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source of light and power in the factory and the homes saves heavy
and distasteful labour. It does not create "black areas," injure health or deface scenery. Electricity may claim to be a true civilizer and benefactor of humanity.
Three cases of diphtheria and one of puerperal fever were re- ported on Friday. All cases were Chinese.
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending September 15th, amounted to 68,561 tons, and the sales during the period to 80,598
tons.
Upon his return from short leave Capt. A. J. L. Whyte, R.E., has been re-appointed A.D.C. to H.E. the Officer Administering the Gov- ernment with effect from September
22nd.
census showed twenty-two million
The name of the Siu Hing Navi- horse power.
The figures speak for gation Co., Ltd., has been struck off themselves. Directly the
the register of companies. United
At the expiration of three months from States industrialists found that date, unless cause is shown to the electricity was superior to the
contrary, the name of The Great Western Hotel Co., Ltd., will also direct steam drive the work of be struck off and the company will electrification was started and the be dissolved. older machinery ruthlessly scrap- ped.
America's industrial development A RECENT British wireless message
is one of the most amazing pheno- announced that a start in the long mena of history, and it has been overdue "electrification of Eng- in no small measure due to this land" has been made and contracts application of the new placed for 132,000 volt transmission
lines over an area of nearly 9,000 square miles which includes the whole of London. Other areas will be similarly supplied until electric power in unlimited quantities for either domestic or commercial pur- poses will be available in every town and village in England.
England has lagged sadly behind other countries in this matter of electric power on the big scale and the present economic situation of
source of power, It has reproduced on a gigantic scale the progress made by England a century ago upon the introduction of the steam engine. Electricity has replaced steam as steam outdistanced the older hand or water-wheel machinery. To take one example only. During a decade while England's machinery exports remained stagnant America's ex- port of electrical machinery alone increased from $81 million in 1914 to $244 in
1923. In the latter year the value of the electric
Geneva, like other places, not excluding Hong Kong is a city of much noise. Great numbers of tourists now visit the buildings of the League of Nations and wander about its empty halls. It is possible in a day to count as many as 2,000 people, including infants, visiting the buildings. Unfortunately these visitors are far from quiet. The other day a climax was reached. During the International Confer ence for the Control of the Manu- facture of Arms it was discovered gardens had been invaded by 250 that the windows opening on to the
young girls whose prattling cut like French delegate, M. Jouhaux, in a knife across the speech of the
spite of his "loud-speaker voice. At the same moment been attending the meeting execut- nautical expert from Rome who had
ed stunts," a few feet above the
an
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League building. It was impossible to hear a word of the discussion, and the deliberations were tem- porarily suspended.
the country can be traced largely machinery produced in the United to worry the Italians. The State,
to neglect in this direction. That which should have been accomplish- ed during the war and in the days of civil strife that followed was postponed and Britain has been outdistanced by her commercial rivals in electric power. It is to be hoped that the national quality of making up for a bad start will again be in evidence for failing such recovery England will not regain her position among the in- dustrial nations of the world.
States was $1,375 millions. Nor have other countries remained stagnant. Norway with her abundant source of water power heads the nations in a table of annual consumption per head of population.
The figures follows:-
Norway
1,600 units.
910
Canada
United States Germany
528
230
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Great Britain Italy London's electricity consumption, A comparison with the United per capita, is one-fifth that of States will reveal the position. As Chicago and half that of Berlin. far back as 1909 America had Paris and Milan, to mention only electric machinery of an aggregate two other big cities are also ahead of close upon five million horse of the British capital. power. This was roughly half the It is sometimes imagined that total horse power of British water power is a necessity for large machinery in use at that time. By scale electrification. But this is not 1923 the United States electric power the case and only an insignificant
The tragedy of the Scott Antaretre Expedition is recalled by the an- nouncement of the death at Rothe- say, at the age of eighty, of Mrs. Bowers, whose son, Lieut. Bowers. was one of Captain Scott's com panions in the fatal dash to the South Pole of 1910-12. Scott, Oates, and Bowers perished on the return journey from the Pole, which they had reached shortly after Amund- sen had discovered it, in the spring
of 1912,
A new form of furniture has be- come popular in France, and it is being widely bought for office and home use. The novelty lies in the use of nickel tubes for the frame- work of chairs, tables, and cup- boards. There are no legs, in the The nickel tubes, bent flat, support ordinary eense, to this furniture.
the chairs and tables and enable
them to slip along the floor better than castors. The office chairs are strips of leather, or leather sub. stitute, slipped over the metal tubes to form the seat and back. Arm- chairs are more complicated, with the back, which give to the pressure elastic bande forming the body and
of the body.
lished in Stockholm more than 650 A regular post office was estab-
years ago, according to
the re- searches just published by the well- known Swedish historian, Dr. L. M. Baath. Dr. Baath, who has carried out extensive research work in the library of the Vatican of Rome,
concerning the medieval history of Sweden and its connec- tions with the Pope and the Vatican, discovered a Papa bull, dated 1262, giving the Papal bless ing to a new post office in Stock- holm, established by the great Swedish statesman, Earl Birger. It also appears from the bull that mails were regularly carried be tween the Swedish capital and Rome, with delivery of letters at intervening places in Europe, most-
ly by travelling monks, and the
Pope, in poetical words, blessed this transport of mail" on the wings of
love.'
Professor F. W. Buckler, speak- ing at the International Congress of Orientalists at Oxford recent ly
On the khilat, or discarded robe of certain ancient Eastern kings, said a garment which ap- pears to have escaped attention is who, on his death, becomes the the queen of the reigning monarch,
khilat. If the deduction is correct widow or cast-off garment, a human
that the close relations of clothing with marriage ceremonial meant that of the king, then the possession of a wife was regarded as a garment the king's last wife constituted the capture of the succession to throne. He who captured the queen captured the king too. What was to be done with discarded gar- ments? for an ex-wife to be destroyed and The simplest solution was buried with her husband. In some cases wives were isolated and as far as possible obliterated.
the
The Antarctic expedition which Comdr. Byrd is to head this year sounds more like an assault than an exploration. The main cortifie gent has just sailed in an old Nor wegian ice ship rechristened City of New York, but a second boat nearly as big will follow, and perhaps even a third. Commander Byrd will join the City of New York in New Zealand, and his plan is to make great use of aircraft to explore not only the South Pole, but much unknown territory. His plans are on a lavish scale. He will spend $100,000 on aircraft and associated expenses. He has bought He will spend a hundred dogs. $50,000 on scientific apparatus. His radio preparations will be lavish. There will be four radio operators with twenty-eight receivers and twenty-two transmitters to work upon. Every dog team will have of the expedition Byrd puts at a radio apparatus. The total cost
nearly a million dollars. Lind- have all contributed liberally to his bergh, Miss Earheart and Tunney
funds, but he still needs much more and he will have to do some very active begging if he is to start with a clear balance-sheet.
Cigar and cigarette-end collecting is still a flourishing trade in Paris, and one of its most expert prac- tioners has been telling a
Paris newspaper something of his method The noise nuisance is beginning of procedure. He picks up about three pounds in weight of to- as befits a country where the in- bacco every day; but he admits dividual must obey, and not com- that he could not get so much un- New laws will forbid the inordinate allowed him to go through their mand, is studying the problem. less a few friendly waiters in cafés
use of hooters; newspaper vendors floor sweepings at the end of the will not be allowed to ery their day. He does a round of these wares; costers and dealers in State cafés, beginning with those on the Lottery tickets must henceforth let boulevards, which close at midnight, the things they sell speak for them- going on with the Montparnasse selves. But the majesty of the law cafés at three in the morning, and will be hardest to uphold in the ending with those of Montmartre- courtyards of "apartment houses" where the best harvest is reaped- and the wells of tenements, if, as about six or seven. Taking cigars the papers say, individuals will be and cigarettes together, he forced to be quieter in future. average ten francs, or 1s. 8d., a Courtyards are favourite places for pound as his selling price. Cigar family quarrels, love-making, inter- ends always find a good market for a hundred yards or so of washing. English cigarette ends-this course between friends separated by sticking into pipes. American and children's games, and the hundred bacco is now so fashionable that and one incidents of the communal even the Régie has been obliged to life of the Latin family. There is produce a cigarette in tabac also much talk of removing fac- blond," as well as the old black tories, schools and garages outside Caporals-sell well to young sold the city but this remedy would be iers who want to cut a dash, but so costly than even its advocates do can hardly afford these cigarettes while, the noise grows with start- not believe it practicable. Mean- in their new and complete form. Even Caporal ends can command ling rapidity, and the Battle of buyers if you go to the right place- papers call these projects, bids fair Silence, as some ultra-Fascist that is the neighbourhood of the Place Maubert, the last remaining to be waged in vain.
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