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will be called upon to give a antisfactory explanation of his conduct. Since receiving letter from Dr. Peters, in which he details with apparent gusto how many natives he had killed In the course of a day, the Government has received nemérous remonstrances from all parts.

of Germany, England and other countries against the methods pursued by him, and all have urged the German Government to interfere in behalf of humanity.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1892.

Goschen declined to accede to the propoaldon of Caron (Radical) that the post-office acquire and work telephones in connection with the Go ernment telegraph. The House rejected the proposition by a decisive vote.

The steamer Elder, which stranded on Ather.

field ledge two months ago, was pulled off to-day. badly damaged, but can be repaired. The Elder has reached Southamption in safety.

PARIS, March 29th. There was a dynamic explosion this afternoon in the building of the Credit Lyonnaise, one of the largest banking institutions in the city. The extent of the damage has not yet been feared,

promoted to higher posts, took over the seals of their new offices on the same day.

Chinese who had taken the oath of allegiance to the Queen have gene-to Boston from here. United States officers on this side of the line led to stop them, hat had to let them through

A piteous scene occurred when, Wong Kin when papers of citizenship were txhibited.

As the treaty between Great Britain and the fallen her unfortunate husband in the earlier

what had be Jung's wife, who had not heard Usled States provides that the latter shall part of the morning, went to the yam na usun admit within its borders, with right of residence to administer to his wants.. On arriving at the is not apparent that gates of the yamfs she saw, to her unspeakable anything can now be done to stop Chlacee who wish to go to the United States 21 Brittarief and horror, the head of her poor husband subjects. A prominent United States Treasury card on a pole. The poor woman's galef was

terrible to witness. official now in the city said there was nothing to prevent the United States from being flooded

any British subject.

MADRID, March 27th. The Cabinet agreed upon the budget, embody Ing economies which will effect a saving of stringent decr: e far, the punishment of anarchist } ́it in kald that two 'pcezons' were injured. The with "British" Chinese by tens of thousands | Tan-t'kao canal in the Soocho district was $2,000,000 pesetas. The Goverment drafted outrages. More dynamite cartridges were found police are in charge of the building and refuse before some plan could be adopted to put a stop completed some time ago and was inspected by

In the street in Barcelona. One man was lojured | to let anybody approach. Two arrests have by an explosion.

Omaha, March 17th,

The five-story building occupied by the Omaha Hardware Company was completely destroyed by be this morning, causing the loss of $200,000 It is thought that the fire was the work of burglars, who reverted to arson to hide their crime,

PHILADELPHIA, 'March syth,...

The plant of H. O. Wilbur & Sons, mand facturers of chocolate, was gotted by fire to-day The origin of the fire la a mystery. The loss will reach fally $200,003, nearly covered by

Insurance.

LONDON, March 27th,

Severe storms are again reported in North Wales England and Scotland, with snow drifts from two to five feet high; The snowstoren is terrible off Berwick,, and it ln faared the New- Castle steamer Holmreek has foundered with a

loss of twelve lives. A mangled body has been wached ashare there, and a portion of the vessel and her masts are visible from Berwick.

BERLIN, March 28th. The Landtag has not witneated to many years such an exciting scene as to-day, when the new Prussian Premier announced that the primary education bill had been abandoned.

Crunt van Eulenberg way received on his Gist appearance as the head of the Prussian Ministry with signs of general respect. He is a man whose manner and appearance impress one favorably, and with the exception of the Social Democrats, the members of the Landtag bare no perjudice against bim personally,

The Premier, however, was not long fo raising * scene significant of future discord in the Diet, He announced in clear and unequivocal language that the Government had decided to abandon the school bill. The statement bad an electrica! effect. Everybody expected the education bill would be postponed indefinitely, but the declara tion that it had been abandoned was an almost universal surprise.

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An iron cylinder, filled with an unknown zub stance, was found opposite the Finance Ministry to-night. It is affirmed that last evening, at a house on the Boulevard Magenta, a man was seen throwing a lighted object into a corridor. A

spectator quickly stamped out what proved to be a burning fuse and discovered a tube eight centimetres in length with a long fore which had Just bean lighted,»

The impression prevalls that the city is on the verge of azather reign of terror, and assurances have no power to allay the public excitement.

A dispatch from Porto Novo, French settle- ment in West Africa, states that a French gunboat was fired upon by natives without provocation, and that serious trouble is expected."

NEW YORK, March 29th. Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, the great French engineer 10 whom the world ower the Suez Canal, Is charged by the courts of France with swindling and breach of trust. As the Iransaction upon which the accusation is based'occurred in New York the greater portion of the testimony to be used in the trial must be taken here.

Viscount Paul d'Abrag, Consul-General of France in this city, recently received letters rogatory for the examination of many of the most promincat American financiers. The document came from Judge H, Pricet, of the French Court of Appeals, Count de Lesseps, as commandant of the Legion of Honor, having the right to trial before the bighest tribunal with his peers on the bench.

Judge Ferch of the Supreme Court wanted an application made by Viscount d'Abrac's attorney. Edmund Huerstel, for an order compelling themes who are needed as witnesses to give their testi- mony in accordance with the terms of the letters rogatory, Subpoenas have been served upon many of them and Messrs. Jesse Seligman, Edward Winslow and Charles G. Franck were to-day sworn as witnesses before Judge Truaxin the Supreme Court chambers. Their examina. tion was adjourned- until 11 o'clock to-morrow members of the firms of Drexel, Morgan & Co C. D. & J. H. Leverich, Whitehouse & Co. and Russell Sage, Charles D. Leland, Bayard Brown, Joseph Ogden, John A. Kernochan and Samuel C. Thompson.

to it.

The Canadians also view the situation with alarm. The Trade and Labor Council sent to Ollawa delegates, who saw the Cabinet Minis ters, and a bill will come up in the House this week asking that the head tax on Chinese be increased from $40 to $100 each and that further restrictions be put on vessels carrying_them. The bill will be framed so that only one Chinese shall be carried to every 100 tona.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

The work of deepening the channel of the

the Klangau Fantal short time since. It i now stated that the Governor of Klangen will proceed on the and instant, Jaspect the work in person. It hʼa grant blessing to the people of this province that H.E. Kang should devote much of his attention to clearing the water

Corries,

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Our Wenchow correspondent describes the yield of tex this year, in the Pingyang district,

Intimations.

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C. S. ARTHUR,

MANAGER

STOKIO, JAPAN.

THE FINEST HOTEL IN THE EAST. (Under the distingutsked patronage of the Imperial Household.)

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Women in Egypt are not allowed to see men, husbands. except the married women their respective

C. S. ARTHUR,

Manager.

Co-day's Advertisements.

The Kolas Hut members who were executed on Saturday were Chlo Chu-wel and Wong Kin-lung. Before the execution the prisoner behalf of his aged mother and young son, who Chin Chu-wel solicited the magistrate for help in

In Rhode Island and Ohla the Governor will after his death be deprived of support. The Helen accordingly gave him to understand that cannot veto the actions of the legislative bodies the helpless ones he leaves behind will be of the State. attended to. The other prisoner uttered no word, The Southern Aurora is very similar, though but remained obstinately slient at the proceed-wald to be somewhat bluer paler than that THE LONG RANGE CUP and SPOONS

of the North.

On the Himalaya Mountains fields of barley | 30th, at 245 P.M. are cultivated and brought to perfection 11,500 feet above the sex.

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

wil be Shot for on SATURDAY, Aşıll-

as being very bad. Owing to the unusual coldHIS og hotel is situated within five minutes' drive of the terminus of the Yokohama Tokyo Raliway and is in near proximity to the Imperial Palace, the Parliament House and the and incessant rain the tea plants have been Chief Public Offices. much stunted and and thè crop this season is There are no laside rooms, thus securing wall lighted, ventilated and cheerful accommoda estimated to be only half of what was produced-tions, The Cuisine cannot be surpassed, and the aim of the management is to provide for the MELBOURNE, April 15th.

last year. Tea merchants who have gone fate comfort and pleasure of the guests. The attractiɔ̃os of Tokio are countless, and the religiosa and The Associated Banks have determined on a the mountains to purchase lea are paying high floral festivals being of daily occurrence are to be seen at their best and on a grander scale than per cent. reduction of the rates of interest prices. For the best quality they are giving away other portion of Japan. All the noted actors, wrestlers and jugglers make the capital their payable on deposita,

Williams has been committed to take his trials dollar per pical and for an inferior kind 30 head-quarters.

dollars per pical Is charged.

RATES, $3 TO $4.50 PER DAY.. for wilful marder. The trial is set down for the 35th Inst, The line of defence adopted by the prisoner's counsel is insanity. During the

aquest the Coromer and the detectives la the cafe received ever resante anonymous threatening letters, leading to the supposillon that Williams has one or more Confederates residing in the colony. The police have discovered a bix at Bairnsdale containing clothing corresponding with that in Williams luggage. The label on the bar is addrested in Williams' handwriting, and it was opened with, a key found among Williams' luggage. Theings, either through fear or contempt. After the conduct of the prisoner since his committal to execution the beads were incased in cages and gol has been very troublesome.

were taken to the magistrate's yaman. They will later on be covered to the Capital BRISBANE, April 13th. The debate on the Pacific Island Labour Bill Is proceeding, and it is believed the Government intend to force the debate to a definite conclusion during the present sitting. A good deal of feeling has been excited over the proposed legislation, and large public meetings in opposition to the scheme are being held through. out the colony.

LONDON, April 24th, Dalziel's News Agency states that a motion will shortly be introduced ip specially and ex-lusively to deal with the labour a department problem throughout the United Kingdom, in the hope that some system may be devised to check the endless struggle and ever increasing hostility between the capitalist and working classes.

AMOY.

The War of the Roses Insted thirty years, and 300,000 Englishmen lost their lives during the sanguinary struggle.

Weaving appears to have heen practiced in"] China more than one thousand years before it

known in Europe:

A camel of the largest size has been known to drink from thirty to fifty gallons and then travel without water for twenty days.

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ED, ROBINSON,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 28th April 1592.

PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, NOTICE

ONSIGNEES of Cargo per Steamship "CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO"

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The National Liberals were delighted. The morning. Other witnesses in the care will be Commons for the creation of the House of invited to take part in the farewell. By klad / bot, but not makequently the temperature at / Godowns at Wanchal, from whence dělivery

Ultramontanes could not conceal their anger and a storm of hisses greeted the Premier's announcement, The National Liberals cheered loudly and both parties got so excited that for a time it seemed as if some one would be provoked to personal violence. The Fremler took every. thing calmly. He waited until the excitement quieted down and then proceeded with other banlaesu

DUBLIN, March 18ib.

The first lasue of the amalgamated Fraamon's" Journal and National Preti was published to-day. In editorials it said: “ Henceforth we will serve no party or clique.".

The alleged swindle and breach of trost specifically set up agalost Count de Lesseps occurred in a deal through which he and the other bustees of the Univeral Inter-Océanic Panama Canal Company obtained control of the | "Panama Railroad Company more than ten wears ago. The deal involved the purchase of | 68,534 shares of the railroad company's stock

For this the stockholders in the canal company had to pay 95,958,840.13 francs, or 1394 frases gr centimes-about ga68 ag- The Almonds earrings and pearls stolen by Mys, Finrence Ethel Osbome from Mrket value of the stock certainly did not share, though it is claimed that the mar. Hargreaves were sold at auction to-day. A exceed $100 a share, and was probably less. fashionable crowd attended, rather out of carloelly

the French authorities are inclined to regard as It is this little watering, of railroad stock that

a swindle and a crime.

LONDON, March 28th,

than as bidders. The earrings brought 66

and the pearl pendants £416.

Sir R. A. Denney, Bart, has been declared bankrupt. His Il-bilities are $750,000,

In the Commons tonight Curzon, Parlla mentary Secretary for Indie, moved the second reading of the hill widening the basis of the legislative councils of India.

Gladstone said he construed the bill as mean. Ing that the Government intended seriously to introduce the elective principle into the Indian

Crancils. It was no destrable that Parliament should make that effort, and the best course would be to commend the plan to the authorities In India with a clear direction of the principles on which the House desired the Government of India to proceed. If there was real success obtained in even the limited application of the elective principle it would be an achievement for which it would be difficult to find a parallel In the records of history,

The bill passed its second reading.

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ST. PITERSBURG, March 581b. M. De Gier, the Russian Foreign Minister, fa II with erysipelas.

Roz, March a'th,

It is stated on good, authoilty that Pope Leo XIII, in anticipation of the fatere dificulties

which the Holy See may encounter, has deposited in a back to be paid to his successor the sum of 5,000,000 lire, which has been saved by economies Introduced at the Vatican.

The Pope has notified Archbishop Ireland that mo.dectriant decision, would be taken in regard to the scholastic question in the United States.

WARSAW, March 28th,

Police Inquiries into the case of two brothers samed Kollkvisky, imprisoned here on a charge of murdering and robbing a peasant near Bielostock, have revealed a practice of wholesale murder of emigrants on the frontier, Already the naked bodies of five victims have beas discovered in the snow adjacent to the house occupied by the brothers. The search for bedles is proceeding. The police estimate that the brothers have murdered at least forty persons,

LONDON, March 29th,

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The Staffordshire factory owners adhere to their determination to reduce the wages of their employees, and fifteen thousand pottery operatives are locked out with a view to reducing them to submissica..

Setloürrloting has occurred among the enlliers“ out on strike in Dutham, during which the house of

An official who bad rendered himself particularly obnoxious, was wrecked by means of explosives. aged 45

The death is announced of the Earl of Leitdm, station at Angers, in France, has been A police dynamite bomba. destroyed by the anarchists by means of

The French Chamber of Deputies has voted the sum of $10,000 towards the representation of France at the Chicago World's Falz,

Throughout this operation Count de Lesseps and his New York altes are charged with having The Freach courts want to have the matter position of the French forces in the Soudan, made a profit of not less than 63,000,000 francs. News has reached Cairo to the effect that the thoroughly sifted and to discover the ranson under Colonel Humbert, 's desperate. They are doller share. why $268.25 was charged for every hundred-reported as being completely hemmed in on all aldes by overwhelming bodies of bostile natives, being unable either to advance or retreat.

The coal miners in Monmouthshire and South Wales have submitted to a reduction of wages and returned to work.

The commities of relief for the children of the

ST. PETERSBURG, March 29th.

famine stricken peasants has reported that in many districts the children are so poorly pourished that they are too feeble to undertake long walks, which in many, instances require an hour's time, to the schools where soup is doled out. The unfortunates have been reduced to cating mest uawholesome and disgusting things, from which animals would revolt, including fithy raga and quantities of earth. The teachers In the schools received, no sainty

al capable tools have covert as bad X

condition as the children.

The mall train between Warsaw and Kowal Poland, has been robbed of 150,000 rubles. The thloves escaped.

ROME, March 19th.,

The Congregation of Cardinals has approved the appolotuent of Dr. Vaughan as Archbishop of Westminster in succession to the late Car dinal Manning.

BERLIN, March 29th,

the Reichstag to-day. The Government had A defeat was sustained by the Government in submitted a proposition to relasert in the exti mates a wote for a new corvette, Some time ago the Relching, in the face of an appeal by Chancellor Capivi, rejected the vote for this vessel. 'When the proposition reinsert was made to-day it was understood it would paar, butdit was rejected after a long debate by wrote of 177 to 109. This was effected by a coalition of Cevirists. Radicals and Socialists against the Conservatives and National Liberals. The an nouncement of the result was greeted with loud cheers by the opposition,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Amoy, a5th April, On the 23rd inst., a farewell dinner was given at Havensteen's Hotel to Mr. G. W. Lace, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, by his brother- officers and several other friends who were

Australian Circus, the band was in attendance perilasion of the manager of Woodyear's Royal and played a fine selection of airs during the dinner, which was followed by a number of appropriate toasts. The following Customs officers were present:-Messrs. P.J. Crampton (who occupied the chair), J. Henrichs, H. Marquardt, E. Hubbard, P. C. Petersen, A. Young, and H. C. W. Woulfe Court, and Dr. W. E. S. Fales, the American consul, who kindly acted as vice-chairman, and a most enjoyable 'évening was spent.

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SIAM NEWS.

The piles are now belag: driven for the first bridge of the Korat Rallway, over the Mahaask creek, near the terminus. The piin-driver waA made by the Bangkok Deck Co.

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Private advices from Hongkong state that the commercial condition of the Colony is worse thna Sodom and Gomorrah, so to speak. One prominent merchant is reported to be on his way home to beg, borrow, or steal some $3,000,000 he does not succeed an Important enterprise Cfco,000) to save him, from bankruptcy, and if here in Siam will not improbably be seriously feopardised.

Mr. Henry Louis, the mining expert from Singapore, and Mr. Gieringer, left for the Fachlm district on Saturday last for the purpose of reporting on the gold-mining concession granted by his Majesty's Government a month agosto the latter gentleman and Mr. Grassl. They ing Bu Phran, Chantskan, Pachim, and other places. Mr. S. J. Truscott has left for Chanta boon in order to explore some mines, the con- Kim Chia-Tim cession for which was granted to the late Ma

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In the Sahara desert the sun may be bolling

night falls below freezing point, United States there are 564 in Maryland, 403 in

There are today 12.947 Jesuits. In Missouri, and 193 in New Orleans.

the

There are said to be more divorces granted annually in the United States than in all the rest of the Christian world put together.

Jara is said to be the region of the globe storms on ninety-seven days of the year, where it thunders, oftenest, having thunder-

weight, can fly more than four miles an hour, The bee can draw twenty times its own

and will seek fond at a distance of four miles.

There are 800 pubile bathe in the city of Tokio, where natives are parboiled at a tempera ture of 110 deg. for a sum equivalent to x cent, by a wall twenty miles in circumference, plereed Rome, In the time of Augustan, was surround- by thirty gates, and had a population of 2,000,000. The centre of population in the United States la twenty miles east of Columbus, Ind. In 1990 it was twenty-three miles east of Baltimore, Me, Babylon, according to Herodotus, covered te covers about six hundred and ninety square square miles, London, at its greatest extent, miles.

70, 1,100,000 Hebrews perished by the severe When Jerusalem was taken by Titus, A.D. plague, famine, etc., and 97,000 were taken captive.

are hereby notified that their goods am being | landed and stored at their risic in the Company's

may be obtained on counteralgnature of Bills of Lading

Goods remaining unclaimed alter the 18th Inst. will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance is effected.

J. S. VAN BUREN

Agent. Hongkong, 28th April,`1892.,

.. SPECIAL NOTICE.' THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" will Hotels, opposite the Hongkong Club, and at |———-be-on-sale-at-the-Hongkong and Victoria- Pedder's Wharf, EVERY EVENING from 5.30 to 7.30 o'clock,

PRICE ..................................TEN CENTS, Coples ordered from the Office will be charged the usual rate-25 cents,

Advertisers are reminded that the Hongkong Telegraph has by far the largest circulation el sny English newspaper published in_tha Far application. East. THIS IS GUARANTEED, Tams oS.

Hongkong, Tath October, 1891.

THE

Intimations.

Alaska contains the great volcanic system' of-| the United States. It has sixty-one volcanoes THE MIIKE COAL MINING COMPANY, that have been active since the settlement by Europeans.

HE MIIKE COAL A single bes, with all its industry, Energy and

BITUMINOUS COAL Mr. James Manro, the new Victorian Agent

innumerable journeys it has to perform, il sot of dark reddish colour. For steam purposeN General, has arrived in London.

A serious outbreak of influenza has occurred pect to be absent for about two months visit collect more than a teaspoonful of honey it as it has been pronounced to be the best and tha.

singin season.

merical of all the Japanese Coals, Ita Botanists estimate the number of known export is inciding yearly and the opalons species of plants at 100,000. species of the higher classen grow wild in the expressed by several of the argest regular United States.

consumers are in testimony of the credent

amongst horses in London and other parts of England,

and Cambridge resulted in a win for the former The annual eight-our contest between Oxford crew after one of the most exciting races on record. The time for the race was the fastest

on record.

manifesto warning his tributary chiefs against The Ameer of Afghanistan bas lasted a the evil practices and ulterior designs of Russia, and assuring them that their safety lies in mala taining the friendship of Grest Braltata.

grant for the representation of Great Britala at The Imperial Government has increased the the Chicage World's Fair, the ictal amount voted being £60,000....

Regla is endeavouring to conclude arrange- station at Buenos Ayres, ments for permission to establish a coaling

The strike among the Durham collfers is in volving a loss in wages amounting to Cas0.000 weekly. This amount. threatens to be greatly increased, as several large iron and steel works so closing owing to want of fuel.

Great disorder and excitement prévalls at Vienna, and despite the exertions of the autho rites the anarchlits have ancceeded in destroying several public buildings by means of fire.

Twelve anarchists have been arrested by the police at Madrid in connection with the recent attempt to destroy the Chamber of Deputies by At the last Philharmonic concert of the season

means of infernál, machines.. Two of the pri The Times Bezila special says it is reported iter conducting Beethoven's Eroica, Vos confessed, the evidence going to show the this evening, under the leadership of Von Bulow, soners Frenchman and a Spaniard-have en good authority from St. Petersborg that the Enlow spoke at length of the composer. He existence of a widespread plot for the destruction Crar has had a serious quarrel with bis brother and that after the dedicating of the symphony of existing social Institutions. the Grand Dake Viedimir, who has resigned all affices, intending to live abroad. The quarrel is dedicated it to Lobkowitz, whom Von Bulow convicis

Napoleon, Beethoven changed his mind and A desperate rising has occurred among the due to the Czar presenting the crown catate of described as nothing." He proposed, on

Bazza' prison, in Grenada, Spain. Pavlovak, lesented by his uncle, the late Grandbehalf of German magicians, to rededicate it to struggle, and order ultimately restored.

Two of the ring-leaders were shot during the Duke Constantine, to the younger. Grand Duke

the true hero, the bright day star of Germany, Constantine instead of Vladimir, who claimed it.

The Times Busucial article contains the the Beethoven of politics, Prince Bismarck," following: "If the silver party in

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NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.

The Shanghai city magistrate has received an

The whole speech was garnished with sarcas. American the Congress accept defeat the silver market will received with hisses, mingled with a few cheers. #llosions to Current events, which were doubtless partly recover from the fall of the past Von Below made a pantomimic allusion to the -eighteen months and eventually settle down 14. esperors ?Brandenburg speech by brushing the important despatch from the Board of Punish

price sufficient to maintain production stadest on his hoes, imy level required by the real wants of the world.

About 4,000

in 1600. Fahrenbelt, Dutch scientist, favented The earliest thermometer was made in Holland his scale in 1720, Celsius, a Swede, devised his scale in 1743.

in size to the capliol at Washington. It is 5661 The State capitol at Austin, Texas, ranks next feet leng, 288 feet to inches at its widest part and 311 feet high

vinces for labourers. We have little hope in hit

Mr. Mitchell is, we hear, scouring the prose success, remembering the experience of Bir During these surveys it was found well sigh Andrew Clarke's engineers in the north of Slam. impossible to obtain labour, and when obtained, at high rates, the indolent Siamese deserted in large numbers. Whether they had received the were not forthcoming they left without it remuneration owing to them mattered little, if it one occasion an engineer left his station with 120 men, and after a work's work he had some eight or ten left. It is not to be expected that the Siamese will journey for some distance for the distinguished honour of working on the Korat line, and if Mr. Mitchell is so sanguine to depend on Siamese labour, we are afraid his expectations will meet with bitter disappoint ment in the end.Fra Press.

*; BITS OF INFORMATION,

New York bas 50,000 Swedes. Nuúidlan marbles are the inest."

An inch of rain means soo tons to an acre, 2 There are 73,045 paupers in the United States The British Empire has about 7,000,000 square miles

depth of miles.

Animal llie ceases to exist in the ocean at a

The aim of a bubble fa1 x»50,000,000th of an inch in thickness.

Mount St, Gothard Is the longest funnel in the world-0,170 feet.

Queen Elizabeth was the first woman that ever were a knitted stocking.

The total Income of the Church of England is about $1,000,000 a week

Easter Island, where the day first comes to light, was discovered in 1656.

The Coliseum at Rome, it is supposed, could Eave accommodated 20,000 spectators.

four Presidents, one Regency and one Empire, Within sixty-two years Mexico bas had fifty- and nearly every change of government has been effected by violence.

The Census Bureau reports that there are

3,715 places in the United States having 1,000 Inhabitants or more. In there places in itgo dwelt 26,109,074 people.

May 6th. Its inventor was a printer, James The postage stamp will be fifty-two years, öld

Chalmers of Dundee, Ita Inuoduction into the United States dates from 1841.

It is a matter of record that 19,570. dollara. were coined in 1864, yet only eight samples are known to czlet, and those that are good con. dition

are valued at $1,000 each. per capita is three times greater than the cost The annual cost of government in New York of governing London, and is about one-third greater than the cost of governing Pariz.

qualities of this coal.

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A cubis foot of silver weighs 617 pounds. The silver in the United States Treasury if melted down into a mass would make a column a foot.

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The rules of Louis XIV, from the fact that it

NANTISEPTIC PAINT. was productive of more men of more men of ability in

this day boca than sey other period in Tappolated SOLE AGENTS. for the line

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But the allver party is powerful and 'not likely to / feturn to Berlin iplying that he would never ments ordering the decapitation of three secret Clouds consist of miante particles of water, collection is that possessed by the Brooklyn

The audience was convulsed, and hisser and accept delest as final. Further endeavors to cheers were mingled with laughter, p create an artificial demand are far from improb-

General Konstantin von Alvensleben pas able, and mines which were muremunerative died at the age of 832422/ticos do before the recent fail, willly persupay be kept geing in the hope of ultimately proving profiable The Vossliche Zeitung gablishes & dispatch Bombay telegrams announce that the Afghan advancing from Wadalal. He gained a victory from: Zanzibar saying that Emin Pasha" was Ametr bas

important victory over the gained an Kaffee by the capture of the town of Asmer, over the forces led by his former officers, who A fire in, X. restaurant in Victoria street this had rebelled against him, and shot the rebels. morning caused the death of two persons and suplementary credit of 643,000 marks for probably fatal injury to another. bed to the Budget Commiten Retticher stated of strategie railways was referred Sir William Bowman, Baronet, Mi"D.," "T riistinguished ophthalmic surgeon, of a

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Considerable damage was done by the recent gale which called Ningpo. A vast number of fishing boats were capsized and overturned and many lives were imperilled.

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