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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
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M. N. Thompson, conservator of forests for Southern Nigeria, has found reason for believing that mahogany trees show three or four well- marked zones of growth in a year-instead of only one-and ho enggests that a new Freezing with carbon dioxide is a novel cura-ring is formed each season. The same ob
forest tive process the smot value of which is not yet mervation has been made both on known. When the compressed gas is allowed and on those grown in the botanical gardens. town of Ijaye was destroyed sixty years to escape from a splinder some of it condenses ago, and on its eite has grown a forest con- ma mow and this is rammed into a tube of metal talning mahogany trees with trunks more
than ten feet in circumference. or valosnite, forming a solid round or square rod. With a plece of lint one end of the rod may be held in the hand, while the other end may bo pared to any shape with a knife. Os applying the free end to the ski, the surface is at once frozen by the intonse cold, and striking offoots follow the anal application of 39 to 90 seconds. Little or no pain is felt. Thawing takes place promptly and swelling follows in two or three minutes, while a blister often appears within an hour, So far the freezing has been applied with good results' in 'snoh skin affections as birth-marke, warts and some moles.
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GAS ENGINE SUPERIORITY. The statement that gas engines are 50 por cent. less liable to breakdowns than steam engines has aroused a discussion, from which it appears that many insurance engineers.rogard the small gas engine as more reliable than the small steam engine, but consider the reverse to be true with large engines. In the small machines, the gas engine receives the best efforts of manufacturers, while it is given much more attention in running than is bestowed upon the steam engine.
LORD CURZŐN ON INDIA.
ITS VALUE TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE..
AN UNKNOWN SOLL STERILIZER.
To the current number of the North American Recent evidenco tanda to show that the sail
Review Lord Curson contributes the first of has sterilizing organisms as well as the fertiliz. two articles on "Brilish. Rule in India.”. He ing storia. At the Rothamsted Experimental explains that there is so frequently a tendency Station in England, Drs. É J. Russel and H. B. in India to assume that the advantage of the Hutchinson have partially sterilized soils by beat connection is mafuly or wholly on the side of ing to about 200 degrees F., or treating with England, and perhaps in England to think that in the chief gainer, that a comparison of volatile antiseptic Hike carbon-disulphide, and the advantage conferred both may not be Both parties to arrive have found that productiveness becomes greater withoat value in enabling at an unbiased judgment. for a time through increased production of am-
"First let me endeavour to state what Indis monia, due to rapid increase of bacteria, This
gives to Great Britain and the Empire; for remarkable effect of incomplete sterilization is that she is a source of great material and sttribrated to a destruction of competing organ-political advantage to thom has always been
one of
my favourite propositions. From luma, The discovery of some means of sup
population pressing the andesirable soil organisms would with labour for the exploitation of Empire lande appear to be an important advance, and this in all parts of the globe. Fow parsons probably
have any clear idea of the extent or problem is now receiving attention.
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27,000, Capt. E. 8. Fitzherbert, ashore. Bramble, gunboat 710 tons, 900 hp. Lieut. Comdr. B. G. Washington, Hongkong,
tons, 900 Britomart, gunbost, 710 h.p, Lisat
tours out the kidneys of its victim while. Comdr. E. H. Donovan, Shanghai. Cadmus, British sloop. Heard, Canton.
1,070 tons, Lb.p. 1,400, clinging to the only foothold it can keep during Ld, Captain E. L
the tortured animal's straggles, and sheep tag, 390 tons, f.h.p. 340, owners lose five per cent of their flocks yearly Cherub, water tank and
Master, W. Smith, Hongkong.
SCENES FROM THE INVISIBLE... Clio, British loop, 1,070 tons, th.p. 1,400,
Shanghai Comdr. C. T. Borrett,
A new region of wonders, quite unknown to Fame, torpedo-bost destroyez, 340 tons, 6our unaided perceptions, has been opened up by
guns, 5,700 L.h.py Lt. Comdr. C. E. Lloyd a combination of the ultramicroscope and the total population there is now 105,000 ont of
Thomas, Hongkong. Flors, 2nd class cruiser, 4,360 tena, 10 gans, J. Nicholas, ihp., Captain
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this servics. After the abolition of slavery the West Indies, had it not been for the sapply of Indian labour, many of the islands must have fallen out of cultivation, and would probably long before p
have been transferred be session or recession to another flag. In Trinidad there are now 86,000 East Indians of and in Jamaica 10,000. With the opening
gain Par value each! the Panama Canal, these islands
in material and strategio value, and share £1. Calla their asset of the
first
importance, But for a rimtar relief Mauritius, where there are 206,000 Esst Indimas, would probably have fallen to France, and British supremacy in the Indian Ocean would have been in grave peril. We should never have been able to exploit our South American colony of British Guiana without Indian labour, the Indian
We have even been able to spare surplus labour for other Fowers, the cinematograph. The former is an ordinary French in Reunion, and the Dutch in Datch
Guinas. Indian cool.es have pen-trated
i-trated to the microscope using a powerful ray of light from
remote Pacific; and the Fiji Islands contain ona side, and, while it does not accurately reveal 17,000. Africa, which from its proximity to do-beat destroyer 295 tons, 6 guns, sizes and shapes, organisms and other solid India supplies a natural feld for Indian Labour 4,000 hp, Lieut. Comdr. B. J. D. Gay,
of Natal can tell a similar tale. The planters ሽዑ
particles far too small to be even detected by Weihaiwei,
would not have been able to develop that colony Hart, torpedo-bont destroyer, 295 tons 6 guns, ordinary observation are mado" to
had it not been for an Indian popalation, whi
which 900 hp, Livut, Comar. H. 8. Monroe, as bright pointa on 4,000
115,000 is now strong and exceeds in numbers the European inhabitants of the State. The torpedo-bost destroyer, 320 tus, 6 guma, and their position and movements
olenely shown. With great care and patience, Ugands Railway was constructed by more than 20,000 Indian coolies, and Indian labour was Dr. Comandon, a French investigator, has 200
more than once
once sought of me
force from amigrant
of India Lh.p. 22,000, Capt. 8. St. J. Farquhar, croscopic and ultramicroscopic scenes, adapting 15,000 to 20,000 coolies leaves the ports Nagasaki. Kinshe, river gunboat, 616 tons, ihp. 1,200, for each the illumination of an intense pencil of for these distant Bolds. There is another side to the question also. The benefit is reciprocal, light from an electrio are. In the cinematograph both is relief to the congestion of India and in Lieut. Comdr. T. J. 8. Lyne, Yangtze Merlin, surveying ship, 1,070, tons, 6 guns, 1,400 the fins throw upon a screen moving plotares, co
numbers of poor d Lh.p. Capt. F. C. Learmonth, Kudat, B. N. and the objects thus reproduced may be
occupation
I sent out Bouth Borneo.
the Boer, campaign 13,200 British officers and Minotaur, armoured cruiser, (dagship Vice-magnified as much as 10,000 diameters-un
To China Admiral Sir A. L Winsloo, K.O.B., enlargement that would make a fies as big men from the British Army in India, and 9.000
natives, principally followers. C.V.O., C.M.G.,) 14,600, tens, i.h.p. 27,000, as a six-storey house if so immenso à creature
we despatched from India 1,300 British 20,000 native troops and Capt G. C. Cayley, Nagasaki. Monmouth, armoured cruiser, 9,500 tons, Lhp. cenld be shown entize. The movements, in the officers and men,
native followers. Nor were these 22,000, Capt. L. E. Power, M.V.O., Naga blood, of corpusales and disease gorms ars 17,500
will among the instructive views that can be brought mercenary forces employed against their
to fight the battios of a distant Government. Moorhen, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns out. One set of moving pictures shows the BOO, Lient-Comdr, G. P. Left, blood of a mouse infected with a trypanosome
Not a war can take place in any part of the British Empire in which the Indian
Princes de West River.
not come forward with voluntary o offers of armed Nightingale, river gunlost, 85 tons, 240 hp, similar to that of sleeping sickness, and the
Lt.-Comdr. Clande Hillersden. Woodward, organisms-actually 1/1250 to 1/250 of an inch assistance; and the fact that the native army was not allowed to stand by the side of the B.N., Yangtans. Diter, torpedo-boat destroyer, 385 tons, 6 guns, long-appear as swift-moving gant cater. British in repelling the Boor invasion of Naval In another in 1899 was actually made the e subject of attacks 6,300 i.b.p. Comdr. E. Stevenson, Naga pillars a foot or more in length.
series of pictures, a tadpole's tall is a mass of upon the Government in India so keenly was the popular sentiment in favour of Indian calls traversed by a river of blood, which
participation aroused. I was in India through- out the South African and Chinese_wars. whiris the oval blood corpuscles along like
Though not far short of 30,000 troops, British pebbles in a mountaid torrent.
and Indian, were at one time from the conatry, perfect tranquillity travailed; and while the inveterato foes of England may have sneered at the early reverses to our arme, there could be no question of the genuineness of the rejoicings when the tide turned and the news of victory was flashed along the wires."
Kent, armoured ornisor, 9,800 tons, 14 gas, photographed upon moving films both midas. Every year an ad the late Cecil
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ad
Robin, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 gaus, 240 hp
Lient-Condr. W. C. Lucas, Canton. Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 240 h.p., Lient. Comdr E. J. J. B. Southby, Canton.
Snipe, river ganbont, 85 tons, 2
tase.
240 h.p.,
men
Area Airles
AWAY
NEW BUILDING MATERIAL, Put Conds. John Michael Barker, Yang-the rate flag of blast-furnaces, and a now Portland cement has been produced from
Taku, tarpodo boat destroyer, 305 tons, i.h.p process now being touted in Liverpool-makes 6,000, Gunner W. Barlow, R.N., Heng | another useful building material by adding sand kong Tamer, receiving ship, 4,650 tons, 6 guns, and sulphate of soda sometimes with a little lime to convert the slag into glass. With or Commodore Eyres, Hongkong, Teal, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns, L.h.p. 800, without enclosed wire, this glass may be cast or
Lient.-Comdr. R. J. Buchanan, Yangtare.
rolled into artificial slates, paving blocks, build- Lieut, Thistle, ganboat, 710, tons, 900 bp.
ing blocks, bricks, slabs or tiles. Mack is expoct. Comdr, M. B. Baillie-Hamilton, Yangtze.
torpedo-bost destroyer, 395 tons, 6 guns, ed from the alay roofing-slate, which costs less that
ik.p, Liant-Comdr. C. E. Lloyd half as much as the natural slate of Wales, is and being double ceeding those of Canada!
Wizmod
Thomas, Hongkong, Water witch, surveying ship, 620 tons, 450 Lb.p. Llout-Comdr. B. Is Hanocok, Straits Settlements Whiting, torpedo-bost destroyer, 360 tons, 5 b.p.. Lieut. Comdr. G. B. Hongkong
guns,
EXIS
Lord Curzon then proceeds to deal with the more familier question of business relations. India, he has become the largest producer
Bays, of food and raw material in the Empire and the priscipal granary of
the imports Great Britain, inte the United Kingdom of whest, meal, and
from India four
those of
Australis. At the time,
India is the largest parchaser translzcant, can be made of any size or shape British produce and manufactures, and notably of cotton goods. Moreover, it must be remember. and in any one of several colours, and is ab- - of
ed that under the existing system English cotton solutely rain-proof,
manufactures imported into Indis pay a duty BTEEL SOFTENED BY AGE.
of only 3 per peat., countervailing sdige Glass-hard steel rods at Brown University duty of equivalent amount being at the same since 1885. It is inferred that, at ordinary however, it is less in its material than in its temperatures, glass-hard steel would become moral and educative aspects that India has always appeared to confer so incomparable a completely softened in 250 years.
boon upon the British race. No one now-taunts the British Arons.
with treating India as a
There for playground
is not much play there for the Government official at any time, and, such as he is, he is drawn from all classes of the British community. Just as the Indis Army is to the Bubaltern the finest
Hanent 195, tons, 2 guns, 800 h.p have lost 20 per cent. in electrical resistance time loried on Indian manufactures. To me,
Wid Comdr. M. H. Wilding, Yangtso Woodcock, gunbost, 150 tons, 2 guns, 550 hp Lasnt-Comdr. B. R. Brooke, Yangtese. Woodlark, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 guns, 550 hp Lieut. Comdr. G. F. A. Mulock, Yangteze.
CHILDREN
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which the Niobe and Rainbow will eventually Similar steps have been taken with regard to set a parent ships,
CANADA'S INFANT NAVY.
COMPREHENSIVE PLANS,
to
make
| servios for a period three to five years.
will
these mean that the departure of that vessel ment and gettin facilities in lending it there, Deoks are also to be made at
Building walls of clay reinforced with wire. mesh, as devised by W. Pasts, of Harburg, Germany, are claimed to have proven satisfactory, and a two-family house with OF FAR CATHAY stable is said to have been built at a cost
of bat $2,000. The reinforcement consists Axis hool of manhood and arms, so also: of inner and enter sheets of wire fabric, the Indian Civil Service is a training ground
the craiser Rainbow, which has been refitted and It is not in the mesatime intended to divide the with horizontal sheete at interval not ex: for British character that is not without its ceeding the thickness of the wall. If heavy effect both the Empire and the race. The Bear-Admiral Kingsmill, Director of the will be handed over to the Dominion Government destroyer force, but to keep it together in the At-
squadron, bo craiser
bowever, loads are to be borne, a layer of cement former service is demonstrated by the constant Naval Service of Canada, has been in England in few days. She will be stationed in British lantic coast. The mortar is placed between successive courses
of drain
officers and
on a special mission connected with the new Columbian waters and take part in the fisheries be divided between the Pacific and Atlantic sex board. At least a year must be allowed for the Tadio for graph and forest
postal and
Dominion navy. The Admiralty has (Reuters protection service. Flowery consists of 461y: Window openings are framed with coment
In the case of both these ships, which have eroatien of shipbuilding plant in Canada. It is some alterationa dovetailed with the clay work. The engineers, for Mor over the world. Pages, and includes a Sketch Plan of eget is given a coating of nest cement offcam for financiers and administrators all Agency learns) agreed t
The men whom she has trained in the cruiser Niobe suggested by Canada, and been purchased by Canada, the Imperial Gornez probable that the first yards will be constructed
cant has afforded
Montreal, And that a a floating dock will wise historical intarest showing the disposition of tar,
of tar, with such additional plastering and dressing are to be encountered in regions as far apart sa
the crews together. Across the Atlantic will be postponed until Sep. officers to Sir ROBERT HART, G.C.M.G., and Dr. A may be desired; and the inside wall surfaces, Nigeria and China, the Caps and Siart. They are
receive also the
regard to the progress that is being Quchos, and shipbuilding firms who will obtain made in
matter of other ships for the Can-ordere for part of the new navy are making of neat cement mortar and are then are among the administrative pioneers of the Ein- tember. The Niobe will proceed to the Gulf of
pire. mire. To those ofloers Its description of Chinese Social-Customos
Timber studding is used for
no such field of adventure poses, with beadquarters at Halifax. She will
the It is to be hoped, however, that Halifax, and Superstitions, combined with the insight it all-plates, floors, roof framing and parti. never leave the count of the Civil Service who St. Lawrence and will be used for training par: | inn navy, Admiral Kingsmill explained that, inquiries for convenient centres elsewhere,
employed in craising among the varions Canada is going to build her ow
Arst
stop is
necessarily the laying down t Canadian Atlantio porta.
plant which
is strategically the most important pert gives into political conditions in Chins, makes tions. Shests of metal fabric are nailed en opeus. But India develops in them the sense of
ph Admiralty (the Agency also learns) has inion Government is taking all necessary steps
for that purpose.
In this connection the Dom in Canada, will not, adds Beater, be neglected CHILDEEN OF FAR CATHAY" an excellent
sack side of the partition-studding, and the duty and a spirit of soff-cuorifice, as well as Faculties of administration and command which
As soon as the Niobe and Rainbow arrive 'on volume for presentation to friends at Home.
space between is filled with clay, wall tamped.
glories of the British agreed to lend Canada certain active service Well bound in Yellow Cloth with Chinees
As used for buildings, the day has little moie are ating great cikins, working sad ratings, including skilled higher ratings, instruc- so as to avoid unnecessary delay in having an their stations recruiting will commence. It is Emblem in Geld
ture-just sufficient to permit it to be tamped not boasting, they pursue their silent and often tional staff, and the necessary officers for the safe effective naval force as early as possible. In hoped that the Admiralty will take over 83.50
a tradition to conduct of the ship. The reminder of the quiries are now in progress among the shipbuild safficiontatumber of men when they have recaired unknown careers, bequeathing their families which is sometimes perpetuated Niobe's complement will be made up of Fleeting firms on the Admiralty list for tenders for partial training on those ships, and, as in the for generations, and leaving a permanent and reservists, who, with the approval of the the construction of four cruisers of an improved osse of the Australian navy, put them through
Admiralty, live volunteered for Canadian H.M.8. Bristol class, and of six destroyers, for special gennery and torpedo conrmes. wholesome imprint on the national character,"
the Forces at the battle of Kweilin, is
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