SCIENTIFIC
MISCELLANY.
THE BUTTER-TREE'S PRODUCT.
Shea butter, now attracting consider- able attention, is the fat of n nut of western tropical Africa. The Shea tree, which may reach a height of 40 fect when not stunted by bush fires, begins bearing when 12 or 15 years old, and its very variable yield is said to reach sometimes as many as 20,000 nuts. A thick covering of pulp encases the nuts, which are smooth shelled and of walnut-like size and shape. The kernels when driod contain 40 to 60 per cent. of the oil, but for extract ing a pound of butter the natives require six pounds of decorticated kernels, which requirement is reduced by European machinery to three pounds, equivalent to 14 pounds of fresh fruit in the pulp. Shea butter is used by the natives as an unguent in rheumatic pains, When puri- fied, it is edible, and is suitable for artifi- cial butter, chocolate manufactures, etc., and is also somewhat adapted for use in candles and soaps.
WAVE-BENDING OF BIG SHIPS.
The bending strain of the waves is much less in the great ocean liners than in smaller vessels. In a London Royal Institution lecture, Sir John Lyle pointed out that, when the waves are one half the length of the ship and one twentieth of the length is height, the stress is little more than in smooth water; but when the waves are as long as the ship, or one and a half times as long, the effects are much greater. As waves are seldom more than 500 feet long, the beading action on 100-foot ship, like the Aquitania, is wuch less than on a 300-foot ship
GREAT BARTHQUAKES IN GROUPS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 30rn, 1914.
observer by a puff of smoke that the pre- determined degree of cold has been reach- ed. By means of several, thermometers, each having a bomb giving smoke of a distinctive colour, records of several succesive stages of low temperature may be obtained.
FASHIONS AND FANCIES.
In summer time one wishes that the Daylight Saving Bill which was so much discussed a your or two ago, had passed and become law, whereby we should all. have been gently coerced into making the most of the glorious early morning hours, that are now practically wasted by to everyone. Think what it would mean get most of one's morning duties, domeatio. or otherwise, over by, say, ten o'clock, and be able to laze through the hottest hours of the day Think of City ofices closing soon after midday by the sun, though at the usual hour according
to
the readjusted clocks; the shops following suit an hour or so later, leaving the long and lovely evenings for the leisure and pleasure alike of those who work and those who play. But the Utopian scheme seems far from realisa- tion, and the wasteful English habit of starting the day late still prevails, so we must make the best of things as they are, and take life as easily as we can during the heat wave.
WOMEN AND BOXING.
If
It stems to me that a great deal of honsense has been written about the pre- sonce of women at the big boxing match this week. Modern women are keenly and intelligently interested in all forms of Sport, and in all current events, and-this- particular event appears to have been considered as of immense importance, to To test his theory that the displacements judge by the prominence accorded it in causing great earthquakes are likely to the Press during the last week or twa. produce other disturbances, Rav. H. V boxing contests are brutal exhibitions, Gill has investigated the British Associa-such as the old-time prize fights are said tion's list of 880 recorded world-shaking to have been, then assuredly they should earthquakes. Only 215 of these prove to not be countenanced by decent-minded have been isolated disturbances, and 674, men; but, if, as is claimed, they are fine or three-fourths, occurred in groups of displays by experts in the noble art of two or more within a week.
self-defence it is sheer inpertinence to suggest that women should not witness -the-if they wish to do so
A NOVEL, LAGHTHOUSE,
The new unattended lighthouse guard- ing the approach to the capital of the island of Guernsey, in the English Channel, utilizes several novel features in providing a complete signal station for mariners at low cost. The rocks of the locality, though made extremely danger ous to navigation by the tidal currents and eddies sweeping over and around thean, are small in area, and, instead of an ordinary expensive stone lighthouse, an 80-feet tower large enough for automa tie apparatus has been built on Platte Fougere, a rock submerged at low water This tower supplies a light, a fog horn, and the first occau telephone call station ever established. The structure itself holds electric motors, air compressors, on automatie acetylene-gas plant and the telephone, and the apparatus is controlled through a submarino cable by a shore station a mile and a quarter away. A selenium cell near the lantern is connectest to an alarm. belt thur shore station. If the flash every ten seconds is obscured by fog or fails, the belt rings; and nach blast of the syren is announced by another bel-The 806,000-outlay for the tower-and- equipment is less than a fifth of what a stone lighthouse would have cost, while the two operators on shore take the place of four lighthouse attendants.
MODERN ALCHEMY,
Assurbing that lead is a disintegration product, there is reason to believe that lead from thorium may have higher
atomic weight than that from uranium, though the two may be chemically identi eal. This seems to be confirmed by evidence obtained by F. Soddy, and H. Hyman. Of the 0.35 per cent, contained in the mineral thorite, ten-elevenths are derived from thorium and only one- eleventh from uranium, and samples of this lead gave 208.5 and 208.3, the inter- national standard of atomie weight being 207.1. In spectroscopic comparison, one distinct line of ordinary lead became visible in thorite lead only after long
exposure.
THE INVISIBLE BIRD-MÄN.
The so-called invisible aeroplane of Knobel, & German engineer, has wings of transparent and fireproof celluloid instead of cloth, and, with a silent motor, is stated to be almost indiscoverable at d height of 3,000 feet. Besides letting the light pass, the transparent wings give the aviator an unobstructed view all-around. BIG BUBBLES
I do not think women ought to practise boxing (jiu jitsu is quite a different matter), or not young women at any rate, for reasone that will readily be understood by every one who has oven an elementary knowledge of physiology; but for the life of me I cannot see why they should not be lookers-on at a boxing match, any more than at a football or polu match, or any other form of sport.
"AS VOT. LIKE IT.
presence of women at contests of strength There is plenty of precedent for tho and skill; not, to be sure, drawn from the last century or so, when that curious invisible barrier arose between the sexes that is only now being surmounted, but from the earlier time when there was more brave comradeship between men and women. What a roinance would have. been lost if Rosalind had not witnessed that bout between Charles the Wrestler and the young Orlando, ayn, and lingor- cil, as a great lady might, to felicitate the victor and bestow her guerdon upon him!
Sir, you have wrestled well, and over- come more than your enemies."
And how about the days of chivalry" which are so often quoted, when fair and gentle ladies watched the tourneys fought gaily, and gallantly, yet perilously enough, ere the then came when the com- bat in the lists degenerated into a mere ambrous faree ? Be sure the knights sequitted themselves all the better for the
the bright knowledge of regarded them!
eyes
that
A QUESTION OF TASTE. The whole thing really resolves itself into a mere question of individual taste. Doubtless the mujority of women were Dot greatly interested in this particular con- test; I wasn't myself Indeed, I have never seen a boxing thatch, even on the stage, though I know several women who considered the prize fight scene in The the best in the House of Temperley play, and went time after time to see it. Personally it does not appeal to me, but would go a long way to see a fine fenc ing hout, or of sword agains
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SHIPPING IN
STEAMERS.
PORT:
ANNA, Norwegian str., 1,017, A.-Arntzen, 23rd July Bangkok 17th July, Rice and Cotton-Chinese,
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 29th at 11.15, Promuro has in- oreased alightly in southern districts, and considerably from South Japan to Shanghai.
The typhoon has moved rapidly to N.N.E. At 6 am, this morning it was in the vicinity of Vladivostock.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10a.m. to-day, 0.27 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon today is as follows:-
DISTRICT.
Hongkong & Neighbourhood |
Formosa Channel
7. FORECAST,
6.W. wlads, mo
dorate; cloudy»
como rein.
fs.W. winds,
fresh.
South boast of China between The samo 14 Hongkong and Lamsaks, į No. 1, South coast of China between [The... mms
Hongkong and Hainan...1
No. 1.
ZA
CHINA. COAST METEOROLOGICAL
Station.
REGISTER.
29TH JULY, 1914, A.N.
Vladvcstook. 7:29,04, 67 Nemuro
Hakodate Tokio Kooki Nuguaski Kagoshima
HAWATA
Oshima- parenche Naha.... Lahi'ims
Bonin Is. Chefoo
Wind
O'or
6 n. 29.89
1
29.67
SN ENE
" 29.69
BW
" 29.78
WEW
29.76
BT
29.84
SW
29.85
29.83 .-29.74
SW
i 29.97
Weihaiwei...! Hankow Ichang
.29.51 78 82
BSW
Gutalaff
Shanghai
Changsha .....
29.61 80
BOW
29.33 81
ABW
7.29.5 6.29.62 82
Swatov
Taihoku
5 a
Talohu
Tainan
Korban
Canton....... 629
29.
Kinkiang
SANATOGEN
Sharp Peak... Amoy
THE LIFE FOOD
AND NERVE TONIC
LOKSANG. British str., 1,078, D. W. Ritchie, 26th JulyChefoo 20th July, General.
Jardine, Matheson & Co.
WITH LASTING EFFECTS
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVED.
July-Moji 20th July, Coal.--Jardine, &c., Capt. A. S. Pitcher Mr. A. M. Pres- LOVAT, British str., 3,018, Glegg, 25th Per Delta, for Hongkong, from Bombay,
Matheson & Co. -
bayonet, or, better still, a polo match- ANNAN MARU, Japanese str., 1,953, Toke. Luciow, British str., 1,228, Meathrel, ton, Mr. N. G. Morrison, Dr. S. A. de S..
the king of games is polo to my mind! And if I had wanted to go to Olympia most certainly I should have gone; and
should not dream of criticising any woman who did go. Chain à sou yout is an excellent and kindle molto.
THE RANGE UP FASHION.
I may seem to be indulging in mor fancies "the"fashions. to-day, yet fashion," though usually applied only Blowing bubbles more than two feet into clothes, is a word that covers the diameter, the latest soap bubble blower of whofe pange of civilised-life. Consciously- Prof. C. V. Boys, the British physicist, consciously we are all swayed by the is a scientific toy that must impress the chion of the day, in our manners, our wonder loving youth of the day. Insteattire, and it is well when current of the old pine-bowl, the part of the fashions on the whole are the outcome of apparatus dipped into the solution of soap sensible and kindly ideus; as most of
them
present Even and glycerine seems to be an Elongated centricities of the curiona folk generally cone of flexible fabric, and the film termed "Futurists merely provide a material taken up is inflated by a current tunch of that variety that is the very spice of air forced through a bent blow-pipe by of life, and greate harmless, indulgent the mouth or an electric fan. A special mirth.
are not to be taken They cup or hollow head of the blow-pipe aids seriously. in bringing into use an increased amount
TO-DAY'S ILLUSTRATION. of solution. Two stiffening strips of brass
The charming tle French
the
frock
BESU
mura, 19th July Moji 13th July, Coal. Osaka Shosen Kaisha.
VALLYN, British str., 2,985, Abernethy, 19th July-Haiphong 17th July, General.-Order. CHIPSHING, British str., 1,129, C. W.
Schenk, 26th July-Weihaiwei 20th July, General.-Jardine, Matheson & Co.
•
CHIYO MARU, Japanese str., 4,387, W. W. Greene, 27th July-San Francisco June, General.-Toyo Kiseo 27th Kaisha. CHIYTEN, Chinese str., 1,127, W. Ross, 26th
July-Shanghai 22nd July, General.
T Chinese.
CHOWTAL, German str. 1,115, E. Gathe mann, 19th July-Swatow 18th July, General Butterfield & Swire. CLARA JERSEN, German str., 1,163, J Bendixen, 27th July-Swatów 26th July, Rice-Chinese." DERWENT, British str., 1,536, -Jenkins, 25th:
July-Saigon 21st July, Rice--Chinese, Dickinson, 28th July--Singapore 23rd July, General-David Sassoon. & Co. HALDIS, Norwegian str., 1,005, Jergense,
can be brought together so as to flatten sketched above was seen at Hurlingham DUNERA, British str., 3,403, E. G. M.
out completely the cone bag, and this causes the bubble to become detached and float off in the air. The bubble can be made lighter by using a candle to heat
the air forced into it..
HOUSE FLY RANGE.
wearer
the other day, when the pretty young WAS evidently tremendously interested in the polo (should women witness polo matches). Of palest lemon and white shot tuffotas the froek looked delightfully cool, and though it was most
23rd July Amoy 22nd July, General. -Java-China Japan Lijn.
HELENE, German str., 77, J. Jessen, 23rd July-Swatow 22nd July, General → Jebsen & Co. "
HOERDA, German str., 2,000, Hensen, 26th July-Moji 20th July, General Haaiburg-Amerika Linie.
26th JulyShanghai 22nd July, Gen eral. Butterfeld & Swire. · MALAY MARD, Japanese str., 3,325, K. Sukawa, 25th July-Moji 2nd July, General, Osaka Shosen Kaisha. MENDIP RANGE, British str., 2,095, Fox- worthy, 23rd July-Moji 18th July, Coal. Gilman & Co.
Penara, Mr. A. M. Riley, Sgt. Clarke, Mr. H. M. Bazett, Mr. L. V. Bazett, Mr. Cruickshanks, Mr. H. Mortimer,, Mr. C. N. Woodward, Capt. Rafling, and Mr. Fernandez,
Per Empress of Asia, from Vancouver, &c., Miss Annie Kickwood, Dr. and Mrs. NANKAI MARU, Japanese str., 2112 Wallace Pyle, Master Robt. Pyle, Capt. Sakuma, 20th July-Miike 14th July, and Mrs. R. L. D. Whitfeld, Mr. C. T. Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Robertson, ONSANG, British str. 1,713, Picknell, 22nd Masters W. L. and Merlin Robertson, Mr
July Java 13th July, Sugar. Jar. Chariton and son, with amah, Mr. dine, Matheson & Co.
Elliot, Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Aubrey, Mr... RCNSHO MARU, Japanese str., 1,743,
and Mrs. D. Smith, Mr. A. H. Aglionby, Kanada, 20th July Dairen 13th July, Me. W. J. Gradaki, Mr. P. B. Deane, Mr. Coal, Mitsui Bussan Kaisha,
Eissler, Mr. J. 8. Bagrain, Mr. G. Rama das and servant, Mrs. D. A. Alonco, Mrs. A. once, and Mrs. F. A. Leach.
Y.
SIBER), American str., 5,655, 4. Zuder, 24th July-San Francisco 5th June, General. Pacific Mail B.8. Co. SADINE RICKMERS, Dutch str., 573, Schnier- man, 24th July-Singapore 17th July, Hall Oil Asiatic Petroleum & tiện SHERRIES, British str., 8,053,
21st July-Java 12th July, Sugar. Java-China-Japan Lijn. SWANLEY, British str., 2,907, W. F. Steele, 28th July--Manila 25th July, Ballast. --Carmichael & Co. TORILLA, British str., 3,189, C. J. Swan- son, 27th July-Moji zzud July, Gen- eral.-David Sassoon. Co.
TSCRTGIBAN MARU. Japanese str., 2001, Harada, 26th July-Miike 20th July, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. USRA MARU, Japanese str., 2,950, Tanaka,
25th July-Moji, 20th July, Coal- Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
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Fescadores
Hongkong
Gap Book
Wuchow
Hoihow
Pakhoi
Phulez
Tourane..
Cape St. James Aparri
Manils
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Coba Labuan
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6. 29.67, 89
29.75' 82
29.86 78
29.90
29.89 78 48:01 83
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director.
1 Banomate 4, reduced to 24 dogross Fahrenheit,
in the level of the sea in incass, tothe and anndredths.
2 TEMPERATUM, in the shade, degrees Fahrechoit:
3 HUMIDITY, in percentage of saturation, bomidity of sir saturated with mutators being 100.
DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points,
the
5 FORCE OF WIND, according to Beaufort Scale, 6 STATE OF Wzargan, b blue sky, o dotached oload, d drissling isin, fog, g gloomy, bhail lightning, o overcast, p passing showers, q quali, ¦r rain sñóów, & thunder, v visibility, w daw? won
7 Bar in inches, t tenths and hundredth
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, July 29th
Previous On Date On Dato
Day
st
at 2 p.m. 6 a.A.
2 p.m.
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Barometer Temperature... i Humidity... Wind Direction ... Force
Weather
Highest open-air Temperature on-28th ...90- Lowest open air Temperature on 28th 81
Week
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
From 30th July to 5th August, 1914.
HIGH WATE
Month
LOW WATHE
H'kong. Mean Time
H'kong.
Mena
Time
h. m.
fit, n
5 4
9 19
340 & 4 6
Thurs 30 m 2 35
31 m 3 20 Fri.
Per Lyo Maru, for Europe, etc., Mr. John Brochon, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wadiz, Miss S. Watanabe, Dr. Silver, Mrs. S. Fuchi and 2 children, Mr. M. Shoda, Mr. Y. Miyajima, Mr. S. Shishido, Mr. I. Kusaka, Mr. B. Watanabe, Mr. A. F. Cornelius, Mrs. L. L. Moore, Mrs. Henry Taylor, Mrs. Sheely, Mr. Shoely, Miss T. Saku, Miss S. Yamada, Miss M. Miyada, Mrs. Gatelier, Messrs. M. Yamada, S. Satur.1 Goto, Y. Sako, Bernanoto, HH Pandya, E--Mohamed, M. L. Marjani, Y. Miyata, ¦ San.. John Sorbin, Y. Nakajima, T. Koyama
Mon. and M. V. J. V. Bocek
On liberating captured flies, marked for effective it really was very simply iontification, Dr. Hundie has found that fashioned, its chief features the longi they travel farther in the open country overskirt with its frilled edge draped up than in towns, the usual maximum in at the back, and the circular shape given thickly settled localities being about a to the back of the loose coatee hy drawing quarter of a mile, In one experiment, the fullness in to a thick piping of the HSINCHANG, Chinese str., 1,480, D. D. ROES, WAISHING, British str., 1,170, A. S. Wood-Mr. J. Ross Smith, Mr. S. Mihara, Mr. where the flight was partly over open silk. It was worn over a blouse of white fenland, a single fly reached a distance of ninon and lace. The hot was of fine black 770 yards, or nearly half a mile. The lace over white aerophane with small flies are not inclined to roam late in the lemon tinted roses, and the sunshade of day, and disperse less in the afternoon lemnon chiffon over white bordered with thaa in the morning. The newly liberated black satin.-DIADORE in the Globe. flies often ninunt vertically to a height
af 45 foel or more.
SIGNALA FROM SPAČE.
Kemp fit
and well by
taking
The signalling thermometer of Dr. MONTSERRAT" Lime Juice regularly Richard Assmann is designed especially fur upper air indications over the sea, in hot weather. It is a scientific adjunct
the desert, or polar regions, where the
26th July--Tientsin 19th July, Ge eral.-Chinese.
IItE, French six., 748, A. Cornelingen, 26th July--K, C. Wan 25th July, Gen- eral.-A. R. Marty,
JOHANNE, German str., 952, Chr. Ulderup, 25th July--Haiphong and Hoihow, 21st July, General-Jebsen & Co. KANAZUR, British str., 2,693, FJ Archbold,
17th July-Haiphong 18th July, Ol Standard Oil Co.
To the July-Moj 15th July, Kiro MARU, Japanese str., 5,757, Hashi-
General. Toyo Kisen Kaisha...
small sounding balloons are usually lost. to summer diet. Order from your Store-KWANGSE, British str., 1,302, G. J. Spink,
circuit at any desired temperature, and keeper and say firmly.
An attached arm is set to close an electric
this explodes & bomb, signalling to the
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23rd July Swatow 22nd July, Bal last.Butterfield & Swire.
get, 21st July-Saigon 18th July, Rice.
Jardine, Matheson & Co. YAMATO MARY, Japanese str.4 1,312, L. Baba, 25th July-Karatsu 29th July, Coal.-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha,
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