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D'ARC'S MARIONETTES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1894.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

A serious slot has taken place among Artillery recruits at Dower, who smashed the faratura la barracks and looted public houses. The people of the town remained indoors; the listers were eventually dispersed by the military and police and many were arrested.

December 16th.

The Queen has conferred the order of the Crown of India on Prinesia Marie of Roumania, Princess Melita of Saxe-Coburg, and Princess Aribert of Anhalt.

LONDON, December 13th, That in these dull and dismal latter days All Chamber of the different European considerable relief may be obtained from an States aid taking measures agaluat bomb oat evening spent in the pretty and cosy Brages. Theatre erected by the enterprising D'Àrc.

General Protheroe, commandig. Hy. Marlonetes management at West Polut, derabad, has been apprinted alde-de-camp to evidenced by the crowds that repair thither the Queen. night after night; and to thisreusoning last night's highly ingenions, thoroughly emusing, and wholly unimpeachable entertainment was la no wite an ex ep'lon. From start to finish the verve of the defly contrived performances of the mannikins, who walk gracefully on and off the stage, and who move about in a 'marvellously naturel mancer, produced constant applause and unlimited with; the Komicst Kures," court minowels, and the plantation dances of "Old man" and "Youngman" bringing forth positive storms of applouse and encores galore. That there should be some slight kliches in a show of this kind it not a matter for surprise when the handling of such defeate and multitudinous mechanism, such as la inseperable from a unique performance of this kind, intaken into considera- tion, and it speaks volumes for the skill and care of the graceful manipulatora bebled the scenes that all defects, if such they may be termed, are in the Burion which in itself would not be detected were the illusion less complete, and there, too, are readily forgotten in the marvellous perfection to which the litle actors have been brought.

D'Ac's Maronet'es are unquestionably for superior to 'y of their. Italian viwals, in that they actually walk on and off, whezexi, the Italian poore's simply flat on and off the stage without straightering theft knee joints. This Importa timproveme t is particularly noticeable In the ict where "Robert" gets foul of the dawg, or rather vice verid and in the elaborate barlequinte med dormitsble ballet and sight rope dancing, which, brought an at the right moment, effectu lly prevent any approach to tedium and stamp the perfomance, at once diversified and attractive. Of the pranks and by-play of the chosen it is well nigh Impossible to speak to bighly, and it would be incredible to all but eye- witresses, a remark which may be fally applied to the grand transform-tlan a ene—the "Fairy's Dell ard Home of the Silver Swan and the ever-green pantos im-cf" Blue Beard."

Asin entertainment suited to all sections of the cosmopolitan commanties of the Far East, of all ages and sexes, it may be safly overed th D'A c« Marionetten for excel any show of this kind that has wet vi ited the "Gorgeous East" The whole per ormar ĉe la 21 chusto ng it is dis. tinctly mirth-provoking and interesting, while the staging and scenery sie absolutely fault- less. To 'l a couple of columns with elaborate details of the led performance weald he a back-handed comoliment to the painstaking management which we are rat given to extending to high-class er tertainers of the D'Areorder. En-dah has been ««id to satisfy the publle that a visit to the the Bij u Theatre well repays the trouble of getting there, and that the matinees can be asfely patronized by "the rising generation as are the evening performances by adults of 'almost every race under the sun.

And now a "word in sexson” to those whom It

may concern. A theatre, whether it be at West Point or In the heart of the ety, is not a place where low.clans "t nghs" of the coster, "shell- back" and "shovel engineer" type are welcome, and they should not be afruitted there.unless fairly sober. On more than one cession during the current week spectators in the front pesto have been subjected to considerable annoyance by dro ken "Artles" in the back seats, who

■hould have been summasily dealt with by the police. That they were allowed to carry on ibele coarse pranks onmolested may pro bably be accounted for by the fact that the policeman was away "round the corner," as per usual, or possibly near enough to the bir to get a savoury whiff of other people's beer be that as it may, the remedy lies with the male portion of the audience, who should promptly check off naive rowdyism by applying the "closure." which being in erpr ted in the mother- tongue of Bi 'ingsgere gutter-birds means "chuck- ing out." Verb. sap,

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Several changes in the programme are now promised and should draw like one of Dr. Cantile's very own porou plasters,

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December 17th.

The cargo of the ship Faren, which was stranded on the coast of Massachuanita bas been mostly saved."

December 18th.

The, indemnity which France has agreed to pay to Italy as compensation to sufferers by the Algues Mortes clots is due to Italy having con. sented to pay as indemnity for the French killed in rioting at Rome, Genoa and Naples. Neither Government has yet paid, as the sanction of the Chambers is awaited.

The Malabar's michinery has agalu been tested and found defective, and she will therefore remain at Malta,

Generals Elmhirst and Wiliam Wilby are dead.

Roux, December 20th, Signor Trisp, speaking in the Chamber of Deputles to-day, made a strong appe 1 to his heaters, and said he hoped that Paillament and the Government would be in accord snill Italy's fortunes were restored. The present crisis, he sald, was the gravest that bad yet occursed, and the country must make some sacrifices.

LONDON, December,

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long body round him and put his tail into the poor skile baby's month." All night long they lay their, my father belog str. 11 to move the serpent exhausgeg my mother, and my brother violy endeavoring to get arushshment from the rep'l'e' rall

"In the morning the family held a council. My wicked grandfather was tied, found gality, and condemned to death. We executed him with an axe and gave his body to the family plz, and the head now decorates the outer wall of the village temple."

THE FUTURE OF SILVER.

"SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

manalacture of magesine guns for the army. The Ordonne Department has started the Sme cless power is to be used.

To-day's Advertisemen s.

Intimations.

G. PALCONER & CO., JATCH and HRONOMETER MANU-

A new sad batu'liol alloy Is predaced by D'ARC'S MARIONETTES W FACTURERS and JEWELLERS,

mixing twenty-> parts of aluminium_with seventy-eight parts of gold, the result belog a rich ruby tint,

KAO PRENAN hot-air blast furnace, which has been cradled Excavations in Palestina, go to show that the to be the inventing of Nelson in 1818, was used *1,463 years befo-e Christ.

AND

FANTOCHES FRANCAISES WEST POINT.

bodyA VERITABLE TRIUMPH.

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SHOW A MARVEL AND A SURPRISE TO ALL BRIOLDERS (vide Hongkong Press)

The Governor, Slr WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Patronised by

KC.M.G, Lady ROBINSON, and the Elite of Hongkong. PERFORMANCES TO-NIGHT AT 9 PM, ́ ́And Evéry Evening until further notice. GRAND AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE

So greatly are the Pería hospitals over-crowded by consumptive patients that a separate hospital | HE. The world's production of silver, asyn the New has been eashed for their best at York Journal of Commerce, has risen from $2,000,000 in 1870 to $160 000 000 in 1893, B, or chemical anthroes of Parts. At St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, during an lacrosse of over 230 per cent, within twenty the s'x'an yours from 1875 to 1890 there was a two years. This fundamentally changes the total of 19.536 administrations of chloroform whole problem. The most ardent advocate of and thirteen death, or ons death in 1,500 bimetallism must admit that ibis excess of administrations. supply immeasurably incrasses the risks of an laternational compact, beyon! what would have attended it twenty or even ten years ago. Under these changed conditions, general free cotange would have made enormous compolmry' addbions to the silver-el-colation of the several contracting

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newspaper presa notices, will be sent post' free on appi cation. The syntets ls without doubt, the most successful ever brought before the public Address, Aural Specialist, Albany Buildings, 39. Victoria Street, Westminster London, S.W.

CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER..

Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, says ↑ "Gold is only valuable because it is rare. It is not nearly so useful as from, which is the res! precious metal. Aluminum is too soft. 11 is light, but it lacks strength. The metal of the fature is nickel steel, which combines strength ions, wholly irrespective of their monetary with p'ishlity. Gɔld is not worth as much as lend requirements and with consequent derange la commerce, and brass is more than worth its ments to finance, commerce, and money sys-weight in gold.” tems. the magnitude of which it is impossible to climate. If it were true. as is predicted. that the demonetization of silver is destined to produce dire consequences from a contraction of the volume of metallic money, it is cest inly equally tree that international free-coin ge operating over the last fifteen years would have produced an artificial money inflation Bill more mischievous. To this unanswerable ergament, that the current supply of the metal. alter deducting from it the requirements for the arts and manufactures, dangerously exceeds all legitimate currency wants, must be added the equally conclusive objection that silver bullion has lost fully 45 per cent. of its former value, In the House of Comm ns last night, Lord The consequence of that decline is a correspond- George Hin ilion in bringing forward his motion ng debaiement to all the world's exlating "that the interests of the country demand that.

ailver colo, In view of the fluctuations of larger addi ́sons be made to cur Navy," and

bullion for the last twenty years, it is demanding a statement of the Intentions of the impossible to say that the price may not decline. Government belore Chismar, dwelt upon the

alt further, and It is equally impossible necessity that existed for picmpt increase, other

to judge what may prove to be the future normal value of the metal. It is simply wise oue Navy, he sold, would be weaker than those of France and Russia comblad.

economic insanity to imagine that a metal thus Mr.Gladstone then brought forward biramend-discredited, thus uncontrolled and uncontrollable

as to supply, and thus erratic as to its valu, Nagal mert: "That the House relies on the Ministry ty submit definite proposals in due time." He said can longer be accepted for any other than sub- that the motion of Lord George Hamilton was tidlusy monetary uses. B metalism is not en really a vole of censure, giving a great Imperial absolete truth, but a conditional theory...) question a party character Government adhered We may not fitter nurseives that because the to the system of annual plane and he denied the

silver isvae is dead. It is therefore buried. I' existence of the smallest danger; plans were, be ghost will still haunt the halls of Congrean. Its said, in coarse of preparation, for an adequate Tellers and Stewarts and Blands will harangue conventions and mats meetings as the dangers increase in aar Navy.

of repeal, and the silver-mining S'ates will make themselves a torment in polities in order to exact new concesions. Ba', in the meantime, Cape St....... other safer and more conventent forms of money will have been futroduced, the great mass of rar people will have heard the knell of silver, 2nd will refuse to believe. It any bing short of dead for ever.

Mr. Bofur-twitted Mr. Gladstone with de- grading the debate to a party movement, and insisted that prompt action was imperative.

The motion of Lord George Hamilton on being pat to the vote was rejˇcted by two hundred and forty against two bandred and foot, and Mr. Gladstone's amendment was unanimously adopted.

December 2017.

amendment to the Employers Liability Bill The House of Commons has rejected the introduced by the House of Lords permitting "contract-oui," by a m3jrity of sixty-two.

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"WAS ANY ONE TO BLAME?

The destruction of the steamer City of Alexandria with its attendant loss of life has WASHINGTON, December arst, naturally ised the question, Was any one to The Secretary of the Treatury, in his report blame? It is possible that no one is to blame to Congress, propasts to meet the deficit by for this loss of life and property. It might have selling not below par coln three per cent. been consed by one of those acedents of the short term bonda ameanting to two hundred seas which no device of man c n prevent. The million dollars, or issuing Government obliga-steamer, however, was destroyed by fire, and this Hous payable after one year at interest not exceeding three per cent, there being sold at par, or given in payment of public expenses to creditors willing to receive them.

LONDON, December aand. The death of General Sir Henry Ramsay is announced.

BEDLOE'S SNAKE STORY..

A coteria of distingolshed emopolles, says the Chicago Timer, were chauing in the cald of the Auditorium over their coffee and cigars last night. They were telling stories of travel Tales of many climes were reci d, but none so 'quaint as this by Dr. Edward Bedloe, World's Fair Commissioner to China and late American consul at Amsy.

was attributed to explotion the cause of which is unknown. Now, fire is an accident which man thinks he can prevent to a very large extent, but whether this particolar fire can be put in the preventable class will probably never be determined, for the simple reason that there is no wholly unblased way of searching out the truth is the matter.

4th January, 1894.—At 4 p.m.

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F, G, Fica, First Assistant. Hongkong Observatory, 5th January, 1894.

BONGKONG REGISTER.

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According to our laws, whatever official lo- vestigation is made must be done by the Board of Steamboat Inspectors. But this Board is in a large degree Interested in all steamboat accidents as a party under investigation; A stramer and its officers safl under a ceri ficate of competency issued by the Steamboat Inspection Service. It cannot or ought not to go to sea. unless that Service says its boilers and ball aro ' in good condition, that its master, officers, and "I will tell you the story as it was tol engineers are qualified. If there are lacking is to me by the old Chinese boatman," he said. any way, if the Steamboat Inspector have been "The intelligence of an animal is simply the remiasin their daly,then punishmentshould come intelligence of the human seul that occupies its upon them. In case of an explosion, It is pre-Hidity. body. We cannot be too careful in our treat-mable that boilers were at fault or that ment of animals, because we may Inadvertently engineers went wrong. But who is to ascertala give pain to the splift of some ancestor, relative, the truth? The law says the Inspectors, But or friend. I speak with cocsiderab's feeling, the Inspectors may have been really to blime because which we will never forget. My grant father should discover this, is it to be believed that. and my family had an experience in the beginning, and if by any chance they was a poor coalie, who worked for day wages these men are going to play the part of Reman and saved as much as possible of the B cents a day that his labour produced. He was very are seatbeless, it is probable that they will place fathers and bring themselves in guilty? If they ambitions, and turned every energy to getting the blame where it belongs, being naturally ahead in the world.

anxious to perform their duty, their own positions "He lived on a cents a day and put by the 6 being safe. From such a system of investiga- tion not much good is to be expected, and the amounted to about $10. He then bought a real causes of disasters are not likely to be found sampan, or passenger boat, and became a out. bosiman. This was in itao:f a great step forward and upward in life. He saved his earnings and from time to time bought other sampans and hired men to work them for him. Then, as wealth began to come is, he bought houses and farms. This industry he kept up until his death. When he cled be was the leading man in our naiive village, and had more money than any other two men in the whole district.

From correspondence recently published in the Economist it appears that the "tinting" system of hle insurance does not always give satisfaction; the figures qunted by iba companies as payable to the client are expreasly stated to be"not guaranteed, but when the result falls short of "anticipations the confiding losbrer is disappoi ted just the same. We cannot see that he has any ground for complaint, having volun- Tarlly parted with his money under plainly-stated conditions. However, for the benefit of persons who have not enough sense to take care of them. selves we reproduce the letter, without gratuit-cents surpins ont at the end of a year It ously advertising names -

THE PROMISES AND PERFORMANCES OF

AMERICAN LIFE OFFICES.

To the Editor of the " Economist” SIR,-Some twenty years ago x f lend of mine took out a toni e policy with Life Assurance company of the United States,

The p-licy matsted this year, and I hand you herewith (1)the official original estimate, and (2), a letter from the head office in New York showing the actual result. They compare as follows —

Estimate.

Actual Revali. Lud Cash value at matmi'y .....3,396 o o 1,451 160 The seared may then

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draw out, continuing policy at same premii 1,738 6 a 794 a o Or have paid-up policy

10%......................4,520 ¤ ¤ aá¡$70 ¤ ¤ Or an annuity during life and the 2,08 at death,

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*Subject to evidence of good health, For years past writers on insurance matters have predicted the impossiblity of realisation of somewhat kindred estimates, under which American offices obtained, and continue to tout for, business, and I venture to think you will confer a benefit on the insusing public if you can find space in your paper for the above hard facts-Yours truly, etc,

The steamship owners and others concerned may, however, for their own benefit be anxious to ascertain the cause of a loss, especially in arch & case as the City of Alixandria, which at the moment appears to be so unexplainable But here again we are confronted by the chance' of the investigator being the one to blame. It is among the possiblilies that explosions and Eres occur through fault or negligence of the shipowner or his officers. It is not an uncom mon thing, for instance, for sum to be carried in the upper 'tween decks of steamers. Now,rum bas

for a small bay walking along the road near the ripe fruit. The temptation is irresistible, the dik

Perdous Qo dare day & p.m. BETA 4.00.

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·Lowest open air temperature on the 41...meme38 F. G. Yoo, First Auletant. Hongkong Observatory, 5th January, 1894.

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.

{Prom Meters, Cleo. Falconet & Co.'s Regiatur.) Today

Thermometers & De Tharulogiatan 3Mladen un

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To-day's Advertisements.

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'After he died we cremated his body and pat his makes in a large earthenware urn, which we placed on shell or bracket in the parlour of our home, where it remained for many, many long great an attraction for a sailor as an orchard years. One day in house cleaning a servant knocked the jar down and broke it. The ashes were spilled all around the room. As the dust in securing the prize never considered. We heard HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC cleared away a small baby snake was found recently of one case in which ram was carried crawling from the debils. We recognized that in the "tween decks and some sailors were dis- the snake contained the soul of my grandfather, covered broaching a cask of it. A light was and therefore took it and put it in a small boxcarried, but in the baste of discovery and escape We fed it upon mice, milk, and litla blids anil! } this fell to the deck, and if the officer had not It grew strong, large and fat.

promptly extinguished it there would have been

At the end of eight months it became over an explosion. It does not seem sensible to carry such a cargo where it can be easily reached by pilferers. This is only one of many probable causes of explosions. "May there not be others where indifference er negligence of those in charge may be the cause? Who is to say? Not

for his own negligence. Not the shipmasĪST, for he is in the same position as the owner, From such a source, therefore, unless clean con duct is certain, not much help can be expected towards ascertaining the real causes of disasters. imparifal tribunal is needed in order to Inventf

From the foregoing it is evident that some

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WILL GIVE PERFORMANCES OF THE COMIC OPERA.

"PRINCESS TOTO,”

BY

- GILBERT AND CLAY,

On the following dates:---* KUTO-MORROW ''

January 6th, 9th and 13th, 1894.

Curtain to rise at 9 7.M. precisely each night.

EXTRA PERFORMANCE,,

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST

an extra performance of PRINCESS. TOTO," fil be given on. TUESDAY, the 16th January, 1894," DE AT 4-PAČ ZA fal Comia Opertan

Positively the last performance of this success-

six feet long and nearly three inches thick. About this time my second brother was born, | He was a very largo god handsome baby, and was admired by the entire community. He suddenly, however, began to grow thin and weak. We were much perturbed over this and the shipowner, for he will try to evade blame greatly alarmed at his condtion. My father consulted a clairvoyant, who said that the Irtle brother was in the toils of a vampire, who was sucking his life's blood, and advised my father to

it up every night to drive the monster away,

My father accordingly sat up for the next three nights in my mother's bedroom. The first two nights nothing unusual happened. gate fally into disasters, to secure punishment On the third night, about 1 o'clock in the where criminal negligence may be the cause, morning, my father, who was sitting in aand to open the way for additonal means of [Ocr correspondent might have added that to large easy chair, beard a strange noise in the security where preventable exoses are found. the original estimate there was appended this room. He never moved a muscle, thinking it The case of the City of Alexandria will, no note: These amounts are not guaranteeds might be a ghost, but only opentă one eye doubt, be soon forgotten, and it is not among they are, however, calculated upon the least Would you believe it! He saw that big, fat the probabilities that the actual causes of the favourable data, and the results will probably snake--my grandfather-crawl out his box, explosion will ever be known, at lost, to the Beats for any all Performances can be. excord, rather than fall short of the estimated go across the room and gently glide into my pubile. But this is only one of many cases, and booked at Mestre, LANK, CRAWFORD & Co. Bgures." This makes the difference between the 'mother's bod. The next moment he had fastened they all go to show that, unless better means of promise and the performance all the more his jaws upon her breast, ou

Books of the Words of the Bongs, prios:15. davettigrilan than those now existing are tried, i cants, at the Booking Offen. AaA arking. We should be glad if other insurers As he did so my ittila brothar bägin to cry the question "Was anyone to blame 1*will* would inform y no to their experience-Ed. from, hangar and is more towards my mother toldons be satisfactorily answered. N. & Mare: phur the fall of the Certain, auch night hol

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TOTICE is hereby given that the ORDI-

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JOHN A. JUPP, Secretary. Hongkong, 5th January, 1804 "WARRACK" LINE OF STEAMERS.

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For Freight or Passage, apply at the Com- panffice

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“THE TYPHOONS OF THE EASTERN SEAS."

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