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THE PONY PROBLEM.
SEEING NUMBERS.
Another Ingenious Sugges- tion.
Varying Mental Photographs.
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LIFE IN JAPAN.
A Story of Tidal Waves. In the course of a most inter Have you any idea of what is Jesting account of some aspects of meant by a million To reply life in Japan given in a lecture at the Royal Geographical that it is a thousand thousand is merely begging the question. Society, on Dec. 17, the Hov. The human mind, though it is cap Walter Weston dealt with Tidal able of juggling with figures and Waves. He instanced :--- statistics, has really no true con- ception of large numbers.
When, as most racing men be. lieve eventually must happen, a China Jockey Club is formed, or even if there should be only the appointment of a temporary com- mission representative of all the race clubs to consolidate all the
The waves frequently sweep in rules that have been made in the
without warning, and I have seen north, in Hongkong and in Shang- A correspondent recently wrote fishing boats left by the receding har with a view to eliminating to the Daily Express pointing waters high and dry in the tops the halfhred pony and confining out that the statement that there of pine trees on the devastated! racing to the China pony proper, ware a million and a half unem jahore.. In there will be no lack of sugges played in this country would con-walking on the sands sought tions from amongst which they vay little to the ayarage man ifsafety from the threatening may be able to select some ideas as he suggested, we are told that wave by scrambling into one of which will ease the situation. a procession of these unemployed, the long line of boats that barred Not all, of course, are feasible, six deep, would extend over so his way. This was swept for but most of them are very in-many miles and would take soĮward, and finally left resting on teresting to listen to. for it is an long to pass a given point, the the roof of a solidly-built dwelling inland. its passenger all absorbing topic. A Shanghai mind has something definite to further owner has propounded an in-fix upon and a practical idea unharmed. genious scheme, says the North | which it can grasp. China Daily Netts.
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The M. S. ANNAM
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an old will be loading for: Valencia, Dunkirk, Rotterdam, Amsterdam,
He is one of those who believe and distance is almost instine farmer, high up on a terraced Hamburg optional, London, Copenhagen and other Scandinavian
DEIFIED FARMER, This visualising of figures, size,
On another occasion tive. We cannot conceive 'an abstract, but with concrete terms hillside, during the harvesting of the mind's eye gets a mental his precious rica crop, chanced to picture, a comparison is made turn and look out seawards, when with some familiar distance or a long dark line sweeping in from area, and the number becomes the horizon told of forthcoming: something that is real and under disaster. There was not time to descend to warn, and to bring up standable.
you Sey
the
that, despite all the efforts now being made to rale out the half breds, many ponies taken into racing stables recently are half breds and that this type of pony will continue to come down in evatinercasing numbers. He says, also, that the small racing man is as badly of as ever, even
An interesting experiment can the villagers from below. He ad though dealers, through the opera- be carried out Ask a number of opted a surer way, for in a swift tion of the auction rule, have friends what is the mantal picture momen: he had fired the sheaves been prevented from fixing their photographed on their minds already gathered, and the result- own prices for ponies that pro-when
wording columns of thick and dusky spective owners had to take on "five." Some, people see the smoke attracted all eyes and brought every soul up to the spot. trust. He points out that, though figure 5. others The written a man now can see the ponies be-word: to some the number Their homes. a few minutes fore he bids for them and even appears as five upright strokes-later no longer existed, but their can have them timed, should it 11111-or five articles, or five own safety purchased at so great rappen that any ponies took people: others will visualise five a sacrifice, found 3 fitting particularly attractive or show dots in a horizontal line, while memorial in the erection of a Fanything suggestive of racing some will mentally picture the shrine in the honour of the old speed. there is a rapid-fire of dots, arranged as the pips on a head man, and in it he enjoyed bids and eventually they are playing card, thos a few, the unique distinction of being knocked down for higher average but not many, see the Roman bere worshipped, during his prices than was the case before. numeral V.
actual lifetime, as their own tutelary divinity.
No doubt the paycho-analyst would find some theory of a complex" to explain all this, but it is an interesting fact that' mental photography can produce so many variations, C. D. M. intleman." Daily Express,
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TALE OF A WATCH.
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6th. March.
11th. February
20th. February
26th. February.
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NOTICE.
NOTICE.
ANY persons having claims
A
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NOTICE.
NIPPON WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY, TOKYO.
against the estate of the Iste Mr Arthur J. Hobson, Chief Constructor, H. M. Dockyard, Hongkong, are requested to pre- sent them in writing to the Civil Secretary, H. M. Dockyard, Monday Hongkong, not later than Mon- day, the 28th. January, 1924.
DEMAND REMAINS. This, it is suggested, has noth- ing whatever, to do with the breeding of the ponies, for a dem- and has been created and prices have risen with it, so that it is probable as high prices always will be paid provided the ponies. are all of a class. That is to say! if in future years the type of racing pony degenerates so that the animals are no better than the average sub-griffin, people still
Glesga's Slick Yins. will pay Tls. 1,000 and more for! the most promising ones, simply
The loss of Mr. H. J. Tennant's because of the keen desire to get gold watch at the close of an the nibbling of these countless the best of a class.
recalls meeting
amyriad in some farmer's homes- Now for the proposal which is ancient tale of the skill of Glas-tead was like the scratching of to remedy all this. It is suggest gow pick-pockets. Over a ed that the animals now in train of coffee in ing be grouped under a distinct-Buchanan-street
In Japan the silkworm was styled "The bonourable little gen- and nearly 2,000,000 families, representing perhaps 8,000,000 people, were engaged in ; rearing him. No toil was so ex- ecting as that involed in the cut- tivation of the silkworm. In early 21st. January, 1924. childhood it had to be fed seven for eight times a day, and in sultry August its nurses" only get some three or four hours" rest in
S. COLLETT,
Civil Secretary. H. M. DOJKYARD,
Hongkong.
Election
2 tea-room
At the
CITY HALL,
& Tuesday, the 28th # 29th inst. * from II a.m. to 7 pm. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS
by the most celebrated Artists of Japan.
FOR TWO DAYS ONLY, Messrs. Konor & Komor have arranged is Exhibition for lovers of RT in Hongkong
the 34. The night.ong noise of C. E. WARREN & CO., LID and extend a hearty invitation
Cup 10,000 pens in a great university
in examination hall.
2 London
ive name and that races be ardetective had been chaffing a ranged for them for so long as it Glasgow confrere about the
is possible to get an entry of, say, clumsy slowness of the Glasgow PREPARED FOR WORST. 10 or 12. which probably would criminal as compared with the
The Convalescent-Did you
be for about another five years.sharp alertness of the Cockney, have my brown sait cleaned and Then there would be a still more The Glasgow detective was pressed while I was in the hos- rigorous inspection of griffins. to jealous for the reputation of his pital? ensure that those allowed own "crooks," and finally bet the
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His Wife-No. I had your in were China ponies be-other £10 that he would lose black suit fixed ap. I thought it yond any question, and presum-his watch without knowing it would be better in case anything ably these also would have to be before reaching St.
should happen. raced angst themselves, as the whole argument centres round the contention that the China pony has no chance against halfbred. One does not quite see how the Champions entry would be arranged. unless there were two Championk races, one each class. The most revolution ary part of the idea, however, is the suggested manner of checking the rising prices. this being that
for
Enoch- square, about 200 yards off. They left the tea-room: the London man went on the Glasgow man called to him a pick-pocket well known to the police, and said (pointing to the Londoner): "See that man? I want you to get me his watch. I'll give you £5 and see that you don't get into trouble." "Is it straight" said the man. "Straight," said the detective; "you know me. ́"Oh, well," said
all ponies should be distributed the man, "if it's straight-here
as sub-griffins. There would be it is! no limit to the number of penics any owner could ask for-he could have,one only, or 20 or 30 if he liked-but there would be a fixed price and they all would be drawn for.
Such a coulition of affairs would be so nearly ideal that, with things as they are, one can only dream of it, for there would be a deadlock if the price of a pony in any season was fixed at
-RECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
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7 DONT JASTA
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HAVE HIM PAL. ST CAST!
a figure which the breeders re fused to accept. However, such a scheme would work very well in conjunction with Major Key- lock's suggested stud farm, if the latter were under club manage- meat, for then there would be in need to make more money than would cover expenses.
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