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That night I dreamt that I had the MacPhersons nut wit me in

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8. 192.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Armed with bows and arrows) identical in pattern with thosa used by English troops at Crecy in 1346, two American naturalists have just concluded an interesting bear buat. Their bows were made of Dragon yaw, were 68 inches loog, and fired arrows of 23 inches in length. The arrows were of birch and weighed 14 ounce,

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FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON.

These weapons had an extreme Farm Fed Turkeys and Geese.

range of 300 yards, but the quarry"

was generally shot at from 20 to

100 yards. The two huntsmen, Sucking Pigs, Capons, Haggis, Ham,

Messrs. Arthur Young and Saron Pope, represented the California Academy of Science.

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Although M. Claude Monet-

Bacon, Fiares, Rabbits. Sausages of

who has just given a number of all description.

his pictures to the French nation -is an octogenarian, he is full of vitality and spends most of the) day at his easel. In 1904 he had a lake constructed at Giverng, his Normandy estate, and has since devoted most of his energy toj painting the varying reflections of the clouds in the water at diferent times of the day and different seasons of the year. These impressions are

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large scale. the canvases on which M. Monet records them being about seven feet high and from ten to twenty feet broad. Steadfastly resisting many tempt-| ing offers from dealers, he has; kept every one of these pictures until they now fill all the hanging space in his studio and are stack- ed two and three deepagainst the wall Before starting on this task-into which he says he has put the very best of himself--M. Monet burned a number of paint- ings that failed to reach his sta0- dard of perfection. At the time of the holocaust they were valued at 500,000 francs, and would now be worth at least three times 15. nucb.

The tenacity of the Irish bunger-strikers has re-started the question how long it is possible to maintain existence without food. In a Contemporary Review article. published a little more than ten years ago Mr. Upton Sinclair state that Te had met several people who had fasted for forty or, 6fty days. The longest fast he had heard of was seventy-twoj days Me Sinclair himself tried the experiment of fasting for twelve days for purely hygienic The Banque Industrielle de reasons. He was ravenously Chine beg to inform the bolders of hungry during the first day, Ha

before March, 1911.

the temporary bonds of the Credit had a little hunger the second: National 1919, which have been|morning, and thereafter, to his subscribed through them, that great astonishment, no hunger sume must be exchanged in their whatever-no more interest in Paris Office for definite bonds food than if he had never known the taste of it. Previous to the fast he had had a headache every day for two or three weeks. It lasted through the first day and then disappeared, never return. The second, third, and fourth days he spent in intense physical lassitude, but with great

of Pipkettes all that is necessary-

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clearness of mind. After the fifth day he felt stronger, and not only walked a good deal, but read and wrote more than he had dared to attempt for years before.

a motor car. Now dreams.are Junny no, not really funny, but almighty curious. We never A CLEAR AND ROSY SKIN dream of our first love or of de- is the result, largely of daily parted relatives. Usually we dreact of falling off a cliff, of take regularity, to ensure which many ing a walk along Queen's Road or neu find the occasional use Prince Street and suddenly finding Durselves bereft of clothing and in the midst of a large and suspicious audience. Well, as I was saying about the are laxative perfection, curing MacPhersone. we were getting sick headaches. bilious attacks, along fine and dandy when Mrs. unpleasant breath,

The copy of "The Light of the Mac begin to complain about the blemishes. Tiny but thorough. World" which has just barely cold. I suggested that a good jas gentle as nature. Of chemists, escaped place for her to sit would be on for post free for 60 cents the vial replica, painted in the top of the engine. So Mac from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Hunt's old age, of the original and I fixed her there and getting Co.. 96 Szechuen Road. Shang-picture, now at Keble College, into the car I asked Mac to crank hai.

her up which he did wi' the result

spois and

disfigurement is a Holman

Oxford. In its earlier form the painting passed through many vicissitudes. The art crities of the day had no good word to say

the

that there was a terrific explosion, just like you see in the pictures. a frazzle whining. Some folks for it, till Ruskin arose, but is when the funny men do it and should speak into a gramophone the meantime a greater than leave then nothing in theit or something in order to give Ruskin had condemned hands but the steering wheel and themselves a chance of Suding picture, in the artist's very a bit of a lamp round their neck at what their speaking voices studio. where Thomas Carlyle for a collar. Ongway after the are really like. If they had to lifted up his voice till it became explosion Mrs. Mac wasna' seen listen long enough to themselves a scream in denunciation of "a again, so Mac and I got on withey would surely be cured. mere Papistical fancy." the good work, fically stopping at

"Take care of yourself.”

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And in the end they said good-inanity or a delusion to everyone a hawker's stall on the Taipo Road for something to eat. The only bye. It was at the station. But who may look on it." The Broad thing John had aside from Mac badoa' much chauce, for a Church, in the person of Charles Watson's sodas was & pudding bright female had already taken Kingaley, followed Carlyle's lead. and of course you've guessed it up her option on the carriage win- the High Church thought the -are, it was burnt. How we go: dow. Much that Mac would have artist's conception of the divine there, of course, I don't know but said or did say was drowned in the figure generally irreverent, and the Low Church detected in the next minute saw us in Happy

"The Light of the World" artistic Valley at the Racecourse. Mac "Tell Bella I was asking for propaganda for Paseyisma. and I were for a race an obstacle

her,' race and the cbstacles were- right again-furniture. It was a tough race, We were chased by a pack of wild beasts and when we were slow in getting over the top they leapt at our dangling legs and bit off half a toe and a

Yes, and the curlers are inside bit of a heel every now and then. "Ours was a miserable plight but

your bedroom slippers," All that Mac could get in we had only another lap to go and we were now running up the edgeways was "chin chia" and

"Write whenever you arrive," "I get my jumper finished

tomorrow,"

When, through the munificence of its first purchaser's widow.. the picture came into possession of Keble College, it was placed

"Your dressing-jacket is on the so near to some hot water pipes

top of your trunk,"

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home straight on a leg and three-that was how Mac said good-bye.

quarters each and the winning

bell was ringing and Janet says, no, it's no' the ambulance it's the

mills and breakfast'll be ready

in ten minutes so get up at once. for mind the MacPhersons are coming wi' the 12.10 train,

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And so they did. And Mac had bis Master's Voice" beaten to

Yours etc.

R. McW.

that the canvas was injured and the actual colours cracked, and Hunt had to spend many boura in "working over," so A.5 to restore the painting to its original Condition. The seculsion in which it was originally kept at Oxford did not please the artist, and he painted the replica, imposing as a condition of purchase that it should always be accessible to the public. The late Charles BAVLATIONIST J.P. One of the new J.P.'s sworn in Booth nobly fulfilled the condi- at Loudon Sessions recently was tions by sending the picture on Mrs. Florence Bramwell Booth, a tour of Empire and then giving wife of the Salvation Army it into the custody of Bt. Paul's General.

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