SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
thick set body, (5) the Atlauto-Mediterranean | In the now wireless system of English makere
▲ MISTERY STILL-T13 « OCEAN'S VOLGA NORS~~ | (6) tho Adriatie Bace, on the Gulf of Venice, transmitter, which emits Hortsian waves aqm' chester, and the admiral salacted me to write) Cost Base, very dark, long-headed, fairly tall; any tampering with a safe puta in cotton a smil
A NEW FIREPROOFING-ANIMAL SP EDS
A BIGHT-ACTING FIRES ALARM—AFTAN OF ROSES-THE BACKS OF XFROTE-BAPID PHOTOGRAPHIC LENSES ---ELECTRIJ COPPER-
SMELTING POSSIBLE ROCK-FLOW IN MIN- ING-NEW LIGHT ON THE HOON-WEATHER
TEOBLEM CURIOUS HOME-SHARING-KONA ON TREES --ILECTRIO FIGH-HUNTING — MOTOB AMPHIDIAN-TKE NEW INSULATOR.
Renowed speculation as to the cause of the mysterious force known as magnetism has terally followed Dr. Hensler's production of magnetic alloy from non-maguolis materiais
Ons of his alloys-containing 60 per cont of copper, 26 of manganese, and 14 of aluminium -praved pristically as magnetic as iron, but
dark, short-hoaded, with sloader or arched noso.cient to operate coherer-controlled alarms'in
any part of the building. A now glass described by Emila Touchst is vary transparent to invisible chemical rays In simultanocas petographs of part of the Constallation Lyca, & lons of this ginss showed 619 stars while one ordinary Jenn glass showed but 351.
The rich copper mines of Chile bovo born little worked on acçinut of the scarcity of fael and the cost of transporting the ore. Wator power is abundant, and for several years an electrician has been employed in Paris to devise an electrio, fainave for smelting the ore at the mines, thus reducing the quantity of material: to be carried. After making and demolishing
In tents of the durability of woods, beach and napen have decayed in three yorrs, willow and chestant in four years, maple and birch is five years, elan and ash in sorun years,
GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN IN 1854.
An anonymous correspondent azote to Pines as followв |--
HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS;
IN THE CHINA SQUADRON
Alacrity, deepish-boat, 1,700 ton«, lü guar, 3,400h.p., Com:RM: Harbord, Hongkong bios, battleship, 12,033 tous, in guen, Capt.
Fremantle, Hongk ng. Agurine, sloop, ia reservo, Hon, kong amphitrito, lat class oruiser, 11,000 tons, 18,000 p., Capt. Charks Windham, 0.7.0., Andromeda, Bruiser, 12,5 tons, Capt. Nelzon
Weikatwoi. regularly
Omanney, Mirs Boy
H
Astraca, 2nd class craiser, 4.3 tous, 10 gaas, 7,000 i.h.p. Captain Lionel . Tutaoli Miss Bay
Mirs Bay
it is very brittle, and cannot be drawn or forged, 98 furnaces, Imbert de Vanoy, who has had write it), a fow deals may be of interest to to the Governor, signed Ted you, and you are poor comguy for them-yon Centurion, battleship, 10;500 tons, Capt. Fogen
Navy
fire) werd
A very
officers, but those
young.
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Fame, torpedo boat destroyer, 360 tons, 6 guns, 3,700 hp, Lieut.-Comdr. U. Asser, Hong. koog
b.p., Capt Hon. W. G. Stopford, Hongkong Haudy, torpedo-boat destroyer, 260 toni, 6 gun, Hart, torpedo-boat destroyer, 260 tone, & guns,
4000 b.p., Hongkong
4000 h.p., in reservo
Hogue, oruiser, 12,000 tone, Captain Shortland,
Mira Bay
Biador, 1.640 tonn, Comdr. P. Mi
en route Weibniwol Iphigenin, 2d ela craiser, 3,60) tous Capl
Fawekuer, Mira Bay
Janus, torpedo-boat destroyer, 23 tons, gas,
3,909 b.p., Lieut. Laude. J. A. Gregory, Hongkong
Kimha, zivor ganhost, 3 tons, Lient-Comdr.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRU¿RY 4îx, 1905.
"I was at this time rring as worntury's j CONSTIPATION, AND DOAN'S olerk in the admiral's office ou board the Win.
DINNER PILLS. the convention from his rough draft, desiring Bowels) is one of the most serious forms of Constipatioir (slowness of Pasage from the me to use my best style of caligraphy. Four howel trouble, being the cause of such fatal dis- or five dare were spent in draxing up the treaty, cases as appendicitis, Anm and the Japanes offers frequently came on away.
Anemia, and whaling board, several times each
Men and women of sedentary occupa- day, to adjust certain tione, not points, often remaining till 9 o'cl ok at and those who do not get enough exercise, are generally more re-constipated. This sit engaged in conference. All being ready samplaint is so daugogous that it should always on October 14, 1854, the admiral, attended by be met with prompt treatment. If there is not several officers as escort, of which I formed ore, passage from the bowels once or twice a day, proceeded to Nagasak. The line of jeaks Doan's Dinner Pills should be used gaarding the entrance receded, eight on each until a natural action is restored. When the side, lessing open the centre of the passage, and bowels are constipated poisonous waste that is our procession of lente passed through and on kept back in the body poisons the blood, hinders the at Dashims on the right; the admiral, beier food
to the landing place, leaving the Dutch faeory the process of digestion, al contaminates the
food you eat, by these meus causing oramp passed a strost jealously draped Bramble, ganboat, in rastreo, Hongkong It may not be uninteresting to notice routed by a guard of our own marines, then of the stomach, sluggish liver, biliousness, tronty between Great Britain and Japan Der either side with the tiresom hangings, nes nad faluess after meals, you grow listles Britomart, gunboat, in resurre, Hongkong
Having had a stall share in the draw whore he was
hero 20ft. high, to the Governor's palace, and indifferent, your friends don't interest ing up o of this treaty having been privileged to his Excellonoy.
vory graciously recoired by
The treaty
get chilly sensations and flushes of heat: thero your readers, Negotiations began at Nagasaki admiral, and was then sent ont somewhere, it blood.
by the is heart weakness, and feeble circulation of the On attempting to inervaso tõe malkability by
charge of the work, boljoves lo has produced a in September aul Dntion that at that with the view of ascertaining that all was quitsner Pills assure the thorough aleansing of the Glory, battleship, 12,950 tons, 16 gans, 19,500*
1864. By way of sdding froù, all magnolic properties astonish practical type. He has two area between two preamblo I should
af was supposed to the Dutch factors..
probably By stimulating the flow of bila, Doan's Din. ingly disappeared. An ekl idea was that pairs of four-inch carbons, obtaining an easily rely visited by the ships of the British missione
period Japan waLS ryttle known and
The Governor and his brother cou-system from the poisonous waste matter, and magneti-m is due to some peculiarity of the regolated head up to 3,000dog. C., and the rely visited by the ships of the latis missioners then signed both arts, and the thus give Freedom of action to the digestive fron stom, although this metal is not magnetic mixture of ore and fax in brought uwier the States de-ing the previous year lind made a ratification was to take place within the year system. Doan's Dinner Fills do not gripe, and whon heated, but it now appears that magnetic action of this boat without direct contact with treaty by Hored to be visited by ther versin, time came for return' to the boats it was quite i
which certain ports in Jagon (about somewhat after European fashion. When the fidence
was sorred on fable hoing purol rogetable, way be used with con the electrodos. Two feeders empty backets of properties now depend upon some special group,
either saz, the mixtars into hoppers at the ends of the for purposes of repler 'shuent fu caso they were dark, but the street was ked with men holding soll Denn's Dinner Fills price 1/11 for 1 box, or All the chiol chetists sad medicine-dealers ing of the stems within the molecule.
furuago, while the fused copper matter is drawn in zeed, but there was to be no lauding orlauterns beautifrly painteil, all bearing the 6) for 6 boxes; or the medicine way he bad, Humber
atorcourse, and only sach supplies were to be Government device. The day after the last rosorded submarine earthquakes have off into ingote about once an hear, Fer a fon made which it would be inhumau to refuse to interview presents were sent on board for all proprietore the Foster-Maciela (rom the beva plotted on a map of the world by Wilhelm of mixed ore and flux, a ourront of 110 volts ships in distress. Having been succeed, the the officers of the squadron; these wore stated Wolls-street, Oxford-stroot, London, England.
propriators-tha Co., 8, Kesha. Many of them ropressnt submarine and 20.0 amperas is neded, and the cost of thip was to depart and leave the Japanese to te bo a general present from the Shogun to the
the isolation they desired. Our admiral ( volcanic eruptions and a very striking fact is treating this amount per hour is less than mes stirling) was dir.cted to follow suit proñoanced to Bont to the admiral were |
73-15 their great concentration in the narrowest part 82.00. The furance is expected to work inome- on the part of England, Russia haring just
surpassing taunty, of the Atlantic Ocean, hatweon Alrios endently for a year before wearing out.
"A few more points are interesting, but I previously obtained the same privileges as the
fear Ti South Amarica. It is suggested that this
ave already exceeded the limits of space. United States. The admiral, in his flagship Winchester,
The The proposed bore-bolo twelve miles deep has t
Bailed greater apparent activity may be due largely to
treaty then made has now become decadout across from Shanghai,
it was affected without violonce lack of obversatings in the much less travelled brought out the objection that the great pres-squadron, and on September 7, 185, andefuronce paid to their laws. It had for me a
accompanied by three
or menace and other ships of his
the Japanoso oftvera were pleased with the Facillo. Other coutras are the West Indies are of toas per square itch would cause chored in the outer harbour of Nagasaki, rather wearisome interest, however, fowards the the west coast of South America, the south of viscera flow of rock materia?, making the feat Japan, Tho admiral Ind brought with Lis
from Shanghai as interpreter a Japanese named bit tired of repeating in writing Sir James
close of the negotiations, and I -ible. The Hon C. A. Para reps Ota. This man had boou wrecked in s trading Stirling on the one part and Medzi-no-Chok- confess I got a that this idea can be tested by subjecting a junk 20 years proviously. After many vicissi fu-no-kami on the other. I think I had piece of quartz cook to a pressure of 10 tons tudes in life, izlug & visit to England, and write no less than six copies of the doonmout per equato inch in a close-fitting cylinder. temporary canployment with the late Dr. Gutz as a simple word had to be omitted here.' or having a small hole through its contro. This laff and other assinaries, ku was storekeeper inserted thore before it was completed. It to Mr. Beal, of Dont's house at Shanghai, and contained nothing about commerce, yet it opened
money, and it was through the
way and prepared for falare negotiations officials whe boarded us--siz., the captain of th with the grit pen of the 1stied, contrasting part, Governor's aide-de-camp, and inspector of Customs-ware made known. Each of thosedly enough with the stool pou of to-day officials carried two swords, bright and sharp as a most interesting one to all in the squadron, emphasizing the then and now. The visit wa rator. They inquired about the exact rank and en October 20, 1864, six weeks after our of the admiral, and said it was well the ships first arrival, the ships loft Nagasaki for Hong M. had anchored socording to the port regulations. kong, cscorted out to sen by a guard of honor good pedestrian's rate being a sixteenth of a weather is easily shown, in the opinion of G. They took a letter from the admiral to the beating tom-toms and showing demonstrations į
Shogon, offering compliments mile in 12 sewende, while a German soldier Lamprecht, a German astronomer, when i in-place by and his toninots and asking for of good will and respect."
they marches three miles an hour, and five miles in fall is considered in relation to the moon's said they would forward to the Shogen at Yaddo. The Governor coulil unt receive the quickstep. The greatest speed of an athlete phase at periges In His investigation he has
admiral nor visit him. We were not to be thus far noted is the initial velocity of 393ed the monthly data of rainfall at forty suffered to land unywhere, wore surrounded by Not in German stations for the years 1857 to ten guardboats, and not purritted to pass a line incuesa scend of a broad jumper. The averago 1894, and of about ninety-eight stations in Java of junks moored across the month of the long narrow creek leading up to the town. The carsmen's in an eight-oured barge is 197 inches, Madeire for 1870 to 1903, and it appears admital and the skater's is nine to ton yards, who the that a dry 1riod is likely to remalt when both as expressed a wish to buy provisions for squadros, but the Japanese said their lawre moon and sun are upon the same side of the earth absolutely forbade any trade whatever; they runner on skids has made 21 yards a second, and
at tho zioon's nearest approach. That is, in both would, however, supply water and such fresh. the jumper on skids has reached almost 40 yards.
provisions and vegetables as were required. The record on a bicycle is 66 yards a second. North Germany and Jaya a drouth has appeared After several weeks of waiting the Shogun's DUINART PERE & FILS, REIMS
when perigoo was nearer to new moon than reply was received by the Governor."
"HR to full moon. The rule applies to all countries. had commissioned the two principal officers at Nagasaki to looks such a treaty in his neme ne where the greatest rainfall coeur with the
the laws and the interests of the Empire per- highest position of the era. Now moon last mitted, and he was willing to concode to the July fell near perigoa, and dry weather was English all the accommodation and advantages predicted, the forecast proving remarkably the peer 'tar commercial pritiloges limited to the enjoyed by the most favoured nations, except accurate.
Dutch and Chinese nationa.
the Bay of Bengal, the Malag Archipelago
eastern Japani, nnd the Mediterraneou,
Remarkable reproofing proporties are credit. od oxide of titanium by an Enxlish dyer,
sum of
to
Flannelette treated with it could not be made pressure is that expected at a depth of 38 m Rea. worth a large that the wishes of the port on this important point. It was all written
to burst into flame, and other textil-s aro claimed to Is made equally existant, while it carnot be removed by dyeing, boiling or washing,
For fifton years Joseph Olshousen, European anginoor, has banti studying the speeds of many kinds of animals. Man reaches remarkable valocities, but only by artificial aids,
swimmer's rate is 39 inakes a second, the
The perfection of pharmaceutical products and the presention of the great waste of food zaterials are the two lines which J. F. Moulton, &F.R.S., finds the chorinal jovention of the day
to be following.
A marked influence of the moon on the
The horse makes long gallops at six miles an Lour, the fastest dog-fhe Russian wolf-hound -shows 75 fast a second, and the gazelle attains 90 foot a second. Aided by its wings, the ostrich is the fastest runner, sometimes making, 98 feet a recond. In measured fights, the Virginia rainpiper has a record of 7,500 yards a minute and the European swallow has exceeded 8,000 yards. The slowest presturos are snails aud certain small beetles, a healthy snail's highest speed being 5 inches an hour. For fractions of a second certain very small areatarəs have almost incredible spoods, a mouss of the African desert jumping ten feat at the rate of 800 fost ascend, while the common for jumps with an initial voloaity of 850 feet, or ten wilestwo immens flocks flying in opposite directions amirite.
An extraordinary uso. of the sam sleeping. quarters by diarast and nocturant animals is Lighthouse Island, 35 r les south of Colombo, recorded by a naturalist of Ceylon. Barberyn
is inhabited by day by fruit bats or flying foxes ad at night by crows, and at svorise and sumsot may be seen the curious spectacle of
scross the strait saparating the island from the mainland, the flying foxes at a greater elevation than the crows. The oroa sigration, lasting about half au hoor, is attended by great obst tering of flying foxes and cawing of crowY,
The idea that moss grows thickest on the
The improved and very sensitive antamatie Øre alarm of a Danish juventor acts caly when a sudden wave of heat ie gemorated AU tubs four inches high is filled with mercury, the upper parts containing sulphuric other, and both ends kaing closed. One side of the tule is | zorth or east side of trees seems to have been covered with non-conducting malerial. Audioproved. A French botanist, Leon Bedel, oven rise of temperature warms the entire apparatus, but a sudden hest -as in a fire raporizes the ether under the unprotected glass, forcing down the mercury, and ringing on electric toll
A now Scottish work attempts to prove from geological phenomens-that garita. tion is electrior, and that it is identical - with terrestrial end solar magnetiska.
now concludes that mosses prefer the parts of the tree that retain most moisture, being thar more abradant on rough or cracked parts, on the upper part of a branch or inclined trunk, on knots or bosses at the fork of branches, and at the base of the track.
The oat, besides ita liking for valerian, has shown a taste for caffeine, which brings painful and fatal results.
The attar, or essential of1, was extracted from Electricity is now made to parvo the fishor- rosera for book on the time of Dioscorides, man by showing the presence and extent of bat the early process consisted in mucorating scale of flakes. The apparatus is "tho sabject ross leaves in pre olive oil. The present dis of a German putent, and it consists of a micro, tillation proetes, states a reć mt Fronch writer phone, which is enclosed in a water-tight con was not used before the eighth century. The and connected with an electric battery and damask rosa is the only kind used by most telephone. As long as the wierophone kangs Bulgarian distillers, and these are plucked at
free on being lowered into the water, no sound dawn, just as the buds begin to expand. Each
3 heard. When fishes strike against the case, of the copper stills is charged with 22 pounds fwever, their presence is revealed by tappings,
of rose leaves and 19 quarts of water. After and the length of the rope supporting the an hour and a half about 12 quarts of rose microphone gives the exact spth at which the water Lave distilled, and this is re-distilled to. shoal is encountered.
obtain the oil, which is of deep straw coleur.
Aa
The novel automobile of a Russian engineer Adulteration with the cheaper oils of sandal is a combination of sleigh and bost. It is la wood, geranium, etc, is very common,
the form of a boat with two bara er raunera zero of plants yields about a pound of attar, beneath, and it is intended for the use of Prince and last year's Bulgarian product reached off in crossing Lake Baikal. A gasoline 13,770 pounds, lowering the price to $50 a motor supplies power. A wheel with points to pound, or half the usual value,
grip on the ice propela the sleigh, and when the boat is in the waters clutch connects the motor to a propeller,
In European ances Hazley ronoghised two main stocks--the fair Caucasion and the dark Caucasian, Dr. Deniker believes there are six well-marked races, vis. (1) The blendo, wavy-haired, long-headed, long-faced and a Northern Bace, (2) the Eastern Race, also blonds, with straight hair, a rather short head, broad face, and short in sintare; (8) the Ibero-iumlar Race, of Spain and Portugal, which is dark, very short, long-headed, with straight or retroassú nose, and sometimes curly
- hair; (4) the Wastern Raos, dark, round-headed
is a mixture of asphaltam, patroleum and gum. Licouite, the new substitute for gutta-percha, Dissolved in turpentine, it is used for insulating electric wires, and costs less than a twentieth as much as guita-perchn. It can be mixed with either csontohout or gutta persha. The material
expected to serve important anys, but its durability in exposed places remains to be shown,
The ordinary burglar alnım is liable to be and short, with round face, broad nose, and į thrown out of notion by cutting of the wires.
man's medium
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