ASTRONOMY.
INTERESTING LECTURE:
The Hall of the Union Church was last night filled by a large number of persons interested in the lecturs which the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie delivered on the planetary system. Commodore Gurner was in the chair.
The remarks of the lecturer
elucidated greatly
by were
lantern slides, numerous the lecture
being divided into three parts. The first was & sketch of the history of astronomy. The second was reference to the planets in number and detail. Lastly he dealt with the recent prophecies of which they had all heard.
as
class of heavenly bodies. To them every bright shining body was a star and no more. The dis- tinction was that the planets gave no light of their own, but borrowed it by reflection from the sun, while the stars had light of their own, revolving round was one of them. The sun
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
BOXING DAY.
CHARITY FOOTBALL
MATCH.
at
A charity football match will the stars. The stars, having be played on the Hongkong Club | light of their own, could twinkle, ground at Happy Valley, by kind whereas the planets, having only permission of the Hongkong Club, the reflection of the sun's light, on Boxing Day. kick-off could not. Sometimes when the 3.30 p.m. planets were very low in the sky, they might twinkle just a little, owing to atmospheric causes.
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The match is for the final for:
the 6th Submarine Fietilla Cup. Admission to the stands will In looking through telescopes b3 53 cats, and a collection will at the sky many people expected also be made on the grounds, the to see the stars magnified to the proceeds of which will be given sizes of saucers, and were dis-to the War Devastated Franca.
No Fund. appointed at the result.
could The Cup will be presented to telescope ever invented span the vastness of space and the winning toam imudiately bring the stars to that magnitude after thn, MA WW. Black,
The first lantern slide whch when their discs could be dis- H.R.F.C., will we the referee.
the lecturer showed depicted a diagram of the system of planets
it was
by conceived Pythagoras in the 6th Century B.C. This, astronomer and his school held that the sun was one of the planets and that the e re- ceived their light from intercal forces. The earth they believed to be in the centre of the system, with the sun and other planets revolving round it. This belief
tinguished.
Turning to the discussion of Venus, the lecturer said that this planet appeared as a black dot in the sky when it got between the solar body and the earth. As the Evening Star they saw Venus to- wards the West shining brilliantly in the sky. She became the Morning Star towards the dawn, when she was seen in the East. The brilliancy of Venus was due
ENGLAND'Y SCOTLAND MATCH.
F
All League matches are can- celled for Saturday next in con- sequence of a big effort being made! by the H.E.F.A. officials for the Fund for Devastated France, and as there ara co great counter- attractions on that day there should
int
be large crowds attendance to help swell the funds for this good cause. The matches which have been decided
was given rise to by the apparent to its having a highly reflecting upon will be of an interesting!
that
not was
surface.
movements of the sun and stars,
nature. In the first match, there! which, rising and setting each
The planet Mars received the is suficient sprinkling of the day, appeared to them to have
greatest attention among astro-local Chinese team to interest! made a revolution round the
one day earth. The fact that the earthomers, owing to the belief held the large following of the Chinese
that there were beings inhabiting Club. We hope revolved on its axis
it. It had been assumed that butt a match will be arranged known then.
man beings, or a race of intelligent Scotland or England y China, but An ingenious sketch by an creatures, inhabited the plancts.ths time is hardly ripe for this early Danish astronomer depicted It would have to be some sort of yet, as most of the British teams, the sun as taking with it Mercury salamander which could survive in the Colony beat South China and Venus in its revolution round in these planets that were in Athletic now, and South Chins the earth, then Mars, and Jupiter.close proximity to the sun.represent their country in the and lastly around this conceived The atmosphere on Mars was Eastern Olympiads. Perhaps in planetary system was encircled a so much less dense than that the course of a few seasons the crystaline belt of stars. The of the earth, that it was an in-great match will be Chine v. impression at
time explicable problem how any England or Scotland. was that the generally held
As regards teams for Saturday creatures, could survive, unless planets revolved in perfect
they were endowed with organism next. there is no doubt the circles around the sun, whereas diferent from those of the earth. selection Committee have care-l considered the relative! in reality they were ovals.
Mars approached very near the fully later discovery of the telescope earth once in every 17 years, and merits of form of the men to date. went a long way towards the its appearance, with its baleful Evers representative team is elucidation of the nature of the aspect, was in former times re-more or less subject to criticism planetary system.
garded as an evil portent. With and representative teams
difficult to weld! the aid of a powerful telescope, much more
a Club team, the late Professor Lovell together than detected lines and marks for it must be considered that from the best men in the League mighti its surface which their regularity he took to be a all be players of the same position highly cultured system of irriga- and one only can be selected at a The father scathing tion channels. He believed that time.
sun.
The
that
the sun revolved round the earth, which belief as
matter
WAS
cn
There were
strong 2
are
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In depicting another diagram of the planetary system in which nery-tailed comets were much in evidence, the lecturer hastened to gaplain that there was never such a collection of comets at any one time as on the diagram which he was showing. He traced the he saw traces of vegetation along critisism which the Civilian side in comets which, their banks. Whatever water the Junior match has been sub- course of the travelling in an elongated oval, there was on Mare, the quantity jected to is in this respect is un- with one end encircling the must have been small to compel justified, and the civilian team as
received their
fiery the Martians to resort to a system selected will give a good account As regards the tails when coming in within of canals which, carried out on of themselves. close proximity to the sun. That the scale depicted in the picture Senior match, strong teams have and there has sketch, which was drawn by the shown, must be a great feat in been chosen earlier astronomers, showed engineering, if possible at all. not been any hostile criticism Probably the Satura with bis ring. Father Lowell had never really explained of the selection. Neptune was also vested with a how his irrigation system would task has been easier when it is extreme considered that the local players ring, whereas in point of fact he work. had ab such adornment. One of difficulties in the way. and in are barred owing to the nation- the carly, astronemers in the fact the entire supposition that ality clause. The English team Middle Ages, Galileo, was called intelligent beings lived and looks a strong team and contains -to account before the ecclesias-worked on Mars or any other representatives from more Clubs tical authorities for daring to planet than the earth was quite than the Scottish team, but this feature should be an advantage upset their pet thecry
unproved.
The lecturer went on to discuss for Scotland, whose combination on the other planets. Coming to should be superior. In any event,
No home where there are babies JUST WHAT HER BABY NEEDED. of respect of the Creator they had the prophecies he referred to the with both sides determined to make
Anxious mothers everywhere or young children should be with- woven into religion, and bad held drawing of Professo: Porta which a good show for their respective with reperation. Their belief appeared in the Hongkong countries, a good class exhibition
ask one another what to do when out Beby's Own Tablets, the remedy. earth, that the
being Telegraph. The lecturer said that of football should result.
are guaranteed occurred In connection with the same! their little ones are ailing; it isCavadian children's specially created by God for the sunspots which man's use, should take a premier th- face of the sup, fund a most interesting Naval for the benefit of such mothers These Tablets position among the planets and were held by the Professor to Cup Final will be played off on that Mrs. Louis Ramsay, of Lifch-free from opiates, narcotics or that every other heavenly body be caused by the conjunction of Friday, the 26th instant, on the Beld, Illinois, U.S.A. permits the other injurious drugs, and are youngest infant. They are re- She says: must revolve round it. Con the planets, and that these exerted Club ground between teams publication of the following letter, perfectly harmless even to the
оп influence sequently, Galileo was looked
"My baby caught cold in her commended in cases of simple the representing the Submarine 7
'stomach and bowels, causing fever, indigestion, constipation, upor almost as a heretic and had atmospheric conditions of the and Stoker Branch "Ambrosa" the 6th Submarine to recant his theory before the earth. No sunspot was produced for church dignitaries.
last week and this conjecture was Flotilla Cup. The match promises irritation. After the first dose of colic, diarrhoea, beadache; they In another diagram the lecturer therefore absolutely unproved. to be a very keen one as the Baby's Own Tablets her bowels, make teething easy, quickly re- showed the respective sizes of the Professor Porta bad evidently sides are well matched and great became more regular and the lieve cnids, expel worras, promote
the movements more natural. I have peaceful health-giving sleep.
Of chemists everywhere, also planete in the solar system. The based his theory on the principle of rivalry exists sun was in the centre of the the occurrence of tides which Finalists. The kick of is timed found the Tablets just what the system while round it revolved were caused by the combined for 3.30 p.m. and the Cup will be baby ceeded and cannot say too post free. 60 cents the vial, from
196 Szechuen Road, Shanghai. medicine for the little ones." the different planets. Jupiter in influence of sun and moon get-presented to the winning team. much in favour of them as a the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
after the match. .QUIZ. the earlier stages of astronomical ting on either side of the earth. research was believed to form the outtermost limit of the system. The later discovery of Uranus doubled man's knowledge of the planetary system which was also considerably added to by the further discovery of Neptune. Speaking Jupiter, the lecturer informed his audience this that they could see planet at present any night if the sky were clear. It would rise in the East and would have the appearance of a bright yellow body. Though Jupiterwas 1,300 times larger than the earth, it was not so heavy in proportion. Mercury was very small (speaking from an astron- omical point of measurement), but proportionally it was the heaviest body, being equal in weight to zinc. Saturn would float in an occan one could be found for it. Jupiter had that weight which permitted it to sink in a dignified manner befitting its magnitude, Mercury would drop plumb down *to the bottom
if
but
The difference between the planets and stars was explained, by the lecturer. Many people, he said did not know the difference between these two
between
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