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NORTH-BOUND, Leave-Shanghai (Stoomer) Arrive Dairen Ly

Saturday or Sunday Monday or Tuesday Tnowday Friday

Wednesday Saturday

State

Thursday

Saturday

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12.00 a.m.

Sunday--

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Lv.

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Lv. Ar

Απ. -Changchan

-Harhin

5.30 a.m

Monday

(Russian Train)❤

6.30 .. 3.20 p.m

AUTOMATIO BROWNING

Connecting at Harbin with

SOUTH-BOUND,

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Moscow. Moscow.

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MOSCOW.

Tuesday Thursday

#

10.00 p/m

*5.08 m

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Sunday

5.20,

3.00 p.m.

Friday

POCKET PISTOLS.

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With CHAMBER for 8 CARTRIDGES

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Saturday

Sunday Tuesday *Bussian Train Time is 23 minutes earlier than S. M. R. Time;

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apparatus replaces or supplements the kitchen from the sylinder seemed impossibly. The ranga heater. A hollow iron blook contains director of an oxygen-supply company was

Compared with its forerunners, the inferiority

of the present-day waistcoat must be admitted,

permits to us some mitigation of the sombre- it has fower fastening, and after all it still mess of masculine attire. Time was when men vied with the ladies in richness of dress. That

a coil of pipe surrounding a small electricalled, and by moans of the oxyliydrogen cut. We should be thankful, on the other hand, that heater, and is placed in the centre of a circu.ting low-pipe the piston-rod-seven inches in lar tauk holding the water to be heated by diameter was out off close to the gland of the passing through the coil. Both block and tank cylinder, the operation occupying only 35 min- having double walls. A heater two foot high

little dash and colour in their apparel the demonstratas and two feet in diameter, using 200 watts of out had to be made at considerable height over-existence of the "fancy veat current, heats 25 to 30 gallons of water daily head, with the burning metal dropping and clearly. Did not the member of the Stock from 50 per cont. to 110 per coat. F., supplying repeatedly solting fire to the wooden stage laudable design of encouraging taste in regard Exchange on one occasion offer ties with the

a larger quantity at lower temperature, or s · necessary. smaller quantity of hotter water. It is claimed An electric current from artificial teeth has that the cost to consumer for electricity should been reported by a British dental authority. be little more than $5.00 por quarter, though the Fain in the patient's tengas had paraled doctor cato must necessarily vary with locality. The and dentist, when a electrician, to whom the general adoption of these hestors would be matter was osanally mentioned, examined the advantageous to power stations, as during the teeth, finding that they were fixed to the com- hears for electric lighting the current could be position plate by two metala A galvanometer cut off without seriously lessening the hot water, that showed that these metals, moistened by the and the station's current load would thus be saliva, generated a carpent strong enough to equalised without ineeasing the maximum sanse ulceration and severe pain. demand

are covered with insulating material, the lattertos. The task was a very diffen't ons, as the men, er somo meu continus to hanker after a

Earth movements that are not trus earth, quakes are recorded by seismographs. Prof. Cleveland Abbs points out that the covering of gravel, olay and sand-five, ton of fifty feet deep acts like a spongo, and, permeate with air and water, responds to every change of pressure, so that slow tiltings reault from rain, frost, ohanges in atmospheric pressure and in the load of snow and changes in the ocean level on coasts. Other movements of strain or release from strain in the rooky énbstratum are due to tides, volcanic host and chemical changes, and shanges from crystallization.

In connection with the International Labour Exhibition of 1911, a prize of $10,000 has been offered the authur

inven of in tion profically advancing national economy,

On the island of Karkatos, in Suude Strait, between Somatra, and Jars, all animal at vegetable life was destroyed by the terrifio vol- canic explosion of Ang. 12, 1863, and the entire twelve square miles of surface was buried under slayer of puriss and ashes averaging ninety feet in thickness. The return of living forms to this new soil-which contains the elements nescesary for plant growth except phosphorus and nitrogen-has been eagerly watched. Within three years Dr. Troub of Java found

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THE STORY OF THE WAISTCOAT.

rest"is the last remaining sestigo of the The waistcoat when, at least, it is a "fany gorgeousness which was once displayed in men's dress; and on October 15, 1666, Pepys chronicles its first appearance, on the person of Charles II. The novel garment was long cassook, the diarist terms it, worn close to the body; it was of black cloth, pinked with white silk. under it. Commenting on the introduction of the first waistcoat, Pepys saya: I wish the handeme garment. Without a doubt, these koop it, for it is a very fue and works show that Pepys hoped that the waistcoat might endure; and so it has come to pass, for from that day to this, although it has undergone. many changes, the waistcoat has continued to be part of men's dress, and there is nothing to suggest that it is in danger of being discarded. Mon will agros that the waistcoat is a con- venient and commendable garment, the abasuco of which would deprive them, to speak of po other discomfort, of an invaluable set of pockets.. It appears strange, therefore, that it should not. have some into being at an earlier date. But as tho close-fitting, stuched doublet itself as brave and showy a garment as the vanity of man could desire-remained long in ragua, being. still worn in the time of the first Stuart Sose- reign, it is not difficult to suggest an expla tion. The close doublet concealed the inger garment, whateror it may have been; the waistcoat proper was not evolved until the doublet, undergoing transformation into a coat, began to grow longer and looser, and to be

worn

that variona plaats bad already begun to was Ttly open so that the inner garment

But this modification of the doublat did not at

once bring the waistcoat into existence, Length- ning doublets, or boats, characterise the cos tume of Charles the First's time; they wore, however, battoned as far as the waist, at which point they allowed the shirt to be seen. In these is faintly foreshadowed, but it is clear that there waist-buttoned doublets the froskcost of to-day

wero no waistcoats andor them. The current fashion was to show the shirt, a sizange hiatus between doublet and breeches.

grow, those of the interior being quite different from those near the coast, while ferns were remarkably preponderent, and slimy blue-green algae were specially active in preparing the soil for higher organisms. Another scientific visit was made in 1897, and the program of the new flors up to 1906 ha bean Intely reported by Prof. D. R. Campbell The progress of the forest trees has been parti-

Soon after the Restoration a sleeveless vest, cularly rapid, and il is evident that the island

which likewise left the waist open, was worn will soon be covered with a luxuriant forest-under the deabtlet; it was not a true waistcoat. an object lesson in the production of new forests This style of dress was brought from France by under favourable tropical conditions, The Charles II. From bonoath the fullness of shirt nitrogen for vegetation has been collected in exposed by the open vest the breeches display

ed their expanded width, with bunches of the soil by bacteria. The first plants to arrive-ribbon at the waist and lace ruffles below the bacteria, blue-green algae, ferns and mosses- were brought by the wind, as were also the first | grassos and flowering plants, but seeds and fruits seem to have been chiefly introduced by ocean- currents.

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knees; the donkiet worn over the rest was richly loud and ombroidered. So costly was this mode

lead of attire that the king resolved to give the towards a more economical and sober fashion, and in the fulfilment of this design ke donned the garment which Pepys hailed with so much pleasure. As it atted to the body and extended over the walst, it was well calculated to recomp- lish its purpose. It interfered with much of the short open vest, the splendid breeches, for ex- fanciful adornment which hal accompanied the

ampla, were shorn of their oraamental bunchos of ribbon that had dangled at the waist line, and other retrenchments followed.

to those decorative garmenty? A really nico cerning fine clothes - a mental tonis. Like waist-cost is-to adopt the medical dictum con-

flowers on one's work-table, it tends to promote a cheerful frame of mind. --Globe.

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Mining for wood is the rather unusual in dustry found at Mongtze, Upper Toakim, by the French Consul At some time a pine forest was swallowed up, and the trees--lying in a slanting direction and some of them a yard in diameter-are covered by eight or ten yards of

Such were the circumstances which attended sandy soil. The perfect preservation of the the introduction of the waistecat. It came in tops indicates that the trees were buried at a the name of economy and reform, but ero long. comparatively recent period. The timber sup-developed into an expensive and decorative a garment as any which man has over taken to himself. Gradually, it was extended downwards prized by the Chiness as coffin making material. till it almost reached the knees; it was made of the richest materials; and the outer eat was shapote The loss of an eye through the use of a plated hang well open to display its magnificence. Ex surgical instrument has been reported by Dr.travagance and love of finery were simply trans. Rockliffe, a British surgeon. Inflammation ferred Trom one style to another, and on the waist. cont was lurinted all the embellishment which following an operation mede it necessary to previously had been bestowed on the breeches, remove the sys, and a bit of metal that seemed. Those flowered and embroidered waistcoats of to have caused the inflammation proved to be shotny satin, with laced flaps, may certainly have been less troublesome and fantastio than plating from scissors used in the first operation, the preceding fashion, but whether they reduced Feeling plating was found on other instruments. the wearer's account with his tailor is highly doubtful, Certainly, their utilitarian purpose Platinized glass, as is well known, nota as a was utterly forgotten; they were so long as to mirror on the illuminated side, but appears like require a dozen buttons, more or less, but from ordinary glass to persons on the darker side, the waist upwards they were left unfastened to disclose the richly frilled shirt. This was a As window panes it serves the usual purpose very different garment from the "cassoek" of while persone on the outalde cannot see into the sober black, tastefully relieved with glimpses of house, Various trisks with this gleas have been white silk, which it had been haped woold en

LATEST PLANTS and APPLI- ter undertake BUILDING Pausing amusement in France. In one of those courage a more restrained style of dress,

The long-tapped waistcoat remained in favour | REPAIRING SHIPS, ENGINES, And a person approaches a mirror to note his ap many years. It was still worn by noblemen BOILERS;

also ELECTRICAL pearance, when suddenly the mirror disappears when George I was king. In the following WORK. and a grotesque figure stands before the startled reign a somewhat shorter waistcoat was proval A LARGE STOCK of MATERIALS is spectator- thay effect being produced by simply ent, sed from this time the flap began to always kept on hard.

decreme in length. Tusten af reaching almost túrning on illumination behind the glass to the knee it came only half-way down the Ordinary glass may be readily platinized. A thigh; as men's dress became more simplified solation of a platinum alt is applied thinly to towards the close of the 18th century, and puffagylase and braidery were abandoned, the surface, and the glass is thos. beated to up appeared altogether. Soms and redness, causing the platinum to be taken up blance to it, however, is produced by the custom and impart the curious property mentioned (which is said to be specially affected by Etout- The glass loses none of its transparency on the ans) of leaving the bottom batton of the waist

coat undone.

side opposite the strongerillumination.

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