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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, AUGU ́T 7TH, 1933
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tube's oscillation and is distanco from the soreon. Two shuttera slectrically controlled by WRITING AT 4 DISTANCE - DEST STABS --- the excillating apparatus, allow the right eye to A DISEASE OF PAVEMENTS—IMITATION vlew one image and the left the other, vision MOUNTAIN BUILDING IN THE BRAN being entirely cut off during the change of the SURPENT'S HOME ARMED CRABS TM. tube's position. The combination of thes PROVED X-RAY VISION-HOW LIGHTNING impes gives an apparently solid reproduction of the object, and the foot is claimed to be superior to that obtained with two lubes or with The telechirograph, or writing telephone, of | a tube laring two anti-cathodes. -
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Eastman's Kodak Filins ad Accessorios;
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Sema time ogo Mr. B. Waltor showed that an electric spark fools its way from the positiva pole to the negative in a raid meresin cỉ preliminary sparks of inerossing length. By some excellent photographs with a moving camera, ho has now proved that lightning simi- lorly establishes n conducting path through the air by a series of minor flushes, and that a rule the lightning pages from the cloud to the outh as a series of continnon discharges.
Though the cost of making finest toilet soaps has nearly doubled, the retail price, ingredients, and superior quality of Vinolia Soap For the remain unchanged.
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Tho transmitler is a pencil whose lead has o little play in the metallic casing, and the pressure of writing closes a vertical motion current in the up and down strokes and a TO LET.
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rooked by the maggot, and a pencil of light SPANISH PROCURATION.
frota a concentrating lens is refected upon a Hongkong Ist, July, 1903,
airip of sensitised photographlo paper. Tho deflected ray of light fellows the marement of The hotve sickness of Cape Colony resem the writer's hand, producing a facsi pile of the blas human molaris, ant nitacks nuimals ex- pencil's marking exact suongh to serve as a sig-posed in low-lying swamps or left not st night. Ha ses pass safely through affected Dature to a check. The sensitive film is drawn districts during the day. The Government GENERAL DRAPERS AND HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS. through a developing bath by a little electric
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That dust should settle in regular figures -- érystallining, ro-to speak, like the snowflake-- Bovins rather surp iding. Using plat a heated 10 deg, or 15 deg, above the atmosphere, Mr. W. J. Russell flada that the settling dustalways tends to produce regular geometric ferms, which are utways star-like, but are made by the shape of the plate to vary from three-rayed to eight- frayed stars. In each instance the rays are of [1081 uniform longch and form a perfect pattern, while superimposed stars often produce very beautiful figures which, appear under | microscope.
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THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE,
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APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARK.
Ax
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
CHARLES HUDSON trading JOUN HUDSON & CO. of 1.1, Queen Victoria Street, in the City and County of Loudon, Merchant, has on the 25TH day of JUNE, 1903, applied for the registration in Hongkong in the Eagister of TRADE MARKS of the following TRADE MARK :
ANGANESITE
in the name of CHARLES HUDSON trading
AS JOHN HUDSON & CO. who claims to be the sole proprietor thereof.
The TRADE MARK has been used by the Applicant sincs on or about the beginning of the year 1912 in respect of the following goods in class 50 (9):---
Packing for Storm Water and Gas Joints.
A facsimile of such TRADE MARK can be seen or the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong and also at the Odios of the undersigned
Dated the 2nd day of July, 1993.
MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS, Bolilter for the Applicant, 18. Bank Buildings, Hongkong.
1918
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A fungus that rapidly destroys wood pave ments is giving trouble in English cities using such paving. The fungus spreads from infectal blocks to sound enge, and the only means of checking it seems to be careful inspection of all wood before laying and the prompt removal of infected blocks.
Electrio sparks are always obtained from kites reaching a height of a quarter of a mile, and increave as the kites go bigber.
that
bacteriologist of Natal suggests that maquitoes earry the infection, and be as show diorang protected by wire gauzo be smoko may ranis harmed in the midst of the disease while the unprotected succumb.
Earthquakes are due to discharges of elec tricity between strata of good conductivity and insulating strata, like geinite and silica, in the view of Prof. Pilsudski generate gases, to which the observed off-ct- are mainly due.
The disphorgas
A LAND OF PROMISE.
In the not very remotu pist when Europes lookert to South Africa only for ostrich fothers aand saabine, it was a common practice for Ruglsh ductors to order hopeless of When palmonary disease to this country. there is no hope at home try the Cape of Gend Hepo"; Keep below deck until you reach Madeira,"
How painfully familiar <nch phrases sound. Often the prescription muss!- It is within the ed; more often it failed. knowledge of everybody that the late Cecil
But his -x- Rhodes came here to find health, not fortune, aid succeeded in gaining both.
018. The not the common periance was cometni s of South Africa are dotud with us as many graves of Englishman who came here in quest of health as of the who were slain in battle in warfare.
In laboratory experiments on the formation of mountain chains, pressues has been applied is one direction only, but in the new apparatus of Lord Avebury four beats of wood are drawn together by scrows so as to give compression iu two directions us right angles to each other. The space between the boumais two feet equate and nine inches deep. In this spacn aro ploved pieces of baize separated by Kaud, and the working of thoserews pushes the sand up qutil it is flattened against the plate glass covering the apparatus, when casts are made of the WO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-Nos. 95 different layers of balso. The results are found
and 96, PRAYA EAST
to imitate closely much of the folding and Apply to
other phenomena observed in Nature's mountain building. The ridges in the bottom layer. as in nature, are narrow, short, precipitous and greatly broken up, but become wider, longer had less, steep until the layer below the sand 【O. 1, BARROW TERRACE, Kowloon, on the top is plateau-liko. Many variations in Apply to
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natural conditions can be represented.
In spite of the efforts to trap the animals of the deep seu, muuy forma - perhaps some of great size--must still be unknown. The Princs of Monaco, one of the greatest of marios
NE DOOM, suitable for an Office, opposite naturalists, has shown that life of some kind
the Banks,
probably reaches the deepest ocean bottom, and Apply
in a very ingenious way he has proved the H. C.,
existence of an enormous octopus that appears Care of Uaily Press Offico. Hongkong, 28th July, 1903.
[2025 to frequent the middle depths of the Atlantic. Noticing that the dying sperm whale rejecte some of its best fool, he natened to secure some of this. It included fragments of such an octopus, ead one of the antennae, though in- complete, measured not less than 29 feet in length.
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NE GODOWN, No. 2 MATHESON No. 5. STEWART TERRACE, PRAR, Furnished, from 5th Juns to 31st August, 1903
For terms and particulars, apply to
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The curious habit of carrying a live sea- anemano in each of its two claws is uscribed to the Melia, a genus of small crats of the Maldive Archipelago, M. Borraduile states (bat the crab's claws are too frail for use in d. fonce, and it is not clear whether the anemones are told as a means of protection or as a trap for food,
A painstaking survey of the fieles of the Nile, extended for op both Blue and Whito!
IN Kowloon. An Airy, FOUR-ROOMED Nilos, hna just been cumplated. It adde 14 new
died of diseases incident
It is a fact, established beyond presibility of disputo, that no elimate the world can offer is sufficient in itself to arrest the progress of consumption, though unquestionably it is a very important aid to other treatment.
But what should that over treatment bo? No questing was aver more debated, or is still furth- fru a sttisment. We will not attempt to an out allow Me Charles Rodgers, of East London, to give a brief aant of twe illos from which he is a rod, which throws considerable light upon tus in stiline,
Writing on February 9, 1933, Mr. Rödgërs observes:-"I fua: it my duty to bring to public notios the benefit. I have received by using Fira yasre Mother Soigel's Carative Syrup. ago I was stricken down with rheumatie feror, sud was attemled by bees different doctors; Int their waited efforts did me little or no good, and my condition was for a long time very prucucions. It was then that a friend advised mu to try sigel's Syrup, and I resolved to accept his advice. I was delighted to find myself very soon able to walk about as usual, and after taking only three bottles of the medicine I was capable of resuming wy business.
"In July, 1900. I exprinced another and a more serious trouble. It was found that I was sathering from a very weak chest A doctor whom I censuited told me plaiuly that he feared I was consumptive, and ordered me to come to South Africa. I entertained no doubt that I was for gene in consumption, having all the signs of that disease, but especially an extremely weak chest and an over-presset feeling of wauk. news and languor.
"Without being advised to do so, but with the recolleion of the good that it had done me two years tutore in caring meof acother complaint. I had the happy inspiration to try Mother Beigel's Carative up. The result exceeded my mest Bangnine expectations, and it was not long before I was as strong and healthy se muy man could wish to be. I strogly recommend the use of that medicins to all who suffer as I did, and for the sake of humanity would likes my case to ba known far and wife,"
Prouise and performance are not quite the sa thing, as many have discovered to their cost; but the people who have built high hopes upon that from which Mr. Rodgers received so much benefit were never yet known to be 158 dissppointed.
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The X-ray stereoscope of M. T. Guilloz uses
· [2197] a single tuka so mounted that it can be rapidly iscillated between two positions The oscilla- tions are given by a cam making 300 revolutions THE GROUND FLOOR, No. 54, CAINE | per minute, and so arcanged that only a tenth
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THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
DURING my Temporary Absouca, or nutil
notic, Mc. A. B. LOVE will
act an SECRETARY to the above Ci mpany.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. KERFOCT HUGHES, Secre ury. Hourkons, 1st August, 1903.
TO THOSE CONCERNED,
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PLEA
GRANT.
of the NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of the Hougkong Office, is no longer in the employ of the New York Life Insurance
and that bis Connection Company, ther with Ceased as of June 30th, 1902,
Any Paymen's duo the New York Lis Insurance Company shall be paid at the Office of the Company in Hongkong, to the Agency Director in Charge, Mn, C. H. COULSON.
G. E. TUCKER,
Kesident secretary Shanghai, China, 27th July, 1903.
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