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VAUDWALL VIBRATION FROM SIGNALGUNS MYSTERY OF THE DIAMOND-MIND AND
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1968, 1905.
HIGH COLLARS AND HEALTH.
difenligt arises out of the remarkable genius
that end in that way, In view of the old and {_ abiding 'antz Chines feeling on the Pacifio Thut a stiff high collar may press against the Cast and on the part of American Labour Į GREAT HEAT FOR SMALL OPERATIONS—THE pomegastric, or ragus, nerve to such a degree generally, and probably it will be considered by as to, cause serious symptoms, such as loss of friends of the Administration as hoodlovely strength, neuralgio pajus use and ren irritating in the manner in which it was suid. stated in The Medical Mirror Louisdiersion of the Ching excision policy and anesthesia, is the belief of Dr. F. B. Brubaker, I patate matter to the front as of national
importanes however, and thre will be
Queb Says Dr. Benbaker:-----
ན་ It is a a not worthy fact that all the more
of Chinos trade in the near future The important vital stenotares of the body ace safe
of the excledad classes for guarded from injury, encased within bany walls, or hidden deep under layers of muscle
erading the law. There is, of our no thong t The important functions of the puenmo
of the abandonment of the! or possibiity gastris nerve render it necessary that in its policy of excluding Chunso labourers, but the passage thron zh the nook it should be pratee Administration will adonbladly a oknud find a from injtrg. We, therefore, and it queles solation of the trouble in some modification of within the same sheath as the carotid artery policy and regulations that will satiety fairly and placed between the artery and intrant--well both Chinese-and-merican.. sentim-nt.- probably by the acceptance on this side without offesivo uspetion of Consular or other official of elasticity uncommon in nerve protretin
The now cons of expansion and growth - which "The effect of compression on structures in has opouel in the Pacific Const since the close this locality was known to the ancient writers of the Spanish-American war is founded mainly moticias, but the phenomena observa-ld for Aroerien commercial and industrial
the re
of the Orient as a sunt future recognition were ascribed to the artery rather than the nerve. For instance, it was noticed then as now, waterprise, and that growth and prosperity was that pressure on this part of the nock was er sat us now. Callfornia is receiving followed by a sensation of want of air, by deep the major part of the westward tido of
people and laborious breathing, capil heart primarily, and capital, and its growth is easiest measured to be afterwards retarded with sometimes by the remarkable increas of popalation and ronse of sinking over. flie precardial region.
business in San Francisco, where the volume Continuing the pressure occasions a deep-seated, of bank clearines monthly rises, and where benumbing sensation in the head, as if one wern building operations et il coutinne, as far the amounting to pausa, etc., esen vomiting, Francisco's incrsuse of trans-Fafic commsren about to lose consciousness. Gestrie syptons, past thrin years, at the rate of ever 825,000.00) por year. One obrions demonstration of Ban arise, with hissi ade, laugner, lowness, of spirits and want of repose, remaining for an hour or is in is the annual report of the Pacifie PRICESbiles the evil is likely to go on increasing until two and then gradually wearing away, which has just bu made public by Vien will Mail S.S. Company for year ending April 30th, thus be seen that pressure over the carotid President and General Manager R. P. Schwerin. symptoms."
of $1,295,912 and increases of $733.203. The surplus for the year was $427116. With the establishment of peace it is unticipated that tan current your will show a marked iüerensa in the volume of business handled.
Though first made by Fouché and Picard is recently as 1901, the oxyacetylene blowpipe is employed in France by at least 300 or 100 establishments. Improvements have been brenght out, and three typos of the apparatus have been developed the chief differences being in the meats taken to provent the returs of the fans into the gua reservoir. In our fors, porous theatre are need; ir the sand, wir Hanze; in the thiri, small tubes of great lengthgular vein, bring posteriorly to both. By this provision the nerve is pliceil between fluid ou fest, of oxygen per 100 cable fest of acetylene, The blowpipes consane from 100 to 150 cubic | either side, this arrangement providing • dercid certifientes mod in Chinese ports. and they give resulta surpassing those of the | exyhydrogen blowpipe, the temperatures run
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Diabetes promised to, be one of our wrion future troubles, as reasons are found for believing that the great increase of the disease in the last quarter of a century has been due largely to the increase in railway travel. Statistien of British and French railways show that the mortality from diabetes among engineers.fir-men, biakemenand other travelling attendants is greatly in excess of that in the general population. This is attributed to vibration, and as we become more and more addicted to riding on railways anil in automo-
A rushedy is found.
on
I
A new alarm meter," adapted for errtary in the neck is followed by various It shows it expes of receipts ocne expendituro
boiling, and many other uses. ia especially intended for timing the exposers and develop ment of photograph. A warning buzz gives the signal that the time for which the moter i sot has expired.
An astonishlog number of odible seaweeds is known to the native tawai ane, who give to these kinds and some others the general name of "lima."
After describing several cavas in which them and similar symptoms seem to have been caused by wearing high close hit ing collars, De Brubaker reminds his readers that they als accompany any diseases, such as those of the langs, in which desintegration of the pneu- mogastric nervo is a feature, and he assorts that we are warranted in believing that irritation due to prolonged pressure may act in iwilar way. He goes on to say ---
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DETAILS OF THE GREEK
ASSASSINATION.
Balieving that collar extremely high and Theodore P. Delyanis, the Premier of tight might become an exciting cause of irritation Greece. was stubbed, and mortally woundel by to this important nervein certain cases, and being a professional, gamblor named Ghernkaria, at stimulated to further research alonggins Tuo thự masin outrance of the Climber of Deputies, be the experiones of my patient whose dificulty at p. en Juns 13th: The Premier died was undoubted caused he continuous pressare within thren, hours, The assassin who was upon this nerve by his collar. I believe it to be inwaliately arrested, said be committed the the cause of at least transitory symptoms indeed in revenge for the stringent measureg ench people as bookkeepers, writers, professional taken by Premier Dolyannis against the gamb men, and others whose various callings require ling houses, all of which were recently closed constant and interrupted stooping and bending of the neok.
Wreck-strewn Sable Island, abont 80 miles east of Nova Scotia, in about 25 miles long, and is composed of two low, ourrow ridges of loose sand nuited at the two ends and enclosing a shallow lako. Patches of grass and pools of fresh water support two kinds of mammals- seals-and wild ponies. Mr. A. P. Silver, of Halifax, states that the ponies, supposed to be descendants of domesticated animals Janded from a Spaniel wreek early in the sixteenth century; had increased to between 500 and 600 individuals 2 years ago, but now number less gary to suppose in support of our argument that than 200, divided into five troops. About two-irritation or pressure must be direct and thirds of the present stuck may be regarded as immediate upon the pramogastric, the nervos
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED, AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of 83.50 per 1965, will be pryable on the 27th fastant, on Share for six months ending 30th June, which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
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mares crossed with introduced stallions. The overlying skin being at least simply supplied by wild pauios ato strikingly like the horses of the nervous energy which communicates with the Parthenon frieze and the now exterminated pheamogastric. All irritation and all pressure, pan of Tartars, resembling also the wild therefore, when of sufficient-dogres, must. horses of Mexico, and it is assured that their become related thereon to the detriment of the
on to the primitive type of the species. Though return to savage conditions has caused a rovor. anffaror."
ehostunt is most common, the paro-bred stock shows all colours exéɔpt grey.
THE QUESTION OF CHINESE FXCLUSION.
The Premier arrived it. the outrance of the Chamber in a carriage. Glurukaris approached, saluted the Prensior, and opened the carriage door. The Premier was in the net of thanking Cherakaris for the courtesy when the gambler. abdomen, indieting a frightful wound. The murderer was immediately overpowered by the attendants. Medical assistance was impardiately sumintoned and the wounded statesman WAS taken to a Red Cross station, where an operation was performed in an effort to step the interval
P. hemorrhage. This was steamantul, and the Premier died at 730 o'clock.
The news spread quickly, and it would bo inpossibligo describe the popular evidences of Forrest or the suger of the crowds, who attempted | lynch the assassin Lynching was prevealed by the grudaraus, wie rushed their primer from the building to the prison. It was estimated that 20,000 persons witnessed the have progressed as far as an agreement between removal of the body of the Premier from the Russia and Japan to the appointment of Rosi Cr as station to his late residences Moni plenipotentiaries, with Washington the bors of the Cabinet and the Chamber of Deputies scene of direct negotiations. The close of the were among the crowd, many of them ween. spectacular war drama wenus the opening of a ing. The Cabinet -t hat exoning at the now chapter in American affairs. Throughout resideng of the President of the Chamber, and the war there has been a growing couldance it was decidest that this body should lie in state that the coming of peace would mark the in the Chamber hefte intermout. beginning of a new burst of trans-Pacific commercial enterprise, and now the fasting
The firing of the mid-day
STRONG EXPRESSIONS BY MR. TAFT. - viewed with alarm in Venice, gun has been since the collapse of the campanile of St. Marks in 1902, and it
A San Francisco correspondent of the Japas Chronicle writes:-American interess in the has beet supposed that the detonation might future of the Orient has bean koorly stimulated huston the destruction of other historic buildings.by the peace negotiatious, which at this writing To allay the fears Prof. Vicential has madai investigation with the microscismograph, The instrument was attached to the wall of the dural palace directly exposed to the sound waves of the cannon, and the explosion showed a vertical displacement of about a 2,000th part of an inch, with a horizontal displacement somewhat less, this jar boing about one half that of a porsou jumping in the room-containing the instrument, or one-fifteenth of the displacement Sanged by a high wind.
One of the latest adulteration discoveries is reported from Australia, where hides are found b weighted with barium chloride to the extent of about five pounds for each side of leather. The round rice of this substance being about one tenth that of leathor, the dishonest tanner makes a good profit.
comes that realisation is about at havd
Americau a iticipations in this direction are definite y brought out in a considerable degres by the reported movement among Chinese mercial centres to boycott American goods merchants in Peking and other Chinese com- on account of the rigid administration of the
King George, ub Taoi, announced that he would at once return to Athens, Investigation by-the-police-showed that Gheraiaris bad been recently liberated from prison, having been sen- tenced to eighteen years for the tourder of his wife. Moanarakis, Minister of Finance, was- appointed Premier provisionally.
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Exelusion Law, by which Chinese merchants," students, and travellers, who are logally free to The origin of the diamond, the hardest and enter the United States at will, are subjected to
It is quite the usual thing in many hotels in in some ways the most remarkable of minerals, delays, aunoyances and humiliations by the is one of the porplexing problems of gecingy.migration officials. This reports of this boy the Far East and in the West also for the The iden Ins been held that great heat played calling rent have been brief and rather matter of that--to decide upon whom from an important part in its formation, and Moisseur of creating a flight feeling of alarm in ment ordered by means of shaking dice." and contradictory, but they have had the among a given number shall pay for refresh- lms confirmed this theory by causing small diamonds to crystallize out from fused iron on the manufacturing and commercial interests This is presumably harmless enough; but the k the Eart This has brought about dice are sometimes used for gambling purpose anddenly cooling the surface of the latter. renewed discussion of Chinese exclusion and Some recent observations, however, seem to the possibilities of the Chinese commercial field
us well, as was alleged at Eingapore recently when the manager of a well-known hotel there indicate that such crystals have been formed at Eastern protests to the Government against was summood for allowing gaming with dice ordinary temperatures, growing to large size like ordinary water desposited crystals. For the alleged existely rigid administration to be carried on at the bar of the botal. For
ruller reasons bast known
itself, the Straits potaab, containing sixteen per cent of water and Taft in favour of a xdification, of the policy either the name of the manager or the hotel. remarkable expression by Secretary of War Times in referring to the case, mentions instance, apophyllite, silicate of lime and of the Exclusion Law, and finally easily fused by the blowpipe, has been found complained of. The matter is not under the Anyhow the defendast denied the allegation inside a diamond; and gold also has been
jurisdiction of Secretary Taft, but he may be A police sergeant (whose reported as an taclosure in the centre of
assumed to be declaring the attitude of
animportant is given) den though really rates." general
he was at Clant 'crystallized Brazilian store.
President Roosevelt,
and his worde may be taken the hotel on duty on the posion and saw two
There The influence of faith" in medicine is both to promise lange. Secretary Taft's vigorous Europeans throwing dice for savney. overestimated and anderestimated, according today, and the effect of it has not of comme bad counter, and on it să in silver. One of the unexpected declaration was made but yester a bank-oute, probable value $5. au the the type of mind considering it Physiomas is to show itself, but it is certain that viegerous Europeans picked up the money and put back are well aware that it can have little effect upon protests will quickly come from the worlds of $5, when there was another throw of the dice. organic disease, like cancer or taberculosis, but
Intent and practical politios, mixed with more
He reported the matter and was instructed to What Secretary Taft or has denunciation.
summon the dofondant, The summons was dismissed on the magistrate learning that there had been no previous conviction against the hotel-logia Comple.
L
iv many nervous and largely imagine did about this phase of Ching-exclusion was
it may have great potency. A Doblin notes thatthe poorer classe of that city appraise the medicines by their looks. They attach little the most striking feature of u lengthy review alfaits, cooditions, and poliofos A
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of One importance to colpirless mixtures, however good, of America a
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Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, onding Xth June, 1805, will be water made pungent by some herbal extract. payable on the 27th instant, on which date And great is the effect if muddy sediment is Dividend Warrants may be obtained on appli- to be shaken up before taking in tablespooufal cation at the Company's Office.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 20th to the 27th instant (both days, inclusive).
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A SHELTON HOOPER, A
Secretary to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND
AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED
General Agente for.. THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., Lv. 1656 Hongkong, th July, 1905.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE THE CERTIFICATE NO. 695 for
Blare namberad 231, on which the sum of $50) has been paid up, standing in the Regis ter in the name KHEE SHING having been declared LOST, Notice is hereby given that unless the said Certificate be produced to the Society on or before the thirty-first day of August next, a New Certificate for the said suare will be issued by the Sooiots and the old certi ficate will thereafter be held as null and void.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
Acting Becretary.
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Touching the application of the Chinese Exclusion Law, the Secretary nakesh :-* Tä it inst that for the parpose of exduding er preventing perhaps 100 Chinese coolics from In an extraordinary caso of osteomalacia, or shipping into this country against the law, wi softening of the bones, lately brought to the should tubject an equal number of Chinese notice of the Paris Academy of Sciences, the merchants and students of higli character is an examination of such an inquisitorial, humiliat- patient had shrunk in ten years from a heighting, insulting, and physically uncomfortabl of five feet four inches to throp Test two-inchos. While all previous cases have bad a fatal ter- character as to discourage altogether thagoriiur mination, this man, at last accounts, continued of merchouts and students in fairly good health, though with no prospect of recovering his original height.
A SILLY “BLUFF."
Then he said:"Ons of the great commercial prizes of the world is the trade with the 400,000,000 Chinese: Ought wo to throw away the advantage which we have by reason of Cuinasenatural friendship for us, and clique enforce as unjustly severe law, and thus create iu the Chinese mind a disposition to boycott A Times correspondent at St. Petersburg
American trade and to drive our larchants reports on June 8th that Count Lanzdorfs from Chinus sbores, simply becanzo we ure accredited mouthpicoo" aid to him:--"Russia afraid that we may for the time lose the approval is us willing as over to listen to any proposal of certain murrasonable and extreme popular Japan may wish to make, but it does not behore leaders of California and other Coast States ? assia to take the initiative. That duty is Done the question not answer itself Is not cambent upon victor or vanquished, and the duty of members of Controse and of the Russia is neither. Let Japan state her terins:
Executivo to disregard the unreasonable thu, and not before, can negotiations begin. demands of a portion of the community Reply Russia, on her part, is ready to give Japan's perjudiced upon this subject in the Far West, proposals full at sincero consideration and, if and insist on extending justice and courtesy to possible, to accept them."
a people from whom we are deriving and are likely to derive such immense benefits in the war of international trade ?”
If Russia be neither “victor or vanquished," Japan must be neither. Why should Japan state her terms," if the duty is incombent upon a character she is denial. This is another good example of Russian "bluff.”·
It took political courage that may be called Rooseveliian for a Republican leader supposed to have an ambition for the presidency to say,
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