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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1908.
To Let
TO LET.
FFICES on 1st FLOOR, No. 8. QUEEN'S
OFFICES CITRAL, recently secopied
by the CHINA Man' Lro.
For further particulara, apply to the SECRETARY of the "China Man,' Leo.,
5. Wyndham Street.
Hongkong. October 18, 1908,
..TO LET.
CHOP, No. 14. QUEEN'S
ROAD
CENTRAL, On Losse, ROSENKATA' GARDEN ROAD, Kow.
Joon.
Apply to LEIGH & ORANGE. Hongkong, August 25, 1908.
TO LET.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
GEO. P. LAMMERT
AUCTIONEER.
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA PUBLIC AUCTIONS
(MITSU BISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT.
COLE PROPRIETORS of TAKASIMA,
OCHI, HOJO, NA MAZUTA, SATO, SHINNEW and KAMIY MADA Dol-
THE Undo Big by Pablo Auation;
HE Undersigned be receivad instrue.
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MONDAY,
the 23rd November, 1908, commencing at 2.30 a. at his SALER ROOMS, DUDDELL STARE”, —
A FINE SELMOTION OF
TONKIN INLAID CABINETS,
THE HISTORY OF COMETU,
Halloy's comel, which should return to ita perihelion by April, 1010, is, then nat a striking object, the most famous comet, and that for two reasons: ita 1 ng sequence of appearances has bean traced back to 240 B.C., and it is the first comet whose cooppearance in 1750 was predicted in 1705. An attempt was, indeed, made in the very first number of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by a Frenchua, Auzout, in 1964, to predict the motion of a comet. But Newton'a laws were not fully realised than ; in fact, the earth was only "suspected" to move round the sun; its velocity was not measur ed until nearly a century toy, by Bradley. Thas superstition still tarrified the people. In his "Paradise Lost" of the same year, 1665, Milton spoke of a comet which "from his horrid hair shakas pestilence
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TO LET.
1592
HOUSE ip KNUTSFORD TER
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THE HONGKONG, LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Ca., LD, Hongkong, November 1, 1908,
TO LET,
500
FFIOES in ALEXANDRA BUILD
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YAO, and KI010-KOMATSU Opals.
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Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, October 17, 1908,
Engkong, Augnet 2, 1908,
1429
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TO LET
with 200 foot frontage to Kowloon Bay. Moderate Rental,
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first of January.
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Cura of CHINA Man' Office. Hongkong, November 18, 198.
WANTED.
ON Lowes Levols for 3 months from
-&c., &a, &c.;
Also
A. Few Piases of EMBROIDERY (made OP into Habornos, Tablu OOTERS, CUSHION COVERS, etc.),
And
parallels in Virgil and Homer, but Milton Boumed to refer to real cometa of his age-
had a tail of 104 deg., and which was held possibly to the great cost of 1816, which
responsible for the Thirty Years War (1818 to 1648),, or to the later comets of 1664 and 1685, which the blind poet could
A Quantity of DBAWK-WORK TRAY not have soon. Those terrors are passed. CLOTHS, SIDENOARD COVERS; &0.
Cometa are too frequent now; about five Nov. comets are observed every year a peculiar
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TUESDAY,
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STHLET
A QUANTITY OF ROBERT PORTER'S LIGHT
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regularity. In the three sucressive decades that have alapes since 1878, 30, 37, S7, new comets and 17, 16, 19 old comets have been, found, while the numbers of new minor planets discovered are 92, 190, 501. Minor planets are found by keeping the photographic telescope fixed on a star, when the moving planet_will betray itself by a trail. When the path of the planet in ALE approximately known, the telescope can
be pointed to it; then the stars will mark their tails. That has been done by J. Hi
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GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
MILNERS'
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FIRE
December, 1903. Well FURNISHED HOUSE of 5 or 6 Rooms. Good rent will be paid.
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NOTICE.
- Metealf, of Taunton, Mass. "Comet traps" are rarely guxxessful, unfortunately; the solar eclipse photograph of 1852 showoda comet close to the sun, but that lucky Incident has once only been repeated sincs, and most of the comote which are brightest | when near the sun no doubt escape detec-
PATENT on. Astronomers, moreover, are far too
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TO LET.
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