TO LET
TO LET.
NO.1 STEWART TERRACE, the
TO FEAK.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- AMENT AND AGENCY CO., LD.
11799 Hongkong, 17th July, 1901.
TO LET,
ŁODOWN, NO. SA, DUDDELL STREET
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY CO.. LD.
Hongkong, ith July, 1901.
THE
TO LET. Possession, Augter 1st.
(1092
in WEAT Forst GODOWN
Feather Kennedy Town) known
BB
Factory, now occupied by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ed:
For particulare, apply to-
LAUTS, WEGENER & CO. Hongkong, th July, 1901.
TO LET.
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FASTLE on. 3, 5 and 6, RICH- MASTLEY," UPPER RICHMOND
MOND TERRACE.
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LAU CHU PAK, Care of A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd. [1835 Hongkong, lat Angust, 1901.
TO LET.
HOUSE NO. 3, LOWER CASTLE
·Apply to
T. EDWARDS.
No. 22. Stanley Street,
12024 Hongkong, 9th August, 1901.
TO LET.
FERNSIDE, No. 37, ROBINSON
ROAD.
Apply to-
S. A. RAMJAHN, -Care of Thomas's Grill Room, [1037 Hongkong, 1st August, 1901,
TO LET.
[O. SA, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Apply to
KWONG CHEONG WO,
No. 239, Des Veenx Road. Hongkong, 9th July, 1901,
TO LET.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
ELECTRIC FURNACES-TELEGRAPH WIRES 12
METEOROLOGY—ICU FORMIWE.
IN WARM
The recent Italian rains coloured red by dust from Africa have led a British, meteorogist to point out another source of red rain. A blood- rain plant has appeared in a London evapora « WATER-THE HUMAN BODY AB A MICROBE tion tank, and on examination it proves to be a GARDEN-ALUMINIUM WELDING-BREATH-minute morfle alga called Sphaerelle pluvialis. ING OF BACTERIA AN ANIMAL NECESSITY It is found usitally in small pools, and is closely THE BLOOD-EAIN PLANT-ACETYLENE allied to the microscopic plant that colours sucw
red. While rare ingrain and having no connec tion with the red-sand rains, the plants way ba takou up by a whirlwind end fall ína subsequent red shower in the sacas manner that the familiar showers of frogs and fish ara producil,
PLASH SIGNALS.
THEODORO VAFIADIS & CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF
HIGH CLASS-
CALCUTTA
Industrial electric furnaces are divided by M. Keller into three main types, we furnes, which are of numerous variaties, including multiple arcs resistance furnaces, in which low tension currents pass between large eleo-
The line-light. nsed in night signals of the trodes through the material to be fused, and German proty has been supplanted by actylone. incandoscones furnicos, with cacbox blocks Mixed with a certain proportion of oxygen, that form an Incrudescent bed for the material.
acetylone was found to give three times the The Gin and Lesieux furnace, of the resistance candle power of the height, and its signals BOMBAY
high type, uses as
as 10,000 amperes at low coull ho Basted to a distance of five miles by voltage, taking as much as 1,300 borse power day and ten at right. The simplicity of the for a simple furnace. The total power now
acutylène apparatus is not the least advantage. werd in dectric famages reaches 200,000, of The oxygen reded for the lime-light is which airin carbide repræcuts 182; transportel in heavy elinders, hat what the aluminum, 27,000; copper, 11,000, and carnetylene caquires is generated in a small rotort borov/tam, 2,000. Breast processus include the in fifta winnies and stored in a gas-ing. production of valium and ferro-chromiums. the combined procetion of phe-phorns and carligo; and the making of artificial borndun by fusing bauxita. The construction of in- dustrial furnaces has made auch progress that. while in 1997 the product of carbide was only pounds per horse-power per 24 hours, the yield with a new Glu and Ibis furnar is railerds: 12 pounds, orresponding to a efficiency of 75 per cont.
i
An atyles Howpipo, with a seitablo supply xygen, is found by M. G. L. Bourgerel La give a comperature approaching that of the electric are. The oxygen is diluted with air, a otherwise there will be a deposit of carbon ans, other troubles.
THAT LITTLE DISH." How we de like a little dish of something nice, served up lot!
Charles Lab would have sold his shirt for a fender sucking pig done to a turn. Docter Johusen used to say that a dish of ten was, the most fragrant of life a beverages. Why, what
-thinking of. I shall forget my own na
tripe ever stewed. And his daughter Mogr said Toby Yook, "IC's trips-the bust smilingly gave him the basket, in which r power a hot string dish of his favourite meat.
Attoled by the shrill whistling of the wind through a network of wires hofers a storm. Dr. Ies Horse Street, Top Floor Permanent Eydam, 'Gorman, has onde a novel investiga. Enlargements, Grospa, Vias, ate: Devon. He is now convinced that any unusa! upment Works. A matemax Requisites illsturbance in the lebegraph wires foretells
weather, and that the character of be atmos pheric distúrbances may be learned from the sount. A deep sound of considerable strength
!" wife prepared nie, dainty little dishon for instance, Iralds slight, showers of rainsulto fempt my appetite, and Mr. Henry White. of that beautiful Devon town, Torquay, but moderate winds within 10 to 48 hours, while a sharp, shrill sound gives warning of high winds somehow I seemed to have lost all inclination for food, and after sitting at the table trying to with much rain or snow.
swallow n it'le, I used to say to her-
It's no use. Lean't eat it. You may as This sort of thing on told well take it away.' a tále, for eun wan't go without food for long Without losing strength, Seine uy condition. a friil strongly advised me to try Seigel's Syrup. He said it had cared bins, and might do mé god.
**DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.
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SHOTS OFFICES and ROOMS in
BEACONSFIELD ARCADE. ONE SMALL GODOWN & BUDDELL
STREET.
For Particulars, apply to
TURNER & CO. Hongkong, 20th August, 1901.
TO LET
HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.
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THE RETREAT," MOUNT KELLETT,
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 18th July, 1901.
TO LET SHORTLY.
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9 FOLBES (now in coarse of erection and
H Beating completion) in a first-class
business locality, DES VIEUX ROAD CEN- TRAL next to A Tack's Furniture Store. Upper Ground Floors suitable for Shops. Floors have plastered ceilings and walls, and are very suitable for Offices
Apply to-
J. S. LEE & CO.,
Care of WING CHEONG TAI,
240, Des Voeux Road West.
Wongkong, 7th August, 1801.
TO LET.
[1909.
08. 1 to 8, WILD DELL, WANCHAI
ROAD. -Apply to~~-
BANG KEE, 198, Praya Central. Hongkong, 16th August, 1991.
M
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
1208+
R.8. GILLANDERS
GLENWOOD;"
21, CAINE. JAD.
Hongkong, 20th September, 1900..
BOARD AND RESIDENCE,
1869
OMFORTABLY FURNISHED
ROOMS, with Bowed.
Apply to Mrs. MATHER,
2, Padder's HiL
Hongkong, 1st January, 1892
THE
ROBINSON
PIANO CO., LTD.
PIANOS
The annualy of the forming of ice while tho water indirates a temperature considerably above freezing has been explained by Herr Sehun. He Binds the cold surface layer of water to be very thin, so that the thermometer is affected by the wartner water below. - „Ja“ the Gruuden Sea hii sperial instrument indiented a sprince
F. BLACKHEAD & CO..
Nary Contractors, Shipehandlers. Suit makers, Provision and-Coal Merchants.
Praya Central. next Hongkong Hoteperature of Cbile an ordinary therefore me. Each dost secured to give me life nud
meter. penetrating the coll layer, rosa to 3.4 PISMARCK & CO.,
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Provision and Coal Mechants. Sailing.
innkers, &c. Fresh Water splied to
Vessels in the Harbour
WONG SANG & CO.
Shipshandlere, A Suitmakers, Hardware. Engineer Tools, Bross and bru Mer
chants, 144. Des Vous Real.
MOKE & SEIMUND,
My app tite no longer needed, cousing. I could eat well-nigh everything that was put bu
vigour. Today, no matter what ails me, Selpal. Strip pay me right.”
Favourite.
That little dieh." in fact, is once again the
Sone three months ago my wife got - Though hern free from microbes, according thegoughly run down. Fe over a fortnight Mr. to Dr. Elie Metelniket, man som picke up ash cold keep nothing on her stomach." pretty extensive fora. Gems from sir and water lodges in the follicles of the skin and on the moist cous membranes, and within fore Loure after birth several different kinds of microbes are sometimes found in the intestines, although they are usudly first observed betwisen the tek 2nd vanteenth beer. The digestive orga us develop the greatest variety. Miller of Berlin, has described more than thirty species living in the month cavity, soute of those about the teeth being peculiar to the month, while others appear also on the skin Naval Military and Court. 13, Queen's Borland are recogniebla in the stomach and in-
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WASHING! WASHING! WASHING! GENTLEMEN'S (Ordinary), st a fixed price of 88 per month per head, or as per tari. LADIES' and FAMILY, as per tariff. All Articles Disinfected. Shirts, Collars and Cuffs Glossed by Machinery.
Californian Washermen employed. No cociies sleep on premises.
Elly
HII
kinds
are
slt
Dr.
|
thenry White, when artifying to tim truth of this on September 18th, 1900, at his hones, 10, Peliford Terrace, Torquay, Devon, does not "We know why the little disk failed to
what was the matter with his wi
In the errous and digest, and we quote the words of the famous physician to prove it:
As is also a reasation of irritative form of dyspepsia, this is a very prevailing symptom. sinking, as if the stomach required fond, due to the fact that the food has left the stomach in a half-digested condition."
H'm,
The essay, then, upon "little dishes proves
Who could enjoy a little dish," when the She was food could bo hut half-digested? woubled a good deal with wind, ou seeming to he losing her strength. I fete a hotle of Mother Seigel's Syrup from Holloway's Deng testine. In thee atesach. whose acid contents
Stores, and she commcneed taking it. In a greatly modify the bacterial life, thirty species short time she was quite well again." tavo been aloudy distinguished, wart of these men would now bell their shirt for a battle not found where in the digestive system, of this remedy. In the small intestines the microbes vary greatly with the food, bacilli pr-donient that while man and women can in no wis wys relish that favourite dish, get a cure is Das hat has zersed inen and ing, and
ready to hand women alike for more than the past thirty as they pass to the large intestine. Here the
160 microbes appear first and are west abundant. about forty-Svo species-chiefly bacilli wł other bacteria-wing-know. The total nut, ler af distinct species of microbes in healthy mun- bay be roughly placed at beize sixty and sesents, but cannot be seenrately estimated. Beneficial micrkva swam to net especially in Loading wounds and resisting harmful organistus. whib ordinarily harmless kinds appear to cause
Years.
THE
NOTICES OF FILMS HONGKONG
ANT KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LEMITTÐ.
NOTICE.
URING my Temporary
Trom
distuso--speh as lustliches epilepsy schaustion D Colony. Mr. B. 1. MACGOW 19 whe
and certain skin affections, and even mental A lesson disorders by an' andus increase, drawn from the study of body mierabes is that man's evolution has not kept pace with his changes of feed and habits.and that his stomach and large-intestine are no longer needed, while the small intestine--which alone is indispens 12002-uhl be reduced from six or seven yards
to a third of that length,
DEPOT: 5, ICE HOUSE STREET
F. G. ALLEN, Manager. Hongkong, 7th August, 1991.
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Hongkong
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Hongkong, 21st August, 1901. UNDER ENGLISH MANAGEMENT.
WE. SCHMIDT & CO.,
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CALIBRE 763' mimi
Aluminum variaces are joined with frest difficulty on acengrt of the thin film of oxide that formas ou eating. In the new process of Max Schmidt, of Berlin, the two heated alumi mum surface, slightly- spamted, are connected to the cathode of an ectric circuit, and a graphies or platinum anode is passed between then, scraping the edges and removing, the oxide in part mechanically and in part by electrolytic reduction. The surfaces may then 1. wekled withont pressare or huumering,
In a mathematical investigation. Herr Musl ler finds that the power-consumption or an automobile is smallest when the weight is equally distributed on both axles, and if the four wheels are all as large as possible, eight ft being the greatest safe wheel diunster.
A
Certain bacteria in the air are believed by Hijabizin to be as essential to lite a oxygen., When animals were confined for some days in a chamber of sterilised air, some died, others livel but a short time after being taken out -and-the survivors showed symptomas ef extreme" Inssitude and wonkness. It was proven that the effects obuld not ha due to starvation.
air. The excretions showed deficient oxidation, poisonous exhalations, or carbonic noid in the and it was concluded that the oxidising fer- ments of the tissues ore supplied by basteris those bustoria led to an accumulation of in- which enter the blood, and that cutting off suficiently oxidised products that exerted a (75 poisonous offect.
9, VICTORIA SIREST, HONGKONG With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES
FIRING 10. SHOTS in 2 SECONDS
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong 3rd October, 1990.
(Next to Central Market),
GEO. MOIR Manager Hongkong, Tat Angust, 1901.
1940
art as SECRETARY of the above Company,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Secretary. Hearing. 20th August, 1901,
NOTICE.
12203
Bhare This Day Authorised Mr.
HUNG MAK HOI 洪墨海冷 uni Mr. CHOI PO SIEN 蔡寶善翁 (0
to
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A CHEE & CO. Hongkong, 16th August, 1901, NEGRI SEMBILAN GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
A
PPLICATIONS will ho rerived for the post of qualified Assistant Surgeons in the Nigri Sembilan Goverment Service. Federatal Malay State Salary $1.080 per am, with annual ineuntes specided hereunder and free furnished qurtera,
The Assistant Surgeon appointed must sign an agreement for 5 years, ou expiry of which.
servire satisizctory, he will b should bis put on the Fixed (Pensionable) Estub-bracnt. Candidates aust hold a diplans from a va cognizel Medien) College.
Applications with copies of recent testi- monials will be required by the State Surgeon, Negri Sembilan, Malay Peninsula.
SCALE OF SALARY. Jet your And
3rd 4th
$1,080 1,198
AGREEMENT
1188.
1.948
1,820
1380
1,452
1584
1715
Juth 11th
1.818
1,980
EXAMI
2316
1983
2816
14th
2,316
EXAMINATION.
Final...
-2,400
W. LEONARD BRADDON, F.R.C.S.,
State Surgeon. Seremban. Seremban, 10th August, 1901.
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THE
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MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA
́(OR MITSUI & CO.) `-
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CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy, Arsenals and Railway Bureau; Principal Railway Companies and Inastrial Works, Home and Foreign Madl and Freight Steamers. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Pauons Miike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTS for Fukumo. Hokeks. Ichimu Kaneda, Kishima, Mannoura, Ongura, Otsuji. Tehnyama, Tsabakuro, Yoshinotani, Yesbio, Yunokibars, and other Coal Mines.
N. INUZUKA, Manager.
[1331 Hongkong, 1st August, 10).
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