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GENTLEMEN'S
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY APRIL 18, 1905.
Intimations,
THE WORRIED WOMEN.'
They say men must work and woman must weep; but alas, in this too busy world-women aten have to work and weep at the same time. Their holidays are too, few and their work heavy and monotonous. It makes them narvous and imitable. The depressed and worried woman loses her appetite and grows thin and feeble. Once in a while she has spells of palpitation and has to lle up for a davor two. If some disease like influenza or matarial fever
ECLIPSES OF THE SUN,
USED TO FIX DATES LC.
-DUÉKV, QUEEN/ !:. *In 1854 he died, and was succeeded by his 450, George Clunies Foss, the present King of the flocos Keeling group. It is interesting to data that he was educated in Germany, and is mamied to z Cocos woman, who does not speak English. King Ross elected to adopt the Hrkish Sovereign as overlord, and since 1857, the group has been under the Union Jack.
Christnuï Island—another "earthly paradise”,
DEPARTMENT, happens to prevall she is almost certain to have generally known that ecliptes: bave their from the Straits Settlements who visited it fo
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Eclipses of the sun are generally looked upon as interesting to the astronomer only and perhaps to those fortunate persons who happen to live in the path of one, and who may amuse themselves, until they get bored with it, by shuiting one eye, and glaring with the other, through fragments of smoked plass, in the Cocos Keeling group was appropriated in the aid Chamber of Commerce Room, at a pale, anemic sun-the mere shadow of in 1888 by Andrew Clunies Ross, brother of the his proud self-and looking for all world like Cocos King. The birds on this island are so a biscut with a bite out of it. It is not so extraordinarily tame that a Government official
scientific interest for the historian, Yet auch 1891, declared that he caught a little thrust is the case. The dates of events which hap with a butterfly net, and "shot ten pigeons on pened before the Christian era are largely fix- one tree cas after the other, without one of ed by reference to certain recorded eclipses. them altempting to fly away,"
Three are recorded by Herodotus.AndRats and cats are the two great pests against after, this," he says, there arose.anwar_be_which the Kings of Gocos and Christmas is tween the Lydians and the Medes, for dva lands have now to fight, The rat were once a true and sure remedy for the ills and maladies years. During that time, the Medes often.de landed from a ship, and the ca's that were imm of women. It is platable as honey and con-fealed the Lydians, and often the Lydians the ported to kill them overran the islands, and tains all the nutritive and curative properties of Medes. Among there battles was one night have become a perfect nuisance themselves by Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined with the Com-attack. They went on with war, and neither killing birds, most of which were brought to pound Syrus of Hypophosphites and the side had the advantage, when, in the sixth the islands to destroy the cocoanut beetles, Extracts of Maltand Wild Cherry. Search the year, battle took place, in which it came to world over and you will find nothing to equal pass that the day suddenly turned to night. it. Taken before meals it improves the nutri- The eclipse, which took place on that day, was tive value of ordinary foods by making them foretold by Thales of Miletus to the Ionians easier to assimilate, and has carried hope and he forecast-as its date-this very year in good cheer into thousands of darkened homes. which it actually happened." Not bad, that, It is effective from the first dose, and probably for an astronomer living 600 years before one bottle is all vou may need. It is absolutely Christ. Herodotus goes on: The Lydians reliable and effective in Blood Impurities, and the Medes, when they saw night camping
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Hongkong, 17th April, 1905.
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"SUNGKIANG" FIRE, APRIL 29TH, 1904 CHIPPERS, Underwriters and others are
hereby notified that the GENERAL AVERAGE STATEMENT will be closed on 15TH MAY, 1905, and that all Claims not sent in to the Underigned before that date cannot be included in the Statement.
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of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the Club House, on THURSDAY, the 20th April, 1905, at 5 P.M.
By Order.
C. H. GRACE, Secretary.
Hongkong, 12th April, 1005.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE.
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Meeting.
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on in place of day, stopped fighting, and made no small haste to come to terms. Those who advised them to do this were Byennesis, King of Cilicia, and Labynetus, of Babylon." We fear that the Japanese and the Russians will not be so easily apprased.
This eclipse is known by astronomers to have taken place on May 28, 585 8.G. "Labynetus" is probably the same as "Nabunabid" of Scripture. Se that the date thus arrive 1 at it very important indeed.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
'R. GEO, P. LAMMERT has received
PUBLIC AUCTION,
MR. Gnstructions to sell by
ON WEDNESDAY,
JOHNSON, STOKES AND MASTER, Hongkong, 31st March; 1905.
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EMPLOYE de commerce, âgé de 19 an,
de nationalité Suisse, ayant déja occupé, d'importastes fonctions dans de grosses maisons, connaissant à fond de comptabilité en partie double, parlant couramment le Français, PAI lemand, le Hollandais, italien et l'Anglais, désireralt one situation dans l'une des villës de la côte de China.
Très bonnes références-Appolutamentai da $ 6,000 dollars per an. Ecrire aux initialas 5. V. au journal “VOpinion" de Saigon.
Salgon, le z Mars, 1903.
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THE FAMOUS Mab D
ASHARPUTTLE SHAVER
WRIGHT LESS THAN jounces
Razor
the 26th day of April, 1901, at 3 P.., at his old fashioned clumsy Razor and by HIS DWARF KAZOR has superseded
Sales Rooms.
The Rosses are by no means idle potentates. They themselves do all manner of work, and are excellent mechanics and carpenters. One of their most notable feats was the manufac ture of a good-sized schooner, in which they make frequent journeys from one island to situate at Victorin, in the Colony of Hongkong, Thousands of Testimonials testify that, the another, and also at times to Java, which lies
go miles to the north
THE CHOCOLATE KING.
The largest island in the world under private ownership is Anticosti, which has an area of 3500 square miles, and lies in the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, commanding the high- way to Montreal and Quebec. In April, 1896, M.Henri Menier, the French "chocolate king," acquired the island from the liquidator of the Govemer and Company of the Island of Anticosti for the sum of £25,000.
The following VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY,
viz
All that PIECE or PARCEL or GROUND situate at Victoria aforesaid registered in the and Office as INLAND LOT No. 1666. Area 689 square feet. Term 75 years. Annual Crown Rent $11.00 together with the messunge thereon, known as No. 8, Po Hing Fong.
For further particulars and conditions of sale, apply to
its use Shaving becomes a pleasure. It is manufactured in Shaffield, England, from a special amalgam of steel which makes imita- tion impossible, and in consequence it enjoys- the largest sale of any Razor in the World.
little "MAB" is the finest shaving implement ever produced.
Will be mailed to any address on receipt of the price (82), post free.
To be obtained from THE MUTUAL STORES,
WATKINS, LIMITED, and all first-class stores
in the Colony.
Sole Agents for Far East, HOWARD & Co., 29, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,|Agents wanted in every port
Bolicitors for the Mortgagees, For particulars and terms, apply to
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or to
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 13th April, 1905,
He has administered it as a private estate, and placed it under the management of an The second eclipse gives the date of Xerxes' agent-M. Oscar Commettant to whom be Egreat march from Sardis to Abydos, on the oc- has given the pompous title of Governor of casion of the bridging of the Hellespont and Anticosti. Many improvements have been the second invasion of Greece. When news wrought in the island and the conditions of its THE F. Fl. HINDS. Eag, to sell by came to Xerxes that this work was complete settlers since it passed into M. Menier's hands (ie, the cutting of a canal through the PeninMany buildings have been erected, and others
N INTERIM BONUS of Twenty per
1904 has been declared,
- WARRANTS will be issued on the grd May
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Acting Secretary.
Hongkong, 13th April, 1905.
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NOTICE is hereby given that Mr. NG LI
HING of the "GOH GUAN HIN' Hong, No, 108, Wing Lok Street, Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, will not be Responsible for Buy Debis contrapted by his Son NG KAI SUI, otherwise called NC CHAP NG, who is a minor of 17 years of age, and has no property whatever either in reversion or in expectancy. The Public are bereby warned against lend ing him money or contracting with him in any
Dated the 15th day of April, 1903.
Wm. POWELL, Ld.manner.
HONGKONG. ¿Hongkong, 1ish April, 1908)
EWENS AND HARSTON,
Solicitors for NO LI-HIxo,
In the Azores Archipelago are the two is lands of Canto, which have belonged to a Por tuguese family for over 500 years, and are now
offered for enla.
sula of Athos-a work which the Romans
are in course of construction. More land has laughed at as an ancient fiction, but of whichbeen put under cultivation. Increased means the remains were recently found), he began of communication. have lessened the price of his march to Abydos, fully equipped, in the the necessities of lite, and fish and game have. early spring. At the moment of his starting been preserved from wholesale destruction. the sun suddenly left his abode in the heavens,' and disappeared, though there were no clouds to be seen, and the sky was serene and clear Day was ibu turned into night." The magiciana told the King that this portent fore- told that he would lay low the Greek cities This eclipse is known to have taken place on | April 19 (i.e., "early spring"), B.C. 480.
Another eclipse took place when the army under the Spartan King Cleombrotas was building a wall across the Isthmus of Corinth to keep back the Persians. They imme 'iately Kave up the work, and returned.
Finally an important date at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War is fixed by the following words of Plutarch, Athens was besieg ed by Spartans, and the dreadful outbreak of
Phague that ensred had taken half the pluck
Coming nearer home, many of the islands around the United Kingdom are in the bands of private owners, Lord Strathcona, the Can- adian multi-millionaire, only recently purchas ed the islands of Colonsay and Oronsay from the trustees of General Sir John M'Nell, V. The two islards comprise nealy 14.000 acres of stable and rich pasture Land, hill grazings, heather covered moors, and extensive woods and plantations. There is also an excellent mansion on the east side of Colonsay, with pretty gardens, and sheltered by woods.
The islands are also famous for their High- land cattle, while the Oronsay inlets abound with seals.
THE CILLIES.
Off the extreme south-west coast of England A. Dorrien Smith rules with a benevolent des- potism. His mansion occupies the site of the ancient Abbey of Tresco, on Tresco Island, and the gardens-in which many topical trees and plants flourish-strikingly illustrate the won. derfully equable climate.
tie the lonely Scilly Isles, over which Mr. T
nut of the inhabitants. To cheer them up ericles led a squadron of Athenian ships ie a said "pon the 'eloponnesian coast: The whole fleet was in readiness, when there hap pened an eclipse of the sun. The sudden darkness was looked upon as a bad omen, Not so many miles from the Scillles is lonely Pericles, seeing that the pilot was very scared Lundy island, of which a clergyman-the Rev. H. G. Heaven-is owner, lord of the manor, and perplexed, rank his cloak and flung it aver
and rector. It was bought by Mr. W. H the pilot's head, and asked him if he found Heaven in 1834, who made it his place of resi anything to be frightened at in that, or condence, and successfully resisted all attempts sidered it a bad omen. The pilot answered to bring his "fee island" under the jurisdiction that ha did not "Where is the difference, of the Devon magistrates. then, between this case and the others?" asked Pericles. "It is only that something rather bigger than my cloak causes that eclipse. This eclipse took place on August 3, BC 431
The ancients were not so simple as we are
Lord St. 1 avau is the owner of perhaps the most romantic island home in the kingdom. It is the far-famed St. Michael's Mount, lower, Part of the ing out of the blue Cornish sta old fortress is said to date from the day of the Confessor, and oe of the pinnacles of the
Another English island king is Mr. Charles Van Raalie, who owns Brownsea Island, in the middle of Podia Harbour. His residence stands on the site of a carle built to protect the busy harbour against French raiders."
lower is the famous St. Michael's Chair. The sometimes led to imagine. They had no teleslegend is that whoever sits therein before copes, and had to trust to their eyes for their marriage will rule husband or wife, as the case observations; and yet the ingenious Thales may be. foretold an eclipse 2500 years ago; and some centuries later Lucretius glvos (along with 10; veral incorrect ones) the correct explanation of an eclipse in his poem on the nature of the universe. And we may well imagine the Greeks and Romans having stond, as we stand to-day, starting up into the sky, and making grimaces at its diminished monarch through tome prehistoric substitute for our precious little grimy fragments of smoked glass.
LITTLE KINGS.
MEN WHO ARE MONARCHB OF LONELY IBLANDS
Who among us at some period of his life has not longed to be the possessor of an island! It is a tomatic desire which seems to be bom in us, Best manifests itself when, as children, stand upon islands of sand on the edge of the sea, and proudly proclaim our independence from protecting nursemaids.
The number of people who actually - possess Islands of their own is naturally very limited. Earl Fitzwilliam's strange expedition to Cocos Island bas directed attention, to the German | named celler, who, the 10 years, has made this lonely spot his home. He bought the sor cret as to where the treasure was hidden from a relative of one of the pirates who had depo- sited it, and obtained the sanction of the Costa
One of the few women in possession of their own island is Lady Marie Louise Hamilton, only daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton. She inherited from her father the lovely 1ste of Artin, which stands sentinel to the Firth of Clyde, Lady Marie and her mother, the Duchers of Hamilton, spend much of their lives in their island home.-By J. B. Wilson, in the. London "Daily Mail."
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TO:DAY'S EXCHANIK. *Selling
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
Undersigned have received instructions"
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON FRIDAY.
the 28th April, 1905, at 3 P.M., within his residence, "Glenshiel," The Peak, THE WHOLE OF HIS VALUABLE
Hongkong, 24th November, 1904.
161
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ALSO
One COTTAGE PIANO, by M. F. Rachats & Co., Hamborg. One LADY'S and Ont GENTS BICYCLE, One Eastman-Kodak CAMERA and a number of Scientific BOOKS, One IRON SAFE by Harris, Goodwin & Co., Birmingham-and-London;
AND
A Large Assortment of PLANTS in Pots. Catalogues will be issued. TERMSAs usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 15th April, 1905.
Intimations,
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Many thousands of miles from the lonely, territory governed by Geister, is another Cocos Islands, belonging to the Cocos-Keeling group. in the Indian Ocean, In 1835, tha islands being still unoccupied, a Scottish sailor namod. | Paras New Ross, sprung from an old Jacobite family, land Benares Saw
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