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ENTERTAINMENT
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19гa, 1911
KOVARICK
THE YOUNG VIOLINIST
WHO WILL APPEAR IN CONCERT THURSDAY EVE THIS WEEK.
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Under the Distinguished Patronage of HL.E. THE GOVERNOR.
Booking at MOUTRIE'S.
Hongkong, 19th December, 1911.
NOTES AND NEWS,
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I bave just arrived; bave hands that love no rest, brains marvellous in energy, depth, imagi. nation, power, ccnception, organisation, compre hension, instruction: am brilliant lecturer, noted "We will start a cat ranch, getting 1,000,000 Journalist, clever linguist, ocmpetent mechanical cats. Each will hare twelve kittens a year. engineer, fair typist, good automobilist, Cut skins are worth 5d. for white ones, and 38. excellent demonstrator, known scientist, able for black. They will average 1s, 34. each. Four methodical experimenter, fine con. There are therefore 12,000,000 cat skins a
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physical export maafer and a daily gross income of some £2,000. A
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The question arises, is the soheme feasible, and if not, why not?
AFTER FOUR CENTURIES,
One of the smallest of the German Princi- palities is undertaking a very big experiment in financial legislation. The Dirt of the elder of the two Principalities of Rows, which lie in Central Germany, to the south-east of the Thuringian States, carried recently a rozelu. tion in favour of increasing the Stats income- Tho Supreme Court at Leipzig has just given tax by 5 percent of the tax on incomes between judgment in a law suit which has lasted for four £150 and £300, and by 30 per cout. of the tax contories On October 4, 1510, the Prince on incomes excreding £300 a year in the ease Elector, Joachim I of Brandenberg, ceded to of numarried persons of either sex who have the Bishop of Lebue the perpetual rights of reached their 30th year. The Diet consists of fishing in the Oder between Kustrin and Frank- 12 members, rod the resolation was carried by fort. The corporation and fishermen in the reren votes against fire. The super-taxation latter city claimed an inalienable right of of bachelors has often been proposed in other Eshing in the river. Litigation followed, and Gorman States, and was joculatly referred to as in 1511 the matter was brought before the s possible form of Imperial taxation by the courts. Various decisions were given from time Emperor Willium in a speech at Hamburg in to time, but now judgment has been given, after e-long-investigation by the Supreme Court, confirming the dacres issued in 1697, which declared the prerogatives of the Frankforters to be null and void.
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MR, PIERFONT MORGAN AND A RUMOUR, A number of financiers in New York last month received cablegramos asking whether there was any truth in a rumeur eireulated on the London Stock Exchange that Mr. Pierpont Morgan bad teen fatally injured and was dying. This is an instance of the mysterious manner in which accidente become magnified by repetition into disaster. Mr. Morgan is a member of the of St. George's Episcopal Church, and is one of those who put the collection plate the congregation every Sunday: Whilst among be was walking on Sunday ap the sisle with plate full of money to place. the altar he stumbled just before he reached the altar and fell to his knees, spilling the monoy over the aisle. He immediately areas and proceeded to his now uninjured, while the other collectors picked up the money. The rumour apparently flew across the Atlantic, enlarging the incident into a fatal accident."
EUPHORY IN NAMES.
MR. CARNEGIE AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE.. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given the Carnegie, Corporation, which was organised to-day, £5,000,000 in gold bonds of the Steel Corpora tion. The Carnegia Corporation has been founded for the purpose of the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding in the United States, for the formation of a hero fund, etc.
EDIBLE BIRDS' NESTS.
According to the Scientific American in the year 1809 the edible birds' nests collected in the islands about Sism and the Malay, Archipelage amounted to 18,000lbs, valued at about £20,000 The taking of the nosta le fally described. It is stated that the birds take three months to build the first neste, which are gathered before any eggs are laid. Thirty days are occupied in building a second, which is taken in a similar way. The third nest is left, but after the young to the extent of that recorded in Cloquet are reared it is also taken and sold. After paper, which chronicles the marriage of Charles washing in cold water the nests are cooked for B. Gosh and Apple B. Damm under the caption sight Loure
Gosh-Damm." The good gentleman of the Varions views as to the exact nature of the cloth who performed the ceremony doubtless had urst used in making the famous Chinese delicacy,
One often finds euphony existing in the names of couples who go to the altar, but rarely
a hard task, but, says the St Paul Pioneer Press, he bravely overcame the difficulty by coughing violently every time he was called to pronounce the bride's name,
A MUNSTER OUN,
bird-nest soup, have bess held. According to the above article it is now known that they are formed of a specion of seaweed gathered by the bird. Unfortunately no authority is given for the statement, and when we turn to Professor
Мисия
secreted
genus
The biggest gun in the world was built to and it stated that they are maile of a sort of
tice to the Encyclopædia Britannica, primarily to guard the biggest canal in the world. This enormous engine of destruction is
by the salivary glands of the a16in. breechleading gun, the newert Trapos birds themselves, The birds building the nests designed for the sea const defence of the United are species of swifts belonging to the States and its insulur possessions, the first one known to ornithologiste as Collocalia. In our completed being intended for the Panama own swift the enlisty glands are largely dere Canal. The total length of the gun is 49ft. leped, and the secretion is need to glue together 2.9ia. Ilins a diameter of Coin, at the breech the materials of the nest. But in the Collocalia tapering to 28in. at the muzzle. If smokeless it forms almost the whole anbstance of the
ture." ared, it is
This view," says Professor New- estimated that a full charge structure." Poyder is 24576b, sill throw a projectie waighing ton, has been reellerely doubted in favoar 24001b, a distance of 22 miles. projectile the popular bolief that prepared for the monster is 5ft 4in. love, and seaweed." This boy were made of Bome supported by reference to analysis of the nest made by Mr. J. R. Green. On the other hand, Landor, who observed the birds in the Philippine Islande, says that they use the gum from certain trees for their nests.
it
bas krep calculated, saya Popular Mechanicr," that it would go through a steel plate 2.3in, thick, if the plate was placed at the muzzle.
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INDRA, British gir., 3,973, A. 8. Grabam, 16th Den Babang, General-Jardine, Matho- son & Co.
KAIFUKU MARU, Japanese str., 1,903, E. Suda,
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MONTEAGLE, British str., 6,165, W. Davison, EN.R.. 10th Deo.-Vancouver, B.C., 15th Nov., Flour, Sulmeu and Mails-C. P. R. Co.
NIPPON MARU, Japanese str., 3,452, A. Ch.
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SITFONIA, German str. 3.544. B. Kelzio, 13th Shanghai 10th Dec., General- Hamburg-Amerika Linie
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TAISHUN. Chinesa str., 1,216, R. G. Paramore, 17th Deo-Bhanghai 14th Dec., Mails and General-C.T
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TRAN, British str., 1,346. A. W. Outerbridge,
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TELEMACHUE, British str., 1,340, Fraser, 16th DaSaigon 10th Dea, General-Wo Fat Shig
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