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LOST HIS SENSES.

Shop Coolle's Strange Story.

FAMOUS MARINE

PAINTER.

Death of Mr. Napler Hemy.

Landon, October 1-Charles) Napier Hemy, the marine painter, died yesterday at Falmouth.

Charles Napier Hemy, A. RA,

A'very - novel defence was put up by a Chinees shop coolis at the Magistrace this morning, where he was charged before Mr. Dyer Ball with fraudulently con- verting $3.850, the monies of awas born at Newcastle-on-Tyur, grocery store at 17, Des Faux on May 24, 1841, the son of Benri Road Weet. He had been on F. Hemy, a well-known musician. trasted with the money to pay a 1830 the family moved to! billa.

Australis, the long voyage on a

sailing ship giving young Bem

Defendant's story was that he received over $3,000 with which Opportunity to stady ships. The to pay accounts. He paid one family returned to England after secount and then went to Bonham two years, and young Hemy. Strand to pay another. He did attended the School of not know what happened there, at Newonetle, but he

permitted but he next found himself in the there long as his father

Art

Was

to remain

Central District with the money him to Uhaw College, County gone. It was when he was by the Fire Stetion that he recovered Durham, to study for the priest- his senses. He did not know bood. His love for the sea was so how it was that he lost his great, however, that at the age of "senses. No body spoke to him fifteen he engaged himself as ad and when be came round he apprentice on a collier-brig, but was walking. He remembered a was caught by his father, after paff of wind carrying daat having de vorige, and sent back to bis atrack him and then he knew studies. Two years later, at seven- teep, be tag away again and nothing more.

shipped before the mast on s Mediterranesa voyage, but wa taken ill and returned home to enter a Dominican monastery. where he remained until be wee twenty-one years old.

the mag

His Worship closely questioned as to bis supposed experience and he said that when become rand he had some old Earopean newspaper in tbe pocket in lead of the money,

During this period, however, He had felt no ill effects from his he did not altogether neglect hi-| experience. Although he could art, and at the age of twenty-two not explain matters, that was he abandoned theology for art, what had Happened. Ho was with the ses se the leading subject frightened to go back and bad for his themes, coming ander the been sleeping in the street ever influence of Bolman Hont. For singe.

three years he fallowed the teneta His Worship decided to give of the school of Bant, painting the men another day to think pictures of the cost, and then over the circumstances of the decided that bis technical "ir to see if he could remember knowledge anything farther.

His Worship added that it was extremely foolish for shopkeepers to trust sach irresponsible men with such large sume.

Sergeant Blackman asid that the man would only be earning about three or four dollars month.

His Worship told the manager of the shop that he was simply woking for trouble.

THE TIENTSIN FLOODS.

Was inadequate, went to Antwerp. and studied for fifteen months under Baron Leys. He dropped his marine painting, and until 1870 remained in Antwerp painting religions pictares. He then re- turned to England and reeumed his marine painting, bat it was not nutil 1880 that be made bis- first hit with "Saved," which was shown in the Grosvenor Gallery, and which was the sensation of the exbibition. In 1883 he took up his residence at Falmouth and began the eeries of pictures which made bis reputation.

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At Falmouth an ordinary oper bost was made to serve parpnes se stadio, and the difficulties The Minister of the Interior ander which his

.work (Fays the Peking Daily News accomplished can be but faintly has submitted a lengthy memorial imagined. Exposed to the to the President giving a detailed changes of the weather, ill-abel- report of the cause of the present tered from sus, wind, and rain floods in Tientsia, and suggesting by an umbrella, he rowed about means for the future prevention is Falmouth Barbour, skelebing of similar disasters. In the and painting the effecle of light coures of his memorial, he says and shade upon the water, and "the places which bave safendes souring to fix upon his that fered moet ara Nankai, Nanehib,

paper and caDYSE Haikusagahib, and the Japanese aspects of the ses in its many and French Settlements. About moods. The fascination of the 100,000 persona have been ren-work grew upon him, and, to dered homeless, and with the better the conditions of its ex- exception of 60 per cent of the ecation, he transformed forty- number who have found ebelter foot Bains boat into a floating in the houses of their friends and studio, by building a houselike relativas. 43,300 persons have structure into her. In this craft he been housed in temples, mataheds painted many of his best-known and public buildings.

subjets, among them, "Homs-

小

the varied

Thousands of villagers have wards," now in the Birmingham poured into Tisatein from various Gallery, "The Smelt Net," "Land'a Affected distriots, and it has been End Crabbers," ** Alongshore decided that 2,000 more matsheds Fishermen," and "Spearing Fish." be put up to accommodate them. For six years he sailed and work. Life bots are sent out every dayed in the Vandevelde, as he had to the Exoded villages, and up to christere I his host. The pictares due more then 10,000 lives que E-bing villages on the wild bave been re-cued by them. Cornish coast were visited, and We have decided to constract from the beach at Fortecathos, dyke 25 fi long on the southern Sennen, and Liod's End be ex- bark of the Bouth Grand Canal, ecuted veral of his well-known

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