HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
WHAT'S NEW IN SCIENCE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1937
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It was designed at the request
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The Australian Government has been put to great' expense in fighting
the menace; Western Australia put miles long, and Queensland tried zur- rounding itself completely with a 0,000-mile barrier.
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warfare.
of the British Scientific Instru-missioner in New South Wales, is now D. G. Stead, Rabbit Inquiry Com- ment Research Association, and proposing chemical
lic is about a thousand times faster suggests using cyanogas-a powder than that of ordinary cameras.
which gives off prussic acid gas when brought into contact with moisture.
The sensitive emulsion lies in contact with the back of the lens. holes, cyanogas dust is blewn into Dogs drive the rabbits down their This new instrument is to be used in connection with the 200-inch tele-closed up and stamped down.
them with a fout pump, the holes are scope on Palomar Mountain, Call- sie acid
Prus- fornia, and will enable astronomers
gas penetrates into every to look still further out into space.
cranny of the warren and the rabbits are exterminated.
Its production shows that our optical manufacturers now lead the world, and have ousted the Germans from the position they held before the war.
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Teeth
inhabitants of Maldon, Essex, suffer from "motlled teeth." The enamel has a characteristic dead white and milky appearance, varied by brown and yellowish spots and bands.
The same sort of thing is found
In parts of Texas, and is probably due to a trace of the chemical element fluorine in the drinking water.
Research workers at Bedford College, Regent's Park, London, have been looking into the matter, They And that the teeth of Maldon rabbits contain five times the normal amount of fluorine and the local grass three times as much. Well water has ten times much fuorine in it as London tap-water.
It has been known for some time that traces of fluorine, from volcanoes or chemical works, can get into the soll and unset cattle. Now it seems that as little as one part per million of the substance in drinking water can affect teeth,
So far no one knows how to get rid of this minute amount, but the problem is being tackled.
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THE London Passenger Transport Board have been co-operating in a scientific experl- ment: Holborn Underground Station was lent by them as a laboratory.
Follett and Crawshaw, researchers of Birkbeck College, London, took their apparatus down the escalators and measured the intensity of cosmic rays' under 100 feet of London clny.
These rays originate in the stars. and are mostly absorbed by the air. But even on the railway platforms, showers of rays were detected.
Follett and Crawshaw were pleased with the outcome of their research. which directly contradicls findings of .French physicist Auger,
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Stead claims that this method gives, the least possible use of time and the greatest. kill possible, entailing
energy. Cost of clearing the land is estimated at sixpence per acre.
He points out that even in Great Britain crop values may be diminish- cd by ten per cent. through rabbit altacks and that cyanogas might prove useful there. Australlan farm- ers, faced with ruin, consider this the soundest proposal to date.
DIABE
Diabetes
IABETICS should be grate- ful to famous Danish specialist, Professor Hagedom, of Copenhagen. He has worked out a method which will delay the netlon of insulin
The trouble with insulin is the speed of Its action and the short time during which it is effective. To cause delay, attempts have been made to use it mixed with castor oil. much better dechnique: he compounds Hagedom has now worked out
the insulin with protamine, a sub- stance extracted from the sperm of a species of trout. Protamine-insulin is giving inost satisfactory results, but the mothod is still in its experimental stage.
Hagedom belleves that the best way of treating diabetes will turn out to be injections of ordinary insulin in the morning and of protamine-insulin In the evening,
Insulin
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diabetics 15 announced
from Stockholm. Professor Lichten- stein has removed all diet restrictions in bis hospital for children, and allows his young patients to cat whatever they like..
To compensate for their extra in- take of sugar and starch, he injects Into them extra doses of insulin.
"The transition-to free diet," says the professor, "is remarkably easy and the toy of parents and patients on the removal of restrictions must be seen
to be believed." He finds that the additions to the diet have a most beneficial effect on the general health.
Specialists in this country are in-
MILLIONS of rabbits are terested and hopeful, but will await
making a desert of a great part of Australia. In some districts sheep have been driven out, in others only half as many are being reared as a few years ago.
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TREAT BRITAIN declared War on Germany on August 4, 1914-almost a quarter of a century ago.
A fairly large German squadron, including the famous raider Emden, was stationed in Far Eastern waters when war broke out, and many residents of Hongkong feared that an invasion of the Colony would take place.
One of the first War Proclamations issued by the Government was a reassuring message to the peoples of Hongkong, informing them that all necessary measures had been taken to repel any invasion.
The Proclamation was as follows:
} Wednesday, August 5th, 1914
PROCLAMATION
by their proceeding with their ordinary business as in time of peace.
In the event of hostile vessels being sighted, three guns will be fired from the "Tamar," and the Red British onsign will be hoisted on that vessel and at the masthead of the flagstaff on the Peak, and will be kept hoisted thoroughfares and any other action likely to cause excitement and con- long as the enemy is in sight.
Bin-chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice in Y His Excellency, Sir Francis May, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-as
Admiral of the same.
Whereas a State of War exists between His Majesty the King and,
Germany.
This Proclamation is issued to inform the inhabitants of Hongkong] that His Majesty's Navy will guard the Colony from an attack by the enemy! In force, and that the present strength of the defences and garrison of the fortress make unlikely a raid by predatory cruisers.
All necessary measures to defeat such a raid are, however, being taken, and the Government trust that the confidence of the people will be shown!
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Fill in some of the numbered squares in this drawing and you will have a silhouette of a popular sportsman. Check your effort with the solution below.
Girls' and Boys' Corner
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Dear Kiddies,
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You must have found last week's Competition rather dit- ficult, because there were not quite so many entries as usual. It takes a good deal of originality, to make a design for O lantern, doesn't it? Still, there were some good efforts sent in, and after carefully examining them I have come to the conclusion that the best of the Seniors was that
Veronics Walker,
· Lasi” week's "Junior" Winze
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of Margie Xavier (aged 10), 17 Jordan Road, Kowloon.
The Junior prize goes to Margaret Chuter (aged 0) 5 Prat Avenue, Kowloon.
Will the winners call at the "Tele- graph" Office for their prizes?
Commended for good work are the following Senlors: Ho Shuk-chun, Yolanda Remedios, Bernard Pomeroy, Margaret Chon, Pauline Strange and Celeste Marques; and Peglyn Faber, Claude Coom, Betty Choa, and Jeari
among the Juniors.
Now, kiddies, this week I'm giving you another "Hidden Names" Corn- polition. In the sketch you will see six tle pictures. Each represents the name of a bird. What you have to do is to decide what bird's name each illustrates,. After you have found the answers, make a numbered list, and add your name, age and address. Don't forget your age. In case of a tle, age: and neatness will be taken into account in deciding the winners.
There will be two prizes-one for children from 10 to 14, and the other for those under 10. Address your entries to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hong- kong Telegraph," to reach him not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Try your best to win a prize, children,
Marglo Xavier. Congratulations on again winning, Margle. You hold the record for prizes in these com- petitions, and are certainly very clever af colouring.
UNCLE EDDIE'
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While this signal remains hoisted,. the public should avoid collecting
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On the retirement of the enemy the Colonial flag will be hoisted, Further. Proclamations will be issued as necessary from time to time. Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this fifth day of August, 1914
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By Command,
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A tag on
a name
means fame
IVE a dog a bad name and hang him.. Give him a nickname and you
better or worse.
Dillinger would have been just another gangster without that magic title of Public Enemy No. 1.
It can kill a celebrity with ridicule. The ex- Kaiser's son has never outgrown "Little Willie."
"Silly Billy" is the contemporary and historical suminary of William IV, und Bishop Wilberforce, an. tagonist of Huxley in the great evolution controversy, lives on in his name of "Soapy Sam.'
Neat nicknames are epigrams that summarise character one word or phrase, "Tumbledown Dick" hits off the pub- lic character of Richard Cromwell. "Old Hickory" is President Andrew Jackson in a nutshell..
He liked mutton
Charles II's manner of life earned him the famous one of Merry Monarch, and one of his racehorses transferred Its own name to him, so that he became Old Rowicy; though some say that was a contraction for Roland, because Charles was " Roland for an Oliver-Cromwell.
But did you know that he was also called the Mutton Eating King?
The study of once popular names unearths some curious figures.
The Musical Small Coal Man was a name given to Thomas Britton, an eighteenth-century cool vendor who won fame as a musiclan,
Hazlitt said, "Nicknames for the most part govern the world."
They still do.
Cast your mind about on the famous modern figures who live with tag: Evans of the Broke, Trader Horn, Uncle George Lansbury, the Welsh Wizard, Bossy Phelps, Schnozzle.
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Colonial Secretary. THE KING.
"Yes, I think it looks very nice, but I could buy it. all in about four tins."
IS YOUR ENGLISH CORRECT?,
UNIQUE
If a thing is "unique" it is the only one of its kind,
It is therefore wrong to say "rather unique," "quite uni».
""more unique." If a thing is "unique" there is no more to be nuid.
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"SIT" AND "SET" - The use of "act” for “ait" is a Cockneyism.
"He was betting there" is torong, but "He was setting the table there" is right.
You cannot just "set"; you must "aet" something."
Puzzle
Solution
AREN'T I?
This Cockney colloquialism is quite indefensible. No one would ever dream of saying "I are clever." Why, therefore.. when the sentence is twisted round into a question should it become "Are I not clever?" and 80 "Aren't I clever!"
The only correct form is "Am I not clever" ·
LEARN AND TEACH These two words are still often confused. The pupil learns. The teacher teaches. It is wrong, therefore, to say "That will icarn you."
When you have filled in squares numbered 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98 and 99, you will have a picture of Lord Lonsdale.
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