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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1920.

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HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY,

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 2 INTERIM DIVIDEND of NINE PENCE per Share on account of the year 1920, has been declared.

The DRTEND will be payable" cn and after WEDNESDAY, the 25th day of August 1920, to Shareholders ca the Register on TUESDAY, the 10th day of August 1920, and will be paid to Shareholders on the Colonial (Hongkong) Register at the exchange rate of 3 3 per Dellar.

By Order of the Board,

R. J. WILTON,

Acting Secretary.

· Hongkong, July 26, 1920.

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MAGIC REALMS.

VISIT TO DOCKLAND.

CASES OF RUBBER

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Mr. Locksley Hall writes: "Sam" ples," said my Colonial visitor con- descendingly, after a round of museums: samples-show me some thing in bulk, something with atmos- phere.'

So, as soon as the right strings could be pulled, I led him down east, past the grey old Tower of London, modernised the appearance of Tommies at play in the courtyard Presently we entered the zone of "atmosphere," ralafo ced by fried fish and onions, through which aisles of incense the great gate of the Lex- don Docks loomed high and stout.

Like a couple of microbes we craw led through into one of. Father Thames's pockets, stuff ith an orderly assortment of

m every corer of the. in hand by a courteo rom. over acres and ac houses, plunged into endles seeing with our mind's eye vín rubber forests, spice goves and. fling the queerest blends of perfum scent pictures in innumerable tints.

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"OCEAN LEATHER.”

A SHARK INDUSTRY.

„THE BLUE LIGHT OF THE

SKY.

The problem of the blue sky, the ultimate solution of which may, as in other problems, reduce the macro- cosm to the microcosm, will remain connected with the name Rayleigh, Father and son. When the present Lord Rayleigh, Professor of Physics at South Kensington, discoursed on "The Blue Light of the Sky and 'the Optical Properties of Air" at the Royal Institution on May 7, he first showed an experiment of his father's. The horizontal beam of the lanterni was sent through an acid salution of sodium thicsulphate (the "bypo" of the photographer); eulphur was slow- ly being liberated, and the fine sulphur particles gave rise to a scat tering of bluish light sideways, whilst the disc produced by the transmitted light on a screen in front of the ap- para tarned", frēzi; white into In these days of general wasteful-yellow That bih fight, the late ness it is af interest to consider a new Lord Rayleigh ascribed to the fact industry that shows a definite purpose that the very small sulphur particles in utilising an animal that has hitherto scatter blue light rather than red been of little or no value to manight, and the blue light of the sky There has recently been established he believed similarly to be caused by in America a body called the Ocean the fine dust in the air. But the late Leather Company, and some account Lord Rayleigh calculated that the of their work was given, at a recent amount of dust in the air was insufi- meeting of the Chemists' Club, by Dr. cient to account for the kitense bloe Allen Rogers. As the name indicates, of the sky, and his soo found that f one of the chief objects of the comwhen he filtered the air through cat- pany is to obtain sharks' skin for the ton wool, or when he burged the making of "ocean leather." But no dust (largely greasy organic matter) part of the animal is allowed to be in a turbid lantern beam by a Bunsen wasted. One modern plant is now in operation at Morehead City, North Carolina, and a duplicate plant is being established in an island off Florida The animals caught are sharks and porpoises. While these two aminals have somewhat of a general outward resemblance, it will be remembered that they really be long to two widely separated groups. The sharks belong to one of the lowest groups of the fishes, breathe with isits, lay eggs, have a primitive chambered heart, and a gristly ton; but the porpoises belong to bale group, and are highly mammals with hearts and ew oat as we have, with

as, and, of course, suck yng..

në.

landed

flame, the streaks of black, optically empty air then produced were still able to cause scattering. It thus appears that the atoms or molecules of gases are themselves capable of scattering light. The scattering is accompanied by polarisation of the light. Turning his Savart polaris cope to the neighbourhood of the Polar Star, the lerrer had observed that the faint luminosity of the night sky-which is never quite dark was far less polarised than daylight, and that observation-confirmed by H.D. Babcock at Mount Wilson ObservÄ- tory suggested that the luminosity of the night sky was not due to sun light but possibly to the Zodiacal Light. Why the blue colour of the sky had been attributed to ozone is Ozone, is difficult to understand.

X INTERIM DIVIDEND OF ONE. Armed with little of lamps op ba A DOLLAR per Share for the six handles three feet long, we go to ling months ending 30th June, 1920, will be the bottom of the pocket strolling The.

are caught with large PAYABLE on TUESDAY, August 10th, through vaults a century cld, ar:frly rets, an ge of from 10 to 20 blue in transmitted light, but the oa which date Dividend Warrants may roofed with brick and thickly festoon-sharks bes en with each net.tansrafted beam (in the experiment be obtained on application at the Comed with fungus, from snow whi e The porpoise vel almos wholly mentioned) appeared yellow, and if pany's Office..

to dark green. Twenty-five miles of in "chools,""*- re hunted accor the ozane of our atmosphere were to The TRANSFER BOOKS of the iron "ways," says cur guide, range dingly, the scho eing surrounded cause the blue sky, that calory should Company will be CLOSED Imom TUES through this black under world with Large

and

be most intense when the sun was DAY, August 3rd to TUESDAY, kept remperate and

robbed of on the shore. The

sharks setting and sending its rays through' August 10th. both days inclusive, its deepest gloom by many gas average from 8ft. 15ft. in the deepest layer of our atmosphere. during which period no Transfer of jets. Here a butt of Madeira, under length, while the porpo vary in Yet the ozone had much to do with Shares can be Registered.

our, revealing lamps, discloses its size from 3ft. to 30ft. ben the the phenomena. None of the ordin volume and history in hieroglyhics sharks are landed the first o, wationary constituents of our zimosphere, cut in the head. Opposite a hundred is the removal of the fins anails. including water vapour, carbon gallons of sheny in a big butt tha: The fins are tacked on racks in dioride and argon,

s*opped heads a long line of similar con sun to dry, and are sold to

ultraviolet rays; but the atmosphere [ " taines," Avenues and streets in Chinese, for making soup.

did cut off the nltraviolet end of the The numerable branch out of dimness animals are then skinned, and the dar spectrum, and apparently be into the blackness of night. Such is skins placed in salt for 24 hours, it contained ozone. Lord the atmosphere of a city of wine a then feshed and repickled. The Ray Nigh demonstrated this with the cosmopolis of the world's vineyards,livers are thrown into barrels, and aid in te spectrum of the iron arc. Exactly how much each cask or after several days are subjected to Throw a screen of cardboard,

By Order of the Board of Directors.

JOHN ARNOLD,

Hongkong, July 17, 1920.

Secretary.

TEACHING.

OPPORTUNITY offers to Two CHINESE SCHOOLMASTERS of English-school experience to travel and gain experience in Java. (The Chinese English School-Residential, 16 on staff) Requirements-Senior Local, fondness of sports and outdoor

life.

butt will hold when fall to the bang, an hour's boiling to remove the oil, and exactly how much it actually which is collected. The waste flesh, contains when rolled down into etc, is utilised for making fertiliser. Father Thames's trousers pocket is The skins are subsequently tanned known to that" Knight of the Lamp," | and died. our courtly, yet humorous guide And so careful a check is kept event when part of a barrel is "racked off,"

that an employee could not drink a all like tanneries, overripe cheeser glass "for the good of the cellar" a nitrates, with power to add to without risking exposure at the the number. ganger's bands.

Next we arrived in the ivory store,

Salary-125 guilders minimum, more for experience etc., free passage | Who has to make up the difference? where half an acre of floor space lay both ways, free quarters, food, etc, we ask innocently, "when a mistake under tusks and horns, the trophies Apply stating age, where educated, is made in drawing a number of gal of a few weeks" "jungling." One of experience and other qualifications, twinkles as he replies, "There never Its first owner, in youthful ardour, lons from a cask? Our guide's eye the biggest tusks told a sad story. WITH DATES, school hobbies, is a mistake; we are too careful for had tried its strength against too big favourite forms and subjects, and that.” usual copies letters, to

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a tree and cracked it. The wound filled with diseased tissue, and the bullet which killed the elephant was As we emerge from the crypt our sent in mercy. The pangs of task Box No. 1222, c/o "CHINA MAIL" lawns are given up. "Nobody goes ache pass our poor imagining

into those cellars without a lamp, or Doubtless the buyer of that tusk comes out without giving it up," will merely estimate the damaged explains our interpreter: every part as so many good billiard balls rht the lamps are counted, and if gone wrong. they failed to tally the cellars would be searched for the wanderer."

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the spect, n was very short, the altraviolet gion being invisible. When, howen a screen of barium- Platencyanide psed, the whole screen roresced liantly, until a tube in which oxygas being con- verted into ozone interposed. The intercepted portion the screen then turned black, but bee bright again when the oxygen assing through the tube was no ger ozonised. Now the lines or bands st seen by Huggins in the spectrum Sirins, had, by Professor A. Fowle and the lecturer, been identified with Ladenburg being doubtful. Thus ozone, the previous identification by ozone appeared to be present in the atmosphere. Watching a mercury vapour are on a hill in Essex through a horizontal layer of 4 miles of air, however, Lord Rayleigh found the lower atmosphere near the ground far more transparent to ultraviolet radiations than the upper atmosphere and we had, indeed, Ettle relia ble evidence for the presence of ozone

tailor-pressing. in the lower strata. The ozcoe, dis closed by the observation of Sirius and

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS

is an important matter and we make a speciality of refinishing light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

In sharp contrast the rubber vaults Down through the floor above other stars, would therefore be in the are light, and kept clean with white-came scents of Araby and odours of higher strata. The question had wash. Thousands of square cases, Cathay; and following our noses we more than so, academic interest, all alike as peas, every one of ascended to the store of c'nnamon, since that layer somewhere higher which is unpacked, graded and chillies, claves and nutmegs Thereup protected our eyes from the fatal repacked by the authorities, was no doubting our guide's asser-effects of the ultraviolet radiations. whose decision as to quality is final, tions that voyagers first discovered Engineering. Upstairs we watch the grading pro-Ceylon by the olfactory seast. cess, admire the neatly stamped In another warehouse, and through sheets of rubber, and see a two-handed a jealously guarded doorway, we saw at work on the big blocks, of find one of the most valuable stores pessed rubber. At almost every in all Father Thames's pockets." stroke, the saw needs moistening with Thousands upon thousands of strong water, not oll, as oil and rubber jiron bottles" containing quick disagree.

silver. Porting. some of But for real atmosphere" we mercury into a vast bowl, our passed on to the balata store. Balata guide lays 56lb weight on is a sort of rubber substitute best the shining pond, and the iron known in connection with boots and floats like a boat. We plunge our belting, having in its raw state a hands in, with a great effort, as our semblance of glue and when damp a King and Queen have done before

TO CURE SUMMER HEADACHES

use Pinkettes; they are the natural remedy for this trouble because they dispolita, causes-constipation," liver

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us, bringing them out day and cold, with the fancy that if water were half as dense as mercury there would be no drowning accidents.

"No," admits the interpreter,

"but if water were half as expansive under heat as mercury we should all have been blown to Mars long ago." a

There was more to see, but my

I am showing new goods of the most disorder, biliousness, fermentation in friend cried, "Hold, enough" and faersonable, and, latest sixles and ask the stomach

old patrons and constituents to Equally suitable for women as for agree with me that when Father

dar support, as done in the many Pinkettes (aro "alao: particularly Thames turns out his pockets there helpful to the sand being for wild in le sonte” clutter in London streets.

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