The Archive · 1896

The Relief Fund in Shanghai

Subscriptions already acknow J.T. Hamilton. 100 ledged 2,180 thing to do which brings with it notoriety, and one notoriety is. travelling round the world on a bicycle, whereas as a matter of fact the performance of encitel globe is principally executed on a steamer, the man taking his machine from the steamer on his arrival at-a port, riding frantically up a well macadamized road of the customers. see Sir Walter Besant has recently, The Queen, propounded the theory that it's of no earthly use to imprison our habitual criminals for a period and then let them loose. He thinks police supervision a farce.

Ibert & Ca. 100 8. C. Farnham 100 Boyd & Ca., La. 100 Mackenzie & Ca. 100 Liddell Bros. & Ca. 50 Wheelock & Ca. 50 Dowdall & Hanson 50 Geo. McBain. 50 to the hotel, and telling the host that he His idea is that they shall be told that is going round the. world on a bicycle. "you are incorrigible rogues, you shall be Harling, Buschmann, &Menzell 50 Breathlessly, in jerky Alfred Jingle style, punished for a period by hard labour, you Caldbeck, Macgrezor & Ca, 50 he tells his story and narrates the difficult shall then be placed in less rigorous con-Fearon, Daniel & Ca. 50 places he has passed through. Wild finement when you will earn luxuries Maitland & Ca., La. 50 country, jungle, rapids, rivers, fevers, wild such as tobacco and beer by hard labour, Joy Soy & ME 50 animals and many other abominations, and and there you will stay all your lives with A. M. Bisbee the celebrities he has had the honour of out the least hope of ever getting out T. R. Jernigan: 25 interviewing. He carefully points out the He thinks we should' then soon Alex. Campbell 25 difficulty of travelling through the part the no criminal class which these men H. Morris 25 host knows is dangerous, stich as the dif-create, Well, capital in theory, but T Tata & Ca.

25 ficulties of making a bee-line from Calcutta think soon we should have half the popula-25 to Shanghai and the necessity of using the tion ready to accept the offer made, and 10 more agreeable locomotion of a steamer, one half of England would be in gaol, the 10 and resting his bicycle. The host swallows other half working to support the gud.

10 the pill given him by the "Biker," and 10 when over and above this he says all thi 10 has been done without an; ey his eyes 5 open and theoretically his arms. He bids the man be seated and gives orders for him THE CATASTROPHE IN JAPAN, $3,335 to be well fed and housed, joins him in a Lists have been sent to the principal cocktail, and wishes him every success, and We are kindly allowed to publish a clubs, hotels, and stores, and all subseriprecommends his going right through Japan translation of the following letter received tions will be acknowledged in this paper in ona bicycle. Interviews take ph he by the Missions Etrangéres from due come. hotel is satisfied, and the man—the man Morioka, dated the 93rd of June especially. The public are gulled, "Very dear Father,

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