My inward thoughts no man can know The question what they have of worth. Myself I dread to test, but lo, One sees, the God of Heaven and Earth!
In reference to the newest trans-Pacific line, the Vancouver correspondent of the Japan Daily Advertiser writes The announcement has been made that the Northern Pacific Railway has succeeded in making arrangements for a line of steamers between Tacoma (Wash.), and China and Japan. pany will be called the Northern Pacific Steamship Company, and is composed of an English syndicate' of whom Sir Win. Pearce of the Guion Line is President. It is proposed at first to have a monthly service und later on ® semi-monthly one. The Northern Pacific Railway Company will not have any direct pecuniary interest in the steamers, as the steamship company will take the ocean earnings, and the Northern Pacific the overland earnings. All freight will be delivered exclusively to the Northern The Japanese Daily Adcertiser says:—It seems a strange thing the England should have to come to Japan for her firearms yet the Jiji Shimpo states that the Government of Great Britain have made a request of the War Department to purchase some revolvers manufactured in Japan with some now improvements. If the offer to buy them is refused the British Government propose to exchange some English firearms for the much coveted revolvers, and it is stated that this latter proposal has been accepted by the War Department. We fancy some one has been pulling the Jiji's leg.
Lieutenant Bostmick's delightful song Kohana sun, the story of "the prettiest little geisha girl in Kobe," has been Hasegawa of Tokio, and can be objust published, words and music, by
tained from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ld. It has been often heard in Shanghai and always enjoyed, and it has become a joy for ever it book, with Japanese drawl is now enshrined. Not Sir Edwin Arnold himself, not Henry Norman, has been more thoroughly imbued with the Japanese J8>*" spirit in all its lightness and brightness than Lieut. Bostwick. In his poem, as in the illustrations to it, it is Kohana san herself that twists and dances and poses before us, with a grace and spirit us bewitching as they are demure.
"The Nautch girls I have seen, and Kiralfy's fairy queen Circassian, too, Zamacuecas in Peru, I've seea the Hula girls in Honolulu The Kaffir dance, the Hottentot, and Zulu. All qualities and shades of pretty dancing maids, I've seen in Europe, Africa, and Asia But che who takes the bun from each and every one Is Kohana san, the little Kobe geisha."
Profits are still made in the China trade, for we loam from Kutlow's thatthe Chine Bemberg, which wes able. 10 deckvo a xport, Import, and Bank Company at
dividend of 12 per cent. fur the year ended on the 3ist of December 1890, hada gain of 106,518 inks. to show for the year 1891 (in the preceding year 81,229 minks.), by which means a dividend of 16 per cent. can be declared. The company on its formation took over the con: mission business of the firm of Justus Lembke & Ca, in Hongkong, Hamburg, and Shanghai, and possesses joint stock capital of 500,000 mke. At the close of the last business year 3,000 mke, were used for current expenses; 5,000 inks. forthe reserve fund.
The London and China Express of May 27th says:—The bullish feeling that has of late characterised transactions in the Ten Market hasuot been so prominent during the week. Nevertheless the favourable situation has in no wise altered. Deliveries are pr ab a great pace, and the immediate future points to a scarcity of good tea, The early supplies from Hankow are mostly for Russia, the first of the year's growth being, the speciality for the great annual fair held at Nijni Novgorod. Hence the early despatch ofa steatuer (the Moyune) from Hankow. Indian Toa of late shows a substantial advance from the lowest point, but even now, as well as Ceylon growth, rules at a moderate price. Present aspect point to short imports from all parts unt well into the summer, meanwhile stock in bond is diminishing to an unusually low The Daily Graphic says:—Admiral James Stoddart, one of the few survivors of the Chinese War of 1842, who died on the 20th May at the age of seventy-eight, was third sun of Rear-Admiral Pringle Stoddart, one of Abercromby's officers in Kgypt in 1801, and entered the Navy in 1827. After serving in various vessels, hie was promoted to his lieutenancy in 1838, and in 1841 was appointed to the Cornwallis, the flagship of Sir William Parker, the C-an-mander-in-Chief in the East Indies. For his exertions the following year on the coast of China, where he served on shore at the capture ut Woosung, and assisted at the reduction of Shanghai and where, according to the despatch published fu the Gazelle, ho displayed, excellent judgment and yood conduct while in command of the boats in the attack upon Chinkiang, he received thy medal wud waa promoted the rank of commander, Advanced: to the rank of captain in 1854, he was placed on the retire 1864, and reached the rank of admiral in 1880. Adi Stoddart, who was in the Commission of the Peace fur the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, died at his residence in Queen's Gardens, Baysw:
We have received seepy of the Puget Sound Phonograph of 12th May, containing the following brilliant prophecy House of Representati Washington, D. C., 7th May.
Editor Phonograph. This cable which will connect the two great Continents of Asia and America across the Paci vid Sandwich Islands, Bonin Islands, a8 projected by Interior of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Celso Caesar Moreno, an extremely public-spirited gentleman, it. 1869, is an imperative necessity for America and 'Asis, being one of the. grandest possibilities of the present, and will be one of the greatest facts and' factors ut the future which will make America and Asia entirely independent from the mouupolists and capitalists of Europe, for the quick and direct communication between the oldest and the youngest two parts of the world. The Trans-Pacific Cable will be six thousand eight hundred and fitly (6,850) geugraphics? imiies long, from the western shores of the United States (San 0) of Califurnia, the port of Shanghai, or that of Tientein in the north-east of China. The Pacifig Ocean by manifest destiny must be an American-Asiatic lake, and the. project of Hon. C. C. Moreno will powerfully contribute to this grand result, thus making the port of San Francieco in the Western, Honolulu in the entre, and Shanghai the Eastern Hemisphere, the three einporiums of the American- Asisric commerce.
Avupaces Foptuxa Juvar.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.