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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

PAPER-MONEY AND SCRIP IN CHINA,

To explain terrestrial magaction three- hypothesen have been offered, viz. 1. The crust of tho curth-pró ubly so nufter solidifica in--at promo.5 here bucate a permainant ingust through the circulation of electric currents ibu lattor pos sibly guarrated hy hoa. The ear, nefing

of

nyone who has had any ortensive dealings THE KARTH'S, MAGNETISM-ANOTHER WIRE- with this Chiucso knows that they have a great} LESS RECEIVER-JRSE DONRA NEEDED-partiality for serip, or any form of document with a financial face value of kind. Thore HAFENEVER-TREUMON ETER-GLASS FLÜMD- INGEXPLORION SPEED-MAX, THE ATOM who have given Chinese workmen or traders

PHOTOGRAPHIC GUNS.

borer cheques have doubloss often wondered, until they became familiar with the instines of the people, why they are so long in finding their way to the baut to be cashed,

of companies with Chin thratud rs know to their cat what will

between the i-ste and payment of the dividend if the shares-bearer." A a self-exciting dome, has by its rotation. gradually nonmulated a magnetic Held. The document, with a face value of any kind whats

to travle sus is a great electric generator for the whole ever is to the Chinese just something"

with and to rain money on. It

may not be sky system, and ench of the plumóts is a distri-waferable and not negotiable, but it will tacting stating for the energy produced.

answer his purpose and effect his end in some way or Bunder,

The bearer cheque instead of i The new oscillation value of Prof. Ageing to the bank to be cashed takes a long tour Fleming, FRS, makes ordinary, eletrie scillatious measurable on a gulvarmaste rond the city and possibly figures in one or tio prodne transactions, bringing in at each separating out the two opposite currents. It transfer some modicam of advantage to its consists of a bulls enclosing a carbon tilaatst holder, owing to the endless variety of 25 in an incandesnes Imp. the also exchange among the native banks and oxelange surranic by a metal eslinder and the bulb

The bearer rerip, and often that MĺLOJM, highly exhausted. Negative electricity pass which is nut bearer, if it cannot be used as a through the venum from the hot Blument, to

bank note exactly, sulllees to wipe off an old the cylinder but not in the reverse direction. debt or tract a new one, and in the course With a dead-beat galvanometer, the value cau

of a short time elungen so often that it finally tako, the plan of this, colerer as a receiver in becomes untraceable and, in connection with the wish telegraphy, the signals giving lung and original holter and the company, valuoles, short deflections of the galvanometer,"

yot It still sorces to raise the ready if in much reduced amount. The financial dificulty in the city some

Herve-owners and breddersare invited to aid the South Reusington Museun in collecting a series of skulls and timb-bozies of pedigree horse of all sorts of reals. It is hoped that in time the specimens will show the origin um rolutions of the various bresls of domestic hors with scientific accuracy, and give fiol of great value to naturalists and horHOMES.

A clinical thermometer that can be boiled as u bulb at the top info which the mercury call expand without doing injury. As all guns can is destroyed, the instrument bus beer highly eulogized for the Paris Academy of Medicine.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 24TH, 1905.

turn out a profit. North Chinas auf Yangtstes are unchanged-Cantous Fold at $22 and aro wanted.

FILE IN

INSURANCE SHARKS. → Hongkonge are rather eskiar with sellers at $305. Chicas sold and have sellers of $85..

A SANE STOMACH.

ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE BRAIN,

Some time ago a díscussion was carried on in

$16.00

e of the heading London papers as to whetor WILL BUY A CASE OF we eat too much, and one writer mails the force- ful remark that A same mind is more dopen- dent on a sane stomach than may seem at first sight."

here is so much truth in the remark that oze feels compelled to pause for a moment and consider the assertion.

SHOPPING SHARES.-Hongkong, Cantou au!! Macao Steamboat Shares are quint at 5261. Indo-Chings have been done at slightly declin lug rules, down to having been accepted, at which rate the market cloms strady Shanghai quotes Ts. 66, and London China and Manilas ve bu off rat 820, and Douglass at $35. Star Ferries have declined to sellers at The writer did not mean that fojudicione or $34 for old and $25 for new issue, Shell Tran-treating eansed insanity, bathe undoubtedly sports are unchanged, local sellers at 18, while I meant that when we at Cool into the utomsch London quotes 30% 60. Hagkong Steam that did not ng with it, there were prodacod Waterboat Ehares are weak at $15 owing to the those disorders sneb 28 Instigestion, Constipa threatening opposition:

Headaches, and kindred silments, which REFINERIES-Chin Sugies sold at 11 ffect the brain gud cause irritability, nervous- cash and $213 for 31st August, and hass cashes and inability to concentrate the mind upon buyers at 210. Luzon are our offer at $29. business or social problem long enough to

INING SHARES-Raubs are easier with properly solve the reted question. ellers at 86; it is report d that the arrange- ment unde between the Govorurient and the Raul Company to deepen Bakit Koman shaft to 10 feet has anfortunately come to au GIATM the company concluding that it is inadvisable fa incur any further expenditure on this joint shaft.

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LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDING-Houg koug Land Investment and Agency Company' shares have improved 81, selling at $140 per share, and mora shures are wanted. Kowloon Lands romain neglected at x1) West Paints have found large investing buyers at 31 to $42, and more shares are in demand at $1. Hongkong Hotels sold at $138 and hase buyers | new at 8:39. Humphreys sold and can be got at $12. Shanghai Lands paid no interins dividend of Fls per share yesterday in

OX dividend"

light, which till glass tubes with an appearance*milies who have no right to them, and Shanghai, and we quote the stock now Tis. TEI”

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A sana stomach means all the machinery of this human system working with that clock-ling precision of a me, haniet engine. That means Forfast health....

"The best regulator for the stomach is Abbey's Effervescout Sulf, it makes disordered stomach healthy, it drives away those diseases dansed by jirre, ularity of the action of the stomuch, and all this means a clear biain to grapple with life's problem, a bright eye, au elastic stop and reserved energy for an emergency.

Without

question, Abbey's Salt is the remedy to nea, its superiority to other lines is like that of the present express train over the the only travelling coach of a century ago, it is

h Century Salino in oxist nee; if up-to-tabs you try a bottle you will demonstrate to pour

: Remember Abbey's Sült will make the

own sa'isfaction the truth of this assertion. stomach saue, the bowls regular, and the blood

As a pleasant, cooling, invigorating pure. drick it is unsurpassed. When, in nood be sup to bay Abbey's Sult

Sold in two sizes by all Chefits or Stores and be WATKINS, Limited, and A. S. WATSON, Limited, of Hongkong,

The ABBEY FRÜIT SALINA Company, Limited, 144 Queen Victoris Street, London,

11243-4 E.C., Engistil.

SHORT HAIR AND FOREIGN UNIFORMS.

In the development of the Moore electric of glowing white smoke, many experiments have been made with various medzi and -metallic vapours under the influence of the ctric current. The secret gas-now used is non-metallic. The light completely s the but it is extremely lifhonlt to suppress the evil have seilerUFACTURING COMPANIER that changes of this kind) naight be male üfter

6, and some of these pre more than 1 foot Lubak, I leng From this new method of lighting has sprang the new art of glass plambing. The room or building is piped with 1-inch glass tubing, put up in lengths of shout & fort and hormetically sealed its position, and for this work bas hon davisoda special so glass blowers' instruments, including band-torebas, lass-cutting tools, portable pressure-bloware, te. Joints at first declared by experts to be impossible, and laking half an hour which first accomplished can now be made in less than a miuntų.

Explosive mixtures are formed by grasses that produce flame, and the velocity of the explosion waves it tubes has been shown in late experiments by Prof Dewar. The maximam velocity seems to correspond with the motis of the gas molecules. It was calculated in one cass to be miles per minute, at a given bigh temperature, and the atoms of the air we breathe, are supposed to be moving ordinarily aboutsixty timepas fast as express train. Toder reduced prose, the oxplosion does not alwaya ran the longth of the tube, a spark sent in at doud of a tube 120 feet long failing to reach the other end when the pressure of the gas was about one-third of that of the atmosphere.

The suggestion has been mide by Prof Ladvig Hektoon that in cerebro-spinal F ingitis a portion of the crobro-spinal fluid he withdrawn from the spinal crual, and pare serum from human blood be injected in its place, giving an immediate phagocytic effect. A tried on animale, the treatment is claimed to have affestod

muny ares, which are

elieved to be permanent.

bayers. COTTON MILL-Ewok are quoted Ts. 50. Internationals Tis. 15, Lau Kung Mows Ts. 53. and Sonychees Tik. 16-Hongkong Coltons

at $165.

SUNDAY

Docks, WHARvrs, Gönòww‹, An-Hong- kong and Whampoa Dock Company Shares cold at $1 to $18, closing steady at latter rate. Fenwicks, as well as New Amoy Docks are unchanged. Farnhams are quoted Tis. 142: a legram from Shanghai reports Mr. Twantymau restruation as managing director. Hongkong and Kolo Wharf and Godown two or three years ago was Company's shares are wanted at Sort, and largely augmented by the absolutely nn-interim dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, crupulous ne or abuse of the paper notay

June, 190

10, will be paid an 2ith ystaut, Transfer or bank orders then in 190. As a tres par share) for the six months ended 3 th instance of this mischievons custom among hooks closing from the 24th to 26th - stant. the Chinese we are interested in perusing Shanghai and Hongkes Wharves have buyers

notice which was posted up in the city some in the north at Ths. 190, little time ago but which has only just come to as in detail. We heard at the time that the payment of the relatives of the coolies in Sonth Africa would probably be put a stop. on this side, and the proclamation in question possibly explains the origin of the report. It was issued by the Chine Labour Enniigration Ofoe and states that, it has been discovered that the passbookished to the friends and relatives of the coolies who have gone to the Transvaal are being obtained under falso protonces by The above contractors or relativos of

that the money is thus being jobtained by the wrong people. The office declares that it has discovered many cases of fraud of this kind. altogether. Not only is the passbook obtained waworthily in the first instance, bat it is then used as reas of obtaining 4 mortgage alsc, those who recept such books as urity for a lean and to to collect the money at office being perkaps in ignorance the that the person who mortgaged it was not the lawfnt holder, and in this way they suffer innocently. The proclamation then goes on to say that notice is hereby given that the friends and families of the labourers must under stand that these passbooks are the rocans of living to those people to whom they are given, and must on no account pass lato the hands of others, and the sale or mortgage of them is absolutely dissallowed, and anyone, who finds such a book must return it to the office, as if they yield greedily to the temptation to make y out of them they will be made a severe. public example of.".

This proclamation, ne coubt, had some little effet, but we expect the pay department could tell some funny stories of attempted and also of secerat fraud in regard to the passbooks. The scheme of payment was devised as a oreans of meeting the distress which might bensounbly, he expected to easus in many instances in consequence of the family bread wioner being withdraw, and a the whols it has worked fairly well, though not as well, per hops, us it would have done if the Chinese the sacredness of possessed stricter ideas on documents. Half the lawsuits it the country rent from the same pernicions custom of turning documents to account, and by resson of title deeds lasing chopped and changed about in the hands of mortgagees until it is a work of the greatest intricacy and dificulty to trace the trae owner or even the real extent und value of the original porperty.-Peking Times: !

SHARE REPORT.

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FURNITURE, CROCKERY, GLASS & PLATED WARE.

JUST RECEIVED a huge and select ussortment of PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS, consisting of Eastman's Kodaka and Films, Ilford Plates and Paper, Johnson's Chemicals, and cheap Magazino Cameras. Priems considerably, reduced.

A memorial has again hoon sout up to the Throue by Prince Ching that all military

their hair cutshort, the proposal being supported fleers shall wear foreign uniforms and have Bry both Viceroy Yuna and Tieb Liang. The Empress 'Dowager wn. very zagry, declaring Hongkong Electrice sold at $16, for old ex the her dauth but aut during her lifetime. dividend of $1 per shure paid on 17th instant,

presumption and Tich Liang's transfer from and have further sellers 369184, as well as new Ching has been cut five year's pay for bis jane shares at S10 of the dividend; of 50 cents the Bont of Revenue to the Board of War is New

Bell's Ashestas attributed to the same canse, per share paid on 17th instant. have buyers at 6 ex the dividend of 1/32. por

A private letter from Peking states that share paid. Lees have sellers at $242 of after the Empress Dowa zer ball scolded Prince terim dividend of $4 per share has been declared. Ching and mooded that his Highness's payable on nil proximo, transfer book's cleringealary be stopped for five yours for recommend. from 24th to ist instant United Asbestosing that percession be given to officers and Shares are quiet and more or less nominal in ecldiers of the newly-organised Imperial Army quotation. Other stocks under this heading are to cut their nemes, so as to enable them to don with comfort and elegance" their new unchanged.

semi-freigo uniforme, her Alajesty ordered ber favourite auch, Li Lien-ying to be called. On his coming before the Presenco, her Majesty gare a preliminary sigh and said-"Fancy Even Yik'nug (Prince Ching) sony to have joined the ranks of those fellows and bedreggiod himself in the sime mire. He has also orked for mutional representation. Well, a paria is really a good thing, but it is fitted for foreign countries and iol for China. But his recom mendation about cutting, off the queue-the Prince has been recklo a to the point of tandbess indexing oven to hint such a thing to us. Now, consider the thing calmly and soberly. Duyan

Weakness, nation's really think that a strength, actually lies in such thing as posses sing & fjnene, or vice verši, ***

MI-CELLANEOUS-China Pridant are wanted in small lots at $ Langkats are quoted T. 187) in the north. Shanghai sirices say that the 3rd quarterly dividend is expected to be smaller than the last one on the other hand the defeat of the Dutch Ministry may menu that the intended export tax on kerosine in the Dutch Indies may not come off at all, South China Morning Post: shares are on offer af 821. Other stocks under this heading are unchanged

AN INSURANCE STORY,

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Of course, as in all things (which has been this foundation of his wealth and unique infusca prer the Empress Dowager) Li Lien-ying, agreed in tote with her Majesty's views, which up- parently was the source of much soothing satis- Faction to the royal mind which had received a rude shock by bearing such revolutionary view, and that from the slips of the Prince npou whom she generally leans for advies This accurred early in July, but it seems that needs must when the dovil drives, and her Majesty has in the antime been brought around somewhat, for by the Imperial decree which

of the chief appears aluse, one

adro-

An aming story cures from Tringuon. which would sort to r-flect considerable credit on the degree of discretion otraised by the Malay Rajshs in the Siamese Penínsular during recent times. It happened that quite recently an English travelling agent for an insurance company, accompanied by a doctor, roached Tringanu. They got in ter" with the Chinese residents who are very numerous there. and were doing a roaring trule, the doctor examining the subjects and the agent Inserib- ing names and piling dollars At last the Rajni, got wind of the affair, and forthwith he sus moned the insurance officials into his presence. Mau's greatest vanity is the placing of the

Having nude himself acyminted with the nature human race at the head of creation. Prof.

Messrs. Erich Georg and Co., in their weekly, of their business, he admonished them for us Oliver J. Lodge points out that the univers is large enough to hide vastly superior intelli-shore list, dated the 2nd July, 1905, saying endangered the lives of so many Chinamon,

A minchi tirmer feeling has prevailed during and of jeopardising the integrity of bis State,tes of entting the qums in the aray, bis rences, and thaf our imperial Car or our American billionaire-i but a creeping dust the week under review and a comparativel: fair saying if the Chinese were insured the State Eraslaney Tish Liang, has been promoted business have been transacted, partly at stiffering and himself would be held responsible for overy (insteart of being cograded) to the rauk atom apon sus of the dark lumps attending ons of the smaller of the five hundred million great rates. The settlements for July and August, one of them murdered. Before pressding of President of the Board of War, a post suns. In a recent illustration, Mr. T. E. Heath however, are still affecting the market with further this enlightened Rajab made the rep which will give him power to make still greater represented the distance travelled by light in a reference to China Sugars and Indo-Chines, and resentatives of the insurance company sigu a year by oue mile. On this scale the sun is a that may be taken as the reason for the quietness, hond declaring that in the event of any Chiuse charges in the army when the time arrives. dot 1/107 of an inch in diameter; the earth-to in those two particular stocks. The sterling man insured being murdered either the Rajah

demand rate on London is 1s. 10-11-16d., while nor the State would be held responsible! which human activity is confined is a micro- scopic particle one inch from it, and a table five rates on Shanghai are unchanged. Barsilver fest long suffices for the entire solar systom, the in London is quoted 27-3-16d., and Consols nearest fixed star being nearly four and one-

BANK SHARES. With only a few stall sales "half miles away. Even on this scale a circle thirty miles across would embrace only 27 of at 900, the market for Hongkong and Sbang the nearest stars, the millions being far ontside. hais has improved steadily and shares could be Londed wires £89.10s. placed to-day at $915; Nationals are unchanged.

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BIG SHIPPING BIDS.

Richard L. Fareham, a direstor of the Panama Railway has arrived in Eazlan Hie mission is the chartering of several ships for the Panama Canal Commission, and he is now The gun-camers of Dr. W. H. Howe, a MALINE INSURANCE SHARES.--Unions bace making a tour of the shipyards of Great Berican angler, is especially intended for photo-advanood to $720 bayors, Ching, Traders Roll Britain inspecting availabte vessels, which the graphing leaping fishes. Theidea was suggested at 877, 876 and 5, but have gone back to $74 Associated Press understands are ameruns by his experienes with the tarpon, a high jump-sellers; we understand that at the informal He has already visited shipyards at Newcastle ing tich, often six feet long, which he seeks each meeting of shareholders held on 17th instant, on Tyne, Liverpool, and Glasgow. The As winter at Tampico... The new camera has shown those present, rusaid the directors to endes-sociated Press is informed that Mr. Farahum the tarpon in various positions in the sit, sene vout

vont to re-open Lin negotiations with the Union desires vessels of from 4,000 to 5,000 tons, which of them quite nezpected and surprising The Insurance Society, but with what result remains are said to be not available in the United

States, by 5 to be seen. Regarding certain absurd rumoure

becanses American bottoms of this apparatas consists of a gun-stock and a kodak, bus latter so sited into the stock that aftost re very heavy losses having been incurred as uro profitably engaged in the coastwise the shutter and opening are on a line with the by the China Tradera on war risks, we can state, trade. Many small ssels are obtainable in sight, and the shutter is connected with the on good authority that such ramours are vastly the United States, bat, according to the io- trigger by a wire, the gun being "red" from exaggerated. We understand that so far as formant of the Associated Press, the Corral the shoulder in the usual way. Great possibili. their war risks business is concerned, at the very Commission desiron ships capable of carrying ties are opened in photographing also flying worst the loss cannot prove a serious one, and dredges, railway engines, and trucks, and ather fishes und Sirds ou the wing.

that if even ouly a portion of the salvages it is heavy material to be used in the construction of expected to recover is forthcoming, it may even the canal. Neie York Maritime Register.

Alcohol le male unfit for drinking-orde natured-by dissolving in it a small proportion of acetylene, and this new method inorenspa heating power instead of unfavourably affecting as a fuel. Grain alcohol, now selling in Holland for about fifteen cunts a gallon, when denaturod with a small percentage of acetylene, is claimed to have a heating value much above petrol.

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IN BANKRUPTCY.“ No. 29 of 1905.

Re CHAN LEUNG CHAM alias CHAN KIM SHIN lately trading at No. 300 Das Vœux Road Centri, Victoria Hongkong, Merchants.

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TOTAL FUNDS AT 31st December, 1904. £17,161,299,

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AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 9,750,000. PAID-UR-CAPITAL ............

697,500. 04. II.~FREE FUNDU................. 3;001;26812-9

The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Itates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agronta.

[1567 Hongkong, 30th June, 1905.

L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED

THE Undersigned, having been appointed. AGENTS for the above Company ars prepared to accept Risks against Fire at current

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