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PAINTING
DEATH OF ME..S. E. MOUTRIE
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. TAEK-GROWTH IN GRASS-8CJANOR AS', Á The N-C.Daily Naina of October 2th says:- We very much regret to report the death on HONEY-STELLAR TIN-CALÉES OF FIRE- SOLID BUILDING-FOUNDATIONS—LONDON'S Saturday, in circumstanson which point to SMOKE—PLATING WITH CADMIUY-BUo-suicide, of Mr. Sidney E. Montrle. Mr. Montzie
who was
only in his 24th your, was a young man OSETION IN BKIN DISEASE ANTIMONY optional talent. He was educated st Bedford Grammar School, and afterwards went in a crammer to study for the Consular Service, Failing to ps the examination for entranos to the service, Mr. Moutrie turned his attention to what, apparently was more congenial work. He wrote several short playa, and his dramatic gonias as impressed Mr. Boerbohre Tree that be offered Mr. Monttie a small in Nero,
part This, however, for family reasons, was not accepted and the deceased returned to China about two years ago. In 1906 ho pablished « tragedy in one met, entitled “Jadan,** written when he was seventeen, which displayed re- markable pretio talent for one of his years. it was accepted by Mr. Hearbolm Tree, but reinte spore, it was difficult to see. While bis postio rejected by the licenser of plays, on what and artistic tastes were always to the fore, Mr. Moutrie was highly es semed by the served in the smployers under whom be East. For over a year he was in the firm of Renter, Broekelasa & Cat Hongkong, and more recently he joined Mesere. Atkinson and Dallas. No mative for his notion has transpired and it is probable that it will bs known what led him to take his life. Great sympathy is felt for Mrs. Moutris, who lost her husband only this year. The fameral took place yesterday afternoon at the Well Cemetery. The service was condusted by the Fres. J. Walker, and there was a large attendance of friends. The coffe was carried to the grave by Messrs. Bolton, K. D. Steward, Donde, P. Linoastar, A. Wheen, A. A. Brady, H. H. Fowler, & J. R. Weeks. Au ingest on the body of Sidney Edward Moutrie was opened at 19 Yates Road at 113)
...on October 5th.
The effect of grass on tres growth his bean stadied in England, at the Woburn Exper- imental Farm, for seventeen years. Sponour Pickering reports that in general various grasses retard the growth of fruit and other trees over whose roots they may be growing, and in the e so of freshly planted trees, the action is decidedly injurions or even fatal. Experiment has shown that the effect cannot be due to sbstraction of food or moisture from the soil, nor to infuence on soil temperature er on the gases orntained, nor to the formation of said or aikali, Bome poison produced by the grass diretly or through bacteria-may affect the tree roots but the latest experiments make it appear that the rest influence is due to the killing by the gansk the root bosteria that is NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
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Vary the routine of daily labor by cultivating iontiño bobby, is the advice of Pret. 8. P. Thompson, who reminds us that much of the world's scisntific work has been done by For instanco, William Herschell, susters, the astronomer, was a music teacher, William Gilbert, author of De Magnete, was a motiost man, Dr. W. II. Dallin er, authority on the mioroscope, was a clergyman; and William Stargson, inventor of the electromagnet, was a shoemaker.
Observations of the spectrum of Alpha a condi.Boorpii made at the Cape of Good Hope have shown a puzzling line that an English saronomer has attributed to tin. If this proven to be correct, it is the Brat discovery of tin ever made in the atmosphere of a star.
A printed slip Biting forth the conlitions under which the book is sold will iso be insert ed in every copy that is not intended for use in Hongkong, Shanghai or Treaty Ports.
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THE GUARDIAN," July 10, 1997,
Books of Reference.
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The
Returas by the London Fire Brigade show that the careless practice of dropping matahes and other lights is the most prollile soures of configrations, more than 21 per cent of the 3343 fires which occurred in the County of Loudon last year having been dus to this cause No less than 257 fires are from suprotected lighte, 108 From oil lamps, 67 from improperly set up stover, 93 from hot ashee, and 235 from sparks from grates. Gas leake and the rackless search for them with lights resalt in 18 ires. Defective wiring for sleet ic circuits led to 100 fres, some of them quite disastrous, but it is belier d that the new regulations and safeguards urged upon architects by electrics! engineers will make quite safe such wires a may be placed in fature,
Waiter Frederick Harris, aworn, “esid I identify the body just seen by you in my presence as that of Sidney Edward Montri am uncle of the deceased. I live in this house with deceased and bis melber and I shared a room with the deosed.. I was at home last After dinner we night and so was decansar. came into this room, "At 9 o'cook, “Mra“ Montris said goodnight to us and retired. I read here ill 10.31 pm, the depessed also remaining with me, but he was not reading, which was rather unusual and I thought he looked a bit depreses, but I made no commenta at the time. I retired, wishing him good night at 10.39. I saw nothing more of him til! Tawakened this morning at 7. He
I got up and⋅ was sleeping in his bed as usual. had my bath, and returned to the room and Mr. Motrio mast have left his bed by another door
I came into the room, presumably to take his THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLE.
ball. I came down as usual at 8 to breakfast MENT," July 12, 1997.
and remarked to his mother that I bad not seeu Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon is, perhaps, not a very appropriate title for a book which aims at conveying something yetions, which has boon ander test for six or Reten
The compressol" mathod of making founds. Sidney to speak to, whereupon we both went up stsing thinking there was something amiss. We foged the spare bed-room and bath room much more than mere impressions.
years in Paris, consists in forcing a tapering with both doors looked. Ou calling la volume is extremely hat lioms and ornamental,
ram down to hard pan and then ramming into
we received no auswer. I sont for a ladder to the binding is magnifimat, the paper excellent, heule successive layers of stones and rabble: to the room through the windows over the illustrations, which are said to number 3,000 Fross, thus forms a solid conglomerate the door. The coolie looked through and said admirable erouted. There is mast valuable pils of the stage of an inverted mushroom, with he was on the bed with plenty of blood. The information
and regarding tea
a base four to six feet in diameter. For place of five or six wooden ouse, and it will support an enormous load without sinking collapsing. In wat earth, clay is introduced around the hole to make the sides water-tight.
rubber
aultivation, pearl fisheries, and every branch ordinary foundations one such pile takes the coolie got into the room by the window and
of trade and industry practiced in the Island."
THE SPECTATOR," July 1, 1907. Twentieth Century Impress ons of Cayton (Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, Limited)-This very samptons volume, with it 876 quarto pages and its illustrative photographs, numbering nearly 5000, is well worlly, of its objects."
"THE SCOTSMAN," May 25, 1907. Yet by whaterer biographical pame it described, it is an invaluable compendium of facts and figures for enquirers specially in- terested in the present state of Ceylon; and its material features, it should be added, reflect its oredit upon everyone concerned production..
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THE MORNING POST," June 29, 1907 This is done in the case, for you sha'l not think of anything which might be worth knowing about India's Pearl Drop" and be disappointed in fading information about it."
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THE DAILY NEW¿" July 9, 1907.
Every aspect of the Island, bistoriaal, commercial political and legal, and so forth has beer treated and in each case the subject has bes entrusted to an export.""
THE WORKS TOP Prit continually pours forth from the press, alle or
A LARGE STOCK of MATERIAL it always kept on hand.
the
opened the door. We found the body on the bad, bleedio from wound on the zight temple. He was lying ding ally across the bed with his legs over the side and with his revolver under the right knee, Half of the gracke cloud that the London right hand by his side, I at once telephoned for Dr. Jackson, who arrived with his County Council is trying to suppress is believed brother and subsequently Dr, Hanwell also to be due to the ordinary domestic grate In arrived. The deceased was twenty-four winter-on days when most business places have been closed-the smoke of a million domestic years of age. He has been out from home chimneys has been sees to rise in a soli bank not quite two years. The decent has been here all the summer, but be has not been ill at 3000 or 4000 feet and drift with the wind in all, not so as to be attended by a doctor. The distance of 50 miles in such density as to hide deceased frequently complained to me of the suu
Dr. Bhaw'a ce imate is that one half- of Lend's sunshine is eat off by smoke in suffering from depression. He has partien arly complained of being depressed in the morning winter and one-sixth io summer,
and more so frequently. I are ascertained from the boy that after I went to bed last night deceased went out and dil pot retten till 12:20. The coolie lat him in. This was a must nanină! thing for him to do. It was raining heavily last night.
At this stage the ingest was adjourned,
The diff cul ties of electroplating with cadmium have been recently overcome, thus opening up an important ase for the metal, which is now obtainable at a moderate price The best results have been obtained from specially pre pared cadmium carbonate, carefully purited, although the commercial sait has proven fairly Batisfactory The cadmium carbonste is dia- solved in a solution of potassium cyanide, form- inga oloar, bright yellow plating bath, and a adagium plate is used for the spode. A perfect depost is had with either a hot or a cold bath, a temporature of about 125 degree T, being pre ferred. The costing, though soft, is hurdör than silver, and the color is a white as tin but not so white as silver. The surface, which takes a very high polish, is not readily tarnished by sulphuretted bydrogen or other vapors.
THE FINANCIAL NEWS," July 15, 1907,
Reviewed by Prey F. Martin, F.R.GS.) It has long been a reproach among publishers are well equipped with
that, amid the heterogeneone literature which no attention is devoted to the numerous in: One of the surprises of the time in the con ANCED to undertake BUILDING OX
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exlout this omission is repaired by the ocea German report mentions, the remarkable ex sional issue of such works Twentieth, parience of Dr. Van Szellossy with a sure of Contury Impressions of Ceylon its History, multiple neurotic gangrens of the skin in a People, Commercs, Industries and Resources, young woman aged twenty. As ulcer on the edited by Mr. Arnold Wright and published back of the left hand had persisted for three Britain Pablishing years, and mora recent uigers were present on by Lloyd's Greater
Limited, Tudor Street, E. C. die opper arm, the bresat, the thighs, and the Company Comprehensive at the sub-title of this handsome feet. A cure resulted from suggestion while volume is it by ne mesna fails to justify itself is the patient was in a bypnotic sleep. The subject mitter treated. No phase of history, life or industry of, or in, the beautiful Pearl teop of India as Ceylon has been not insptly terned is overlooked, and the same socupulous and discriminating core which has characterised publicatione amanating from the same soures is observable in this."
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THE CEYLON INDEPENDENT,"
July 18, 1907.
"No sipense has seemingly been spared in its preparation to achiera a satisfactory result, ong that would ref ei: credit both ou the Colaay and the producers.
TIMES OF CEYLON-July 17, 19-7. The book form a most useful directory ti the business houses in the-fort-and-to tho commercial industry of the Island generally In this way it should serve a very useful. par pose. In contading a lengthy, but far from complete, running review on this in numental book on Ceylow, we ones again take the opportunity of complimenting all concerned on Be careful and thorough manner in which it has been produce from the first page to the last There is not the slightest evidence of scumped work anywhere, on the contrary every page beurs ample testimony of the admirable character of the supervision over the production both in London and, in Ceylon."
"THE WEST AUSTRALIAN,"
August, 7, 1907. "It is remarkable for the eteress with which the labour involved in it compilation has been carried out".
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH,"
17 April, 6, 1996, Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal la splendid volume worthy of its great subject. It is a mine of information
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Antimony pigmente ses being favored by the French and Italian governments. The advant age is claimed over white lead in boing non-poisonous and over zino paint in being permanent anit sin-proof.
Tellurium is a practically useless metal. A little is used in medicine, but. it is atated that a day's yield of a single copper refinery would stook a large chemical supply house for a year's trade.
LATES I STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The P. & 0. str. Arcadia left Singapore for this port on the 12th inst. at 10 s.m. with the outward English Mails, and is dus bero on the 17th instant at about tam.
The H.AL. str. Bithonia left. Singapore on 12th inst. at 5p.m., and may be expected here
on 18th inst. at noon.
The I.G.M.str. Kielet left Kobe via Nagasaki sad Shanghai on Sunday the 13th inst. p.m., and may be expected here on or about Tuesday the 22nd iua
The CPR. str. Monteagle serived Nagasaki at 7.30 am. on Sunday the 13th inst., and left again at 4 p.m. same day for Shanghai whors sho is duo to arrive at 6.m. to-day.
The C.P.B. str. Empress of Japan arrived Tokohama at 4 p.m. on Sunday the 18th inst., and left again at 8 pm, same day for Kobs where she was due to arrive at û p.m. yesterday.
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