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GENERAL NEWS.

The Organ-Blowers Retort. The death is announced of Mr.

VIA SIBERIA

A Useful New Fast Train

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ~HURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1914.

Travellers to Europe by Siberia |

JOHN JACOB ASTOR."

Intimate Sketch by a Famous Writer

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Charlee Gr ven, who was organ who elect to take the mail train blower at Witwinster Abbey for

from Harbin will be interested to San Francisco Examiner has an Mr. Elbert Hubbard, in the twenty-four yers and retired at Christmas 19.7. Mr. Groves, know is a new funt train is run intimate and convincing obarac MEIRION, No. 9 & 10, Peak, LET-Furnished Flat, Na- who wes eighty years of age, nibg outs a week between Irkutsk died at East Croves,

and St. Petersburg. Tho train ter sketch of the late Mr. John

Jacob Aator. He says: When he was at tlie Ab' sy one has all through carri Kea, inclu. "In 1825, when the blook on day, Sir Frederick Bridge dig a third class currisgo nud Broadway bounded by Vesey and said to him, "You can da mest dining car. It leaves Irkutsk Barclay streets was oleared of its things, Groves, but you cannot every Sunday night and arrives plain two-story houses, prepara- play the organ." No, sir, and at St. Petersburg on Saturday at tory to building the Astor House, you couldn't play it either if 1215 p.m. All resta can be rewise men shook their heads and did nos look after the engine," served and "plaiz karte" can be said, "It's ton far up town." retorted the organ.blower.

obtained at Irkutsk where passen gere have a stop of over three tosta solved the difficulty and "But the free bus that met all M. P.'s Injuries. Mr. Oliver Locker-Lampson, hours. By leaving Herbin on M.P., is lying indisposed at his Thursday night with the mail gave the one to hotel men all over Sussex residence suffering from train a connection is rected at braises and burna received on Irkutsk. This is most e nvenient the cocasion of the recent

serious fire at a block of residential data in Knightsbridge. Mr. Locke Lampsen, who has represented North Huntingdon shire in the Unionist interest since 1910, is only thirty-two years of age. Ele played a vigorous part in the rescue work at the are, which resalted, in one death.

Woman Desert Explorer.

Countess Molitor, a young Russian woman, has left London with the intention of crossing "Arabia fom west to east and exploring the Rubarol ..hali Desert, 600,000 square miles in extent, which, it is stated, no European has ever entered.

the world..

"The hotel that runs full is a gold mice. Hungry men feed, for travellers from the South, and the beautiful part about the they can take the steamer from hotel business is that the cur Shanghai to Dairen, leaving on tomers are hungry the next day the previous Monday, and arrive

also thirsty.

..

Harbin at 2 p. m. on Thursday,

"Astor was worth ten millions, be rail train leaves at 7:35 pm but ho took a personal delight in the asmo evening.

The total time cccupied is no:itting in the lobby of the Astor more than twenty one hours longer rall into this place that his brain House and watching the dollars than by express train and there had planned. To have an idea,

a great enving in railway fares A similar train leaves St. Peters-10 watch it grow, to then work Lurg every Tuesday afternoon it out and see it made manifest in and Birives at ikask on the crete substance, this was his

joy. following Monday. There pre-

"Astor was tall, thin, and "engora change to the ordinary mail train which arrives in Har- commanding in appearance. He had only one bullocination, and in on Thursday at 5.15 p.m.hat was that he spoke the where they can recure a connec tion with the express to Chang. Euglish language. The accent chun sail the south which leaves posve od nt thirty was with At tramp wh was fine 64he same evening at midnight. i all its pristine effulgence ard costs for dunkenness at Passengers the ranch Shanghai know I was a Cherman ain't t eighty-five. Nobody would Kingston-on-Thames produced a the following Monday. As this Post Office Savings Bank brok train has nothing to do with the he used say,

He spoke office by a policeman to draw out sengers will find a dificulty in al parley in Choctaw, Ottawa, getting any information about it Mohawk and Barou. But they at Harbin Station and are adviswho speak several languages George Condie Hannah, fifty-ed to obtain the Siria time table must not to expected to speak six, who was buried with naval published in English, This is any one language well. honoure in Piershill Cemetery, for sale at the principal Lockeel when John Jacob' wrote, it was Edinburgh, took part in the bom-lers throughrat th Es bardment of Alexandria in 1882.

Tramp's Bank Account,

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money to pay.

Fought 'at Alexandria,

and was one of the landing party DEAN INGE AND WAR. which awam ashore and spikad the guns,

"Wireless for Trawlers.

Euglish without a flaw."

Tet

He was uniquely honourable

and apright in all his dealings, saya. Mr. Hubbard. He raid and made others pay. Mr. Hubbard few sentences realises the

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Fo.

Dann Inge, pre dig in S.

No. 13, The Peak. Paul's on Christrans Dy, ani

m and his ways for-as,

**Ilis habits were of the best.

It has bean droided to bring We modern Europeans ar not wireless telegraphy into general warlike people. Warlike nations use in the Hall tawling industry. like the Torks do not make these He wont to bod at 9 o'clock and When the new scheme is complete elaborat: preparations. The true was up before 6. At 7 he was trawler owners will be able to fighting manftusts to his own his offic. He know cuough inform skippers of the best mar-right arm to protet him when to eat sparingly a d to walk, s ket to which to bring their catchos tine comes. It is the old, rich, Record £200,000 Tea Cargo. imorous nations who laboriously

quarter.

A cargo of Indian les valued guard them sives against enem or at £200,000, which arived at af whom there is no-sign in any Tilbury zresally, is the big gest, it is stated, that has ever

Europe is like a streat of trades come into. British port.

men who should pay half their 3 Months' Naval Picnic. income in burglary insurance On completion of a three monthe' cruise in the Mediter against each other. It is very ranean, six ships of the First there is nothing specially an sbsurd, very bad business, but Butt's Squadron returned to Christian about it. If wa want Davonport receally from Gibral-lesson from natural history, we Collingwood, the flagship in may find one in the gigantic mai-olai dragons of prehistoric

tar.

One of the vessels was the

which Prince Albert, the King' times, wh se skeletons one of second son, has been serving as them 80ft. long-adern a gadet. He left for London on leave. The cruise is resoribed by

museums. They grew larger and

our

he was never sick.

"Millionaires as a rule are

woefully ignorant. Up to acquisitions. Then they begin to wither at the boart. The care of

great fortune is a penalty, Advito the gentle reader to think. twice before accumulating ten millions:

sum they grow with their

I

"John Jacob Astor was ex- eptional in his co obined love of money and love of books. story was at his tongue's end,

geography was his plaything. tiz-Greeno Halleck was his private secretary, hired on a basis of literary friendship. Washingtu Irving was a close

the officers as a phires months'rger, and when thair nnwieldy freind, too, and first crossed the

picaio.

A Painful Burlesque.

Taking part in a burlesque of the "Welt-Carpentier" boxing

Armament reached its fiual ex- pansion they disappeared because either earth, air, nor water conl "pport them any longer.

Atlantic on an Astor pass.”.

World.

In addition to all this, "John Jacob A-tor, besides hiv Behind all the turmoil of active ing the first alors for the sale of match at a village obarity enter-life in the midst of strife and musical instruments in Americ tainment at Allestree, near Derby, "the other night, Mr. J. E. Rapiscord, wrong doing and wrtorganized the first orchestra of twelve players. 日ˋ hael, the well-known cricketer, chedness, the true te vint of over

over a leader from pat his shoulder out.

Christ can always find 18. ce in hrought his inmost soul, in that tabernacle Germany, and did mach to foster Drama 960 Years old, Nearly 960 years after it was where the provocatious of men the love of music in the New written the play Paphnutius," and the strife of tongues cannot by Hroswitha, a nun belonging touch him. Unless we know 'North Sea Disaster? to the Benedictine Monastery of where to find this peaceful shrine Gandersheim, in Lower Saxony, we shall lore all sepse was given ita first public perfor proportion in our arte to make mance in Ln ton recently. Miss the world better; or elee wo shall Ellen Terry appeared in it as

have no idels at all; our zeal an abbcess after a long absence will either bail over in bitter from the stage.

fanaticism or freeze into cynical apathy.

INSANE

Custom Of The Middle Ages. Foar inquests were held in Birmingham recently on infants

who had been sulfcoated while

CHINESE

of

Soveral trawlers of the Grent Northern Fleet have picked up a number of dead bodies and a

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his golden wedding at Maidstone, Ho is seventy five years old and was a fellow-atudent with the lato Sir Arthur Sell van.

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antity if wreckage, and it is eared that disaster has overtaken Tel. 1292. the Holl trawler Deadenoca, which, with Captain Lloyd and eght hande, has not been heard of for ten days, Fays a recent exchange.

Searches by an Admiralty gun-

sleeping with their parents, Sent Back to China :rom Oregon. boat from Lowestoft and wireles Portland (Or.) Dea. 28-Two-sages between the owners and

The coroner recalled that

Principle Brindle had unearthed

an old service which was used inty-two insane Chinese from the the Columbia, the fleet's wireless the Middle Ages in which parents Stato Asylum for the Insane will vessel, have failed to furnish were exhorted at the christening rive in Portland on Monday morny trar, of her.

The bodies picked up pre those to have the child to sleep with ning for derortation to their na of foreign and English reamen them till it was able to say." Gettive land. The men will ba taken thou further from me."

Irum here to Seattle, where they and fishermen, bat none of them £15,000 Offer d to Hospital. will by placed aboard the steam had been identified as belonging A promies of £15,000 has been ship Minnerts, which will sail to the Desdemona's company.

The character of the wreckage made to the London Hospital-on Tuesday for Hongkong. the largest in England-by the Bierintendent S einer of the suggests a collision between the Commercial Union Assurance asylum announce I some time ago trawler and a sailing Tessal, No Company, as execators of the late when he L gan negdliations for ship's name appears on any of Sir William Duon, The offer rafarning the men to China that the wreckiga found, y however, was conditional on on- with an expectancy of life of Bach

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