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ANNOUNCES HIS REMOVAL
To
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3rd floor.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but
our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spilings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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THE
CHINA MAIL.
TWO ROMANCES OF PROBLEMS SOLVED IN HONG KONG SCOUTS. next presented to Scout Josoph
INSURANCE.
A FLASH.
The Tube of Radium and How to Prepare Your
the Pearl.
1
A HOSPITAL ACCIDENT.
Mind for Research.
and
DEEP INTEREST IN LOCAL MOVEMENT.
ANNUAL INSPECTION.
11
NAPOLEON'S HOLLOW
CHESSMEN.
Gecks, of the Murray Group.
Interest Evinced, Addressing the gathering later, the Chief Scout of Hong Kong anid that it had given him very great pleasure to inspect the Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs.
He con- gratulated the 13th Hong Kong troop on winning the banner. which nearly changed the course A remarkable set of chessmen
Secret Instructions For His Escape.
of history is to be shown at Д
litz, in Czechoslovakia.
The chessmen are hollow and
the chess
TOUCH OF GENIUS.
"Scouting is a game and not a When he was first appointed as A precious little phial of radium Crodit is given to the "hunch," science, and I fully expect that Governor of Hong Kong, some Napoleonic exhibition at Auster- tossed carelessly into the fire; a or intuitive "flash of genius," for you all know that a game worth fifteen months ago, his pleasure claim for £1,000 against an in the solution of many difficult surance company; the recovery of scientific problems by 200 acien-well," declared the Chief Scout fact that he was to be the Chief contained detailed directions for
further enhanced playing is worth while playing was
by the the radium in a laboratory, tista out of 232, whose answers to af Hong Kong (H.E. Sir William Scout of the Colony. Although
This is an outline of one of the a questionnaire on the subject Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.) romances of insurance described to were given out in a report to the dressing the local Boy Scouts' in
in ad he did not take a very active part Napoleon's escape from St. Helena.
the association, he always
Napoleon's friends sent them in a reporter by Mr. Walter Riley, American Chemical Society. President of
Wolf Cubs' Associations, took a very deep interest in the charge of a British officer who was the Yorkshire In- The scientific hunch is defined after he had inspected the parade work of the movement.
killed by a falling apar during a surance Institute, who retires as a unifying or clarifying idea in the grounds of Government The inception of the movement storm at sea on the way, so that from the Leads managership of which springs into consciousness House on Saturday afternoon, was a genius, and must surely the ex-Emperor never knew the the Alliance Assurance Company. suddenly as a solution to a pro: His Excellency laid stress on the have passed all expectations of secret contained in Mr. Riley has been in the service blem in which we are
intensely importance of the movement, and Lord Baden-Powell, as an incen- pieces with which he was playing. of insurance companies for 50 Interested."
stated that its inception was ative.
After his death the Empress "In typical cases," says the re-
Marie genius.
Thanks to Local Chief,
Louise attempted many "What has been your stranges!] port, it follows a long period of On arrival of the Chief Scout, The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, times to send these chessmen as a experience of insurance?"
Mr. study, but comes into consciousness who was accompanied by Capt. C.M.G., LL.D. (President) ex-souvenir_to_Napoleon's son, the Riley was naked.
at a time when we are not conscious Coltman, A.D.C., the Wolf Cubs pressed a few well-chosen words Duke of Reichstadt (Rostand's "The radium case," he replied. ly working on the problem. A hunch gave their grand howl, whilst of thanks to His Excellency for L'Aiglon), who had been brought "It arose out of an accident at one springs from a wide knowledge of the Scouts stood at the alert. his kindness in inspecting the up atperial Court in Vienna of our local heapitals. We had in facts, but is essentially a leap of After the inspection, His Excel parade, and went on to say that in catculated ignorance of his sured a phial of radium for £1,000 the imagination in that it goes belency presented H.R.H. the Prince Sir William had also shown keen father's place In history. and a nurse accidentally threw the yond a mere necessary conclusion of Wales' Banner to the winners interest in the welfare of the as-
When at last a reliable messen. ger was found, he arrived in Hong Kong Group.
called upon the Scouts and Cubs Vienna just after L'Aiglon's death. Letter of Commendation to give three cheers to the The set finally passed into the Mental Rest.
from the Chief Scout of the Chief Scout, and this was re- possession of Princess Paleologue,
who has lent it to the exhibition. The report was prepared by Pro-World (Lord Baden-Powell), was sponded to most heartily. fessor R. A. Baker, of the College
years.
phial into the fire. Immediately which any reasonable man must of the competition the 13th sociation. The speaker then
we were faced with the prospect of draw from the data at hand. It is paying out £1,000.
En process of creative thought."
"Instructions were given for the fire-place to be sealed up without delay, so that none of the ashen could be removed for the timo being. Later every particle of ash of the City of New York, who, with was scraped together and despatch. Dr. Washington Platt, of Syracuse, The £1,000 Y., as collaborator, sent quea- ed to a laboratory.
tionnaires to 1,450 scientists, in- worth of radium WAJ recovered. our only financial loss being the cluding chemists, physicists, mathe- maticians, biologists, and psycho- laboratory fees."
logista. Of the 232 replies receiv
ed 33 per cent. reported that they
"But insurance companies are not always as lucky.
Very unlucky sometimes," sald had experienced this phenomenon frequently, 50 per cent. occasional-
Mr. Riley.
The hunch, it is found, comes to most scientists in that borderland of consciousness just preceding sleep, or when the mind is fresh upon awakening,
"A year ago a certain gentlemanly. and 17 per cent. never, accompanied by Ar acountant, visited my office and expressed a desire to insure for £1,000 to cover
or when
the death duties payable at his own death. He was a first class life. We ascertained that the pro-conscious mind is dwelling on some
unrelated subject. bable amount of duties payable in the event of his death would be in All agree that there must be a the region of £5,000 and eventually long period of Investigation of insure for that data, then a period of assimilation he agreed to amount. That was on a Wednes of facts, and then a season of com- day, on the following Saturday theplete mental rest. It is during
hunch this rest that the
comes, first premium was paid.
bursting on the scientist in a flash. There are four stages in research work, according to Professor Baker.
"The next day he attended A chapel anniversary, developed double pneumonia and died, and he was buried within a week. of having visited my office. That transaction cost us £5,000,"
me B
Illumination.
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The first is "preparation," in Mr. Riley then showed
which the problem is investigated The telegram which he preserves in by reading and experiment. hia desk, just because it reminds second is "incubation," in which Calves' Head & Foot .. 4¦
the mind, often unconsciously, goes him of the romance of a pearl
over the information aequired in necklace.
the first stage. The third Is "illumination," consisting "of the
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"A woman insured a pearl neck- lace for £2,000," Mr. Riley
hunch. The fourth is "verifica-Pig's Chitinge plained, "and in the course hor
|tion," consisting of the
Brain toilet she lost the necklace and im The fourth is "verification," in bunch.
mediately sent in a claim. The
of the city's drainage system. which the hunch, or working hypo. only hope of recovering the neck-thesis, which seems to unify and lace--and I thought it was a faint explain all known facts, is tested: hope was by co-operating with by experiment.
A bunch came to one scientist
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Read
Heart
Kidneys Liver
the sanitary authorities of the citywhile dodging motor-cars across Pork Chop where the necklace was lost. Care Park-row and Broadway In New
ful calculations were made as to York."
the probable whereabouts of the
necklace, according to the working,
The questionnaire inquired into
Leg
Lain
Fat or Lard
the city's drainage system. the condition of the individual's Sheep's Head & Fert
mind and the surroundings under Several men
were employed to carry on an intensive search and which these revelations appear.
after three days I received
welcome
of
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30-An ending of nouns
· 31-Ardor or dash
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nerves 45-Egyptian sun-god 48-To surpass 49-Famous English
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HORIZONTAL (Cont) 52-Toward
63-Grassy field 64-To harvest 55-Twisting of faciai
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VERTICAL
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sodium 27-Poem 29-To set slantingly 32-Holders of property
by loase 34-Mimicked 130-Mlataka
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democracy
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Poolio name of
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The general conditions
that wire- "The necklace
described
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are good health, relaxation, free Sucking Pige, to order dom from worry, and freedom from net, Beef interruption.
Mr. Riley has seen revolutionary
Many mention some mild form Veal changes in the insurance world since he started his career in an such as shaving, dressing, driving of exercise or manual employment, insurance office, where the staff
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comprised the manager, one chief motor-car, gardening, fishing, clerk, and the office boy. That was golfing, riding in a train, and play the usual staff of many & Leedsing solitaire.
insurance office in the "'eighties."
Fith
insurance policy acientists while they were walking Canton Fresh Water for the householder In those days, in the country and to others while
Сагр Mr. Riley remarked, "and life as they were listening to music. surance was on a very small scale. "Differences in mental types are Catfish With the fncome-tax 3d. in the clearly seen in the following con- Codfish pound, and no death duties, the trasta," anys Profcaior Baker. Craba head of the household did not "Some say that their hunches come Cattle Fish worry about life insurance, and only when they are alone. A Dab motor-car insurance was, of course, larger number and discussion with Dace unknown."
others alimulating to thought. Dog Fish Some refer
to especially the Eels, Conger stimulus of explaining a problem to students."
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over Labrus worry Le Havre, Saturday. domestic or fanncial matters, de- It is announced that the French pression, anger, intense interest in Loach Government has given instruc-something other than the problem Mackerel tions that "Texas" Guinan and to be solved, too constant work on Monk Fish her troupe of girls must be the problem, working under pres- Hallet shipped back to the United sure, anxiety over the success of States "by the first boat avail-the research and too long periods
Oysters able."-Reuter.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
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Fear Of Interruption. The detriment most commonly
Perch Pike Plaica
noted was interruption or the fear Pomfret, White
Pomfret, Black Prawn Bay Rock Fish Roach
of it.
those Fifty-three per cent. of anwering said that they used de- vices to create conditions favour able to the "hunch.”
Professor Baker continues; "It is almon now generally admitted by health shark authorities that alcohol
often skate hinders and only under the rarest shrimpa conditions furthers real construc- Snapper tive thought. Some who reported Soles that tobacco aids their thinking Tench state that they do not recommend Turbot this method"."
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