from 200 to 100.000

horse-power. pounds, 370 steam engines, with a total of 27,000 ONE hundred shares in the Punjom and Sunghie to auction at Singapore on the 9th inst, but the highest bid was only $7.50 per share the

"Now that there is a lull in the outrages upon foreigners," says the correspondent,

"It perhaps will not be regarded as an

their cause.

THE French squadron, consisting of the Triomphants, Villars, Chasseur, and Pipère, left Woosung for Japan during the morning of the 9th inst.

of Great Britain swallow, over five million five RECENT investigation has shown that the people

hundred thousand pills daily, or one pill a week for every person in the population. The pill consumption for one year would weigh 178 togs. and would fill thirty-six freight cars.

next."

A CORRESPONDENT writes from Chemulon to the Shanghai Mercury on the 5th inst.:-"Yes. erday afternoon the U.S.S. Swatara arrived from Nagasaki and this morning filty of her men (a company of blue-jackets and one of marines). marched to the capital; their knapsacks were carried by ponies. I just hear that the King's mother died yesterday. A few days ago it was reported she had recovered from her late il'dess ; but then, considering the Royal personage was 5 years of age, a relapse might have occurred. let you know fuller particulars by my THE millionaires" of ancient times could

asThe sacred writings tell us that Solomon was the Rothschilds and Vanderbilts of modern stays. immensely rich-that silver was abundant in Jerusalem, and that in one year the King

to $16.250,000. It is known that in Assyria there were large masses of gold, and that Darius received in tribute from Persia as much as $16,150,000, in Greece, the wealth of Croesus was estimated at $15,000,000, and that of Pytheus at ns inrge a sum. At Rome, Tiberius, Angustus obtained by testamentary dispositions it is said, left legacy of $110,00,000, and as much as $160,000,000

The Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co, courteously informs us that the steamship Rome, with the next English. mail, left Singa- pore for this port at 5 p.m. yesterday,

burglar? Witness-Y-e-s. Cross-examining CROSS-FXAMINING Counsel—Isn't your husband

Counsel And didn't you know he was a burglar when you married him? Witness-Yes; but I was getting a little old, and I had to choose between a burglar and a lawyer, so what else could I do?

FROM private advices of the 5th inst: from Foochow our Shanghaj morning contemporary learns that the Congou market was opened that day by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, who had taken to chops of Tung How at Tis, 16,18 17, prices which were thought high for London. being only about Tls. 2 under last year's, say ro per cent. The other purchases to date were 1,680 chests Flowery Pekoe at T74, 53 to 135. and 1,000 chests Souchong at Tls. 29 to 42, the

year's rates,

merely a flavoured water, but is prepared with the necessity has sometimes arisen when altogether unprofitable task to investigate Dua Samantan Mining Company were put up apparently have made a fair show even against tentations made by interested parties, bas

an extract of Sarsaparilla root manufactured in our own laboratory,

Pria, 50 cents per dozen.

(Telephone No. 60.)

Hongkong, 14th June, 1890..

WINES AND SPIRITS.

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outside, criticism was justified, as for instance in the notorious. Normanton case,

and in one or two other outrages on foreigners by this so-called civilised nation Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. we have expressed our views plainly and vigourously. Japanese politics we have severely avoided, leaving the discussion. and elucidation of the mysterious, not to say incomprehensible, factors which compose the vaunted system of government directed from the official bureaux in Tokio, to the British journals

BY APPOINTMENT,

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building at Bangkok is nearing completion, and is expected to be ready for occupation next month. The Bangkok Times says that when finished it will be the finest commercial building in Bangkok.

This new Hongkong and Shanghai Bank

that the steamer Feima has now been trans- OUR Shanghai morning contemporary states ferred to the Shanghai Mutual Steam Navigation Company, that Cap'. Tisdall has been appointed chief engineer. to the command, and Mr. Barclay re-appointed

received from Hiram 300 talents of gold, equal They allege the ranch concession on Shamien.

Those best acquainted with the Japanese character, know that under. the guise of an affected humility; there ies concealed an immense reserve of overweening vanity, which led them to christen the country Dai Nippon," and to entertain a general belief that if not the very greatest, they are, at all events, equal, in point of capacity and valour, 10 any other people on the face of the earth.

"It is this ingrained self-conceit that is worked upon as a profitable source of it is to be présumed, being within the money-making by those foreigners who THE Shih-pao states that the Summer Palace under Lieutenants Knoop and Paino, and that yard. The proprietor of the factory is a German, (Yuen Ming Yuen) is to be restored at las', the are not above abasing themselves to Board of Adminity having voted nearly twe competent to deal with such matters. And pander to this spirit. Foremost amongst milkon tacis for the construction of a grand has also arrived at Edię.. The Datch mau-of-pastorals, say, and order, a couple of dezen. further, strange as it may seem to those the renegades who have retained a bad theatre, and a palace consisting of nearly a eminence, In this respect, and who has outside the pale, the interest displayed in

one else. I need only mention the editor of the Japan Mail. To this statement neither he nor any one else will be likely

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD published at the coast ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki, the editors of which,

inner circle of current events, are far more

(ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.) HONGKONG.

W landed Brands, all of which are of ex-

hundred rooms,

noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled Japanese affairs by Hongkong residents, secured more pecuniary profit than any, the report lately current in this colony, that firing it would be now impossible to gel nut any

7E invite attention to the following old cellent quality and good value for the money.

The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices. the name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, In ordering it is only necessary to state and initial letter for quality desired.

receive prompt attention. PORTS. (For Invalids and general use.)

excepting in ordinary matters of shipping most luke-warm and apathetic description; and other every-day business, is of the

the political future of the Land of the

to dissent, and certainly not without

THE China Merchants Co. have contradicted they had arranged to withdraw the steamer Kianghwan from the Hongkong-Canton line in consideration of receiving $15, o from the other two companies running on the river

AURE Philbert, who a few years agy rendered

atheism and materialism which he preached, public nec fe Catholicism and has been publicly received back into the pale of the church.

prices of these showing but little change on last

THE French press, probably through misrepres strongly and adversely criticised the action taken 'last year by Mr. Imbault Huar, French Consul at Canton, in respect to the sale by public anction of the French

between the notification of the auction and the day of sale, and that several Lyons firms were thereby prevented from chtaining sites, This is all arrant humbug. The Consul had full authority from the French Government for his action, and, further, ample notice was given to Imbault Huart deserves well of his country for all interested by public advertisement. Monsieur,

usefully utilising valuable building sites that had been lying waste for many years. THE latest news from Edie, says the Pe ang Gazette of the 6th inst. is to the effect that ACCORDING to the Philadelphia Inquirer,oil reinforcements have arived from Kota Radja printings are manufactured in that city by the more men are expected from Batavia shortly. with four sons, and a dealer who orders pictures The Governor of Acheen and its dependencies ferm them tells how it is done "I mm out of

war Samarang is lying close in to the shore The manufacturers stretch a big sheet of canvass shelling the Achinese forts, and the quarters of the whole length of their factory and begin ». the friendly Achinese are descried, living only work. The boss artist makes a draft in charcoal, the Chinese quarters occupied. Owing to the and one after another bis assistants go over it, The first man puts in the sky, the second the pepper, even if it were allowed to be exo ted.

grass and trees, the third the figures, the fourth as no ships dare venture up the river The houses and barns here and there, and the old Dutch 1 oops are said to be in high spiis and gentleman goes over the whole work putting in eager for battle; and it is exp ·cted that as soun little touches that make the perfect whole. It is as the remainder of the reinforcements arrive astonishing how fast they work, and when the from Java, they will attack the Achinese in force. canvass is dry they cut it un intò sections, tack

passes to any Chinaman to leave Edie.

me." WE contend that at the present time there is and for the last half-century there has been evolving an altered relation between body and in short-of the present generation is more mind, says the Hospital. The mind-he brain,

generally and intensely active than was the mind of immediately preceding generations. This is not the same as saying that the average min of the

380,000. This promise is held in writing with a than his grandfather, or that the posts and minor seal attached to it. We cannot imagine philosophers of the present age are greater than that the sum will be forthcoming, as, so long as Shakespeare or Goethe, than Descartes cr New the Samawak flag flies in Limbang, such con», • ton. It is only affirming that the average man's cessions obtained after the issue of his High- mind is much more active and is subjectedness's proclamation about Limbang would be to much more wear and tear than was the considered invalid. This wholesale method of average man's mind of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth selling land and property does not show in favor of the Sultan or his Government, and proves and Eighteenth centuries. As it is, therefore, imperatively incumbeat upon the practical

Int of the people of the Limbang, but that their one aim is to obtain money, no matter by what means. The $80,00 was to be, divided as follows :-$60,000 to go to the Sultan $10,000 to the owners of property in Limbang, and $10,000 was to be laid out in inking proceedings against the Sarawak Government.

THE Sarawak Gazelle el June and has the

Orders through Local Post or by Telegram Rising Sun, its boasted constitutionalism violating the truth. That he should have himself notorious at Paris by abandoning his Meantime, it is said, the Dutch will not grant each bit on a stretcher, and bring the lot to

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has always in view, is the least part of the evil, but what of infinitely more consequence is that by working on a Japanese weakness, he has succeeded in evoking in the susceptible minds of the younger generation, especially prone to excitment, a very inimical feeling towards foreigners, which crops up in acts of insolence or violence, as the case may be, in ways not readily beforehand to be calculated on. This journalist, in addition, assures the Japanese by, interested doses of artiul flattery that they are in possession of claims to be regarded as amongst the

performance was in

STANLEY'S Open Bouffe Company repeated the She-e" to a well-filed house at extravaganza the Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night. The every way successful and elicited almost continuous applause, This evening Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience" be produced, under the special patronage of His Excellency the Administrator,

WE are indichted to the courtesy of the North report of the recent Missionary Conference. A China Herald office for a capitally printed

picture of the several hundred missionaries, taken just after the stand gave way on which

immortality by being photographed, would have

been an attractive addition to this little pamphlet.

present generation has more sense and judgment

the consideration of almost every individual

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contemporaries. And yet the day may bravest, the most ingenious, the most able they were preparing themselves for earthly physician that he constantly study, understand not be far distant when serious political complications between China ani! Japan- ever threatening-will render a thorough knowledge of Japan a very desirable thing for all persons interested in the future of 1.52 the Far East.,

and pr1ctice the "medication of the mind" in

case, it is as necessary to take into the "brief" the state of the mind as it is to include the condi- tion of the teeth, or the bowels, or any other primary organ or function of the bedy.

following, which we reproduce without com- ment :-"It is reported on a reliable authority Dritish North Bornes Company, whilst on leave, that Mr. Davis, an officer in the service of the

obtained from the Sultan of Brunei the promise of a concession granting to him, Mr. Abraham- 300, and others, all the land in Limbang for

that they are actuated by no desire to better the

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the most artistic of any people that ever existed; that they are capable of any-.

THE Indo-China S. S. Co.'s vessel Taisang. thing and of everything which should make Capt. Jackson, arrived from Swatow this a nation proud, and yet, all this notwith-morning, and at once went over to the Dock at standing, that foreigners and their govern- Hungham. She has not been overhauled, but it was ascertained by the divers, whilst tempo- However, our present intention is not those national rights which it behoves every her fore-foot were knocked away, and two holes ments insolently deny them the exercise of rarily repairing ber that about twenty feet of to discuss the political situation in Japan; in fact, the foregoing observations were independent nation to claim and assert. made in the fore-hold. She will go into dock $4.50 elicited by a letter in the Japan Herald, It is of course, no part of this writer's

in which the writer very ably, and business, who is perpetually hounding GOVERNOR LIU MING-CH'UAN has recently sub- Detective Sergeant Hadden learnt that he had the bust up higher than is natural. Over this she.

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FOR several days the detectives here have been searching for several desperadoes who, finding Canton loo hot for them, had taken refuge in this

followed to Aberdeen, Stanley, and other places, Colony. The chief villain, one Li Pi Tsz, was but always eluded his pursuers. Yesterday, however, Detective Inspector Quincey and been seen

r Shaukiwan. Knowing that if they themselves went down they would be spotted," they sent two Chinese detectives there with the informer, with orders to locate him. They quickly discovered him in the little their man and then ahtain assistance to arrest theatre there, and then one of them went and told Inspector Corcoran. He sent two European constables-P.C. Miners and another-to inke

already committed some forty murders, and was not likely to hesitate at adding another to the list. The officere resolutely seized him, however,

and proprietor of which is a gentleman of may be,, either' now or hereafter, within while one, who held the rank of General, is to be him. The job was far from pleasant,as the man bad

the name of BRINKLEY, who was at one time an officer in the British army.

the purview of the laws of Japan Such a reasonable and moderate course affords no basis for hireling advocacy, and is is to appeal to Japanese vanity, to revive the passions by stimulating resentment,

As Captain BRINKLEY has been good enough more than once to devote the therefore, not attempted. All that is done"The P. & Q. Co.'s tender Guislaff was struck had bim locked up. In such a piratical nest as

0.75 efforts of his trenchant goose-quil to give publicity to this journal, and distinguished 0.75 himself an one special occasion, by editorially glorifying Sir "Gush" Bowes, 075 whom he described BS a grand old

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to sow the seeds of dissension, and lo

widen the gulf which exists between the peoples of the West and of the East.

There is not at any time an occurrence, but which is made by the Editor of the Mail to subserve his base purpose. Everything that by ingenulty, or perversity of the intellect, can a twisted to sarve his ends, is made to do to, until the mirth or the indignation of his readers is excited at reasoning so absurd, or at apostacy so pronounced and so shameless,

cashiered for his unprincipled conduct and cowardly behaviour in presence of the foe. THE X. C. Daily News of the 9th fast, say, by the propeller of the Rosetta on Saturday afternoon, the engines being turned over unex pectedly as the tender was getting ready to tow the steamer round. The blow smashed one of the plates of the Gutzle below the water line, so that she bad to be run ashore to prevent her sinking. As the tide fell the water receded through the hole and a patch being put on, the Guisia was pumped out and floated off again at high water, steaming back to Shanghai Yesterday morning. She will go into Boyd's new dock to day."

rence in the shape of an English and an Ameri

and, although he struggled like a demon, quickly tightly fitted waist is worn beneath the dress, Shau-ki-wan, however, it was by no means impossible that rescue might be attempted, so a few hours later he was put on a launch, under double irons and double guard, and brought to the Central Station. brought before Mr. Wodehouse, and charged with This morning he was murder, robbery with violence, and burglary, in gunboat applied for his rendition, through Mr. Chincic territory. The captain of a Chinese

Reece. Mr. Rodyk defended, After some formal evidence the case was remanded, the prisoner, on whose head a reward of $2,500 is act, marching away defiantly.

can waist on women of similar general physique, says the New York Sun, is in the shape of the corset worn. The American woman wears a corset which extends high under the arms, cover- ing and, especially in fleshy women, crowding generally wears a tight-fitting waist of muslin or cambric, and the result is a gradual but smooth and continuous slope toward the bottom of the waist, which is like a cone inverted. The English woman wears a bit of a corset, not much longer from the waist up than the pointed girdles which were stylish a few years ago, and very much shorter than our riding corset. The result is that their bodices, with short darts, give a very low effect to the bust. a rounded fulness of outline and a sudden Hghtening, in at the waist, which one often mistakes as being produced by tight lacing, No

and the general effect possesses all the charm of a corselless figure, with comparatively none of its disadvantages, and the beauty of their exquisitely fitted tailor dresses resalts largely from the fact that they are molded by skillful over a stiff, unyielding armor of bones and steel failors and on a live woman's figure, and not

besitaking to face the opposition to his scheme Li HAN-CHANG, the Viceroy of Canten, is still English gentleman, as if that arch-humbug 1.00 had been the Angel Gabriel, we need

for raising the torff on various articles. It is almost certain that he, will at any rate modify have no scruples 'in courteously returning

the proposal as regaris cotton and catton yarn, the compliment. The Japan Mail is an

Orn Korean correspondent writes under date,

and hopes are entertained that he will drop the admirably printed paper, and its Editor

the 6th inst."Owing to a serious political crisis WITH reference to the Raub concession, in which this By the Treaty of Nanking, signed in Idea altogether. The position of the merchants is is a most accomplished essay writer, but

caused partly by the pressure of China's repre- many of our readers are financially interested, 1842, it was agreed--and every subsequent 100 the possible usefulness of the paper is

sentative upon the King, and also by American

the Singapore Free Press of the 9th inst. says Treaty has confirmed and strengthened it-that and Russian intrigues, a body of American Work at the Raub mines has been making at all the open ports goods may be cleared of completely damned by the fact that it is,

"No one is in a position to determine marines were landed yesterday, at Chemulpo, steady progress. The main shaft, it may be all charges in the interior by paying the import whether directly or indirectly does not with any degree of certainty how far from the United States corvette Swatara and remembered, had been sunk to a total depth of duty and half as much more, for which latter marched upon the capital (Seoul), They Bo feet, and levels are being driven from this in payment transit passes are given. These 1.00 matter, subsidised, that is to say hired, the mischievous effects of a newspaper, numbered fifty with four officers, and were fully opposite directions. The larger of these proceeds transit passes are theoretically omnipotent-if a

by the Japanese Government. And it is discharging daily its evil mission, are

armed. Japanese marines were alap landed on a north westerly line, measuring gå feet long, bals of goeds so protected is landed at Kowloon by B by 7; or inside the timbering & by 33 feet. City to send to Peking it is free from all further only fair to say that it represents and chargeable with the delay of treaty from a Japanese man-of-war and marched on

revision, happily unsuccessful, or the the capital at the same time. The troops reached Several leaders have been cut at various

taxes. This provision"in the treaty, liowever, 0.40 advocates the views of Japanese officialdom attempt on the life of Count Okuma, Scout at sun-down on the 5th inst, and were points and at 28 feet from the "plat" or has never been taken advantage of by the mer- Fine A. V. H. Geneva... 5.25 0.50 with a fidelity and consistency which is but that much of what emanates from the quartered at the United States Legation," original face of the drive a rich leader carrying chants of Hongkong, for the simple reason that Finest Old Jamaica, Violet

good gold, was met. This is 40 feet below the inland charges in the Canton province have, really touching and worthy of a better editorial pen is calculated to inflame the MR. W. E. Sharp, chief engineer of the Fatrhan any of the old working. The "country" just as a rule, been less than half the import duty, Capsule Good Leeward Island...$1.50 perGallon, Cause. This system of independent (?) minds of crack-brained students or young deserves a medal from the Royal Photographi here is described as rotten black slate and and they have been the gainers by foregoing

sters with an itch for notoriety, anxious to Society, if there is such an institution. About it requires timbering. The drive in the their sight to obtain these passes. But now, Journalism has one or two very serious acquire reputation for an exalted patriot fortnight ago he tackled one of the most dia- south-easterly direction is also very satisfactory. Li Han-chang, puts 100 per cent, or more on defects; the financial support of theism, though spurious, and to make agreeable jobs that any enthusiastic amateur It extends now to a length of 60 feet and articles so largely sold as cotton, kerosing, etc., Mr. Bibby has encountered several leaders the merchants will certainly claim the protection Japanese authorities can only be retained negotiations more and more exacting in could wish for. A Chinaman who had killed his

which transit passes afford, and, in the long rua, by pandering to the well-known vanity their demands, cannot be doubted by those step-father suffered the unusual penalty of from half an inch to three inches in width,

At 29 feet mass We are by no means certain that this of their race, by flattering, them and who reflect on the situation and its accesing-chi at Canton, in the presence of a large all carrying fair gold.

of crushing stuffs ft. thick, composed of course will cot act very beneficially. The holding them up to the mirror of publicSorles, So long as the Mail, that Christian: and the officials had departed, Mr. Sharp pushed rotten slate and quiz carrying good gold, authorities at Canton are not likely to favor the like, missionary organ, devotes itself to through with his camera, and, in spite of the was encountered. This is the same as was Introduction of the system, and in all probability opinion as great statesmen, orators, the fomentation of ill-will between natives throng, heat, the stench, and the terrible spec met in cutting the tramway incline some thirty much opposition will aries in districts more or Afrin pequested that we addressed to the Manager, Hengkeng litterateurs, poets, painters-equal in fact and allens, rancour may be expected to tacle presented, obtained an excellent photograph feet higher up, and is the stuff from which most less remote from the viceregal authority. Goods

that all communications relating to Subscriptions, Trap" and not to the Bos

any European nation; and this flourish, and outrages to be occasionally of the gruesome sight. One more revolting of the specimens sent down to Singapore have sent to Yunnan, for instance, are sure to have could scarcely be conceived. Lying in the been taken and also the specimens belonging to local taxes imposed on them by the authorities Communications intended for publication must be accompanied course, it is very easy to understand, must perpetrated, which it is but too ready to

bleeding limbs and trunk of the viction, just as of testing the mine is now beginning and work úrman, and it will require months of constant the executioner left them. The head lies cleanly should now be quick and easy owing to the appeals against these violations of the treaty, and severed from the neck, the arms are backed tractable nature of the rock. It is now possible firm action on the part of the Canton Government, off at the slbow, shoulder, and wrist; to drive "dry," and.one pump is perfectly able before this will be overcome,' Once these transit the feet and lower part of the legs are similarly to keep the worklogs clear of water. All the passes are recognised, however, trade in the treated, and on the trunk, which is unspeakably machinery seat op originally is now on the south-western provinces is bound to receive a mutilated, the cords with which the victim was ground, and the men have been withdrawn from great impetus, and the large population_now bound to the cross are still visible. In the fore the river to the mine. The battery house is with difficulty reached by way of the Red River ground, alongside the agonized face, stands the finished; it is built of timber and roofed with will become large customers of the Hongkong blood-stained block on which he was decapitated corrugated iron and measures so fect by 48 feet markets. It all depends on Li Han-chang's after mutilation. Even described so shortly as by 20 feet in height. The dam is also making Immediate decision ; if he contents himself with in this brief notice some idea of the shocking good progr. When completed this work will a slight increase on cotton and cotton-godds the spectacle may be gained, but to realise it in all give a fake containing some millions of merchants will still waive their right to transit its horror the picture itself must be seeni. Mr. | gulloso wuch, will give ahead of water for passes, and the existing difficulty" of reaching “Griffiths has some copies on view at his studio. Į driving the winding machinery and the battery, I the remoter districts will continue,

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