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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 1907.
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HE HONGKONG IOE COMPANY, LED.
have now 40,000 Cublo. Foet of Gold Storage available at EAST POINT. Stores will bo Open at 10 AM, and 4 v.1. daily, Sunday sicepted, to receive and deliver poriskáble goods,
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NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS
THE THE Underrigned GENERAL AGENTS in CHINA and JAPAN for the above. Line
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the co responding gate was 11,187, 00. AN further evidono we have an increase in the
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House from £4,826,000,000, BLOOD FROM THE EYE-PAPER GEARS and an increase in the Saving Backs deposits £12,711,000,000, MUSIC AS ELECTRICITY-COPPER-ON-GLAM from £36,000,000 to £250,000,000. Side by side MIRRORS—A BIG EARTHQUAKE RECORDER with this testimony to the enormous growth in -ANTI-OPIUM TE▲--FLEA-BOE XX. TAPE the wealth of the country we hare other locs WORMS-A HIGH-HEAT THERMOMETER. purely satisfactory figures. The birth rate has though the number of pangers in proportion to declined from 31.9 per thousand to 26.8; and the population shows a decline, the cost of their maintenance has incressed from 29,558,000 to 18,741,00, On the other hand, we have the wholly grateful feet that the death rate has declined from 21.5. per thousand to 15.6-
Last year, la passing
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Secretary was given power to extend the list, And committee of ing these additions: Poisoning by
has recommended inquiry
nitro-and smido- derivatives of benzene. (dinitro-benzol, abilin, and others); poisoning by carbon sulphide poisoning by nitrous fumes, poisoning by nickel carbonyl poisoning. by African boxwood, chrome ulceration;
ulceration of skin from dust or corrosive liquids, or alceration of nose or month from dust cancer or alseration of skin, or of the corneal surface of the eye, from tar or pitch; compressed air illness.
eczematous
An extraordinary reptile habit is described a new book by B. L. Ditmare, of the New York Zoological Park. A large Mexican hernel lizard, excited by an attempt to measure it, emitted a rasping sound, and expelled a jet i blond, watch struck a wall four feet sway and formed a trait of 103 large spots along the floor. The blood came from The eyelut, momentarily much swollen. Shosting blood from the eye has been long attributed to this crsafure, but it seems so rare that naturalists have doubted its reality.
The best gear wheels have been shown by the tests of a British firm to be these made from a high-grade Manila paper. They are formed In 1,000-ton býdraulic presses, are stronger and more elastic than cast iron, lighter than rawhide, noiseless, almost friction less, and work without vibration..
The telharmonium of Dr. Cahill produces music from electricity without the aid of any musical instrument while, on the other hand the apparatas of Dr. M. Dupont, a French elco- trician, converts music into electric currents, To a phonograph Dr. Dupont. its a microphone in circuit with the primary of an induction coil without its interrupter. The musical scale or a piece of music is recorded in the phonograph, and on reproduction this trans forms the
current into on the microphone alternating current with periods changing to correspond to the vibrations of the musical notes. The alternating current gives the physiological effects of hearing music. Practice will probably anable a person rocgnize the musical pieces by the currants and deaf mates. may be given a moans of hearing, while it is expected that the verging action on the wind of exciting and calming places may prove of valus in troaling, nervous patients.
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SHARE REPORT.
Messrs. Erich Georg & Co. sy in their weekly share report, dated September 21st 1907-In the early part of the week ander review the market looked like improving little, some enquiries springing up for various stocks, which, however, did not lead to much business, and towards the close the market les relapsed again into the same quiet state, to which we have been accustomed now for such a long time. The starting demand rate of exobangs on London closes at 21. 211160, while rates on Shanghai are Th
23 for & Bank T/T, and 11s. 731 for a three days sight Private Bill. Batsilver in London
quoted 31d., and Consels £82 7/16. DANT SHARES A few old Hongkong “nut Shanghais sold at 3647), but more shares are on offer, new shares sold $5021, and are, on offer at 8505, the London rates are £774 and 46 respectively. Nationals are unchanged.
MARINE INSURAsce Shares. A few Un- lens sold at $760, and more shares can be placed. Other stocks under this beading are jimobanged.
FIRE INSURANCE SHARES-Hongkongs sold at 3310, and further shares are obtainable. Chines have sellers-at-886.
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Macans are unchanged, with no sales and sellers SUIPPING SHARES.-Hoogkrag, Canton aud at $:8, Indo-Chinas, in sympathy, with a qgotation from Shanghai of Tis, 54 buyers, hava advanced here to $70 buyers (841 prof, and $20 def.); the London rates are unchanged, China and Manilas are wanted at 15, Douglases can be placed at $41); Star: Ferries have buyers at $20 old, and $11 new issue. Shells are nominal attis. 6d. London quotes 458, sellers. Union Waterboats are offering at $12
REFINERIES. — Unchanged and witbout sales. MINING SHARES-Charbonnages are in re- quest at $170. Raubs sold as high sa $9, closing with selles at that agare, and buyers at 84. shares bare buyers at Tis, 15. Chinese Engineering and Mining Company
kong and Whampoa Docks changed hands and DOCKS, WHARVE, Gopowns, &c.—Hong, are on offer at $179. Fenwicks, as well as New Amoy Dooks, are unchanged. Shanghai Docks have sellers at The 77. Hongkong and Kow 565 to 367, and contians in quest at the higher loon Wharf and Ghdowns have bösu done at digare. Shanghai and Hongkow Wharvey have
receded to Tle 226.
Copper very closely resembles silver in many kong Lands found small purchasers a $97 and LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hong- respects, but hitherto, no method has boon known of depositing it from aqueous solutions 595 and can be had at 906, Hongkong Hotels on glass so as to formi mirrors like those so
bare enquiries at $96 or the dividend of $1 per long made with silver. This is now accom
sliare paid on 16th instant, Humphreys Estates blished by reducing cupric oxide by an autoour-have been fixed at SIV, and continue in demand. solution of phenyl hydrazine in presence West Points sold at 58 Olber stocks noder potassium hydroxido, Bome micrors made in this heading so unchanged and without trans- this way have been shown to the London actione, Royal Society by Dr. F. D. Chattaway, and have a coherent metallio Alm as brilliant and uniform as that of the silver-on-glass flectors used in telescopes, and much more beatiful en account of the color.
The ordinary seismograph or earthquake recorder, registers the motion of the earth under stationary pendulum of 100 or 209 pounds. A new instrument by Dr. Wiechert made at Gatlingen, has
suspended pen- dulum weighing nearly seventeen tons, and a series of lovers causes its indicator to magnify the earth motion 2,200 times. So sensitive is the apparatus that it showed tremors due to agas engine located a mile and a half away
and
COTTON MILLS. Shanghai quotations show no change. Hongkong Cottons are on offer at $106 or the dividend of 5 per cent, paid on
16th instant,
BUNDAY MANUFACTURING, COMPANIES. — China. Light and Powers changed hands and
are wanted at 86 Hongkong Electrics so'd at $133 and $14, and are wanted now at latter rate Dairy Farms have improved to $17 sales and buyers, Green Island Cement Shares found purchasers at $1, and more shares could be placed. Other stocks under this heading are unchanged,
MISORLLANEOUS-China-Borneos have boeu done at 5 to 91, closing with bayern at latter and S9, and have farther enquiries at 88.91. cato, China Proridents changed hand; at $3.90
at $12 for old, and $1.80 for new shares. Üther
stooks under this heading unchanged and without sales.
The fact that we have nerve stimulants Langkate, which paid the 3rd quarterly dividend 16th instant, are pleasant and safe as tea and coffee seems to.of Ts. 71 per share on justify the hope that some substitute for ele ho! Toted Tis, 340. Laundries are steady at $6 opium may be found that will learn the ex the dividend of 49 conte per share paid on evila now caused by these narcotics. Possibly 20 instant: Peak Tramways ara în "requent the looked for agent may prove to be some new alkaloid of the Combretum sendaicum, a forest rine of the Malay peninsula. A decoction of the leaves tried for tea by some Chinese wood. catters surprised them by cresting & distaste for their opium smoke, and since then the doo tion mixed with roasted opium-the proportion of the latter being reduced daily is claimed to have caused nearly four hundred opiam smokers to abandon their habit, and to have dvor, used the opium Imports into the distriot of the experiment by more than thirty chests per month. Further tests will be necessary to prove that the Combretum tea is a offvotive and harmless as supposed, and whether it will destory the craving for alcohol as well as that for' opium.
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cate.
Fleas are not recommended as an article of die', as it has been shown that when they hap- -pen to be taken into the stomach they may carry the tapeworm of dogs aud Diplidium cominum. In a Faris hospital an entire tapeworm was expelled sports necnaly from an infant nine months old, and the infection was traced to contamination "of the child's milk with Asar, The embryos conveyed by the insets. develop very rapidly in the stomach, tapeworms having been found in bottle-fed infauts only four or five weeks old:
The new high temperature thermometer of Heraus depends upon the Variation in resistance to electric currents with hosting. It is made by winding platinum wire on a small tube of quartz, beating watil the wire adhered, then eneloning thes and its core in a larger quartz tube, and again heating until the quartz melts around the wire. The resulting instra- Mr. Arthur Silverstonement, recording to pecatures
as high as Mr. M. S. Silverstone Mr. M. L. Silverstone
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SOME SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
and
very useful set of figures was issued as a Parliamentary rear showing the progress made in varnus de actinen by the people of tha United Kingdom during the past for decades, Some of the figures go back to the thirties and the forties, but it will suffice to deal with the more striking figures of the last thirty-five years. In 1871 cur uet imports of merchandise were valued at £270,000,000; i 1903 the corre sponding gars was £523,000,000. Such an enormous increase in the power of this country to purolines the commodities of other countries points to an extraordinary development of our own national resources. As one among
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