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WOMAN MESMERISED,

A Monk as Defendant.

TO-DAY'S MILLSCEANY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

A strange tale of mesmeric in-Viscount Gray's allusion to the "breathless versatility" of the fluence was told at the Police Court this morning in connection Prime Minister has the true ring with a charge of obtaining money of a phrase that sticks, and way

On

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CAMPAIGN AGAINST

SWEARING.

Verona's Oaths Down By 75 Per Cent.

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Here

A Roma correspondent writes. Three months ago some idea- by false pretences, in which a be included without hesitation inflists at Verons formed a society the suppression of bad Chinese, who described himself the entertaining anthology of for

They claim that as a monk from Foochew, was sayings which have attached language.

themselves to great reputations, swearing in Verona has already defendant.

Sub-Inspector Pincott produced In the case of many of the men been reduced 75 per cent, and before the Court two books con- who have succeeded in politics that in the course of another taining respectively red cards we remember, almost simultane-fifteen years it will have entirely bearing - English and Chinese ously with their names, some disappeared. Every means Dames, the import of which was flashing phrases. Disraeli coined propaganda is used, including A good many of these, ranging posters and notices on public build- gathered from the inscription

English

front from the "political Petruchio" oflings, railway-stations, schools, the

hia attacks on Peel to the barracks, etc. and showers of and page showing that they

"Batavian Graces of Beresford leaflets from aeroplanes of those

subscribers 10

Hope or the comprehensive limitation bombs in firework ex- the Swatow Relief Fund. Appar

The notices them- ently the manga collector of truculence of his description of hibitions. subscriptions, but there was no Gladstone's Cabinet in 1873 as "a selves are varied, picturesque and evidence to show that he had row of extinct volcanoes." We adapted to circumstances. obtained any results from his remember the Peelites by the are some of them"Dante orders activities, as when the police admirable description of them as you not to offend the land of song

"Be careful! constantly putting themselves by oaths." took him into custody the only money found on bim was a dollar. up for sale and than buying them you swear, your children will the selvas in." Burdet:'s description of despise you and civilised society Certain pawn-tickets, on contrary, served to indicate that O'Connell as "the paid patriot" will cast you out!" "Profanity

abort circuit."

At the man was not well-off, and it was shrewd and compact, and is

whoever first called Palmerston the football club huge printed was inexplicable bow he mass-Cupid" hit off, precisely enough, notices urged the players to ed to scrape along.

Mr. N. 1. Smiti, who had a side of his public as well as his “Give a kick to swearing," and before him the charge of obtain private life. A good many people to make many goals, but not

hit the mark with one oath." ing the sum of $5 from a Chinese tried

the arcused Disraeli at one time or another, whether he had no: encroached but it is not quite certain that succeeded, though." The upon the subscriptions he had thes

Impenitent Thief" and "Asian gathered for the fund.

Mystery" were pretty efforts in their kind.

WOODAN,

asked

The accused replied that as soon as he got together a fairly large sum he would always go back to the monasters with it. In any case his efforts were entirely voluntary, and he was dependent on his own resources to earn the daily bowl of rice to which every monk was entitled.

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In Capetown there will doub: less be jealousy at the promotion of Johannesburg to the dignity of

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The Committee want guards and policemen to be empowered to take the name and address of individuals who are overheard using bad language in the streets, the said names and addresses to be posted up to public scorn in the great central squazə of Verona.

A crusade against swearing | was instituted so long ago 25 cathedral city, for there is no the 13th century in Florence by love lost between the two places. & certain porter. Pietro Borsi, |** Johannesburg js mining who bound over his companions Speaking of the fraud which, it is said, the accused practised camp. they used to tell in Cape to pay a small fine every time and never will be any-thes uttered an oath. and with ол the

who towo. complainant.

more." Johannesburg the money thus collected he lives at No. 3-Peel Street thing

Pincott asid retaliates by calling Capetown founded the famous brother-hood Sub-Inspector

** Misericordia,” sadek of Mercy. the the that this occurred on the 31st, Sapekopolis,"

of sick or August, when, in monkish garb. (pronounced snook) being a fish which takes care the accused visited the woman's caught in Cape water. Inhabitants wounded persons found lying floor and asked her to subscribe of Capetowe, which is also re-helpless in the streets, and is something towards the fund. Sheferred to as the "shank-end" (a still a flourishing and mo-useful was reluctant, and the impression glance at the map will show why), institution. And on one Sunday the Archbishop then came to her that, with the lare represented by the Johannes-in the year

cartoonists with

Florence snoeksof

holds quee: movements which the burg visitor made with his bands sticking out of their pockets, and special service of, intercession before he: face, she was becom-xo on. While this is merely chaff against profanity and evil speak. ing gradually mesmerised. In there is a cote of bitterness ining, in the cathedral, with a that state, when she could not be Capetown's ribes, dus mainly to procession of all the religious

bad name i orders. said to retain her own free will, resentment at the she handed him all the mones Johannesburg in its early days! she had, amounting to $3per a learned for South Africa generally little more. On the evening of the Those days are far left behind. but it is always easier to acquire Samme day, after the strange visitor had left, she went to the bad reputation than to live it Police Station and reported to the down. -palice the occurrezze at her lat. Two days afterwards, when the monk again appeared at her fat

to

Rather an aru-ing lerle dis-:

apparently make another cussion has been started by some collection, she called in the one who has embarked on

search for "polite expletives." the police and had him arrested.

being presumably. These were all the facts related argument

demands by the woman, and Sub-Inspector that human nature Pincott added that he had taken some form of self-expression in the case before the Secretary for times of stress, and that it is the Chinese Affairs, by whom the duty of the ingenious to tabu- name of the monastery mentionate a little list of harmless "sweat words" to meet all exigen ed by the accused was ascertain. ed to be genuine, on enquiries. cies. Let us admit at the outset a certain economy The woman was very reluctant that there is

to carry on with the case from of candour in the point of view,

the point she left it after handing and tha: the most harmless.

the accused into custody, and sounding words may have was with difficulty that she could much vicious.

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be persuaded to come into Court.hem

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the "Sink His Worship WAL doubtful

and whether the evidence, as produc. m. "Barn me," ed, was sufficient to support the terrible expletives which gar nished the language of the brought. 10 charge

view

the Restoration Court. There was of the

ai enquiries Secretary for Chinese Affairs, time, perhaps, when the To- and the obvious reluctance of the cabulary of women woull have -woman to pross the charge. He been helpful in the matter. and asked if the police would on their "other" relieved a good deal of feminine ill-temper over a long part continue with the case.

Sab-Iaspecto: Pincott replied period, but the young woman of that they had the evidence of a to-day condemos herself and other chain of beads, found in the suit-people with all the gusto (though case the accused carried, to show different phrase) of a Queen. that the latter might be what he Elizabeth.

claimed. The police had decided

not to do anything further. There

was the discovery of the false

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Concerning single-wond tities address which accused gave the of novels (a correspondent writes pawnbroker, but there was nothin & Home paper) there can be no docbt as to the contemporary to be gained by the ing bringing of this new charge if writer who initiated the fashion the first wes dropped.

Accused was then discharged.

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BEGINNISO A NEW CAREER AT 105.

that has spread so widely during the past one or two seasons. It is Mr. Joseph Conrad. His titles are almost all of the briefest, with the single word, or perhaps the single syllable, as quite obviously the form which he prefers to At the age of 105 a Grand attain. Thus: "Chance," "Vic- "Youth," "Typhoon." Rapids (Michigan) inhabitant has tory." tired of town life and is giving up "Romance," "Nostromo." work in a furniture factory for farming. The veteran worker still!

uses his own teeth, has never

worn glasses, and can still bear GLASGOW AGAINST EXHIBITION. The Glasgow Chamber of Com. as well as any of his 50 grand- children. He says he was taken merce has received from shipbuild- to Michigan by his parents when lers and engineers so many opin- the State was still unsettled, and ions adverse to the holding in has lived in the Grand Rapids November of a local Shipbuilding, region since about the end of the Engineering and Allied Trades Civil War. Aaked for the secret Exhibition that a unanimous Tec- of his long life and good health ommendation against the project he said: "It's just ordinary living has been sent to the City Corpora- and hard work." Though he has tion. Clyde shipbuilders and en- never been a teetotaller, he has gineers, somehow, cannot see any very useful purpose in suchahowa. never indulged to excess.

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At Verons Pietro Borsi bas found latter-day imitators, for in several cafes a collecting box is placed on the table when a group of workmen are preparing to play cards, and a fine of twenty centimes is imposed for every bad word.

It has been rumoured that Signor Gasparotto, who was War! Minister in Signor Bonomi's Cabinet, is abou: to bring in a

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