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ulways stoppad on Saturdays.

A Daring Jester.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1912.

gives the impression of craft rather than of mental alertness,

Tho

HERE AND THERE.

Paris Police May Stop All Boxing.

THE BOOK WORLD.

Mrechanta v. Dreadnoughts. Millions of Germans in Prussia (In this column will appear The other story concerns the although this is redeemed by

and Westphalia derive profit from, from time to time rows of books colebrated jester Saphir, who was real geniality. Those who know

or make their living out of, coun- and chat on books and writers.) once ordered to leave Barvarian say that he is very considerato of

tries to which their political WHY THE WORLD LAUGHS, territory without delay, because his followers, and loved as woll

dominion in no way extends. The The ordinary book of anecdotes, had ventured to say that the reverenced by them.

The French boxing world is in modern German exploits South repository of wit, or anthology of King of Bivarin wrote very bad current tales as to his novera stato of consternation over an America by remaining at home. humour is a book to be picked up and if my own feet will not false; I have menos of kuowing foot of polico, prohibiting boxing he attempts to work through pooms. "I shall go," he said, washing his faco aro patently order issued by M. Lepine, pre- Where, forsaking this principle, with fear and trombling, Nothing is 30 self-contradictory, in essence

carry mo quick enough, I shall at his personal habits me quite matches in the future unless political power ho approaches as a classic joke. Charles Jehu borrow some of the superfluous uu-Orientally clean. He sleeps absolute guarantees are given futiltly. Gorman Colonies aro ston's" Why the World Laughs" Icot from his Majesty's verses!""

every night between spotless that there will no be fatal result. Colonies pour rire. The Govern (Harper's), is an oxcoption because

Perhaps Mr. Johnston does not satin shoes; and he outs from The order is the direct result of ment has to bribe Gormans to go, the author in compiling his good exaggerate when he describes as golden bowl and drinke from a fatal fight, when Raphael Belli, to them; her trade with them is stories has eschewed the familiar one of the funniest Greek sorios golden cup. When the Chinese a French boxer, died from the microscopic; and if the 20,000,000 sources. He has gone back in the following anecdote as told by Government tried to depose the effects of a blow delivered by who have been added to Ger- history to the Egyptians, the Nicarelns. A deaf man had a present Dalai Lains, it accused Evenden, an Englishman with many's population since the war Hobrows, the Greeks,

lamy suit with another deat bin, in forms that made the reader whom ho was giving an exhibi-had to depend on their country's the American Indians and man; and the judge was even 8, of all kinds of gross in- tion. abroad to China, Persia, and the

dent than either plain morality, practised during his long Ottoman Empire, and lasthusse

tiff or defondant. The plaintiff wuderings about the Chinese declared that the defendant owed Empira, succeeding the invasion ecoded in making his book what not all compilations of our five months' rent for his of Lasso, his nover-before-violated banquet at Battle Crook, said of are, readable. Mr. Johnston bas

house. The defendant replied capital, by British troops. But a social reform he disliked that he had been working in his his face is not that of a dissoluto

and

more

.

Reforming Rockefeller. Upton Sinolnir, at a vegetarian

political conquests, they would have had to starvo. What feeds! thom are countries which Ger-

many has payer. ownod, and nover hopes to -44 own": Brazil,

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epigram, entoté, and humorons narative. Be begins with the

Why are you contruding You Darjeeling, excellently situated attempted by Tom Haines,

Tom Haines was playing to know, I have learned that hisi alory of a Chinoso policeman who have a mother. Both of you arrested seven malofactors and must contribute to her support." private charneler is above re-cheekers in the general store with having handented them in t In the Forbidden City,

proach. The charges were but man who kept looking at the Ja bit of Chinese polities; and they gircle around a stout flagnilo, he The Princess der Ling, First seem to have failed, for the Tibe- kapt his whip busy in souling the baly-in-Waiting to the late tans would not hear of another at the clock for?' said Tom.

"What do you keep looking seven men rapidly trolling in a Dowager Empress of China, bas Lama, and only the peaceful or-

Becauso, said the man, I sort of marry-go-round about the written a book enlod Two ders of this man kept them from see by the Sunday paper that pole. Somebody told the police-Yours in the Forbidden City." waging war to the death upon John D. is ten dollars richer.'

every time that look toks old man that it was a happy, idea to She was educated in Europe. the Chinose troops.. nail the prisonors to the ground Upon the occasion of her with a lagpole, but why keep first moeting with the old m thom moving? Because, said the officer, they might climb the flag pole and escapo.

Chinese Epigram.

Mr. Johnsion quotes from the vast stock of Chinese epigram:

A me thinks he knows, but n

· womna knows better,

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A red-nosed man may be a teetotaler, but no one will believe

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It is not the wine that makes ́n

A Remarkable Statement. press, she was greeted at the remarkable statement that it had Ilia holiness volunteered the door by a lady who came out been his play, on his return to smiling, and shook bunds with Tibet after his long wanderings fashion." This turned out to be the sacred city by the Younghus us in the most approved foreign consequent upon the invasion of the young Enipress, the wife of band Expedition, to follow the the Emperor Kwang list. She Chinese example and send his

was very sweet and polite, anil had beautiful manners; but was Western education. He also do

10 America for not very pretty" Then tho signed that Tibet, and oven Laga heard a loud voice from the ball itself, should depart from its im

Toll them to como in at once."

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"Tom Haines rose hastily.

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France, and England. (Germany, who never spent a mark on its political conquest, to-day draws re tribute from South America then does Spain, which has poured out mountains of treasure and oceans of blood in its con- quest.) Thoso are Germany's real colonies. Yet the immense intorosis which they represent, of really primordial concern to Cor- many, without which so many of

said the man.

What are you going to do?her people would be actually with- Sessions:

out food, are for the diplomats and "Stop the lock,' said Tom," the soldiers quite secondary ones.

Literary Questions,

They owe nothing to "Agadir in- Among important questions vidents"; they are the work of writer in "T. P's Weekly, aro: turer in reality, quite unaided by worth discussion according to a the merchant and the manufac The power of the Press. How Dreadnoughts. All this diplo far does a commercial Press losomatic and military conflict and an attention to popular demand ? unspeakable foulness which Tri- its jufluence by paying too close rivalry, this waste of wealth, the How do our papers corapare with poli is revealing are reserved for those abroad? Compare "Lo things which both sides to tho They wheyed, and saw an old upon tal policy of seclusion, and Petit Journal" with the "Daily quarrel could sacrifice not merely Under the Direct Maringomset of the lady dressed in a beautiful yellow trade and travel. That plan bad dinn" with the "Kolnische Zair Angell in the "Daily Mail."'

doors to foreign Mail" the "Manchester Guar- | without loss, but profit.-Norman sting croidered all over been provenied of fulfilment by tung"; "The Tines" with the with pink peonies, and wearing Chiese offorts to dethrone him" Berliner Tagoblatt" and the the same kind of headdress and by his present exile, but " Figaro. Got a Sunday edition whon lo retu.ns he purposes to the "New York Times." maile of pearls and jade, a pearl assol on the left side and a beauti- put this policy of modern on Does the Stage Censorship any hour he wants them. He Uniformed hote. pastor meets all If a man has money, he will find ful phenix in the entre, made of lightenment into operation. Such keep the stage clean? Are may select such food as he reins and Leainars. Luggage are plenty of people with scales to the purest jade. Over her gown is perhaps the best possible illus Censor less worth seeing than and the wife another, the usuals

a stafculent, from such a source, the plays forbidden by the closos, and if he wants one food ranged for without any trouble to she wore a capo, the most mag-tration of the universality of the those permitted? Among for. band's decision "goos."-Judge No-image-makor worships the ficut and costly thing I ever saw tides of change and unrest that bidden plays are Maeterlinck's Long, Springfield, Mass. gode; he knows what they are his cape was made of about three are sweeping over the earth. If Monna Vanga," Granville Bark-

"The Hindus found the range of size of a canary bird'a eggs, all tion of mysterious, romantic aloof

thousand five hundred pearls the the Dalai Lama, the personifica-or's "Waste," Bernard Shaw's ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN ART PHOTOGRAPHER humour and of roverence not in exactly alike ia colour and perfectness and seclusion, is desirous of compatible; with the result, howly round.... In addition to over, that the fan is often of a this her Majesty wore two pairs of last and most conse: vative of the was banned, this being a joke

flinging wideopen the doors of the y Sophocles'"Edipus Rex" Vice-President Li Yuan-hung's subluel east, but real neverthic pearl bracelets, one pair of jade hermit nations, then indeed is the well appreciated upon the Con- Jess, Mr. Johnston ciles as the bracelets, several jado rings, and world awake in its remotest pul- tinent. most splendid example of on her third and little fingers of humour seemingly sacrilegious or right hand she wore gold yat wholly reverent," a pinches long, and on the loft hand finger-nail protectors about three ago in the Blingavad Gita; in the great transfiguration, two finger-nail proiectors made where the warrior Krishna asof jade and about the same earthly incarnations of Buddha. children in the parks? Should Hupeh, describing an interview

man dannk it is the man himself. Don't pull up your shoe in your neighbour's melon-patch; don this your hat under your neighbour's plum wee.

If you mispect a minu don't employ him; if you employ a maa, don't suspect him..

weigh it

made of..

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with flowers On ench side

flamed out before the awe-struck | length."

Arjuns, as the World-Soul, the

Ancient of Daya. Arjuna's spirit THE MAN OF MYSTERY,

is burdened with awkward

memories of former familiarities, Interviewing the Dalai Lama. He has, as it were, clapped the

open

sation.

:

Mrs. Warren's Profession," and Ibsen's "Ghosis." Until recent

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In a recent issue of the "Irish). Devetorino, Pristino & EslarninA,“ Catholic" there appeared a letter Hoogkne In Mac, 1958 ret Paragon of Religious Wisdom. Should hospitala be municion Chinese Affairs from Father He broke the precedont con- palised? Should horticulture be Francis Murphy, Missionary cerning the oarly mortality of the taught to the public school Apostolio in the province of

So when the Chinese tried to have the milk supply be munici-which he had had with General another drawing of infant names polised? This leads to a further Li Yuan-hung. The General

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from the goldon urn, the people discussion upon the rights of the expressed hie regard for THE LOCK WOVEN

and the monks-Tibet is a monk-private trader as against co- the Pope and the Roman riddan land-ubjected, and no operative societies.

Catholic Church and asked that Buccessor to the absent Lama has A Human Butterfly.

more Roman Catholio mission-

been chosen. Moreover, this Lama A typical butterfly says "The aries should be sent to China. WIRE MESH SYSTEM.

World Soul on the back. He The most mysterious, and there fools lie must apologize. Therefore the most interesting, monarch is regarded as of especially super. Evening Standard," of the reign After the interview General Li fore, he says, in effoot, "August in the world is undeniably the natural origin. When but a of Louis XVI., a butterfly never Yuan-bung sent to Father Murphy one, high Divinity! If, all un- Dalia Lama, Bovereign and little baba he picked

dut happy outside of the Parision a letter which contains the fol knowing, I have taken liberties divinity of Tibet. Ho ranks with the uncle of the previous garden and removed from its lowing pasange:"We need the at the banquet or in the chase,wo other potentates as the only Lama as "ing uncle," thus show brilliant exotic plants, the Count missionaries to help us regener- nudging thee, who art the Worldmanns seriously regarded using his consciousness of his pre-d'Espinchal fled with the rest of ato China, and they will be pro- by the Advisory Board to His Majesty King George V. Soal, or calling thee by thy first divinities, the Emperor of Japan vious incarnation.. Ile is said to the aristocrats, and his diary has teeted in every possible barmony

Selected after competition with all other systems:

me, be not offended, and Abbas Effendi, the Messiah be a paragon of religions wisdom, now beau published by M. d'Hau- to reign between us and them as the sole reinforcement to be used in the construc- gus: one; let it be pardoned of the Behaists. This voiled In debates with the learned monks terive. From it the "Temaps" with God's aid and the prayers tion of the New Water Works for Windsor Castle. to me who sinned in ignorance!" monarch has at Inst, however, upon abstruse mattore of the law, takes the following anecdote, of your Holy father the Pope, allowed the veil to be drawn, is he line always been able to conillustrating the butterfly's extraor which desire I beg you will atter

A Persian Story. fact he even seems willing to dis- found them, and the discussions dinary knowledge of Parisian for me in the presence of his There is a Persian atory of alponse with it altogether; for Mr end with their falling down and flowers.

Holiness Pius X. I desire you post who went one day to a W. T. Ellis, of the "Continent "worshipping him. Soll further- At a masked ball at the Opers, further to express in the presence physician and cumplained to (Chicago) has had the honour of of course, I am quoting current d'Espinehal amused himself by of his august person the santi: him, saying, "I have something a personal interview. We give Tibetan report and belief-he has piercing through every-jealously meats of my profound esteem aticking in my heart which some extracts from his most in-stained to the highest degree of guarded incognito. After some and respect." makes me very uncomfortable teresting letter which is quoted spirituality. There are ten stegen time spent in this occupation

Peace or War?

and sonde a numbness through in the "Literary Digest," all my limbs, while my hair

of religious progress in this life. he noticed a man in a blus Un-Orientally Clean Even the learned and pious rare domino walk up to a group stands on end."

The Lama seems even younger ly get beyond the fifth. But this of ladies, scrutinise them for a The physician, who was a man than his thirty-seven years. He Dalai Lama has reached the tenth, moment, and then retire with a of wit and tact, said to him, wours his hair close cropped. His

gesture of despair. Piqued by "Hast thou of late composed any complexion is a light yellow, and verse which thou hast not yet his features are not pronouncedly and intellectual interest, Chris-mission, d'Espinohal went up to Aside from a merely curious curiosity to know the man's Mongolian. His face is thorough- tendom is concerned in this young him. "Yes," said the poot; "I have." ly pock-marked, but not deeply man chiefly because he may have "Can I do anything to help "Repeat it to me," said the The ears, which are large and the deciding voice as to peace or rou?" physician.

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Laking vassals up to 3,000 tons dryness through thy system. when he smiles, as he does to this eager young man, so 201t.

“It is all right; she is sitting displacement providing condlifons for Now that thou hast freed thy heart frequently and rather winsome fal of life, yet doomed to the in the second window of the of it, thy health will return." ly. His small black mous awful isolation of the most vene foyer."

Of llebrew wit, in its modern tache is waxed horizontally, and rated throne that ever mortal est

They go there, and the husband form, we can quote only two ex- his under lip bears a few hairs. upon. I did not dare show the found his wife, exactly in the amples: One comes from Haine, Some of the men of his relinus pity I falt for him, a cere placo indicated, who used to say that his watch have enough hair on the obin to monial shawl of greeting having How on earth--he begin was a better Hebrew than him- plait into tiny pigtails. The been thrown over my shoulders turning to the Count self, for in its numerous sojourns shape of the Dalai Lama's head as a gift, I bowed myself out * Mudame is the only person. with pawnbrokers it had quite argues against intellectuality in backward. This Amerionn sore the ball whom I do not know onatripped him. In learning the a lesser parsonage it would be respondent's pity for the Lam I gnuoloded flint she did not Hebrew tongue, and, moreover, it called bullet-shaped, His face was perlieps annecessary In Parjo" raid the omuitoler

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