TWO-MINUTE TALKS A Dally Tonio
By ROBERT POWER
DELUDED EYES.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER : 20, 1024.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Tobacconists who have in- | stalled automatic machines for solling cigarettes are scoptical an to the supposed inuato honosty of tho Londoner for they commonly find dopreciated or spurious coins used instead of shillings. Other
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There is surely no more cruel the appearance of solidity and disappointment than that oxunduring splendour. The pleasure possiblities of loss aries, as when perienced by the thirst-te monted viewed in the distance contraete the machine, by being out of traveller passing over the desert so splendidly with the arid order, accepts shillings without who scos the vision of the green common-places of "the daily delivering the goods. This recently oasis, the stately palms with the round, the common task." But happened in the St. Рапоган grateful shade from the burning too often ambitions fade and ares, and the tobacconist found suo, and hears in imagination the promised joys prove to be do in the machine three coins (one of plash of the spring. But as he lusive. Yours are consumed by them bad) in excess of what there presses forward, the scene dis many in this pressing forward to should have boon. Within five Roives and rolls away in mist. It grasp what?" The mirage soon minulos of opening, however, is a mirage, the trick played by by doludod eyes.
thoro wore throo claimants of the There is a sad fatality in many coins, followed throughout the rofraction upon the deluded eyes.
In the polar region explorers a pilgrimage where the mirage day by u stream of the observant, havo soon strange sights, Ships luros from the beaten track. It who had watched the disappoint. and great borgs invortod in is said that in the desert of ment of would-ba clients the the atmosphere the fatmurgano Turkestan a vision of a pool and night before, and all claimed to
with spokon of by affrighted travellere palms may be viewed
have been victimised. who first ponotrated into the startling clearnous, but it loads Frozen North. The vision seen to destruction. Many travel- is real enough, until the mirage lors have followed it, only to
At a sitting held a few wooks! melts and Ronson knows that it find themselves hopelously lost age, after elaborate investig was a dream picturo, divorced amid the endless billows of sand alions, the special Harvest Com- from reality.
in the valleys where the bones of mission of the Soviet Supreme In the Sahara there may be inen and camole are whitening in Economic Council definitely pat Beon the optical delusion of a tho pitilosy sun,
it on record that the earlier glorious lake of deepest bluo. Reality is rarely so attractive estimates greatly exaggerated The azuru surface contrasts as the mirage. And duty, the the Russian harvest for 1924. with marvellous offect with the right path, and the job which lion the total vinid of which is billowing expause of yellow sand. to hand--all seldom sours so ac-actually at least 5,000,000 tons It has deluded thousands, this ceptable to the ardent mind as the below that of last year, and The Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd. decoltful lake formed by the host bright visions which bold the Im-is therefore insufficient oven for od Holar raye striking upon the agination. Dresins beckon, but the fesding of Russia's sand and setting up a falso medium duties call for action. Your cir- population and cattle and for of rofraction. It is said that even cumstances may soom like an im- sowing. It was stated at thei experienced travellers, who have prisoning cage, but beware of the meeting that the grain export pra- seen the phenomenon a hundred thirago of instant sucrose, if only graiuto could hardly be carried time, are still thrilled anew hy (as it sooms to you) your can out: in any case the utmost care out by, some dramatic would have to be observed. In tho apparent prospect of bound break
Own
loss water. But when it is ap- sortio. Hard work: persistence: view of this pronouncement the proached, the mirage is revealed:, holding down the job until you Supreme Reonomic Council has Sand, burning sand, takes the get a holter-roal reunits will thus revison the export plan for other place of the the lake soon by be attained, but not by following product, and has decided to make doluded oyes.
the mirage of Success without up the dolicioney by increasing Labour.
How many & traveller through life has been led on by visions 800/1 by dalnded eyes! The cattles built in the air have all
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"Greater Binder Than Diplomats."
Aro your eyes doluded eyes If so, thoy will be deceived many a mirage of falso promise.
the
by
timber vapori of 27 for cont., and the ex- sport of naphths by 150 por cent, and by endeavouring to export considerablu quantities of manganeso-and-cvon-of-coal.-11. which was to open a new era in has also buen decided. in view of large constructional work. The the menace to the foreign trade word's total output of Portland balance, to export precious stones, coment now oxcoods fifty million cotton fabrics, and sugar to the
tons per year.
An interesting ceromony took The Lord Mayor of Leeds
year
East.
place in the Loeds Town Hallaceopled the moniorial on behalf A woman of about 45 years of last month, a tablet there boing of the city of Leeds. A luncheon age was admitted last month to unveiled to the memory of a local followed in the Lord Mayor's the Civil Hospital, Matara, Cay- The tablet was inton, with serious injuries caught stonemason, Joseph Aspdin, who parlour.
agoscribed:-
by a crocodile in the river just exactly a hundred patented Portland coment.
"In memory of Joseph Aspdín, behind the hospital. It appears of Loode, stonemason, 1779-1855, that the woman want to the river- whose invention of Portland sido as usual to gather some herbs, the crocodile kuddenly coment patented 21st. October, when 1834, followed by a century of seized ber by the leg. The woman improvement in its manufacture succeeded in getting out of the and use, has made the whole grip, leaving a piece of flesh with world his debtor. This tablet was thru crocodile. The crocodile mado prosented by the American Port-a second attack before she was jand Coment Association on the well out of the water and seized occasion of the united celebration her this time by the left arm with the British Coment Makers Hor cries brought some people to Fodoration at the contonnial of the spot, and one of them started the invention 1824."
bolabouring the animal with ani
Men came from all parts of the globe, Amories in particular, to do honour to the humblo crafto- man, one of whose greatest monuments surely is to be found in buildings the British Empire Exhibition at Wombley, which are masterpieces of construction
in concrete.
The large dologation from the United States was composed of nombors of tho Amorican Portland Cemont Association, led by the Prosident, Mr. F. W. Kelley, New York, and the Vice- President, Mr. John 'W. Boardman, Detroit. The British Cement Makurs Federation wore hosts to the oversea visitors along with the Locds Corporation. It was explained that Joseph Aspdin found that by mixing inoly-pulverised lime with elsy in cortain proportions, burning it at high temperature till the carbonic gas was entirely ex- polled, and grinding the product lie was able to produce a new constructive material. He took out a patent and called his inven- tion Portland coment because it rivalled Portland stone for con- structional purposes. The fol- lowing year ho established a the factory at Wakefield for production of his coment. Asplin know nothing of chomistry, and it soome probabic that his dis covery resulted almost aceident-
ally as an outcome of his long practical exporionco, and it has Loon suggested in view of import- ant omissions in his specification that he either deliberately kopt cortain facts to himself, or that he was not fully aware himself of the exact proportions of tho different ingredients contained in the comont manufaelured,
CLOSE SECRET.
Seven of Aspdin's descendants oar when it finally gave up the were present when Mr. Kelley attack and disappeared. It is unveiled tho handsome bronzo curious that this woman was the tablet which has a prominent fourth in the family to be attacked position at the foot of one of by a crocodile and at the same the main pillars. One. un spot, the last victim having suc- aldarly lads, his grand-daughter, eurbed to the injurios. Tho was accompanied by two groat woman's arm was amputated thei grand-daughters.
same morning.
Mr. Kelley said timt progress
in vonerato construction in the last century lund largely been a la an analysis of the Union matter of individual effort. Joint Consus enumerated in 1921, and elforts would give the industry ajust issued in a Blue Book, the greater progross in the coming Census Department says that contury. Aspdin had dono more the next twenty-five.. years will once und for orally to bind the world probably decide together than the diplomats of all all whether the white Taco
will have
part time.
in the The Chairman of the British ultimate development of South Africa, or whether they will Foduration, saia that Britain was on the ove of a great concreto be crowded out by the abo In the United States that rigines. Failing accassions from had already dawnod, '
age.
ago
The Lord Mayor.said it was
concreto onginooring.
uny
abroad, tho whitos must for ever
abandon the prospect of maintain-
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Wonders of New Invention. The discovery of hidden tren- hoped that in the near future ing the white civilisation, except
a diminishing minority. Itjauro, the detection of contraband, thore would be a chair at the local university for comont and may be forced to abandon its do-howover carefully concealed, and X-ray mination, or even abandon the absolutely fool-proof country,
photography are some of the de- velopments that will follow on Dr. W. D. Coolidge's invention of a portable X-ray apparatus.
It weighs thirty pounds, is no a wireless battery
MORE COLOUR,
"I lovo every inch of this country, and I love the people
treasure, are known to bo in ex- istence in this country, but most: offorts to trace their location have boon fruitless.
Now, however, the X-ray can clear up the mystories of con- turies. The operator bolding the
apparatue stands on one side of
the wall. On the other is tho observer, who holds a fluorescent Boreen before which a film is plac- ed. Whenthe raysare projected on the wallthoyreveal on the film any differences in Ils density' caused Efforts for the bright and who are hore." The speaker was larger that
by a cavity. If coins or metal beautiful are being made both in an Austrian and he was alluding and more compant, and is worked abjects were hidden in it they
to England, and, presumably, to Konsington and Cholson. It the English, Hoots, Irish, Walsh, if by ordinary electric light current would immediately appear o is in those districte that one soce not to the alien rest of us, says
The new X-ray "camera" bas the film. moro blue, red, and purplo private the Tica.
Another romantic possibility He had shown his an enormous advantage over its In any case he kept his process doors than in any part of London. love by coming here in 1913, by cumbersome predecessors, since of this wonderful-instrument a close secret, allowing no one but the workmon to enter his recent moating in Kon-being interned during the war, it can easily be takon anywhore concerns the subterfuges of the sington Town Hall of the and by returning after repatria and ovary whore. Whereas pre-soiugglor. If, for instance, con- premisce, and taking part himself Church-street Guild it was stated tion as a stowaway on a cargo viously whatever was to be or- traband wore hidden in a bale of inovory operation.
His son, that shops with good colour and boat.
His amorous profession amined had to be taken to the wool, the mysterions William Aspdlu, continued the policy of covering the manufac- lottoring. had experienced im- was uttered when he was charged rays, now the rays can come to the little box would pleroe
provement in their trade, Indeed, at Lambeth Police Court with..
'Tho 'many complicated through the hiding place, and ture with a voll of mystory, The works wore surrounded by one member said that the orders offences against the immigration, gadgets" necessary to their use, reveal the presence of something
within, d Walls twenty foot high, with no in one day of customers, who laws. It was the more remarkable too have been abolished.
Plumbers who wish to locate way in groept through the offico, uld they had never noticed his for being made when the weather The apparatus is onclosed in a and even workmen ware kept in shop until it was painted blue, has been justifying the reputa-noat little onso with a lend cono hidden pipes in walle, and Ignorange as far as possible of the paid for all the scheme of decoration of the English elfulate, for concentrating the rays. The dentists who desire to take a tion. There is, of course, There are inches, and square operator has only to connect it photograph of the tooth of their Beorets of the process.
Other mionsors, however, la- good deal of nonsense laiko milos, of this country which with an ordinary electrical plug client will benefit equally. The about a "brighter" Landon. But meny nativa patriots find it hard, and it is ready for use, X-rays camera is on show at bured with equal ingenuity to
Aloe secrets and to to this other sense of the word, to love just now, Yet the magis. Seeing through a brick wall" the International Dental B thakmalaria awas perfected meaning may be attached,
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