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AMMERT BROS.0. E. WARREN & CO. LTD

AUCTIONEERS, ́APPRAISERS

AND SURVETORS.

Public Auctions

THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction

THE

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SATURDAY, 27th fentember. 1824 Commonefug at '12 s'alock' (noon) at their Bales Room, Daddell' Street (for secount of the concerned)

A Quantity of High Class Dress Shirts," Cost Sweaters, Knitted Wool Jackein. Wool Eweaters and Singlets,”Prja2018, Suite, Wool Underwear, oto.,

AINO

Chrysty's Towels

(British Make)

In lots to suit purchasers

On View from Friday the 20th

September, 1924 -

Terms :-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

On

MONDAY, 29th September, 1994,

sommencing at 5.15 p.m.

45 Milli Balos Room, Daddall Stroot, A Tine Collection of Stamps

including

Valuable Selections of Chias Great Britain, Hongkong. loisa Ilon tà. Prino Edward Island, Tarks Island. Neuropa, etc, e'a,,'

Catalogues will be issued.

On Visw from Saturday, the 27th

September, 1021

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers..

Hongkong, 24th Rupt., 1921.

BANITARY, ENGINEER

MONUMENTALISTS.

SID, WIEDZAM SALEM, HONGKONG.

TEL. CENTRAL 269. Estimates Free

for complete Sanitary Installations

Hot Water Systema &c. Specialists in Monumental Work"

eat from

Italian Marble-Polished

wodfor

Fine Punched Hongkong Grasite.

Artificial Wreaths in Stock.

Beautify Your Home,

Flowers beautify and make attractive the Home as

nothing else can do,

FOR SALD.

Flower and Vegetable.

Seeds,

GRAÇA & CO.,

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

Hongkong.

P.O. Box 620,

THE CHINA MAIL.

ART.

as applied to Cigarette manufacture is evident- in the

GOLDEN SPECIALS

CIGARETTES.

All that is best goes into this brand.— It is in the broadest sense, an artistic production.

HONGK

HONGKONG HOTALT KUR

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HOTELS

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(Three minutes from Kowloon Terry Wharf & Railway Stations.) "Entirely under English Management Electric Idght and. Fans Troughout.

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FARMHAOIBERRY, Proprietor.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Folegraphic addrem “ASTOR”, - Telephone Central 170. 13, Queen's Road Central

A first clase Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooms, completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and la Carts. Excellent Culins. Monthly Tickets for Tiffins and Dimers. Under entirely new Management.

For further particulars apply to

M. A. YAZ, Manag

PAPYRUS.

HISTORY OF WRITING MATERIALS.

The introduction of Papyrus by the Egyptians gave a great uplift to letter-writers and to literature generally. It is; us the Germans would say, the "name-father' to paper, and a very respectable and worthy elder too.

Bark had been used for tablets, and for writing letters which were cupable of being folded up, during the best period of the Roman world, and sich were still in uGG under the later emperora

The tablets were of bark on which the Emperor Commnodus inscribed his little list of victims, the discovery, of which led to his own' victimiza- tion.

ORIGIN OF BOOKA,"

It was a simple thing, the Egyptian idea of papyrus; the in- provement on the use of tree-bark being the use of peelings from a

reed instead. This road was called Byblos or Papyrus, then very com- mon and now very rare in Lower Egypt. From its name, Byblos, comes the Greek word meaning Book, and thus our own word for the Scriptures.

This papyrus grew abundantly in lakes and marshes, to a height of about ten feet; the diameter of its stem was two or three inches, and from its surface peel could be taken off, layer after layer, to the number of some twenty coatings. The use of this peel occurred to the Egyptians as an improvement upon 'ordinary bark and the now writing

material soon became popular.

It could be written upon one side only; but books were copied into long rolls, of sheet glued under sheet, the sheet which felt the first glue being called on that account the protocol, a term still preserved by diplomatists."

SCARCITY IN ROYST. The run on papyrus being very great, that plant began to show signs of scarcity in Egypt, und for that reason, among others, ita exportation was at one time forbid- den. At the same time; the Kings of Pergamus become a literary sect, and wanted something whereon their scribes could write their books. So the skins of the beasts, occasionally used in some places already, began to attract increased attention; they were prepared into dry substances, and. called after Fergamus, perga mentor porchment, and vellum, meaning skin, of course.

This parchment was done, how- ever and for common purposes papyrus was so much more don vement that the Egyptian paper Anever really was supplanted; until the birth of a system which got paper out of cotton, about seven or night hundred years after the dis- covery of parchment.

The world then worked in for "Thousand "years", before wa hit:"on"

the tan

paper out of linan ragava

luckysthing, or up to that time,

who could, not go “much nowři ibnalys, best

'ont the bonled records

of Ite wroom for the

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made) Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00..

8. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Karamally & C Talophons Central N3, 491-

-Hongkong, March 23, 1916.-

WHY BUY FORRIGN MADE SUITCASES.

When we sell Shangha! Manufactured Suitcases !

They are Cheaper and More Durable. ..

(Opposite Taumaśl Furry, Pra ra)

ODDS & ENDS.

MADE IN ENGLAND.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

unconventional way. Then there is a bungalow on the marshland at Rye that used to house Dame Clara Butt, while in the little village of Winchelsea, not many, miles away, was Ellan Terry whose lavender gowns and huge A thousand thunderstorms are lace ruffles were quite a feature of always in progress around the the village. Gladys Cooper used earth's surface, said Dr. Appleton to have a house at Frinton, while recently at the Royal Institution. Sybil Thorndike, her husband and Some doubt has been expressed children, can often be seen

Thunder.

MOTORING

DANGERS,

JUST THIS ONCE.”

Lieut-Col: A: I Law, the Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, a county through which a great deal of motor traffic goos northward from London, told a pressman

accidents

as to whether atmospheric dis-enjoying the simple life along the that a great number of motoring charges of electricity due to Sussex shores: thunderstorms could really be the Ants Work for Men. cause of all the stray currents which

arp caused by ex- perienced ddvers who think they can take an extra risk "just this once."

interfere so much-with' wireless; Most people regard ants as a but with a continual thunderstorm nuisance, specially in a garden or

"Besides this," said the Chief | in various parts of the earth, Dr. at a picnic, but the natives of Appleton argues that such is the Burma have found a use for them. Constable, there is the man who This country grows and exports is learning or has just learned to sandalwood, one of the most valuble and beautiful timbers in drive, Recently a case the world. The greater part of brought to my notice where a man every tree felled is useless, how who had had only five lessons. ever, for only the fragrant scented from garage proprietor, and heat has any commercial value,

certificate

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.. case. Atmospheric discharges last only a thousandth of a second, but are often ten thousand times as powerful as a wireless signal... A Defence of Rain

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weather? asks a "Star" writer, and to transport the whole log had been a safe p

his

men and.

Are you disgruntled by the

You may find solace in reading would make even that not worth to. say he was ju Meredith's philosophy, and "sweet the cost of removal. So the trees, the road, came round a corner ralu" and "welcome waterspouts after being stripped of their and could not stop." He mounted play a great part in the lives of branches, are allowed to lie where the patement, knocked down women. Every they have fallen. The soft, sappy and killed a man and wrecked reader of the Egoist willwood, which is useless income the car. He should not have been remember, Vernon's delight in merce, attracts the billions of ants allowed to go on the road, but the the drenching rain,and the who infest the forest, and to whom injunction, very appropriate just it is a tit-bit. In helping them-

law cannot stop him.": now." The taking of rain and selves they leave the hard heart of and aan alike defits mon of our the trunk stripped of all its worth- climate, and he who would have less integument, and thus do for the secret of a strengthening nothing the work of many human Intoxication must court the cloudu labourers.

Colonel Law stated that the lawa governing charges and convictions against moterists need amend meat. While motorists may cause many accidents, he said, Cyclists and pedestrians often bring their misfortunes on them. selves.

of the south west with a lover's Note And Nuisance. blood."

Tests and experiments are: Workhouse De Luxe.

being made to make motor-cycles Those cynics who protest that more silent, it is curious, to

"By my, house there is a bend the advent of women Into public observe what noises are accepted in the road and I often see cyclists life is bound, sooner or later, to without a murmur, and what are come round at fully 25 miles ap lead to trouble will find ardent regarded as an affront. To many, hour, a Boced much too fakt even supporters ... în the inmates of the mbise of empty milk containers for motorists at this point... Omagh Workhouse. The men la' is Intolerable, and yet no one has if every mad, user makes a this institution, the most popular apparently so far thought of determined effort to take, all workhouse in Ireland, and pro» putting rubber on the lower ends | Precaution, and always allows for bably in the world, are allowed so that they can be rolled about the other man making a mistake, three glasses of whisky a day as a silently. As to motor-cycles and then our accidents will soon de ration. They have enjoyed this their "open exhausts,» it is true crease.” grateful and comforting refresh that there should be a limit to the LIFE-SAVING REFUGES, ment from time immemorial, but amount of explosive nolie, but at The annual report of the Chief recently certain women members the same time a silent molor-cycle Constable of the Birmingham af tlie board of guardians have pro- would be a far greater danger to Police, states that sco the fasted that, it is too luxurious, the public and to its rider. The provision of street refuges there Happily, their male colleagues noise of the exhaust lets you have been no fatal straffe have remained firm to their prin know at any rate, that the speed accidents.ASE ciples-ay, more, they are now merchant is coming and that you These refuges have been con arranging to give inmates after had better clear out of the way stracted at all the principal pointe noon tea. So peace has return: Fashion Whispers che fa the city and at many dangerous ed to Omagh Workhouse-only Already we hear whispers of the road junctions in the suburbs, broken by the occasional plaintive new fashions for autuma and They are equipped with red 'warn question; But why tea

marind winter, though none of the dress, Ing lights by night, which help to Celebrities.

shows are due for some time to slow down trafficsin tepla

If you are a woman, it always como Here are some hints I have gives you a thrill to find you are gathered (writes Gadabout In rubblog shoulders with?

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are now brocides

far from Gromer, Pind ingham. Many excursions

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