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HONGKONG BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOOKBINDING

„DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,

The only office in China having European taught workmen. Equal to Home Work FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHEE & CO., Established 1859.

Every Household Bognisite. Depot for Eastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;

17a, Queen's Road Central.

CHEONG LEE & CO., Furniture Store. Established over 20 years. Importers and

Exporters, Taskwood Furniture, Black

wood, Jewellery, &c, highest grado, best and cheapest. 8, Queen's Road

Central.

JEWELLERS

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS!

Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40 Watson's Building, Queen's Road. Also at Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Døjle

PHOTOGRAPHER

'M. 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

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH. 1903

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

INDIA, NEW AND OLD. -

Since the time of Lord Lytton's Durbar, SILVER FOR AUTOMOBILE BATTERIES ***AN

UNWORKED SCIENTIFIC BIELD-FI8K19 || umbrellas have begun to be carried by the

FROM--VOLCANOES-TITË ELECTRICITY OF 'TO-: AT -- PROGRESS IN SEZING MARS--n SUSPENDED LIFE CO-OPERATION IN EVOLUTION—THE EARTH FROM BALLOONS. Increased attention is being given to the chemistry of storage batteries, and Mr. A. S. Maroh foresees that lead cells will be given considerably longer life and greater reliability, He thinks that such cells will retain their place as an auxiliary for electric light and power stations, although other metals may supplant the lead for automobiles Edison's nickel what is claimed for it, cell should do and silver would have great advantages for traction batteries it its cost should be sufficiently reduced. The power of a lead automobile battery weighing about 530 ponade

about 70 pounds or less of silver oxide. No extraordinary chespening of silver nitrate is necessary to make such a battery on suomical, and it would offer long life, high efficiency, and easy keeping In order.

LIFE'S HAPPIEST PERIOD.

When an ancient Greek philosopher was asked which he considered was the happiest time in a man's life, he promptly selected the period million throughout fadia. They go with the- between the ages of forty-and forty-five On baus, und even with loincloths-an equally abi- being pressed for the reasons which induced quitous and incongraons addition to native bim to make this selection, the philosopher added: "At forty a man, if he be intelligent, costume. The cheaper kind can be supplied to has lost his illusions, and looks upon the world the hassers at less than a shilling such, and as it is, not as he would like it to bo. He is upon a wet day at Talentta you may see riot still young anough to partake of the pleasures of youth, yet has suficient experiencs never to only the fat Babu; in bare head and slipper. permit bis heart to rule bis head; is moderato ploking his way more delicately than Agag in all things, and wisely shy of hazardous On being further asked which he through the mad, but the dingy groom, behind enterprises.

considered the happiest time in a woman's life, a public carriage, keeping a rusty umbrella open the philosopher paused a long white, end when against the elements with one hand, while be at last he replied he prefaced his answer by holds hard upon his swaying perch with the asserting that this was the more difficult other. This is one of the spectacles which he is too old to be called a girl, and not old uestion of the two. Finally he said: "When European of a former generation would have enough to be called a woman without the word oxpected to see in India. Another is the preva-young profixed to it. I am unable to be mors lance of the cigarette habit, which has begun i definito, for the differences among women_pre to compete with the attractions of the hookah. greater than the differences among mon. The

healthy

only brightest with golden possibilities of which the mental anticipation is delightful.”

Vinolia Soap acts on the skin like a little ray of sunshine, while many soaps cause blemishes, face-spots, and mucous patches.

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can be bad from a silver battery zeyniring There are come curious psychologists who set by you as woman todo o the fute to it led GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTING.

Screw propellers, it is pointed out, have not followed the usual course of improvement from accumulated experience, and, while grost numbers of now blades have been brought out, there has been no tendency to evelse 03 accurate theory or scientifle design. Such anomalies as the variable running of duplicate propellers aro still unexplained. The lack of progress is atttributed to the Navy Contractors, Sailmakers, Prevision reticence of on-going engineers, whose practical

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STOREKEEPERS

E. BLACKHEAD & CO.,

and Coal Bierchants, Sole Agents for Hartoon Rabljen's Gonaine Com.

position Red Hand Brand.

BISMARCK & CO.,

Novy Contractors, Ship Chandlers, Provision and Coal Merchants, Bail makers, &c. Fresh Water cupplied to

Vessela in the Harbour

EWONG SÁNG S CO.,

Shipshandlers, Sailmakers, Provisionera, Coal Merchants, Hardware, Engineer

observations seldom reach constructors.

The vomiting of fishes from roleanos is no new experience, and it seems more startling than mystoriens. M. J. Girardin explains that in the interval between two cruptions-often a century of more-the oraters become Slled with fish-stocked lukes, and the next eruption blows

out the waler and its contents.

and

are

PYJAMAS,

ARE PERFECT FITTING, BEING SCIENTIFI

CALLY OUT,

SILK AND WOOL PYJAMAS ARE A LUXURY.

In this pronouncement it will be noted that the wise old Greek uses the word "healthy" in a qualifying sense. Omit that word and the sentenes at once loses mers than half its truth. SHIRTS & COLLARS. Here is a case which will prove our statement. From the age of nineteen until I completed my twenty-third year, I did not know what it was to be well for a single day," writes Mrs. R. NECKWEAR. OUR PATTERNS ARE EXCLUSIVE IN THE EAST. Huntley, of 65, Ultimo Road, Ultimo, Sydney, N.S.W, under date 19th June, 1902. "But for Mother Seigel's Carative Syrup it is doubtful if I should be here to day to describe My ailment was chronic y experiences.

Words dyspepsia. billousness inadequate to convey a conception of "my enfferings during that miserable period. I was BOOTS, ALL BOOTS ARE MADE OF ENGLISH LEATHER ON AMERICAN then a tailor's machinist, employed in that capacity by Mesera. Godferson & Bath, of the Royal Arcade, Sydney. Ordinary food was seda-water, milk, plain biscuits, and dry toast. Even that fars would sometimes distress me to an intolerable degree. My skin turned sallow, my eyes sank and were surrounded by dark, hollow sircles. I slept only by fits and starts OUR SUMMER STOCK my slumbers being haunted and harassed by horrible dreams and nightmares. There was a dafi continuous pain between my shoulders and in my right side. 7 grow thinner and thinner,

LASTE. A GUARANTEE OF WEAR AND STYLE.

THE BEST MAKES PROCURABLE, A

8 stimulus in the East as they are a soda polson to me, and I was obliged to exist on | HOSIERY & UNDERWEAK RANGE OF SIX DIFFERENT SHADES.

believe that the particular loature of the Changing East is more important than way appear at first sight. The relative cheapresa, even of good smoking, in India is even more remarkable than that of good railway travelling Bad smoking is infinitesimally cheap. It is probably true, to adopt an old couplet, that Those now smoke who never smoked before, and those who always smoked now smoke the more," and from that point of view, where the balance of advantage lies may be dubious. But the juxury of the hubble-bubble encourages the spathetic attitude of contemplative Asis. The man who enjoys it must be settled cross-legged in Sultanic otse upon a carpot, or must squat apon his heals, or leen his shoulders against the nearest support. Cigarettes admit of smoking in action, and from the comparative point of view, as they suceed in displacing bo as distinctly the hookah, they may tire in the West. A more unmistakeable fea- ture of progress is the sewing-machine, which clicks in the booths of every bazaar in India Upon one side you may see a grace and bearded merchant sitting among his bales of bright cloth; upon the other, a seller of grain amidst his conical heaps and great bowls of corn and millet. In the shop between them a bending figure site over a sewing machine and works night. Parsees, who make fortunes in many to things, have made them also by leading eat these particular side to industry on hire. Yet another symptom of the Changing East is the kerosene tid, which is more conspicuous troughout modern India than all other pro- ducts of civilisation put together. Natives bura Russian pil because it is cheaper than American, in Australian lamps, becan-e they are. cheaper than others. When exhausted of their contents the large square kerosene tias are turned to the most versatile uses. The swoopers carry them in one hand when they ply their brooms with the ether, and appear to regard them as providentially designed for the purposes of the Oriental dastman, who, like every other Orientel, prafers his burdens to be frequent and lights Women us them for drawing water, and the lota itself is now hardly a more characteristic feature in the domestic economy of a humble Indian household than is the empty kerosene tin.

WILL BE ABSOLUTELY THE FINEST IN THE

FAR EAST.

Tools, Brass and Iron Merchants, shoes into a paste which is tranformed into that intensely western apparatus for into the bemma mo weak that I could hardly walk to my WM. POWELL, LD.,

144, Des Voeux Road.

MOKE & SEIMUND,

DROZ & CO.

14, Queen's Road Central. Repaire of Watches and Clocks by competent European experts, at moderate rates

MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI

CODE WORD: "DOCK” NAGASAKI. A.1, A.B.C., Scotts and Engineering Codes Used.

DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAMI) Extreme Length...

523 feet. 513

DOCK No. 2 (at MUKAIJIMA.}

$1

Length on Blocks

Width of Entrance on Top

89

....

Width of Entrance on Bottom...

77

Water on Blocks at Spring Tida

261

Extreme Length...

+4 **

**

Length on Blocks

17

Width of Entrance on Top

€6

Width of Entrance on Bottom...

53 多

Water on Blocks at Spring Tide

22

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371 feet. 350

These are slight things, but they are univer Bal proof how the current of change sets, and how it is beginning to draw the whole of Indian life with it. But there remains a final instance, which is in many ways the most instructive of all The immemorial Hindoo attached a superstitions importance to nothing more than to the water he drank and with which he performed bis rituel ablutions. When the larger municipalities had began to lay down civilised systems of supply and to put up public stand-pipes, the ignorant masses, and even the wealthy orthodox in some cases, would not touch the physically refined but spiritually. suspicious element. They know not by what enbilo mashinations or obesure Recidents the use of the municipal mains might lead to some universal doom in the shape of loss of onete They preferred to draw their water as before from wells exhaling the concentrated resk of where they were still mixed with sewage to the Asiatic putrescence, or from the local rivers

place of business. Often the noise of my Sewing machine, and the clone air of the work-44]

com, would bring on a splitting headache that maddered me. Then there were fits of retching and vomiting, which troubled me with great frequeny. When there was nothing in the stomach to come up, I would retch and strain until I became exhausted and faint, when my workmates would improvise a conch for me with their cloaks and jackets, and I would lie for I was treated by three hours unable to move. doctors; but I believe the medicines they prescribed irritated my stomach and did me mors harm than good. After four years of misery I was persuaded to try what Mother Seigal's Curative Byrap could do for me, and within a few days began to meal at such a rate that everyone who knew me, we amazed-at-the- improvement in my condition. The vomiting case, the hue of health returned to my cheeks, my eyes brightene, and at the end of two months I was in eve y respect thoroughly (58 cared."

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GENERAL EXPORTERS.

DEALERS IN JEWELLERY, DIAMONDS, PEARLS, PRECIOUS STONES, SILKS, IVORY WAKES, EMBROIDERIES AND CHINESE CURIOS. Wholesale and Retail. Prices very moderato. No. 39, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Opposite Messrs. C. J. GAUIT & Co.).

-(539 Hongkong, 16th February, 1903,

QUAN WAK & CO. GRANITE MERCHANT CONTRACTORS. Dealers in

A French industry is the conversion of old morocco-like imitation leather. This is used for wall-papers, trunk-coverings, sto. 43 and 45, Des Voeux Road, Bhip chandlere,

Recently addressing Britisk engineers on Sailmakers, Riggers, Commission Agents

and GeneralStorekeepers; Sote Agents" Electrons," Sir Oliver Lodge traced the for Shipowners Composition ("Grey-modern theory to Clerk-Maxwell's prediction hound Brand") and Blundells in 1873 that a better acquaintance with electric Spence & Co.'s Composition, discharges in rarefied gases would throw light on the nature of electricity as well as on that of WATCHMAKERS

Bases and the medium filling space. Since then the study of such discharges by SirWm. Crookes, Prof. J. J. Thomson and others has gradually developed the idea of the electric atoma, or electron. The electric atoms are solid particles much smaller than stoms of matter, and they are supposed to give electric currente by rapid motion, magnetic fields by rotary motion, and the pheaumena called radiation by the waves they emit when in vibration. There is reason to be- lieve that even matter itself may prove to be on electrical phenomenon, with atoms made up of aggregations of electrons. These elsetric stoms exist in space, they profaos the surore bersalis and magnetic storms, and their rapid pasnge gives incandescenos to lamp filaments.

Comparing the maps of Mars, from that published by Beer and Madler in 1840 to that published by himself in 1901, Mr. Percival Lowell finds three periods of development in what we see on that planet. In 1840 to 1870, large dark and light-markings were shown; in 1877 to 1892, "canals"in bright regions were reso; and in 1893 to 1992, the canals” were detected also in the dark rogions. The maps, aresing fundamentally, show a gradual deter-point of religious safety. In Benares There was tion of detail in surface markings.

an unique objection to sarmount. In the Sacred City, it was pointed out, the cherished desire of its people and its pilgrims, ones within the prosincts of blessedness, was to die. Why not lot them? In that simple and staggering word the very genius of the ancient Egst uttered its objection. A rich and venerable banker insisted that water for his use should still be drawn at the ghaute, until one day the all servant who supplied him was discovered to be filling his lots avery morning at the nearest stand. pipe and putting a judicius mixture of the dirt of the highway into it, so that it might assume a more plausible resemblance to the colour and consistency of the holy food of Ganges. But here all the weaknesses of humor natare have succumbed to the standpipes. The most crthodox and superstitions of Hindoos ends by using the water-supply that is nearest as certainly as he chooses the article that is cheapest, in despite of all other considerations. The municipal water-works, wherever they are introduced, are soon regarded as part first of the inevitable and then of the preferable deve- lopments of life. The standpipes are accepted where they exist as another development of that complex economy of existence, which includes Brahmanisa and railways, umbrellas and loin- cloths, cigarettes and idolatry, caste and the kerosene Lin. The spirit of the Unchanging East strikes such deep and vital root into the nature of this people that no tan can foresen Storage available at EAST POINT, Stores will the date of its decay. But the Changing East be Open at 10A.M. and 4 P.M. daily, Sundays is so far and vigorously en route that no force excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods of tradition can now get a lirait to its murch.

WM: PARLANE, Manager. Hongkong. 18th November. 1901. [65 OREGON LUMBER.

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Living organisms' have resumed their fano- tions after enduring the cold of liquid air for six months. It is suggested that the remark- able experiment should be coatiared, for years The COMPANY has & SALVAGE or a generation, for our theories wonli be STEAMER, 712 TONS GROSS, FITTED greatly modified by an indefinite retaining of with POWERFUL SALVAGE PLANT READY at SHORT NOTICE. 1534 vitality, and probability would be given Lord Kelvin's pagulation that life may have reached "he earth from space.

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A draught of this stimulating refresher brings ou quickly a sense of vitalit and buoyancy

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STONE GINGER BEER.

offspring of two stage and six hinds that were turned out in 1868.

Individual struggle for existence is not the landing factor of evolution, in Prinos Krapot kin's view. His new work seeks to show that watual aid has played a far more important A celebrated beverage filled in Patent Codd-pari, and points out that most animal species bottles as to avoid structural contamination live in societies, uniting in defence against all of any kind, which the earthern bottles unfavourable natural conditions. The most could not prevent, being decorated in their interior are with a det utk of dirt, ko, through "ecamping" of common workmen, especially Chinese. Apply to

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ESTABLISHED IN HONGKONG FOR OVER 30 Years.

Clothing made to fit to perfectita. Sill Goods of all kinds. Chinese Grass Cloth and

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numerous, prosperons and progressive nuimu? species are found to be those in which individual struggle is most reduced and mutual aid most developed. Human progress in arts and intel- ligence has depended on mutual aid, and the periods when this influence has been most active Daily Telegraph. bare been those of advancement in aciemos and industry.

In his balloon experiments. Mr. J. N. Bacon has been able to see the sea bottom under clear water from a height of 500 feet, all waves seeming to be blotted out, with no apparent scattering of light from the surface. -At 1,000 feet or higher, aif water-whether deep or not- seemed opaque. Photographe taken during this ascent on a clear day became gradually blurred until at 4000 feet good pictures were made impossible by the dust particles that reflected the sunshine, the definition over water being

Address-Nos, 60 and 62, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (South side)

Hongkong, 6th September. 1992. 12259 bet than over land.

THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

OF

DENTISTRY

Dr. M. H. CHAUN,

:33, DES YEUX ROAD CENTRAL HONGKONG. From the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Hongkong, 4th March, 1962: Tags

Every animal is said to have its own kind of fles, sometimes several different kinds. Many thousand specimens of these fleas have been gathered in the unique museum of Charles Rothschild, kept by Dr. Jordan at Tring Park, the giant of this strange collection being a mole fles a fifth of an inch long.

HARACHE

BACK LEDS

Ache all over. Throat sore, Eyes and Nose running, slight cough with chills; this is La Grippe.

Painkiller

taken in hot water, sweetened, before going to bed, will break it up if taken in time. There is only one Painkiller,

"PERRY DAVIS'." \

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ARBLE and GRANITE

MONUMENTS.

No. 1, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST. Estimates, Designs & Prices on Aplication All descriptions of Grasite for Export. Hongkong, 17th October, 1991-

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RACA & CO., Importers and Exporters of Foreign and Colonial POSTAGE STAMPS, 63, Peel Street, Hongkong, have just received for sale at their stall at Hongkong Hotel Corridor a large variety of nice Pictorial Post Card Albums. Pictorial Poet Cards: Panoramas of Hongkong, Macao, Canton, Chinese Costumes, Views, &c., &e., in Phototype and Coloured Colotype. Assortment of Postage Stamp-Albums, Lenses, Hinges, Tweezer and other Philatelie goods. Prices to suit all Customers. Correspondents wanted. Foreign orders promptly attended to. Cash with order [255

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Hongkong, 31st October, 1902.

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10,000 Cabis feet of Cold

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When prepared is similar to Breast Milk.

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