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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1904.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. often run two or three months with an average
THE EARTH'S EMANATION-NEBULA STAR COLLECTORS-NEARING THE SUNSPOT MAXI- MUM-A PANTING LAKE STERILIZATION
daily deviation of only fifteen one-thousandthis THE
of a second. To improve even this marvellous performance, the astronomers in charge are
AND DIGESTION EVAPORATION OF EGGS arranging to place the air-tight glass case in an underground vault, seouring freedom from chaugos of temperature and air pressure.
NOT A BEASTLY PRACTICE-A FREAK-AN ACCURATE CLOCK-A BISING SEA.
In a now apparatne for measuring the radio. MERCHANTS, activity of soils and mud. Elster und Geitel note the increase in the conductivity of a constant volume of air exposed in a metal cylinder to the HONGKONG.
action of the radio-activo inaterial. The indica tions are given by a modified form of Exner's electroscopo, in which the leaves are insulated WILL OPEN TILSIR OFFICE ON THE ler OF by amber and a dry atmosphere is produced by metallic godium, Measurements of the effect and deery of mud from the hot springs of Bat- taglia tend to show that its activity is due solely to radium. The same investigators offer the theory that the conductivity of the atmosphere is largely or entirely due to a radio-active emais- tion from the earth's crust, and mention that the conductivity of the air of closed collars and deep holes is often fifty times us great as that of normal air.
DECEMBER, AT
34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
FIRST FLOOR
(W. POWELL & Co.'s OLD PREMISES).
JO. 1, HOLLY WOOD ROAD S Roouts) (with Kitchens, Bathrooms, and Servants' aarters)
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H. M. 3. H. ESMAIL, 4, Hollywood Rond.
Bengkong, 16th August, 19014.
A
HONGKONG CLUB.
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T199
SUITE of TWO ROOMS, on the Ground Floor of the Annex, suitablo for Offices. For particulars apply to the undersigned,
C, H. GRACE, Secretary, Hongkong, 4th June, 1904,
(1417
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THE whole of the SECOND FLOOR of No. 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (opposite the General Post Ofoe). Rooms are light, spacious and well ventilated, 13 in umber, beside Kitchen, Pantry, Bathrooms, and Servants Quarters, &c., at a very moderate real. Immediate Possession.
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WONG CHU BANG,
Care of Yee Sang Fat & Co., 34, Queen's Road Coutral. [2700 Hongkong, 17th November, 1904.
TO LET.
RD FLOOR, suitable for Office.
3RD
Apply to
WING CHEONG, 35, Queen's Road Central
(74
Hongkong, 3rd June, 1904.
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NO. 1, RIPON TERRACE (in FLATS).
WONG-NEI-CHONG
A HOUSE in ROAD, facing Race-courro.
FLATS in MoRETON TERRACE, facing the Polo Ground.
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French engineers have convinced themselves that the Mediterranean has risen at least mino feet in about 2,00, years. The conclusion is based on the oridence of a submerged bridgo 3,000 feet long that formerly joined Lewende to the mainland, a submerged mole in the bay of Amphissa at Ites, and a abmerged dock at Risnes. These works all seem to date from the Roman period,
WESTERN RELATIONS TO THE FAR EAST.
The London Positivist Society hold an open confereneo on Sunday night at Essex-hall to consider the attitude of the West to the Far East.
Mr. S. H. SWINNY, president of the society, who occupied the chair, asid that his sympathion were with Japan, and to bolioved that the one great chance of saving Chins from the exploita Lion of Western natious lay in her succesE.
SIR HENRY Corros said that there were to Russias, European and Asiatic, united like Siamese twins, and for the Asiatic twin the Pacific ocean was a breathing lung. It was idle to describa Japon as fighting for existence
she was an island socure from attacks. She desired for har surplus population the annotation of Kores and the possession of Port Arthur and te peninule of which she considered hergoli defrauded by Russia
The study of great nobulas, like that of Orion, has been muile essier since the use of short-focus objectives for photographing the stars. M. Max Wolf shows that the photographs bring out in a remarkable way a fact that Herschel had pointed out-that the great pebulmare surround- ed by nearly empty spaces that form verit alle stellar deserts. M. Wolf finds that the empty space lies on only one side of the nella A few rare und brilliant stars are to be sem, TAK CHEONG,
but all smaller ones seen to have been grouped
Mr. PRELOOKEE (editor of Anglo Russian) No. 50 and 52, Queen's Road Central, round the nebula. The tobula of Andromeda declared that Russia as a nation was i no sonar
[2763 Hongkong, 26th November, 190MM.
and the spiral nebule do not follow the rule.responsible for the war; the guilt of it rested apparently forming another class.
upon the Government and the ruling class. Every patriotic Russian desired that the Tsar's troops in the Far East should be thoroughly defeited.
SPACIOUS COMPARTMENT' suitable A
for OFFICE on the 2nd Floor above the shop of Tak Cheong, Tailors.
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TO LET. TURNISHED ROOM, with Board, from Solar activity is rapidly increasing, 6 iu- date, Tennis Court attached, near Kow-dependent sunspota having been counted by Icon Forry, Kowloon.
Prof. Stentaul, of Berlin, in 1901, 7 in 1902, Apply
C. L.,
36 in 1903, and 72 in 1904 up to Aug. 28th.& Cars of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 5th October, 1904
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hud a total length of 69,489 miles.
NOS. 17, 19 & 21, SEYMOUR BOAD.
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"COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,
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Dr. BRIDGES said that he shared in the delight with which some 30 years ago it was found that new progressive nating bad arisen in the Far East in place of old Japan. What interested him most in this appearance of Japio in the community of civilized nations was the assistanos that Japan would give towards the solution of For two years an exhaustive monograph on a
the great problóm of how to deal directly with typical lake of Italy has been in course of pre-China. Sir H. Cotton was somewhat optimistic paration by the Italiam Geographical Society, in his view of the Chinens future; but when The picturesque Lake of Bolsena, within say they reusabored the events of 1900 and the outrages that followed the anppression of the reach from Rome, was selected for the purpose. Boxer insurrection, he could not be very san- and the studies include the geographical and gains as to the peaceful relations between China Because he thought Japan was geological features, the rainfall and temperature and the West. and seasonal variations, the changes of level, capable and likely to render graat aid in dealing with the question, he hoped that Japan would the seiches or rhythmical pu'sations of the
attriu suficient success to maintain her ju ODOWN No. 3, New Praya, Kennedy surface, and the life forms.. The seiches son-dependence against Russia. He would rejoice stitate one of the most interesting of the at a cessation of the war upon terms that would Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-phanowens. These have a regular period of not be humiliating to either nation. In dealing with China there were obvious difficulties, and MENT AND AGENCY, CO., LD.
12725 twelve ox fifteen minntas, the rise of the water the principal one was that claim of ex-territori Hongkong, 22nd November, 1904,
on occasions reaching a fout, and the oscillations slity insisted upon whausver we obtained a are often se marked that the antives speak of footing in Chinese town. In any dispate in which an Englishman was concerned the appli- the lake as panting. They are more conspication of English law was insisted upon, and cuous at Marta than on the opposite side of the this, of course, led to irritation in the coun- lake at Bolsena, a rise of seven inches at try whose independence wAI infringed. the former boing correlated with one of four Jupan, fearing this diffcalty, and reformed her oriminal code, bringing it into secord with inches at the latter.
Western ideas; but this ex-territoriality hat boen at the root of all our querela with China for the last 60 years, and he looked to the moral intiuence of Japan to convince China of the necessity for a similar chugs. Unfortunately in China commercial difficulties were made more intsuse by the religious difficulties; and in treaties forced upon China, especially bad been extended in favour of missionaries, and the claim had been made that French law should cover all quarrels in which Catholic converts were concerned. The jealousy of Western Powera hinderel reforing; int he attached great importance to the interven- tion of the United States. Our relations in the For Best had been hampered by a feeling that we had a prestige as an Asiatic Power to sustain; bat from this America was free and, standing midway between Europe and the Far East, rightly claimed her fair share in the trade.
T East Point, a NEW BRICK-BUILT AFRO STORIED GODOWN
Water Frontage,
with
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COLD STORAGE.
THE HONGKONG ICS COMPANY, LD, have now 40,000 Cubic feet of Co., Storage available at EAST POINT. Stores will be Open at 10 A.M. and 4 r.a. daily, Sanday,
WM. PARLAÑE, Manager. Hongbong, 18th November. 1901,
HIRANO WATER.
There are bacteria and bacteria. Dr. Char.
rin, a French physiologist, has been experiment ing upon rabbits with various vegetables sterilized by the most approved processes, and he has shown that it is erroneous to declare
OFFICES in course of erection, CONNAUGHT ( excepted to receivo and deliver perishable goods that the less bacteria there are in our daily by France, this principfa of ex-territoriality
·ROAD (near BLAKE PIER).
GO DOWNS, PRAYA EAST,
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175
EUROPEAN HOUSE, No. 158, Praya Fast, Four Rooms and Kitchen, Ser- vants Quarters, Bathrooms, Hot and Cold Water. Goud Sea View.
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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., Hongkong, 3th August, 1904.
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1177
THREE FIRST-CLASS, - SHOPS,
THR
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75 foad the better. What is required is to weed out the harmful organisms from the beneficent kinds. The rabbits fed on sterilized food soon. died from maladies set up by non-assimilation of the vegetables, but other rabbits flourished on similar storilized vegetables that had been afterward treated with suitable bacteria.
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ONE HOUSE on the LOWER TERRACE of BELILIOS TERRACE,
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BUNGALOW (Furnished), at New Torri- tory, Kowlood, 4 Rooms. low rental,
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12363
[O. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the Peak.
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NE LARGE GODOWN, No. 112A, Praya:'
ON East.
Possession from 1st January, 1905.
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That eggs decrease in weight during incuba. tion has been proven by careful weighings by Mr. H. S. Gladstone. The average loss of Timea pleasant's egg from the first to the twenty-first day was found to be 2 drams 12 grains, and one egg which weighed 17 drams 19 grains when laid had become reduced to 13 drams 10 grains. on the twenty-third day.
The average arouel rainfall of the British Isles is 39,5 inches, but 53 inches fall in 1872, 51 in 1877, and 52 in 1993.
Cannibalism appears to be unknown among the lower animals in a state of nature; In India some instances of snakes devouring one another have been collected, but it has been pointed out. that in every caso cited the snakes were of lifer ent species. This, it is declared, is no more un act of cannibaliem than the devouring of a feld mouse by & rat. Unquestionablennibalism was noted some years ago in a London men- agorie, when a python ats another of its own kind, but this was under the unnatural condi. tious imposed by life in captivity."
The black leopard has been regarded by many as a distinct species. A naturalist in India, however, reports having recently found a pair of leopard cubs, one of which was black while the other was of the ordinary colour, thus proving that the black colour is simply an instance of melaniam. This tendency to black. ness, it is stated, is most marked in hot, moist climates.
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Coal sold in 1908 by the Company amounted to 1,210,000 tons.
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