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TO LET

TO LET.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION,

LARGE and WELL VENTILATED ROOM, with. BATHROOM, at No. 37% CAINE ROAD.

Apply to-

R. J REMEDIOS,

Mercantile Bank.

1867

Wongkong, 25th July, 11

SHOPS

TO LET SHORTLY:

HOPS, OFFICES and FLATS, DES

Vaux ROAD CENTRAL (Opposite Lane,

Orawford & Co.'s).

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO. LIMITED, Hongkong, 12th July, 1901.

11134

TO LET IMMEDIATE POSSESSION).

✪ LARGE UNFURNISHED ROOMS with Separate BATH, pse of COOKHOUSE, *&c., $40. Apply

B. ROE, Cary of Daisy Press Office. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1001

TO LET FURNISHED For 2 or 3 months from 1st August.

27,

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BELILIOS TERRACE, Top Ter- raco, fine view of Harbour, back entrance from Conduit Road,

Apply to-

C. E. WARREN,

No: 3. Wyndham Street.

Hongkong, 20th July, 1891.

EAS

TO LET.**

|1896

66 | MASTLEY,” UPPER RICHMOND IM ROAD and Nos. 3, 5 and 64 RICH- MOND TERRACE.

Apply to

LAU CHU PAK. Cary of A. S. Watson & Co.. Ialā. Hongkong, 1st August, 1901.

1985

TO LET.

09. SEYMOUR TERRACE, ́ In-

mediate Possession. Apply to

S. STOCKHAUSEN,

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

OMFORTABLY FURNISHED

ROOMS, with Bosed

Apply to Mrs. MATHER,

2, Podder's HN, Hongkong, 1st January, 1892.

NOTICE.

· VACUUM OIL COMPANY.

BANK HOLIDAY.

FOE the convenience of Steamers asing through, this Office will be OPEN on MONDAY, 5th August, for delivery of Dil.“

VACUUM OIL COMPANY, HARRY THOMAS,

Manager. Hongkong, Ist Angast, 1901.

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BANK HOLIDAY, Nacerdanes with Ordinance No. 6 of 1875, IN A want or too of 1875,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 1901

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

COFFER DIEU HAIR-FAN-COOLED ENGINES~~ A MIRROR SILVERING THAT CAN BE BEATED →HORE GABES IN THE ATMOSPHERE-MODI- FIED BACTERIA — GERMAN LEKA÷MAKING ----.

unaided vision, it may be assumed that complete and constant observation of the entire heavens to the Umits of telescopie range would wake. the flashing up of some distant sun an almost daily occurrence.

In a new German hotographic process,_a_

JAPAN

VARNISH YHON WOOD-UNSEEN CELESTIA faintly ground glass plate in written upon direct THE FIKEWORKS—AN IMPROVED HECTOGRAFH.

with hectographie ink. A negative is made by Green hair, which has been knowu le suppor-pressing a sheet of hautograph gelatine apon smiths for centuries, is stated by a Gorman the pinte, and copies are made from this negative investigator to be by no means common. In in the usual way. When the reproductions

dividual susceptibility varies greatly, and any thing more than aperficial colouring results only after years of work in copper dust; but the colour-onco.imported-persists for a number of years after work in such, dust cares. The beard is more affected than the hair of the head, the eyebrows losat of all. Animals are sometimes, dyed in this way, and's sheep that had been exposed for years to copper fumes contaminated water, had a fine green fleecs Health did not seem to be impaired. ‚”

become faint, the negative may be renewed by pressing again apon the glass plate, a special device cansing the writing to fall upon the some place at each renewal.

air-tight rubber vest containing calcium carbide. The life-preserver of Prof. Sharpnel is an

on the earbide in cues of need and causes genera- A little wafer in a separate receptacle is emptied tion of acetylene gas and inflation of the rest.

Now

COALS

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

(OR MITSUI & CO)

HEAD OFFICE, BAKAMOTO-CHO, TOKYO. LONDON OFFICE, LIME STREET, EC. HONGKONG OFFICE~6, Ics Hores STREET.

BRANCH OFFICES:

York, San Francisco. Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Masila, Amoy, Bhanghai, Hankor, Chefco, Tientsin, Newckwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chomulpo, Tokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe. Kure, Shimonoseki, Moji, Wakamaten, Karsten, Nagasaki, Kuchinotsu, Sssobo, Mlike, Hakodata, Taipeh, &o.

Telegraphis Address for all ibe Offices: "MITSUI,"

A.B.C. and A 1 Codes used,

CLOSED for the transaction of Pablin and dust. drinking at the same time copper- Rubber pockets can be made to serve in the CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy, Argonals and Railway Bureau;

Business on MONDAY, the 5th Augast.

For the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

́ÂUSTRALIA AND CHINA

T. H. WHITEHEAD,

Manager, Hongkong. For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING.

'CORPORATION.

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager. For the NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,

LIMITED.

GEO. W. F. PLAYFAIR,

Chief Manager. For the MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA,

LIMITED.

JOHN THURBURN,

Munger, Hongkong, For the BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINÉ,

Hongkong Agoney.

L. DERINDOAGUE,

Asting Manager.

For the BANK OF CHINA & JAPAN, LIMITED.

J. W. R. TAYLOR,

Manager.

For the YOKOHAMA SIECIE BANK, LaMITED.

TARO HODSUMI,

Manager.

For the INVERIAL BANK OF CHINA.

E W. BUTTER,

Manager, For the DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK. E F. GROS,

Acting Manager. Hongkong, 31st July, 1901.

INSURANCE HOLIDAY.

An interesting solution of the problem of cooling gasoline motors bas beon reached by Herr Kainz, Alaniinum rings having diagonal blados ínsile, are arranged around the cylinder, and are rotated rapilly on ball-hearings, current of air being thus forood against the . cylinder and scound the coinḥustion-chamber. Little power is required to drive this blower. In this respect it is more economical than the water jacket, aud for automobiles it offers the great advantage of avoiding the addition to the weight carried of a supply of cooling liquid,

Difference in expansion soon causes the silver backing of searchlight mirrors to peel off, oven though the heating is hat slight. In a new pracons the silver film is reduced in thicknost to a few millionth of an inch..and is backed with an alloy of silver with 99 per cent of platianm. As the plation and the glass expand in almost exactly the same ratio, the backed film remains in perfect contact with the glass at all temperatures.

About 3,000 intoxications in a lifetime is Dr. 1924 Charles L. Dana's estimate of the limit of man's endurance of alcohol. He teds that in 50 per cent, of the cases, drunkards owe their beer. condition to whisky, and in 20 per cent. to

The CLOSED for the transaction of HE Undermentioned Insurance Offices

Public Business on MONDAY, the 5th (1936) Augus.

28. Queen's Rond Central,

TO LET

Hongkong, 1st August, 1963.

HERNSIDE," No. 37, ROBINSON

FERNS

ROAD.

#6

Apply to~-

SA. RAMJAHN, Care of Thomas Grill Room. (1937 Hongkong. Ist August, 1901.

TO LET..

NO. 8A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Apply to

KWONG CHEONG WO,

No. 239, Des Veur Rood. Hongkong, 9th July, 1901.

[1783

STWO FURNISHED ROJMS, QUEEN'S

APPLY ON THE PREMISEE.

TU LET.

ROAD CENTRAL, No. 72

Hongkong: 291h Tniy, 1901,

[1607

NURNISHED ROOM TO LET, PH-

M. N.,

FUSED out

pretty house in Kowloon,

Roply

Cars of Daily Presa (fos.

Hongkong, 29th July, 1901,"

TO LET

`JARDINE, MATHESON & ̈00.

General Agents, INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED,

and

CANTON

General Managers. HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE" Co., LE.

For the UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LIMITED.

W. J. SAUNDERS,

Seerotary, For the NOBTE CHIFA INSURANCE CO

LIMITED..

W. H. PERCIVAL.

Agent. For the CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE

CO., LIMITED.

W. H. RAY.

Secretary. For the YANGTZE INSURANCE Associa

TION, LUMIFED).

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Agenta. For the CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LÐ.

GEO. L. TOMLIN,

Secretary. Hongkong, 30th July, 1901.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

f1912

•

Hзme way.

The addition to steel of a minute proportion of copper-from 0.078 to 0.263 per cent. in soft Bowesaler exrrosion very materially.

steel-has been found to reduce

NATURE AT HER BEST.

We love. Natare: Our regard for her, with her sweet and varying moods, is undying, and oar loro Fuck that it is beyond the art of wan to quench. The promise of Spring is one great Summer whispor "Paradise"; the mellow message of Hope. The fragraut broath of

touch of Autumn's hand ripens recollection; and crisp, biting Winter brings merry, ringing lunglater and rosy checks.

But of all, Summer is most dear.

It was in Summer that Tennyson found porch of roses." Who had ust heard of Bose, Rese, the gardener's daughter, "atanding in s the gardener's daughter asks the poet.

of

Why did he not also find a gardener's wife, with us down the ages as a picture of what a rosy cheeke, whose buxom figure might troud gardener's wife might be-net à Weman languid and weary," whose plaintivo ery is thatevery little duty is a trouble, and takes all the joy out of life."

Sach women there are, even

gardener's whose vory words we have written above. Who wiros," like, let us way, Mrs. Martha Herriott,

continues thus: "

Morning, noon, and night, my head was racked with pain often for days together I scarcey got a moment's freedom from it. Sometime, when the attacks were Tery severe, my left oveball became quite shinukon and swal1, and my head would swell right across the top. The pain I anffered then was intense; I cannot properly describe it, but shall parer forget it so long as I live. I con- sulted the doctor and tried all kinds of medicine rwommanded by my friends, but, until' I commenced taking Mother Sagel's Syrup, got. no real benefit from anything."

A happy illustration is given us now of for continms Mrs. Herriot-whose address Nature quickly chsaging from decay to health,

The earth's atmosphere and problems of far reaching importance connected with it are now to be studied in a new way, opened up by Profs. Liveing and Dewar. Air is first liquefied at 200 deg. C, below zero, aùl it is then freed from every trace of nitrogen, argon, and carbon compounds, after which the more volatile portion is distilled over into spectrum tubes for examination. The tabsa have beouis, 24, John Street, London Road, Shefeld - found to show brilliant spectra of hydrogen, helium and noon, with a large number of lines of unknown origin. Reamona exist for inferring on interchange of light gas between the atmosphere and outside space, and a search has been made for spectral lines Characteristic of neimle, the sun's corons, and the aurora. The lines thus far observed suggest the presence in

the air of traces of an unknown gas existing in the nebule, and possibly of a coronal substance, but give no certain indications of anything connected with the aurora.

The idea that bacteria may be sometimes changed into quite different forms, a harmless kind becoming deadly, woms to be gaining foothold. A Brazilian bacteriologist, Dr.

[1898 WM. DANBY, M. INST. CE. Caldas, finds reason for believing that plague

70. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the

NPEAK

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY 00, LD. Hongkong. 17th July, 1901"

то

6, ICE HOUSE ROAD.

Hongkong, 20th July, 1901

results from the eating by rats of mouldy rise, the mould (Aspergillus orixo) producing in the colon of rats, after successive passages from animal to animal, an organism that, bas. [1895 the characteristics of the plague germ. An effectivo preventive seram, moreover, has been, obtained by injecting into the veins of a horsg

1700H. F. CARMICHAEL the colon bacillus from a rat fod with the rice

TO LET. |ODOWN, No. 5A, DUDDELL STREÊT

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST AMENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 5th July, 1901

1692

EDROOM with BOARD.

B

Apply

G. Li,

Moderate

CONSULTING ENGINEER, SURVEYOR AND CONTRACTOR,

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.

TELEGRAMS" CARMICHAEL," HONGKONG.

A B C Code, 4th Edition. AL: Code.

Lieber's Standard Code,

TELEPHONE, 232, Hongliong, 21st Juno, 190).

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Care of Danity Press Offos. NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS Hongkong, 28th July, 1901.

(1876

TO LET.

O. 12, BELILIOS TERRACE..

OFFICES and EHOPS in BEACONSFIELD ARCADE

SMALL GODOWN IA DEDDELL STREET For Particulars, apply (0-

TURNEE&Co. Hongkong. 26th July, 1901,

TO LET.

[1876

HOUSE in BrON TERRACE... BLUE BUILDINGS. No. 8. 220 FLOOR. THE RETREAT," MOUST KELLETT.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

SMENT & AGENCI, CO,, LD, Hongkong Bh July 191 --

TO LET SONG

POSSEINION, AUGUST IST.

THE GODOWN in WEST POINT (Kennedy Town), known as Feather Factory, now excupied by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., LA.

For particulars, apply to

LAUTS, WEGENER & CO Hongkong, 9th July, 1901

M

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

21

GILLANDERS

GLENWOOD"

CAISE HCAR Hongkong, 29th September, 1900869/

MAESTRO - A. CATTANEO.

GRAND MASS (with Organ Acopt). No. 1 ALBUM (3 Songs, English & Italian). No. 2 ALBUM (3 Songs).

The LILY Waltz and ́ ELIZA." Waltz. NEW FEATURE ----

manla.

after taking it a short time, I felt much better, and the improvement contiuned_until I was free from pata. Mother Seigel's Syrup completely cured me..

When I am tired and worn out, aftar a hard

day's work, nothing to scen revives me ALS Seizle's Syrup. It seems to strengthen every part of the body, andis, indeed, a sple did tonie." That was in the summer of 1930. And now

Nature is herself again! Life is gluiness

indeed

We love Nature as she is portrayed in the fields and flowers, but we ourselves, who are part of Nature, must be in prefect bealth to be in harmony with the countless heanties around us.

The keynote of contentment is good digestion, nutritive and medicinal properties, those dormant and Saigel's Syrop awakens into life, by its digestive orgaus of the dyspeptic.

He or she can then say,

best,"

CARTRIDGES!

Nature is at her 160

CARTRIDGES!!

́UST LANDED » NEW STOCK of ELEY'S and KYNOCH'S SPORT. ING CARTRIDGES and NEWCASTLE CHILLED SHOT.

20 BORE CARTRIDGES.

16

12

10.

Dealers in

WM. SCHMIDT & CO.,

Ganamitha. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1901

[1213 WING CHEONG,

JEWELRY, PEARLS, DIAMONDS, CURIOS, JADESTONE ORNAMENTS, BRONZES andCARVED IVORY WALE, FINE SILKS and GRASSCLOTHS General Exporters of ANISEED and CASSIA OILS, ko, &c. Stock always on Hand. INSPECTION IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. Bay all kinds of Curios at Moderate Prices.

Nota-We bag to announce that we also

Among the scientific industries in which the Germans.excel is that of lens-making, although the record for large lenses is held by the Americans. The demand for lenses for natro- -nomica1- microscopical, photographic and other; parpos is increasing at a remarkable, rato, and the technical skill of the Kaiser's subjects has developed a business of great importance. The oldest factory, that of Voigtlinder and Sola in the city of Brunswick, was established in 1756 It now employs 216 hands, with 14AN technically trained foramen, and its products are known to all photographers.

A bullet-proof willboard is exciting interest in Sweden. A shoot three inches thick was perforated by projectiles from-machine guns,

Pocket Elition of Pianoforte Music, includ- | but resisted bullets from a carbine that easily ing MARCH dedicated to Hongkong Volunteers To be had of all MUSIC DEALERS. Fors 2

and POLKA to Peak Residents,

penetrated wooden planks five inches thick. Better results still are expected. A

1 & 3. D'AQUILAR STREET

(Behind Hongkong Dispensary), Hongkong, 18th April, 1301.. THE

T1811

HONGKONG STEAM WATER BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE

above Company is prepares to supply the shipping in Hongkong with PURE and FILTERED WATER botli for deck and

Call Flag W.

Lignin, which with cellulose makes up the boilers, calls and fibres of wood, is a hard and elastie.~- OREGON LUMBER.

material of uncertain composition. By the THE Undersigned, being closely connected new process of Drs. Zuhl and Eiseman, of

with the leading. MILLS at PORT

Berlin, it is separated from the cellulose by LAND and PUGET SOUND, are always pre-boiling in anilins under pressure, and is freed parod to book crilers for way specifications at from the resulting solution by distilling off most LOWEST RATES.

STEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 14th February, 1901.

AMERICAN SYSTEM NTIS FRY

OF

эт

No. 99, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL CHADWICK KEW

LATE OF POATE À NOBLE). Hongkong, 15th September, 1899,

YE

COAL MERCHANTS,"

- bare always on hand

of the aniline and precipitating from the residne 50by the addition of ether. The product retains

J. W. KEW, Manager, 20, Des Voeux Road.

1486 Hongkong, 18th December, 1900.

YOBARI AND SORACHI COALS.

HOKKAIDO TANKO TETSUDO KAISHA.

little of the anime as Impurity. Thus obtained," BoxKAIDO COLLIENT AND RAILWAY Co.)

lignin is a doop-brown palpy mess, which may be used as a varnish, and when applied in Jayara dries slowly into an elastic, lustrous, hurd and odourless coat.

k

The “new stars of history hard not been numerous, caly twenty having been urged since 1508134 B.C., the date of the first authumic record

"LARGE STOCKS OF EVERY DESCRIP

MATION OF COAL

Yet thirteen were obesrved in the niuetsenth century, and six la the last decade, five of the latter being found on Harverd photographs Of the total, thirteen were bright enough to be seen by the nazol, eye. The utuber has shown a vory rapid increase with progress in

Address Care of Messex, Kwong Nang & Co, ; stir surveving, und, w the lugest telescopes [689] 'show some 10,000 times as many klare as the

No. 144, DES VIEUX ROAD:

CAPITAL...

YEN 12,000,00

ANNUAL——ODT..

A PUT

€200,000 Tors,

PORTS OF EXPORT-

OTARU AND MOROLAN, widely known as the best and most econo THE celebrate Tubari and Sorach Coals are ical Japanese Conte. The Coals can be ob tained at Tokyo, Yokohama Otaru, Muroran, Shanghai, Hongkong, and other principal ports, OFFICE MINAMI IDAMACKI, Tor,

JAPAN TOKYO Telegrams," "TANKO"

BUGHES & HOUGH. Agents for Hongkong,

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UNTOUCHED BY HAND.

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For

INFANTS

FOOD

and

INVALIDS.

When prepared is similar to Breast Milk,

MELLIN'S FOOD WORKS, PECKHAN, LONDON, ENGLAND.

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