JAPANESE VISITORS.
Yesterday's Celebrations.
Over four hundred Japanese bluejackets are to be entertained to tiffia at the City Hall to-day and they will later proceed by special trams to Happy Valley to
ON MAGNETS.
An Unexplained Force.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
"KIMONO KING" DIES IN YOKOHAMA.
Victim of Sleeping Potion, It is Thought.
Nobody knows. It is a mystery. Why is a maggot a magnet?
Mr. Angost Haupt of New magnet attracts iron, but how York City, head of the Japan
Silk or why it does so scienca cannot) Garment Company and tall, states contributor to the known throughout the Orient Philadelphia Public Ledger. and the United States as the witness the football matches.
Many centuries before the "Kimono King." diad about 6 Yesterday was a full day of Christian era, writers referred to o'clock on the evening of entertaining, after be titin party mysterious "stone" possessing December 28th. ln his rooms at the City Hall, the visiting blue remarkable properties, chief at tbo Grand Flotel af jackets went to the World among which was its power to Yokohama of heart paralysis. Theatre when the flip “Robinson
draw to it the all-conquering brought about, it is thought, from Crusos" WAS shown: Vice iron."
an overdose of a sleeping potion Admiral Tanaguchi
Magnetic mountains, which taken inadvertently. Mr. Haupt home on the flagship Idzumo: caused shipe to fall to places by had been a sufferer from neurKE- and in the evening the Japanese drawing from their sides the iron thenis and insomnia for 20 years community entertained fifty bails, remained in the category of and is said frequently to have officers to dinner at a Chinese sex terrors up to a comparatively used sleeping draughts to reliáve
his condition.
restaurant.
WAJ
recent date.
The tiffia at the City Ball yes- They were mountains of Mr. Haupt was found uncon. terday was a great success. Same" lodestone," which was the name scious on his bed by friends who| 190 Japanese cadets altended given to the wonderful substance. bad gone to his room about 5:30 and British midshipmen acted as Today lodestona is known as the jo'clock. Medical aid was BUM- hosts, whilst in the Chamber of mineral magnetite,” which is moned and restoratives were ap Commerce room thirty Japanese the magnetic or black oxide of plied but he died a few minutes and British naval officers were iron. It is quite widely distribut later. Dr. W. J. E. Davies was entertained.
led over the earth. There is present when death took place. Commsader Beckwith presided notable deposit of it at Magnet The body is being held at Yoko- and Rev. H. G. Borison occupied Core, Ark.
hama pending advice from rela- the-rice-chair, Mr. J. Kawaguchi; A rod of magnetite painted attives in New York City.
Mr. Haupt, who was one of the representing the Japanese com.the ends and suspended so that munity.
it turns freely will set itself ic best known American business The senior Japanese officer pre-approximately north and south men making frequent trips to Japan from the Altantic Coast. seat proposed the toast of His This fact did not become known arrived at Yokohama five weeks Britannic Majesty King George, following which Commander Heck to Europeans until the twelfth previously on the steamer Pres- had been with proposed the Emperor of century, & D, but the Chinese ident Jackson, He Japan. He said: "I have the discovered it long before the birth visiting Japan for many years on bonour to-day to propose a toast. of Christ. They were the inren-buying trips. He was about 50 I ask you to drisk to the health of tors of the compass, but seem to years and is survived by his widow the ruler of a patios with which have used the latter for land and two children-Jupan d we Britons have a special boad fjourneys, and not for navigation. Jertiser.
As early as the seventh century
direction.
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sympathy. Like our own country. the Japanese mounted compasses PLASTIC PHOTOGRAPHY. Japan is a great maritime power, an wheeled vehicles, which they sad she stands so much the seal el "south-painting carts." relationship to the Catcest of
The Chinese were guided by
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Remarkable Invention in Vienna.
Aais as Orest Britain does to the the south point of the compass Continent of Europe. Norbalelle, their name for compass we ever furget, especially those of us who live in the Far East, the being "needle pointing south." statement that Dr. Alphons
grust services which Japan en
drred to the cause of the Allies during the Great War. I give you the toast of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan."
able" quarter.
A Vienas journal publiabes the
Probably this was because in Poller, who manages the new China the south is the "bonour-Loiversis Institute for "Pic- torial Medicina ' is going to introduce into general use his inreation of plastic photo-| the war by order of the Prussian graphy," which was tried during
takenly supposed in Europe that Up to the year 1600 it was mis-
Adjourning to the neighbouring south owing to the attractive in the needle pointed north and room, Commander Backwith, in welcoming the ufficere and cadetsuence of the Pole Star.
If piece of ordinary iron be
of the Japanese Navy, said: "It is
War Ministry.
The treatment of the patient
a great pleasure to me to welcomp rubbed with a piece of lodestone. is described as being free from
it acquires magnetism of its own.
you here to-day on behalf of the Government and the people of Hongkong. 1 hope you have e- joyed your stay here, and I must congratulate you on the energy Originally it was a straight bar on by a brush and can easily be base displayed in seeing all the of steel. An electric current was sights of the place. I believe this
procedure is is the last of several British colon. Prased through it, and the bar declared to be so painless that es you have visited in your world Why? Nobody can tell.
was thereby made & magnet moulds may be taken direct of tour. I hope you agree with us The bar is formed into horse.operations on seriously wounded any rate, I may tell gru that shoe shape because in that form persons. In the case of shots in the head even the exposed parts
so that it will pick up a needle or pain and danger. The material the like. Why? Nobody knows.may be sterilised by many hours of the mould, called "kolloidio." Every small boy is familiar boiling, so that infection is out of with the horseshoe magnet.
question. The kolloidin is laid!
that it is the besref them all. St
your fellow
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it holds the magnetism better of the brains have been moulded. this is the largest port 10 the Why? Ask the moon. A piece and exact reproductions have British Empire and the second of steel goes with a magnet of
Why We Count by Tens. in the world. This Colony. it may this kind, to fit across its ends. Ibean taken of the cavity of the! interest you to know, gives special the borseshoe be hung up, and a mouth, with all details as far
-Numerals are much older then Fort William, Ontario, Decem- writing. People found it neces- hospitality to nationalities, small weight be suspended from down at the depths of the larynx. glading 2,000 u!
An important point is that noter 11-A
of group sixty sary to count ages before there the piece of steel, it will be found
families will countrymen.
give was say written language. longer from the moving picture support a greater weight withoutary, such as the smearing of ideal communism" & trial in
I will not keep you that the latter day by day will preparation of the skin is neces Canadian
The earliest numerals were tha entertainment that has been a being pulled off-up to a certain rease in the case of a plasters newly opened township named angers. Even nowadays you ranged for you, but will conclude limit, of course. Why? Don't cast. The thin elastic positive] Devon, 35 miles south of bere, yourself often use one or more) by wishing you bon royaye mod a
mould is not cast, but introduced where the Arrow river valley Angers to indicate numberà. ask me. You barel pienasat home coming.
into the negative Atbin skirts the international boundary, Not many years 40 a coating. Such positives are also
Dominion and provincial laws had a wonderful expencace but 1)
officer built at Sandy Hook ac Am sure you will all be glad to be enormous horseshoe magnet out used as an artificial substitute will be observed, and the equal sheet of paper stands for "one." home again in Nippon once more. nt two big cannon and a bunch of for broken parts of the face, such privileges plan is laid down to We call it a digit, which means i
as poses or ears. They have the conform
Three cheen were then given to
#5
to
the laws. The
steel rails. When a powerful the Emperor of Japan, fallowing current of electricity was passed advantage of being of little weight families will take land in the which Mr. Kawaguchi called for through the contrivance it diiland are not liable to catch fire.
three cheers for King George. The British na Japinese national anthema were then sang.
"POWDER PUFFS,”
At the Star Theatre. Acquitting themselves with considerab.e merit The Powder Poffs opened their return season
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extraordinary things. Suggestion was made that it might be osad to disarrange by its influence the compasses of enemy warships ventoring near the coast, but the War Department refused to takel the idea seriously.
PECULIAR ASSAULT
CASE,
"GRIP OF LOVE."
one township, and will live in a settlement established in the Here centre of the township. will be a school and a church and community-owned business ea
Boy's Strange Excuse Fortablishments.
Crime.
A short vertical line marked on
By origin, it represents a finger.
⚫ finger.
The earliest method of record- ing's number was to do it with a series of such vertical marks. But that was obviously iacon. venient for reckoning purposes if the number was a large one. The crops will be pooted ind Hence, the adoption of symbols A statement contending that his disposed of in bulk, and the pro-2, 3, 4 and so on to represent criminal record was due to the ceeds will be divided on the basie quantities up to 9. This idea is non-success of his wooing was of the size of each family. The credited to the ancient Arabians, handed to the Tottenham Bench township comprises 173 plots of who were famous mathematic recently by Leslie Thomas Can-160 acres each, with only one plot ians. Later on, for bigger num- ham, aged seventeen, a mechanic, unsuitable for farming.
bers, letters were used as symbols The first step will be the erec-X-for top, C (centum) for 100, of no fixed abode, who was sent to the Star Theatre, Kow- Malay Student Sent to Prison. prison for twelvo months tion of a saw mill, probably this | M (mille) for 1,000, and so on. loon, last night before
with hard labour for stealing two winter, and the selection of a audience which showed its ap A Malay student, Mahomed £5. Bank of England notes and number of members of the com: preciation by repeated rounds of Zain Arifin, was sentenced by six £1 Treasury notes, which be manity to clear a certain amount applause. The programme com- the West London magistrate, on took out of the pocket of another of land, equal acreage to each prised a number of songs, dances, December 2, to two months' im-lodger at Asplina-road, Totten-quarters: ction turlesques and stits. We missed a prisonment for 893aulting a ham, on November 5,
Spring ploughing and sowing familiar figure in the lady who was boarding house keeper. Notice of He pleaded guilty to eleven will be carried on in the same way, used to partner Mr. Kurylo in appeal was given. It was stated other charges of theft at Barns exbibition dances, but her place at a previous hearing that when bury, Islington, Blackpool, was ably taken by a new member, Mrs. Threadgold, Redcliffe Road, Brighton, Southend-on-Sea, and Miss Dorothy Drew, who Was South Kensington, with whom Portsmouth. seen with the famous dancer in defendant lodged, presented ber In his letter to "the Bench the exhibition ballroom dances. It account to him, the woman re- prisoner said: "At the early age CANNON BALLS FROM THE
as a successful opening night.ceived a heavy blow on the head, of sixteen I found myself in the A new programme will be presa poker wrapped in handker powerful grip of love, and through sated at Eath the matinee and chief being found on the table. the parents of the girl not allow Fall to Pieces Red-Hot When night performances to-day, when For the defence, it was stated ing me to meet her I was utterly another large audience is expect that Mrs. Threadgold was under miserable, and after
ed. Bookings are at the Theatre.
fruitless
The ancient Egyptians bad hieroglyphs for big numbers. A frog stood for 100,000. For 1,000,- 000 their symbol was a man with arms extended as if in admiration. "We are accustorsed to count by and other buildings erected. Falltens because our remote ancestors! settlement may be accomplished did their counting on their fingers. in the spring, according to persona Even at the present time, people, prominent in the community plan.especially women and children, often count in that way. This
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method of counting was ancient- ly developed into a system by which, with certain postures of the fingers, bent or outstretched, any number below 10,000 could be indicated.
Exposed to Air. Cast-iron cannon balls, which,
For arithmetical purpose the the influence of drink at the time, efforts to pacify my own thoughts and that she fell and knocked her I went to London and, then to after being, 291 years in the sea, most important achievement was head against the sofs.
Blackpool, and at the latter place fell to pieces red hot when expos- the invention of the zero, which THE LATEST FROM IRELAND.
ed to the sir, are described in one is said to have originated in In the witness-box defendant took the downward plunge. Pat was making wooden denied the charge, but Mr. "I was practically penniless, of the manuscripts acquired by fodis, being communicated to pigsty, when be missed the nail Lankester said that he considered and my conscience kicked against the Association of Manufacture of Europe through Arbis. The be was hammering and hit his that an aggravated assault was these thafts. The recipients of Non-corrodible and Anti-corrosive zero is nothing, but what should own thumb. After having it committed. Why a man of de my dishonour were numbered Products.
These cannon bails were raised wrapped up he met one of his fendant's position and education amongst the working classes. 1 friends, who, naturally, asked bimahnaid commit such an act he are not a hereditary criminal, and from the wreck of the Mary Rose, what he had been doing. "Sore," could not say.
I hope I shall not be thrown on suck off Portemonth in 1545 and Cars, “said Pat, “. I hit me thumb with a Mr. Roome appealed for a fine, the human scrap-heap, which were recovered 291 years later. hammer. It's bad now, but I'd as his client, he said, had been means that I shall have to sit in Similar cases bad no thumb jeft at all if I'd educated at a public shool, and the solemn silence of a dull, dark showing that rust is a form of
combustion. been striking with both hands!" had gone through a University, call of a pestilential prison."
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