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THE HONGKONG DAUY PRESS, TUESDAY JULY 281, 1938:

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANTAS FAST SAILING SHIPS.

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The poeta going, sailing ship which has for some four hundred and fifty years been a great of the world, has been thrust aside by the perhaps the greatest-factor in the civilisation. steamer. The spreading white wings are becoming rarer year by year. The race of British sailora is almost extinot Bat we still lasted; yet it shows how little we know of the have sailing ships as fine-ss-any-that-over- sailor's art in these days, when even shipping papers consider a recent passage of the King George worthy of remark. 107 daga Fitty years ago this would bare been

She came from Hongkong New York in. thought nothing of for a vassel of her sins. The little Thermopyle, a third of her tonnage, 010 came from Foochow to the Channel in ninety- one days. And in sailing-ships, as in yachts,

time-allowance dered when comparing culte.

" for tonnage mast be cousi-

FUR FARMING--QUR' TWO ATMOSPRUNG TINE OCEAN RECCEDS OF OLD-TIME

LESSELS.

· ELECTROLYTIC: IBON' TUDEL-PROGRESS OF The two express Cunarders are now TAN UNITED STATES MAP -PASSING OF THE busy record-breaking. They have gained the SWA-ELEPHANT — IKOT MENTAL MUSIC BY Government subsidy, and have done epsed in BIRDS—TIZ BUDMARINE · BBZL-WIRELEAS excess of that required to gain this. For many WHATHUB.OMNHẬT KOG PRESESVATION. years how express steamers have hastan the bast One of the most precious products of Ameri siling-ship speed resort, but thin was by no can roil is supplied by three backwoods formas always so, and it is perhaps interesting to resalt some of the notable performance under of Prince Edward Island. Thess forms are mil devoted to rearing the very rare black fox, and Coneal John H. Shirley, of Charlottetown, For the HONGYONG AND SHANGHA reporte that they contain 20, 25 and 30 foxes, BANKING CORPORATION, respectively. Prized for royal oloaks, as it is the

J. R. M. SMITH,

only far to which gold ornaments can be ap Chief Managar. Hongkong, 12th January 1907...

21 plied, the skius sell in London for $500 to $1,8)) each. The farm--described is in a roaga TEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE broken woods country, and the animale are confined by heavy woven wire netting, which reaches pight foot above the grond and two or three below. To ensure the best possible for, the foxes are not cross-bred. They sleep in hollow trees and logs the year round, are fed chiefly on oats and milk and bread and milk, with a little meat once a day, and are so wild that only their kasper with food can get near them.

The lower atmosphere and the appar be it that there has been no oversad racing But as far as British ships go, it may almost atmosphere are believed by Prof. J. Hanu, to worth the name for nearly forty years. In the be two very different gaseous mixtures. At the herols days from 1860 to 1865 there was a earth's surface the composition is-Nitrogen, much emulation andorrying on" between. 7805; oxygen, 2009, argon, 091; carbonic acid.in yacht racing. Ships are now built to carry the loading sailing ships as there is now only 003; hydrogen, 001; neon, 00015, wall, are usually under sparred as compared 000015; kryption, 0·00110 At a height of 20 with slippers of old days, and ace undərmioned,

GERMAN SHIP). kilometers (12.43 milos) b5 fada the- nitragsa incressed to 27:34 parasut, with 15:19 of oxygen At 100 kilomsteros, with a probable temperature of 80 dogras balow zero Cent, the bydrogan Deems increased to 93-15 per cent, with 0453 of

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Shaets and tubes of pare iran, peidusid the Cowper-Coles electrolytie procasa direct from the ore at a cost of 312 por ton for powar, were late interesting exhibits at a Royal Society conversazione. " eve

Tas mapping of the United States by the Geological Surrey has bɔɔn in progren, sinxe On Current Account at the Late-of-2% per 1879, and so far somewhat more than a third annum on the Daily Balances.

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could, and if sailing-ship masters know the

Carrying on oxanot be indulged in. If it winds as did the old-time skipper, far more wonderful work would be done than this passage. of the King George. Audid to say the only-place-to-day-where-wonderful work of this- kind can be heard of is in the port of

Hamburg. Ia that famous seaport, two largə salling-ships the Patnai, which actually do perform wondere. are owned by Herr Lising, the Praugaan and

Tas Best is radite with a corrected ras of 368 knots, and both vasseia can sill, ander favourable circumstances, olors" on seventees knots an bor, de over nineteen statute miles.. They make wonderfal passages, such as Afty- eight dags from the English Chanvel to a port in Peru-road tbs Hora. Such work has never before been done.

For conelstent good work fa modern timw in this country the iron slipper Loch Torridon has done wall she in credited with 341 kaɔts in a day length of day not stated) and 2110 is a week (time not stated). This in the fault of

phonóminal zang recorded lava-ban dɔwa

south, running dus east. In such ciroau stance the ship ass to mist the sus and shortens her day. But the ship's run at eos is always calculated from noon to noon, and thora. an error troeps. in, which in public statements is seldom-socounted for.

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The-latest-larg-animal-to-become-ertiast, the California Sea-Dlephant (Macrorhinus an- gustirostris), is a species belonging to the Seal family, and the male had tabbiar probosois that could be elongated and dilated. Specimens takon England few months ago by Walter Rothschild's osllect rs are the last. They were taken on the island of Guadaloips, off the coast of Southern Califoraja," and will ba preserved in the London Natural History Masoum and olsewhero. Until now no Mussa Es had an adult male specimen.

Bird whistles are a curious Paking product.. Bamboo whistles of two to five tubes and gourd whistles of two to thirteen apertures are wired. to the tails of the pigeons, and emit a pontiar and pleasing aerial music as the birds ily through the air.

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No such aped a this was attained by voas going steamers until 1882, in which year tho Galor liner Alssza, formed the greyhound of the Atlantic, started on her career. American packet ship (s vessel not quite sa yacht like as the clipper), the Dresduought, gail d from Sandy Hook to Qasonatown is nine days roventeen hours, an average spɔod of thir teen knots the whole way.

In the

sling shipele lage of Atlantic steam, the

often mailed with the mill stener. from New York sol arrive! hers fist. In a period of twenty years this happonad eighty-six times. The recant for the Navy, which I give on Admiral Dyke'n authority, is fint of the Zahra alop which in 1867 ssilon from Monts Video to fara Head-in forty-four diye this would average over 220 a day, which, for rust. a long run, is very good work for a small yass 41, In Atlantic passages the following may be mentioned.

Columba, Canaries to West Indies-3-5days;

· average & knots an hour. -Maydorer, the Pilgrims' ship—'60 4Ìays.

James Bilmes. Now, York to Liverpool-12

days 17 hours,

Fidelio hours.

New York to Liverpool-13 daya

TO AUSTRALIA,

In her day the Thermophylm, the Australiso The first practical ass of abmarine fog, trader already mentioned. was ousidered a signals seems to have been made on the vessels wonder; he was quits a small vessol, but did of the Zealand line, running between Flessingus, the passage from the Channel to Melbourne in Holland, and Queen'sborough, England. The sixty days on her first voyage. She is credited ordinary signals on the two jetties of Flossingus with a day's run of 330, bat in this aise the had proven ineffective in directing gels it fog length of day is not given. to the entry of the port, and the difficulty was

The flying pros or canoe of the Pacific is overcome by mounting a ball ander water so said to sail at a speed of at least thirty miles that the Bound sent outward should be strong

an bear. One old lins-of-battle ships of the in the waterway between these jetties hat feel eighteenth century could with pressure biasde ou either side. A spring is arranged to give a to drive asvan or sight knots. Vary wonderful powerful action on the striker for ringing the work was done by the old "Blackwall" ships of Near the forward end of the ship, below Groos, Smith, Wigram, and others, which took the water line, a sound receiver in a water-tight the place of the old fast India Company's ships iron bix de placed at each si and each receiver when the monopoly of that colebrated corpors

3 is connected to a telephone on the captain's tion came to an end. An abstract lag of ous of bridge. By means of a switch the sound of the them, the Hotspur, has lately appeared. Tais two receivers can be brought to the ear alter: vessel, though "frigste bait, and in no sense nately. The relative intensity indicates the

a $25,000,000 direction of the shore-bel, and shows how to lipper, made a passage from the Channel to seventy-eight days, which is partion. steer to keep in the center of the channel.

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JOIN ARMSTRONG,"

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Hongkong, 14th May, 1908.

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Manager,

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For 3 monthe, 24 per cent, per Anusm For 6 monthe, Bà per cent per Annum. For 12 months, 4 per cent per Annan,

J. R. M..SMITH,

Chist Manager. Hongkong, 14th July, 1908,

Madras in ly good work.

Many of Greau's skip, did as good work as Ocean observatories, osassted to the enthis, and all this East India fost myde pertion- tinents, have bood suggested as a need in fore-larly good average passages. This was ewing oasting Europesa weather, but a more econom-to the thorough knowledge of the winds passed ical plan la proposed by M. Bigourdan, aby their commanders, and also to the large weather reports farnished by steamships porrons being nothing out of the way, do that equipped with wireless belegraph-apparatus, they could be sailed, and prassed, like yachts in How

esgonfial are the observations at sosis 9900

No such crews are carried now from the fact that weather changes are general- Even in the sea-slipper days a ship'a ly associated with the passage of atmospheric was only thirty, or, say: fourteen in a watch. depressions from the westward in the Atlantis Now, our large sailing ships of at last threp north of 35 degrees North istitade. About half times the tonnage of these frigate built shipe of these depressions seem to come from North and Chian slippers only carry a crew of twenty- Amaries and the others form in the open ocean.ge to thirty, and the seamed of to-day are not Wireless weather reports are already made by

to becompared with the men of thirty years ago." British naval vessels."

----MATNE ROYAL in the London Daily Mail. LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,

company

Acting on the theory, that the preservation of segs tuptias, upon absolutely preventing the interchange of air between, the outside and inside

The Boston 9.3. Co. str. Saveric sailed from Dr. Campanini has stopped the pores of the Manila at midday on the 28th inst, and may be shells with lard and packed with no point of contact on a bed of dry toy be fine orderless expected to arrive bere this evening

The Rusiau str. Aremia left-Singapore on sharings By this simple plan the weight,

the 27th inst. enlont and favour of the eggs were perfectly

and

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The M.M. ate. Farra with, the French Mail of the 5th inst, and Mails trom London of HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Koop your com- thu 4th inst, Jeft Singapore on Monday, the plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crême Charmante. Lait 27th inst, at 6.31pm., and may ba expected to Charmant and Special Skin Tonie and Pondre arrive here on Monday morning, the 3rd proz, Charmant will enable you to do it, far and will leave for Shanghai and Japan on the Specialities for the Skin are the study of a game afteravon. litetimas. A 8. Watson & Co., Ltd., Bole Agents

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BISVBRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS

IN THE CHINA BQUADRON."-

Amerity, desprettir boat, 700 tons, 10 gum 3000 b.p., Comdr. C. T. Fuller, Weibni voi Astraca, 2nd class cruiser 4360 tons, 10 gune, 7000 .b.p., Captain F. E, C. Ryan, Weibsiwei

Bodford, British oraiser, Capt. B. E. Erskine,

RN. Weinstwer

Bramble, gaubost, 710 tons, 900 i,b.p. Lieut.-. Comde. Ho, R. O. D. Bridgam, Hong- kong

↑ Britomart, ganhout... 710 tons, 900 h.p., Lient-

Comdr. F. B. Noula, Yang ze

Cadraus, British sloop, 1070 tons, Conds. B. L.

Majendio, Weihaiwei

Clio, British loop, 1070 tons,” Comide, C. D.

8. Raikes, Sanghai

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Flora, 2nd class oruiser, 4360 tans, 10 pans, 7000 bp, Capt. Roland Nugent Weitaiwei

Handy, torpedo-bost destroyer 295 tons, 6 gans, 4000 b.p., Lieut. Condr.. W; H. Darwall, Welhalwei

Hart, torpedo bost destroyer,-295 tons, 6 gnos, 4,00 Lient Comdr. G. C. Dickens,

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Janas, torpedo-bost destroyer, 330 tons, 6 gans, 3900 b.p., Lt. Comdr. C. A. Freemantleg Weźbaiwei

Kent, armoured, 9800, tons, 14 guzz 2500 b.p.. Capt. . C. A. Marescans Weiswei King Alfred, British cruiser, Flag ship of Vice Admiral the Hon. Bir fldworth Labtor, Commander in Chit, 14190 was," Capt. L. Clinton Baker, Weik eigi Kinder H. Januyson, Yangtzza

river gunboat, 616 tons, Lient-Comir

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Merlin, Berveying ahip, 1000, tons, 6 gâts, 1400

1.b.p. Comdr. F. If. Walter, Jesolon Monroath, craier, 9800 tons, Capt. G. W.

Smith, in roale Waihsiwei Moorhea, river gambont, 180 tons, guns,

Lient Coindr CC. Walcott, Want Eivor Nightingale, riser guoboat, 85 tous, 240 h.p.

Lieut-Comdr. R. S. Roy, B.N., Yangtze Otter, torpedo bost destroyer, 385 tons, 6 gaug

63.p., Paid off

Robin, river gnuboat, 85 tons, 2 gang, 240 b.p.,

Lieat, Comdr. J. White, West River Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 lous, guns 210 hip, Linute-Condr. II. F. Tickell, Hong- Long

3nipe, river gun-bost, 85 tons, 2 gane, 240 h.p.

Teat Comdr. Alan Dixon, Yangazo

Taku, torpedo boat destroyer, Bosn, Strath,

Haugkong

Tamar,

receiving ship. 4000 tons 6 guns, Commodore Stokes, Hongkong-

Taal, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guas, Lieut.

Comde, H. Godice, Yangtane

Thistle, gunboat, 710 tous, 900 b.g, Lieut.

Comdr. H. T. Attlay,

Hongkong

Virage, torpedo-boat destroyer, 395 tous, 6 gans,

6,300 i.b.p., Lieut-Comdr. Stevenson.

Weihaiwer

Waterwitch, surveying ship, 620-tous, 4501.n.p."

Lient, Comdr. H. P. Douglas, Port Swit tenham

Whiting, torpedo-boat destroyer, 360 tons, 5

pune, 5,900 Lb., Ldent-Comdr. J. Kiddle, Hongkong

Widgeon, gunbeat 195, Lous, 2 guns, 800 hp

Lt-Comdr. John F. Kuox, Yuglare Woolsonk, ganbout 150 Cattrall Dormer, 2 gues, 550 h.p. Lieu Comar. H. R. V.

Woodark gunboat, 150 tons, 2 gang 550 hp Libut-Comdr, G. R. Livingstone, Yangtar

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