ROBINSON
INSURANCES
THE BOMBAY FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
PIANO COLD. T Company, sare
$100
REDUCTION
ON 11 UPRIGHT GRANDS
OUR
OF
HE undersigned, having been appointed
prepared to accept RISKS at Current Rates,
`HOLLAND-CHINA TRADING CO. Hongkong, 26th November, 1903,
12160 L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
•THE
RE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to necept. Risks against Fira at current
Jutes.
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 1st January, 190
1904.
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AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.
HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS the where Company, art prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897
199
DHONIX FIRE OFFICE.
PH
The Undersigned are now prepared t GRANT POLICIES. of INSURANCE against. FIRE at Current Rates..
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
Agents for the Phoenix Fire Oden Honakong, 17th August, 1887.
129 THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM. PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA.
· INCORPORATED 1851.
Caal Security Total Louses Paid
+
...4625,719 ....£6,783,240
THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE ût Current Rates.
WM. MEYERINK & CO Hongkong, 18th May, 1903,
419
OWN MAKE NORTHERN ASSURANCE 00
$350 AND $395.
TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE
OUTPUT FROM OUR
NEW
PIANO FACTORY
Credit.
• Cash
OR
Hongkong, 6th April, 1904.
THE
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FIRE and LIFE.
ESTABLISHED 1836.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 29th, 1904.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
WEATHER CYCLES-HARDENED ALUMINIUM— TRACING. A BHIN'S PATH-A FURNACE NICROSCOPE-AN INTON MYSTERY AN ALLEGED NEW RADIO-ACTIVE, BUBSTANCE -TKE PULSE REGISTER-COUNTING BY ANIMALS
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A CHAMPION OF WESTERN
CIVILISATION!
Russia's writability to pose as a champion of Western civilisation and its pioneer in the Far East has with the greatest reason beon ques- tioned of late. As a matter of fact, if there is amore generally ignorant and grossly supersti. tions country in the world, apart from merely
Savage races, it would be hard to find. Supersti. tion of the most childish and ridiculous kind is now rife, in connection with the war against Japan. We read that an enormous trude is
charms und annulots for the protection
The most obvions changes on the sum are those market by spots, and it has been long understand that the cycle of eleven years in which these spots eeeur corresponds to a similar cycle in rainfall on the earth. More recent study of solar influenén, says Lockyer, slow that it is the prominences instead of the sports done in Moscow in the sale of religious that are chiefly associated with atmospheric and of soldiers at the front. At the fair
'Tho magnetic disturbances on the warth.
at Sukhariff Tower, held on Sundays. prominence oyele of 37 years is especially
of the perllars dealing in those conspicuons in the meteorology of Iulis, while somA a third cyols-35 years in lungth-bax heon
are, curiously enough, Mohammedan trapud recently in the climates of the whole Tartars, who londly puff charms against fourth, each 11 year cycle being different from the unbelieving Japanese." Soldiers buy lusther | that immediately preceding and that following. chains which "protect the wearer as long as they remain unbroken." Most of the purchasers - Meteorit" is the name given to the nerare relatives or friends of mes at the front, modai of W. Rubel, a German chemist, which
is said to be aluminium hardoned by a chemical
process. The specific gravity is practically the saine as that of aluminium, the metal is not affected by weak acids, the atmosphere or sen | water, it can ho enst like iron, and has 8 per cent greater tensile strength than cast iron; and it can be recast indefinitely. It can be rolled cold. is nearly as conductive as copper, retains a high polish, and can be plated.
Oyalers are examined by X-mys for pearls by Baphael Dubois, a French investigater. The oysters are not injured, and those containing pearls too small to be of value are returned alive for further growth.
The ostrich is being acclimatized in Southern Europe by M. Octavo Justice, whose eighty specimens from South Africa are thriving on a farm near Nice.
wares
Breslockets with saints forumelled on the Ineke,
and a cavity for hair or photographs, declared
by the vendors to hate-ben specially blessed; find roudly sale. Wooden crosses are in demand as, according to the popular superstition. overy dead soklier found with a emilix on his body must be given Christian burial, Bottles of
water from the Jordan" are being sold in enormous numbers at 25 kopeeks each; and persons who cannot afford this are allowed to dip gifts of their own into a bowl of the water for live kopecks. A church near the Monastery of the Passion, which has a largo fout of this water has been invaded by a mask, who carried the water away in herr-bottles. The weekly mob at the Sakharelf Tower apparently hold that everything Japanose is impians. for they attacked and tore down the stali of n. vendo r who was selling Japanese fatis. The deder protested in vain that they were made in Eagland.
INDIGESTION
POISONS THE BLOOD.
The vigour of health depends on good digestion. Undi- gested food poisons the blood, which clogs up the skin, the liver and the kidneys. Food properly digested makes new strength, new blood, new flesh, new life. Relish for food and power to digest it comes with Mother Scigel's Syrup. Com- pounded of fruits, roots and herbs, it tones and chances the liver and kidneys, and clears the stomach of the decayed prohters of indigestion the fruitial cause of headaches, languor, brain fag, co- stipation and ancemia.
MOTHER
SCIREL'S STAND
Mr. Charles Zoti, writing from Buffalo Café, Oxford Street, Fast London, Cape Colong, Dec. 4th, ign, says: "Two years ago, whilst in England, Isidered agonies from indigestion. After other medicines had failed, I was persutiles to try Mother Seigel's Syrap One battle effected a decided improvement, and to-
day iny digestion is all I could wish."
BUILDS HEALTH ON
Good Digestion.
SECOND
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HANSA" ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
will be given in Theatre, ou TUESDAY, 3RD MAY
Dy Permission of Rear-Admiral von HOLTZENDORFF).
$2.00 Dress Circle and Stalls $1.00 Pit.
PLAN AT ROBINSON PIANO CO., LD.
LANE,
CRAWFORD & CO.
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The automatic compass of M. Heit, which has been brought to notien in Marseilles after But what can be expected of the mob and the i test of several months, is claimed to offer an igacrant Hollier when we hear of General important new aid to navigation. The basin is Kuropatkia starting for the scone of war with HE Undersigned are prepared to accept divided into isolated sections, and an electric 70 sikons (or images of saints) among his lug- First Class Foreign and Chinese RISKS circuit is so arranged that a flexible wire mov. gugs? And then thereis the Tsar himself. For against FIRE at Current Rates.
Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR-ing over a small silver index attached to the should he go to the front, es it is said he will, it ANCE. Prospectuses on application.
card gives a record minute by minute of the may be assumed that whatever else he may take --- TURNER & CO.,
angle of the noodle with the meridian, thus or leave, one item, will not he crmitted--the cur FOLDING CANVAS CAMP BEDSTEADS Agents. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1903. [267 supplying a complete register of the ship's at 8. Seraphim. The latter is a new saint, ot. course and of the time of the helmeman's rather, his canonisation is new, dading only from ORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN changes. Cortain sections are connected to call-last year. From a quarter to half a million of
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY,
bells, which signal to the commander any people went last summer to the oxhumation of PORTABLE unenal deviations. The apparatus shows the Seraphim's boues from their resting place in a
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECENDER, 1902,
**£16,978,771.
speed of the vessel by registering the revolu-
I. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0otions of the screw, and it also indicates the
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 00 time of departure und of every stop and start. PAID-UP CAPITAL
687,500 0 0 II. FIRE FUNDS
2,867,215 11 10
A novel microscope for viewing melted or intensely het substances has been described to the Vienna Academy of Scienoss by Prof. C. Doelter. An electric oven two inches high is mounted on the object stand, and yields temperatures up to 1,200 degrees C. In uss the land is separated from the headed object by about one inch. Even at the highest tempera-
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE af Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 19th June, 1903.
188
THE
humble church in Saroff and re-interment in
THE
MOST
CAMF BED.
STEAD EVER
the Uspensky Cathedral at Saroff. It is char- acteristic of the Tear that be should possess the cap of this good gentleman, and that his subjects MADE. should attribute to it His Majesty's escape from the would-be assassin who assailed bám în Japan.
HIRANO WATER, THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.
PUBE, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING
JOB PRINTING WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY OF tares of the substance under examination, how- THE LEADING MINERAL WATHE OF THE HAST
DEPARTMENT
OF THE
TORONTO AND LONDON. INCORFORATED A.D. 1851.
MARINE BRANCH.
“HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THE undersigned having been appointed
לי
IS EXPLETE WITH ALL THE LATEST
AND MOST UP-TO-DATE APPLI
ANCES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF
FIRST-CLASS WORK.
ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF
ILLUSTRATED
CATALOGUES,
CIRCULARS,
VISITING CARDS,
AND
COMMERCIAL
PRINTING
AGENTS for the above are propured to accept risks at current rates.
ALEX ROSS & CO. Hongkong, 28th April, 1004.
11121
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HE-fees for the "UP-TO-DATE
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TH
As the boat day of April is on an early closing day, and Sunday is the 1st of May, the payment of $50 to completion for the full course of 21 leasons may be made not later than Mon- day next. If you enrol before that date you may take your lessons at your leisure-in a month, or 6 months.
The dull pupil pays no more than the bright one. Pupils must be perfect in the 1st lesson before we supply a second.
It may be learned quite as well by post us TURNED OUT ACCURATELY, AND attending the Studies at Hongkong or Cauton. ITH THE GREATEST DESPATCH, It is not a school or a class; you come for ten UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION minutes, take your lesson, and return smiling OF EXPERIENCED EUROPEANS.
for the next. It is so easy you laugh at its simplicity. Those who say "It's no good,” usk them their authority. Those who say "It's a fraud," nak for proof. Bring such sceptica to me, please,
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AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
LAW WORK,
LEDGERS AND
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ACCOUNT
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Business Training Studios, Hongkong
(near G.P.0.)
Canton-144, Shameen.
WARWICK PEELE, Principal. Hongkong, 25th April, 1904. (590-661
IEN TING.
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TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation Free. Hongkong, 21st March, 1903.
25
QUAN WAH & 60* GRANITE MERCHANT CONTRACTORS. Dealers in
and GRANITE
WITH ANY OTHER PRINTING ESTA MARBLE
MONUMENTS
BLISHMENT IN THE FAR EAST. ESTIMATES FURNISHED. Hongkong, 15th April, 1904,
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ever, both microscope and objective ace kept quite cool by a special tube carrying: iw-cold water.
Lough Neagh, covering 150 square miles in northern Ireland, has twice shown a remarkably phenomenon, as reported by Mr. W. S. Smith of Antrim. On February 22nd, 1895, most of the ice in the lake broke up, having intact a strip a third of a mile wide along the southern shore, and a mile of this strip was raised at in- tervals of a few yards into bridges or tunnels, from which large and small masses of ice were projected upon shore, forming a ridge 2 to 14
feet high. An aged woman recalled a similar
occirrence of the coll winter of 1814-35. Where the ico-mixed with bouldersame from, and what shot the blocks upon shore, are problemas awaiting solution.
Hottled in Jain by H. E. REYNELL & Co.
BEWARE OF JAPANESE IMITATIONS.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO., AGENTI. Hongkong, 31st July, 1903,
MITSU
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BISHI GOSHI-KWAISHA.
(MITSU BISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT,
MARUNG-UCHI, TOKIO, Cable Address, “*IWABAKI,' which applies to all Branch Offices and Hong- kong and Shaogiai Agoncios. hardly penetrating solids at all; Beta rays
Radiom's rays are of thres kinds-Delta rays, | AL, ABC 5th Edition, Western Union Codes
moderately absorbed by solide and powerfully MANAGER, MITSUBISHI Co., with name of
All Letters Aditreased :——
deflected by the magust; and Gammas rays,
difficult of absorption and not to be defected. Radio-tellurium, the very active now substance that Prof. Markwald of Berlin has found in exceedingly minute quantity in pitch-blende, gives of only Alpha rays. These were stopped
by a sheet of paper, but they passed through & very thin sheat of aluminium, and they showed in high degree the power of making sir a good conductor of electricity. An electrolytic pre: cipitation of some hundred-thousandths of a gramme of the new substance was placed on a copper-plate stopped a set of electric chimes, caused a Leyden jar to discharge through the air without sparks, and ring an electric holl by a current passed through the air from a condensing machine to the copper-plate. A sheet of paper between the plate and the machine interrupted the current and stopped the bell.
With this Prof. Markwald
—used,
place under BRANCH OFFICES:- NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU AND HANKOW. AGENCIES SHANGHAI: H. J. U. Txire,
HONGKONG H. U. JEFFRIES.
MANILA: Compania MARITIMÁ,
YOKOHAMA: M. ASADA. CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Im-
perial Japanese Navy and Foreign Naries; the Imperial Arsenals the Imperial Railway; Sango, Kinshu and the other Principal Rail. ways; Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers.
BFT BIN LONG
GUARANTEED
$9 each.
HALFATON
CLOSED.
THIN TROPICAL BLANKETS, $3.50 EACH,
A NECESSITY AND A LUXURY FOR THE SUMMER,
NEW ORIENTE HOTEL
45
CORNER READ AND MAGALLANES, WALLED Crex. MOST MODERNLY EQUIPPED HOSTELRY IN MANILA, FI. HOTEL
Intest and most Sanitary equipment. Electric Lights and Call Bells. Elegantly' Furnished Rooms. Coolest Dining Room In Manila.
RESTAURANT
Headsomely decorated. Cool and pleasant. Best of attendance. Private dining rooms for parties. Only the best of wines and liquors. Under the direction of Mr. and Mia, Newirth.
BAR
Under the direction of American mixologist. Anything you want served promptly and pleasantly,
BILLIARD ROOM
Thoroughly modern, and vato-dato. Brunswick-Balke tables. Expert Markers i attendance.
STABLES.
EXPORTERS OF COAL to Hongkong, China, Korean porta and Amories. Shanghai, Hankow, Singapore, Manila, North New
SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima. Ochi, Shinner, Naxanta and Karai-Yamada Collieries and also Hejo Colliery, which will be ready to produce on a large scale the best Buzen Coal from 1905.
Solo Agents for Kigio, Komatsu (Tagawo) | and Mateusbima Coals.
TAKASHIMA COAL.
Tho Head and Branch Offices and the Agen- Watching the pulse adds seriously to thecies of the Company will receive any order for strain upon the sargeon during an opera.
Costs produced from the above Collieries. tion nader chloroform, cocaine or ether. This to 1,210,000 tons.
Coal sold in 1903 by the Company amounted is done automatically by tho new "pulso register" of Dr. Gartner, of Vienna, which consists of a watch-like box to be attached to the patient's forearm, the hands upon a preudunted dial being made by an elastic spring to register vey precisely the pulse and blood pressure viations. The indications are much more sonsitive thas the physician's finger.
Evidence that animals can count has been collected by Bignor Mancini. Horses in the collieries at Huinault have a regular number of daily trips, and invariably seek their stables after the lurtisth. A dog remembered the twenty-sixth buried hono a short time after digging up twenty-five, Birds count their. eggs, magpies count only to four. The latter is [10] trae ulso of monkeys.
No. 1, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST. Estimates, Designs & Prices on Application. All descriptious of Granite for Export. Hongkong, 17th October, 1999,"
Now and additional abafta at the Takashima Colliery have been completed and this well- known best and most economical steam Qual in the EAST is now produced in abundance and can be supplied in any quantity. Hongkong, 20th April, 1904.
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INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &C.,
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and for PRIVATE RESIDENTS AT THE ÖRTPOETS, COMPERMENSIVE AND COMPLETE RECORD
OF THE
NEWS OF THE FAR EAST is given in the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, with which is incorporated "THE CHINA ÖVERLAND TRADE REPORT." Subscription, if paid in advance, $12 per annum Postage to any part of the World $2:
Fino turnouts for the guests of the hotel. Elegant rubber-tired carriage, fast horses, good coachmen. The New Oriente Hotel is now open for inspection.
SIMON SCHNEER & CO.,
JAPAN
PROPRIETORS.
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COALS.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA (MITSUI & CO)
HEAD OFFICE-1, SCROGA-CHO, TOKYO. LONDON BRANCH-34, LIME STREET, E.C.
HONGKONG BRANCH:--PRICE'S BUILDINGS, ICH House STEERT
OTHER BRANCHES:
York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Chefoo, Tientsin, Newchwang, Port Arthur, Soul, Chamalpa, Yokohama, Yckcosuks, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kuro, Shimonoseki, Moji. Wakamatsu Karaten, Nugaald, Kachinoti, Sasebo, Maidzuru Miike, Hakodate, Taipeh, &o.
Telographic Address: "MITSUI
(AB.C. and A 1 Codes)
CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Nary and Arsenals and the Stats Railways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers.
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SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Miike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines, and SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Hondo, Kanada, Fajinotaan, Mameda, Mannoura, Onoura Otsuji,
Sasaharu Tsubakuro, Yoshintani, Yoshio. Yunokibara, and other Coala.
N. INUZUKA, Managor. Honkong
HIM WO,
CONTRACTOR, HOUSE BUILDER, CARPENTER, MASON AND PAINTER. No. 30, Cochrane Street, Hongkong. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1904,
"THE EAST OF ASIA." (Published Quarterly.)
YONTAINING Articles of Special Interest, Profusely Illustrated, descriptive of the people, Customs, &c., of the 'ar East.
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Price 2 Cents, Cash, Hongkong, 1st april, 1897.