be settled on the way, but the retreat of the wounded is hardly noticed, so large is the crowd. On reaching the selected spot the conductor of the choris is chosen. The baton generally falls upon a member of the community afflicted with some very painful and incurable dise se, a stomachic trouble for choice. He takes his seat in the brightest patch.of moonlight available and his friends form a circle around him. Then he lifts up his voice in one prolonged soul-piercing howl, snaps his vocal chord on the highest note nail the chorus join in and sustain the song until they in turn are obliged to pause for breath, when the solo recommences, I cannot say that the efforts of the serenaders are always appreciated by the owners of the serenaded dogs. Stones, sticks and old bholes frequently take the place of bouquets, while now and again a sudden flash and a report are followed by a short, sharp howl of pain, the conductor's song ceases And the serennding party disperses, leaving the
· conductor strangely silent and still in the pale moonlight. Next morning a gardener has a job on hand, and thereafter a somewhat scraggy rose-bush flourishes and boon's
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1901.
recital. Can it be that all these singers are poking fun at Hongkong and trying to stir up the powers that be by veited parcasm? I would suggest that "The Holy City" be laid aside for a time and some song that sounded less like a rebuke substituted.
Dolly
and Vera,
WHEN INVESTIGATING A SUNSET | is to sealize that the white light from the 'san- which is commonly supposed to be composed of the seven primary colours, should rather be thought of as a residue of the original radia- tions. A further important point is to hear lá. mind that alb radiations of light are of different I see that, Dolly has recovered wave-lengths. This fact indeed is at the very from her indisposition and is once foundation, so to speak, of all. sunsets, and it is more contributing to the paper, Mr. the prime agency by which their Aiming, Editor. I met her the other day gorgeous tints and colours are produced. It is and asked after Vera. She told me that the due to this fact, for instance that in the neigh- bourhood of large towns the sun nearly always poor girl had gone down with dengue and that the attack was aggravated by the fact that you appear to set as a red ball of fire. The rays of light at the red end of the spectrum are of a much had accepted an effusion from Dolly and re- turned one to Vera with "the Editor's compli- longer wave-length than any of theirfallow rays, ments and regrets," etc. Really, Mr. Editor, and so are the best qualified for penetrating the dense bank of haze which so commonly you must be a very har hearted man when you can treat a poetess like that.. Vera refuses fonts over all large towns and cities. In such to be comforted, and says that she is preparing localities, as the sun sinks to rest, the green a poem on the sins of Editors, and that if you rays are first absorbed by this bank of haze, and then the yellow, and lastly the orange and don't accept and publish it she will make it personal and send it to one of your contemthe red, the latter, more often than not, being poraries How's that for a threat?
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the only ones to get through at all. A careful observation of a sunset will reveal the fact that the colours fade in the above-mentioned order, and the reason they do so is that they ard of different wave-lengths."
Mr. Bell goes on to remind us that the color in the sky may be painted on the clouds, or on the hazy air, or on the open sky itself.
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Talking of threats, no won- Now and again trouble arises in the settle.. A Terrible der the German Press is dis-
Over the Threat turbed
German ment. There is usually a lady in the case and
Emperor's statement to the the fights become general and rage at intervals
effect that, "If no commercial treaties are all over the place for a week or more. Then cach dog's teeth are bared against his fellow, negotiated 1 shall smash everything to pieces." and the list of wounded mounts rapidly. Torn It is very difficult to see what is meant, bit it is ears, bitten flanks, gashed faces and blady to be devoutly hoped that sufficient commercial backs are the order of the day, and when the treaties will be put through to satisfy the fead is ended shamefaced and damaged dogs. Emperor William It is bad enough to have are to be met at every corner, Peace reigns the Prince Consort of the Netherlands insulting for a time and then the usual routing of duels, his wife at the dinner table and then going out- raids and clan fights commences once more.
side and carving up the gentlemen and aide-de. But it is in the presence of the guardians of camps waiting, but to have the German Emperor the law that the Kowloon deg shines.. Take running amok with a mailed fist and a hatchet i specks in the dome of blue, it seems almost HAVE This Day RESUMED CHARGE :
an afternoon stroll along the sea front and you will meet dogs minus collar and badge at every turn. Take a walk over the same, ground in the wake of a policemen and note how different the scene! Dogs vanish precipitately in all directions, while a few, ronscious of the posses- sion of their diamond-shaped badges, loll idly about and greet the representative of law and order with an insolent stare, as much as to say, que have no reason to fear you, do your worst.
FLOSSIE.
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
1 bear that a new Museum is A Chamber of to be started in connection with one of the Government Offices Horrors.
of this Colony, Mr. Editor, and that it is to contain relics of all prominent par. sons who have been or are connected with the Colony in the past or present. I bear that exhibits are being solicited and are pouring in apice. Among hers the following interest ing relics have already been presented specimen of Mrf Ormsby's blue road metal; the butter knife used by His Excellency at the fast banquet; a lack of the lion. J. H. Stewart Lockhart's hair. (very scarce and precious); a volume of autograph manuscript questions by the on. T. H. Whitehead; half brick, he lleved to have been heaved at a prominent Pub. lic Works Official; top-list worn by Hon. C. P. Chater, at a recent levee; eyeglass, formerly used on the Bench by Sir John Carrington;kilt worn by Mr David Gillies at twenty St. Andrew's Balls photograph of the Hongkong Regi- mental Pet in hall costume: phonographic record of what the Acting Chief Justice meant to
here is, of course, blue, and in seeking for the origin of this tint an explanation will be found, he tells us, of many of the other colors. He says:
or
"On looking up into the sky on a cloudless, sunny day, when the swallows, perhaps, are flying so high that they appear but as tiny and smashing everything to pieces would be impossible to think of the atmosphere as being. terrible in contemplate. I shall pop down the otherwise than perfectly clear and translucent. main drain directly I see him coming, and stap It is, however, in reality charged with minute there till Hongkong is broken to his satisfac-dusty particles which have always been found in myriads, whenever the atmosphere has tion. Really, after all one has heard about the
been tested either over the open sea atrocities of the troops in China, threats like these make ene distinctly nervous.
at the top of high mountains. There is an ingenious instrument, indeed, by which the number of these atoms of dust in any given quantity of air may be counted, and by its aid samples of air in many different parts of the world and at different seasons of the year have been analyzed and the atoms counted. The sources from which; this atmospheric dust is obtained are large. From the land, and more especially from deserts, dust is continually rising, and the dust so raised is carried by the winds to all parts, Altho these parti.
THE ARENA.
GILAH.
The handsonic, cup presented by Mr. Lacock, of Bay View Hotel, is likely to be well contes ed, although there appears to be a dearth of heavy weights in the Colony to answer Gunner Lennard's challenge. Among the light-weight class who are coming forward to fill the breach, Are Seaman Carver, H.M.S. Blenheim, P. Keogh, A. B., H.M.S. Aurora, and Gunner Harvey,cles are spoken of as dust, many of them are so R.M.A. The contest is to be four three minute minute that a microscope fails to render them rounds, Queensberry Rules. Both men being visible, and the only way in which they reveal on their feet at the end of the fourth round, the their presence is by their effects. Not only there Referee's decision will be given on points. It is fore, do dusty particles pervade the atmosphere stated that a local organisation is afect to pro- in all parts, but they vary in size from those that are coarse and readily discernible to others. mote athletics in the Colony, the title of the new
that are below microscopic sight. concern being the Olympic Club, to which the following officials have been provisionally ap pointed: President:-). Christie; Manager, J. I. Downs; Referee, Mike Collins; Official Time Keeper, W. Frost; Secretary, W. Mus- kett. Surely, these gentlemen should be able to arrange some good' sport, and that at no remote date.
THE 8, S. "FUSHUN."
CARGO A TOTAL LOSS.
The Manager of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company sends us the following
letter for publication:—
To The Commissioner of Customs,
Canton
"Dusty atoms are further to be conceived as offering considerable resistance to the passage of the rays of light which emanate from the sun..
Luminous bodies, as is well known, shed rays of light of varying wave-length, as the term is, and as regards human vision only those rays whose wave-length is between.00036 and.00075 millimeter can be seen. As these waves of light surge through the atmosphere, not only does their wave-length affect their manner of passing through the earth's atmosphere, but the different sizes of the dusty
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Auctions.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
No. 709.
THE following Particulars and Conditions of
Sale at Cres Land by Public Auction to be held at the Offees of the Public Works
Department, on MONDAY,
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the 9th day of December, 1901, at 3. F.M., are published for general information,
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 23rd November, 1001. Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 9th day of December, 1901, at 3 F., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty, the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
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say, but didn't, about the victory of Hongkong over Shanghai at cricket; the hatchet buried by the V. R. C. and Boat Club; a lost reputation (donor anonymous); spats worn by Dr. Jordan at the unveiling of the Queen's Statur; Dr.
SinI have the honour to report that in Hartigan's resignation from the Sanitary Board; accordance with your instructions I have this working model of Dr. Clark's rejected refuse day visted the s.3. Fushun in order to inspect ange rays which are of a large wave-length passTHE Undersigned have received instructions:
destructor; sample pair of rosehued spectacles worn by officials when writing reports; clean Bill of Health issued by Dr. Swan (the only recorded specimen); stork from the Hongkong Club (deposited for safe keeping); painting in oils entitled "Waiting," depicting the Registrar of the, Supreme Court waiting for the arrival of the Hongkong ratepayers to elect a representative on the Sanitary Board, plaster cast of the rat found at Govern- ment House. This you will admit, I think, is A very fine nucleus for any museum collection and hear that several other exhibits have been promised. It is said that relies of the Champion Boxers of the Colony will be ex- cluded, as the trustees of the new museum fear that the space at their disposal would be inadequate to the demand, and they feel that the line must be drawn somewhere.
P. S. The Chairman of the new museum has just called to ask for my autograph to place amongst the exhibits. I blushed at the honour-conferred on me, and gave him an unpaid Club chit
any cargo which might have remained on board after the fire; and that I found that all the cargo, which was on board at the time of the fire, has been destroyed and is valurless. ¿
I have the honour to remain, Sir,.
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) A. E. PFAUKUCHEN,
Examiner.
Custom House, Cánton, 27th Nov., 1901.j
Approved:
(Signed) F. A. MORGAN, Commissioner. "
THE CAUSE OF SUNSET COLOURS. An eminent scientist excited public curiosity twenty years ago by announcing that the sun is blue. In Knowledge "(October), Arthur Beil adds to this the information that the air is orange-coloured, Both these apparently absurd statements are demonstrably true if we ander stand what they mean. They signify that the sun; viewed through the screen of the earth's I was pleased to see that atmosphere, through which we are always Well Deserved last night at the Empire compelled to view it, looks to us yellow for the Comedy Company's perfor- same reason that the bluish arc-lamp seems mance a party of four young Hongkong yellow when viewed through amber-colored "bloods" received a well deserved rebuke. glass. Says Mr. Bell: These youths were sitting right in the middle of the front row and were making so much noise that they annoyed both the audience and the performers. When Adson came forward to sing he delivered them a very quiet but cut- ting lecture, and they collapsed like so many whipped puppies. A public rebuke of this description is what very many of these usman. merly young idiots nees. As a matter of fact they ought to be kept on a chain, or in a cage with their simian superiors, until such time as they can learn to behave themselves.
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l'ave you noticed, Mr. Editor, Is it Meant how that song "The Holy City" Barcastic has caught on in Hongkong of late? Everybody who has a voice to fit it, and a great many who haven't, warbles it upon every possible occasion and one hears it at concerts, in drawing rooms and at organ COTTAM & CO, CRICKETING HÁTS
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atoms against which the rays of light strike introduce other modifications. Thus, many atoms of dust are of a smaller dimension than the wave-lengths of light that rush in among them. Hence it happens that the red and or
over these obstacles with comparative ́ease; but the blue rays which are of a shorter wave- length are stopped, and the blue light is, as it were, turned out of its course and scattered."
This selective scattering of the finer rays has been made by Lord Rayleigh to account for the blue of the sky, and it has been illus trated by
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'In the lower strata of the atmosphere the
Westera Division of the City of Victoris THE coarser particles of dust not only scatter the who have not had their Premises LIME- waves of light, but they also reflect them, so WASHED and CLEANSED in accordance tifat at these lower levels the blue tint is diluted with Law, are reminded that the period during by white light, and is accordingly not so in which this work should be FINISHED ends tense as when seen, say, from the top of a high on the 31st day of DECEMBER, 1901, and the Sanitary Beard being convinced of the necessity. mountain, At this elevation only the finer varie of Qleanliness in its efforts to Stamp out Plague, SIMPLE ERATED WATER ties of dust are floating, and there is little reis determined to rigorously prosecute any flection of the light, but much scattering, and Owner in default, after the above named Date.
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G. A. WOODCOCK, heace it is here that the blue attains its greatest intensity. In that part of the sky nearest the
Secretary, "The atmosphere surrounding the earth
sun the rays of light come in a direct line to, Sanitary Board Office,
1st December, 1901, may be likened to a screen of an orange colour, the eye of the observer, and the scattering of
les to the West of Morrison and East and it will readily be understood that any the light des not appear so great as when one Notes The Western Division of the City.
Streets.
[1318c light passing through this screen will experi- looks across the path of the beams, and it is ence some remarkable modifications. Now it due to this circumstance that the sky near the appears "highly probable that supposing any sun is not of so intense a blue as portions of one could see the sun from a position outside the sky farther away. A similar kind of thing the earth's atmosphere, the ligh coming from happens in respect of the clouds, where dust
AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL this central luminary would be seen to be not readily accumulates, and, reflecting the light,
A MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS. white, but blue..... When the rays of light produces their brilliant whiteness, Aithe edges. first left the sun, blue rays were the strongest, of the clouds, moreover, the atoms of dust are in the above Company will bejte d in the HoOTEL, but very soon after they entered the busily engaged in refracting the beams of light on WEDNESDAY, the th December, 1901 A NOON, in consider n prog sal of the Board earth's atmosphere their progress was impeded and to this cause is due that brilliant fringo off Directors for the profitable ptilization of the and all of the rays journeying from the sun they brightness which so often adorns many of the ground on the Reclamation in front of the quickly became the weakest. On the other largest clouds. Not only, therefore, does the Hotel un, if approved, to pass the following hand, the red mys, which at first were incon atmospheric dust filter out the blue light that RESOLUTIONEN spicuous, had the facility of penetrating the tints the sky, but it also fabricates the pigments earth's atmosphere, and were the most in that color the clouds, effects which can most evidence at the end of their long journey, readily be observed in contemplating the glories
"The first step, accordingly to be taken of the setting sun."-The Literary Digest.
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HONGKONG HOTEL, COMPANY, LIMITEDA NOTICE.
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Spoad for utilising the Company's Praya That, this Meeting approves the pic Reclamation land (Remaining Portion of Marine Lot Ho 7) by the erection of a Milding thereon, MOONEY,
-Secretary,
Hengkeng, soth Neramber, 1901
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