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HOTEL

BOA VISTA”.

(HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH

CHINA)

MACAO

AB been re-opened, nader Europeni

HA management and most strist supervision

of the place.

as to food, cleanliness, and hygiens of

All comforts of a home...

A most plensunt retreat for thow desirous of a few days rest and quiet

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Comfortable accommodation for travellers paying a visit to the historical and picturesque colony of Macao.

Macao is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong, One steamer (8. Heungshan), daily to and from Hongkong, and two steamiem to and from Canton, give easy communication with both these centres.

Cable Addreen—" BOAVISTA.” For Terme, apply to

THE MANAGER.

Extracts from "BOA VISTA? Visitors Book

Everything most ofortable.

Food good and nicěly cooked.

Everything supplied for comfort.

The most attractive spot and very best hotel. I have seen in China,

Delighted with our visit. Too skarming for words.

We have spent the happiest hours of our lives at the Boa Vista" Hotel.

Delighted with hotel and Macao..

An ideal place for a quiet holiday.

Boa Vista" is by a long way the best Hotel in the East. We cannot stresgly enough recommened this first-class house.

Food and attendance excellent, bed-rooms comfortable, scrupulous cleanliness throughout, For ona desirous of a few days' rot and quiet ta recuparite, a bean ideal establishment.

Most plonmat retreat for ons either in good or bad, health.

HONGKONG

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901

BUSINESS DIRECTORY SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

BOOKBINDING

** DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,

The only office in China Eaving European tanght workmen. Equal to Home Work.

BUILDERS

KANG ON,

Contractor; 30, D'Aguilar Street, Leon

and Coset Port Buildings, Timber, Brick

and Granite,

Moolanion engaged, Estimator given CHEMISTS DRUGGISTS, &c.

kydrobromic welds in quart bottles of various Hinds, but who found after several months that

THE RECENT ORT MOON—A PASSING MOTOR — baclately nothing had been dissolved from the

FLANTS TEEN BAVING LOST. FIBRA ~POWER→→ART OF THE DAYS OP THE. MAX-

NOTH→→ BEGAK-EATING - A NEW TOOD ABBESTOS MORTAR-SOLUBILITY OF GLABS

FISHES KILLED UY STREET-PAYING,

An unlocked-for effect of municipal improve ment is that reported from Croydon, England After a recent heavy rain the fishes of the River Wands were found to have been poisoned, and

THE QUICK CHANGE ARTI T.

Mrs. J.

He's smart man. I know one who played the part of six characters in sixteen minutes, in the parts of a miser, a German musician,

little play of his own. In that time he asted. lover, a dowager, a footman, add the heroine.

Stevens, of Wood House, Ash, Nr.. Wrotham, Kent, when in her prime, in reality ahont on eratekar, quite unable to kneel or lived the part of a feeble old woman; hobbling stoop, frightened to eat, dropsical, entirely miserable and full of paina and diseases that vás pictare number One.

No weather belief is more abaard then that investigation has shown this to be due to pollu of a "wet moon" and a "dry moon." Themen of the water by washings from a creosoted

wood pavement. is no connection between the position of the moon's horns and the rainfall as the same weather recure at the same time each year, for, -as Mr. A. K. Bartlett has lately taken the trouble to explain, the crescent moon always ap Aerspears "upon its back" in spring near the vernal equinox, and "upon its end" in autumn, near the automaat equinox. The change of direction in which the horns are turned depends upon the difference in declination of the sun and moon. If the moon be farther north than the sun soon after the new, the sunlight strikes under hot and she appears with her horas aptarael, but it she be further south the light reaches around het dise to the northward, and her horns appear Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40 early vertical. The line joining the two horns Watson's Building, Queen's Read, Alsoulways at right angles to a line joining the

at Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Toila sun and the moon.

PHOTOGRAPHERS

THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

Chemists and Draggists, High-class

tod Waters, Dealers in Photographic

Requisites, Queen's Road. FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHEE & CO., Established 1850.

Every Household Requisito. Depot for Fastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;

178, Queen's Road Central,-

JEWELLERS

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS,

A FONG, AN

The largest and most complete Studio in Hongkong. Established 1859. Viewe, Eniszgements, Ivory Miniatures, Oil Faintings, &c. Ice House Street.

MEE CHEUNG,

Ise House Streak, Top Floor. Permanent Enlargements, Croups, Views, ata; Deval- opment Works, Amateurs Requisites

E. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.

Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and also colouring Photos and relief Photos. Views of China and Manila. Work done for Amateurs; No. 8a, Queen's

Road Central.

PRINTING

Quel charment petit endroit ce va pour le DAILY PRESS" OFFICE..

repos de nos fatigués..

Ravissant Hotel

A charming place.

The beat Hota! I have found in the Orient

WANTED ASSISTANI.

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REQUIRED for an Hotel PORTU-

68' ASSISTANT to KEEP BOOKS. Salary 859 and Free Board.

Apply by letter to-

** HOTEL, Care of Daily Pros Omos. Hongkong, 7th December, 1991.

NOW READY.

THE

CHINESE

SOLDIER”

AND

OTHER SKETCHES.

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PRINTED ON CHINEAR TAPER

AND

DOUND IN CHINESE STYLE.

ILLUSTRATEDWITH PHOTOGRAPHS

AN ATTRACTIVE XMAS GIFT./

FEIUR

SECO

Sale at

Mesra KELLY & WALSH, Lesers. W. BREWER & Co., and the" HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFIOR Hongkong, 8th November, 1901,

CHEONG LRE & CO.

2854

FURNITURE STORE," Established over 20 Years MPORTERS and EXPORTERS, and Dealers in Furniture, Blackwood, Jewellery, Carión, Catlery, Electro-Mats, and Glassware,Dining rooni and other Furniture on Hire, &e. For the HIGHEST GRADE, BEST and CHEAPEST.

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8 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Right opposite Robinson Piano Co. Hongkong, 20th November, 1901. 12952

MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKL

CODE WORD DOCK” NAGASAKI A1, ABC Bootte and Engineering Code Uped, DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAME. Extreme Length

523 feet.

Width of Entrance on Bottom 77

Length on Blocks:

Width of Entrance on Top

Water on Blocks at Spring Tile

DOCK No. 2 (st MUKALIKA

Extreme Length

871 feet.

Length on Blocks:

Width of Entrance on op

53

Width of Entrance on Bottom

Water on Blocks at Spring Tide - 29-11

PATENT BLIR

KOSIGE).

Can take vessels up to 1000 ton grond. THE WORKS are well equip *with the

LATEST IMPROVEMENTS

execute any kind of work 1 SHPBUILD. ING and MARINE ENGINEERING so well- ae in REPAIRING of SHIPS

Proofs read by Englishmen.

STOREKEEPEES

F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,

Navy Contractors, Shipehandlers, Sail- makers, Provision and Coal Merchnuta,

The prophet Sir Frederick Bramwell, who twenty years ago foresaw the disappearance of the storm-engine within a half-century. is in a fair way to see the realisation of his prophecy, The gas-engine has been greatly improved in size and efficiency, and the new process of Dr. Ladwig Mond produces gas so cheaply from

the poorest bituminous slack that one company is to supply it over an area of 135 square miles for twopence per thousand feet. Each ton of coal pisids 150,000 cubic feet of Mond gas, while the value of the ammonia saved nearly equals the cost of the raw material

In the absence of oxygen, the higher plants are found by A. Nubokich to continue their growth, and they are still sensitive to irritations, but they do not form chlorophyl. It is believe that some seeds would germinate with oxygen, bict the spores of fungi appair unable fu da no.

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Taru aside for six brief weeks. Hoy, presto! Mrs. Stevens is in her prime now. She s happy, takes a walk carly in the morning, and three-mile jaunt in the evening, sleeps like a top and eats heartily.

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That quick change was made by Mother Soigol's Byrap-from bad dreams and heary aight sweats to calm and refreshing slumber.

On August 23rd, 1900, Mrs. Stevens wrote: "I was subject to sick headaches from quite girl. No matter what I ate, I was tormented with pains across my chest, in the small of my lack, and a fearful dull pais is my side, os though someone was trying to pull me down. My heart used to flutter like a timorons bird, and my breathing was that bad I could r walk upstairs; I

was weary and worn out, and got worse and

Dropsy set in and my limbs grow twice their unteral size. The doctor and the Hos pital folks both pronounced me as incurable, ind for three years I had to hobble about on

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sticks.

Worke.

At last the doctor advised a real good' trial. of Beigel's Curative Syrup. I got a bottle.

When that was done I got another and signs of leaving mo. To make a long story mother. At the third bottle the dropsy showed short, the pains gradually left me, and at the and of six months I throw aside my sticks and did my housework with ease and comfort."

A gentleman living in Ash (Mr. Tynds) says These facts are ones for which I can vouch." A device described by M. Rateau,, of Paris, Once you allow poisons to mix with your blood The quickest of quick change artists is Nature uses the lost power of machines worked inter- which begin to show their presence by headaches. Prera Central, next Hongkong Hotel mittently, like winding engines or the reversible mind-spasms, castiveness, neuralgia, yellow skin, engines of rolling mills, and is claimed to add, and Nature will fa a flash change you BISMARCK & CO.,

from a healthy subject to a decrepit, disease- 500 horse-power to the energy available in a ridden man or woman. Navy Contractors. Ship Chandlers,

Provision and Ceal Merchants, Sail winding engine plant of ordinary aize.. The makers, &o. Fresh Water supplied to extra apparatus consists of a low pressure

Vessels in the Harbour

KVONG SANG & CO

Shipchandlers,

reservoir, and a turbine. The reservoir has a series of basins for collecting and carrying

the condensed steam, and is by its peculiar.

away

Make the change yourself. A few dress a itself, is what you want to keep you healthy day whenever the slightest symptom shows

and happy.

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Sailmakers, Hardware, Dagineer Tools, Brass and Iron Mercorettetion made much smaller and less expon-F you want your Boots well polished, tall

alante, 141, Des Voeux Road.

sive than su ordinary reservoir. It makes practicable the supplying of a continuous flow of steam to the turbine from an intermittent source.

| MORE & SEIMUND,

43 and 45, Des Vaux Boad. Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Riggers, Commission Agents and General Storekeepers; Sole Agents for Shipowners L'omposition (Grey- hound Brand") and Blandel Spence & Co.'s Composition TAILORS

Some remarkable art-galleries of the early stone age in France have been explored by Messrs. L. Capiton and H. Breuil At Com barelles a care above 250 yards long has en- gravinga in the oretaceous cook-along its inner bali, the lines being covered by a stalagmitic Naval Military and Court, 16, Queen's Road, deposit so thick in placis as to hide them. In

Opposite Kula's Curio Store.

TOBACCONISTS

RHAUGHTON & CO.,

the 309 figures clearly made out can be resog- nized the horse, cow, bison, reindeer, mammoth and wild gout. Another cave a mile or two D. S. DADY BURJOR. LOS FILIPINOS,"

Importer of the Best Manila Cigara; away contains what seem to be somewhat more

Pottinger Street,

WATCHMAKERS

DROZ & CO., -

19. Quen's Road Central Repairs of Watches and Clocks by competent European experts, at moderate rates.

CHRISTMAS 1901.

THE undersigned is now propared to

supply

CHRISTMAS CAKES

20 lbs., and also Mince Pies, Assorted Cakes, of the bast quality, weighing from 1 lb. to

ko. ko.

recent drawings, largely of animals, and show- ing, in black, red and brown, species.resembling those of the first series.

The food value of sugar is a subject on which the doctors disagree. The fact that children who eat sugar are pale and have bad teeth loads Dr. Von Bunge to condemn this food, and to onclude that its lack of iron and lime makes it lers desirable than other foods. Prof. Lapine, on the other hand, finds that there is very little.

that the French, using about a third as much iron and lime in any of our food. He showe

sugar per head as the English, have no batter health than the English and Americans, and concludes that the increased need of dentists is the only harm that can come from using auch

DOHABJEE NOWROJEE, Hongkong Bakery,

$1, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 7th December, 1901. [3123 LIEBER'S STANDARD CODE. | *****.

ENGLISH EDITION, FRENCH EDITION,

U.S. $10.00

PRICE

SELECTED CODE WORDS. THE Ciphers are selected from the “OFFI

ICIAL VOCABULARY om having been taken to omit such AEROUS ciphers as

Cheng,

**Charge," "Collect," Bimonthly Eleventh.***** * Eighteenth, **Cargo," Es, which aro found in other Codes.

EVERE CONTENTS.

The Code contains 800 pages of 75,000 phers: 65,000 have sentences, and 10,000 are Wank, enabling the addition of private phrases under their probadings.

DIREX OF USERS. Thienthis, contained

LIKEER'A M published every three Tovised list of those using the Code. No OTHER CODE FUENISHES SUCH

LIST.

BEST EXTANT

That LIEBER'S CODE is recognised as the best over offered to the public is shone by the following houses, who have unqualifiedly endorsed it in preference to all other

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAL BANKING

CORPORATION

CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA

ANDA HINA.

BUSSO CHINESE BANK. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.- CHINESE ENGINEERING CO.

4 HONGHONG DAILY PRESS,"

LIEBER CODE COM

2 & 4 Stone Street, New York

20 Bucklersbury, London, h.C Hongkong, 5th November 190E 1200

JAJAKE

HUNG CHAT & CO WONGKOK,

The COMPANY POWERUL SAL MICH

VAGE PLANT READY SHORT

NOTICE

Hongkong

Irrigation is being urged as India's means of salvation. Railways may cure famine by bringing relief to the usedy, but a wall-organised system afirrigation is the only certain preventive

After

Four Valet or the Maid to ask for WALTON'S BOOT CREAMS

AND VARNISHES.

WALTONIAN CREAM, WHITE & BLACK- JANUE MOSCOVITE, TAN-3 SHADES,

ARISIAN DRESS-BOOT-POLISH.

Order from Stores or Wholesale to

JOHN WALTON ́(PARIS),

MANUFACTURER,

176, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE,

LONDON.

NOW ON SALE.

DIRECTORY OF

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PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES

IN

CHINA AND JAPAN

FOR 1902.

WITH ALPHABETICAL LIST. 70 PAGES HANDSOMELY BOUND IN BLUE CLOTH AND LETTERED,[$1.

On Sale at Messrs. KELLY & WALSH, LD., Hongkong

Shanghai and Yokohama ;

Merazi. W. BESWER & Co., Hongkong sad

Bhanghai

Messry A. S. WATBOX & Co., Amay i Messrs. A. 8. WAISON & Co., Fooshow............. The "DAILY PERSS" OFFICE, Hongkong, sad

at the London Office: 131, Floof Street.

18010 Hongkong, 26th November, 1901

Horss-chestnuts contain about 27 per cent of albumen, this remarkable proportion being greater than is found in sy onitivated plants, but their bitter taste, due to the presence of aboat 10 per cent. of a bitter resin, bas,condemand them as unfit for food. By extracting the bitter prin. esple, R. Flugge, of Hanover, claims to have made useful mother waste material parital roasting to locson the shells, the kernels are removed and putrex sul, and the powder is placed in a tight porcolator with alcohol for about a weak. To extract the bitter com pletely, it may be necessary to replace the fuid with fresh solrent The alcohol dia.

GRAND MASS (with Organ Apept). solves out the resin, leaving a

No. 1 ALBUM (3 Songs, English & Italian). and nutritious meal, which contains all the

pleasant No 2 ALBUM (3 Songs).

The 'LILY* Waltz and 'ELIZA' Waltz albumen and starch of the chestouts, and is 4 Pocket Edition of Pianoforte Maio includ

NEW FEATURE-- valuable food. The spiritis purined by distilling MARCH dedicated to Hongkong Volunteers tion and used repeatedly.

and POLKA to Peak Residents.

A mixture of powdered Canadian asbestos with 10 per cent of white limas lisa buon recommended in Germany as a mortar having important advantages, with slow drying as the only disadvantage. It resists fire to an extra onlinary degree and, b also.........water-proof. exposure to a hot fire far an hour and a half followed by a drenching with water having had 20 sf The mortar is very tough and only Talf as heavy as cement mértár.

NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. MAESTRO A. CATTANEO.

To be had of all Music DEALYBS. (9698--2

TSANG FOO & 09.

BAN WING HING

COAL MERCHANTS.

No. 48, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL. Telephone No. $29.

· Hongkong, 23rd September, 1901,

A ON & 00

CHRISTMAS

PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of HONGKONG, CANTON, MACAO and PEKING

Mounted as CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR CARDS, with CHINESE GREETINGS

Stamped in real Gold in Chinese Characters with English Translations.

MOTTOES:

A Morry Christmass and a Happy New Year

Plenty chancee, large gain;

Doller coule alla some rain

Wishing you Happiness and Longevity

Success Crowns your Undertakings.

My chin chin' in Hongkong Makes you happy and strong Everything as you wish

FOR SALE AT MESSRS. KELLY & WALSH, LD, MESSES. W. BREWER & CO.

AND OTHER

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"That the glass of bottles is acted upon hy. All kinds of Oil Pairings and Photographie,

of MOSAIC strong anda is generally suppos The matter

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