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S. MOUTRIE
& CO., LTD..
ESTABLISHED 1875,
BABY GRANDS
BY
RACHELS,
PLEYEL,
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
TWO VERY VALUABLE PIECES OF
TLANDED PROPERTY Situs to at CANTON nose the Hongkong, Canton and Macko Staamboat Company's Wharf and facing the river. The lots contain by a linassare ment 50"ehangs or thamabouts, Title Deeds can be seen af the Office of the Unsigned."
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GOLDRING & BARLO V, Solicitors,
1th, Quen's Kost Contral, Hongkong, 22nd May, 19:07.
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GRACA & CO., Hongkong Hotel Corridor. STORAGE.
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QUALITY OF TONE,
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S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.,
York Building, Chater Read.
Hongkong, 30th July, 1906,
THE
No. 285 at for above Parposa, EXTENSIVE WATER FRONT. DEEP WATER
Also FOR SATE. Portious of MARINE LOTS Nos. 31 & 36 on PRAYA BAST Approximate AREA 14,000 SQUARE FT. 399 YEARS' LEASE
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GEO. FENWICK & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 8th June, 1906.
ON SALE.
THE
199-2
DIRECTORY AND
FOR 1907. Complete Edition Small...
ti
COLD STORAGE. TERTE
HONGKONG IC COMPANY, LT, now 40,000 Cubic Fast of Cold Storage available at EAST POINT. Storan will be Upon at 10 AM. and 4.M. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
WN. PARLANE, Manager. Hongkong, 18th November, 1961. 47
INSURANCES
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN. SURANCE CO.
T
OF AIX LA-CHAPELLE
THE Undersigned, having been spoittad AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
at Current Enten
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.
Agenta.
Hongkong, 21st April, 1897.
11
TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-
N
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBNE, 1905
I.
217,837,119.
AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000
PAID-UF CAPITAL
II. FIER FUNDE...
687,500 9 0
3,386,720 19 8
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above
Company, are propared to ACCEPT RISKS
against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
A pants.
Hongkong, 27th April, 1907.
1140
THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, ars prepared to ACCEPT RISKS eguinal FIBR at Current Ratos,
CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 13th August 1906.
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
EVAPORATION OF COLD METAL9--A #t
SUBWAY-TIDES OF THE EARTH'S CRUST-
if it had been an ingredient in a mixture, but it appeared in a day or two at about the rate by the disintegration hypothesis. It required bai boon observed farther that radium loses LONGS FOR AIRLESS PLACES ELECTRIFIED much activity when its omanation is removed, GAS →FLAMES SCHOOL OF AIR NAVIGA gradually regaining it as fresh sunnition is TION-PROOF THAT ELEMENTS CHANG changeless units is mere roundabout, but is Other proof that atoms are not voluminous, varied and weighty.
CHURE FOR STKEL..
PANICS-GOGGLES OF SHEET
The long-suspected ovaporation of metals and their solid ocmpounds has been recently shown by several methods, that of Zenghelis being to enclose the substanse in an airtight glass vessel with a piece of chemically pure silver foit suspanded horizontally a third of an inch or less above it. Experiments have been made with copper, lead, irou, zina, non-metals (sulphur, seloniato, tellurium and phosphorus), metalloids inrsenic and antimony), and various oxides, hydrates, sulphides and baloid and oxygen alts. The silver foil was more ne lors affected in nearly every case, usually taking on a gulden tint. To produce a distinct effect required works or months in most cases, but a few dage or even hours were saticient with some sub. ́stancer, metalloide and non-metals acting more unergetically than motala. The resulta sem
to
indie ste >> connection between evaporation and the action of solid bodies on
photographic plates, as well as with radio activity.
The familiar mail van is to disappear from Berlin streets if a new plan of connecting the central post office with the variona stations in the city is carried out. A :ube of sufficient size to permit a stooping man to enter is to be con stracted, and this will have two railway tracks, one above the other. Small two-wheeled cars will be run by electricity. No locomotive or attendant on board will be required, and trains containfug up to six cars will carry the mails to aby part of the city in a fourth of the presert
formed.
signed to lessen the risk to life and limb in The disappearing chair for theaters is do- large audiences stricken with panic. The back of the chair folds forward on the seat, and prassing a spring releases a rod supporting the chair, when the whole arrangement sinks an unobstructed standing surface. into and olsen an aperture in the floor, leaving
The valus of candium-formerly greater than that of gold, owing to scarcity and oost of of silver by the discovery of a large quantity near extmction was recently lowered to about that Jäms Porn. No other considerable deposit is known.
vehicles have this steel plates in place of the Glassless goggles for drivers of motor unat le uses. There is nothing brittle to broak, endangering the eyes, and three ingeniously arranged slits enable the wearer to see every thing in front of him.
ARE CHINESE CLASSICS FORGERIES?
The vagaries of historical scepticism have works appear at intervals which are full of begun to invade Sinology, sul sev oral strange misplaced learning. Among these curiosition of ecoontric scholarship must be classed a Allou. little book on warly Chinese history by Mr.
Of late the question is disonssed whether the Chinese Classics are not all forged, and discussion. Mr. Kingewill, of hanghai late several learned men have taken a part in the President of the North China Branch of the Royal Aristic Sucinty in that Chinese le- mont, bas suggested a Sanskrit origin for the Horri Gill, another selular profoundly famous Confaelau classic of the Odes, Mr. rarmed in the lore and language of the The theory that the earth's crust is subject has attacked the celebrated Taoist work Lao- Celestials and Chinese Professor at Cambridge, to diurnal movements analogens to tides hastee and tried to prove it a forgery..
time,
and from the Local Booksellers.
Obtainable at the Hongkong Daily Press Office been confirmed by the seismograph at Mauritius. | Now Mr. Allen, who is by the way, a mis The movements seem to depend upon the sunsionary, goes further and expresses the
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A ware of low barometric pressure travela Around the carth after the sun, and this ware casses a bulge in the crust bath it,
"pinion that the well-known work of Mencing mannfactured the name Mencius from a town was forged by bizma Tien who fraudulently which is now a treaty port near the French frontier of To kin, there having been no real Fosed sodium peroxide, electrically pre-pron of that nama famous in Chinese pared, is the chemical agent in a process philosophy and religion. Hat Me. Allon goos of air regeneration that has been recommended till further and says that this Szma Trion for such purposes
as sabmarine boats, steiiterature of China! If he was the forgar, then practically forged courly the whole classical In contact with water, para oxygen is given he must be evidently an extraordinarily clover off, caustic sods, being formel. The soda man. The question, whigh Mr. W. Parker, sbierbs the carboric acid, gosling the peroxide another I-rued scholar, but on the opposita sido with a crust of carbonate which is romeved by whence did this Szma Tsion acquire the literary in this controversy, asks, naturally arise, xhinking the onomical in a wire net or gaze art to compass a whole literature, admittedly cylinder. It is found, thot 6 ouncee of the varied and profound, all by himself? Mr. peroxido give the even gallons of
dreadfully unreadable" and says it is "im- Parker raiber unkindly calls Mr. Allen's book required by one man per hour, and that possible from beginning to and, with scarcely pounds should sustain nine men in a submarine Au orthodox line in it." The latter statement of 2,700 cubic feet capacity for nine hours is quite true as Mr. Allen is very heterodox, before the carbonic acid in the air broathed
and from a literary point of view quite would increase to a troublesome quantity.
eccentric.
Experimenting on the influence of smal currants of electricity upon mes-especially lince of astylone-C. F. Lorenz has found tat an alternating current of a low" handr the of su ampère increases the light about: To times at the samme time shortening the fame Before a mirror the periodic changes are easily soon. The flames, which gives out a ha aming sound, can be used where a spacially white short-wave light is required, and it is alse applicable as a dephia un receiver, especially if it is supplied through & manset mouthpiece into which the voice is directed. The electric current was passed between the barn er and a wire projecting late the dark cone of the flame.
The aeronautic school which has been in existance for a year at Paris is to be followed by a similar ons in Germany, the training at first to consist of a one year's course in balloon. ing. The ins'ruction will include: the calcula tion of velams of billons; me thods of cuttin the material; methods of readoring the material impermeable; constraction of neta; gases used for inflation: the general theory of balloon construction and use; scientific instruments used in ascensions; meteorologiesl observations nents with passengers; weiheds for landing; applications with airships. Work with re- planes is to be added when these machines aro sufficiently developed.
But AS we (Bombay Gazette) hare asid, he is English Sinologues with him. But it is a sign not alone in this hutoradoxy, as he has aversi of some progress that such an abstruse question is being discussed nowadays and that, too, is a object in this. This Society thinks that it book published by the S.P.C.K., which has an mutes Christian knowledge by trying to show that the main works expounding the Chiasse religion are forgeries. But even if they be forger dourished 2,000 years ago. forgeries, till they are pretty ancient, for the
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The most direct evidence we have of the disintegration of atoms is that afforded by radium, and this is very briety sam med up by Sir Oliver Lodge. Rutherford measured the maguetic defestion of the sipha-rays, or positively charged particles, shed out by radium emauation at a certain stage of disintegration. On the Day Pracating the Departure of From this he inforred that the mass of each English Mails from the Your of the Closing particle was comparable with twice that of an of the Indian Mints to the Free Colunga of atom of hydrogen, cona quautly that the pro- jected particles. were malerial, and, if a single known subetanéo, must be either by drogu or belium-probably the latter. Ramsay and Soddy then examined the spectrum of some of the emanation enclosed in a vacuum tube. Helium.
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