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Intimations.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED..

'VICTORIA DISPENSARY, HONGKONG.

WHISKIES.

LIQUEUR WHISKY (SQUARE BOTTLE). THIS to ana of the finest Whiskies over Timported into China. With Aertied Water, or Hot Water and Sugar, It is simply delicious-$12 per case.

SCOTCH. F.O.S.A very fine Old Blended Whisky,—$11

per case,

LOCHABER-A Mellow Old Scotch Whisky

with fine flavour.-Sg per desco. GLENMURRIE-A Pure Malt Whisky. Ex- cellent value for the money.—$7 per dozen.

GIN. OLD TOM-A very fine Sweetened Gin, Bottled

expressly for a $5 per dozen. KEY BRAND-In small White Glass Bottles. The very fast procurable.-48 per dozen.

CHARTREUSE, CURACOA, D.Q.M., &C.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1893-

enough to wipe out the present Britlah Dawson's Perfection Old Scotch Whisky, Mediterranean flɛet,

HOME RULE.

Mr. John E. Redmond, Member for Waterford City, said in a speech that the Paraelites would support the Goverment's English messurez next year, provided the Ministry would devote a week of the Autumn Session to the grievances

of the evic'ed tenants.

SHANGHAI AUTUMN MEETING.

(Special to the Hongkong Telegrafk.)

THIRD DAY,-WIDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 187.

Ir will be noted by an advertisement which appears in another column of this larue that the first of the popular entertainments organised by the Hongkong Smoking Concert Club for the crming winter will take place in the Theatro Royal on Saturday next. ABOUT the very last of Hongkong's panda millionaires quietly slipped his cable yesterday and got off in the French Mall. It was not the advisability of bis nglaciers exit. And be gor, Brownle now loafs about hummleg

Was's me lor my Silver King"

HOW WE DUG THE PANAMA

CANAL.

(BY AN AMATEUR MAYYY.)

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SCIENCE VERSUS TUBERCULOSIS.

writes from Engelberg in Switzerland to the Under the abare heading Dr. Schwarzbich Sydney Hirald

I have received some letters from Anatralla

and

Ivanishlog venture-circumstances polated to and Greek and a Buency in French, a cross- and we died quick enough withant murdering shell. Sciences help of the microscope) a

THE uit of Scheinest & Co, through their Hosgkong agents Meyer & Co., sexist Hutchison & Co., string out of an alleged Infringement of trade mark se to matches. Was The following are the results of yesterday's to have come before the Chief Justice in the racing :-

Supreme Court to-day, but the plaintiffs decided not to carry the case any further, and the salt | was accordingly struck off the list, A

The GRAND STAND STAKES; valus, Tis. 100, added to a sweepstakes of Tis. each; for China ponies, beløg dond fida griffos at date of entry; first pony to receive 75 per cent.¡ second pony, 25 per cent, weight for inches as per scale; winners of one race, gibs, exten two or more races, yibs, extra. One mile. Mr. Ring's Hellos especial. I Mr. Sassoon's Viceroy................ Mr. Uto's Sangfroid

3 FLYAWAY PLATZ; value, Tiz. '100; for Chias ponies; weight for inches as per scale; en- trance, T. 5. Seven furlongs.

All previous quotations cancelled. The above Mr. Sassoon's Mighty............................................................rusor. 1. prices are calculated for a 2/5 Dollar.

Mr. Sassoon's Blackberry.................. z Hengkong, 25th October, 1893, 138 Mr. John Peel's Merry Thought....... 3

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A S. WATSON & CO., LD.

The HACK STAKES; value, Tik. 100; for Chins ponies (without the restriction to height speci fied in bye-law No. 13) not otherwise entered at this meeting, and that have never won a race; weight, tost 12lbs; entrance, Tis. 5. Once round.

Mr. Ring's Gideon.........................................................onummene. I VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS. Mr. Harppton's Shanks.......................

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SEASON 1893-94.

THE FIRST SHIPMENTS OF OUR SUPPLIES OF GARDEN SEEDS

for this season have arrived, and we are nOW prepared to book orders for prompt of forward execution. Complete Catalogues with concise directions for sowing can be obtained on appli- cation, or wil be posted to any address. In these Catalogues the needs are marginally numbered in English and Chinese, and when ordering it is quite sufficient to state only the numbers of the kinds required.

Orders from one person, of from $5.00 to $10 00. allowed as per cent, discount; over $10.00. an extra 5 per cent,

CLAY'S FERTILISER,

A bigh class Fertiliser for Pot Plants and for use in the Garden generally; it supplies natural nourishment to the sell and assists the process of assimilation, thereby alding the plants, to mbtain to their full size, vigour, and beauty,

Sold in Tias containing 10tba, exch.......................$t.jo

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*****$4.00

RANSOME'S "NEW PARIS "

LAWN MOWERS.

The best and cheapest machines in the market. Kept in stock and supplied at Manufacturer's Fsices.

FERMINGER'S

MANUAL OF GARDENING

FOR THE TROPICA,

This work is allks Interesting to the student of botany and to the practical gardener, and comprises a large number of plants which for

the convenience of reference are arranged in separate groups and are beaded with their

ordinary and botanical names.

THE CULTIVATION OF

FLOWERS, VEGETABLES, FRUIT TREES, &c,

le practically dealt with, and Prusing, Grafing, and Mahuring thoroughly explained.

Price: $7.50,

A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED,

The Hongkong Dispensary,

ESTABLISHED Á.D. 1841. -

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Hongkong, 4th September, 1893.

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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THE END OF THE MONTH. There never was a dewdrop

That filled a flower's cup, But quick there came a sunbeam

To drink the dawănep up! There never was a shilling

That jingled in the ill, Bat quick there came a fellow

And scooped it with a blli 1 the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. Wodehouse, a Naval alficer, convicted of befog drunk and disorderly, and certified by his superior officer is of exemplary character," was fined a dollar; while a military "drunk and dis." whose character" was “very good,” | was fined $2. Now, let some of our scholastic readers who are skilled at the rule of three figure out the proportionate amount of drunkenness of nich, and send is the answer to our "Pussie Editor" within one calendar year, accompanied by one 21, 3d, dollar.

THE Daily Presi must have been very much The FARI-MUTUEL CUP, value, Tls. 150; second for home the Governor's departure yesterday: per to verze 15 rer cent, and the third for it pots Colonel MacDonnell, R.A., in came mand of the Saropabire Boys," which of pony 25 per cent of the stakes; for China course is a mistake clear enough even for ponies: weight for luches- per scalo ;

1Granny" to see when reasonably sober; for Eriffins at date of entry allowed gibs,nother. Mr. Murphy is stated to have led the band, starters" and winners at this meeting ibr.

whereas he was not there t and finally the extra; entrance. Tix. 5. One mile and a half. U.SS. Concr, which has already suffered o grievously at the hands of our esteemed contemp., fired salate which the "D. P. pats down to the shore battery.

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Mr. John Peel's Vigrant momomiya 1 Mr. Sassoon's Lightning ..... Mr. Sassoon's Barleycore..

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The COSMOPOLITAN CUP, valde, TIL 150; second pony. Tls. to: for China ponies; weight for inches as per scale; winners at this meeting of one race, slbs, extra; two or more races, 7lbs. extra entrance, Tis. to. One

mile and three-quarters.

Mr. Treban's Bovril ..............................m

Mr. Sassoon' Zephyr.....

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Men call their follies, bar lock ƒ and 10, for was bad luck which left me with nothing in the want of a shorter definition, let us say that it world are one five-pound note and the clothes which I stood up it. For a smattering of Latin country sent, a knowledge of the spot-stroke, à repotailon as a dancer and banjo-player, and ruda apspleion when to draw on five when bank- at baccarat, do not count as assets unless you mean to turn to one of the professions-for which I had no inclination. So far I had kept my bands clean, with much loss to myself and great profit to my acquaintances, I now determined to dirty them thoroughly by hard manual labor if the last chance did not come off. The last chance" left to me, as I thought, was the possibility of getting an engage ment as an actor in America, where the Anglo-manis was in full swing and where my name might be greater attraction than my talents. This frame of mind and my fire-pound note found me beginning my new year resolation as a steerage passenger to New York my fare being some 3 10s, and my bed as extra half-sovereign. Of my "free" cothing was left to me, when I landed with the other | emigrants at the Battery end of New York, but

few shillings. I still retained my pluck, how my way to the works among the dead bodies, I nature of the discase, is not by a long way so ever, and had worked myself into a berole state of mind that made me belleve I was leaving all my misfortunes bohled me in this played-out o'd country, as I called it, and was starting fair to a new land where class prejudice and tradition did not exist.

could understand, and therefore lost no money a. It principally consisted, as far as I could make out, of shouting numbers very loudly. It Invariably led to wild excitement, and generally ended in a row, after which a "boss" came along and threatened to blow the beads off a a!! parties. This may bave been "wild justice," requesting me to give the result of my investiga- | but it answered remarkably well. We were a

came to know what sort of place this promisedemption, phiblats). Although long article lawless band, driven to desperation when we tion of the latent development in regard to the

knowledge treatment of tuberculosts (can and was; but there was very little robbery, as there was nothing to spend money on but boose, could easily be written on the subject, I think the essence of the same can be given in a nut- There were a few attempts at Ing (principally by the

very far advanced in disgros. mattoy, which did wat amount to much, as no one but the bosses had arms; I make no

tuberculous aff-clion of the lungs, but at the asperilons, but it was a singular thing that no

same time science is, alas, very backward in sooner did a ringleader arise than somehow or

curing the same. Tuberculoals, being a disease other he caught the fever and troubled no one

of decline or wasting of the organism, ca again.

be checked-if an increased nourishment wil give the body sufficient power to fellows who have lain down laughing at the is not very often effeeled, but perrons thus

I have known' hundreds of hals and kearty con

counterbalance the decline. An absolute rare climate, only to wake fall of sgue and fever, afilicted in their youth may die of old age by alterately shivering and baring during the few vigorously adhering to the strengthening method. hours which remained before they jained the The disease may be acquired by everybody who, "casualdes, as the routing masses which lay in some manner or other, continues to weaken about the encampment were officially described. his or her system, as the case may be. Oret. Personally, I was never better in all my life werk, mentally or bodily the exciting chase Fever-mist seems to agree with me, for after fortune diisipation in baccho el in winera

grow fat on the plague-stricken districts of

to fact, all a'rength-consuming causes may, Mashonaland. I was doing well, and the deaths especially if a hereditary disposition is pre- of others had no terrors for me. I should have disposing. originate and develop tuberculosis of stopped on had it not been that one day, after the longs. It will be to the comfort of near had been there about four months, while picking relatives of patients to learn that the infections came upon a blue-and-white cotton shirt lying imminent is generally feared to betheagh in the sun, which I thought I knew. I turned it clean habits on the part of the afflicted are over. There was no mistaking it. The big, essential. If a person becomes phthisical, a brave fellow I had grown to love as a brother, and whom I had only parted from a few hours of diet in order to increase the resisting power of change of occupation in order to rest, a change before, was now a crumpled helpless bag of

the body, and a change of scenery for the sake of clothes. The light-blue honest eyes which breathing pure air day and night, are all im bright; but the fresh, clear complexion had stared up at the son were the same, only not so portant and should be enforced even with great

sacrifices. If th

f the beneficlaj influences continue being withered and stretched tight over his face, turned as yellow as his curly head, 1

› the skin' for a long time the disease may be stopped, in a few instances cured. All medicinal treat- while the thin aristocratic lips were swollen and ment of phthisis has proved a failure, more or cracked and purple as a berry. Poor Sandy ! less. Koch's lymph has been abandoned, except cried as a man can only cry once; and when it

I don't know whether I prayed. I know I in case of local tuberculosis (lupus); abandoned

are also hundreds of other "remedies

which was over I dug his grave and burled him as respectfully as I knew how I wrote as kind a the creosote treatment, which is at presset lead- have been in battle against the enemy, Even

letter as I could the poor girl who was waliing | Ing on the continent of Europe, is very uncertain, for him to come back ; and that night I stole our paitly on account of its obnoxious taste and of the encampment and walked through these lon on the digestion, partly on account of the

fus effect. fever-mist across the peninsula, where I caught very long time before it takes the boat which started for 'Frisco. After that it 17 per cent. of patients seemed to have been is another story.

cured by it, and a much larger percentage of All this and experience was wiped out of my

cures might probably have been recorded If mind by ather adventures in other lands til beginniar of the disease. But the very begin creanote would have een given at the very back in thle dear played-out old_constry, I send in a quiet Kentish parsonsge of the imp ading ning of the disease is generally overl:oked, and prosecutions. Iturn to an old Gasitler. How cons qacatly neglected. The most powerful cynical the pleasant and learned description of antago tits of the consuming disease are, deabt- the flora and faune, the geological formations, less, good air, good nourishment, and a contented as complied by some learned professor, read! | mind,

Dating the last year I have viited some of twenty years ago I fled that MA South Africa is said to have regions more than the famous engineer of the great Pacific Railway, had anticipated the mad scheme of is grand Fran- any other beneficial to long patients; personat cals, and demonstrated with a pin and a piece of observation tells me that Australia is quite as twine that, even if a canal were ever cat, as he well provided in this respect. I have also visited deemed impossible, it would prove the longest, the leading establishments to Germany, which the most difficult, and the most dangerous roate make the treatm at of tuberculous diseases & between the eastern and western hemispheres, specialty. In all places I have found a pleasing. The old Gaseller says the principal feature of uniformity in answering the principal questions the country is its eccentric formations of low on the sat fer, though the internal arrangemente rounded bills. Surely, when a new edlilon is may differ. Some of the medical superintend, published, some note will be made of the human enis advise patients to drink much good heavy bones which the ralat have washed and the sun

wine, others advise to drisk milk only ; some has bleached, whi esing the miles of swamp

are in your of systematic lang gymnastics, ‚which divide occan írom ocean.—Sydney Timis.

others in favour of resting the whole day toog In a badlock amongst rine trees. Of caurie, cases are individualised, but good air, good nostisbmlent, and a contented mind are the principal bosling factors with all.

taken the knock and had given up fighting I had picked up a pal who, like myself, had

the world with the gloves on. He was as find a specimen of a Scotchman as ever belled 1 the generally credited tradition of his country for allsginess. He was tall and chest. He had all the shrewdness of his country strong, broad in the back and deep in the men--in every way my direct contrast-and had left a girl he loved, to wait for his retain with a fortune.

For a week or so we tramped New York In search of work. I saw all the managers, who in turn told me I had come in the wrong season, that their combinations were made up; hat if would wait they would see what they could do and did such other menial work as he could get for me. My new-found friend cleared out bars

for go cents a day. On this we-starved, "A

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flower-sellers, who with their wares are usually remember our joy and mutual congratulations- But as I read on sod smile I grow angry. Over the most renowned mir-sanatoriums of the world.

TO-DAY a very numerous section of the come starvation goes a long way; so we deter murity followed the practica cual la Roman mined to go to Panama, the land of promise, and Catholic countries throughout the world on the therefore the appropriate destiny of the broken. and November-namely, deccraling_the_graves We aigned at the agency for a year at from of reimiives and friends with flowers. The Chinese five to deven dollars a day; and well do I how we would work, how we would save, and, at the end of the year, how we would each have at least £150 capital with which to build up a fortune.

Together with two or three hundred others of all actions, we were shipped one afternoon on a craft which cut its way through the ice of New York barbour. In two days the weather

rather a pleasant feature of Fedder's Street, made *******themselves distinctly too much of a good thing, ........................... 3 blocking the whole street with an unusually The MANCHU STAXIS, value, The 100; second | large assortment of wreatha and crosses; and pany Tha, ço; for China ponies, bond fide. not only did they seriously inconvenience the griffins at date of entry that have ran and not public, but they had frequent fights among won a race; weight for inches as per scale; ihemselves. entrance, Tis. 5. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Ring's Brennas'................................... Mr. John Peel's Sportsman.... Mr. Toeg's Volga...

The CONSOLATION CUP, value. Tis. roo, second pony Tis. 50; for ponies that have run at this meeting and art won a race and have been entered otherwise than in the Shanghai Siskes or the Shanghai Jubilee Challenge Cup; weight for inches as per scale ; entrance, Tls. 5. Cnce round,

Mr. Raxey's Blus Beard

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Mr. John Pref's Talisman....................................... Mr. Sassoon's Lightsing ..................... The CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES, valus, Tie 300, a forced entry for and open only to winners at this meedog; optional for the winners of the Consolation Cup and the Hack Stakes, not exceeding 14 hands 3 Inches in height; weight for inches as per scale; each pony entered to pay five per cent. of the value of the staker and prizes won. One mile and a quarter, Mr. Sassoon's Hero..... Mr. Trebau's Bovril ....................................OSTIZA Mr. Jesser'a Firefly

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PIECE of land, anys M. V. Rabublic, is worth, on the Strand, London, $27,500 for twelve feet hopta, por ant quÏ'e $3,300 à foot.

On the corner of Fifth Avenus and Fitty- Seventh Street, New York $5,000 a frost fool perhaps more new; that's what Huntington gald Bonner, ****

On Lower Broadway, in comer plots, $15,000. to $10,000 per front foot.

At the Comer of Wall and Broad Streets it can't be had at any price,

On Long Island, far from a ralraad, $5 per acre. On Government land, eighty acres for nothing. In most of the South American Republics a| big farm for nothing, and a bounty for settling on it.

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changed, and it seemed to us symbolicat of lear. log the cold and cruel world behind for ever. In four days we were in summer, and by the time we had been at res a week we were in sigam-hest. The ship was filthy, ear companions were not congenial, and the

food. Wai simoɛt unentable. We were of all

MAXIMS AND APOTHEGMS.

nationa– Scotch, English, Irlab, Scandinavians, negroes, French, and Italians. Whem they had attempted to cater for it. would have been dificult to

all seemed discontented Bay, #1 except our two Leives, whose hearts were as Hight as our pockets To us everything was right, and our one desira was to reach the El There are many people who seem to imagine Dorado to which wo were drifting, and to that some pithy sa log, whether it be proverb, commence hard work at once. Coming straight apathegm, maxim, aphorism or epigram, is from frozen land, the heat of the last week in conclusive argument, outweighing logic, fact and At the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. H. E the Gulf Stream was terrible; hat at the end of everything else. They fire off one of these say. Wodehouse, a coolle was sent to gual for one our three weeks trip we landed at Panama-Tings, and then because the opponent is dazzled by year for having got three siber Chinamen to forget the name of the port which was peopled the flash or desfenel by the roar they claim the come down from Canton to Hongkong, on preby a low type of Mexicans, commonly called victory, although the cartridge may have been text of getting work bere, he really intending to "Greasers, dressed in fantastic and picturesque only a blank one.

rags of many colors, the Panama" hat as wa know it being consplenously absent.

them away to Singapore. It seema distinctly, strange that the British authorities should so rigorously apprais emigration of Caldere from one British. colony to asather, whils all the time they allow constant staram

exhaustive the

(Won in a canter.) The GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHAKY ; valde, of exactly the same class to enter the Tls. 1501 for Chima ponies; second pony, Tis. Straits Settlements from other ports. The 50, weight for luches as per scale non- Straits Government, after an winners allowed 7lb.; entrance, Tl. S. enquiry by a special commission to 1800 and Twice round a courge selected by the Stewards. 1891, found that there was not necessarily Mr. Josser's Guarantee....................... 1any hardship or is justice in the system Mr. Robson's Camptown

the contrary some twenty years ago, silll persists but the Hongkong Government, having found -not in suppressing the tarde, but merely in changing its cort of origin.

Mr. Crossthwaite's Careless................................................

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

DAWSON'S Whisky.

THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s royal mall steamer Empress of India amived at Nagasaki at 7 s.m. to-day, and left again at 3 pm, for this port, vía Shanghai

There wo were taken over in gings by a boss," who conveyed us up to an encampment seven miles inland, which, as far as I could ever discover, had ng name. These were the works the Maroa of the many, the unemployed and the unemployable.

the yrane and the old, the Irisha prastat and the aristocratic "dead-beat of the world. We had came because it offered for unskilled labor what, B.A's and M.A.1, wils or their work, vis, £100 a year, and not skilled mechanics, or poets, cannot earn by their one of all of us stopped to think why such a premium had been put upon, muscle and the 'sweat of our brows,

Taking advantage of this sentiment a little volume of maxima and phrases has been com plied recently, the selectisas being principally from French authors, which will be a source of great comfest and consolation to those who rely spon smart sayings or epigrammatic phrases to help them out of a dilemma. There is a great deal of trash in the book referred to, but there are some clever things and many arcastic pues The female sex is the chief object of the arrows of wit and satire, and as many of the maxims are large proportion of our readers. from modern writers they will be found new to a

The late Professor Trauble, widely-known sholy on chest diseases, remarked once,- "The whole of mankind suffers somewhat' from tuberculosis," He was not very far wrong. because present scientists assert that about 60 people in 100-60 per cent-are "somewhat invaded by the tubercle-backlus, though the disease in most cases in latent and will make itself known only under the unfavourable con difons as described above.

I do not pretend in these Hoes to throw * flood of light" on a subject which is known, or should be known, to all medical men. Fat, in friends, I intend to emphasise that the treatment answerlog publicly the request of some Australian of tuberculosis is, after all, more a matter of common-sense than of science. To diagnose the dismiss in its details and to ascertin its diferent stages, also 10" Individualise" to order naturally outside the power of laymen.

and comfort, le to give momentary cale

'FUEL IN THE SUN.

A COMPARISON WITH EARTHLY MATERIAL.

Sir William Thomson has calculated that the

pounds of coal per hour equivalent to the work guantity of fuel required for each square yard of the solar surface would be no less than 13,000

Alexander Dumas must be credited with ona of the wittlest and worst-natured sayings in the collection. He says: "The Bible says that THE Ruislan squadron which has esused such

But the reason had been made plais many women is the last thing which God made. He a tremendous fars in the Mediterranean consists

months before I came, and went on proving must have made it on Saturday night. It shows of only five versals; and withough they bably the best that Russia could select, to harvest land was one pot of gold, but of yellow on the other hand, justice is done to woman by pro self many months after I left. The golden fatigue. Dumas probably did not believe this, but d could not Teslat the temptation to be wity, heighten the effect of the show, they are not up

fever. My companions had left their homesteads On to much the very beal. The Dagship of

la the old country, the canal wards, and Fleet some of the French writers as where Alphonse of steam engine of 63 cao horse-power, says Admiral Avellan is the Souvenir d'Azou, belied street-ibat graveyard of genint. they had given Kar way! The besny and the winner of the Paris American Register. This enormous cruiser, 117m. long, 15m, beam, with engines of op the vines of France and Italy, the bogs of women are superior to the virtues and to the expenditure of fuel would be sufficient to melt s 11,500 b.p., speed 178 knots, and crew 525 man, Ireland, the contumely of "white folk," and the beauty of man or where Bernardia de St. thickness of about forty foel of ice per minute at The best ship of the squadron is the Emperor snows of Scandinavia. They had brought their Pierre writes: Woman are the flowers of life, the sun's surface. ***

nes | as children are its fraits,” and - Tazile Delstdi Joha Herschel says: "Supporlog a DAWSON'S Whisky has obtalsed, vold medals | Nicholas I., turretship, raim, in length and news to a land of sun, and bare left their bones declares that "Caprices of women are the resuit ilinder of les forty-five miles in diameter to be

200 beam;

speed 16 knots, bup: 8,500, and to when the swampe of Panama. CTEW. 604. Two of the others the Dimitri fraud, lavish bribery, and the ruined fortunes for of a perversion caused by mans" Demakel and the Admiral Nahkimo, belled which the directors were tried and convicted are OUR Canton correspondent writes ns that a powerful syndicate has been formed in Canton sets, are known but here from their bayog as nothing weighed in the balance with the blood to build a fleet of stern-wheel steamers for open sta loa duty. The last vanel is the Ryndarist amicipale.

been in the East with the Crewitch, and on with which they dooded the Panama Canal. But log up the trade of the West river. Full part class cruiser with protective deck. There partla culars will appear to-morrow,

culars are taken from one of our French contem? poraries, and probably are not unflattering,

wherever exhibited,

SUBHURIBERA TO THE HONGKONG DRINK Dawson's Whisky and be "O'er at the

TELEGRAPH" ARE MOST RESPRONFULLY

ills of life victorious."

REMINDED THAT ALL SUBHÚRIPTIONS | Iar the Supreme Court to-day,

MUST. BE PAID IN ADVAKOR;

The Honghang Lelegraph.

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SUPREME COURT,

His lordship :-What sort of men did you

* IN BUMMARY JURISDICTION. supply to carry out this contract work?

The plaintifOb, just ordinary coolles, | (Defors Mr. E. J. Ackroyd, Pulena Fudge.) picked up casually, not lo regular employment every day-Just "Job Lots 1"

November zid.

COAL HEAVERS" WADER.

In the human body there are sald to be more Mak The Chin, of the Wing Cheung Lung than 2,000,000 perspiration glands communicat. Till Keb, sued Ching VA, of the Yet Li, for ing with the surface by ducts, having a total | $356 94 for work done on a sub-contract In con HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOWAMBER 9, 1893. length of some ten miles. The blood contains nection with the "slaving", landing and on. millions of millions of corpuscles, each a stic-loading of coal at Hongsy and Hongkong. Mr. tare in itself, The swasher of rods in the retins, C, Eweox was for the plaintif, and Mr. H. L. supposed to be the oldmate recipient of Hght, f Dennys for the defendant. estimated at 30,000,000. A German scientist From the evidence it appeared that the work has calculated that the gray matter of the brain was originally undertaken by the defendantte is bullt of at least 600,000,000 cells.

Bos, who got the contract from Messrs. Janine;"

TELEGRAMS.

THE MASHONALAND "SHINDY."

LONDON, October 31st.

The British columes are expected to reach

The

Included among the phases and phrases of this book is a coloms of definitions by Charles Narrey, rome of which are really clever. For example, he defines “Baby” au “An sägél Gems

continually dasted into the sun with the velocity of Hght, and that the water producet by its stalen were conflsually carried i ff, the kust now givan Constantly, by radiation would then be wholy expended in its liquefaction, on the one hand, so

to leave no

zo radiant Surplus, while on the

My "pard" and berded with about seven others a ceiling by Baucher, for parents; ether the metal temperature on its surface would in a run-up wooden shanty, dreaming of home, degenerate mokey for strengers' Contem undergo no dimication. He also says that the breathing in the fever-mist from the swamp, por 7 kè defines ka “ Good people who would

which crept along the ground like a grey wolf i like you if you were dead." "Daly "WEAK dinary expedia of beat by the win per minste would suffice to melt a cylleder of ice sight. The food, which principally consisted of one is bound to do and would like not to do for 784 feet Im diametes and in length extending rice, a taizture called coffee sweetened with this the sole reason that one is bound to do it. One from that luminary to Centsuri. molasses, and tinned meats, was provided of the best dedallions is "Fop. A lool, glad to Aw to the watual temperature at the sun's wur. ... for se by the company, who stopped about be what he is He defines Toulouse Aince wely various extimates have been made by Besides poor mas looking for a clue which he hopes not different computators: Secchi supposed it to be 20 dol a month mat of our salaries. this

to find. The orator is defined as A man who there was a light red wine which must have cost about rs centa a gallon, and any talk for his own pleasure and rhetoric is amount of what was called "boose," principally, "The art of saying alry nothings with a certain 1 Imaglas, because it certainly was not any dlegance,”

about 10,000,so degrees of the Centigrade there. meter and Sporer 37,000 degrees of the same, scalce: while M. Fanjust thinks that it lies bes Απέβατ 1461, dégreen and 1760 degrees Ceutin | known liquor.. We called it #chain Ughtning s Whatever we may think of the logical or grada.. Becquerel, Professor Langley, and

but the only liquid thing I have tasted which argumentativa valus of this kind of literature Air Willem, Thomson consider that the temper.. remotely resembled it was "Cape Smoke," and there is something about it that every one store of the solar photosphere cannot so bed that was three state shore it in quality. We relishes. Epigrama, maxins and the like finra 900 degrees Centigrade. went to work at dawn, which was o'clock been aptly compared to condiments de and literally broke alle hebrer, on a more agreeable and pleasing, to the palatset to 3,800 degrees, and this agrees with an xequent

According to

to Saint-Clairo Devilla the opened | without being food in themselves, mako

temperatura is, somewhere about 3,500 degrees and there was light few drills, was provided most of the work being is only when the epigram bears marks of being experimente by Bunzen and Debray, 9 ir Robert of the coilngry party cus-railway cutting order hammered out of the cold fron that it fails to Bull anys that wesball probably be well within

the definition of that

no li about 3

Matheson & Co.'s compradore. This copisane #22 10-wielding, dinging, and barrow. | please. If we can see the 'slow of the red-hos. the truth:16 wa stata the, èffective teraperature of

werd.

WHAT has gone wrong with the works? Is it ❘ was sublet to the plainild's firm, on the general was too hot," but supposed to work Hill It metal and the showers of sparks that fly binexil the sun to be about 18,000 degreas Fährenbelt." Bolawayo on the 4th of November, The Mata- x kink, that the powder of the poon gün is extra plafo:iff exactly what Jardidén compradors was 1-differed, and the menu" the men and he ❘ there be m ́spice of mailes fo the saying it does. the smaller determinaison noser the truth.

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their contentions not detract from lis Interest..RE vando The actual heat of the sen rust, however, be

There'is abundant historical precedent for this very giet. Professor Young says:

a When

bales have repeatedly cut the telegraph wires, and dry or that the Tramway Company to becoming piliting to pay in the first instance, and the by dropping like files to their tracks. They were consequently rellable feformation regarding unnecessarily extravagant machipa

was to reʻurs to the defendant a come supposed to be carried to a place set apart called class of writing. Proseibs, epigrams, wise saws, heat, is concentrated by a burning-glass the the local aspect of affairs cannot be ascertained.to whome time is of value and to whom the defendant's version of the agreement, and is that and quinine was supposed to be kept; but as the of language, and their survival is a proof of their of the source of the best, the effect of the lens & qomies are Parto the interests of residente mission on the whole transaction ; this was the ↑ a hospital, where one doctor was to attendance and aphorisms are as old as the secorded history – temperature a at the focus "cannot say above that missing of a tram la A very serious incon. light he claimed that he had carried it rules that "the quiale had given out," the fitness to mest sense want or need of the human being simply to move the object at the focus BRITAIN'S DEATH-KNIĹL (1)

venience. For instance, today theme was fally out. Plaintiff contended that the scale of was grew careless, thinking, possibly, a man family. Different sailase have different schools virtually toward the sun; so that, if we neglect payusant au fixed at the frat should remain might as well die in one place an another. The of literature of this sort, and the comparatire the feas of heat by tranemission through the without factuation. The test of the agreemant result was that n'ess you looked where you study is a very interesting ons. Anong moders gisas, tha tamparature at the focus should be the (in Chinese) was full of alterations and Inter were walking you stumbled over things that had a lows the French as the most renowned, but ama me that of a point placed sit such a distance lineations, most of which were repediated by been men, vi ene aide or the other so being unauthorised.

there near Santchrundu povolcan goigrammatiels Between work we generally lay down, liquored and phrass-makers who soos puñas cup, then (**) wy'ng gambled at an Italian gams which I'nevar i vary dlose--2m Fresszus Chrisisli,

France has granted Russia the right to make five minutes difference between the firing of the use of any French Naval Station in the Mediter- supposed noon gun, and the starting of the sup. ranean. The Times correspondent, who cisims posed noon tram-car. Upon this occasion the tram took the staat indiested, and won anally, to have thoroughly inspected the Toulon A general pmparison and resetting of chres- Arsenal, reports, tant the: Trench nee strong i ometara i ild seems desirable:

word the sun that the solar disc would seem furt së largë as the lene kindlf viewed from its own