Mails.
1908.
NAWESI NOTUS oF SCIENCE,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY OCTOBER 24
Intimation,
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
Fox
53 KAMERS
TO SAIL
Capt. . Y. Bozer
About WEDNESDAY,
“4th November.*
PRINZESS ALICE."
Capt. G. Rott
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBEĮ" PRINZ Lunwig"
ADd УОКОНАМА
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG
MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINE
SAMARAI, BRISBANE, SYD. NEY and MELBOURNE,
KUDAT and SANDAKAN....
WEDNESDAY,
Noso, 4th November,"
"PRINZ SIGISMUND '.......... Į THURSDAY,
Capt. D. caz mamone)
5 P. 5th November,"
BORNEO "
Middle of November.
Capt F. Sembill
For further Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
Hongkong, 23rd October, 1908,
MELCHERS & CO., ..
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to" pump out, 4 hours,
THE
No. 2 DOCK.
Length inside, 875 ft. Width of
There are forty-eight kinds of house flies. - The first steel pane were invented in 1820) The first balloon was made by a French priest in 161.
MA Hungarian washing machine makes use of electrified water.
There are about 13,000 square miles of fields in England.
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There are thirty-nine`imiles of books on thạ shelves of the British Museum.
entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8
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is
ft. Water on,blocks, 26.5 ft. Time to pump out, 2 hours.
“HESE DOOKS are, conveniently `situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.
The plant and tools, are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with, work and a large stock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by Lloyda' surveyors).
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Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vanals in or out a Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The floating derrick is capabla of lifting 15 tona.
At an elevation of 2,00)' feel the atmosphere free from microbes.
In a month a caterpillar eats food weighing 6,000 times its weight.
An inch of rain is falling at the rate of about 100 tons to the acre.
century, it has added more than 30,000, which will become productive in time. M
Kamchatka and the Kurile and Aleutian islands are being explored by a party of Rutlan scientists, whose entire expenses are borne by a millionaire' merchant of Moscow, 450
Over 120 'photographic records. of Indian songy, chants and-incantatione recently were collected by a New York college professor dur ing a visit to the Winnebago reserration.
A paint is soon to be placed on the market to indicate excessive hast la machine parts. Red when cool, it becomes black when heated, Mercuric Iodide and, cupric oxide are two of the ingredients.
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Under the name of liconite a compound of
bitumen and certain oils is being manufactured in Holland which has all the properties of rub.
With modern antiseptic surgery but 6 perber without any of that material into its com- cent of amputations result fatally.
position, Alessandro di Spios, ap Italian astronomer,
A new msihod for welding steel pipes at high. inverted the first spectacles in 1285.
speed, a German invention, has been adopted watches that an ordinary thimble will hold an English firm has secured the right to use So tiny are some of the screws sted in by the Japanese navy for forming mosis, and
10,000 of them,
the process in that country,"
The stream of blood leaving the human beast covers a distance equal to rico miles
each year.
*Over 1,000 tons of asbestos have bean mined from a deposit discovered last year on the is land of Cyprus.
Re-enforced concrete has been found success ful as a facing for wood leven banks on the
Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Stesi Buildings and Roof, Beldga lower Mississippi." Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the promises.
There are over fifty groups of Esperantists in the cities and larger towns of Spain studying
Tenders will be made up, when required and the workmanship and material will be the new language. guaranted.
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The cost of Docking, and repair work, 'will be found, to compare favourably with that of any port in the world.
Telephone: Nos, 376, 508, or 681.
Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Codes A. B. 0. 4th and 5th Edt.
Liebers, Sootte,
Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.
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FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL:
.FOR
TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI."
STEAMERS
:
CAPTAINS
A. 1, and Watkins.
Shipping-Steamers.
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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
REGULAR THREE-WEEKLY SERVICE
BETWEEN
JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.
Expected on or about
Steamer.
From
Will leave for
TJIPANAS...
H
ЈАРАЙ TJIKINI
JAVA
TJILATJAP... Java THIMAHI.......
JAVA
TJILIWONG.. JAPAN.
Second half
Oct. Second ball "Oct
Second half Oct, Fient hall Nov First half
JAVA
JAPAN SHANGHAI SHANGHAI
JÁVA
Nov.
TO BAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA ... TOURANE.
Lancelio...26th Oct., P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS...CALEDONIEN... Martio.......27th Oct.at 1 P.M. _SHANGHAI,-KOBE, YOKOHAMA....ARMAND BEHIC........Guionnet... 9th Nov., P.M.
MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS' POLYNESIEN ........................Broc....10th Nov., at 1 P.M. Transhipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia ; at Colombo fox Calcatta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Said for the Levant, Constantinople and Black Sea,
Through Tickets to London via Paris from £37.10 up to £1,10, 39 hosts' railway from Marseilles to London...
Interpreters meet passengers at their arrival in Marallies.
For further particulars, apply to
Hongkong, 13th October, 1908.
On or about
Second half Oct. Becond holi Oct. Second balf Oct. First hall Nov. First-hall
Nov.
The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and hara Accommodation for a limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will take Cargo to all Netherland India Ports on through Bills of Lading,
For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to
P. NALIN,
AOTING AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS,
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Telephone No. 375,
·York Buildings, ist"floor,
Hongkong, 14th Détober, 1988.
CHARGEURS RÉUNIS.
FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.-HEAD OFFICE: PARIS.
ALL BOUND THE WORLD LINE.
Outward: ANTWERP, DUNKIRK, LA PALLICE, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NAPLES, COLOMBO, VIA SUEZ, SINGAPORE, HONGKONG, CHIN WANTAO (Peking, Tientsin), KOJE, YOKOHAMA,
GENOA TO HONGKONG IN 30 DAYS. NAPLES
t
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Unique opportunity to make a tour in North-Chius and Japan with the Greatest Speed
-Sa.ety and Comfort, Transpacific: VICTORIA-(B.C1) VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO.
Connecting with the Canadian Pacifio Railway.
FREIGHT to OVERLAND
...................................................... via VANCOUVER, PASSENGERS to OVERLAND and EUROPE
YOKOHAMA—VANCOUVER............3' Days.
LONDON and PARIS...26
Homeward: MEXICO, RIVER PLATE, BRAZIL, LA PALLIÇE, LIVERPOOL,
VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS..
Proposed Bailings:
↑ CORSE...................16th Now;
↑ AMIRAL MAGON..............tsch Jan, 1909.
I New Twin Screw 16,000 Tons displacement, 1st class accommodation, splendidly
equipped with single berth cablus,
* Intermediats.class and rates of passage.
All round the world ticket by these boats,, &c.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
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FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG, CANTON AND KOUANG-SI
S.S. "PAUL BEAU,” 1,900 1008, 14 kuote,"
B.S. "OHARLES HARDOUIN,” 1,900 tonë, 14 kunis,
The speedlest, most Inxuriously appoloted and punctual steamers on the line, Departure from Hongkong at xo PM. (Saturdays excopted). Departure from Canton at 5.15 P.M. (Sundays excepted),
These superb steamers carrying the French Mall are fitted throughout with Electric Light and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine
The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street and its berth in Canton opposite Shamben.
For further particulars, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameen, Canton,
or to their Agents BARRETTO & 00., Hongkong,
For further Particulars, apply to
Hongkong, 9th October, 1908,-
„Hongkong, zist October, 1908.
P. NALIN, French Mail OFFICE,
Thotel.
£160
WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
COMPANIES.
HONGKONG-W ̧0 0;R Q ̧W LINE
THE Steamers
"LINTAN" and "SAN-UI,
f
HOTEL PLEASANTON,
No. 17, Water Street, Yokohama.
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A patent has been granted to a California man for a poison bottle with the aides 'covered with sharp points.
The first striking clock in Europa was sont to Charlemagne as a present by Abdulla, King of Persia, in Boo.
The largest lamp of anthracite coil ever mined recently was taken from a mine in the Panther Creek valley of Pennsylvania. It weighs seven tont, and will be placed in a museum, either in Philadelphia or Boston.
A single firm of German chemists claim to have discovered a new method for smelting small grained iron ores, a new power gas from bituminous coal, and a more economical method for distributing heat through cities,
Consignees,
YORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. ·
California produced less coal last year than THE Reamship.
in any year since it has been mined, the output | being but 13,950`toos.
There are nearly fifty clocks on the giant ocean liner Lusitania, controlled by a master
clock in the chart house.
The largest flower in the world is the raffesia of Sumatra. It is composed of five petals, each a foot wide.
The United States produced 29,704,128 bar. rels of salt, each of 180 ponods, in 1907, lead ing the world in the industry,
lowa produced 7,574,322 tons of cost in 1907, worth $12,258,011 at the mines, according to abe Geological Survey.
A machine to cut grass where a lawn mowor cannot go and at the same time trim, the sod evenly bas been patented by an Indiana man.
According to a recent resort of the Smith- sonian lustitution, the mammoth was so larger than the elephant of the present day.
More than 15,000 employees of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad have been instructed in first aid to the injured at the company's expense,
An air gun of large size working on the principle of the poeumatic hammer, has been devised for killing animals in 'a, humans madder.
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The pyrotechnic or defaunting toy industry bas developed to a great extent within a faw years at Salaise river, France, on the Rivar Rhode.
A thousand mulberry trees have been planted at Seville, Spain, in an attempt to revive the silk industry, for which the city was oneo famous.
Eau de cologne, invented by Johann Marla Ferida over 100 years ago, is composed of oils of neroli, citron, bergamot, orange and ross- mary,
According to a report of the United Staṭas
| Geological Survey, the country's production of i miceral paints last year was 134,757 sbert tono,
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* KLEIST,"
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being Informed that their Goods, with the exception
landed and storedat their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong- kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com pany, Limited, at Kowloon, and West Point Godown, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods. have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the 29th of October, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 39th of October, at 9.10A.M.
"All Claims, must reach us before the 3rd of November, 1908, or they will not be recognized.
Nó Fite Insurance will be affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
MELCHERS & Con Gennial Agents. ›
Hongkong, 22nd October, 1908.
Entimations.
· PABST BREWING COMPANY, - MILWAUKEK.
FRESH SUPPLIES ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK
-BY
SIEMSSEN & Co. Agents for
HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA.
Hongkong, 19th July, 1907.
COLD STORAGE.
HE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY,
German chemist has invented a subT LTD. NIE DO 10,000 cubic feet
stitute for celluloid, which is claimed to have | COLD STORAGE available at East. PoIT. all the advantager bat freedom from com- bustibility.
According to the National Opticians'.Con;) vention in Philadelphia this month, women's eyer are weaker than men's and more of the fair sex wear glasṣar.
An Englishman has invented a bicycle for the blind. To reality it is a multi-cycle, carrying twalve riders, led by a seeing person, who does the steering.
An Indiana inventor, who realized how tire. some it is to hold' a telephone reċeiver to the ear for any length of time, has patented a bracket to do the work,
-A seven-year-old child which recently died in a New York hospital, had livïd its short life with absolutely no brain-the only case of the kind recorded by science. :
The consiact inhalation of cigarette smoke nearly cost the life of a Philadelphia real estate
broker from a form of a paralysis heretofore
unknown to medical science.
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Stores will be Open at le Ak, and 4 F.M. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
WM PARLAEN, Manager.
Hongkong, sand Take, foot
LEE YEE
HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
¡HAS ALWAYS on Hand CIGARS, CIGARETTES
AND
TOILET REQUISITES
-FOR-SALE
12, D'AGUILAR STREET, HONGKONG,
-pd Septemkav, TONE, í
THERAPION MAY NOW ALSO BE OBTAINED IN DRAGEE (TASTELESS) FORM.
TRADE
THERAPION
MARS.
The smallest electric motor in the world was made by a Texis electrician and watchmaker, THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY who uses it as a scaripio and drives it with a tiny chloride of silver battery.
The establishment by-the-Navy-ofa-wireless; station on Prince William Sound, Alaska, will enable the Governmsot, to communicate by wireless almost to the Arctic circle.
The French Ministry is 'drafting a bill to make a staqdird carat for the weighing of precious aloner, fixed-at-200-millgramı, and. prohibiting the word for any other weight,
Moon Cambron, on the west coast of Africa, long regarded as an extinct volcano, was found to be s'ill alive and in danger of eruption by a party of German explorers recently
SALL FROM HONGKONG TWICE A WEEK AND COMPLETE TER ROUND TRIP IN A HAVE. FIRST CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL-Newly Opened and Furnished Suites or Single Ted: "These steamers- have Excellent Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted. Throughout by Rooms, Private Baths, Moden Sanitary Fittings, Electric Light, Up-to-date Appointed to his collection a copperhead, the digestive
Electricity..
THE OLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER. MONTHS IS ments, Renowned Cuisine, Dark Room for Photographers Charges Moderate.
VERY FINE AND EXHILARATING.
For further laformation apply to---
FIELD & BWIRE,
AGENTI, WEST RIVER BRITISH 5,8, COMANNIEL,
16th July,
HENRY LUTZ,
MANAGER.
in a gram of street mud; equal to a cuba of earth with sides of about a quarter of an luch,; there are enough bacteria, If placed in a line, side by side, to cover 259.74 feet.
According to Pennsylvania's Siste Zoʻlogist, snakes are farmers' friends,, Recently be add
system of which was filled with locustá,
Last your was a record-breaker in the country's coke industry, 43,779,501 shot fans. being produced, neatly double the output of 1900, and more than three times that of 1897,
Although the sea has washed away 319 acres from the British Isina intahä quarteräti
This successful and highly popular risedy, vand la to. Continental Hospitals by Ricord, Rosto, Jobert Valyse and others, combines all the desiderata to be sought ́n a medicíne of the kind, and surpasses every-- thing Etherto employed,
THERAPION No. 1
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THERAPION NO.3
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