1914-02-24 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS

LIBRARIES AND BOOK

READERS,

Delightful Discourse by Lord Morley.

Lord Morley gave a fascinating discourse on libraries and book readers in opening an addition to the Christie Library at Mun- chester University. *.

Bishop's Residence Destroyed.

The Jupin Gazette snys:-The many friends in Japan of Bishop and Mrs. Andrews and family will regret to learn that their residence at Hakodate was totally destroyed by fire the other night not a particle of furniture being saved, Bishop and Mrs Andrews and

He began by remarking that their son and daughter have been

in Manobeaster the bookman and visiting Tokohama for over a month, staying at the Fairmont the mechanical inventor were alike in their splendid publio Hotel, and it was there they re-

Christie certainly must ceived a telegram announcing the spirt. disaster. Bishop Andrews at have, known well what Bacon wrote to a famous so olar of the for Hakodate, once started. and

wire received from sixteenth century. whole him

that the states building was destroyed, nothing

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFF TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1914.

NORTHERN NEWS,

Kobe Wedding, The marriage took place at Kobe on February 14, of Mins Mary Botelho, of Shanghai, and Mr. J, V. Botelho, of Kube.

Mr. Kenneth Newman. Mr. Kenneth Newman, the re- cently appointed legal adviser to the Shanghai Municipal Police arrived by the P. & 0. S. Assuye'

Consuls at Tairen,

Mr. Charles L. L. Williama bas been appointed American Consul in Tairon. M. A. S. Maximoff bre been appointed Russian Consul-General in Tairen.

Explosion in a School, While a chemical experiment

"To write stone's ense," Bacon said to Casaubon, "what ether. whatever being saved. The fire, people may read at their ense, was being made in a Koba school come to little. What I want is. the wholesome and well-bottomed on the 10th instant an explosion contemplations, that bring a bettor order into actual life and men 8 business with all the turmoil of it."

it is understood, orginated in the green house. We learn that the building and furniture not insured.

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occurred in an iron retort und twenty pupils were injured, elaven seriously. The tenchor was also injured by fragments of the retort..

tankow Chamber of Commerce. At the annual meeting of the

Lure of Monte Carlo. David Peltonstone, a naturalised

Christie, the scholar, brought Russian dealin: in lace, whose

to the acquisitiort of book-learning debts were stated at the Notting the same qualities as the inventive ham Bankruptcy Court to amo mind of Sir Josaph Whitworth luckow Foreign Chamber of to 82,208, with assets of £370, the university's other benefootor Commerce held on the 13th said that he had been to Monte-brought with anch wonderful instant, the following were elect- results to the devices of mechani-ed the Committee for the coming cal construction the same babits rear-Mesare, W. Herensperger of inexorable accuracy, relentless (Chairman), D. MacHaffe (Vice- Judge Allen: Were you work-painstaking, close and fired Chairman), W. G. Pratt, N..

Carlo to make money.

Ia five days he lost at the tables £480, of which £320 disappeared in one day. #

ing on a system ?

There was no answer.

"Very Dot to Die."

When a considerable increage

in the cost of collins used at the

httention, which, along with Brown, K. Lindem 10, Blacker, good memory and concentration F. Bahuson, and R. Herbertz

of faculties, pere the making of an effective man,

"Of all provincial cities Mug

Hankow . D. C. The members of the Hankow Amateur Dramatic Club who took cheater is the most amply provid-part in the comedy "The Little Iels of Wight Work-house wased with libraries," he continued. Damosel," were Miss Wilkinson, reported at the guardians' meet-It may well be a matter of one Mrs. Davis and Messre. F. C. R. ing a member said:

It's very hard upon life's way

To make ends meet we try; But after what we hear to day..

It's yery dear to die. Industrial Loan. The Director of the Han Yeh-

ping Iron and Coal Ce.. Ltd., has obtained the permisson of Chang Chien, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, to contract a loan of $25,000,000 to develop in dustry and to settle several over due loans.

Small-pox at Hangchow, A telegram from Hangchow saye a smallpox epidemic bas broken out and about one thous and children have succombed to the disease.

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Genus Reader.

"So much for your libraries. now many species are there of the gebus reader? Perhaps a short half-dozen.

The Kidnappers. The Shanghai River Police were notified abrut noon the other day by the Anti Kidnapping "There is the professional Society that an attempt was to be. reader, who either seaks fresh inace to smuggle atolen children koowledge and the fruits of board the CNS. Tamui just frosh research; or else, at the prior to the steamer's departure lower end of the scale, seeks in Sh. Sgt. Lonsberg visited old books to find material for the vessel and brought off twe rather mechanical manufacture little boys in the charge of a man and a woman. The children bad been kidnapped from an upriver village. All four were handed over to the native authorities.

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"There is the listless, idle

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Labelling the Dead. Freauh editors, journalists, and other writers will have a new terror added to their lives if the As was expected, a satisfactory decisión in the Paris Courts ment, with the American Red pleasant and respectable sedative,greement has bean arrived at against u dramatist, who wrote a Orcas Society. The money will like the sinking of tobacco. between Messrs. Jardine, Mathe-play round Georges Sand and Then there are those-I hope son, and the Piece Goods Guild, alfred de Musset, be regarded as be used in works of conservancy the most numerous bo read, the Ewo auction took place a precedent. A granddaughter of the rivers in Kiangpeh,

if you go to the root of them, on on the 18th inst. As a considera-of Georges Sand obtained a ver- Twlas Twice in Two Years. The Queen has seent £1 to the the principle, as it bes been put, tion for Mesare, Jardine, Mathe- dict in respect of "moral dam- Considering that it is Rev. O. Kent, ficar of Tottington, that your own mind is theatre on & Co., Ltd., refraining from ages." Norfolk, for Mrs. Spragge, a "nough for yourself who read rolling by suction, at Hankow, impossible to represent numerous shepherd's wife, who recently because booksstimulate curiosity, ays the N. C. Daily News, the historical personages on the stage gave birth to twins for the second food, multiply, and enlarge the Guild agrees not to permit any or in a novel withiont mentioning whole range and compass of your other foreign firm to sell piece their moral lapses, this verdics interests, and raise a man or wo-goods by auction at that place. ie disquieting. man. to a high level in the general This agreement will have to be. firmed by the dealere "in cultivation of their age.

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Oplum Dream.

* The necessities of gangraphy, Hankow. for instance, are more and more pressing. Ita one of the most

Temarkable features of our day.

Important Discussions. Mr. N. A. Viludaki, of Shanghai

Six months ago who of us over was the guest of Mr. S. T. Wen, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs

Capital Punishment. The recent execution of twol: marderesses in Berlin is a remin-| der of the various methods of

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Walking up to a policeman in Bristol, Robert Sheppard, a pri- vate in the Gloucestershire Regi ment, declared that he had pushed a young woman into the Avon.

capital punishment in force in different countries. In Germany When Sheppard was brought be:

criminals are beheaded by the fore the Bristol

thatges heard of Kikuya.? Not I for one at Bangehow the other day Among which is really a mechanical axe,

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mote spot of most cacophonons other things discussed was the that he had been taking opium ecclesinatical history na notable ture in the province of Choking has abolished capital punishment sideration than the welfare of your eyes uume will not take a place in possibility of improving erical and the United States has adopt- for sleeplessness. After smoking as the Synod of Dort, the. West- and also the question of supplying altogether, but the rigours of

statement. to the effect

"Yet who knows that this re-

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Art and Affairs.

a cigarette into which be put minster Assembly, or the very foreign countries with the new Bome opium he acemed to lose Council of Trent itself?

style brocaded silke and tafetas solitary confinement for life re- his songes, He remembered giv

"A great library is a warning, produced in Hangchow. There are present perhaps a less humans ing away his watch, chain, and

a lesson, a rebuke, to the unlucky at present two factories using method of punishment than money but did not know to whom, When he recovered his senses he people whore minds are constita- Jacquard looms, and they are lo was in the hands of the police tionally aanble ever to hold more a position to manufacture from than one'idgn at a time. It is, or 200 to 300 pieces per month. Thie His story about murdering the girl was all wrong. He could ought to be, nobeck on the fright industry is still in its infancy, but ful impulse to rush to take angry there is a great future for it P8 only suggest that the opinm made sides at five minutes' notice on the factories are in a position to him dream about throwing her into the river. The soldier was complex or how delicate, that ted to them.

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like youth's first vision of the the Abruzzi, Central Italy, TheOne more point. The more waters of the sea. But this is no bodies are not buried, but are all presence of one of these great opportunity for trying to take you laid in small cabins containing collectionsol books, scrolle, manu- on an academic voyage. So, with from two to eight each, and are scripte, Beams in itself to give a my cordial thanke nd much re- ranged on either side of these new and almost overpowering freshed by an agreeable a visit, I little hats on low platforms slop significance to them. It was Lord will find my way back to Bacon's ing towards the centre. With Acton who said that the gifts of wholesome and well-bottomed one exception the bodies all rest historical thinking were better contemplations on the Navy on one side with the knees drawn than historical learning, and estimates, up, and it is assumed that the cannot have been wrong when I

gi no dead were placed in this positions id that the very sight of one of to give them the attitude of pra these vast and ordered arrays, in yer in their death chamber; for all departmente, tongues, ant

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