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Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1893.

that fools will rash in where angels fear to trend should be taken to heart by Mr. Corren and by all who would follow his VICTORIA DISPENSARY, sorry example. This, editorially, is our

dismissal of the man.

AERATED WATERS,

[ATER.—The Water pied is absolutely

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powerful type.

TELEGRAMS.

ANOTHER BANK “BROKE.U

LONDON, April 16th.

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The London Chartered Bank of Australia has STEAM PLANT. Of the latest and most suspended payment. Deposits are estimated to

be six millions sterling, " [Through the courtesy of the Man. gerol the H. & S. Bank we learn that a telegram has been received bere stating that the Union Bank of Australia and the Bank of Australasie bave arranged to take over and pay the Australian Joint Stack Back's bills of credit on mer chandise, but nothing is known yet as to the general liabilities of the Inst-named bank, nor as to the rest of the fallures.--Ed]

SUPERVISION.-The whole process of manufacture is under the continuous supervision of a qualified English Chemist.

The PRODUCT-Will bear comparison with the Waters made by the most noted makers in England.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co., LD,

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

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HONGKONG LOAN.

The applications were three times, in excess of the amount issued, wis two hundred thousand

IT is stated that the manufacture of serviceable TERKE times as many workmen are employed soda-water bottles will soon be commenced into the United States now as thirty years ago. Japan. Hitherto, the native article has que In the meantime over 1,000,000 Europeas have failed to successfully compete with imported gone to that country, yet the rate of "wages has

Increased at least 50 per cent."

bottles.

almost touching the seats. In the Empire and other large houses of amusement there are not less than eight separate and distinct bars in various parts of the auditorium alone. Every one is fairly patronized. In the "pubs" somo In the cause celebre Fraser-Smith CONVERSATION between two men in the plt of els always drinking and in the eating houses

| some one busy with the kalfe and fork. Whitehead and ethers (Stewards of the Hong- an Australian theatre. Bill, "I see by the An amazing feature of the Laden restaurant lody: Jockey Club) Judgment will be delivered paper they are at Adelaide the biggest system to its devotion to the pretle cause. There His Honor Chief Justice Fielding Clarke on raincoerus in the world" #But what is no dish but where merits have been extolled Monday the zat prosimo at 10:30 am hiacers Bill?" "I dunne; but I think It's in lambles and no drink but what is advertised by a quatralo. The poetry is cheap employment to scores of imp salons bards and is therefore entitled to the praises of the philanthropist. The poenis (1) command from ere shilling to a pound aplecy although it in said that a wealthy pork butcher on one occasion paid no less than five guineas for a rhythmic gem which eulogized his wares. ::

Of the 3, 2 were Americans. The same evening at the Holborn Restaurant, the handsomest gastronomic palace in the world, there was not one table upon which there were no stimulants. Now are these exceptional cares. Barring the so-called temperance exitng-boutes and the vegetarian catablishments, baik of which are abominations from culinary standpoint, the condition of affairs is the nume in all tha restaurantu.

afforded by the Tivoli, a superb restaurant on the Perhaps the best ilustration of this fact is

YOU DEver sit and talk toʻnio se von did befack") # Cross, between a halephant, and a forse, wilh | broaden its composition "however affords Strand, The bill of fars éccupies one page and

we were married sighed the young wife or on its 'ead and a 'elt of a mesih," "No," replied the husband, who was adapte In the Police Court to-day W. K. Wylie, assistant "the boss told me to stop praising superintendent of the High Level Tramway, the goods as soon at the bargain was stick, charged a houseboy with unlawful possession of a “punch" ticket, and with avading payment of No Dispute on that Point-Women.matst contrast fare by presenting the same. The erliance alder it a dreadful fate to be an old wald, mused showed that the ticket belonged to Llent, Mr. Chugwater. They do, Josiah sald M. Woodcock, H.KR. and was lost by him in Chugwater: "what terrible sucks they so be card-case, bearing: full name, and address, times many to escape in And Josiah rubbed Defendant said he picked the ticket up near the his chin and said nothing.

HYDROPHOBIA has been alarmingly prevalent at Nagasaki of late. From the 1st to the 6th instants, 20 persons are reported to have been bitten by dogs suffering from tables, and of these 6 died: a raid was consequently organised by the canine tribe were destroyed.

and bad.

The practice of employing rhymesters prevailed of the present century. It was satirized by, the long ago but apparently died out in the first ball famous author of the Bab Ballads in the lines

contale some thirty aniriar of different kinds of food the accompany log wine list is reven pages long ani enumerates over goo different. kinds of alcoholic beverages.

In most civilized countries it is the man and not the woman who sacrifices on the altare of Bacchus and Silenus. In France intoxication is 20 times more common to the sterner sex than the mame in the United States it is about 8 to t the other's in Germany the proportion is about batio England, and especially London, the rate la * half and ball”! It la rare to find an unaccom- panied woman in a French eadaret or a German Staratube. It is a phenomenal event in America but it is a matter of course in Great Britain. In many""pubs,” the 'women are more constant and numerous customers than the men, Nor is

pounds Accepted tenders of £111 stg. win the police, with the result that 76 members of | Mr. Maguda „recently applied to have his same as those which were'ta vogns in 1825. In the extent of this statement confined, to poor

receive about thirty-nine per cent.

LOCAL AND GENERAL, A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, THE P. M. S. S. Ca's steamer China, with malls, &c., left San Francisco for this port, sta Yokohama, on the 25th Inst.

CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. '

MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.

UR NEW FACTORY has been recently refitted with automatic Steam Machinery of the latest and most approved kind, and we are well able to compete in quality with the best English makers:

The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.

"BOMBAY SODAS.". We continue to supply large bottles as hereto oie, Free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the nary alze.

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THE Hyogo News states that the Japanese warship Murashs has been ordered to Korea and that the Fayeyams had alsa sailed for Gensen on the 15th Trat

A COMPANY is now being formed in Japan for the purpose of developing trade between Japan, Koren and Russian Siberia. About 200,000 YIN are to be lavested in the enterprise. The question that is to-day agitating a section of this community to whether "Granny Sharp spells "dam" with a big, big "D," or not. All interested are hereby referred to "Brownle."

PRESIDENT CLEVIland li agala quoted an expressing regret at the number of an men seeking office, and as giving the, o that the influence of the Democratic piest wiLȚ suffer if these claims are recognised. He had declared himself to several callers an in faros of

*a free and untrammeled press.” -

Clock Tower and knew nothing of the card cate He was fined $50, which was promptly paid. Accorpino to late correspondance from Korea, it appears, says the Japan Mall, that the Korean Goverment is determined to carry on the work of coinage under its own direct control. When

coinage contract with Keros cancelled, a German merchant at Ninsto, the Chinese Resident, and a few others competed, to obtain from the Soul authorities license to resume the work abandoned by the Japanese capitalist. But Bla hun and others, being of opinion that an hot of such limpariance as coinage should not be entrusted to foreigners, the Korean Government rejected all these applications. -- THE last mail brings news of a case of alleged is brewing in the Loo Choo Islands and attritasubordination on the new craleesz Edgar batce the origin of it to the misconduct of a which was recently commissioned for service in couple of head-men who, diegusted at baring the Mediterranean ander the command of their unlawful taxations and reception of bribes Captain Drie Aclaud. Discontent among the faterfered with, are endeavouring to avenge" themselves on the Government by fanning disco began to show itself, and several content in the Islands,

baving defied their officers and expecting severe poulstiment deserted. The men allege that they have been exasperated by discipline enne- cessarily severe, by the stoppage of leave, and by the reduction of petty officers for trivial offences: The affair became so serious that the Duke of Edinburgh has undertaken an official inquiry into the causes of discontest, and it is to be hoped better results will follow than did the investigation into the notorious Egeria cases on the Paclic Station some years ago,

An exchange from Japan intimates that trouble

A CURIOUS discovery!was some years ago made, among the archives of Southampton, of a box containing the original naval laws of that port as carly as the fourteenth century. One of them was that if the majority of the aatlers of a vessel on the point of willing were of opinion that the wind was unfavorable, and the vessel was wrecked afterwards, the captain was respon,

THE U. S. S. Alers attired at Yokohama on the 16th ins for the purpose of being docked and overhauled but, owing to Information received, from Korea she was oidered to cos! and provision and to proceed to Chemulpe immediately. The Japan Harald says that the will raliere the Fetre? which, as has been aiready announced, was suddenly ordered to Korea from Nagasaki the other day.

A SWIDE, Carl Olsen by name, was sentenced by a Natire Court at Yokohama, on the 18thsible for the goods lost, instant, to six months' imprisonment for having made a fire on the back premises of house No. 70 fa that Setilement. The British schooner Mermaid, which salled for the North Pacific on the eth fast, from Yokohama returned to that port, on the 18th, ordi-hiving sustained considerable damage to her s'em while in collision with a whale. Polonius was not the name of the skipper efter ACCORDING to the daki Mr, Faj, Japan's representative at Hawall, has telegraphed to the Foreign Department that the American pre- tectorate has been withdrawn, and the American Bag token down of April tut. Thle may, or may not, he true but the dates allow ample ime for a despatch to have reached 'Frisco by post and thence by cable to Toklo.

COAST PORT ORDERS, whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.

For COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good condition.

Counterfoil Order Books supplied free on application,

Our Registered Telegraphic Address is "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG." And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.

THIS explanation from the Medical Record ought to be clear enough for the meanest capacity:-Otoscleronectomy is designed to express the surgical removal of part of all of the sclerosed and anchylosed conductors of sound fo chronic catambal otitis media," and otonecranes tomy.

the excision and removal of the secretic The following is a List of Waters always kept conductors of sound in chronic porsient otitis

media." ready in Stock :-

PURE AERATED WATER

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH WATER

SELTZER WATER

LITHIA WATER

- SARSAPARILLA WATER

TONIC WATER

LEMON SQUASH GINGER ALE

RASPBERRYADE GINGERADE.

No Credit given for Bottles that look dirty or

AT the Magistracy to-day Capt. Pistings fined accolle $3, with the alternative of fourteen days Imprisonment, for drawing water from a public hydrant In Nullah Lane. What are the poor Chinese to do? They got none of the water for which they have to pay so heavily, they are not allowed to use the suppressed city wells, they cannot do without water altogether it is sur prising how patiently they endure i

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NORTH Queensland theatrical scene:-Time, summer. Herd and heroine on stage, suaking love and killing mosquitoes, Lover screws up his courage to declaration point, and emphasises his remarks with staccato smacks, each bringing down a mosquito or more. "Darling," be says, "I have long loved you (whack). In childhood's innocent hours (bang) I worshipped you with as Infantile worship (bang) which has now developed to an energy almost amounting to (smack) mad- following, from Dean Stanley's Sinal and neas. Can you love me ever so little She: Palestice," may be of interest :-"It may be well

"Oh, George, this is so sudden (whack). But, to remind the reader that there are two erroru you, I (whack) love you (smack) windly (biff) implied in the popular expression Moual Cal. devotedly (crash). The affection of a life-time la vary, 1, There is in the scriptural nariaiiveno" | (sqanıb) yours. Here is my place in your mention of a mount or bill. a. There is no such smash) arme." "My darling I" he says, as he name as *Calvary,' The passage from which | folds her to his breast, and imprints a kiss upon the word is taken in Luke xxill, 33, Is merely the | her lips, crushing 16 mosquitos in the act. They "Latin translation ((Calvaria ) of what the Evan, then alt down and exclaiṁ together-"D——n |

gelist calls 'n afruit, an

the mráquitoes 1".

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION...

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“If you would feast on viande primo, Visit this house at dinner time; Your money's worth we guarantee, So won't you stop inside and see 14 Of this verse, the meter and rhyming are the

the London renaissance of the eating-house muro. there is much greater variety and originsity, if not poelle beanty, in the metrical effusions; Thus for example not far from the Bank of England is a small grill-room on whose wall is painted the following idyll

"If you'd enjoy the feest chops The best potatoes and your beer Dan's patronize the other shops But come and dálly luncheon here,

if beer you object to, why, sever mind, come, We also have sherry, bock, claret and Mamm

The economic feaster can sarusge his hunger at a restaurant ló Farringdon Market, where the pect pipes:

"For six pence bere you can obtain A dluher worthy of the name Of excellent, sufficient, gord

Both wholesome and nutritious food." The critic who regarda brevity as the soul of wit would probably prefer to the foregoing a brief sentiment which is displayed få ad Islington coco bouse:

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Where to dine? Here i Best in the neighborhood Never you fear1"

In the very opposite strain sings Harris, the great sacrage manufacturer. And by the way his goods, which now almost monopolize the London market, would astonish the American palate, Instead of being the lean and fat of the pig cat fate small pieces, they are # mixture ef minced pork, stale bread and, It is said, wheat meal, and when cooked, they taste as much like vegetable as animal food. In his poetry, Harris does not mix or adaliferate; he wants the siman-pure article. When Stanley married Miss Tennant the fact was celebrated in this włen 3-----

“ On Stanley's wedding day As the marriage bells as gay Were iinging out their music to the spheres The Phonograph's swift feat | Caught the melody so sweet

And laid it up for me le after years. So the folks whom Harris feeds Why they're satisfied their ncede At his luncheon-bar on sausages or chop, Will remember ever more

THE Koreans are said to be considerably exclied about the purchase of land by foreigours la Söal. Two years ago, the Government of the Kingdom issued a proclamation prohibiting: malen" of land. to fareigners under severe penalties. Bot this notice is stalci tata la Pros offen (Before Mr. E. F. Ackroyd, Puisne Judge) interest with qucer distiches on the walls of his The Japan Mail states that the sale of land to foreigners increases day by day. Government has just issued another proclamation, threatenleg with capital punishment every offender against the law. The proclamation adds that, in aggravated cases, the punishment will be extended to the 'family' and 'relatives of the offender.

and the

April 17th.

THE VANISHING ACT "LIBEL."

J. T. Cotton sued R. Fraser-Smith for $1,000, damages said to have been caused by a para. the roth Inst. in the graph published on Hongkong Telegraph. Plaintiff appeared in Person, and Mr. H. J. Holmes was for the defendant.

before your lordship on Friday, (a1st April) the Mr. Holmes:-My lord, since this case came plaintiff has called on me twice, and has pro- Posed to withdraw the case; and I believe that ton now. He tells me that he was not aware, with your lordships permission auch is his inten- at the time when he took out the summons, that an apology in some way was made, but he has since seen it, and he is fallsfied with it ; and so withdraw tell you

THE "Odd Volume" conversions and exhibi- tion at the City Hall to-night is practically the first attempt of this young but vigorous associa tlos to assert its usefulness as supplying a seal public want; and it is therefore highly satis greasy, or that ap car to have been used for any factory to learn that there is every promise of its that the charges of drunkenness had- not been now ka will tell your loʻjdship that he wishes to

being a distinct success. The exhibition is on a scale sufficiently extensive and varied to | provide, attraction for everybody; while the evening's proceedings have been arranged with a special view to secure the bighest approbation of the whole community, and to ensure (as far as may be) the permanent success of the new .organisation.

other purpose than that of containing Acrated Waters, as such Battles are never used again by

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A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED, The Hongkong Dispensary, Hoogkong.

tronghong Telegraph.

ANY person who can bring us the correct solution of the following "missing word 'competitions will receive a prize of and smile, sweet or otherwise according to taste. There is no entrance fee.

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(1) Cholly:-Have you seen this morning's Diadly Peit, Johnny ?

Johnny

a) Broke:--Do you read the Hongkong another time. Telegraph?

Soke :-No, never.

Broke :-Then you must be a—

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in view of the apology which has been published. *Platoff :—Yes, I wigh to withdraw the cast,

His lordship: Very well let the case be

struck out.

FIRE AT WEST POINT.

The splendid meals they bora Inside them from the Sausage Monarch's shop" Ho ilustrated nearly all events of current

eating-houses. 'A for at random are s “The best thing to-day without any roughing -- Is Parnell sacuage and O'Sher stuffing." "For no other dainty would I give a toas Bat Boulanger pudding and runaway sauce.” "The Salvation Army should bear this in mind Whenever to luncheon or dinner inclined The beat way to vanquish both Satan and Hell

The following poem is the one in which this Is to go unto Harris and then banquet wali" " most loving caterer most delights and of which he has published thousands of copies:

"With juicy meat, both white and red and Pare sausages of pork with bread Full thirty thousand folks are fed

By Harris day by day.

For vegetables of the best, For food with choicest seasoning dressed The man who knocks out all the rest

Is Harila day by day, Stake, kidneys, sausages and chops. Are Heaven's own dower of feedlog crops. They're best and cheapest at the shops

Of Harris day by day.”. Another establishment formerly on Museum Street Indulges in mare circumlocutory bat halting line-

"Where is the modern coffee shop

Not far away f Where you can get a right good chop Without delay

THE parson and the clerk. At the Wandsworth County Court on the 21st ultime Deputy Judge Hart, on behalf of Judge Holroyd, gave judgment in the case in which the Rev. Enoch Thomas, late curate of St. Andrew's, Batterson, sued the Rev. Isaac W. Tapper, vicar, for the recovery of £5, one quarter's stipend, in lieu of notice-The defendant bad fastified the dismissal of the plaintif on several grounds, one being that of bis alleged intemperarcels Honour held made out, and the other allegatio which had been put forward did not warrant immediata dia, missal Judgment was therefore given for the pisinfiff for £35, the amount claimed, with costs. DURING Cramwell's reign laws against swearing were strictly enforced by the officers of the Com monwealth. Every oath was counted. For single oath a man was fined 6s 8d, but the charge was reduced to 384d each on "aking them by At half past three o'clock this morning's fire the quanilly." Thus we fied to the curious old broke out in a Chinese godown at Ho. 1, Heen records of that date that Humfrey Travait, “for Oh Lane, and quickly spread to the next building swearing by God' ten times," was ined 318 and No. 43 Sale Fish Street. Unfortunately, however, committed to gaol in default of payment there it was a long time, before the sisem reached band. for. John Hulshe of Cheriton was convicted of quarters, and when the engines arrived at swearing "twenty-two oaths and two culses " at 4.m. the root had first fallen in and one time, and four oaths' and one curse" at the flames had complete hold of the building. William Harding of Chittle. To make matters worse there was a strong hampton, for saying several times upon my northerly wind, and the fresh water supply was life, was adjudged to be within the act of tured uff at the malu, consequently there was swearing, for which he was forced to pay a fine only sufficient to last for half an hour. In the meantime, however, engines 3 and 4 wäre drawa was find for saying "upon my 'troth"; Gilbert close to the water's edge' on the Fraya and the Northcotte had to pay 31 46 for saying "upon honn laid through Heen On and Chung Hin my Hie, and Thomas Courtis was goed heavily. Lapes, and a steady stream was soon brought to for saying "God is my witness Themes Glit bear on the flames, which threatened to said: "I speak in the presence of God," and confine the surrounding shops and godowns, was fined for his pains, whereupon he had a-whrak a, lot of inflammable goods were said to minister arrested for using the same phrase in a be atured: Mr. Matheson, whe was, as usual, sermon on the following Sunday,

acdvaly engaged superintending all moventents of the bidgade, under Mr. Wodehouse, IN THE GLOAMIN",

hind a very narrow escape from a serious, or Why sinks the san sze slowly doon

perhaps fatal accident. He had been standing | Beblad the Hill of Fare?

Ander ons of the side windows situated in the ||| What restless cantsip's ta'en the maɔn ?

worst part of the fire and had just moved away this She's up an hour an' mair,

when a heavy bir et fron fell with a crash), on | realaurateur 3——— the spot he had only a moment previously vacated. At 4.40 1. there

Unle left of the two buildings but the bare walls and a smouldering heap of dabría, 1. The gadawn in which the fire started was mald so be full of goods, chiefly matchina and similar Inflammabios, and was Lonured with Memus. Slemssen and Co. for $8,000. The cause of Are is at prosent quite unknown. Inspectos Mackie, with a body of polios, is taking charge of the building. The adjoining house was a shark in store, also sud to be well stocked with valuable goods. The total damage is The mavis told bia'mate to hushafiky (and nonghly untimated at $19,000.

An hearken frae the trees

(3) Berlin Blet Who was dot, vot couldn't ol és id. At another time, one Thomas Balland

Limburger :—it was----

boss der lot?

(4) Who is the best man in Hongkong ? Why, of course,

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1893-'

THE BOGUS LIBEL ACTION,

THE attention of Intending blackmailers is particularly directed to the final issue of the sult which was brought by a man named Corros against Mr. R. FRASER- SMITH, the editor and proprietor of the Hongkong Telegraph, and in which the plaintiff claimed $1,000 for alleged damage to character, etc, As a matter of fact this person was pretty badly rebuked by THE unnecessary and uncalled for brutally of the Judge on the 21st Inst.; but he carted the general ikong, has long been known his

around the Colony, and and patiently, tolerated by the poor and com- paratively helpless class of Colocso Itinerant apparently was unable to get a single hawkers-especially the sugar cane rendors. A barrister or solicitor (and they are a striking fastance of this kind was brought to our pretty needy crowd, too) to take the roitco last Tuesday evening, when a poor matter up. But this morning he amallingly wietched looking coolle probably with a wife sought an exit from his unenviable and family dependent on his small earnings, position by saying that as an apology had bad placed bis little portable stall at the side of been made, a fact of which he was unaware sell a few places of sugar-cane, when suddenly the road in D'Agullar Street, and was trying to when he took out the writ, he would not fukeng came along, upret the contents of proceed further in the matter. Does this the stall. In the road and for some minutes man know the meaning of the simple | Indulged in a little sport by dragging the un- term LIAR? No apology was given fortunate proprietor about by his guess and then or ever contemplated. An expression bustling him off to the station.

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of regret that the original paragraph (based on an affidavit filed in Court) bad ONLY a few drops from the flood of drivelling, Idiotic, nauseating froth emitted by "Water" in appeared in these columns was certainly last night's Snail -

"Now that made, but not even by an undue stretching Mr. Orange has denied the truth of this state- of terms could it be construed into an meat-be having been Resident Engineer-se apology, When proved to be in the one who knows the high repute he enjoys will wrong we have ever striven to make for one moment call his words'in' (sic) ques- honorable amends, but in cases similar to tion (1-1); and it is a source of satisfaction to Cotton's well, self-respect claims acertain learn such is the case. amount of consideration. Perhaps this were fexer that could not be stopped, and hence absolately certain I was led to belleva thera latest candidate for forensic "honors (ife) extra care was belog taken to prevent this. thought that he had but to walk into critical past—as I understood it to be--falling. Court with a yawning-purse and come out a gentleman remarked to me-la-connco. again with it stuffed with a thousand or so tion with the scarcity of water.

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of shekels of silver. Not so, however, must be a leakage at Tytam," Ye gods and- Law is law, and of this fact Mr. Corror dead fishes of bilstering Tytam what percep. tion that gentleman must have been endowed should have been aware for, we believe, with What we would like to know, however, is his career has not been an uneventful one. why so may past masters in lan

ig lan: cy are allowed The anciant aphorism attesting the fact | io ropy at inge,

I doubt they're in a plot, the twa, To cheat me of the gloamin's Yestreen they've seen me slip awa', An' ken where I gang rosinin',

The trees bent low their lisi'ning heada

Around the Lach 'Skene

The saft wind whispered 'mang the reeds ....... As we gand by yastream,

The tee, brushed fraathe heather bell,

Hammed loudly at our roamin Syna hurried hame in harte to tell

The way we spent the glosmin.

Or a nich ent off the jaint Everything served up to the point All for very little coin

Any time of day. Where are the Museum Dining Room!

„Not far away 1. There you will get the beat you'll soo Without delay. Coffee, chocolate, cocos, tes From adeltemalion free t And where you give no waiter's foo

At any time of day 1"

A poor attempt at punning is made by the proprietor of a coffee-room on Fleet Street

neighborhoods of to low-grade bas-rooms. Tals rule applies to all except the cafés connected with fashionable hotels like the Grand, Savoy, Metropola, Langham and Royal and the old- fashioned places such as YeOld Cheshire Checic, the Juno and the White Horse. On several occs- sions I counted those who were patronizing nice and, respectable boares. The results were followin

"The very best T is honest T And next to it is courte CU And every one will get all 3. Who comes and patronizes me.”. More business-like land straight-forward is metrical appeal for customers by a city

*We cater for the public ; Good breakfasts we supply; Our dinners are Par Exzellente'; Just step faskin and try 1"

The Grafton The Angal.

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9 p.m.) 85 men and in women,

The Fall and Thruch.......[ '3 p.m.) 90

Geston's (10 p.) 14 10 4

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· The Albion, sumecial 10 p.m.) 10 ( 1be Tottenham....(13 8.09.) ‹É

These figures do not include the bottle and Jug" or "family trade," where men and especially women send out for liquor and consume it upon their own premises. The ghastly extent to which the gentler sex is addicted to intoxicants la cxemplified by the following circular-a public notice which would be tolerated in no other land than England.

WANTED AT ONCE.

One hundred women to join Our Spirit Club; 6d., 4d., zd., per week for twelve weeks. Eich member will be entitled for.-

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Six pence per wisk. One pict of rum One pint of Irish whisky, One pint of gin or wine Four pence per week. Hall-plat of rum.

Hall-pint of whisky, Half-plat of gin or wine,. -Hall-gallon of bitter beer.

Two pence per with.. Half-pint of rum

-Half-pint of whisky,

A noticeable fact, yet ore which seems to have attracted little or no attention from travellers or students, is the superior quality of the potalfons sold at London bars. The malt liquors are Always excellent, the wines fair and the dis illates admirable, Both the Scolch and Itish whiskies ara unmistakeable children of John Barleycora. They are immeasurably botter than the many compounds of alcout industrielle in France, and of Kartofel Weingatri In Gerv many and fasel oll in America. It was an Irish American who said that the reason why there were no snakes in Erin was the excellence of its

psiheen. The healthfainess and superb stamina of the average Englishman is partly due in a similar roundabout way to the fine quality and purity of its stimulants,..........

MACAO.

W. E. S. F.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

Macao, April 27th, this hot weather there is almost nothing doing There is very little news to record, but as in I just send you a line to show we are not all

dead from the heat.

The Bange, as I indicated in advance, left yesterday for Bangkok is act yet generally known how long she will be away, but probable three or four weeks The Dilly, as you probably know, is still la dock at Hongkong.

Bishop Medeiros, Dr. Gonsalves (vicerector of the college), Colonel Garcia (ofthe police) and his son all leave for home in the next French mull.

There is no further report as to the_exact dato of Governos de Borja's departure for Japan,

TAKOW.

(FROM A RFICIAL-CORRESPONDENT.)

Takow, April aşıð.

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It is a long time since your valuable paper has pablished any notes from the south of our island, and as the dull routine of our quiet lite bas been at last broken by an incident well ̈ worth recording, I won't wait any longer for the usual communication from your regular coixe spondent. He stems to have expanded all bla energy over the Bokkara disaster, which he reported in Extento, but ko never once mentioned the large share he personally took in joining the brave Sin Taiwan: band, who went to the тексе of the › survivers,

The subsequent vitit of the Brittch Admiral to this island en route to the Pescadores came off as intimated in your news columns, so that I have but to record the community! gratification at having seen a live Admiral; **

The genial Inspector-General of Customs having nominated an experienced officer as chief of the local customs, in the person of Mr. Com- undisioner Heary Edgar, you will soon bear of surroundings, which will give the mack-lenged vast Improvements to our harbour and its

for impetus to the development of the island's resources. It is a great pity that the Teutons representative could not prevall upon the only gold prospector to remain in the island! Accord Ing to report, the prospector had discovered gold Though all the metrical advertisements seen within the territory of some savage talbo, whose on par with those given, they seem to be chief would not permit the "Athy Incre" to be Appreciated by the Londoner in general. He removed, unless the prospector made his bome crowds the eating houses which employ the among the autochthons and married one of their in the parses of their proprietors. They realise enterprising Gertenor any other man of su divine art for business-purposes and pats money | dusky daughters. Now, if you can induce an the fact and in turn buy new verses in endless cient energy to submit to this indignity, wend profusion. These they fascribe upon the walls him along, and the Teutons' representative will in huge characters, in the newspapers, on cir- do the rest. mart culars and dodgers, upon the broad boards of the “ sandwich-man ” and even upon plates and platters. To a stranger the practice seems very funny at first, but after a time palls upon him But now they sing of what they sawit herradry ever took cognizance of every day unit is no longer noticed. Upon real poets Whenever we gang amin's car facts the motto on the Briti, a cost-of-arms would it is disastrous. They say that Swinburne never They pipe the very words an' a);

be chay red from “ Dieu et Man Drost ” to “Beef | sees one of these literary productions without camphor-district, while the Tentons had never Pendly and Belir.” No people eat, and drink so much ; | Immediately golog off and getting royally drunk. been able to manage it during the two years i

few eat and drink so well. Of every fifty houses Drink is the nightmare of London. It is every» | No doubi Mr. O'Conor, the new Biliish, Min- to Lour jen one is devoted to the side of be perages, where and at every moment, throughout the Ister's fame for energy has travelled from Peking and to every Eve astopan there is one zestaurant twenty-four hours. The population, male and to this place, and has assisted the British Const. of som i sosterkind. The tendency goes to sl- female, old and young, labor under a mild at- hereto evercome the objections of the authorities. most a bird extremes. Thus nearly every theatre || tack of dipsomania, At a popular restaurant I am told trade is not bright" this year owing. has co procted with it a restaurant and grill-zooms on the Strand at poon one day there were 108 to short crops of both ́angar and rice, caused by. and ar ywhere from two to ten bars. In the people taking dinner or luncheon,, Of this num-high winds and cold weather, Farlik so and Alhambra there is a handsome bar | ber so were using "bliter" (Bass2 ale), so wine | A telegram reached the British Consul lately, | in the i parquet on, either, side of the stage aan | ¿3 'some sost, xg whisky or gin and only 5 water. ) that the Brilah Minister is coming here in a

The robin peepit fram a bush

An' thought we didna sro,

We whispered in the gloamis.

The Wintry inde may stir the trees, Cada bide baith san an2-moOM

MALIEJ

An early frost the loch may freestand

An' still the birdies' tane,

The bee harried bike may mourn,

An' mirk o'ertaks the glosmin' w But sys to thee my thoughts will turn

Wherever I gang roamin',

mCharles Murray, in Qhambers Fournal.

ODD LONDON,

In the meantime, British Interests in the south of the laland are pushed well to the fore by H. B. M. entireita representative, who has scored heavills of late against the Teutons. After

but one month's negotiating with the authorities H. B. M.'s Consul caused the opening of a large