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WORLD'S NEWS IN BRIEF.

RUSSIA,

One of the sévérest winters on record in Russia has given place to an unprecedentedly early spring.

SPAIN.

ro-

Tho Spanish Cabinet cently resigned again for the fourth line in fourteen months. For the fourth time Senori Canalejas, the Premier, wont to King Alfonso and telered the resignation of the whole Ministry,

and for the fourth, timo his

result of the rovision of the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912.

ON SAMPANS.

BULLS-OLD AND NEW.

And here is Mr. Samuol, tho Postmaster-General,. gravely in- forming,, the House "that the

Attractions of the Very Simple Amusing Blunders from Many number of now overhead wires

Life.

It has been my custom sinco my lot was cast in this fair lond

Sources.

Motels.

would be comparatively small, HONGKONG HOTEL

and would be placed under- ground."

"It is no use for the honour- Gladstone," to shake his head in abló meinbor," oxclaimed Mr. the teeth of his own words."

A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM. Now. Opcu.

Hongkong, 20th April, 1931.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager. [25

GRAND HOTEL,

Telephone 197,

It was Major O'Gorman who asked why Irishmen were so fond of laying bure their grie vances, and replied, "Why, to MANAGEMENT &'QUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN MANAGEMENA have them redrossed"; and fow unn forget Sir Frederick Milner'a 021 slip when he said that "the the cow that Inys the golden Government will inevitably kill

or Sir Ellis Ashmond-

What is a bull? Brower's "Dictionary of Phraso to spend a digestivo' half-hour and Fable" saya.it is “a blunder Majesty told the Promier to take heart and continuo in office. The after dinner on the Praya with my or inadvertent contradiction of During a debate on a Bill for Cabinet resigned on January 1, only companions-my pipe and torms for which the Irish are the reform of the judicial ad-1911, because it felt uncertain of my thoughts-and I don't know proverbial." ministration in the Council of the its position; in April, 1911, ns which of the two is more com-

It may be the nearest we can Empire a motion was brought famous Forrer trial; in January, pauionable. Of course I can have get to the definition of the word forward by 15 members of the 1912, on account of the Cullera my thoughts anywhere, but it is at any rate, most of us know the Council urging that Jowa.should riots in the preceding autuma; the pipe that causes the nocturnal bull when we hear it spoken or

seo it in print. -- `not bo'oligible for appointment as and on the present quension peregrinations—and alone. That

Justicos of the Peaco. The Minister bus it lost its Minister of pipe and I have been fast clums entertaining collection of "Bulle, milk,

A roader of Mr. J. C. Porey's Public Works. of Justice supported the motion, dwelling on the old standing mis-

it was given me by a flaxen hair-ifest been published by Mecredy, getting in the thin end of the trust of the linssian peoplo for

The village of Warnifontaine, blue eyed girl who-no! no Percy and Co. of Dublin and wadge by a sort of side wind." near Neufchateau, in Belgium, is the Jows. The motion was final sinking into an adjacent slato confidences at present. ly adopted by the Council. quarry. Five, houses have al-

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

BELGIUM.

CRETE.

THE STORING OF

CEMENT.

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for six years. I remember when Ancient and Moderu," which has Bartlett's protest that "they wore

stowed

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2:

There are hundreds of similor:

Veagli, M. P.:-

"Since the Government has let the cat out of the bag, bore is nothing to do but take the bull by the horns."

him when the road author is un- TO SUPPRESS THE TIP, known. His own description of

· bull was thia :--

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W. GALLAGHER, Manager.

THE TAIWAN

RAILWAY HOTEL.

TAIPEH, FORMOSA.

London, at a shilling, gota full | valug for his money, for the bulls The fact of the mattor is there found on every page like slices of rare humour in the Mr. Sazonal has delivered in rundly collapsed, and the church pipe is past the mellow stage and daisies in a meadow.

book, which is the best laughter the Duina na exhaustive review and twenty others are threatened. calls for unwanted remarks, if I

maker we have con recently. The bull got its name from one We einnot do better than con- of Russia's foreign policy. Special

sinoko it in closed spacos, so 1 Obdiah Ball, a London lawyer, elude with one of the funny attention was given to the Near The Cretan crisis apparently East, notably to the proposals anded the other day when the take him out, and he sizzles to who gained an unenviablo ro-sayings of Mr. Jeremiah Minc for mediation between Italy and Assembly elected a poramauent his heart's content while i meditation by his verbal blander- ings, but Sir Boyle Roche, who Turkey. The Minister gave a Conímission of 81 members, from tate.

could novor open his mouth full exposition of Russia's uttitude †whom five, selcated from the

Some nights ago I stond op-without putting his foot into it, in the Porsinn question and in various parties, will form an the. Mongolian and Manchurian executive body holding office in posito the Hongkong Club and is the father of the Irish bull problems. The discourse entirely rotation for one meth. The puffed and puffed and pulled asari be all the ancient bulls 10 Nowadays it is the usual thing Bot at rost alarmist rumours. I situation is now empletely until the voices of the sampun While reassorting fidelity to the revolutionary, and the elections dwellers strow my thoughts from French Alliance and the under-to the Greek Chamber will doubt-j standing with Great Britain, M. less take place. Three British, the chits 1 can't audi almn't pay Sazonoff recalled the friendliness two Russia, and ono French next month to the multitude of

"When you see three cowe

The Mississippi Legislature,) of Russia's relations with Gercruiser anchool in Suda Bay, craft which occupy the highways them lying down, that is a bull." has passed a law, says the "mun- standing up in a field and one of nocording to the newsdespatches, many and the improvement of relations with Austria-Hungary..

und bysways of the harbour and

Mr. Poroy has made a rare enl- in which many a strange life his-lection of slips, some of them issy Magazino, to prohibit tips- tory has been worked out from fered as into as last January, fifty dollars fing for the giver, as M, Emmerich do Szivak, a well-

the cradle to the grave. To my

Some Irish Specimens much for the taker, and one hau- koon Hungarian Ministerial, po-j

There is the "Answers to Cordred dollars for the employer of litician and president of tho

As concrete is so largely enter-mind there is something fascinat-

respondents" column in the "Irish the tip-taker. A somewhat simi;| Bungarian Amortization Bank,

ing into the construction of ing about the sampan-its com-Cyclist," whore the writer told the committed suicide recently in nedern sugar fetorics, the fol- pactuoss for one thing and then inquirer time the best way to lar bill has been introduced by a Under the Direct Maungement of the

Taiwan Railway Dept the train between Budapest and lowing hint on the best thed the many little articles that are psa caw on the road when New York legislator. There is Viens. Rimours that his bank of temporarily sturing cement is involved in difficulties conscy be of interest to prospective

cycling is to keep behind it.” no doubt that the tipping ovil is! away thereon.

EXCELLENT OUISINE AND Even the author has a number becoming a surious one. Not

GOOD SERVICE. RATES quently spread on the Budapest builders of now houson nudi addi- and Vienna Stock Exchanges.ions to existing ones

of bulls to his credit. Sending only does it imposo unfair ex

GYEN AND Ur. For instance there is the cook's out a parte of cyclists on ons of pense on people who have to pay They are not yet authoritatively

Portland cement is easily galley. Tako up two pieces of the Irish ours, he said, "Let the twice for service, but, what is Uniformed bote, poiler meets all confirmed, though necording to the affected by moisture. It is pur- the deck in the fore part and you first contingent go aliead, and worse, it is breaking down the ins and stenmar Luggage sto "Zsit "the late Director-General posely mado so; for,, combined are in the grill room. Cook the will send a znan after you to lend self-respect and manhood of an ranged for without may trouble to of the bank, who resigned recent with water and other substinees, meal, put the roof on the galley, the way."

increasing class of American guests. ly after only a few weeks of it forms the best of all building and the dining table is laid, Two

Hongkong, 1st Feb., 1912. As true charity is!

[182 Atan Irish augling club dinner people. oftee, declares that his resignamatorialeverlasting concrete. paces away is the state-room the members were told by the twice blessed, blessing both tion was due to his discovery of a But moisture must be kept away where, without worrying to move chairman, somewhat ambiguously the donor and this recipient,

WING KEE & CO. clandestine deficit amounting to from cemont nutil it is needed for any further, one can go to bed. "It is good to see around me so so the tip is wite cursed, for it C100,000.

This means that Leaving the cabin and walking GERMANY.

cement must be stored in places through to the poop one sees the many old faces that I used to go curses him that gives and him that takes. It fonds to make ono The policeman Olauss, of

which are and can be kept ab-working of the vessel, for here fishing with years ago."

Then there is the Connemara a snob, the other a fawning Wilhelmshaven, who was oxolutely dry. Upon the proper somo lusty woman plys the single tradited by the magistrate at

storage of cement are dependent oar or holds the "reins" of the sail jarvey who told the author that sycophant.

It must be admitted that na to Baw-street, London, on a charge to roputation of the contractor while her lord and mastor either thim sheep are mountain sheep, of having committed larceny in or builder, the trade of the local combs his hair or carries on an sir. If they lived by the sea they Ormany, and who ploaded that dealer and the satisfaction of the animated conversation with the would dio," and, later in the drive, extradition should not be grauto

lady next door in that quaint coplying to a qustion and point on the ground that he was wanted. Many users of Porland cement sing song which invariably ending to a building said, "We have in Germany for having committed need to store it only for the short tip on a crescendo torminating in a woollon industry there that has capionage, lins been sontonces by interval between the time of haul-an explosive monosyllable. Just been shut up these four years."

Journalists, politicians, and the Criminal Court at Auriching it from the dealer and using over the stera hangs the hon coop (Prussi) to six years' imprison in the concrete work. Any with four or five poor hene jos lawyers have contributed to Mr. ion refuses to sustain it. Laws nont and ton years' "loss of building with a good roof, tight led together in a space remnis- Perey's ust. Here is a reporter side-walls and a dry floor will do cent of the Black Hole of Cul-in a Wolverhampton newspaper Make a temporary double floor by cutta. Occasionally. they have writing about "one of these fliors FRANCE,

moans of small benine or logs and an outing and are allowed to who nearly landed in the water." The revival of patriotiam in loose boards. See that driving wander a few yards on tho Praya Discussing the salary of the France was triumphantly tostitied rains or damp air cannot reach showing off their only marks of Lord Mayor of Dublin on January by scones of delirious enthusiasm the cement.

identification-splashes of paint of this year, Dr. MoWalter, an or a thinness of leather. alderman, upbraided his sol-

honour."

Actual use.

180г.

The Cook's Galley,

The Childrer,

fining everybody concerned, there ia somo doubt as to the practi cability of the Mississippi statute. There may be danger of adding one more law of the sort that brings lawmaking into something like derision becauso public opin- that are not generally and uni- formly enforced are not desirable; they bring more important stat- utes into some of the contempt that they evoke.

Nevertheless, apart from the question of the workability of the penal clause, we should be glad,

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at the spring roview in which Portland cemont weighs nearly 40,000 trompu, three airships and 100 pounds per cubic foot, there But it is the family that calls longue with "You come here to see some such experiment tried.

If we are ever to end the tipping Selected after competitio 1 with all other systems ten acroplanes took part at Vin-fore judgment must be exercised for attention. There is mother to stay outside and prevent a cenues, in the presence of the in loading the floor. Likewise, who owns the boat, plys the oar, quorum," while the Lord Mayor ovil. the only way to do so is by President, all the Ministers, and on account of its weight and scolds the offspring, toais for of that City, three weeks after law, not by unorganized public by the Advisory Board to His Majesty King George V. an enormous concourse of people, possiblo damage from d mpness, passengers and buys the provenwards, asked, "Are we going to opinion. The Mississippi statute as the sole relaforcement to be used in the construc- It was a real festival of the Army, do not pile the cement against er. Father leads the luxurious sit here all day listening to you may not be perfect, but at all tion of the New Water Works for Windsor Castle. Thousands of little blug neroplane the side-walls of the building life of a lodger when father is and Councillor Cogan washing events it is a start. Perhaps the New York proposal is wiser, in badges were sold on the ground unless the house is full-lined or aboard, for like a sensible follow your dirty linen?" on behalf of tho military air fund, skeleton-line on the inside. he leaves everything to the The Irish atmosphere seems to that its operation is limited to haveaffected Lord Abordeon, who, hotels, restaurants, dining-care, which stands at £52,000.

Store the cement so as to leave "missu6,"

in welcoming the Colmial Pro and sleeping-cara. Should a no- an open space or an aisle along Mile, Bernard, the youngest the side-walls and aisles at places French air-woman, was killed at

Then there are the children, miers to Ireland, said, "The only tice of legal prohibition be posted

be both effective and salutary. Etampes while flying the third necesary to separate shipments, delightfully dirty, and conso thing he regretted was that their in such places, the result might tost required for her licence in Get rid of all possibility of the quently extremely happy. The stay was not shorter."

Coming nearer home, we have the presence of an official of the cement piles toppling over by girls just rub along somehow, the County Councillor who warned Aero Club. She committed the laying the bag, as a mason ctiog nursemaid or pulling his colleagues that "small-ox

would say,

"headers and stretch oar, but the boys in contradistinc- error of trying to rise during a 15 turn.

The machine tilted anders," that is, alternately length-tion to the West have the time of is croeping over the district by

wise and crosswise, so as to tie their lives. They are petted and leaps and bounds." foll 200ft. Mile. Bernard was the pile together. Examine the spoiled and tied up for fear they

Political Silps. only nineteen years old.

building frequently to see that fall overboard. The girl doesn't Politicians have been very there are no leaks in the roof or matter; she's merely a girl.. prolific oven statesmen have March 11. The newly dis- sido-walls.

There's something charming made contributions to the bulls, covered street at Pompeil ia Even on the work, never pile about the sampan life, so primi which are proserved in Mr. a continuation of the old "Street cement on the groundoron bricks, tive, so convenient. It is the Percy's book. There is Mr. of Abundance" and leads from Throw down a fow blocks, lay cook's galley that does it really: O'Shoo's question on April 24 of the olty to the amphitheatro. Inboards upon them and make no worry about not finding it. last year: "Is it not a fact that a corner to the right is a public dry floor for the cement. Have You have got to mislay the whole the only living animals on this fountain and on the wall of a just onough coment on the work deck before you lose the galley, farm aro the seagulls that fly over houes close by a great fresco to keep things going. A good And again there is nothing more it?" and there is the remark of representing the twelve divinities torpaulin is handy to cover up the convenient than the stateroom. the late Lord Russell of Killowen of Olympus. The discoveries coment in case of a sudden shower. Squat, and you're in the living at Bailam: "If this coercion inolade the atrium of an ancient Always buy cement from the room, lie down, and you have re-messure is passed, no man in house with many fine reception dealer who has a dry store-house. tired to bed. It ie all a mere Ireland will be able to speak halla sad bed chambers. The If the coment in the bag has been question of posture, and to think upon politics unless he is born. skeletons of a family of six persons wet, it is hard as a rook; do not you can condpot cooking opera- deaf and dumb." were discovered in one house. use it under any circumstances. tions from the cabin is in itself "If you put the hon, members The hands of a man and woman However, do not mistaka lumps to realize the highest form of on an uninhabited island."-ra- were glasped as though they were caused by pressure in the store convenience. I have omitted one marked another Irish M, P., trying to protect two little children bouse for " setup" cement. Such thing the bathroom. It is thisre" they would not be there twenty- whole between them. The lumps crumble easily and the miles of ftand all the effort four hours before they, BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, whole group was overwhelmed by cement is perfectly good.

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