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above average and it is a pity that unstable conditions have prevented further development of a young industry, viz, the canning of South China fruits.

CHINESE FESTIVAL.

Saturday, being the seventh day of the seventh moon, is the festival of the Seven Heavenly Virgins who are believed to meet the young Cow Herd on the Silver Stream (Milky Way) that night.. This is observed by nearly all Chinese girls and also Chinese ladies

The classical version of the an- niversary will he dealt with later, the present article being confined the practical observances ia Hongkong.

NOTABLE HOAXES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

HOW SCIENCE HAS BEEN BADLY BAFFLED.

ARMY PAY..

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LORD DERBY AND A..

REDUCTION.

STANDARD ENGLISH. "'

SUGGESTIONS TO. SAFEGUARD THE

. LANGUAGE.

tan Imperial-American conference A suggestion for the holding of o establish a standard form of English speech, and to preserve it in the best possible spelling, was made recently by Professor Rip- man in a lecture he gave to the English Association at 123. Charing-cross-road. He said they

It is not only the simple man in The Earl of Derby, the Secretary the street who falls a victim to the for War, made a brief but im- scientific hoax. Many a professor has been ingloriously trapped by a portant speech in the House of "leg-pulling" layman in search of Lords in reply to a short debate of amusement or wealth.

initiated by Lord Midleton calling One of the most pathetic cases attention to the recent reductions was that of Professor John B. 'A. Beringer, of the University of in the British Army and the pro- Wurzburg, who lived just before posed reductions in the Indian might take the true nature of fossils was dis- covered. Like the rest of his con- temporaries he called them figured stones and held them

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to be freaks of nature.

Army.

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સા basis the best Stage pronunciation. There were actors who were Lord Inchcape, the chairman of absurd, who ranted and mouthed, the Committee which recently but on the whole the best form of "axed" the expenditure of the speech would probably be found Services in India, said Lord Raw-that the dropping of "d" in hand- in the actor. The professor held inson, the Commander-in-Chief of kerchief" was a distinct in.

learned book, describing them in Ammy proposed.

Latin, illustrated by twenty-one folie plates

Lord Derby said the proposed reductions of the Army in India Then the "leg-pulling" students were still under consideration. In fessor Beringer managed to buy tions recommended would take I gave the show away, Poor Fro-all probability many of the reduc- back most of the first edition, but place, but he would not assent to it cost him all that he had. He any reduction unless he was forti died in poverty and sorrow. fied by the opinion of the Imperial General Staff that such reduction could be safely made. (Cheers.)

Lord Derby said:

Referring to the Army in general,

A NEW FORCE: America has provided some of the most famous scientific-hoaxes. Notable among them was the Keely motor hoax, when over 100,000 among scientists--to launch a new dollars was raised--much of it

force so auch

more powerful than steam that by dint of pro- per manipulation a single quart of water could be induced to yield 1,000 h.p. f energy, The inventor's apparatus was a baffling tangle of pistons and tubes and rods and boilers,

course. It was

Seeing how keen he was on collecting them some his wax- gish students carved take fossils SEVEN HEAVENLY VIRGINS, out of soft limestone and managed the Army in India, was perfectly The ward was a perfectly sane to hide them in places where he satisfied that the internal safety one, but it was too long, of was digging. Great was his enthu-and external defence of siasni over these finds. After long would be secured by the reduced instead--a word quite good enough. uch to be India desired that we should use "hanky" and patient study he produced ä

Sensible people preferred "pra" to perambulator, and movie to kinematograph." The dropping of "1" in castle" was manifest there was no ambiguity (as there Kain of a similar kind. So long as was not in "castle") there was nothing to be said against it. Those who used it pestle and inor- tar called the first a "pessel," but people who did not, and knew it only from literary sources, pro- nounced the "t." The dropping of For the moment a point has been

p" in pneumonia was surely impossible to make any further re-actually gone so far as to try to reached beyond which it is quite perfectly justifiable. We had

duction in the Army. In my pronounce the "n" in "kiln," but opinion, and it is the opinion of the he had not yet come across the Government, we have got down to person who tried to pronounce the the bone and there is no further ព in

A little time aut." redaction of any substantial size ago it was quite the proper thing that can be made and still leave an to drop one's "g's" though he did Army able to do that which the not think it was done to such country expects.

an extent now. The dropp- The Geddes Committee recoming of "g's" was quite an interest- mended a reduction of

ing thing. It seemed to be the It is reporteil that except for the

50,000 sales of tinplates the local metals Full of giris in their teens who to examine it at a publictest. Their † were reduced by 32,000-and there universal had it, not been for thei officers and nien. The numbers normal development in English speech, and would have been market has been quiet, no sales of buy these pieces for the ceremony vigilance detected him slipping in the reductions must cease. Fin- spot goods or bookings in"futures" on Saturday night. The joss-paper a mysterious pipe at the last mo-ality has been reached.

middle-class's love of the speaking. Nothing having been inentioned.

shops make large-seven-cornered ment, and this they found to be a is more disturbing to the Army That had preserved it, though it trays of paper with paper boudoir reservoir of compressed air, which than to feel that at any day a fur-had been a great struggle. reaisies which are burnt was what put all the "pep" into the ther axe may be produced.

Dialects had rather a difficult offerings to the Heavenly Maidens, contraption,

"PANIC PAY."

in these days. The Families vie with one another in

practical value of standard Regarding the pay of the Army, speech The focal vernacular papers state getting up elaborate displays in

and the importance that a stemmer which is owned by which wild and catable fruit, or

he said:

attached to it tended to make Messrs. Thoresen & Co., has re-growin

In my opinion there is not the dialects neglected. Ia school they small dishes with turned after completion of a charter minute lanterns in the stalks,

cast doubt that we can make were often ignored, or actually con- in Australia, and will be placed on form the major part of the decer

substantial reduction in the demned, largely owing to a lack of Hongkran-Swatow-Bangkok tions. A conunos greeting on

Pay of all ranks and still get the understanding between standard The report goes on to say Saturday will be "How inaay

figures of the present pay were suffered, too, from our spelling, men we require. I believe the and dialect. English dialects had that owing to the poor offers fables liave you set up?" numbers

fixed at a moment of panic prices because that spelling was very un- freight at Bangkok, that port will being a sign of alience. not be permanently included in the

and that a reduction would still suited to represent dialects. itinerary.

leave the officers and soldiers with

Other users of the article also boughtsmall lots in anticipation of prices going up on the strength of these transactions but the turnover was infinitesimal The prices average $11.40.

the

BANGKOK FREIGHTS.

LOCAL SUGAR MARKET.

In spite of the local market for Java sugar being dull at present deals were pit through yesterday on the following basis:-

New crop No. 24 rough white, spet goods, on usual guild terms, St.13 per pieul and $11.18 per picul for a larger tut. Bookings in this grade for September & October shipment are also reported at $11.00 per picul.

New Crop No. 24 soft white was nominal at S13.03.

No. 18 rough hawn, the grade used to some extent by the local refineries is scarce with nomiaa: quotations at about $12.50.

STEAMER ATTACKED.

EXTRAORDINARY ACTION OF FUKIEN NAVY.

Half of the shops in Lyndhurst Terrace are purveyors of haber dashery and other articles which aly, interest the weaker sex. A week before the festival they display tableaux made of rice paper and tissue paper in which allegorical references are nude to the Seven Sisters and the hero Cow Herd. These shops are

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SHANGHAI'S TYPHOON.

SHANGHAI SHIPPING HELD UP.

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For the second time in three days, says the China Press of

The allay suspicion he finally asked Professors Marks and Barker, of the University of Pennsylvania

American naval and journalistic circles still remember "Professor" Wingard and his mysterious means of blowing up a ship five miles away by means of "rays." After a convincing demonstration of New Orleans, in the presence of many scientific men the inventor raised a large sum of money and

repeated the performance off Boston next year.

This time, however, things went wrong, and it was the two em ployees in the little hoar charged with destroying the distant schooner who hiewup. (Wingard himself was in safety 01 21 steam launch.)

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civil life. A lurge reduction of Physicians prescri e Chamberlain's a wage greater than the wapos-ja-i- ~Supplied by "All Chemis:s. expenditure could be made in that Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy because it sideratina at the present moment, intestinal pains quicker this any prepar way. This matter is under con-rellaves cramps in the stomach and but under no circumstances will aation they can compound. It can b reduction affect any men who are

bought fram ny chemist. A bottlo will

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are in the position which they at present occupy.

His "invention" was merely in the Army now as long as they for years, and so bome is complete skilful hiding of dynamite on the

wi hout it For sale by all Chemists and victim ship, and the subsequent

Forekeepers. touching it off by an electric ist 13, a typhoon, sweeping current sent along a wire previous northwestward along the coast,ly laid in the dead of night by ac has strock the mainland well to complices in a row-boat. the south of Shanghai, and it is ex- pected that the present storm, like its predecessor, will pass to the west of this city.

Rough weather, with high winds and squalls of rain is the expected here today, however, Siccawei Observatory waras, and it was

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earlier statement by stating that no Later Lord Derby corrected his further reductions would take place in the fighting forces. He believed reductions could and STEWARDESS" ARTISTS. Jary Services, though these would, should take place in a lor of ancil-

not be of a drastic character.

CREW'S LANGUAGE

DILUTED.

.ASTOUNDING EFFECT OF

NEW DISCOVERY...

covery of an astounding character Scientists are discussing a dis which has been made by German physicists at the secret laboratories which have been established in the heart of Russia.

A correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that the effect of

law of gravity. The experiments this discovery is practically to suspend, if not to annihilate, the

centre round the action of a new

even thought possible last night At the Brook-street Art Galler-THE LAW OF GRAVITY. that the centre of the typhoonies, Brook-street, New Bond-street. might recurve to the extent of W., a private view is being held of giving Shanghai a various sideslap what are described as" Water- on its way northward toward the colour sketches of the Mediter- Yangtsze.

ranean by two stewardesses Wanet The typhoon centre, struck the Procter and Sylvia Smec)." coast near Taichow, the Observa- This exhibition is the interesting tory bulletin of yesterday afternoon result of the adventures of we stated, and was continuing rarth-young women artists who in order westward. Samally and showery to have a voyage in the Mediter weather was reported for the storm

ranean for painting and health: SHANGHAI, August 15. area, with cyclonic gales between purposes, signed on as steward- Four passengers on board the, the Eastern and Yellow Seas and at cases in, the steamer "Feiying" were killed and the mouth of the Yangtsze. Rough

cargo steamer Menevian 12 injured and ever 300 imprisoned weather and hard stalls were re-

last year. for three days by the Fukien naval ported along the lower river and in stewardesses, although they were They did not, however, act as authorities when the ship passed Hingehow Bay. Any recently, according to t

granted the nominal pay of ts, a Yesterday was a hat-clutching, month. report filed by the victims with dust-swallowing day for Shanghai the Fukien Guild

Miss Sunce, one of the two aday, and are founded on the theory The report residents and the gusty blasts venturers, gave an account of her of a gyroscope furnishes an ex- of accelerated motion." The action states that a lanach approached the which swept across the city did voyage. ship near Kingoen and scores of some small damage to

We left Barry with ample of the power of accelerated sailors boarded her. Shots were signboards and matting,

trees, cargo of coal for Genoa, and visited motion to defy the law of gravity. There Leghorn, Marseilles. Valencia, and fired without Ray warning was no serions destruction, but Carthagen

We are all acquainted with the and all the passengers' valuables throughout yesterday the river were loot. The pirates were was practically cleared of small my first picture, but when I would any swiftly spinning toy gyros- "The captain took an interest in apparently impossible balancing feats which are accomplished by formerly wader the con craft, while larger vessels were not put in a lighthouse, which be cops, Science, in its search for a mand of Yang Ti-chua, who is delayed in sailings or arrivals: directly under the command of

asked me to do,his interest ended. Tay, is seeking power to generate Only two Yangisze steamers, the He and the officers were very good some force which will increase the Admiral Tu Shi-kwei. One pas- "Kungwo" and senger was arrested and shot left port early yesterday morning, ed the crew with punishment if upon which this new ray may be Luenyi,' to ns. The mate, I know, threaten atomic speed in any structure without trial. The Guild, yesterday, all the rest which were to sail, they were to use strong language focussed. The root theory is that demanded a thorough investiga-being held up by the typhoon. With anywhere near my cabin, but when the speed of the whirling tion by the Navy Ministry and the exception of the Empress of everybotty behaved magnificently atoms constituting any article has Admiral Tu Shih-kwei:-Courtesy Eussia," from Hongkong, the a wou'd love to have another been increased tremendously by Daily Bulletin.

Ngankin" from river ports, and voyage in the boat. the "Toonan" from Newchwang,

"We had a stowaway on board, being bathed in the new rays that most of the incoming hoats at one part. He was a Russian, and have the extraordinary power, for article, whatever it may be, will arrived on time. The China Mer- have made a picture of him which the time being, of defying altoge- chants' steamer "Feiching, which is on view at the exhibition. was due to leave Wenchow Friday

therthe normal law of gravity. and arrive here yesterday, was and I gave first aid to a cabia boy the mystery ray is focussed upon On one occasion Miss Procter It will, that is to say, so long as thought to be detained at that port, who broke his arm, but we nevert, float in the air like a balloon, dil any duties, although we often even if it is a heavy weight struc- took the wheel.

ture built of steel. What scientific There was 1s. 11. owing to imagination really has at the back us at the end of the voyage, but as of its mind now is this, it foresees we were not in the ship when the secret researches paving the way crew were paid off, we did not get for a new this money."

era in which vast generating stations will produce an actial highway along which, defying the law of gravity, great structures of meta! will float and sâil, driven from point to point by powerful engines, and requiring no support other than that which they obtain automatically from the overlapping beams of the new ray.

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SHANGHAI, Aug. 15. The China Press learns that 14 "bandits were executed by General Sua Mei-yao, the ex-bandit chief at Paotzuku, owing to trouble they had caused in the Tanochuang coal 1. mining centre, where General Sun Mei-yao and his brigade are stationed, following protests by two German engineers, the only foreigners at Toochuang, "against Sydney Metropolis and the team of the continual depredations on the Chinese players from Hongkong. mine-by-the-soldier-bandits:—the former won, by four goals to Courtesy Daily Bulletin,

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