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TO LET

TO LET.

HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE,

FAIRVIEW" Kowloon.

THE RETREAT." MOUNT KELLETT. Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

HENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 13th July, 1967.

T

TO LET.

FOBSESSION, August 187.

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WEST POINT THE GODOWN in

(Kennedy Town) known as Feather Factory, nor occupied by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf-and Godown Co, Ld.

For particulare, apply to-

LAUTS, WEGENER & CO.

[1780

Hongkong, 9th July 1901,

TO LET.

ro. 9 SEYMOUR TERRACE Posses-

Nsion from Tst August

Apply to

B. STOCKHAUSEN,

28, Queen's Road Central

Hongkong, 24th July, 1901.

ANTÒ LET.

[1858

INNERNTE, POSSESSION, LARGE and WELL VENTILATED. 1100 With BATHROOM, of No. 37, CAINE ROAD.

Apply to-

R. J. REMED709.

Mercantile Bauk.

Hongkong, 25th July, 1901.

TO LET SHORTLY.

INSURANCES

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 26TH, 1901

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.-

THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM-WIRELESS TELEPHONY BADIUM

PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA,

INCORPORATE› 181.

CAPITAL....

£110,000.

TGENTS for the above Company r “WE Undersigned, having botu "ooointed

prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE nt Current Bates.

W. MEYERINK & 00.

Agents. Hongkong. 18th May, 1900,

185 ORTH GEÉMAN, FIRE INSUR

ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURO

[3]

AND ITS RADIATION MOSQUITO POISON ANTIDOTE, -METALLIC FERMENTS---ITDEGGEN FROM

carions satisation that only his head and legs existed. His urais wore completely paralyser Motion returned to the arma in four or fre juntes and to the fingers in stout fifteen minutes, but an abnormal sensitiveness to cold

ON SALE. THE ..

ACETYL NE-A NEW BEFLECTING MIRROR issted for half an hour, and pain and irregular CHRONICLE AND DIRECTORY

-SENSATIONS IN ELECTROCUTION-AN IN- CINDECENT OIL LIGHT-FIRE-RESISTING after the shook continued ur the next day. action of the heart that bogas about two hours STAIES,

All traces of the accident disappeared within

The new electric radiophone of T. Tonforty-eight hours, M. Broca thinks it quite masian, which can be heard throughout a large notion of the current on the tissues, although probable that the paralysis was due to direct hall, consists simply of a receiver in circuit other explanations are possible, and dhist the with a battery and a telephone: The receiver kourt-trouble resulted from toxins produced in

the blood by the violent muscular irritation,

is a coberer of silver filings mixed with

The Undersigned AGENTS of the above lycopodium, sulph, or glass powder, and Company aré PRIZED TO ACCEPT Firstanlike the particles of the ordinary cukorer→ In the Kitson petroleum lamp, the oil is Class Foreign and Chinese Risks at Current embedded in glycerine. The electrodes stored in a steel cylinder in the pedestal, and Kates.

ere platinum colls wound on glass. Electric is forced by air pressure up a this copper pipé STEMSSEN & CO.

waves impinging on this coherer produce an into a vaporising tube in the dame, where it is Hongkong, 29th May, 1805.

crease of resistance that lasts only during impact. converted into gus by the heat and is lent AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-

the coherer being self-righting to an extent under a mantle. From experience in London SURANCE CO.

that canses it to be pronounced an interrupter it is claimed that a light of 1,000 candles for .OF. AIX-LA CHAPELL

controlled by electric waves. With practically an hour can be had from five-cighths of a pint instantaneous interruptions, the telephone re of il. The fight is soft and pleasant. and its responds vigorously at a certain critical current penetrative flower in fog commendait for light

strength.

THE Undersigned, häving been appoints AGENTS for the above Company, prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIBF

at Current Rates.

REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.

Agente.

· Hongkong, 21st April. 1997

"L'UNION"

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD.

(Established 1828)... [1887HE Undersigned; having been appointed GENERAL AGENT for the bore Company, is prepared to ACCEPT, RISKS

HOPS, OFFICES and FLATS, DE

VEUX ROAD CENTRAL (Opposite Lang

Crawford & Co.®}.|.

Apply to

· HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LIMÍTÉD,

Hongkong, 12th July, 1901. ̈

TO LET (IMMEDIATE POSSESSION),

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"LARGE UNFURNISHED_ BOOMS with Soparatear, use of COCEROUBE, &c., $40. Apply

R. ROE

Care of Daily Press Ones. Hongkong, 22nd Țuig, 18017

TO LET

(1842

NO, 6A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Apply to

KWONG CHEONG" WO, A

Ne 239, Dog Vmax Road,

[1730 Hongkong, 9th July, 1901.

TO LET

6. TERRACE,

1.

at current rates.

Claims settled direct without reference to the Head Office

A. R. MARTY;

Agent.

Hongkong, 1st August, 1900.

: 70

"L'URBAINE" FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD. (Established 18US.)

at current rates.

1459

•

The story of radium, as told by F. Besson, à French engineer, reads like a fairy tale. This eir gular element is obtained from the uranium

bouses.

FOR

CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, FILIPPINES, BORNEO, &c.,

FOR

1901.

THE THIRTY NINTH ANNUAL ISSUE,

lands India to Siberia, in which Europeans reside.

The DIRECTORY covers the whole of the ports and cities of the Fur East, from Nailer-

"

Not only is the Directory ss full and c›n›lota in mish esan as it can be mis, but each Colony Cort, or Sottioment is proneal by a DESCRIPTION, arefully visade oh year: most of which will serve as accurate GUIDES FOR THE TOURIST, giving avery detail in connection with the places, their History, Topography, &c. &c.

The Information in these Descriptions, consisting of a hundred interesting articles, psiked with facts ouncingly sat out and containing statistics of the Trand of each County and Port, would slow saffier to fill a large volume.

minerals, a ton of which will yield about half an they could be used after su exposure of twenty. HATCH, MANSFIELD & CO., LD.

ance of railium with the expenditure of six tous of chemicals and the use of fifty tons of water for washing. Radium is to active that it is spontaneously luminous in the dark. This luminescence does not arise from oxidation, like that.of phosphorus, but is dus ten continuous' amission of electrified particlos, "whose charge is enormous, but whose mass is so small that the loss in weight would be only about one milligram (less than a sixtieth of a grain in 100,000,000 years!

Naphthione is found by Dr. Voges, of the National Beard of Health at Buenos Ayres, to bo practically a specific against mosquito poison, although of no value for destroying the Insects Coniselves. The poison is quickly. outralised, oren when the spot is much in flamed, and swelling is prevented when the bite is promptly rubbed with this remedy.

THE Undersigned, having been

GENERAL ENT he appointed Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS

P. LEMAIRE & Co. Hongkong, 7th February, 1901.

"Frors observations near Birmingham during CIUN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON

26 yours, W. H. Dines concludes that the FOUNDED 1710.

equinixes are not very stormy periods, but that Fin Undersigno having been apputed the groutent frequency and force of eyelouie AGENTS for the above Company are powinds occara sere two weeks before the spring pared to ACCELE RISKS against FIRE B Current Rates.

equinox sud sewe three weeks after the autumn SIEMSSEN & CO. equinox.

Agents. Hongkong, 36th May, 1892

730 SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

T

HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT I ISKS against FIItE at Current Rator.

—— HOLZ, S'JACOB-&-CO: Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900,

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NSWER CONF TWO TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUK

FLOORS, in a respectable locality. - Rent

moderate.

Apply to---

KWONG WING SANG, No. 132. Queen's Rogil Central. Hongkong, 17th July, 1901.

[1800

TO LET.

T

It is now well understood that fermentations ave produced both by inorganic chemicals and by living farments, und Bredig in Germany has lately obtained each a striking series of ferment Hke actions from colloidal solutions that bo. pronounces these substances inorganic models of the organic enzymes." The colloidal solu tions prove to he not true solutions but mech anical mistures in which the metal is in a ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG

very finely divided state: Colloidal solations of platinum, padhudium, iridium, silver, gold and The Undersigned, having been apporter endmium bave been prepared by using two bars AGENTS for the abore Company, re pre. of the metal as the poles of a suitable electrio pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE a current, and forming an arc between these Current Rates

SIEMSSEN & CO.,

poles under waters The metal is torn

minute off in particles” nú

to Be Agents

[29 invisible under the most powerful microscope formed appearing to be quita homogeneous. These colloidal solutions act as catalyzers in many reactions, producing large transformations by their presence in AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 00

| minute quantity, appearing to take no part SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL... 2,750,000 suck actions, and remaining afterward PAID-UP CAPITAL ------

687,5000 quite unchanged. This effect in oxidising IL FIRE FUNDS.

2,538,710 14 4 alcohol to neetic seid and in yielding many other results in ometly similar to that of

Hongkong, 16th November, 1872. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN ANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1900, £14,732,681.

10. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the

PRAK Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT AND AGENCY CO, LD. §. Hongkong. Ih July, 1901.

[1799] L.

TO LET.

MODOWN, No.5A, DUDDELL STREET Apply to-

THE DONGKONG LAND INVEST-red

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD, Hongkong, 5th July, 1901/ 2.11692

BOARD AND RESIDENCE

R S...

M GILLANDERS

GLENWOOD,":

21, CATNE KAD

Hongkong, 20th September, 1900,

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

1869

OMFORTABLY FURNISHED

ROOMS, with Board:

Apply to Mrs. MATHER,

Peder Hill,

Hongkong, st Jannary, 1892, -14ge

BOARD AND RESIDENCE --

MBS SIDNEY JEFEREY,

ERAS,

BEACH ROAD AEST.

ESPELIXSTOWE, SUFFOLI

ENGLAND.

Hongkong, 28th Angust, 1100.92

173

FOR SALE, at tlie Paik, reveral Desirablo

I

Residences. Well Situated, and het to

Good Tenants.·

For Particulare, apply to

ILO. WILCOX,

8 Beaconsfield Arcade,

Hongkong, 22nd May, 1901

the solution

AUR

living forments. More remarkable still, the

The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above. Company, are pre-

to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE notion of both forments and solutions is Current Bates

lessened by electrolytes, by hydrogen sulphide, by hydrocyanic acid, and by such substances as bromine, iodine, aniline, phosphorus, ozalie) acid mercuric chloride, and other poisons, It is probably significant connected with The Undersigned are

catalytic notion that the surfaces are prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANOE enormously developed in both ferments and

colloidal solutions.

SHEWAN, TOMES & 430...

Agents. Hongkong. 3rT July, 1901.

1641 PENIX FIRE OFFICE

DE

now

against FIRE at Carrent Rates.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

Agents for the Phoenix Firs Office. Hongkong, 17th August, 1887.

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MITSUBISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI

CODE WORD; "DOCK""" NAGASAKI. A.1, A.B.C., Scotta and Engineering Code Cred.

DOCK No. 1 st TATEGAMI.)

Extreme Length...

26.

Length on Blocks

523 feet 51%

Width of Entrance on Top

89

Width of Entrance on Bottom...

77

Water on Blooks at Spring Tule

1909

DOCK No. 2 (at MUKAIJIMA)

Extreme Length...

Length on Blocks

971 feet, 950

Width of Batranse on Top

66

51

Yr

93

ORTLAND CEMENT

Po

I BAWHITE & BROS

SOLE AGESTE FOR CHINA, HOLLIDAY, WISE & CO. Hongkong, 16th September, 1800,- - [1509

QUAN WA) và

Width of Entrance on Bottom Water on Blocks at Spring Tide

PATENT SLIP (t KOSUGE), Can take vessels up to - 1,000 tons gress. THE WORKS are well equipped with the LATEST IMPROVEITANTS and can erponte any kind of work in SHIPBUILD- ANG and MAHINE ENGINEERING yell DESIGNS & PRICES ön-APPLICATION |na in REPAIRING of SHIPS.

at No. 1, Queen's Road East, Hongkong Hongkong, 17th October, 1899.

DEALERS IN ITÁLIAN MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS.

A ON & CO-

[1799]

PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PORTRAIT

S PAINTERS,

All kinds of Oil Paitinge had Photogrphic

SO TOP FLOOR, QUEEN'A Road Central,

wer Enlargements.

Opposite to Claas, J. Genny & Co. Hongkong, 20th March, 1901,

197

A cheap process of obtaining very pure hydrogen, using acetylone as the sonroe is credited in Germany to Houbon, an Englishman The neotglens is compressed to fire atmospheres in a Cailletot steel bomb, and is ignited by electricity, which precipitates the carbon from the hydrogen as Ans goot. This is claimed to

German teaty of so-called fireproof stairs for apartment homes have shoirn those cuvored with plastoring to be the most enduring, as

five minutes to a hot fire. Various kinds of stairs coated with fireproof paints were still serviceable after being in the fire five or ten minutos. Of unprotected wooden stairs, tlicee of oak resisted longest.

NATURE AT HER BEST.

her sweet and varying needs, is undying, and We love Nabure! Our regard for her, with on love such that it is beyond the art of man to quench. The promise of Epttag is one great message of Hope. The fragrant breath of Summer whispers Paradise"; the mellow touch of Autumn's har ripens recollection and crisp, biting Winter bringa merry, ringing laughter and rosy cheeks.

But of all, Summer is most doar, It was in Samner that Tennyson found Bose, the gardener's daughter,tuuling in u "Who had not heard of RoSD, perch of roses." the gardoner's daughter Paska the poet.

Why did he not also find a gardener's wife, of with us down the ages as a picture of what a rosy cheeks, whose buxom figure might tread gardener's wife might be-not a "languid and weary," whose plaintive cry is that very little duty is a trouble and takos all the joy out of life."

women

Such women there are even "gardener's wives," lik, lot us say, Mrs. Martha Herriott, whose very words we have written above. Who. continues thins: "Morning, noon, and night, my head was racked with pain: often for days together I scares y got a moment's freedomi from it. Sometimes, whep the attacks were very evers, my left eyeball became quite shrunken and small, and my head would swell right across this top. The pain I suffered then was intense; I cannot properly describe it, but shall never forget it so long as I live. I con aulted the doctor and tried all kinds of medicino recommended by my friends, bat, antil I commenced taking Mother Beiger's Syrup, got no real benefit from anything."

A happy illustration is given us now of Nature quickly changing from decay to health, "for," continues Mrs. Harriott whose address is, 24, John Street, London Road, Sheffield- after taking it a short time, I felt much better, and the improvement continued until I was free from pain: Mother Seigel's Syrup compistely cared me,

When I am tired and worn out, after a hard day's work, nothing so acou revives me as Seiglo's Syrup. It seems to strengthen every part of the body, and is, indeed, splendid torio.

That was in the summer of 1900. And now Nature is herself again! Life in gladursa inded ·.

We love Nature as she is portyrayed in the of Nature, arust be in profeet health to be in felds and flowers, but we ourselves, who are part harmony with the countless beauties around us.

and Seigel's Syrup awakens into life, by its The keynote of contentment is good digestion,

nutritiva and medicinal propertice, these dormant digestive organs of the dyspoptic

He or she can then say, "Nature is at her best."

FOR SALE.

LIGHTER of about 200 tons, built of A

Oak and Fir and generally. Iron Fastened, Copper Sheathed, can be seen on application at Kowloon Naval Yard.

Apply by Letter →

÷COHMANDER,

Hongkong, 34th July, 1901.

- FOR SALE.

Naval Yard.

[1857

furnish a solution of the problems of obtaining A COUNTER, 24 feet by 4 feet 6 inches on a large scale a convenient supply of gas for Balloons.

A revolation in the construction of reflecting telescopes is expected from magnalinm, the new aluminum-magnesium alloy, which is now being used for mirrors. The material, which is hard and takes a fine polish, gives a coloneless re- flection, and is practically unaffected by atmos- pheric conditions or the fumes of ammonia or alphuric asid.It is only a third as heavy as glass, anuch lose liable to forure, and requires only very light mounting.

|

with Teak wood Two-Shelf Stand on Top and Shelving below.

Apply to --

W-BREWER & CO

Queen's Road. Hongkong, 13th July, 1901. - [1770

OREGON LUMBER.

THE Undersigned, being closely connected

with the leading MILLS at PORT. LAND PUGET SOUND, are always pre- pared to book orders for any specifications at LOWEST RATES.

STEMBSEN & CO. Hongkong, 14th February, 1991. [50

THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

Few electrocuted people survive to tall of their experiences, as M. André Brosa, a French electrician, bas done. He received a shock from powerful alternating carront, which wás accidentally passed through his body for two or three seconds before the circuit was broken ... large electrodes, there were no bars on the by a companion. As his hands grasped two and

passage of the current he made a frantic but useless effort to let go, then he was thrown to the ground by a violent musenler spas, and The COMPANY has a POWERFUL SAL-gave himself up for lost. An effort to call fa

VAGE PLANT READY at SHORT NOTICE.

LEN TING.

SURGEON DENTIST No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET

TERMS VERY MODERATE

Consultation Fro Hongkong, 23rd September, 1991.

above Company is prepared to supp the skipping in Hongkong with PURE FILTERED WATER both for deck and Call Flag W

bailera

J. W. KEW, Manager,

20, Dos Vœux Road Hongkong, 18th December, 3900.

his companien resulted in a meaningless sound. 11605 His arms and hands seemned to havh vanished,

his notions of the vertical direction and cold FREIGN

became confused, and the chamber walls seemed to be inclined 15 degrees to the night and to have become Intense green Then conscícuzziens was lost. On being released, he at once recovered sufficiently to Walle w [892 he had no recollection of any pain, but had the

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R. J. REMEDION A OREIGN AND COLONIAL STAMP

DEALER

No. 37, CAISE ROAD, HONGKONG. to any address on receipt of satisfactory refer Will be glad to send STAMPS on approval

encen

Is also prepared to archase and POSTAGE Szánts in Large or Small Quantities for Cash. AGENTS WASSED.

15 to 25 personat. Disedgat Alomel [1800

THE LEADING HOUSE FOR GOOD VINTAGES.

SCOTCH WHISKY

THE "IRRESISTIBLE" -

FINE MELLOW SCOTCH WHISKY, GUARANTEED TEN YEARS OLD.

PER CASE OF 1 Doz.

$13.75

PROMPT DELIVERY OF ANY QUANTITY FROM ONE BOTTLE UPWARDS. A GOOD SELECTION OF OTHER WINES AND SPIRITS IN STOCK.

For Price List, apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, AGENTS.

13881

FIRST CLASS MATERIAL.

FOR SALE.

STRONGEST CONSTRUCTION

SAFES

CAN COMPETE AGAINST THE BEST MAKES IN THE WORLD..

FOR PARTICULARS, APPLE TO-

ROTZ, S'JACOB & CO.

UNTOUCHED BY HAND.

MELLIN'S

For INFANTS

and

INVALIDS.

When prepared is similar to Breast Milk.

MELLIN'S FOOD WORKS; PECKHAM, LONDON, ENGLAND,

SWEET CAPORAL Cigarettes

Purest & Best.

TRY

107 Emen 20 Jackets $50/ Round Tina,

FOR SALE EVERYWHERE

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NEE

* [1690

NAVY CUT

ATC

ATC

AGENTLEMAN'S

SMOKE

Supplied in Three Grades, Mild Medium & Strang-

PACKED IN

AIR TIGHT VACUUM TINS

THE AMERICAN TOBACCOCO USA

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