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Today is Thanksgiving Day with our American friends-the! occasion of family reunions and happy celebrations in the United States. It is interesting to recall that the day was first not apart by the Plymouth Pilgrims in 1621 în sokoowledgment of their first harvest in Americs, and that its
DAY BY DAY.
THE FITTEST PLACE WHERE MAN CAN DIE IS WHERE HE DIES FOR MAN-M.J. Barry,
To-morrow's Anniversary.
To-morrow in the birthday of the Right Hon. Mr. Winston Churchill, who was born in 1874.
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LORD KELVIN.
Interesting Lecture at, the University,
poor individual was board to yacht of 126 tons, the Lalla Rookh. remark "I bave attended lectures In it he made many trips in the on the pendulum for a month summer months and main soluat e and all that I known about meafaring experience thus gained the pendulam in that it wage" provided material for his papers In January, 1849, his father on waves and ripples and "led died, one of the victims of indirectly to his famous scand- aswi tela- the terrible ontbreak of choleraing machine. A Last evening, before members which visited Glasgow that graph vis Madeira and the of the Hongkong University winter. It was in 1849 that he Bermudes to Boston and the Engineering Society, Professor read his famous paper on Caract's West Indies had been proposed. A. G. Warren delivered a moat theory of heat and bis memcir Sir William made several tripe to “of Madeira in his yacht in conneo- interesting lecture on "Willism"A Mathematical Theory Thomas, Lord Kelvin."
Magnetism." In 1851 he was tion with the project. In Madaira In the coures of his remarks, elecled Fellow of the Royal he found bis second wife, to whom lecturer asid that Society of London. The follow he was married in Jane, 1874. to attempt to appreciate such a low year he was married to his The same year the building of man sa Kalvia necessitated cousin, Margaret Oram. Of his Netherball was commenced. To Two Chinese were charged be-tending one's view far beyond i work at this period his most in this house he retired when he great mind wse Of Kalvin's contributions to expect great things from ber in-fore Mr. A. Dver Ball at the dementia details or the work portant was in Thermodynamics withdrew from his chair la 1899. ventiva genius and
directly connected with his neme. Thomson' Police Court this morning, ona practicality. In the midst of this with stealing quantity of print. He stood as the greatest figure wearing all contemporary work navigation his compan was the this object into -one most important, and until tha terrible war it might at first seeming type from the
Victoria ameng British scientiste of the on
the harmonioas whole. Energy introduction of the gyro-compass
thanksgiving; yet antiyee. matiere we can 666 sub-
national celebration in recogni tion of the year's blessings was first recommended by Pre- sident Lincoln in 1863, since when it hse been SDD ally observed.
On this day last year Amarion was counted among the neutrals; to-day she is heart and roal with the Allies, who
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1917.
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that there is little cause for Barraoke, and the other with 19th century, probably
when we receiving it. Mr. Haywood greatest in Europe. But he stood though it cannot be created or within the last few years it was Tast formations, always being lost to to his compass in importanos was stential grounds why Americs appeared for the receiver and no lonely figure for gathered destroyed is, in irreversible trens almost universally used. Next of scientifo workers. mau, wasted but not annihilated. his sounding machine which par and with ber the whole of the asked that the cree might be
Having reviewed the rea-wed There was his paper reed is mitted of soundings to be taken Allies) should feel thankful for adjourned. His Worship agreed
ia "which" bis fasl in deep water while steaming at to this and fixed bail at $200-in!
sotivity of scientific research 1852
Bia tidal analyser, which marked the opening of the conclusion was the battering 18 knot. all the worrow and erfaring
dream of by means of which the height of 19th Century the leotarer said of Laplace's which the struggle implies,
Live Fish and Oplum.' that it was into this awakening self-sufficient aniverne. Within the tide at any port and any time it is a high privilege for the democratic nations of the earth the s.. Sai On a revenue offrer
Last evening as a Chinese left scientific world that Williams finite period of time past the may be ran out on a machine by Thomson, afterwards Lord Kelv- earth must have been, and withis simply turning a handle, was to be able to step forth and
became suspicions of him and Correspondents are requested to observe the
His father James the earth must again be, anfi for to navigation. The tables for 28th. 1824. inquires them,
names and addresses with challenge a militaristic sateersey forward their
and we can all feel theatfal that went up to him with the intention in a horn in Bellest on Jane a finite period of time to come another of his important Deneta mmunications addressed to the Editor; not necessarily
the opportunity has come before of searching a basket be was
position of ev faro worker, but by hard work sent congtituted, unless operations finding the publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
He WAD All commudications intended for publication should be addressed it is too late. To-day we think carrying. The man, divining his Thomson bad originally been the habitation of men as at pre-faciliating Sommer's method of
especially of the part which intention, made £
up proved the interst America is destined to play in chased and caught, and we at the University of Glasgow i have been or are to be performed ship at sea which Kalvin drow
the winter had obtained the de- which are impossible under the
in seamanship. Lord this world drame, we feel proud found to be in possession of a tin gree of M.A. of that University and laws to which the known opers took
bowl in which was a qusati y af of having her by our side, and with her we hold the hope that life fish, but which had a faid become teacher of Mathems- tions going on at present in the Fisher ban said that he considers at the Roys Belfast material world are subject." There Lord Kelvin as the man who hai Academical Institution. In 1817 they had the grestest die done by far the most for the ad- before another Thanksgiving Day batiom containing 10 tale of
His Worship James Thomson married Margaret covery of the century-vancement of navigation in our comes round we shall be celebrat prepared cpium,
Gardner by whom he had 7material phenomena are tren time. ▲ bumbler seeman was ing the triumph of the free inflicted a fice of $1,000.
indestructible heard to remark “I don't know abildren, 4 boys and thr.eformatione of nations of the earth.
Chiasse Woman Murdered.. girls. Of the sons, James energy; the universe is not sell who this Thomson may be, but A Chinese female employed at |
1822 sufficient, but is tending towards every sailor ought to pray for him the eldest, born in 99, Prays Exat, the house of a later became Professor ofja state of eternal death. In one of in-dry's telegrams we Jew named Nissim Jeremiah, Engineering in the Univer By 1851 several short submarias In 1884 he refused for the third read that Sandey's peace de was found murdered yesterday, wity of Glasgow. William was cables had been laid, including time the offer of the Cavandish Dover to Calais Chair of Physics. Now Your's monstrations in Berlin assumed having been strangled by a piece the end con. The mother died that from considerable proportione:" ales of cotton cord. She had been 1830 and two years later the and the prospect of "an day 1802 brought the announce that the Independent Sonialiets gigged with a handkerchief and family migrated to Glasgow, Atlantic cable was stirring the ment of the peerage. The title held a demonstration at which her wrists had been sied behind James Thomson having been hopes of telegraph engineers. chosen as Baron Kelvin of they "attempted to reach the her back. Deceased was by ber sppointed to the Chair of Mathe The difficulties were great. The Largn. He took his seat in centre of the city." The fact self in the house. The body wes nation, James and William were cost and weight of such a cable the House of Lords on February
In June. Secialists found by the children of her allowed to attend informally the would hs enormous. The laying 25. that nine of be
1896, he were arrested shows that the employer when they returned lectures given in the University, of a cable two thousand miles celebrated his Jubilee in the demonstration did not pars off se home from school. A few pieces In 1834 they they both matri- long in water which was known Gisegow chair. It was one of the quietly as the sathorities wished, of jewellery are missing, valued calated. In 1830 when only 15 to be three miles deep in places greatest gatherings of scientific even though it is stated that "the 31 95.50, but it was obvious that SAINT ANDREW'S DAY.
crowd wee very quiet and march- the house had been well searched: years of age Willis obtained presented a mechanical problem men from all parts of the world 8 University medal for bis of the first magnitode. No single that has ever been beld. Almost ed cheering for peace and Berr
KOBY "On the gare. of the ship existed of sufficient aise to every university and learned soo- A Begger's Query. Earth". This essay was a mar-hold the cable if it were made.iety of importance sent a repre- To-morrow is Scolland's Day. Next in New Year's Day, the Liebknecht." That Germans in
"Do you think if you arrest velicas production and surpassed Bat other difficulties were present, pentative: the representative of ¿ celebration of the day specially dedicated to Stint Andrew, Scotland's the proudest city of Prussia, and Petron Spin, is gradually becoming the most generally popular in the capital of Germany, should me that you will get a medal for in completeness, style and depth, Engineers using the Anglo-Datch Princeton University was Pro- feetivity with Scotsmen. It certainly is, and has been so for a long be demonstrating so openly for it?" was the question seked by of investigation Airy's tract upon esbles had soticed that the sig fessor Woodrow Wilson. The time, a good second in the opinion of the many thousands of Scottieh pesce must be galling not only to mendicent to a constable vester the same subject. The Professor Insis were sluggish. Thomson, meeting was one of tremendous The German Government end the day. The reply of the con-table is of Natural Philosophy at the Stokes and Faraday showed that enthusiasm and was concluded by people in the Colonies and in various parts of the world, for, strange hests of efficiuldom, but likewise not recorded. The beggar was time, was William Meiklehem, these difficulties would increase the entertainment of Lord and to esy, the day arouses much more interest amongst the Scottish to Prussians of all classer. It is charged before Mr. A. Dyer Ball, Though hardly a distinguished me the square of the length of the Lady Kelvin at Windsor Castle, sbroad than in the land of the "Parple heather.' As time paveeH, the celebration of the day seems to be increasing rather than a very different view of the war at the Police Court this morning, man be inspired his students and cable, and if new methods of where Kelvin was invested with not invented the Grand Cross of the Victorian diminishing in popularity. It is good that this should be so, if for that they, one and all, have to-day when the constable said he saw ETS them a great reverence for signalling were to other reason than that in these days of war, the opportunity is when, in place of their arrogant the man begging from a men in the work of Legendre, Lagrange messages would only be trans-Order. The remaining years of bia taken to make a special effort to raise funds for some of the many their load-masthed bossing of warned defendant who only this Thomson learnt of Fourier's greas which would offer no possibility They were devoted almost entirely sasumption of superiority and a chair. He had previously and Laplace. From him young mitted at an absurdly slow rate-life were some of the most fruitful, institutions at Home that have sprung into being to meet the multi- farions necessities which the great struggle has occasioned. Previons "niversal domination" ter Ger-month had been sent to Canton work "Analytical Theory of Beat" of covering the capital obargee. to the great comprehensive theory to the war, Saint Andrew's Day was almost invariably celebrated by many, they are ready to ene for for the same cEnce. Defendant, which was destined to affect bis Tas law of equares was challeng--the electro-magnetic nature of This work he ed by Whitehouse,e retired med-light, the kinetic theory of matter St. Andrew's Societies by the bolding of a splendid ball, at which pesce, knowing full well that they who said the constable was telling whole outser.
mastered in a fortnight. William ical man, who had turned his sap electio the Scottish and their friende hold high revelry on the night of have been besten sad that peace's pack of liee, was fined $5.
will come not when they wish it! European Ladies Robbed. WB1 agoad French soboler. flacas energies to electrical work. this theory
any other single November 30th. Since the war, the local Society ben discontinued
Mrs. Woodman, wife of Dr. His father desired that his The lecturer went on to describe to the ball, sad the convert that lock its place has now also been or on their terme, but when the superseded, giving place to an event that bida fair to falfil the object Entente Puwere deem that the Woodman, of the Government children should be equally on in interesting detail Thomen's His closing years were marked by
properly Civil Hospital, and Mise Logan of versant with Germs. To this exertions to lay
as grest activity as any of those chiefly in view in a more thorough manner. "Beather Day" proper time has arrived.
the before. 1902 he was awarded the cable the Kowloon Docks, report that end the family spent the samader | working now recognised similarly in Honglong as “Ross Day" is in London.
nd the scientific the Order of Merit on its institut and "Our Day" in various other parts of the world, and it in cer- Another German Miscalculation, yesterday while they were walk of 1840 in Germany. The same Atlantic
the London he invented ion. In 1903 tainly greatly to the credit of St. Andrew's Society of Hongkong It is becoming increasingly ing along Robinson Road, near year be left the University of instrumente
were Glasgow. He had gaslified for in the course of this parait. Doiversity conferred for the frat that they should devota so much energy and enthusiasm on their evident that the Germans have Bibbington Path, they
miscalculation, obased by two Chinese. The two bie doarea two years earlier at the After many failures and dis-and only time honorary degrees. festival day to such excellent purpare, Everyone in Hongkong will made another
FAM towards No. 61, age of 15. Be never applied for appointments it was in 1868 that The recipients were the Prince with well to those who have been doing es much towards making which may in the long ron cost ladies eaccesafal the reproduction of the old-time Scottish Fair. They can them dear. There can be no Robinson Road, where they had it to be conferred as he wished the cable was successfully leid. and Princess of Wales (now King 50 Enter Cambridge an Thomson had accomplished the and Cases), Lord Kelvin and In 1907, Lord do more than that; they can visit the Fair and do their best doubt that their primary object been spending the evening, but
entered apparently impossible. He bad Lord Lister. "to further the obices which the promoters have in view. This is in attacking Italy was to divert they were still chesed and ben undergraduate. He
October 1841. laid the new cable and raised the Kelvin was elected President of of Electrical practical sympathy, which those who have been working so hard Allied troops from the North going up the avenge to the hones Paterboase in
8 week of bia old one from its bed, two miles the Institution thoroughly deserve and which the object aimed at me thoroughly of France and particularly from the Chinese caught up with them Within
Flanders, as at the zones and from Mrs. Woodman took a entry it was common property down and completed it. He came Engineer for the third time." As Saint Andrew's Day comes round to-morrow and the doings the pressure was becoming des gold neck chein and gold watch that he would be Senior Wrangler. back in receive the honour of Lord Kelvin died on December of our Ices! St. Andrew's Society will be much in evidence, it may perately serious for them. Anglo Talaed at $80 and from Miss He threw himself with intensity knighthood. Between the laying 17th. He was buried in West- not be inappropriate for us here to mention some facts regarding Freach troops were indeed hastily Logan a gold fager ring welded into both reading and athletics, of the two asbles there ware minster Abbey in a grave next to the origin of this important Socisty which is but one of the many transferred, but the result hes st about $100. The watch sod and later, music, He se one of several years of strengous work. Bir Lesac Newton.. of similar name throughout the world, in the many places where, bran by no means what the Ger. chain were afterwards found in the founders of the Osbridge Daring this period was commenc University Musical Society. As an ad the great treatise "Thomson Sootamen foregather." From the excellent book issued by the mans anticipated. The pressure, the grounds of No. BI.
Stole Show Case. andergraduate be wrote original and Taits Natural Philosophy."' Society in coparetion with to-morrow's "Hesther Day" festivities, on the Western Front_continues
work, despite the The second of Mr. Daman The story of's particularly cool papera upon subjects cocupying This we read that the St. Andrew's Society of Hongkong was inaugurated with unabated zeal, and Germany
DOW realinss that theft was told to Mr. A. Dyer the attention of the most emin fact that its two volumes - Faller's informal recitals in aid át a meeting beld in the City Ball on Friday, the 27 h January, donbilees. 1882, and that the Society was formed" in order that there may be once more her theories are not Ball, at the. Police Court this ent En open mathematicisas. stitate only the beginning of the of the Prisoners of War Fand is ja Hongkong a 'regulaily constituted body of Soctemen, noder hose is accord with praction. While morning, when a young Chines It was in 1846 that Dr. Meikleham 'eabject, marked an epoob in the to take place at the Helens Way stealing died and the Chair of Natural teaching of the foundations of Institute on Monday, October suspices and control the annual national oelebration abell be held, the reinforcemente have enabled was charged with and who shall take cognizance of, discuss and take stepr, if neces the Italians to stem and, at certain several pairs of Ohianes hoes Philosophy at the University of Physical Science. The Atlantic 10, at 5 30 p.m. sary, in regard to any matters which possess a national interest; and points, to drive back the enemy, from a shop in Queen's Road Glasgow was vacant. After pro- cable completed successfully, Bir
The Chinese, Lang Pins-bing; the Society shall be to a certain extent, a charitable institution, both the British and the French Central. It ar pears that yester-longed discussion, in which Thom. William rescued his quest into ralieving, when necessary, distrewed and deserving countrymen, sa bere contioned their soccorful day a show cass containing the ton's overwhelming mathematical the properties of coatter, and for who was charged yesterday, in far as the lande will permit." Bow the Society has fulfiled its offensives in France. The blow shoes was banging outside the ability seemed likely at times to years he was working upon the connection with bogus collections came spoil bischenes of snoosss, he was vortex and other theories. A on behalf of "Bestber. Day" Ianotions in the last thirty-five years, it is further stated, "is too which the British troops track shop when defendant well-known to need reonpitulation here, & office it that at date there last week in the vicinity of 8, along, enbocked it, and patting elected to the reosney. He was matter occupying considerable Fands, was wrongfully described are, 415 members on the books and $5,000 invested in War Bade. Quentin was not only one of putting it on bis bead, walked then 22 years of age. From then scientific thought at this time as a student of St. Paul's College. The contributions to the Society's lands are devoted to the relief of the heaviest launched against sway. He was seen by the master for over half a century the Glas was the geological controversy. We are informed that be bilangad deserving Sextemen sad their families, numbers of whom have been the Germans for a long time, but of the sump and obssed. For a gow ohair was one of the greatest and Sir William beoomaa to St. Joseph's College.
Shorthand Jyocesses. - sssisted with passage home and with money to mest argent needs." it was one of the most accessful while he held to his ill-gotten across of inspiration to scientific pmminent participant. Having
Word bus band retired that Lá In the big nadertaking which the Bociety Has in hand to-morrow and most skilful, reuniting as it goods, but the chree became so man. Many of the most advanced, reviewed the various stages of his, they have an event that calls for much more work then in ordinarily did in thousands of prisonera and hot the without compunction be resestoles of other physicists the leaturst went on state that by ona of 12 akudents at 86. Paul's implied in the Society's fanctions su set forth in the extrest given hundreds of gens being captured, throw away the bow case, wrenk- grew out cl the ideas which this time Sir William we begin College who sat foran elementary above. There are mary indications that the Society is well able to pit was a mot errione eat-back for ing all the glane at the front. Thomsen 20attend a "parks ning to receive prendiary benefit and intermediate examination in do its part; in fact, what has already boɛn dose points to an enormous the enemy'a fondest expectations When oberget, defendant said be from his anvil. In 1847 be from his telegraphic aventione, Pitman's shorthand, in Jane amount of well-directed effort which thoroughly merite success. It and must not only bare shattered had no work to do, and was was elected a Fellow of the Royal The first royalties received ware ander the Auspices of Pite
His devoted to the founding of sobolar-Institute, England is for the general-public to do its part and that second the splendid his hopes regarding the Western hungry. His Wordship sent him Society of Edinburgh, efforts which have bois put forth by the Bocisły for a czure worthy Front, but also with regard to to prison for ven weeks and lestaring was said to be far too ships in Natural Philosophy, Bie and
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