PAYING FOR ADVENTURE,
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Far-Off Lands. Scientific expeditions are be coming "fashionable," and to-day there are busy preparations bath in private and official circlag for quests in far-off lands."
NATURE'S AIR RAID,
How England Fared in a Storm.
THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH;
CANCER AND CIVILISATION |
A Significant Contrast › Recorded.
Though it may be rather late toIt is right to remind ourselvės refer to London's all-night storm, that abnormal growths of many there is justification in the like. klude may be found widely distri lihood of its passing into history,buted throughout the animal and says a recent issue of the Times. vegetable kingdoms, writes the One of the latest undertakings greatest in living memory. Hour Observer.
By general agreement it was the medical correspondent of the Here evidently, is a is the expedition to the Pacific after hour the thunder and light field for the great science of com Islands and Australasis, under
biog were almost continuous.parative pathology which has not the auspices of the Scientific Ex-The frequency, indeed, was extra-yet been adequately tiled. Plants peditionary Research Association ordinary swift emanations of are liable, to a growth known This is a combination of serious electric tints; one illumination as galls, and I remember the late work and plessure, Paying following so soon upon another Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, one of guests" with money will assist the that the aya
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funds, and recovnised scientists in the impression of the first be our country, telling me, in boy..
had not lost the master surgeon pathologists of AUSTRALIAN CHEDDAR many branches of learning will have the obance of making their fore the next and perhaps the bood, that perhaps something
next appeared. It was a present about cancer might be learnt... studies in remote parts.
ation to the sight of the throbbing from the study of galls. But The St. George, a three-masted | pulse of a galvanic battery; and when wo are told, as lately in barquentiae, fitted out like it was the sinews of the sky that print, that mice are at least as yacht, with 800 h.p. auxillary were wrenched with pain. There subject to cancer as men, or when engines, has been chartered, and was no thunder at the very first wa ignore the facts of distribution many of the remoter islands of and but little for some time; only of cancer within our own species, the Pacific will be visited. Part occasional ramblings like sounds we are certainly being misted. of the scheme consists in giving of pain through tight lips. One The comparative statistical assisted passages to students. magnificent, almost incredible. evilence is clearly to the effect WHALING OFF THE FALKLANDS Spectacle was a falling globe of that cancer is a disease of civilisa
lightning-the thunderbolt!-be- tion- not in the sense that no Another expedition in prelieved in only by those who cas of the disease has ever 00- paration is the voyage of the scarcely dare declare what curred, or ever will occur, in a Discovery to tho Falkland Islands they had Been. The later primitive race under primitive. group. Much work is now being thunder made. tall houses conditions, but in the sense that a done in overhauling the vessel, shake. After the worst of the most extreme and striking con- an official of the Colonial Office storm had gone by, it returned trast exists between the extreme Informed a press representative twice. Or were these seeming rarity-to say the Toast-of recently. The mastor has not yet returns but "secondary diatur cancer under those conditions "bean selected, and it is not likely bancos" in the wake of the first ? and its great and increasing that the ship will sail until next Not a dog barked. The earth was frequency. amongst civilised spring...
very still and bushed and timid. communities. The existing The expenses of this expedition | Children woke and lights appear statistical information is are being borne by the Falklanded-more than the common num-fragmentary and inadequate, but Islande authorities, and special ber of lights-in downstair rooms in showing so much so certainly, investigation will be made into to mitigate if not conceal the it imperatively requires us to the present position of the grand terrors of the night. Men make it as complete and detailed whaling industry,
thought of France and war. The as possible. An excellent founda- Then there are two ventures of recollecting ear picked out those tion has been laid by the leading
several an unofficial character which are
sounds of musketry, medical statistician in the United interested in Spitzbergen and the machine guns, field artillery, and States, Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, Arctic regions. Mr. Shaworth bursting shells. Women thought in bis volume of 1915, "The Mor Musters's party is already out in of air raide and, partially reastality from Cancer throughout the Spitzbergen, and Mr. J.M. Wordie sured, made tea. ; . bas charge of the other.
most
World" (Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey). The study of it in the country
The Oxford University expedi INSOMNIA COMPETITION, would save much time and trouble tion to Spitzbergen sails from
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sailing aloon Terningen, fitted Awake for Four Days And with wireless telephonic equip. ment, bas been chartered to survey the coastline of. North! Eastland.
and misstatement.
INSTANCE FROM AMERICA. The United States offers the most extraordinary spectacle in this realation. The country ja prosperous, wealthy, generous,
Rome Trieste has provided a new sensation. For the sake of well educated. sanitary, clean in a prize of 1,000 lire sixteen indi bigh degree. No one who has not UNKNOWN NEW GUINEA. viduals, including several women,travelled in it can have any real Another enterprise is now ex entered into a competition to see idea of the standard of civiliss- ploring Papua. This is tho under-bow long it was possible for them tion which has there been achiev taking organised by the British to do without sleep. The resulted. Many forms of disease, only Pasific Science Expedition, under was a tie," the prize being too familiar in Europe, bave vanished or are.rapidly declining
cleanliness,
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the direction of Mr. Neal McNeil, divided between a hairdresser and the advance party went out and a barkeeper, who kept awake
очет there. Tuberculosis is "to Australia early this year. The for 97 hours, 50 minutes, and 10
To good example of that. object is to explore that part of seconds; in other words, for four New Guinea mandated to Audaya and four nights, A girl housing and primary sanitation, stralia, and to gain some idea of who showed considerable staying in the care of infancy, in the its commercial possibilities. power collapsed, after she had standard, of milk supply, in the
personal general The British Museum has kept her eyes open for 78 hours, European civilisation is really email but valuable staff exploring 55 minutes, and 45 seconds. for its natural history section in A contrast to the Trieste com- nowhere compared with the Unit. tropical Australia. Under the petion is afforded by the case of ed States. The student of public direction of Mr. G. H. Wilkins the a young man in the Florence health visits and revisits the country with over-rising envy and staff is travelling by caravan on hospital, who is unconsciously admiration. the great mountain ranges be mang a record of his own. Ho But the cancer death-rate there tween Victoria and Torres Straits. was picked up in the streets inie very high and rising very fas'. The work of invaligating the state of profound lothargy OD Dr. Hoffman's prediction of ENGLISH MADE... flora and fauna of this region is June 25, and every attempt to BOMO seven geare ago is likely to last two years.
awaken him has proved 13.11.
Finally a private adventure, successful.
whichis being organised under the
leadership of Mrs. Diana Strick-
land, who, with another woman RUM-RUNNING PROFITS,
and a party of scientific com-
panions, are hoping for thrills in the African forests.
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fulfilled and now over 100,- 000 personB die of cancer French Grey. Annually in the United States Dark The contrast with, I think I may say, all other diseases whatsoever, is extreme and startling. Evi- Were Croesus alive to-day ho dently it has a meaning, which would be suspected as a whiskey we should learn. After four pro- runner. The fabulous wealth longed vicits and very wido being piled up by the owners of travelling. I have formed the Vessels bringing cargose of liquor opir on that the laws of life and to the verge of the dry zone health, so far as we know them, thrown around the United States are observed in the United States would furnish justification for the in high and increasing degree, not least in respect of such chronic auspicion. A short time ago the irritants as aicobol, which is We heartily congratulate the owner of the British steam New Zealand Government on yacht Istar, riding at anchor statistically known to have a posi- taking the lead in the matter of fifteen miles off the Virginia tive correlation with cancer. Dae restoring penny postage, which Capes, went ashore in a yawl and exception only can I discover to is to
this rule. The only physiological be resumed in that made his way to a bank at Notain known to me that is widely Dominion from October 1. folk, Thore he exchanged a Dear postage is a real bandi-quarter of a million dollars for committed in the United States is cap to trade, and we feel sure that British currency, this amount re-overeating. Whether there is New Zealand's example could be presenting the prefits of his latest anything to be learnt in this ro- followed with profit hero and in voyage. He told the bankere gard I will not presume. to say, the other Dominions.The Bud- that one more successful trip with but we can only maryal that get statement presented by Mr. fall cargo of liquor would on-mankind has not yet begun to Massey also compels admiration. able him to retire from the study such questions as they Economies to the amount of business with profits totalling require. £3,735,000 have been effected in $1,000,000.
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