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BIRTH
| ELSTACE-On March 16, at the
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Eustace, a
son.
DEATHS
DYMOND. On March 1, at Chao- tong, Yunnan. F. S. Dymond, M.B., Ch.B. MACEWAN-On February 15, at
"natural origins" is of pecular in- terest, not because there is really much difference in this method compared with what formerly prevailed, but simply because the action is one of the first of inter- national importance issued by
President Hoover.
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929.
tries, from where the immigrants CORRESPONDENCE
are of a much lower status, intel- lectually and in other respects, and who frequently prove to be for many years a considerable source of trouble to American authorities.
LIFESAVING AT FIRES
ITo the Editor of the "China Mail."1
Sir, Will you please publish this letter as the facts may be of
use.
P'RAPS
P'RAPS NOT !
Actress: "Did he really tell From the inquiry into the re-you I had stage fright ?". cent fire at the King Edward Friend: "No; he said you Hotel, and from conversations were."
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Advance of modern science with eye-witnesses it has ap and thought demands a new con- peared that the jumping canvas The young couple were having cept of God and religion. A was both improperly held, and their usual mealtime discussion. religion that can hold a place in misplaced.
"What did you think you were
higher education "must speak The average force required to marrying a cook?" she snapped. with authority of reality, and in bring a man weighing 150 lb.. "No," he cried. "and I didn't language modern enough to be who has jumped from a height of think I was marrying the world's understood by those who do their 60 feet to rest within a distance champion tin-opener." thinking in terms of present-day of four feet is no less than 2,250
"How old are you, Bobby?" said the visitor
experience. If religion finds Ib. its_authority solely in words The momentary forces between spoken by ancient prophets and the jumper and the canvas would "I'm at an awkward age," re-. priests rather than in facts and be towards the latter part of the plied the boy.
"Awkward age? What do you experiences of life, it can take no retardation much greater (per- large place. in this scien-haps as much as two tons), and mean?" tific age. It is obvious that the tensions in the canvas still.
"Well, I'm too old to cry and too religion is in a state of rapid and higher.
young to swear." |radical flux-"Minneapolis Star."
From the magnitude of these momentary forces it is evident
He was Mrs. A. K. Buxton left for vas should be held as high, asing "good-night" for the twen- a lingering sort of s how necessary it is that the can over, and while they were say Europe on Saturday.
firmly, and with as great a tertieth time, he remarked: sion as possible.
"We live in a Further, as the forces are so darling. Just think how every
wonderful age, large, it is almost certain that thing is becoming wireless now!" if the jumper landed head first or
"Yes," she acquiesced, "Pa was with an arm or leg twisted under only saying this morning that him that he would sustain. a even the sofa was becoming wire broken-neck or limb.
less!"
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The name of Dr. Navel Pestonji Karanjia, M.B., B.S.
(Hong
Korg), has been added to the local register of medical practi- tioners.
As regards placing the net. Some experiments were made by
Mr. Wong Kwong-tin has kind- ly consented to distribute the prizes to the successful students leaping into the sea from various dent that had befallen him.
of the Sacred Heart College, on Wednesday, 27th inst., at 11 a.m., at the Majestic Theatre, Nathan- road.
Professor R. K. M. Simpson will deliver a lecture on "Cyropae- dia" to the Hong Kong Univer- sity Education Society to-day, at 5 p.m. in the Union Assembly. Room.
Three cases of small-pox, were
heights, and measuring the hori- zontal lengths covered.
From this data the following table was calculated:- Height jumped
خوب
fron 20 ft. 40 ft. 60 ft. 80 Distance from
building (A) 8% 11% 14 16 Distance
from build-
ing (B) ..13%.. 1245" 22 Distance
from build-
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Mike was recounting an acci-
"I fell thirty feet from a scaf folding," he said.
com.
"Oh ejaculated his panion. "Did all your sins flash through your mind as you were
ft. falling?""
"Begorra!" exclaimed Mike, "I said thirty feet-not
three miles."
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"Yes, sir," said the guard of the train to the talkative passenger, "our company is very up-to-date ing (0) ..16% „,. 23 °
" 28, 33
and progressive in its working. is the distance from the face It, is over twenty years since it of the building at which you started its first non-stop train. would land on the street by:
"Indeed!" exclaimed the listen- merely stepping into space. er, "Then it would be very inter- (B) is the distance covered by aesting to know where it has got
moderate leap.
to by now."
reported over the week-end one from the Victoria district and (A) two from Kowloon, All were Chinese, Two cases of enteric
Chinese. fever were also notified, both
(C) is the distance covered by leaping outwards with your utmost force.
It seems inadvisable to merely
Gladys (noting a passer-by): "My word, Gertie seems better dressed nowadays."
The remarkable feature of the change seems to us to lie in the fact that the President does not quite approve of whatever change Seven days' extension was there may be in the new policy. granted by his Honour the Chief
Justice (Sir President
Gollan, Hoover
Henry saya that C.B.E.), sitting in the Supreme though he favours restricted Court this morning, to the Cana- step off as one would come down Florence: "Oh, she's getting a immigration, he is opposed to the dian-American Navigation Co., so close to the face of the build-man's wages now." "national origin provision," add-shares on two occasions last year. side of the net would not have she was married!
Ltd.,, to file certain allotment of ing, that those holding the inner Gladys: "Indeed! I didn't know ing that he is "legally bound to "Owing to a purely clerical omis- room to work. idhere to it." He also states that sion which is much regretted," And it is dangerous to leap with the quotas have no political signi. said Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed all ones force as in doing so con- are you going on, you liar?
First Jew: "Well, Mark, how I ficance-a remark that is unlikely by Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist), trol is fost, and the jumper is have bought a Rolls and I rolls to
who made the application, "the almost certain to turn-over be-business and rolls home."- to be quite convincing especially correct returns were not filed at fore reaching the net.
Second Jew: "And how are you in the Orient. Japan and China, the time.".
A moderate jump is best. going on, Ike? I am, like you, it will be noted, will have to be
As from the above it seems getting on splendidly. I have content with quotas of 100 each. Premier of the Chinese Republic, handling the canvas should have the way to business and vaux-a]]
Mr. Tang Shao-vi, a
necessary former very
that those bought a Vauxhall and I vaux-all China will not worry much about arrived in Hong Kong on the some experience.
the way home." this, we believe, but Japan, if we
(formerly
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A man entered a confectioner's.
that you make the finest pastry in the town and you supply clubs."
**Yes, sir."
you!"
"President Johnson" on Satur- It would suggest that not only Country Hospital, Shanghai, to mistake ngt, will continue to re- the National Government, the Police Reserve, the St. John Am-You say on your board outside
day. He has been appointed by the Fire Brigade, but also the gard such "one-sided treatment". Chairman of a Commission to bulance, and the Boy Scouts as being aimed at her detriment consider the advisability of re should take part in net drills. in California and elsewhere in the forming his native district, A suitably weighted bag of United States where Japanese shan) to make it the first "model jumper, at least at first.
Chungshan
sand taking the place of the Heung- have obtained 2 considerable hsien" in China. Others in the: These drills should be fairly
"Well, give me a club to break industrial foothold in more than same commission comprise frequent, and public, so as to en this rock cake I bought from one direction. It would be inter- Sun Fo. Wu Te-chen, Chung sure a reasonable chance of there volunteers pre- Wing-kwong ((Lingnan Univer being informed a nursing home, Glasgow, esting to learn on precisely what sity), Mr. Ma Ying-piu (Sincere sent, should they be required from First inmate of the workhouse: Christina MacLennan Young, the quotas are based. dearly loved wife" of Heury G. parity in the figures seems to
The dis-Co.) and Mr. Choy Cheong (the amongst the bystanders in the "Yes, and they were good old MacEwan, of the Chinese Mari- show that something more than a
Sun Co.)
case of a real emergency.
days, and to think it is only twelve If the powers-that-be desire months since I had one hundred further particulars I shall be glad men working for me." to supply them.
Second inmate: "Ah! well, Yours etc.,
never mind. Cheer up. You have the whole country working for EXPERIMENT
you now." Hong Kong, March 25.
time Customs, and daughter of
the Country Hospital, Shang- hai, the wife of A. H. Hopkyn- Rees,
Hong Kong, Monday, Mar. 2, 1929.
IMMIGRATION TO U.S.A.
CHINESE PUZZLE"
EINSTEIN'S “HARD NUT TO
CRACK"
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A BELATED CARD
POST
་
On July 28, 1911, a
man on
'In one of the Lancashire towns the candidate for Parliamentary honours was addressing a rather large meeting.
audience, after asking a number An unruly member of the
of ridiculous questions and caus. ing considerable annoyance, ask ed:
women should have a vote?"
"Do you really think that
ate.
the late John Young and of desire to abide by. "national Mra, Young, 2 Montagne-ter-origins" is at bottom of the race, W.
change. At any rate the new HOPKYN-REES.-On March 18, at
figures continue to be very flatter- Ing to the British, as the quota is now nearly double compared with Berlin. Professor Einstein's i that of 1924. Immigrants desir. new work, "Zur Einheitlichen ed from British stock are not been engaged for ten years, was SEVENTEEN YEARS IN THE Feldtheorie," on which he has only practically twice as many published recently at the price of compared with the last quota, one mark (15.), in the form of a
six-page pamphlet. but they are, numerically, far As there is probably no country larger than those sought from matical formula, and was describ-to write a postcard to his sister It consists of words and mathe-holiday at Herne Bay felt moved. other than the United States of other countries. Germany, for ed by a learned professor of the in Balham remarking on the ex- America that continues to be so instance, may now send only half Prussian Academy of Sciences treme heat of that record sum- "Certainly," replied the candid-
as "a very hard nut to crack," alluring to immigrants its regula-the number that she was former-
mer and commenting, on his gen- Indeed, the pamphlet is a com-eral health. Recently the post-vote then?"
"You think idiots are able to tions as to potential citizens of ly allowed to send, and there is a plete "Chinese puzzle" to every-card was duly delivered without
"Don't answer him," roared the that great Republic are invested similar change with regard to one except a few advanced mathe-comment at the Balhalm address crowd. with more interest than those of other, Continental countries.
maticians and physicists, who at which it bore. the same time admit that it is im- The sender has been dead for I think I will answer him be "Yes," replied the candidate, other countries, One can well Very probably the United possible to make it comprehensi- 16 years, and the addressee, Mrs. cause he appears to be PERSON- understand why those desiring to States authorities have long ago cularly as the new theory has not Balham, left that address some
ble for the general public, parti Dey, of 114, Hydethorpe Road, ALLY interested." immigrate from their native land found that immigrants from yet been worked out to its final years ago. The postcard cannot should wish to give the United Great Britain are for the most conclusions, and in its present be delivered to her until her new The laird, who was noted for States the preference. In the first part comprised of skilled work state is still a dream of the address is ascertained.
This penuriousness, had recently place, though there is in that men and, even a greater advan-
future..
The Post Office have taken been made the recipient of gift of Briefly put, it represents an ut- good care of this document during a dog from an acquaintance. country a vast population prob tage, that they are able at once to tempt. by an extension of the the 17 years it has been in their Shortly afterwards, the donor, ably, of at least 150,000,000-there adapt themselves to their new theory of relativity, to bring the possession, and must have grown happening to pass the entrance is still plenty of room for expan conditions and ultimately being mathematical laws of the gravity quite fond of it through the gates, stopped to inquire of one sion and development in many of easily absorbed in the nation. field into consonance with cach and is as clear and fresh looking was doing.
field and of the electro-dynamic years. It is written in pencil, of the workers how the animal the States that go to make up the With them there is no other and to treat them from the as the day it ws dropped into "I'll fetch it, and you'll see for United States. Secondly, there is language difficulty, and conse. same standpoint.
that Horne Bay pillar-box: It versel'," replied the man. He Professor Einstein himself was thrust through the Balham returned in a little while, bring- "settled" quently they are able to assume concludes his work with the re-letter-box, and no surcharge was ing with him a lanky canine of atmosphere surrounding that the full responsibilities of citi mark:
made.
the hound variety, country, with the highly organis-zens of their adopted country "A deeper investigation of the Just that. No sort of apology
No sort
That's not my dog," promptly ed industry, its enormous wealth without much, if any, trouble to consequences of field unifications or explanation, no account of how declared the visitor, My dog and its high standard of living the United States' authorities. It the Riemann' metric in connec
will be required to show whether it has passed the years.
was a young mastiff-not a grey- hound, The news therefore to hand re- is, for the most part, a difficult tion with distance parallelism
"Wheesht! Wheesht!" whis garding the regulations pro- matter in the case. of most really provides an adequate con- Revue producer: "I'm after a pered the other, with a backward claimed by the new President as of the immigrants from Con- of space. In view of this investi Revue actress: "So am I-I am that come here turn into grey.
ception of the physical qualities title."
glance at the house, "A" the duga to future quotas being based upon tinenal (European) coun- gation it is not improbable." dining with him to-night," hounds.
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