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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1914.

GENERAL NEWS.

OLDEST NEWSPAPER -IN THE WORLD,

Editors are much the same in! Peking and Peoria, Ill. The re- porters of the Peking Gazette are usually tld before going out on

Mr. Asquith as by Reader.

Methods of the Chinese London their assignment by someone in

Gazette.

authority at the Board of War what speed they are to make on the home run,

Mr. Asqu'th, who spent his Christmas boh! y at Eston Gray House, Malmesbury, Wilt- Unremarked by nest of on, shire, the resistence of Mrs. China has developed a national One hundred and fifty miles Graham Smith, Mr. Asquith's newspor or proas during the last day" are the sailing ordera sister, attended service at the two dedides, pays a writer in the most generally given. The old parish church one Sunday morn-New York Tribune. In 1805 she gentleman at the Board of War ing and read the lessons The had only 19 native newspapers; knows just as well as the repertor sermon was preached by the Revto-day she has nearly 3,000. [that thirty miles a day is a good J. J. Beresford, the blind reotor, Shanghai has 73, Peking 40, average cross-country trek over formerly of Golden Grove, Car-Canton 39, and Tientsin 35. Chinese roads, and does not ex- marthenshire, who is an intim

They are art all plain "Newses" pect him to make any faster going. friend of the Prime Minister.

and "Horalda" and. Tribunes"

Two hundred miles a day," and "Timeges." Bougkong has, bowever, is a synonym for "Tia- for instance, The United Pearle vel day and night," in cart relays. Cathered from Far and Near."The most speedy order, "Two A surgical operation of unusual i Gathered from Far and is given only in the case of really

And if you see it in The United hundred and sixty miles a day, interest is shortly to be carriedor," too, it is do.

big stories. out by a Parisian doclor, who

→ation

Siamese Twins.

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A news runner who kicks off a will endeavour to sever the mem-. Popot imagine that the weekly brane uniting two lile girl-tidings anke a year to percolate fuw of these 200-a-day runs over babies, after the fashion of the lous In the little towns of two or three thousand miles of Siamese twine. Such on opor- Cathay'a distrot provincza, in the rough country gets richly pen- Was actually performed miasmatic jungles of Yunnan signed early in life. The Board eleven years ago, the subjects being the sisters Radica and Doodica, well kopen in the his tory of show "freaks"""" They dil not, however, survive the oper ation long.

and on the sand-swept fringes of the great Gobi desert, they were resing of the loss of the Volturno simultaneously with the people in America and Europe.

of War coughs discreetly and changes the subject if you in- quire what happens to the scribes who fall by the wayside or don't tranble to speed up sufficiently.

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The Peking Gazette is printed from types made of poplar and willow wood, assembled in racks part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. Apply to like those of the Occidental prin- ter. The missionarise from Rome, introduced them in the 17th entary. An average issue con- ints of ten or twelve leaves of thin brownish paper, 7 by 31 inches, containing in a bright Hongkong, 2nd Oct., 1913 yellow paper wrapper. The pages are crudely stitched by two shior?

Getting out a Chinese news paper, by the way, is not such a A Wedding Record. playful pastime, either, When a compositor on the Republic Diamond weddings are them.Newa in Park Row wants a #selves of sufficiently rare occurr-word, for example, he has the ence, but that of Mr. and Mrs choice of 350,000 +ymbols to John Wolle, of Leicester, who

browe: aming. colebrated the xtieth annivers "ary of their marriage recently was distinguished by unusual. .features. Among the guests,

besides eleven childred and paper in the world, the Kin Bojlike twine, the ende passing numerous other dorcetidanta, Metropolitan Reporter through boles panobed in the rear were the two ladies who acted na sually termed the Peking margins of the sheets and loosely bridesmaida sixty years ago. It Gazette by foreigners. It has twisted together. would be interesting to know if bean going strong for rather such a

case has ever barn re-more than 1,000 years. It is corded before.

Publishing Official News, China has the oldest rews

twists of tough rice paper, roilet

Compositor at Work,

published with the special object. The title of the paper is stamp- of supplying the people withelin red on the left-hand top news regarding the acts of the corner of the wrapper.

The Sunday Film Play Banned. Government, Imperial decrees, inside leaves, each folded double, reports from provincial gover-8 in all Chinese books, give The Preston borough magistrates nora-general, promotions and

twenty or twenty-four small pages, refused the application of Mr.demantions in Government, each divided by red lines into Ecoles, proprietor of the Imperial service, tho results of oficial rx Raven columns. Piolure Palace, fr permission to eminations, and so on, sud its has fourteen characters from top Every column open his hall after church on internal arrangements, like those to bottom. Sunday evening to exhibit the of the apteryx of Australia, are religious film From Manger to droll, Cross," The Chairman said The Peking Gazelto is there was sufficient pportunity published and managed by the other than Sunday night, and the Bard of War in the Chinese Banch did not wish to croste a metropolis. Reporters, or news precedent, Mr. Smith said they raaners, as they are called, bring had had pictures in some churches the tidinga home to Peking from and he did not reo why it should their assignmoute in the distaut not be done in picture palaces. provinces of the Empire.

Harry Thaw Sane.

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The Chinese written language consists of word symbole, not! lettere. Ite essence is the colles-

ion of 214 radicals, or mother worde, upon the significant stoke combination of each of which a great family of words is grown,

dictionary of the tongue, are ar

So the type founts, like the

ranged according to families. The On arrival at the transmission mether word for, finger, for in- office of the Board of War they tance, gives birth to mail, joint, give up their dispatches, locked and ecores of less closely related The Commission recently in a strong box, to a trusty words. From the water symbol appointed to sit on the case of ennuch, who takes the receptacle come those for bank, sea, river, Harry Thaw has adjudged the to the President (the Emperor dike, drown, &c. The nearer their lattor Bane. This means that was always managing editor ex-relationabip the nearer they are Thaw, in spite of all the infla-officio of the sheet).

kept to the mother word.

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YOU'LL FAIRLY-HOW YOU'LL!—

Fob, 12th, 13th & 14th.

Aerial Liner,

ence and wealth oxerted in bis The President-Editor has the

Even with his excellent grasp behalf by his family, will be only key to the dispatch box. Eie on the geograph of the type obliged to serve the prison term opens it, takes a glance at the

fourts the Chinos compositor The airman Sikoneky, the de- copy," and then stuffs it in his has a slow row to hre, but he can signer of a gunt aeroplane which to which ho was sentenced..for

Fometimee win out against bis the murder of Stanford White, pocket till the next Cabinet meet-Western confrere, for while the lat. was constructed some time ago to - the well-known orehitect and ing, which may be to-morrow, which was set aside in order to but is generally the day after ter is setting super-subconscious carry eleven persons, has suc:3se- permit Thaw to enter the Mattos- The Cabinet, when through with neea letter by letter, John China- fully tested an aeroplane half as Wan Insane Asylum. His its routine deliberations, forms tosa finds it all in one fellowcop large again, says the St. Peter senestional escape and subsequ- itself into a sort of editorial is only to be expected, with ent recapture are rocent current council and decules how the uch a vast collection of type, the burg correspondent of

to According history.

stories shall be run, if it be ju-native compositor is often in the Times." dicions indeed to run them at all. position of Mother Hubbard and Bourse Gazette the

"when he gets there the cupboard acroplane weighs 33 tons, and is is bare" allee gone.

Liquid Air Experiments at Mani's.

A Reporter's Paradige,”

Upon the inner.council of the

the

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Then he picks up a handy propelled by four 100 h.p motore: lesden blank and, taking a sort There are cabins with sleeping In a series of intensely in-President then devolves the task of scalpel, carves by hand the accommodation for a number of teresting experiments, Dr. Alvin of copying the originals and theymbol be needs. If you do much passengers. The machine rose Cox, Director of the Bureau of Junior Lirds of the Cabinet sub- Chinese reading you must often after a run of 100 yards and Science and Mr. H. G. Heiso, one mit copies of the "copy" for en- crudely blocked out symb-l circled the aerodrome without a

dorsement. "The copies then go

of his able assistants, demonstrat

ed

heve. come across these' rather

last week to party of to the Grand Secretariats, who among the beautiful symmetry hitch.

newspaper mon at Manila the corresponds to the Lord High of the normal characters.

Cotton Gooods in Manchuria,

manufacture and properties of Oopy Cutter in Park Row circles, liqaid air. The experiments are. promised to be a feature of the and the Lord High Copy. Cutter Bureau of Science's exhibit at the furus the staff over to the com- Philippine Exposition and will positore and underling copyists, undoubtedly be a drawing card The originala, wrapped in silk, at the fair. The liquid air manure Bapt to the Board of War for

The cotton shratings bought by facturing machine is a recent filiug in the nation's archives.

Japanese dealers in South Man- installment at the Bureau moi The reporter news carrier has churia on forward contract have Science and adde materially to the dispatchee strapped on hie recently arrived. The market the equipment of that institu- back in a flat wooden case filled however, has declined, and de- tion. It would take a column with a spring lock that can be mand has not been so brisk as is to detail all the wonderful experi- used only once. He gets a good anally the case at this period of ments xerformed with this myste-send-off when the time comes the produce season. A congastion rious fluid which has a tempera- to bastle back to the office,

of stooks has resulted, and there

tureof 400degrees below Farenheit The chief magistrate of the is said to be about 10,000 bales zero. The coientists at the Bureau town or the dignitary who is of goods all along the 8.M R, of Science performed a number of transmitting the dispatch must lines. experiments for the edification of accompany him to the outer wall the newspapermen. It was stated of the town and most of the gang that a number of these are to be of local potentates go along to performed during the coming ex- show their loyalty to the manag- position. These are well worth ing editor in Poking. A salute while seeing for Lue qualities of of six gans has to be given as the this marvolous fuil an almost roporter gallope out to the for beyond human belief.

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