"AS OTHERS BEF US.
PENNY WISE POUND FOOLISH,
The · London and China Express (öf: Märch 7th says
Professor Simpson the sanitary expert who has been investigating the plague at Hongkong, has submitted a memorandum on the measures which it is advisable to take in order to combat the annual recurrence of the dread disease To put the matter with more force than elegance, his report can be summed up in one word rats, In his own language: Once the requisite measures are taken againar rat plague, then the measures against buna a plague resolve them selves into those that are ordinarily employed against an epidemic disease such na small-pox." Doubtless the various suggestions that he makes will receive the dus attention of the focal administration, although they are for the most
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1902.
HEAD COVERINGS.
There is chamcter in hats. The glossy silk topper" of the man on Change suggests the top of the social ires; and the hard unbrashed felt, pushed hastily on to the back of the head, betokens the rough-and-tumble struggle in the jungle of untidiness and care. Yet, again, that same hard felt, when of good quality, well kept and well poised proclaims the gentleman even, more than a poor and pretentious silk topper, or one whose curly brim is too curly and it glossiness too pronounced. This last topper is like a gold chain which 's too thick, and altogether too ostentatious. When you come to think of it the hard felt might be called the sleepless hat, because it never had a nap."
Another napless hat is
THE BOATING STRAW
which, as a matter of fact, is not straw at all, but
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part so obvious that one would have thought ship, yet does not care a straw about that, but Emosi centrally situated Hotel in Yokohama within five minutes af Hatoba (Landing
that it scarcely needed the aid of an expert to point them out. That rats were the real nurce. of plague in the colony has been known for a long time, and yet up to the present the local authorities do not seem to have made anything like a sustained and systematic effort to extor minate them, or by adopting proper preventive measures to reduce the evilton minimum. Now perhaps, that Professer Simpson has painted out the most effective way of achieving this end more definite action will be taken», The expert's
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thinks it is quite as good as any straw; if not better. It looks quite chippy if people thinks it is what it is not. It is no doubt quite proud in the consciousness that it is not a man of straw. In town the straw declares quite loud- ly that its owner--as well as the hat itself—does not care two straws for fashion, but thinks more of shading himself from the hot son and wearing that which is light and comfortable than of all the unwritten conventions of society in the world. So though it is to innocent in appearance, the straw seems to have a good deal of defiance in
Panams, and though you cannot exactly call it and straw are fint cousins to the aristocratic
"VERISSEL," Yokohama,
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suggestion with regard to the difficulty creates its light land dried-up constitution. The chip The most comfortable family Hotel in Hongkong. Jared States, Canada and Europe, in connection with the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY and
fraud, yet truth compels me to say that it also does not hail from the renowned isthmus, but is not exactly what it appears to be—that is, it
from the South American countries of Ecuador and Pero, and some indeed from no farther than. Belgium.
Stay, yonder is the
ODD SCHOOL-HAT OR COLLEGE CAP.
by the Chinese baving a dread of being taken to an European hospital is worthy of attention He thinks that the difficulty could be overcome to a large extent by allowing the large firms to establish, with, of course, all possible precau tions, private hospitals with Chinese doctors and nurses to attend the sick. We are inclined to agree with him that it would be an immense advantage to secure in this way the assistance and co-operation of the different firms in the early discovery and isolation of the sick. To prevent, as far as possible, the importation of irreverently termed mortar-board to jovial of plague, Professor Simpson also suggests the youth. The head-gear of dons is donned under employment, under supervision, of additional compulsion no doubt by certain boys of pre- assistant-surgeons from India trainer in plaguetentious schools which like to call themselves work to inspect incoming passengers from colleges; while the lads of really high-class Canton and Macan, and yet we learn by the preparatory schools are content with neat and last mail to hand that the Sanitary Board has uniform caps of cloth. And yet again, there is decided to cut down the number of assistant the tidy, gentlemanly cap so comfortable in surgeons to be engaged for the investigation of windy weather, betokening that the wearer is plague, house-to-house visiting, &c, from seven off duty so far as town fashion is concerned; and (as proposed by the Medical Officer of Health) | there is the slouchy, greasy bend-gear of the to five. It is not surprising to fear that such action has evoked considerable criticism in the colony. It certainly seems to savour of the penny wise and pound foolish policy which has already in this matter of the plague inflicted such terrible injury upon the colony.
LIQUID FUEL STEAMERS.
A RÈCORD VOYAGE.
At the invitation of Sir Marcus Samuel and the Managers of the Shell Transport and Trad Ing Company, (Limited), a/party.of gentlemen interested in liquid fuel visited Thames Haven, where they had an opportunity of inspecting the steamship Murer, which has just completed the longest voyage on record under liquid fuel. Built ten years ago for ordinary coal-burning purposes, the Murer, Commanded by Captain
loafing labourer, or the prim and aggressive skull-covering of Bill Sikes. The word skull, of course, reminds one irresistibly of the skull. cap, which has not the remotest resemblance to a skull; but it will not be regarded as a bald statement to say that it does suggest a hairless head, and for, saying this 1 trust no one will give me a wigging. Then there's the wideawake often worn by good men and true, who, how ever, are frequently very far from resembling their bats in this respect'; while, again, there is another species of
50FT FELT OR CLOTH, HAT that, when clapped defiantly on some fellows heads, seems to have been specially made for the objectionable genus Bounder. Yes, there is character in hats, and there is history and enterprise also. How came these various tiles into being, whose presence about
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E. A. HEWETT,
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HO
FOUNDED in 1891, by DR. CANTLIE, NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP
and conducted for several years by H.E. POLLOCK, ESQ., K.C.
TRUSTEES:
THE SECOND VOLUME of BOX'S EX- CHANCE TABLES with Kates in hookbinders hands and will be published next 1/16ths from 1/1015/16 downto 178d, is now in the
story? Time was, I suppose, when everybody
100. from £999 down to 1. and from 19/ was like the Bluecoat boys, and wore no hats :
down to Id or from 5999 down to 1 cent, enable the user to arrive at the value in Dollars of they were content with the head covering which
any sum in Sterling under £1,000 by simply Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G., no doubt Dame Nature intended for us all-adding the equivalent of the Shillings and
G. B. DODWELL, Esq., namely, the hair. But we have improved, or Pence to that of the Pounds; or to get the value
R. SHEWAN, ESQ. spoilt that little idea, and wo wear the hair of in Sterling of any Sum of Dollars and Cents
under $1,000 by adding the equivalent of the! other animals made into felt, instead of our
SUBSCRIPTIONS Cents to that of the Dollars. By these simple own. In fact, we have gone further, and wear means of computation a very considerable saving. their fur in a similar manner.
of time and trouble, besides securing a ready, means of proving accuracy is secured, as is gi
$1.40 illustrated in the following examples, To
·reduce £879,17,11 into Dollars at Exchange 1/10 1/16:
£8790. $9,561. 526
I do not know exactly who, or what, started the idea of weating hats, It may have been
·THE LOVE OF LADIES FOR ADORNMENT,
in the Shell Line, which for propelsion and all auxiliary steam requirements now, depend ex clusively upon the consumption of crude petroleum. In her oil-carrying tanks she has brought home a large cargo of benzine, which is now being rapidly discharged under the supervision of Mr.. A. G. Adams, the Manager of the London and Thames Haven Wharves, (Limited). The vessel left Singapore on the 18th of December last, and on January 11th reached Capetown, where oll was landed for use in the locomotives on the Cape Railways. Starting again on January 15th,or-on second thoughts-it may have been a the Murer arrived in the Thames the other day not unnatural desire for some shelter from the having completed a journey of 11,830 miles sun and rain. The ancient Greeks seem to Tom Singapore to Capetown her main speed have started the suggestion--that is, so far as was 27 knots on a liquid fuel consumption of our hats, as distinct from caps and bonnets of 151 tons per day for the main engines and 38 to day, are concerned. I do not mean to say cwt. per day of the auxiliary engines. On the that Homer walked about the fields of Attica panpage from Capetown to Thames Haven the—or where he did walk-in a well-brushed average speed was 9.8 knots, but owing to the very heavy weather experienced, the liquid fuel burned per day want up to 165 tons the auxiliary consumption being 38.8 cæts. ---
SAVING IN THE COST.
17.11.
9. 745
19.571. 671 whereas with the other exchange books the process would be as follows:-
£800, a 0-$8,70z. 550 70, 0.0, 761. 473. 9. a a 97. 201
17, 0.
347 9. It.
a. 497
$9,571 671
$7.50
Payable in Advance.
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silk topper, which somehow would get on the back of his head as he kept pushing up his spectacles--if he had any-in order to see theor to reconven the dollars into sterling at the CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS spectacle about him. But it does appear same rate of exchange:- to be a fact that hats with brims are des.
Taking the voyage throughout, there wascended, or evolved, from the ancient Greek a total consumption of liquid fuel for all pur- ** petasus," which posseased a brim, and may poses of from 17 tons to 18 tons per day, certainly be said to have brimmed over when while, had the vessel been burning coal, the filled up with a wise Greek head. Other Gre corresponding consumption of Welsh would cian head-gear seems to have been termed a have been from 24 tons to 25 tons, or with pilos, or pileus, and in some cases, at least, Japanese or other varieties, from sa tons to 31 these caps or whatever we may call them in toar per day. Therefore, making allowance for common-sense English-appear to have had differences in price, it is claimed that, in the coverings for the ears. But oot having been first place, there is an actual saving as regards able to personally observe these things, I am Cost of fuel) but still more significant it would compelled to speak from what may be called appear are the economies effected in relation hearsay. Some of the Romans appear to have to available cargo-carrying capacity, and to had a conical (and comical) head-gear called labour. The crude petroleumeburned in the | 40 opex, and not furnaces is stored in the perks in the double bottom of the aleation abin other is consuming coal, are spaces which); in
arely, f
fully sed. Thus the whole of the central cubical aren, enclosed fore and To come to our own island, our honoured aft by projecting coffer.dams, li made avall. ancestors about the year 700 or 800-some- able for oil in bulk or for mixed cargo, of which how a hundred years or so in those days
considers
is entrusted to the does not Beem to matter qua
ED much as fuel
ingrof
and not
DUNCE'S CAP, though an apex shaped like a cone on a man's head would certainly provoke our irreverent youth to use that sportive title,
of the Shell Line. The now-our beloved ancestors took to wear- auder the heading skin caps, with the bar, of course,
illustrated outside. So
they trotted about with the Ganch of the Murex which em- hair of a rat, or maybe a rabbit, or some such
slokers,
124
animal, rather than their own hair, exposed to the weather. About a century later, bats of wool or felt began to appear. These were not however there is nothing new under the not even a new hat-for the Grecian usere compiled of felt. It was not I until the twolfth century that we hear of ayer hats? Chaucer declares, in bis Canter- Tales: that the merchant, had on his
idrish haver hat "an anta
RED, WHITE, BLUE, SPECIALTY COFKEER,
$9,000 000827. 6.10. 8 $71.000 52. 9. 9.11
.671= 1. 1. 2,13-
879.17.11.00 but by other books it would be: $9,000,000 £827, 6.10. 8
500,000 45.19. 70,000- 6. 8.
1,000
,600
70
I
1.10. T I. I. 3 1.9
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