The MAGNUNG
Three Castles"
Cigarettes
WOCHOWS
Bristol & Landon
Unequalled for-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
JAVA
THE WONDERLAND
Java, the "Pearl of the East"
is
a singularly attractive spot for the ideal holiday. There is something for every taste--and a splendid climate
Up-to-day Hotels Luxurious Railways Beautiful Scenery Sport of all Kinds
WHY NOT SPEND YOUR
HOLIDAY IN JAVA ?
The only direct and regular passon- ger service between Hongkong and Batavia, inaintained by the 3. C. J. L. steamers. Double and single cabins with electric fans and running water. Accommoda- tion for Saloon Passengers. Doctor carried. All stoämers fitted with wireless. For fares and full particulars about Java apply-- JAVA - CHINA-JAPAN - LIJN
YORK BUILDINGS Telephono Central 1574.
GO TO JAVA
Next Sailings from Hongkong. Batavia.
S.S. "TJIKEMBANG" S.S. "TUILARANG"
6th May 20th May
ALSO PACKED IN REGULAR SIZE
20 & 50:
FRAGRANCE REPUTATION &
QUALITY
99
"Three Castles
CIGARETTES
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1926.
THE ABSOLUTE ZERO.
490 DEGREES OF FROST. ·
i
The late Professor Kammer- lingh, Onnes, whose death" has just taken placo, was famous all over the world for his law. temperature experiments. Many years ago the late Sir James Dewar succeeded in producing liquid air, by liquifying and solidifying the so-called "per- manent." gason, hydrogon, nitrogen, and oxygen, forcing them, step by step, down the heat gradient until he roached the frigid temperature of 436. deg, halow the zero of the Fahrenheit soala (which Fahren-. hait believed was the lowest tomperatura attainable).
Thore Sir James Dewar was forced to stop, though the absolute zero was only 23 deg lower. The financial resources; at is disposal at the Royal Institution were inadequate to permit the costly experiments necessary to bridge the gulf.
At this point the work was carried on by Professor Onnes, at Leyden University, where he set up a special laboratory for the purpose, and followed the methods of hie British colleague. The ample andowments at his dis- posal at Leyden opabled him to attack the absolute zero in a way impossible to Sir James Dewar, and, working with the refractory gas, helium, he finally succeeded in converting it into the liquid state, which it changed into at the frigid temperature of 450 deg. below the Fahrenheit zero, or 482 deg of frost.
For that splendid achievement he was awarded the Nobel Physics Prize, and then began a long series of experiments having for their object the attainment of the absolute zero, 9 degrees below that of liquid helium. In that he all but succooded, reaching 272.18 | degrees below the Centigrade zero fapproximately 458 degrees below the Fahrenheit zero or by tho English scale 400 degroes of frost, one dogree from the final goal.
It was believed that at such an incredibly low temperatuze Helium would be frozen into a solid, but it remained obstinately in the liquid state. Halium has yet to be frozen futó a solid,ļ unless it is the one' exception to all matter, and has no solid state. The small gap between the lowest temperaturo Professor. Onnes attained and the absolute zero is only 0.82 of a Centigrade degroe,, but fow laboratories have the expensive apparatus with which to conquer it. The work of Sir James. Dewar and Professor Onnos yielded much knowledge as to the properties of matter at very low temperatures, and especially as to the electrical conductivity of metals Liquid air hes many uses, liquid and solid , hydrogen are working agents in sejentific rosearch everywhere, and me- [diçal science found in liquid. oxgyen an invaluable handmeid. Science has lightened extended the activities of the working world in countless ways, and no one can say what practical re- sults will follow the labours of the pioneers of low temperature.
CHAMPION PACKER.
32,400 BISCUITS IN 9 HOURS.
When the Marquis of Salisbury recently opened the first factory in Welwyn Garden City, Herts- that of the Shredded Wheat Com pany of Great Britain-he paused in his inspection to compliment Miss Katie Potter, a 19-year-old packer.
1
After only a few wooks' ex- perience the girl has become champion biscuit packer of the firm. Her record is 32,400 biscuits in nine and a half hours. Hor daily average is 60 a minute.
"ALL BRITISH. ***
The marquis, aftor pressing a. button and setting in motion tho machinery, described the product something of the factory, as which is at once pleasant and wholesome." He laughingly add- ed, "A great many things which aro pleasant in my life I have. found are not wholesome, while a' great mung things which are wholesome are profoundly un- pleasant."
The Earl of Granatd, a director' of the company, said it was their intention to employ only British labour, and to got the whole of
EXPERT CRAFTSMANSHIP
AND THE FINEST OF MATERIALS
Are placed at the disposal of architects for Shop, Bank and Office Fittings, Sign "Boards. Stained and Leaded Glass Ceilings, Decorative Plaster Friezes, Panelling and Pilasters, Parquetry Floors, Ornamental Grilles Gates and Fencing.
Photographs, Sketches and Estimates submitted or Tenders given on Archi- tects Details.
ARTS & CRAFTS
SHANGHAI
Codes:
CABLE ADDRESS "STUDIO"
A. B. C. 5th Edition.
Bentley's
Your Home Should Have
A® Real. Bathroom
There is nothing that will bring
so much health and comfort.
We Employ A Thoroughly Com-
petent
Staff Under Efficient European Direction
Specifications and Estimates submitted on request.
Latest Bathroom Appliances on view at our China Bldg. Showroom.
C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd.
Opposite Queen's Theatre - Telephone C. 269,
their wheat from British farmers, What is believed to be a "lost" picture, covered with dirty was taken many years ago. Tho The present daily output of the ploture by Peter Paul Rubens, varnish. He bought it and now, picture deplots the Virgin and factory is 1,000 cases, each con- representing the "Adoration of after examination, declares that Child surrounded by shepherds, talning 432 packets holding a the Shepherds, has been the artist was probably Rubens, and two females, one of whom is dozon biscuits. The equipment discovered in the Midlands. Bome who painted the subject for the kneeling and the other standing! has been designed to enable a time ago the finder was on a visit Church of the Dominicans, at and looking down at the Child doubling of this output.
to friends and was shown the Antwerp, from which the picture a manger:
Page 5Page 6