PLAGUE RESEARCH IN
ITS INFANCY.
We note thing tho English press is of the opinion that the presence of the plague bacillus among rats and rabbits is of far thoro im modisto importance to Great Britain than the daily horrors which are reported from the For Enst, as it is an open question
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the last six years among the
ground squirrels" of California. The rat is not the only culprit, and those contros of infec- tion among rodenta", con-
for more insidious, stitute n danger for the world than ocension! human epidemics. Modern research into plague is still only in its infancy, but al- ready it has suggested the lesson; that we must make from the dream that the new civilization is
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Much cigarette papor is minde, from waste untarred homp rope.
Only about one here in overy hdred in Ireland is timbered.
the telegraph companies of the United States employ about 30,000
: persons.
Gormany is experimenting with with wiro.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 8 1911
The interest in wino culture has decreased so much in France in the last few years that that nation imported 161,000,000 gallons last year.
Cotton spinnors of the world consumed 17,030,511 bales of staple in the year ending with August, as against 16,667,437
bales the previous your,
Helsingars, a Danish city of 12,000 people, is supplied with with which it is connected by
FASTING SOCIETY.
THE VEGETARIANS OF CHINA.
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The opponents of mout, in the ustal Chinese way, have banded | JAPAN-CHINA-AUSTRALIA
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whother plaguo and other opide. uocessarily exempt from the glass toloplione poles, re-ouforced electricity by a plant in Sweden, graphic nows yesterday-and in
graver forms of pestilence. If we continue to cherish that delusion we may have a rude awakening,- "China Gazette."
LOG BOOK.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha P. Daigi Maru arrived fri Tamsui, Amoy and Swatow, this morning with 100 tons of general effgo.
mic diseases are liable to spread a rapidly through the world as toy did conturios ago. Tho ovidence is extremely conflicting.. The common belief is that tho growth, and rapidity of tran sportation, and the groutor: oase with which people w inove about the earth's surface, hivo increased the danger fram opidemic disease. Certainly the stendy murch of the looping sickns across Africa hrs been Mr. J. Harold. Dollar, Oriental direct'y due to tho. modern dove-manngor of the Dollar line, at lopment of the African & ntinent. Shanghai, is in Manila inspeet Again, in 1880-90 the influenzang the shipping conditions and states that the Graco Dollar, und opidemic, which originated of their Pacific coast steamers, „Northern Asia, swept round would probably be put on the entiro globo within fifteen months, castorn run-some time this year In soine respects the widespread und timt Manila would be one of
the calls. provaleries of plagio seems to. gire colour to the theory wo
Capt. Hodgins of the Ilaiyong nro discussing. It has been reports E.N.E., moderate wind on calculated that fifty-one coun-the way down from Fonchow, with tries have been infected with sky overcast, and rough sin, plague sinch the outbreak at
!
There is an averago of about, one cow to every livo persons in the United States.
The British Admiralty. las developed a system of wireless. telegraphy for submarines
From one big Now York hotel'' more than half a million tele- phone messages are sent euch your,
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Syria soon is to have its first telephone system, linking the towns in the Lolmuan mountains. To read the Bible through at the rito of a chaplern day would, require three years and three months.
What promises to be a valuable coal field has been discovered in, the Brazilian State of Paruan buco..
Tappod eight feet from the ground a rubber troo fifteen inchos in diameter yields three pints of sap.
produced in the world each year Of the 16,000,000 tons of salt the British Empire provides 3,500,000 tons.
Milk cooled to a temperature of 35-12 degrees may be kept several days at any temperature under 53 degrees.
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Canton spread to Hongkong in The s.s. Kaiping Maru arrived 1894.. Yet a reassuring circum-at Chinwangtão on hor maiden stance is that most of the out-trip on the morning of 24th ult. with full cargo af timber from breaks have been comparatively Japan. This steamer was bought A camera has been invented to ophoiperal, and have been very by H. Ito and Co., Tientsin, from rapidly photograph, develop, olliciently fought. If the growth Jarding Matheson for the ex-print and fix copies of documents of minrino trafic has increased the clusivo, purpose of carrying, min- or manuscripts: Jiability to infection, our knowing timber for the Kaiping col-
lieries and exporting the coal from the said mines to Japan and there- fore was christened the. Kaiping Maru.-"China Times."
Tho T.K.K. a.s. Nippon- Mara (Capt. 11, S. Smith) was due to arrive here from Shanghai at day- light this morning, but at the time of going to press sho had not been signalled. It is believed she may have been delayed by heavy log.
lotge of the best methods of fighting disease has also increased. When we recall the astonishing rapility with which the Black Douth smote all Europe in the fourteenth contury wo may very woll doubt whether moden conditions will ever allora parallel to that devastating visita tion. A great change was wrought in the geography of epidemic disease when the old land trade routes were`døserted"}
LAWN TENNIS. and comnièree took to the ocean. Since that tima infaction by int
Mesurs. E. A. Fowler and S. E. across, continents bas on raie.
Green were to have mot Messrs, We are only now begin ing to J, K, Wood and ir. Koch sex- discern the truth about plague.rday in the Hongkong Cricket Mon thought it had almost van Chahloubiles handicap, butowing ished from the earth. Modical
to the bad weather the game was sciouco ignored its existonen, and· in the day of trial found it postponed. hardly remembered how to treat it, if it over know. But tho fact is
.
The British Mint recently turn ed out its first squaro coins, 5- cent nickel-bronze pieces for EO in Ceylon.
The United States imported 77,837 ounces of platinum in the first eight months this year, valued at $2,057.440.
If an ironing board be notched to fit the backs of two chairs of equal size it will be held as firm- ly us a table,
According to an official report 85 per cont of the natives of American Samon are believed to be "hook-worm" sufferers.
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sbmarine cable.
An automobile testing plant has boon installed by the University of Kentucky for use in resourch work on the subject of power plant ellicioncy,
A device to be connected with an ordinary telephone line with which hand-writing may be trans- mitted to distant points has been perfected in England.
which we referred in our tele- FOR KOBE AND YOKOHAMA, addition to boing dietary are poli-THE Stomi tical agitators. They are now as we have stated opposing the self- government society, in Kiangsu Province..
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Eddio Tait won a ton round decision in the main ovent over Chisholm, lightweight champion' But little more than one-twon- of the Asiatic squadron. Tait tioth of the 5,000,000 horsepower us his left to great advantage. which the Niagara Falls are estin-Tho Manila boxer forced tho. ated to be capable of producing game from the start loading and has been harnessed.
feinting doxtorously. By his An English scientist has sering victory on the 4th Tait ro- ceeded in collecting aloctricity | tains the club lightweight gold from the air with radium by hoist-bolt and tho championship of the IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL ing a spiral aerial coated with the Orient. sults of the rare.metal.
The turning of the crank that operates a machine gun invented by an Ohio mun also works a pump that supplies water to the outside of the barrel to keep it cool.
In the last quarter-century the production of electricity in the number of central stations for the United States has grown from less than sixty to more than 6,000.
Aluminum may be made to resemble frosted silver by immer- sing it in strongly until the gas that forms bubbles, then washing it and treating it with nitric acid. Small eyeglasses, fitting closely on 1 with flesh-colored nose piececa, are made for actors needing them, but who; in deference to the parts they play, do not wish to wear the usual sized lenses.
The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a series of fifteen lithograplied charts, giv- ing diagrammatic representations of various foods, the proportions of the different nutrients in each being shown in contrasting colors,
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Per Yorck, for Europe via ports-Messrs. Duchnowsky, I Giles, E. J. Marston, M. S Wightmann, Major J. A. Goodon, Adm. W. L. Capps, Mr. Badeley nad family, Mr. and Mrs. T. Don- nelly, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gotze, Col. J. B. Lankershene, Mossrs. L. A. Jong, J. W. Marshall, M. Siceraishi, B. A. Harnell, Mr. and Hongking, 8th Feb., 1911 Mrs. C. N. Edge, Messrs. S. Sugert, O. Krause, Mrs. Gould, Native workmen, using native An amusing lecture on "Cock-Messrs. Wm. Sevn Gen, W. material under the supervision of ney Humour" was given recently Schuchior, Miss Steuer, Mr. an Englishman, have built India's by Mr. W. Pott Ridge before the and Mrs. Kembal, Mr. Paul first aeroplano.
Playgoors' Club at the Hotel Hungor, Mr. E. Berger, Mr. Floors and furniture, are not Cecil.
and Mrs. Leonlardt, Ar.. Youn a new building blocks made Mr. Pett Ridge, has a character Mrs. C. M. Davis, Mr. Yong Sou scratched by children playing "The humour of London," said Hen, Mrs. Lam Cheng, Mr. and of cork in Germany.
of its own. Much of its success Chwee, Mr. Peterheng, Mr. To record the number of, is due to prompt delivery.. It has Wai Hong, Mr. Loh Kiau Gau, seoonds that a telephone is in the qualities of pertinence and Dr. Wan Chew Heng, Mosers. It has boon decided to celebrate use each day, is the purpose of a. inipertinence the second quite Btahboobam, J. M. Johnson, Ch that plagio has always existed in the coronation of King Cicorge by now electrically operated meter indispensable. The Irishnan Sobol, E. G. Edwards, J. A. seems surprised to find himself Wolbore, Mrs: La Soe, Mr. Clan a Chingay procession of dragon- Though but a small nation,
cortain spots. It has never loft
India, for instance. Investigation boats and procession to the temple Switzerland makos 100,000,000 amusing. The Scotsman plans Sai. Siy, Mrs. Ng Shong child, has shown that thord wero con For the Goddess of Mercy through pounds of honey a year, so well ig/ and organizos liis jokes. (Laugli- Mrs. Chan Yes and party, Mr. and ↑
final outbreaks all last century
the principal streets of Penang.
in the highlands of Kumaon, un- der the shadow of the Himalayas. It is at least possible that Banlay was infected in 1898. from the Mr. P. E. Hubor, of the I.M.C. Himalayas rather than from Hongkong, has been transferred Hongkong, Plagne has leon to Soochow and will leave to- continuously prosent in the morrow by the ss. Singan, accom mountains of Assyr, in Western punied by Mrs. Huber. Arabia, south of Mocca. Ja hasi
never really lift Mesopotamia, The trial of T. R. Michael on the
or the Chinoso province charge of perjury at 11. B. M. of Yuman Thoro is an en- Supreme Court, Shanghai, has demic contro of long standing been set down for hearing on the in Uganda. Why at the close of 20th inst the minsteonth century plague should suddenly have flared forth again with widespread intensity Mr. Alee Taylor, the well-known is one of those mystories of dis billiard player, has arrived from ease which no one can pretend to Shanghai and is now staying at fathom. The cause is probably the King Edward Hotel. It is quite unconnected, in the main, hoped that games can be arranged with this dovelopment, of inter for Mr. Taylor hore. communication between nations. The sinister feature of the prosent pandemic is that it is accompanied Mr. T. Funatsu, the Japanese | by a serious prevalence of the dis- Consul in Hongkong, and Mr. A. enso umong the lower animals, who are liable to communicate it to anan. That is, not a new condi- tion, but much of the data con corning it is new: In England there is the disquioting rat opi- domic in East Anglia. The pic vinea of Trans-Baikalio, which is The funeral of the late Dr. in suspicious proximity to Khar- Marques was largely attended by bin, finds that plague is endemic friends from Hongkong, Canton
its flora adapted to beo culture.
That it will prevent a serious wreck in the event of a collision is the claim of the inventor of an air buffer for locomotives.
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Indians of the lippor Amazon have developed wireless tele- graphy" by means of drums made of hollow logs tuned to varying pitches,
Astep which automatically falls to a station platform when a side door of a subway car is opened has boon patented by a New Yorker The salt beds of Chile could supply the world with salt for ages to comno, the mineral benig found in large deposits 09 por
cent pure..
The Londoner has such Mis, Hu Lam, Mr. Lee Goon, Mr. Ler.) confidence in himself that lionever Low Sui, Mrs. Choi Kiu, Mr. and hesitates or oxhibitsastonishment. Mrs. Chan Lau Kai, and Miss J. He is well assisted by the catch Silver. phrase of the day, and works it Por Syria for Singaporo ind determinedly till the close time Europe-Mr. and Mrs ft. White R. D. arrives,”
and children," Mr. The reputation of tho omnibus-Harvey, Miss. Wilkinson, Mrs. driver was perhaps higher than it Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. W. deserved, but with the disappear Hildebrand and Mr. & Mrs. ance of the horse-drawn 'bus some F. Maitland, Mr. G. V. R. Reyne, of the gaiety of the London streets Mrs. Allen and infant, Mr. & Mrs. had gone. It was not a 'busman,. A. Wheal, Master Woolly, Lt. but a calidrivor who was told to Morgan Tindall, Miss. Lawrence, drive to Charing-cross. "If you Mr. F. G. Chapmann, Mr. and catch the train," said the faro, "I Mrs. Hastings, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. will give you 5s. If not the usual Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay (3 fare." "I auferstand," said the man; "you mean, No Cross, no Crown." (Laughter.)
Segawan, the Consul in Canton, were digging a tunnel recently with him. "I daresay it has not," have just returned from Formosa, fossil stag was unearthed in clay where they hava boon attending | 100 foot below the surface of the the exhibition of Japanese pre ground. ducts at Tainan.
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said one. The other, cracking While French railroad builders walnuts, said it was nothing to do
replied the first. "Still there it is. I'm a la'penny short, and you're eating nuts." (Laughter.) STORE apposite Post Office, Pedder Street, size 22 ft. by 36 ft., Anothor of Mr. Pett Ridge's bost stories was that of a musician, Rest $200.
Wii - who approached a policeman, and, pointing to a small boy, said excitedly. "Do something to that is only something terrible,” What's the matter?" asked the policeman, Said the musician, That wretched boy asked mo the time; I told him a quarter to three; and he said, "At three o'clock, got your hair out.
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within its borders among a species and Macao. A guard of honour Recent extensions of the York-boy. I don't care what it is, if it
of marmot, which is extensively was posted at the cemetery gate shiro coal fields in England in- hunted. Marmuts in the Caucasus and three volleys wore fired as the dicate that 35,000,000,000 more and in Tibet are also found to body was lowered into the grave, tous of fuel are available than was be apparently permanently in while the band playod Chopin's supposed. fosted. In the United States," Doad March." Dr. Lollo deliver-
All records for overland wire- wast of the Rocky Mountains, a ed an eloquent discourse eulogis-loss tolegraphy wore broken ro- new and disturbing endemising the deceased's noble qualities cently, when a message pont from contre of plague infection ap-of character. Hundreds of floral Washington, D. C., was received pears to bave been set up within wreaths were laid on the grave. at Butte, Mont
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