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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 17TM¤, 1906.

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

QUARTZ ULANS IS QUANTITY

ELECTRIFYING

to pressure in the solar atnussphere, M. Moissan | concludes that points on the sun where titanium

îs seca in the solar spectrum to be volatilized

THE DAS LIONT-SITTING LE÷HENS WORK- must have a temperature between two caliutos.

THE AUTOCATE—MINERAL, STOCKINGS

TIGETABLE SPONGES → FOO DISPERSION-

TEETH DESTROYING SALAYA--lagem ar's REAL CSE THE SOX'S TEMPERATURE.

now in 174

INTIMATIONS

DR. M. H. CHAUN.

¡f sun bout aloudy mate 45,590 degrees C. and E latest Method of the AMERICAN

2,000 degrees to 3,000 degrees C. The probability

is that the latter is nearer to the trae best of the sun than the former. This is very much lower tau orly usimatas.

JAPAN'S INDIGENOUS SCHOOLS.

Pn

SYSTEM of DENTISTRY.

37, VUR ROAD CENTRAL. the University of Pennsylvania, USA Gongkong, 4th September, 195

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BURGEON

DENTIST

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STEMSSEN & CO. "Hongkong. 1st January, 1904.

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No. F. D'AGUILAR STREET,

TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consultation, Free, Hongkong, 1st September, 1905

699

Glass from pure quartz can be bented to 1,090 degree C. without softening, is not cracked by sudden changes of temperature, aut is oflorewise of greet value for acieutilic and other

EDUCATION PRIDE TO 187). parpon it is prepared with great difficulty, however, the arte appatios

It is often thought that Japan possessed no eductional system worthy of the nuns until having been built up by piecing single crystals her adoption of Western civilisation a few years together by means of the oxyhydrogen, blow-back. But this idea, says the Educational When a quantity of crystals in fused Timer, is quite erroneous, as, conturios age, the mass is mada opaque güir bubbles, which Japanes children received suitable tailion at CLEANED, REPAIRED, OVERHAULES

schools, which werd excellent

their way. These indigenous vols were of two kinds one intended for the samurai, the warrior and TAKEN. Charges moderate. they had meat. leisure for study; the other for official class, who were also the scholars because

the children of ordinary folk.

pipe.

cannot be removed, and varied experiments havo made it brident that clear glass is not likely to be obtained by direct fusion at at nonpudrie provare, Au effort to solve the problem by her moans has bier macles F11 lâu (arm BH fustitutíon with the surcenza. The quartz. in a graphite crucible, is first heated to 200 degrees or more, to produce quartz mpour enough to drive out the air from between the grains, then a pressure of

in

To take the latter clase first, the common primary schools were known as temaboys, from times they were associated with the temples, the ters, a Buddhist temple, because in the earliest Buddhist priests of Jagan having been as great eluenters as those of Durmah. Daring the Tokugawa period, however, Lo, from 1609 to

the

360 pounds or more is quickly applied and the besides trakoya were maintained by others)

temperature is lowered to perhapa 3,800 dages for half en hear, when heat and pressure ar slowly withdrawn.

by doctors, for instance, or arou by samurai who had fallen inte disgrace and bren deprived of their hereditary incomes. Every town hed several terakoya, every large village at least one, some of them reckoning Raising the temperaturo of a baro pintinnna froza ene to three hundred pupils, of whom ass wire from 800 degrees C. to 220 degrees in small village, on the other hand, the priest might

BODY

as 30 per cent, might be girls. In a than doubles its brightues, while doubling the bave ter pupils only, the docter from five to ten. temperature of a white-hot body is estimated to | Some of the schools

hools taught paly writing, the increase the laninon intensity 4,000 tirars. pupils kneeling on cushions before low tables, With this in mind, Adolf Herz, a German, head copying the characters of the two Japaness passed or electric current through an Auer illataries (each of which has forty-seran

wilk writing brushes and Chinese ink on sheete glower of metal oxides heated by a gus-Bame, | of which soon became both black and wet,

of paper, and has thus considerably raised the tempers- and were then dried for further mas

In the 110. The result is an extraordinary increase in process the hands and fans of the

children torajaous efficiency.

the first care of their mothers. on their rotura from school, was to get them washed. When character and boon asterol, it was copiod fair of clean paper and shown to the teacher, win corrected it if necessary, with red ink. After the Japanese lotters a few Chinese characters were learned, perhaps a hundred in all just enough for the commonent asms of persons and places. In addition to writinframe, and even SCOTO sehools taught the use of the histom

By moans of ergograph measurements, M. Charles Forro has found that one-teath mora work can be done standing thou sitting, but that thin greater intensity of effert during a long period in the standing position is followed at the end by mcro rapid fatigue.

the

In the "autorte", a novel French touring map, the road being trayollad is shown upon a baad of paper, which is mounted on dashboard of the motor-car, and by automatic narolling indicates the exact position of the car st any moment. It is especially useful at night, while at presen! high speads, signboards are not easily read oven in daytime. The scale of the map is sufficiently large to make clear the exact point of the route reached, and the chuf- four read ahead for five miles, has being able to fr in mird all obstacles, terns descents, etc., kag before they are reached. At aight the chart is always lighted.

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would get "as black us those of demons", and

reading of a little shihir children

stayed om two to

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THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANT LTD., H'

A have now 40,000 Cubic Fest of Colá Storage available at EAST POINT Stores will he Open at 10 a.. and 4 PM. daily, Sunday excupled to receive and deliver perishable goods.

WM. PARLANE, Manager. Hongkong, 18th November, I90). 47

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PURE FRESH WATER.

THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER As a rule, theBOAT Co., LTH, is prepared to supply three years, paving

a few pands of rice yearly, perhaps even a little money if they were well off. Disciplino was sometimes severe, boys being flogged with bamboo, or compelled to held a lighted incenes. stick until it burned their finger.

of which the primary and the middle might be Of the samurai zebrols there were three grades, found in the capitals of most of the fondal lords, while the third grade, a kind of college, was rarer. The muni bor began about six er ever and spent some-five years in the primary Behnol 1 started, as in the torakova, with writing and rating the Japaness abarai. but be learned more of Chinese, entire backs of a moral or historici oharrot being committed tinmory by form and sound before themaning explained process of learning

by rate for which

The peculiar substance known as asbestos or the wards was East seams to have an which was regarded as valueless a century ago, atention, and which has left its mark upon the is now in demand for many purposes It is Jap na wurst on of breu the made into roofing felt, cement, theatre curtains The boys learned also the use of fent day

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and various host-resisting articles, and has frame, and practised etignette. In the mida sehool the young samurai read some more of the been recently spun into a light and fairly history of China and Japan; he learned how to strong thread. Even ropes, with or with- write letters in various styles; be studied a little ont steel cores, are made from it for five-wor arithmetic. But, above all, bo davetsd

physica! A new and rather surprising applies his attention to

fencing, training; to wrong achery, the use of the spear. tion is for aray stockings which have bee swimming, and rating. The course covered. shown to be lessirritating to the feet of soldiers about three years; the discipline both at school on the march ban o'her stockings, and the sad at home was of Spartan severity. Expolally War Department of Austria is considering was a boy made familiar with seated of bloodshed, being taken to witness exacations, being taugat thair general adoption.

how to kill himself or anybody else nently and promptly.

About ten spesien of “ragetable sponges “ara Now cultivated in the warmer parts of Africa and Asís, especially in Algeria. The fruit in edible before maturity, but ou ripening the pulp separates from the fibrous material, which then becomes an excellent substitute for real apongo for the toilet, bath-ron and many other purposes. The Algarian sponges are in large

demand in Paris

8.8. "WING CHAL" Captain T. Austin, R.NE. Stoomer departs from Hongkong daily (Sundays included), at 7.30 AM. and from Macau at 2.30 PM.

FAREM-Weak days) 1st Class (ncluding cabin and servant), Bingle $3, Batorn Ticket $5. 2nd Class $1. 2nd Class 50 centa. Every Sunday will be an EXCURSION In the schools of the highest grade all this! (the times of departure being in future the was carried still further, but few of the pupils same as on other days) at the following rutes:

SUNDAYS ONLY:

got so far as this. No samurai, however, "could become a benssholder unless he had attended

Kill

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as he primary school. His duration w freg except for such presents as he might choose to give his teacher, with whom he often boarded like a son. Girls were commonly instructed at ing, the composition of poetry, polita etiquette, home by private tufors; they were taught weil.

Storage 20 cents each trip. Meals can be supplied on board, at $1 per and I exercises, they also learned how to

• skilfully if need were.

Of meal, Fog dissipation by electric discharges has religine thing in the ordinary sens there return on the Excursion Sunday will be allowed First Class Passenger who do not care to proven more effective when the fog contains dust was little or none; boys and girls alike were or smoke than when it is water only, the solid fanght to so their duty for its own sake and not to do so the following day (Monday) on produe

Any reward. The

effect of this tion of the Return Half Ticket. Should be rederal partiolas seminy to become charged and to be double system cannot, of souras, be expressed in Steamer not run on the Monday, owing to the exact figures; but practically all the asmursi Boiler cleaning, due notion will be given by the (of whom there were two millions) could read Captain, and the Half ticket will be available and write; and of the rest of the population for the following day,

then repelled, precipitating particles of vapour with which they collide. With a bundle of spikes as radiator, a space of some yards can be

cleared in a few seconds.

How To Be BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com.

The Steamer in lit throughout by Electricity The Stoomer's Whart a Hongkong is at the Western end of Wing Lois Street.

NING ON & CO. 2nd Floor, 16, Victoria Street, Hongkong. 22nd June, 1948,

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WAYS COMPANY, LIMITET,

IR LIQUIDATION.

TIME TABLE.

about one-third of the wales, and perhaps one. sixth of the females. After the ebolition of feudalismo, in '157), all the schools were swept Why the tech of rome people decay earlyaway, and replaced as far as possible by primary while those of others ochtique sound throughout schools of a more Western type. a long life is a problem that appears to have been only imperfectly solved. A European investigator, Dr. C. Bisa, bus lately analyzed plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmont, Lait HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAV the saliva of 219 children averaging 13 years of Charmant and Special Skin Tonio and Poudre Charwout will enalle you to do it. Jer age, and has confirmed the idea that there is a Specialities for the Skin are the study of relation between the alkalinity of the saliva and lifetime, A. S. Watern & Co., Lut, Søie Agents.

731 dental cariss. A bighly siksline saliva ensures good teeth. He has made many experiments to determine her an scil or slightly alkaline saliva may be nude ducidedly clkalioe, and bas proven that a diet containing much lime has a DEPARTMENT marked influence and does much to keep the

teeth in perfect condition. MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO.

*1WASAKI,”

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Cheap oxygen is the one important product thus far, obtained from Equid air, for which such extravagant prophecias have been made, As the nitrogen and oxygen of the liquid.nir the gaseous stato al different return to temperaturas, in hea proven to be possible to separate them by fractional distillation.

as the evaporation and

coole the air entering to be compressel in the apparatus, the process is very economical. An iden of this afficiency has lately been givco by M. Georges Claudo. His plant produces 1,050 |

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AGENCIES:- YOKOHAMA: M. Asada, Esq. CHINKTANG: Mesars Geasing & Co. MANILA Messrs. MacoNDRAY & CO. SOLE PROPRIETOES of Takashima, cubic metres of oxygen, with a purity of 96 to Oshi, Shians, Namazata and Komi-Yamada 98 degrees in trenty-four hours, and the col Collieries, and to Hojo Colliery, which will in France is only one-twentieth of that of oxygen shortly be ready to produce on a large scale the from the electrolytic decomposition of water. beat Bazen Coul.

The Head and branch OBcer and the Agencies of the Company will receive any order for Cuals produced from the above Collieries, T. MATSUKI, Menger, Hongkong, No. 2. Pedder Street.

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The electric are in which titanium has been distilled has a temperature of about 5,500 par degrees C. Making allowance for uncertainty as |

8.8. "LAIBANG” GENERAL AVERAGE.

RRIVED HONGKONG FROM CAL- CUTTA. PENANG and SINGAPORE, 8th December, 1905. Os FIRE 29th November. 1905. between Bingapore and Hongkong.

ALL CLAIMS to be included in the above. Goperal Average must be forwarded to Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Hongkong, General Manager, INDO-CHINA N. Co., LD, before 31st Jul, 1908, otherwise they will not to recognised.

Hongkong, 26th July, 1906,

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Hongkong, 22nd December, 1908,

WEEK DAYS.

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