8
EUMENOL
Elfecient and Harmless Remedy for all Female complaints.
On sale at all drugstores. Liquid or 50 tablets packing.
E. Merck's Agents:
BORNEMANN & CO.
Hong Kong.
Canton.
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
DIAMOND MERCHANTS.
Union Building (Opposite G.P.O.)
Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers. High Class English Jewellery.
Prickly Heat Powder
A Certain Cure for
PRICKLY HEAT & SUNBURN.
A little chisted on the skin and gently massaged in will speedily cure Prickly Heat, remove Sunburn and the offensive
odour due to excessive perspiration.
Prepared by.
Queen's Dispensary
Pharmaceutical Chemists
22. Des Voeur Road Central.
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AUTO-TOTAL
AGENTS:-
THE MOST EFFECTIVE FIRE EXTINGUISHER FOR
MOTOR CARS
NO PERIODIC REFILLING. Contents Never Deteriorate. Harmless to Upholstering, Machinery. Or Rotative Parts. Contains no Grinding Properties.
KELLER, KERN & CO., LTD., 16/19, Connaught Road C.
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FARMER
NAM WAH
BRANU.
NEW SEASON GINGER.
INCREDIBLE!
THE CHINA MAIL,
REFRIGERATION WITH A GAS FLAME
COOL WITH FIRE They sound incredible, these tales of the new gas refrigerators that cool with fire. What a re- versal of the customary use of fuel! Yet natural law that has been known since chemistry was young is now being applied to one of the most important problems of the household, that of keeping food in prime condition from the time it is purchased until it is consumed.
If the reader finds it hard to visualise the fee, the chould think in terms of refrigeration of the following familiar experi- ments: Place upon the hand a drop of ammonia, ether, alcohol, or other
very volatile substance. That spot will immediately feel very cold. The liquid in changing to vapour takes with it the heat from the skin, That is the essence of mechanical refrigera- tion. The problem of harnessing his idea to the task of practical refrigeration has been in finding a way to keep the process going on' automatically, using the same materials over and over again, without interruption and at not | too high a cosİ.
Now the refrigerant is enclos- ed in leak-proof tubes, kept in motion with an electric motor or a jet of flame, cooled with a draft of air or a flux of water, and its rate of flow controlled by ther- mostats.
Over and Over
Convenience of adequate con.FRONTIER OF INDIA tinual refrigeration.
The fact that the machines are water-cooled may affect the in stallation charges, where installa tion le paid for by the purchaser. If water and gas must be piped to It from a distance, of course, the Post of installation runs up.
Safety Devices
FRESH TRIBAL TROUBLES BREAK OUT
CONSCRIPTION-FEARS.
Simla-There are signs of im- pending trouble between the tribos in the North-West Frontier Pro- vince.
If the gas supply is cut off from
The Khost tribes are apprehen- the street temporarily, an auto- matic shut-off in the machine sive of the enforcement of conscrip closes the valve until gas service tion, and in order to evade the de- is resumed. If the water supply mand it is reported that they have is cut off and the gas continues decided to start trouble on the to burn, a fusible plug acts as a Kurram border pleading their in- safety device to prevent overheat- ability to provide recruits in view of the necessity for them to defend their frontièrs.
warri
In a gas refrigerator the re- frigerating liquid is boiled, the gas passes off as a vapour, and in that form it absorbs heat. It is then cooled by being passed
Bobby Morse, 2. was one of eighty through a tube within a'tube, the outide tube containing flowing five children "lost" in one day recently water. The water bearing the st. Coney Island: He's registering his heat from the coils passing off indignation over being left all to him into the sewer, the refrigerantself. flows back to the boiler, and the
whole process is repeated
Razanl was attacked by tribesmen recently, and the camp perimeter. wire was cut. The raiders entered a tent in which forty Punjabis were asleep. Two tin boxes and a kit bag were removed.
On the same right in South Waziristan, Tarakai, an outpost of Splitoi fort, was attacked by the Siga Khela. Fire was exchanged, but little damage was done. Con- troversy between Dir and Swat has apparently been resuscitated. It is reported from sound sources' that the Nawab of Dir ordered three men to murder his brother Alamzeb Khan for a reward of 4,000 rupees. The Dir authorities are posting 3,000 men on the Jundul border against possible attacks by the Khan of Khar. It is widely be lieved that Dir intends to make a fierce attack on Swat territory with the Nawab of Amb next spring.
EXCHANGE.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
1/11 %
On London— Bank, wire... Bank, on demand ... 1/11 15/16 Bank, 30 days' sight. Bank, 4 months' sight 2/-% Credits, 4 months'
aight
2/- 1/8 Documentary 4 muntha'
sight
On Paris
The inside of gas refrigerator ing of the refrigerating liquid. looks much like that of any other The Importance of having a re-On demand
sight
On Berlin→→→→
On New York-- On demand
demand....
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,
BE RID OF
PRICKLY. HEAT
AND
HONG KONG
USE
FOOT
Vasenot
Jorent Pavle!
VASENOL
HYGIENIC AND FOOT POWDERS. Wonderful effect-Try ons to-day.
Well recommended by the medical profession.
In original tins of 100 grams.
Sold by all Chemists and Stores.
CARL SCHROETER,
THE CANTON TRADING ASSOCIATION; LTD.
Hong Kong and Canton,
ON SALE
TO-DAY
THE
NEW VICTOR RECORDS
FOR
SEPTEMBER
12974
Ask to hear “Chiquita”
13124
48%
of the modern refrigerators.liable water supply cannot be too Credits," 4 months' Like them, it consists of an in. strongly stressed. aulated compartment for the stor- There are several gas refrigera age of food, with a rack of trays tors on the market, yet they all for ice cubes and desserts. Out-have certain common characteris-On side of this is a small compart-tics. They are all water-cooled, ment in which a tiny gas flame and of necessity permanently con- Credits, 60 days' sight 60; burns in a midget burner. This nected with both gas and water. flame burns high or low, accord-The refrigerants used vary. Onc On Bombay- ing to the diccates of a thermo-well-known make uses a mixture Wire stat, activated by the heat of the of ammonia, hydrogen, and dis- On demand food compartment. The flame
On Calcutta----- burns high to cool the box rapidly, tilled water. Anot er uses a pre-
paration almost identical with wire but shuts off as the temperature water glass.
All of these are On demand of the box falls.
harmless, as a matter of course, and since they are inclosed entire
On demand ly within the unit, the kind of re. frigerant is of more importance It to the manufacturer than to the On demand
They user of the refrigerator.
*1323
132
132
Singapore
132%
853
. (1» Manda---
9714
On Shanghai-
77%
insight (private paper)
Op Yokohama— On demand
105
Gold Leaf, 100 fine
(per fael). Sovereigns
Tel. C-527.
(Bank's
A gas refrigerat r operates absolutely without noise. It is as unobstrusive as a kitchen sink and as tireless as the tides. has no moving parts therefore no- thing to oil and nothing to re- are built for permanency, but on demand place, because there is nothing to since their manufacture has been wear out or get out of order. It perfected very recently, no ma- maintains a very even tempern-chine has yet had an opportunity. ture, predetermined ty the own to test out its guarantee. "The
r according to her preferences. Christian Science Monitor." It makes ice ciches out of drink- ing water. and freezes desserts as well as other mechanisms for the
A mistress said to an Irish purpose, and certainly much servant: "Bridget, did you wash the more easily than most of them. nah before you fried it?" Bridget: The air within the box is made "No, ma'am; 'what's the use of very cold and very dry, two qual-washing a thing wt's lived all its ities which are of great import life in the water?" ance in preserving food. as heat and moisture combine to render food undesirable for human con sumption.
boying rate)
9.70
Silver (per oz.)
26.7/16 Bar Silver in Hong
Kong...
42% prem Chinese Copper Cash.nom. *Jones (facetiously): "That is the Chinese Copper Cants 6% prem portarit of my wife's first husband." Rate of Native In-
Smith: "Good heavens! What a terest
7% pa brainless looking ass! But I didn't Chinesa Sub. Coin ..
292% dis. know your wife was married before Hong Kong Sab. Coin Par. she met you?"
Jones: "She wasn't. That is the picture of myself at the age of twenty."
Cost Determined by Condition The cost of operating this gas refrigerator as compared with the cost of refrigeration by ice or electricity depends upon the comparative cost of ice, electri- city, and gas and water. Each of these commodities is costly in An elderly duchess, a stickler for some places and inexpensive in class distinctions, had ordered some others, and comparisons must be article at a shop. The article in made separately for each local-question had not been delivered, nor ity. Since the gas refrigerator is could the order be traced. always water-cooled, the cost of The proprietor of the shop was the water, if metered, must be greatly concerned, and inquired:" included in the total, as well as "May I ask who took your Grace's the cost of gas. The cost of oper- order? Was it a young gentleman ation, however, even taking with fair hair?!! these points into 'consideration, la. Her Grace (cattingly) "No, it not high as compared with the was a bald-headed old nobleman!"
LONDON EXCHANGES.
London, Yesterday.
Paris
124.15-
New York Brussels Geneva.
4.85.15/16
24.90
26.20
Amsterdam
12.09
Milan Berlin
92.75
20.34
Stockholm Copenhagen
1E13
18.19,
Oslo.
18.19
Vienna
34.4414
Prague
168
Helsingfors Madrid
102
20.37%
Lisbon Athene Bucharest
$107% 876
Bio Buenos
Bombay
Shangha
Silver Silver
5.29/32
47 11/32
1/5.31/32 2/720 1/10 11/16. 26 7/16
26:9/16
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