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fall here, the outlet narrow and the current swift, they have to be let through gradually by means of ropes fastened to a capstan on shore. Five or six days have been consumed in their passing

and the end is not yet.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1892.

responsible if he delivers the goods after notice. Japanese at long intervals changed from peace- able neighbors into marauders and freebootern If by mistake he deliver them, the seller may bring trover for them against the buyer, or his worthy of Sir Walter Raleigh, Frobisher and assignees, If he be bankrupt. The notice must Drake; that Manipur, Assam, Barmah and be given to the one who has the immediate Tong King, at various epochs, were strong, custody of the goods. If given, to a principal, belligerent communities in the far East; that whose agent has custody of the goods, it must Cambodia and Cochin China were populous, be given at such a time and ander such circum-rich and warlike civilizations, where now the stances that the principal, by the exercise of tiger prowls and the serpent glides; that the reasonable diligence, may communicate it to hisIsland of Ceylon was the scene of brilliant and servant. We may say that it is a common brave dynasties which followed one another like waves on the shores, and at times the Tartar custom for the seller to require bills of lading to be made to his own order, thus cutting off many nomads who live to the north, north-east and questions which might arise as to delivery, went of Asia were gathered lato great armies and nations by unknown Tamerlanes and Wm. C. Sprague,

Genghis Khans.

IN SYDNEY.

THE CASE OF IDWARD BILL

The presents of tea from the flowery King- dom to kingly neighbors are humble monuments to the grasp of dynasty and empires. Before the time of Confucius it had supplanted every other fuld for assunging thirst. Its sanitary excellence was appreciated by Shen Kung, a celebrateri scholar and philospher, who said "Tex is better than wine, for it leadeth not to intoxication; bellher does it cause a man to do foolish things and repent thereof in his sober moments, better than water, for it doth not carry disease, It is neither doth it act as a poison as doth water when the wellt contain foul or rotten matter."

That its use was universal is borne out by one of the maxims of Confucius, the wisest man of China, when he said: Be good and courteous to all, even to the stranger from other lands. If he say unto thee that he thirtieth give unto him a cup of warm tea without money and without price.

Our Chantal was taken ill several days ago. and though a man of neatly yo, he, like say of the rest of us did not desire to shake off th's mortal coll, but eagerly so ight still to "borrow Age," The method he took was Eastern, with out a dubt, Having tried physicians and finding them of no avall, he called in a sorcerer, who felt his pulse and came to the conclusion that there was a soul in hell that could not pass one of the customs, of which there are very many. This saul, elther one of his family, or that of some outilde person, bad caused the unld disease in the CF Catal, and this sorcerer GROSS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE must go down and, see about it. Accordingly three rooms in the yames were put at the disposal of the sorcerer, who had all the windows and doors, stopped up, burned Incense and paper, sepented incantations, and then feigned A few weeks nga we unblabed sundry'com- sleep and death, while his soul went to Hadesments on the case of Edward Bell,, recently to bargain for the release of the Chantal sentenced in Melbourne to four years' imprison Evidently the sorcerer had mistaken his diagnosis ment for burglary, and expressed the opinion that and was on the wrong track, for he falled in his the conviction was an almost unparalleled errand. The patient was poorer by 50 or 60 instance of Judicial stupidity. The evidence taels, and the day following be passed away against Bell was as follows: A certain house What a contrast this high official is to a Taotai halder, named Larch, was awakened by a who lived here 15 or 20 years agot The one burglar, and after a desperata scrimmage in a actually belleving in such claptrap, while the dark room he wrested a coat toll off the Intruder's other seeing the power of these swindlers to play clothes, just an that unlawful person fled through upon the credulity of the people, denounced them the window. The only two things-judging by and publicly issued a proclamation forbidding his report to the police-which he was sure about them to practise their arts and the people to employ in the darkness and the excitement were the afore-

At the time of Buddha China was enjoying a them. Apropos of sorcerers, the shrewdness of said coat-tall, and the fact that the visitor was s

large foreign commerce in tea. Itwas was carried a magistrate here was well shown some 'years man of great she and ferocity. The police thereby her junks to Japan, Corea, Tonquin, Annam, ago in connection with one. His gatekeeper upon arrested Bella miserably small, slanted, professed to be a sorcerer and was in the babit undersized Individual, as little like Larch's Cochin-China, Burmah, Slam, India, Ceylon, Perla and Arabia. According to one record i of "dying" twice a month. This dying" con- description as a horsels like a dog-the principal

was sent to a great flat river country west of sisted in the gatekeeper felgning sleep and lying evidence against him being that he were a pair Arabia, from which it was separated by a long around apparently insensible to everything for a of pants corresponding in material to the captured and very torrid sea, which must have been whole day. The magistrate grew tired of this, coat-tail. He was exhibited to the prosecutor so one day bearing that his gatekeeper had one that is to say, the latter individual wasn't asked 7p. It was carded by caravans to Manchuria, of his dying fi's on he went out to see him, and to pick him out of, say, a dozen prisoners, but Mongolia, Kuldja, Taitary, Thibet, Persia and falling to arouse him, he remarked that he would was simply asked if Bell was the man; and be bring him to life, and at once celled for a bamboo. promptly (dentified him, just as he would, most He ordered the gatekeeper to be divested of his likely, have identified Long M'Kean or "General pether garments and proceeded right heartily to Mite" if his attention had been drawn in the

From this time there was a slow but steady lay on the bamboo. Sure enough he was right, same way to eltber of them. Also, he swore to

decline to the reign of the present sovereigs, for at the fourth blow the gatekeeper sang out, him in the Court, regardless of the awful discre Kwang-Hsu. in the past twenty years the begging his master to desist, and promisingever pancy between the size of the prisoner, and decline has been something terrible, the trade after to give up his tricks of sorcery.-N. C. that of the burglar as revealed by his own to-day being scarcely one-quarter of what it was Daily News.

description. Bell's only defence was that the in-

in 1870. The outlook is not promising to the criminating pants were given to him by some fer-ten-planter and patriot in any respect. In every son whom he couldn't trace-being locked spin district the industry is on the verge of gaol he couldn't naturally trace anybody; and bankruptcy. The demand from abroad 7-stly the jury promptly found blm guilty, and the diminishes, the people, themselves are t king to Judge-regardless of Mr. Lurch's really sar-

ather beverages, while the taxation necessary to prising statements-sent him up for four years. Government, which in the former years of The right of stoppage_in_transita is greatly This event took place some four months ago prosperity was a mere trill, now threatens utter favored by the law. It may be defined to be the and within the past few days the real offender extinction of the trade.-Philadelphia Times. right belonging to the seller of goods, who hasone Glies, who is now doing 14 years on his not been paid therefor, to resume possession of own account-confessed to the crime. Giles them before they come into possession of the and an accomplice gave the pants to buyer, who has become Insolvent, bankrupt, or pecuniarity embarrassed. A few general state- ments with reference to this very important and greatly valuable right will not be uninteresting or uniostractive.

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STOPPACK IN TRANSITU.

The right of storage in transltu has been long recognized, We find it exercised as early as 1670. At first it was recognized only as an equitable right, that is, cognizable only in a court of equity. It is now become a part of the common law, Reverting to our definition, many qarations may arise, some of which we shall tte pt to answer. As to how long the ti ht continues, we may say until the goods reach the actual or constructive possession of the buyer or his agent. What is meant by constructive possession? Would it Include the possession of a canter who had been designated, or who is hired and paid by the buyer! We think not. So long the goods are in the hands of the carrier, whether by sea or land, the right exists, even although the buyer appointed the carrier. But not if the conveyance belongs to the hayer. And the right continues while the goods are in any place of deposit connected with the transmission and delivery of them. Goods may be said to he delivered when they reach the hands of an authorized agent of the buyer, who is holding them until he receives orders from the buyer, but not so if they are in the bands of shipping agent appointed by the buyer to await his instructions, not as to their destination, but as to the mode of shipment to their original des tination. If the Fuier te in the habit of using the warehouse of a capier, wharfinger or other person as his own, for insiance, by making it the repository of his good, and disposing of them there, the transit is at an end.

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It has been held that, where the goods are stazed by a carrier at the end of his route as #gent for the buyer, the transit is complete.

If, at the rims of the sale, the seller ships the goods to a third person in the buyer's name consignor, at the buyer's request, the right prob

ably does not exist.

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Hell, and as a further stretch of humour they took the detective along, and pointed Bell out to that functionary, The officer, in fact, seems to have arrested his victim simply because a shady-looking stranger told him to do it, and apparently he never even asked how, the stranger came by his informa- Hon. Giles and his friend and supporter have now been convicted of conspiracy to charge Bell with the crime of burglary, but, so far, nothing seems to have happened to Mr. Larch, whose dient and copious testimony certainly had much to do with that in serable victim's disaster, No doubt if the burglar had committed murder upon a member of the household to facilitate his escape, Mr. Latch would have sworn just as fluently, and long before this time Bell would have been banged and forgotten. Then, in ali probability, the truth would never have been revealed, for no one worries much about a dead man, and he would have gone the same way as many other dead men who 111 victims to police stupidity, and circumstantial evidence, and the readiness of many witnesses to take a prironer's gullt for granted merely because he is in custody. And even if the truth and come out in that case, it would have done remarkably little good to anybody concerned. There is no return rond from the gallows, and hanging is the only mistake for which the law can make no pessible repara- Hon. And for that reason capital punishment badly wants to be abolished. So long as the law is a blundering institution, which depends for its accuracy on the brains of unintelligent policemen, who depend, in their, tuin, on hazy witnesses and shady-ipoking strangers who appear mysteriously at street corners, it is an anspeakably rash thing for any court to commit itself to an act from which there is no going back By pure accident, however, Bell has been "pardoned" instead of banged. In other words, the law, which did him a brutal wrong. graciously forgives him for having the wrong done to him. It is an unspeakable proceeding, and the only thing the State can do now to make it complete is to charge Bell for board and lodging during the time he was in gaol, and for wear and tear of the policeman who raa bim in, and for the use of the Judge who sentenced him, and to send him a bill for the rent of the witnesses who wore so profusely against blin

TEA.

ITS DISCOVERY AND HISTORY.

Where part of the goods are delivered without the intention on the seller's part of retaining the rest, but as a step towards and in progress of the delivery of the whole, the right ceases. The buyer may take possession of the goods at any point on their journey and defeat theright, but merely make Ing demand for them of the carrier does not defeat-Sydney Bulletin. It An attachment or execution against the buyer cannot be levied on the goods to defest the right. The vendor's right is superior to all Blens, but not to the carder's lien for freight. An Indorsement of the bill of lading to a bone fide purchaser will defent the right. An indorse. ment of the bill of lading as a pledge for a specific sum defeats the right, but the seller may give notice to the pledges, and in a court of eqully maintain his right to the difference between the amount of the pledges' demand And the sum realized by the sale of the goods.

An assignment of the bill of lading as security for an antecedent debt does not, nor does an si signment for the benefit of creditors, defeat the right. But suppose the goods are partly paid for, or an acceptance or a note given, does the right still exist? Yes. Suppose the note be negollated? The rule would probably be the same. Bat if the seller takes the unindersed note or order of a third person, the sight, it seems, is defeated, but the mere fact that the rendor has recourse against some other party does not defeat the right. The cases held that if bill or note or part payment has been received, it is not necessary" to "return the same in order to exercise the right. WE may exercise the right? The seller, a general #gent, or one who is a special agent in respect to this consigament; a commission merchant, ene who has paid the price for the buyer and has taken the bill of lading as security Consignor, who consigns goods to be sold on the Joint account of himself and the consignce, may exercise the right. The right belongs to no one "but the seller."

By whom and when the ure of tes for drinking purposes was discovered is lost in antiquity, The famous herb is spoken of in the 'Chinese annale as far back a 2000 B.C., at which time it was cultivated and classifed almost as completely as to-day,

One ancient legend says that its virtues were leamed by accident by a Chinese monarch, King Shen Kung "The Divine Husbandman, who dourished four centuries ago, and who, in boiling water over a fire made frous tea branches on which the leaves still hung, allowed some of the latter to fall into the pot. During the reign of King Shen Nung Shea (738 to 2696 B.C.) be not only discovered the curative virtues of plants, but also first fashioned timber into ploughs and taught the people the art of husbandry and insituted the practice of holding markets for the exchange of commodities.

Ten was highly calcemed in nearly every ancient Asiatic city near the sea, and was used ass-royal gift from the Chinese monarchs and great merchants to the potentates of the East. To the Rajahs of Kandy, the Sultans of Ceylon, the shoguns and daimine of Japan, carefully selected samples of the leaves, packed in precious boxes, were sent with great regularly. Seme must have been presents worthy of # crown. | One of them is thus recorded It weighed "forty cattler (about flity pounds), and each leat What sort of Inability to pay on the part of was perfect in color, size and age. The leaves the buyer will give this right? (4) hatake? were divided into parcels of five maca each (a Insolvency is the only ground. It is not little over half an ounce), and each parcel was necessarily a technically declared insolvency. It wrapped in pure silver toll. This was wrapped means, as well, a general: inability to pay just in turn in this white paper and put into a file debts. It may be proved in any satisfactory way, bag of bright-colored silk. A hundred bags as by stopping payment or falling to pay one's were placed into a porcelain whose id just debts, the buyer's admissions, or well was securely fastened and sealed, and each founded information. It necil not be an Jar was protected by box of camphor wood, Insolvency- arising after the sale. It may, trimmed with silver hinges and ornaments be one which existed pilor, to the malo if In the list of Princes to whom these presents not discovered until afterwards. How la ware made are many whose identity would be the right exercised? It is not necessary to otherwise lost to history From the old writings actually seize the goods. Give, notice to the many curious facts are thus obtained. Among currfer in whose hands they are, on the delivery other facts it would seem that Cores, to-day of which notice it becomes the person's daty la" "more dead than alive, was at one time's formid- Tas patrier may be held -- able - pevory : military and ” naval | king" the

Northern India.

This commerce flourished during centuries, and culminated in the dynasties of Kung Tung and Tung Chi about 1,000 A.D.

TO CATCH THE "UNWARY.

MANÝ OLD AND NEW PARADOXES THAT ARE INTERESTING,

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Alter the cigars had been lighted at a small dinner party one evening not long ago, the suh Ject of paradoxes, was introduced. It was a matter of considerable comment to those present what a large number of propositions, or queris, there are flating about the world in one fm: cr another, which are Intended to pozzle the wits of the unwary. Some of them are extremely ancient, having been handed down from the works of the Greek philosophers, and some ste if recent origin. All of them firm excellent mental exercise, as they sharpen the wits, besides being a recreation to the mind. Ne claim to originality is made to the examples given here, most of which were brought out at the dinner mentioned, but undoubtedly some readers will find a number of questions which they have never before heurd, Whe has not at some period of his existence puzzled his brain over this query —

If a goose weighs ten pounds and half its own weight, what is the weight of the goose?

Many persons have undoutedly been tempted to answer fifteen peurds, when the correct answer, of course, is twenty pounds, as they de cover of er giving the problem a little thought, An exceedingly wise man has sometimes been caught by a very almple question of this sort. The following for example:

How many days would it take to cut up piece of cloth fifty yards long, one yard being cut off every day?

Or this:

A snail climbing up a post twenty feet bigb ascends five feet every day and slips down four feet every night.. How long will it take the #nail to reach the top of the post ?

Of course, it is a fact that Achilles does over. take the tortoise, notwithstanding this apparently logical reasoning to the contrary. The conclu sion of that parados is somewhat different from the following, although in some ways similar to it

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A man owes four cents. He pays two cents one day, oas cent the next, one-half cent the next, and so on, one-half each day of the debt. Now, although on the fourth day he only owes one-quarter of a cent, if he should be endued with the gift of Immortality, and he should con tinue to pay the debt at the same ratio, he could never pay all of it. There would always remain that half of the former day's payment providing he had counters small enough to make the payments,

Here is a puzzle in geometry. It does not

solve lin

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The ingenious trouble in solving the problem without assistance, Philosophers, according to the latest devices, have not been able to decide what would be the fate of a donkey placed exactly midway between two bayricks. As there is clearly, no resion why he should choose one rick rather that the other, it is presumed that, logically, he would starve to death.

The cynic's reply to this proposition may, perhaps, be as good as any that could be found: that is, that the philosopher who wastes time aver such a question ought to solve it by actua! experience.

Probably every reader has quoted the proverb': "There is an exception to every rule," several hundred thousand times durlug his or her life and never thought that the proverb contradicted itself. For, clearly, if there is an exception to every rule, there is an exception to this proverb; therefore, there is a rule without an exception.

The famlllar query: "If Dick's father is Tom's son, what relation is Dick to Tom is easier of solution than the other one closely allied to it, which runs as follows; A man standing before a portrait says of it :-

"Sisters and brothers have I none... Yet that man's father is my father's son." What relation is the speaker to the person depicted in the portrait. The answer is often given that the portrait represents the speaker himself, when, as a matter of fact, it represents the speaker's son.

It is seldom, indeed, that the following ques tion is answered correctly off hand

A train storts daily from San Francisco to New York and one dally from New York to San Francisco, the journey lasting five days, How many tralas, will a traveler meet in journeying from New York to San Francisco ?

Abgot ninety-nine persons out of one hundred would say five traius, as a matter of crurge. The fact is overlooked that every day during the Journey a fresh train le starting from the other end, while there are five trains on the way to begin with. Consequently the traveller will meet not five trains, but ten,

The following proposition is left for the reader to think about,

If there are more people in the world than any one person has hirs npon his bead, then there must exist at least two persons who possess identically the same number of balts, to abair.

This same proposition may be applied to the. faces of human beings In the world. If the number of perceptible differences between two faces he not greater than the total number of the human race, then there must exist at least two persons who are to all appearances exactly alike. When it is considered that there are about 1,500,000,000 persons la the world and that the human countenance does not vary, except within comparatively narrow limits, the truth of the proposition becomes obvious, with out applying the logical reasoning of it-NY

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There are simple questions in arithmetic, and yet, how many perrons would answer filty days, Instead of forty-nine to the first one, and twenty Instead of sixteen to the last one? It is perhaps scarcely necessary to point out that the snail would gain one foot a day for fifteen days, and on the sixteenth day reach the top of the poic, and there, of course, remain,

Here is one of a different sort, but none the less puzzling:

A man walks round a pole, on the top of which Is a monkey. As the man moves, the monkey turns round on the top of the polo, so se still ta keep face to face with the man. When the man has gone sound the pole, has he or has be not, gene round the monkey

As either auswer to this question may be upheld with strong and logical arguments, the reader is left to decide the question for himself.

Which, at any given moment, is moving forward faster, the top of a conch wheel, or the bottom?

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The answer to this question seems simple enough, but probably nice persons out of ten, asked at random, would give the wrong reply. It would appear at first sight that the top and bottom must be moving at the same rate; that is, the speed of the carriage. But by a little

เทร thought it will be discovered that the bottom of the wheel is, in fact, by the direction of its axis, moving backward, in an opposite direction

"despatched for the||] to that which the carriage is advancing, and is Captain Bathurst, will be des consequently stationary in space, walle use point sbore Forts on】TUESDAY, the 26th instant, on top of the wheel is moving forward with the 4 Noo

For Freight or Fâssage, apply to doubled. velocity of its own motion around the axis and the speed at which the canlage 'moves. Many persons will recall the famous paradox of Zeno, by which he sought to prove that all motion is impossible.

"A body,"ho argued, "must move either in a place where it is or in a place where it is not. Now, a body to the place where it is, is stationary and cannot be in motion, nor, obviously, can it be in motion in the place where it is not. There- fore it cannot move at all."

Bodles do move, however, and_that_is_a_ sufficient answer to the ingenious philosopher, Another paradox which has been inherited from the Greeks-that of Achilles and the tortoise is familiar.

Achilles (the swift-footed) allows the tortoise a hundred yard's start, and runs ten yards while the tortoise suns one. Now, when Achilles ba ran a hundred yards the tortelas has rus, ten yards, and is therefore still that distances bead. When Achilles han run these ten yarar, the tortoise has run one yard. When Achilles has run the one yard, the tortoise has run one-tenth of a yard. And when Achiles has run the owe tenth ofa yand the tortoise has run one-hundredth It Is only necessary to contiane the same process of reasoning to prove that Achilles can never overtake the tortoise poor wav

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GOVERNMENT-NOTIFICATION.- INFORMATION has been received from the Military Authorities that ARTILLERY PRACTICE Wll take place, from the Batteries at Blone-cutters' Island, during the month of February 1893, between the hours of 9 a.m, and 5 p.m. dally, Saturdays and Sundays excepted. The line offre will be in Westerly and South-Westerly directions from the Batteries,

All Ships, Junks and other vesselin arm'cau- tioned to keep clear of the ranges,..

By Command, Kroup W, M. GOODMAN,"

Acting Colonial Secretary: Colonial Secretary's Office, Hough, 3rd January, 1842

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"FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY,. "ME Company's Steamship

ZAFIRO Captala Cobban, will be despatched for the above Ports on MONDAY, the ath Instant; at 5 za

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SHEWAN & C

Hongkong, agri January, 1892

THEATRE

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CITY HALL

MONDAY and TUESDAY, the 25th and 26th January,

POSITIVELY LAST TWO NIGHTS ΟΙ

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MY WIFES RELATIONS MA Full of Bongs, Duets, Trios, beautiful Musla and Artistic and Graceful Dancing,

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'KITTIE BALDWIN'S CLAIRVOYANCY. THE GREAT THOUGHT READING "EVERYTHING ABSOLUTELY NEW

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