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AT
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Plan now open at
ROBINSON PIANO Co., Ltd. Hongkong, January 6, 1909.
COMING!
Attention Inclusive.
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(b)
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99
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HARMSTON'S GRAND CIRCUS
AND
BUYALMENAGERIE OF PERFORMING WILD
ANIMALS.
IN
LONDON AND CONTINENTAL
ARTISTES.
NUMBER 30
GRAND OPENING NIGHT
MOSDAY, JANUARY 18th.
Lomation of our Tenis-Causeway Bay,
For full particulara see descriptive hand
Performance at 9 r. sharp.
SPECIAL
MATINIE PERFORMANCES —
Kelly Wódkunday and Saturday.
· Dóra ogen at 2.50x..
Faformance at 3.30 r.x. sharp.
SHERRY:
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THE CITY "OF
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PHONE
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1909
H. THE ITALIAN DISASTER. GREAT EXPLOSION IN
When: It
INTERCESSION FÖR CESSA-
TION OF EARTHQUAKER.
THE CHINA MAIL. PARIS, enough to reproduce its species, and terror to t'e avoided at any cost.
that there is some relation between the insists that death is not a curse, but age of a specics and its prolificacy; but an inseparable condition to the highest the hypothesis that reproduction is the blessing we enjoy Death is not a cause of the termination of life does universal sesampaniment of lito. Is
(Exclusive Service, expplied by Reuter, not necessarily follow. There is an many of the lower organisms death
ris Bombay.) Ready made Day and Even other general rule that the larger is not the inevitable end.
LONDON, January 16. ing Gowns, Paris Models animals live longest, as, for example, they occurs, it is due to sous accident, some
A Rome message states that King in Hats and Toques, elephant. But there are many excep- external cause. Our existing science,
tions to this principle, for parrota some-according to Dr. Minor, teaches as Victor Emmanuel bas received Rear Laces, Trimmings, Under-times live to be a hundred, while a dog that death has been acquired in the Admiral Sperry and warmly thanked him clothing, Boots and Shoes, is cl at fifteen. There are insects course of evolution. It is the price we for the American fleet's great assistance Hosiery and Gloves, etc., which live for many years, like the are obliged to pay for our complex during the time of suffering and distress etc.
seventeen-year locust, and there are organism, for the differentiation that which followed the earthquake. 879 ether insects of the same size whose has been carried so far in the human
MEMOS FOR"MONDAY,
Auctions. 11a.m.-Austion of Jowellery, &o., at MrGeo. P. Lammert's Sales Rooms.
8.30 p.m.-Auction of Mosers Jays'
Whale Stock-in-Trade, at 14, Dea Voeux Road.
Amusemente. 9pm-Performance at City Hail,
lifetime occupies only a few months.
A recent theory is that advanced by WEISMANN, which is to the effect that the duration of life is governed by the extant to which the body is used, that an active species is shorter-lived than one of lethargic temperament, because the body really wears out. Dr Mox, of Harvard, in a recent book, which is devoted to the subject of Longevity, disputes this, and shows that at death
race.
NEWS OF THE DAY,
It is notified in the Suite, that Kadzukami booy, E.N.F. of Kai-shima, Irsko Channel, has broken zdrift.
His Holiness the Pope has directed that in all the churbes in Italy there hall be intercession for the cessation of earthquakes.
HUNGARY.
(Exclusive Service supplied by Baster, Mic Brimbay.)
LONDON, January 16,
Fifty-six person have boon killed in n collery explosion at Verzprem, in Hungary.
GELATINE EXPLOSION.
AT JOHANNESBERG
(Exclusive Service, supplied by Reuter, via Borway.)
LONDON, January 16.
At Johannesberg, in South Africa, a Chinaman ignited some gelitine at Ville- agedeep mine.
H.R. H. the Duke of Connaught has visited the scenes and has been deeply The explosion killed six coloured impressed with the immensity of the parsons; nine whites and fifteen colour-
ed persons were injured.
A seaman was charged before MrJ.H. Kemp, at the Magistracy, to-day, with catastropheat Messins, saying the reality stabbing a deck boy. The case was re-far surpasses anything imaginable.
manded.
General Memoranda.
Tuesday, January 19-
We have been asked to anpoaned that FRANCE AS MEDIATOR, 19.30 m.-Auction of Messrs Jays'
Whole Stock-in-Trade at No. 14, Des all parts of the body are not. worn our Messrs Jay's auction, advertised for Mon Voeux Road.
(Reuter's Service to the China Matt: Copyright protected under Urdinanes 3 of 1804.)
LONDON, January 15.
5 p.m.Auction of Valuable Postage Stamps, at Mr Geo, P. Lammert's Sales Boom.
Register of Shares of West Point Build
ing Co., Ed., closos from this date to 28th Jas, inclusive. Register of Shares of Hongkong Land Investment & Agorey Co., L., closes from this date to 28th inst., inclusive. Goods per Aud Mars not cleared on
this date subject to rent.
WEDNESDAY, January 20:-
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Silver-Ware, &c., at Mr Geo. P. Lammert'a Sales Rong.
Goods per Zutou undelivered after the
date Aubject to rent.
Goods per Anduintin undelivered after
this date aubject to runt. THURSDAY, Janváry 91 ;--
Death does, however, reveal a cell- change in the body. The living material, having acquired its differenti ation, passes now in one part, now in
another, then in a third, to a yet further stage, that of degeneration. The result of degeneration or atrophy, as the ease may be, is that the once living protoplasm loses its vital quality, and becomes dead material; and necessarily the functional activity ceases. in the authors judgment, therefore, the duration of life depends upon the rate of this
Goals per Karença undelivered after mysterious procces called cell shange, or
5.15 p.m.-Annual Meeting of Y.M.C.A.
this date subject to rent.
FRIDAY, January 22 :— Chinese New Year,
cytomorphosis.
The problem is to retard call-change Goode per Malta not cleared at 4 p.m. Dr. Mor is not able to offer a
on this date subject to rent. SATURDAY, January 23 -
Mr A.J. Brackenbury, Private Secretary,
to B.E. the Governor, loaves by the 8.8. Delhi
TRUBADAY, Jannaty 28-
11.16 s..-Meeting of Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ld., at Co.'s Offices, 11.30a.m.-Meeting of The West Point
Building Co., Id., at Co.'s Offices. Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Land In- vestment & Agency Co., L., st Co.'s Offices.
NOTICE.
solution, but he does not hesitate to criticize the theories of MECHNIKOFF, Ostes, and others. Dr Oster's ideas on the subject are pretty well summed up in the phrase, "A man is as old as his arteries," and perhaps most doctors agree that the prime cause of senility is the hardening of the walls of the
arteries Prof. METUENIKOFF says that our bodies suffer from what he calls
day and Tuesday, has been indefinitely postponed.
▲ contence of one month's imprison- mant was imposed on a coolie at the
A Vienna message atates that France Magistracy to-day, for stealing brass from has offered to mediate between Servia Wellington Barracks.
For stealing & quantity of clothing from the a.s. Paul Boau a cool coolie waa sentenced to three months' imprisonment at the Magistracy, to-day.
From yesterday, the maximum limit for which a single Money Order may be issued in the Straite Settlements for pay- ment in Siam will be $400..........
In connection with the Union Church
Literary Club, Mr WV. Drew Braidwood is to give a lantern lectura on Tuesday evening on "The Beauties of the Scottish Highlands
and Islands."
The names of over 200 parsons who visited the two botols at Brighton Beach, Sydney, ono Sunday afternoon were taken by the police, with a view to proceedings under the Licensing Act, if it can be proveAL that any of the number were not bona-fide travellers.
The task of the Saigon Police in un-
velling the treat plot there has just been made marior by several of the persons arrested turning approvers.. The Saigon Opinion says that they have made sensa
and Austria in the event of a conference.
HARL OF GRANARD MARRIED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail
Copyright, protected unter Ordinance 3 of 1894)
NOTABLE DEATH.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail: Copyright protested under. Ordinance 3 of 1094).
LONDON, January 16.
The death is announced of Admitak.
Rozhdestvenski who commanded the Russian fleet in the naval engagement in the Taushima Sea during the Russo- Japanese War.
SHROUD ISLAND LIGHT,
LONDON, January 15,
A Gazette notification states that Shroud Mies Beatrice Mills, daughter of the time at sunset on the 1st November, 1908, Island light was exhibited for the first American bank millionaire, Mr. Darius The illuminating apparatus is dioptric, Ogden Mills, was married to-day to the revolving, group-fishing, of the Fourth Earl of Granard (the Minister aasiating Order, showing five white flashes in quick the Foulmater General). This is encoession every 20 seconds. The ap- regarded as the most important event prozimate power of the flash in 14,000 of the New York season.
candles.
TURKISH NAVAL ACTIVITY.
TEN OFFICERS TO STUDY IN AMERICA:
(Router's Fervice to the China Mau Copyright protected under Ordinance of· £894;)
LONDON, January 15.
It is proposed that ten Turkish officers, including a eos of the Sultan, shall join the American battleshipa in the Mediter ranean and proceed to America where they will go through a course of naval
Communications relating to own should be "disharmonies," by which he means tional disclosings, which resulted in an addressed so TUM EDITOR.
the imperfect adaptation of the strac-important arrest there on December 27. Letters relating to business should be address tures within us to the performance of In Malbourne, 584 men eat in the ed to The ManagER.
Correspondente must foreard their some tho body pa a whole. The most Town Hall and engaged in a competition and addresses with any communisatiome adprominent of these disharmonies is that promoted by Messrs W. D, and H. 0.. drained to the Editor, not for publication but of intestinal fermentation poisoning the Wills, Ltd., for the largest pipe-smoking study at New York.
msevidence of good faith.
All letters for publication should be written on one side of the paper only.
No anonymously signed communications that have already appeared in other papera will be inserted.
Orders for extra copice of the 'China Marz should be sent before 11 am, on the day after publication. After that hour the supply is
record. The first prize fell to a man who
system. The MEINIKOVF theory is kept his pipe slight for 1 hour 57 minutes. that certain calls go to work upon the The Sydacy record is 2 hours 11 minutes. poisoned parts and cause still further
The only son of the late Sir Hector Mac damage. These cannibalistic cells are Donald, sage a home paper, is in Blasers. called plingoctes, and are beld Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.'s works in Newcastle, having wads angincoring his responsible for grey hair. They eat the profession. Lord Guthrie, speaking at a pigment, which would otherwise have achool ro-union at Perth, said that young
Par BottleLimited. Cash 10 ets., Credit. 20 dto. per remained in the hair. Having located Hector was doing well and was a chip of
$1.03 copy
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1,85
CC OLOROSO
<<<< D SUPERIOR PALE DRY....
FINEST PALE DRY, NUTTY 2:15
PORT:
wald countermaanded,
the old block,”.
A daring burglary is reported from Messe Sayce and Co., of Beaconsfield Arcade. The thieves took away some fifteen dozen pipos, forty er fifty tobacco peaches, seven hair clippers, azıd a number
GERMAN LINER FIRED ON.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mot
Oopyright protested under Ordinance 3 of 1894.)
LONDON, January 16..
The Liberian Customs gunboat Lark fired on a German liner for supposedly disregarding the customs regulations. The Gazoan guardabip Cameroons. ad sailed for Liberia.
The Liberian Customs gunboat Lask
Alterations and additions to Advertisements as he believes, the read internal enemies 1.10 on Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 should be sent to the to long life, Prof. METOENIKOFF gave to
Ofies, No. 5, Wyndham Street, not later than 11
.. New Advertisements should be sent in the world what he believed was a still defore 3 pat
more povareful agent of benevolent Advertisements and Gubæripelona which are not ordered for a fized period will be continued tendencies--sour milk. The lactic acid,
he holds, and with him agree sach of articles from the barber's saloon to the in commanded by a British waval reserve other noted investigators as the German total value of 8209. They also appropriated officer
tho Chinese harber's New Year costume, BIENSTOCK, and the Italian Ravi,ume cosmetic, and a bottle of scent, leav- prevents intestinal fermentation, and ing sa old auit of clothes behind. thus the copious drinking of sour milk is offered as a substitute for PosO DE LEON's fabled spring.
Per Bottle.
BH SHAL CAPSULE......$1.25
OBUPERIOR LIGHT INVALID,
GREEN SEAL CAPSULE
1G0
eO VOILET SEAL CAPSULE...........
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Children Faif-prico at Matinees only to all E VERY FINE OLD TAWNY,
parts of the Circus.
Tires Cars will ma after och performance. Booldag så ROBINSON PLANO CO.. Hongkong, January 11, 1909,
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HE LAURA DIAMOND
TPERFORMANDES NIGHTLY
to 9 and 15 to 11.18 PM.
nikota ovalno, be obtained at the BOPENKERI PIANO 00.
WHITE SEAL CAPSULE.............
NOTE-Port, after removal, should be
reeted for a Month before uso.
Wine required for IMMEDIATE use should be ordered to be decanted before being sent out.
Theon Wince aro spomaly room mended, being of superior vintage, old, and thoroughly matured, and in fine
condition.
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The Cham Mail.
HOGUKONA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1909.
PROLONGATION OF LIFE,
Sir Henry Blake, formerly Governor of Hongkong and afterwards of Ceylon, has, in the Nineteenth Dentury for Decom Dr. MINOT has no admiration for bar, a masterly analysis of the late Empress the sour milk cure. He considers it Dowager of China. He has placed in the compare of a law pazca a summary of merely as an optimistic enbstitute for Chinens affairs for the last fúlf-century la ONE of the most interesting phenomena the various forms of philosophy and regard to the late Empress, which,
cording to a contemporary, is well worth of the last three-quarters of a century is religion which many millions of peo railing. the steady increase in the general ple have found healthy in their do-
Mr. Hughes, of Messrs Hughes and average of human life, The tables fclining years. Another odd theory as
Hough, at Happy Valley on Friday after life insuranco actuaries furish the most to the fundamental nature of senility noon, by public suction mold the bootka reliable data on this score, and they is that advanced by a Russia, Prof and race privileges in connection with the- forthcoming races in Febuary. The prices illustrate the fact that through the steady MOELMANS. He notes respiration in were as followe-Lot 1, 8325; 2, 8250 ; | improvements that have been made in connection with the production 3 84004, 8200, 5, 8300; 6, 8200; 7 $230 8, 817010; 10, 160; 11 sanitary science, the adoption of a more warmth in a child's body, and in the 3200; 12, 200; 13, $220 14, $285, 10, rational style of clothing, and the development of Tales of dietary along dimination of surface in proportion
body of an adult, and Ends that the $310; 16, 8510; 17, 2300; 18, 8210; 19,
18100 more hygienic lines, mankind has, by to the bulk of the body is characteris taking thought, undoubtedly added to
tic of the old. Hia view is that the normal apan of life. Whether it has
s get old we do not have surface advanced the sum of human happiness in a similar ratió we are not prepared
enough left, and the implication
that if we maintained the stature at the present moment to discuss.
should live longer All things couidered, we have little information that
from
The marriage has been adubai Tientsin
61- Misi Edna
Dr David Bro
incitidin
The lighthouse stands on the western oxtremity of Shroud Island, and the light, which in: elevated 295 feet shove the level of the sea, shows all round, and abould be visible in clear weather at a distance of $1 nautimal miles. The tower sud dwell. ings are painted white.
ALLEGED "BOXERS" ÅT
CANTON.
(From Vir Own Correspondit),
CANTON, January 15,
In the mountainous diskriet around Fan Fa, near the Human boundary of Kwang Tung, there is a large number of what the Chinese newspapers call "Boxers." These, people have no connection with tho Boxers who caused so much trouble in 1900. They taight almost be termed aborigines, and are said to resemble very close ly the aborigines whom the Japanese have had to deal with in Formosa.. Conflicting accounts are giren of them by missionaries. Some say they are ove dwellers and are quite autajoulatio to the Chinese, others say that on paper they are tributory to the Chinese though for a long time they refused to acknowledge it, and that even now the tribute they pay is merely nominal.
The surrounding natives are in no small fear of them, and as they are being fouled by large numbers of robbers the neighbour ing people are becoming more anxious,
Recently the authorities sont out two men to spy out their haunte and gain more information about them. One of the spies was killed, and the other barely escaped FROM A NOVA SCOTIA PUBLISHER place is apparently another kingdon, that with his life. In reporting he said that the MAdvertiser, Keutville. N.S., makes
RH. G. Harris, publisher of the they have à dag, different from the Chinese
the following statement: 3 have use fag and that they have several candes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for myself which, however, don't seem to be very and family and find it to be one of the best strong a medicines for coughs and solds that I ever tried." For sale by all chemists and store- Feepom.
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