HOTEL
BOA VISTA”.
(HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH
CHINA)
MACAO
AB been re-opened, nader Europeni
HA management and most strist supervision
of the place.
as to food, cleanliness, and hygiens of
All comforts of a home...
A most plensunt retreat for thow desirous of a few days rest and quiet
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Comfortable accommodation for travellers paying a visit to the historical and picturesque colony of Macao.
Macao is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong, One steamer (8. Heungshan), daily to and from Hongkong, and two steamiem to and from Canton, give easy communication with both these centres.
Cable Addreen—" BOAVISTA.” For Terme, apply to
THE MANAGER.
Extracts from "BOA VISTA? Visitors Book
Everything most ofortable.
Food good and nicěly cooked.
Everything supplied for comfort.
The most attractive spot and very best hotel. I have seen in China,
Delighted with our visit. Too skarming for words.
We have spent the happiest hours of our lives at the Boa Vista" Hotel.
Delighted with hotel and Macao..
An ideal place for a quiet holiday.
Boa Vista" is by a long way the best Hotel in the East. We cannot stresgly enough recommened this first-class house.
Food and attendance excellent, bed-rooms comfortable, scrupulous cleanliness throughout, For ona desirous of a few days' rot and quiet ta recuparite, a bean ideal establishment.
Most plonmat retreat for ons either in good or bad, health.
HONGKONG
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901
BUSINESS DIRECTORY SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
BOOKBINDING
** DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,
The only office in China Eaving European tanght workmen. Equal to Home Work.
BUILDERS
KANG ON,
Contractor; 30, D'Aguilar Street, Leon
and Coset Port Buildings, Timber, Brick
and Granite,
Moolanion engaged, Estimator given CHEMISTS DRUGGISTS, &c.
kydrobromic welds in quart bottles of various Hinds, but who found after several months that
THE RECENT ORT MOON—A PASSING MOTOR — baclately nothing had been dissolved from the
FLANTS TEEN BAVING LOST. FIBRA ~POWER→→ART OF THE DAYS OP THE. MAX-
NOTH→→ BEGAK-EATING - A NEW TOOD ABBESTOS MORTAR-SOLUBILITY OF GLABS
FISHES KILLED UY STREET-PAYING,
An unlocked-for effect of municipal improve ment is that reported from Croydon, England After a recent heavy rain the fishes of the River Wands were found to have been poisoned, and
THE QUICK CHANGE ARTI T.
Mrs. J.
He's smart man. I know one who played the part of six characters in sixteen minutes, in the parts of a miser, a German musician,
little play of his own. In that time he asted. lover, a dowager, a footman, add the heroine.
Stevens, of Wood House, Ash, Nr.. Wrotham, Kent, when in her prime, in reality ahont on eratekar, quite unable to kneel or lived the part of a feeble old woman; hobbling stoop, frightened to eat, dropsical, entirely miserable and full of paina and diseases that vás pictare number One.
No weather belief is more abaard then that investigation has shown this to be due to pollu of a "wet moon" and a "dry moon." Themen of the water by washings from a creosoted
wood pavement. is no connection between the position of the moon's horns and the rainfall as the same weather recure at the same time each year, for, -as Mr. A. K. Bartlett has lately taken the trouble to explain, the crescent moon always ap Aerspears "upon its back" in spring near the vernal equinox, and "upon its end" in autumn, near the automaat equinox. The change of direction in which the horns are turned depends upon the difference in declination of the sun and moon. If the moon be farther north than the sun soon after the new, the sunlight strikes under hot and she appears with her horas aptarael, but it she be further south the light reaches around het dise to the northward, and her horns appear Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40 early vertical. The line joining the two horns Watson's Building, Queen's Read, Alsoulways at right angles to a line joining the
at Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Toila sun and the moon.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
Chemists and Draggists, High-class
tod Waters, Dealers in Photographic
Requisites, Queen's Road. FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN
A CHEE & CO., Established 1850.
Every Household Requisito. Depot for Fastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;
178, Queen's Road Central,-
JEWELLERS
MAISON LEVY HERMANOS,
A FONG, AN
The largest and most complete Studio in Hongkong. Established 1859. Viewe, Eniszgements, Ivory Miniatures, Oil Faintings, &c. Ice House Street.
MEE CHEUNG,
Ise House Streak, Top Floor. Permanent Enlargements, Croups, Views, ata; Deval- opment Works, Amateurs Requisites
E. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.
Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and also colouring Photos and relief Photos. Views of China and Manila. Work done for Amateurs; No. 8a, Queen's
Road Central.
PRINTING
Quel charment petit endroit ce va pour le DAILY PRESS" OFFICE..
repos de nos fatigués..
Ravissant Hotel
A charming place.
The beat Hota! I have found in the Orient
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NOW READY.
THE
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AND
OTHER SKETCHES.
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AND
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CHEONG LRE & CO.
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FURNITURE STORE," Established over 20 Years MPORTERS and EXPORTERS, and Dealers in Furniture, Blackwood, Jewellery, Carión, Catlery, Electro-Mats, and Glassware,Dining rooni and other Furniture on Hire, &e. For the HIGHEST GRADE, BEST and CHEAPEST.
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8 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Right opposite Robinson Piano Co. Hongkong, 20th November, 1901. 12952
MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKL
CODE WORD DOCK” NAGASAKI A1, ABC Bootte and Engineering Code Uped, DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAME. Extreme Length
523 feet.
Width of Entrance on Bottom 77
Length on Blocks:
Width of Entrance on Top
Water on Blocks at Spring Tile
DOCK No. 2 (st MUKALIKA
Extreme Length
871 feet.
Length on Blocks:
Width of Entrance on op
53
Width of Entrance on Bottom
Water on Blocks at Spring Tide - 29-11
PATENT BLIR
KOSIGE).
Can take vessels up to 1000 ton grond. THE WORKS are well equip *with the
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS
execute any kind of work 1 SHPBUILD. ING and MARINE ENGINEERING so well- ae in REPAIRING of SHIPS
Proofs read by Englishmen.
STOREKEEPEES
F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
Navy Contractors, Shipehandlers, Sail- makers, Provision and Coal Merchnuta,
The prophet Sir Frederick Bramwell, who twenty years ago foresaw the disappearance of the storm-engine within a half-century. is in a fair way to see the realisation of his prophecy, The gas-engine has been greatly improved in size and efficiency, and the new process of Dr. Ladwig Mond produces gas so cheaply from
the poorest bituminous slack that one company is to supply it over an area of 135 square miles for twopence per thousand feet. Each ton of coal pisids 150,000 cubic feet of Mond gas, while the value of the ammonia saved nearly equals the cost of the raw material
In the absence of oxygen, the higher plants are found by A. Nubokich to continue their growth, and they are still sensitive to irritations, but they do not form chlorophyl. It is believe that some seeds would germinate with oxygen, bict the spores of fungi appair unable fu da no.
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Taru aside for six brief weeks. Hoy, presto! Mrs. Stevens is in her prime now. She s happy, takes a walk carly in the morning, and three-mile jaunt in the evening, sleeps like a top and eats heartily.
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That quick change was made by Mother Soigol's Byrap-from bad dreams and heary aight sweats to calm and refreshing slumber.
On August 23rd, 1900, Mrs. Stevens wrote: "I was subject to sick headaches from quite girl. No matter what I ate, I was tormented with pains across my chest, in the small of my lack, and a fearful dull pais is my side, os though someone was trying to pull me down. My heart used to flutter like a timorons bird, and my breathing was that bad I could r walk upstairs; I
was weary and worn out, and got worse and
Dropsy set in and my limbs grow twice their unteral size. The doctor and the Hos pital folks both pronounced me as incurable, ind for three years I had to hobble about on
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sticks.
Worke.
At last the doctor advised a real good' trial. of Beigel's Curative Syrup. I got a bottle.
When that was done I got another and signs of leaving mo. To make a long story mother. At the third bottle the dropsy showed short, the pains gradually left me, and at the and of six months I throw aside my sticks and did my housework with ease and comfort."
A gentleman living in Ash (Mr. Tynds) says These facts are ones for which I can vouch." A device described by M. Rateau,, of Paris, Once you allow poisons to mix with your blood The quickest of quick change artists is Nature uses the lost power of machines worked inter- which begin to show their presence by headaches. Prera Central, next Hongkong Hotel mittently, like winding engines or the reversible mind-spasms, castiveness, neuralgia, yellow skin, engines of rolling mills, and is claimed to add, and Nature will fa a flash change you BISMARCK & CO.,
from a healthy subject to a decrepit, disease- 500 horse-power to the energy available in a ridden man or woman. Navy Contractors. Ship Chandlers,
Provision and Ceal Merchants, Sail winding engine plant of ordinary aize.. The makers, &o. Fresh Water supplied to extra apparatus consists of a low pressure
Vessels in the Harbour
KVONG SANG & CO
Shipchandlers,
reservoir, and a turbine. The reservoir has a series of basins for collecting and carrying
the condensed steam, and is by its peculiar.
away
Make the change yourself. A few dress a itself, is what you want to keep you healthy day whenever the slightest symptom shows
and happy.
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Sailmakers, Hardware, Dagineer Tools, Brass and Iron Mercorettetion made much smaller and less expon-F you want your Boots well polished, tall
alante, 141, Des Voeux Road.
sive than su ordinary reservoir. It makes practicable the supplying of a continuous flow of steam to the turbine from an intermittent source.
| MORE & SEIMUND,
43 and 45, Des Vaux Boad. Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Riggers, Commission Agents and General Storekeepers; Sole Agents for Shipowners L'omposition (Grey- hound Brand") and Blandel Spence & Co.'s Composition TAILORS
Some remarkable art-galleries of the early stone age in France have been explored by Messrs. L. Capiton and H. Breuil At Com barelles a care above 250 yards long has en- gravinga in the oretaceous cook-along its inner bali, the lines being covered by a stalagmitic Naval Military and Court, 16, Queen's Road, deposit so thick in placis as to hide them. In
Opposite Kula's Curio Store.
TOBACCONISTS
RHAUGHTON & CO.,
the 309 figures clearly made out can be resog- nized the horse, cow, bison, reindeer, mammoth and wild gout. Another cave a mile or two D. S. DADY BURJOR. LOS FILIPINOS,"
Importer of the Best Manila Cigara; away contains what seem to be somewhat more
Pottinger Street,
WATCHMAKERS
DROZ & CO., -
19. Quen's Road Central Repairs of Watches and Clocks by competent European experts, at moderate rates.
CHRISTMAS 1901.
THE undersigned is now propared to
supply
CHRISTMAS CAKES
20 lbs., and also Mince Pies, Assorted Cakes, of the bast quality, weighing from 1 lb. to
ko. ko.
recent drawings, largely of animals, and show- ing, in black, red and brown, species.resembling those of the first series.
The food value of sugar is a subject on which the doctors disagree. The fact that children who eat sugar are pale and have bad teeth loads Dr. Von Bunge to condemn this food, and to onclude that its lack of iron and lime makes it lers desirable than other foods. Prof. Lapine, on the other hand, finds that there is very little.
that the French, using about a third as much iron and lime in any of our food. He showe
sugar per head as the English, have no batter health than the English and Americans, and concludes that the increased need of dentists is the only harm that can come from using auch
DOHABJEE NOWROJEE, Hongkong Bakery,
$1, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 7th December, 1901. [3123 LIEBER'S STANDARD CODE. | *****.
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The Code contains 800 pages of 75,000 phers: 65,000 have sentences, and 10,000 are Wank, enabling the addition of private phrases under their probadings.
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Irrigation is being urged as India's means of salvation. Railways may cure famine by bringing relief to the usedy, but a wall-organised system afirrigation is the only certain preventive
After
Four Valet or the Maid to ask for WALTON'S BOOT CREAMS
AND VARNISHES.
WALTONIAN CREAM, WHITE & BLACK- JANUE MOSCOVITE, TAN-3 SHADES,
ARISIAN DRESS-BOOT-POLISH.
Order from Stores or Wholesale to
JOHN WALTON ́(PARIS),
MANUFACTURER,
176, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE,
LONDON.
NOW ON SALE.
DIRECTORY OF
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FOR 1902.
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Horss-chestnuts contain about 27 per cent of albumen, this remarkable proportion being greater than is found in sy onitivated plants, but their bitter taste, due to the presence of aboat 10 per cent. of a bitter resin, bas,condemand them as unfit for food. By extracting the bitter prin. esple, R. Flugge, of Hanover, claims to have made useful mother waste material parital roasting to locson the shells, the kernels are removed and putrex sul, and the powder is placed in a tight porcolator with alcohol for about a weak. To extract the bitter com pletely, it may be necessary to replace the fuid with fresh solrent The alcohol dia.
GRAND MASS (with Organ Apept). solves out the resin, leaving a
No. 1 ALBUM (3 Songs, English & Italian). and nutritious meal, which contains all the
pleasant No 2 ALBUM (3 Songs).
The 'LILY* Waltz and 'ELIZA' Waltz albumen and starch of the chestouts, and is 4 Pocket Edition of Pianoforte Maio includ
NEW FEATURE-- valuable food. The spiritis purined by distilling MARCH dedicated to Hongkong Volunteers tion and used repeatedly.
and POLKA to Peak Residents.
A mixture of powdered Canadian asbestos with 10 per cent of white limas lisa buon recommended in Germany as a mortar having important advantages, with slow drying as the only disadvantage. It resists fire to an extra onlinary degree and, b also.........water-proof. exposure to a hot fire far an hour and a half followed by a drenching with water having had 20 sf The mortar is very tough and only Talf as heavy as cement mértár.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of HONGKONG, CANTON, MACAO and PEKING
Mounted as CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR CARDS, with CHINESE GREETINGS
Stamped in real Gold in Chinese Characters with English Translations.
MOTTOES:
A Morry Christmass and a Happy New Year
Plenty chancee, large gain;
Doller coule alla some rain
Wishing you Happiness and Longevity
Success Crowns your Undertakings.
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