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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY
THE HONGKONG DAILY" PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 2ND
AVIATION WEATHER-SERVICE. An efficient meteorological service for air- men is being rapidly developed in Germany under the lead of Dr. Richard Assmann, of the Royal Prussian Aeronautical Observa- tory at Lindenburg, To the weather service daily pilot-balloon observations have been
NAPIER JOHNSTONES added, a special thunderstorms service is
SQUARE BOTTLE"
WHISKY.
UNVARIED FOR OYER 150 YEARS. THIESAME TO-DAY AS IN 1745.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
BOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., and from ALL WINN MERCHANTS.
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PLASMON
The Great Nerve and Brain Food.
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PLASMON CHOCOLATE, PLASMON BISCUITS, PLASMON OATS.
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▲ ALL INSECTS.
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MARTIN'S
SAPIOLESTER
Rowlands Macassar Oil
FOR THE HAIR
Is the Best Preparation you can use.
WHY?
REGAUSE Wĺkönt & the Hair Tesomas dry, thin, and brittic, and this is the nearest approach to the ratanu oil la the Hair he is of which causes
BECAUSE YOU must keep the Hair well *** nourisheşi and not dry, or you will soon Ladion requirs it to keep the air solt
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Mon require to prevent baldness. Children rogare i to lay the foundation of & Luxurlant Growth: Sold In Golden Colour for Fair Hair. O Stores, Chemlats, and Rowlands, 67, Hatton Garden Landon Avaidehesp spurious imitaïlom and only bay this gentine Bowind's.
Beetham's
Makes the G£}{} _____ BOFT, AS VELVET, and koopa it BOET SMOOTH and WHITE
all the year round men Removes and prevents Roughassa, -Recoens, Irritation, Tan, etc. -- COOLING AND REFRESHING DURING THE SUMMER HEAT M. BERTHAM BON, CHELTENHAM, 45, ENGLAND (
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being considered, and special provision has been made for important exhibitions. meteorologist travelled with the contestants over the route of the reliability flight in the upper Rhine district. From telegraphic re-
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ports weather forecasts were issued twice. NEW DELIVERY OF day along the route; each day before flying local pilot-balloon observations were made, reports were received from the fifteen regular pilot-balloon stations, and the wind at the surface was measured; and sixty observers over south-western Germany promptly re ported thunderstorms. Each of the several NEW thunderstorms that occurred was announced NEW NEW an hour or moro before arrival.
A STRANGE: MONSTROSITY.
"GLYN'S" HATS.
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B77 steeple-head," Of oxycephaly, or American physician, Dr. H. M. Fletcher, re- ports seven cases. This is a singular mai- formation, in which the skull towers to a, great height, and there is usually a protrud ing of the eyeballs, on account of shallow orbits, and defective vision, from changes of the optic nerve. Curious dimplings shown in X-ray pictures of the cranial bones are characteristic of the condition.
A GREAT INDUCTION MACHINE.
An immense electrical machine, of the Wimshurst influence or induction type, has been described to the Paris Academy by P Villard and H. Abraham. It has 20 ebonite discs 28 inches in diameter, which are usual- ly rotated at 1,200 to 1,400 revolutions per minute, giving a peripheral velocity of nearly two miles a minute. The normal voltage: of 150,000 can be increased to 300,000; the The maximum spark-length is 24 inches. machine has already shown new phenomena. SELF-LUMINOUS CLOUDS....
The idea is gaining ground that the earth is surrounded by b permanent aurora,of variable luminosity, and is confirmed by the fact that the aurora spectrum is nearly always to be detected on a clear moonless. night. More than a century ago an abnor mal brightness of the sky was noticed, the diminution toward the zenith showing that it could not be due to diffused starlight. In a recent investigation of earthlight" by Dr. L. Yntema, a Dutch astronomer, a not able luminosity was sometimes seen on cloudy and even on foggy nights, and mer surements showed that on some nights a square- degree of sky near the zenith would have a total illumination equal to twelfth to one sixth of that of a first magni
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tude star, the portion of the illumination the AND CIGARETTES obtainable, consistent with price.
to diffused starlight being estimated at only one-fiftieth of that of the star. At the Yerkes Observatory, Prof. E. E. Barnard has found the night light to be sufficient times for reading the time by an ordinary.
All Wines and Spirits bottled in Europe by Shippers of
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covered that this light is in part due to slowly drifting streaks of lumincus, baze, which may be go degrees or more long and
3 degrees or more wide, and is sometimes as bright as the average Milky Way, Watched until after dawn, some streaks be came ordinary haze or lofty clouds.
THE MYSTERY OF SLEEP,
It is suggested that in explaining steep effects have been mistaken for causes. Sur marizing present knowledge, R. Logandre, in a lecture before a Paris institution, has re-, jected the theories that the cause is a failure! of the blood-supply of the brain, an in toxication by carbonic acid, and the presence of narcotic substances in the blood, and has favoured the view of Prof. Clapar de of Geneva that sleep is an inherited instinct that brings rest just before and to avail ex haustion. Insomnia, on the other hand, is a poisoning. This has been transmitted by inoculations with cerebrospinal fluid. from affected persons, but the toxic substance itself is yet to be discovered.
MARINE STEAN TURBINES.
The first steam-turbine boat, the Tur- binia, was built 17 years ago. The Parsons steam-turbine is now used on 281 war ves sels, S7 mercantile vessels and to yachts with an aggregate of 5,841,000 horse-power. DIAMOND SAW STONE-CUTTING.
A French stone-cutting circular saw is a steel disc six feet or more in diameter, Its outer edge set with diamond crystais valued at $2 to $3 a carat. It is mounted on n spindle and rotated like any circular saw, electric power being used. The cutting edge for hard stones has 200 diamonds, and at 300 revolutions 'a minute it cut about a foot a minute. The teeth for soft stones, like marbles, are of steel, with diamonds at intervals of about every five teeth. A com mon speed is about a revolutions a minute, and this causes the saw to advance about a yard a minute. The saw cuts, and dresses the stone on all sides. The expense of the diamond saw is considerable, but the work it accomplishes is done at hardly more than a tenth of the cost of hand labour for the same results
CEMENTATION.
Cementation" is a new method of engineering that has been developed in the water-laden ground of a French coal district. The maris and chalk overlying the coaf measures are so fissured that ordinary shaft alaking is impracticable, and a cheaper plan than that of freezing the ground before boring has been sought. Half a dozen holes were first drilled in a circle around the site of the proposed shaft, Cement grouting was then forced into the holes, and in a short time all fissures and interstices were filled, a solid wall being formed. Within the space thus enclosed a shaft could be sunit in the usual way.
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LEPROSY CARRIED BY INSECTS. That some particular insect leprosy, as the anopheles mosquito carries malaria and the tsetee By distributes sleep ing sickness, is the conclusion of Drs. Sand and Lang, British medical officers. There * 15 évidence that the disease is transported by an insect that retains infection for 16 days, but whether there are other means of con- veying the germs from man to man is not ret determined. It is pointed out that this theory if confirmed, may show that the immunity of nurses and doctors in leprosy hospitals is due to methods of cleanliness.
BOVRIL
Tickles the Palate
TO BE SURE the Teeth are so important that it would be a pity
to neglect them especially when you can clean them so well and so easily with
Calvert's
Tooth Powder
Your local dealer stocks and sells it. Makers, F. C. Calvert & Co., Manchester,
England
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