THE CHINESE PLAGUE.

Patea Mail, Volume VII, Issue 69, 8 June 1894, Page 2

THE CHINESE PLAGUE.

Sydney, June o.— Doctor Ronnie of Canton, states that the plague which is now raging at Hong Kong is similar to the Great Plague which ravaged London in 1605.

AII vessels arriving in Australia from Hong Kong, will bo promptly quarantined.

ROYAL BLOOD IN EVERYBODY’S VEINS.

Every man had two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, thirty-two great-great-great-grand parents, &c. Now, if we reckon twenty-live years to a generation, and carry on the same calculation to the time of William the Conqueror, it will be found that each living person must have had at that time even the enormous number of 35,000,000 of ancestors. Then, suppose we make the usual allowance for the intermarrying of families in a genealogical line, and for the same person being in many of the intersections of the family tree, still there will remain a number at that period more than sufficient to cover the whole of the Norman and Anglo-Saxon races. What, therefore, must have been pious, princely, kingly, or aristocratic, stands side by side in line with the most ignoble, plebian, or democratic. Each man of the present day may be certain of having had, not only barons and 'squires, but even crowned heads, dukes, princes, or bishops, or renowned generals, barristers, physicians, &e., among his ancestors.