1911-02-07 — Page 7

GRAVEYARD HUMOUR.

JEM MACE:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1011

Exaggerated stories have beon. printed of the money earned in the ring by Joni Muce, the famous old fighter, who died recently at to age of 79. As a matter of fact, his eleven chief contests mude for him far less money than

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

BREMEN.

would persunde a modern sound IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL

To turn from grave to, gay by morely turning to the opitaph söcins a swift transition, but the humorous twist of some of the old graveyard legends mankes it easy, The humorists of an earlier day seem to have gone into the stone cutting trade by some" strange montak bent, and a stroll through old cemeteries shows why theater to enter the ring for a big"] churchgoer, after the dry and show, These cloven fights total tedious sermon, lingered anong up to $10,000, iho tombstones of the 'churchyard where the epitaphs served to relieve the aridity of the purson's discourse. Many of these efforts to cheer up the mourner have become classic. Several others, not so well known, are given to the world by the Philadelphia "Record," which remarks:

lakor

Fon

KOBE & YOKOHAMA

STEAMERS.

(“Prisz SigisMUND" (Capt. D. Lenz...(T, 6,000)

NAPLES GENOA, }

ALGIERS, GIBRAL "DRAFFLINGER' TAR, SOUTHAMP- Capt. G." Muiners, TON, ANTWERP and

· BREMIEN

Entertainments

THE

BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE.

FLOWER STREET.`

SATURDAY, 9. 5 P.M.

A COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME AND PICTURÈS.

NEW BONGS

IY,

Miss VERA FERRACE AND Miss, RUBY CRYSTAL Bismarck Groundiers; Dutch Specialty. That Mendelsohn's Tane, Comic.

Mr. R. H.

Stephenson,

GOLD GOLD GOLD!

A American Dianistio Filin, A Beautiful Coloured Art Film, The Big Drum

LINES

TO FAIL ON

ƒ

About TUESDAY,"

7th February.

WEDNESDAY; 8th February,

(T. 17,000);

The Girl from Arizona.

"Yonek KODE and Capt, J. Rand

17.00-1

About WEDNES

'DAY.

8th February

Engit. D. Linz-...

(T:6,000),

SATURDAY,

25th-ebruary, nt Daylight

Capt. P. Serbill

Mid's of

February,

The biggest money miker was his fight with. Tom Allen, which, brought the winner $2,500. The most biggest figuro is $2,000 for his fight with Joe Goss, Four fights, brought him, in $1,000 each; one was for 5600, one for SHANGHAI, TSING-} $500 and the others for $250, $125 and $25. Those figures cover his biggest winnings in the ring

J. Frank Bradley, edit or of the Mirror of Lifo, an old friend and pup of Mico, says :

noro

TAU,

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MANILA, YAP, MA~! HON, NEW QUI- NEA BRISBANE, BOURNE SYDNEY and "MEL-

KAN

"Altogether I should say MacKUDAT and SANDA BONE" did not make

than $25,000 out of his boxing, and this ho lost many years ago."

The helpless deal are treated with more respect and vorerence nowadays; certainly many of "those so-called versos chisele on Tombstones could not have been chosen the occupants of the quios bad bonpath, although some of them are written in the " first person fictitious." Evon tho town drunkard, no matter how great was his remorse, could Totally without education and scarcely have chosen the follows with no business instinct, Maço ing doggorol, which was found had bodh for many years poor. in an old New Hampstura graveman. His role teeme if the yard for all following gonerations into of his death was his old nga to road":

pension of 5 shillings a wook. He was always a sober, quiet mang but is ignoraneo, his lack of business knowledgo and his gen- As jarohibition laws aro rilo inerosity, kept him poor. He wont the land and we are growing more

to neric al pado nothing: temporite all the time, we may out of the tour.

He went to

Abrami bilg Brank-hard cide r, and lid.

as well outing with another Australia and the same thing hap opitaph cdiveted, to

another ponoit. Yet le ques owiod yno of “horribļo – sxámple "aftlnigh, the largest, hotels in Sydney and Mr. Seifty whose remains lie in i also owned the winner of the Aus "Liverpool ckugland) churchyard; | tralian Derby.

bakinged to the producing end of the gang, white. Mr. Ido was, mofely consumer, and must fave numborud among his friends pond whe was not only a "post", "but a "paster, as the subjoined

verpo-shows:

PHILIPPINES SHOULD BE

RETAINED

"If the United States wore to hand these islands back to the

Pour Jolin Scot lies buried here.governmont of the Felipinos they Although he was both hale and would be committing a crime against humanity, and it is timo that this was realised by those

sto

All the stoniers of the Eupon Line are fitted wilk Wireless To'ograpliy, New System of Tolofunken.

For further Particulars, apply to

NOR DEUTSCHER LLO/r;

ZIELCHÈTS & GO. GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 2nd February, 1911.

FRibnations

MANCHURIA

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EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, proposed of excellently equipped Sleep-

who make the", laws of ouring, Dining and 1st Ch Cars, is operated between Dairon an Chang dun four country,"

time: 'n wea's in nection with the Tran Siberian Express Trains and with . Dairon-Shanghai Direst Steamer Service by the S.S. "Kobe Maru" and "Saikio Mara" (each 2,877 tons) as follows:-

Deaths strouhad him on the bitter

bier; Inanother world ho hups about, To continue, and still hanging This was the belief expressed to the fringe of de great drink to a "Times" representative by industry, we come to the depart-Mr. Willin. Redfield De ment of retail trade, repicating ratic Representative elect an epitaph in which there is a from Brooklyn to the Sixty-second delicious blending of the ten-Congress, a director of the Equí- poral and spiritual, and one which tablo Life Assurance Society of shows that in olden tigos this the United States, and i spirit of sucessful advertising minout New York businessman, was already to be found in the business world,

of Zion,

Doth lie the landlord of the

Lion

plu-

"The great need of the imp mont," said Mr. Rotheld warınly,

Beneath this stone, in hopes that the Philipping question in the United States should be Jiftori-high-abové--the sphero of party politics. There should po neither Democrat ner Itepublican where the islands are concerned.

His son keeps on the business

still,

Rosigned until the heavenly

will

But-hero follows a solar-plexus blow to temporánice advocates,. found in a lower English country churchyard."

She drank strong ale, and

puch, and wino,

it is I am sure that the De- Congress will deal conservatively mocratic majority in the next

Their aim will be not to destroy and wisely with the Philippines.

but to conservo."

And lived to the age of ninety- MISSIONARIES DÁNISHED,

niue.

Those which follow "could" scarcely be lines chosen by the reverend occupant of the tomb himself, clergyman named Chest:

Here lies at rest, I do protest,

One Chest within another. Tho chest of wood was very

good

Who says so of the other?

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MAX LINDER.

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a veritable occau aky-scraper.

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