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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11rg, 1910.

HOW GREAT MEN RECOUP THEIR

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BOME STRIKING TESTIMONY.

"SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

“STERILIZING WATER NY: LIGHT) In a novel French water sterilizer, the water moonry vapour lamp, which itself is in the forms is led through spiral tubes surrounding a of a long glass tubo, illuminated by the passage. of an electric current through the contained mercury-vapour. This light is rich in violet and killed by exposure to there rays, and any solid ultra-violet rays. The bacteria of the water are impurities may be removed by passing throngh an ordinary filter on its way to a sterilised container.

BRITAIN'S MYSTERIOUS FITS. A perennial prazle in southern England is the origin of the so-called deme-holes that are no Eminent men are the authoritative exponenteumerous in that locality. They were sank in of a nation's thought. Their views, given with the chalk at some prehistorio time and usually the sense of responsibility which rests upon ending in a chamber 30 to 50 feet lu diameter, opasist of a narrow shaft 75 or 100 feet deep those who mould pablis opinion, must command the most earnest attention, When the subject and 16 or 18 feet high, or a series of two or for consideration is the creation and preserva-

three or more chambers. They occur in groups, tion of those physical and mental attributes about 60 pits at Hangman's Wood, Esser, which so largely enter into the sum total of being contained in the space of a few serce. human success, then, surely, the opinions of A inte inquirer, Rev. J. W. Hayon, has

PRESERVATIVE WOOD FILLING, those who have risen to the proud position of investigated the character of the chalk deposits Malenkovia, an Austrian, solutions of salts of In the wood-preserving process of Capt. leaders of mon will be all-convincing.

and the ancient and modern uses of chalk, and zine or other metals are mixed with fluoride of The unanimity with which the most distin. he offers an explanation of the pits quite differ-endium and forced into the wood, which is then guished personages proclaim Sanatogen to be ent from the theories that have been most heated to 100 deg. C. The insoluble fuorides the ideal tonis food remedy, affords striking favoured. His view is that the deno holes were thus formed keep timber indefinitely. evidence of the high esteem in which Sanatogen material began in pre-Roman times, and it was

simply quarries of chalk, is hell as a restorative and a tonie.

The export of the Sanatogen is prookímed as being the most natural to make the pits in groups where the powerful restorative known for renewing and strata supplied solid blocks and the location was sustaining the vigour of health. Whon run convenient. Buckets or baakots were used for down and in conditions of lassitude, nervousness, raising the material taken out. It has been wide mental inortness, as well no debility, and all the ly believed that the pits were made for granaries ills foreshadowed by that danger signal depres or places of refuge, or both, but strong ovidence sion, Sanatogen is, unrivalled. It speedily and against these idens is the fact that many worked permanently restores that buoyaney and elasti-out pits contain waste from later excavations. city which are the very essence of well-being.

Sir Gilbert Parker, oqually famous as a gifted author and an intrepid traveller, is fall of enthusiastic praise;

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"I have used Sanstogen with extraordinary benefit. It is to my mind a true food tone, feeding the nerves, increasing the energy, and giving fresh vigour to the overworked body and

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Sir John Hara gives us a peep into the means employed to sustain the wonderful vitality which is one of his distinguishing oharacteristics:

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I have found Sanatogen a most valuable tonic and stimulant during a period when I bad to work very hard under conditions of great weakness and ill-health."

John Hare

Lord Sutherland Gower, the creator of the noble Shakespearian memorial at Stratford-on- Avon, says of Senatogen:

Hammerfald, Penshurst, Kent,

"I feel it only due to the benefit conferred on inform those interested in that wonderful my general health by Sautogon to write to medicine that in a couple of months time it has ured me of all gonty trouble. Sanutagen has dore me far more good than all the waters of Bath and Harrogate.”

Madame Sarah Grand, the gifted authoress of The Heavenly Twine," says she has found in Sanatogen renewed vigour of body and brain. "Grove Hill,

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After four years of vain effort to producs an epidemie among rats, M. de Kruyff, of the agricultural bureana at Buitenzorg, Java, hit upon a new plan. Pouring half a teaspoonful of carbon disulphide into each occupied rat-kolo, from the explosion almost instantly killed all he lighted the vapour, and the poisonous gases rate. I 45 holes anbsequently opened, 131 dead rata were found, two holes containing 10 rats oach.

AN ARTIFICAIL MOON-SURFACE.

A typical Innar landscape has been imitated in a curious way by Paul Fuchs, a German furnace was run off at 1,100 deg. C., and cooled experimenter. Iron-ore slag from a smelting with water applied in various ways. Crators, mountains and plains were produced according to the conditions of the slag and the cooling.

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THE OPIUM TRAFFIC BETWEEN

INDIA AND CHINA.

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Te reply to the Rev. G. S. Muir, who spoke for the deputation, the Master of Elibank said that they had reduced the export of opinm chests in 1908, and this quantity had been from India from 66,000 chests to 61,909 farther reduced to 56,800 in 1909, and would be reduced to 51,700 chests in 1910. proportionate to the reduction in the home. Farther reductions after 1910 would be made

the ares under poppy onltivation in Bengal was grown production and consumption in Chins. being reduced, and restrictions were being native States. Whereas in 1880 and 1891 the placed on the export of opium grown in the net income derived under the heading of opium amoanted to seven millions sterling, to-day it amounted to little over three millions, a China, must iueritably be one of progressive reveue which, under an arrangement with diminution. The strangement made, with Chits in each of three years, beginning Chim was that the Indian Government CALLING AT NAPLES; GENOA, ALGIERS; GIBRALTAR AND SOUTHAMPTON shonla diminish their export of opinm to with 1908, by one-tenth of the amount then aaally exported, and if at the end of that period China could produce satisfactory evidence next seven years, at the end of which the that ebo had proportionately reduced her cultiva tion, the arrangement was to continue for the trade would have entirely ceased. As the not revenue derived by India from this source was no light one. Ifis more than

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for consideration at the end of next year, when opium. The question, therefore, would come up the substitution of Chinese for Indian

it was hoped they would have trustworthy data themselves as essentially a reasonable agreement of the extent of China's reform: The trial

to ensure that the action of the Indian Govern period was accepted by the Chinese Government

ment for the gradual suppression of a hitherto legal traffic should not be frustrated by a want of the Chinese authorities. China at this of corresponding restrictive action on the part- moment was not in a position to produce trast- worthy data.

BRAIN CONTROL OF OLD AGE. slowing down of mental activity is a new That old age is a mechanical effect of the medical explanation. When in passive condition, aroused by no atimulation, the walls of each body cell are impermeable to solutions exoreta accumulate within, while no nutrition can enter from without. A stimulus from thought or the will causes the membrane to discharged and food material is admitted. This become permeable, when the waste of the cell is

keeps the body machine in working order, and double activity induced by healthy thinking the arteries in normal condition. In middle life one's thinking is likely to have becom, nettled down into fixed habits. A regular routine is followed, asW felds are not entered, and there is mental stagnation The cell waste accumulates, bringing the chronic alterations of the arteries so characteristic of age. Te retard the coming of old age, suitable exercise, physical and mental, is necessary and effective to a considerable degree, and it has

"Government, through Colonial, Office, hare been often noted that bale old men have been paid special attention to opiam question with active and kept a broad-minded interest in resalt of Commission's report, traille both in object of gradual suppression of traile. As affairs. The theory explains the influence of Hongkong and Straits Settlements largely hobby, which many men have declared has pro-roduced at great cost to revenue.

on question still sitting in Ceylon. Present policy, if continued, will lead to suppression."

"Sanatogen has done everything for me which With CHAMBER for 8 CARTRIDGES it is said to be able to do for cases of nerecus debility and exhaustion. I began to take it after nearly four years' enforced idleness from extreme longed their lives. debility, and felt the benefit almost immediately. And now, after taking it steadily-three times s day for twelve weeks, I find myself able to enjoy both work and play again, and also able to do as mugh of both an Tever did."

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The carious story has found its way into the text books that the tapeworms known as Ligal, found in the body cavity of various fishes, are used in some parts of France and Italy as a delicacy called macaroni piatti or ver blanc. Though the statement was shown fifteen years ago to be erroneous, it is still cited as a marvellous fact. The fable has been again ex posed by a late writer, Pazona, who states shows that the positively that such a habit does not exist, and Rodolph the myth, arose from the report by with the tenon they infest, being mistaken for

telegram, which he had received from the The Master of Elibank read the following Colonial Office:-

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PRINCE ITO AND THE BURNING OF THE BRITISH LEGATION. STATEMENT BY ME. . H. LONGFORD.

ore of the young men concerned in the burning It has often boobs atated that Prince-Ito was down of the British Logation at Yedo in 1861, that effect, say the Japan Chronicle. A zost but we know of no authoritative statement to definite statement on the subject, however, ie the British Consular service in now made by Mr. J. H. Longford, formerly of an appreciative article on Prince Ite in the December number of the Nat

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a place not only of great natural and bilities. Historical associations conditions combined to render this spot cspecially present dear to ell Japanese hoaris, The palace in which the Shogun was setistomed to annual visits to the capital originally stood receive the territorial magnates on their AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF upon it, but for several generations it had been usad ne a public park, and was the favourite the fundamental vibrations of the five vowels,ing in their ignorance and autocracy over every resort of all the citizens of the capital Trampl- and this apparatus gives sounds of constant sentiment of Japanese tradition and public quality that have a known pitch varying with right, the treaty representatives extorted the the speed of the motor and a known intensity concession of this site from the weak Ministers changing with the pressure of the air travers from their historic pleasure-grounds; the cherry

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The people were excluded ing the machine. With the ear at a distance trees and tirs which had beautified these grounds of 20 inches, the intensity of sound is raised the erection of this Tagation buildings proceeded for centuries were ruthlessly swept away, sui by increasing the air pressure unt the vibra will. That for the British Legation was com tions are perceived. The norisi 2 hears ploted when a figul appest was made by thedior- sound produced under a pressure of 1 millimeernment for the tendition of the site. The appeal It is Liquid Food in prodigested form millimeters to make the sound heard, the place, set fire to the buildinga at several points far, and if the pressure must be mised to 60 was in vain, but the buildings were never occopied. A number of samurai invaded the containing all the bracing, soothing and toning sharpness of hearing is put down as 1760, and simultaneously, and the whole were barnt to effects of the choices hope. Nearly Nono on. If there is no hoaring at 200 millime the ground alecholle. Highly recommended by the Inval. medical profession in Casos of DEBILITY tors, the test is continued with a tube from their names were never pablished. One of them after MALARIA, from OVERWORK or the siren to the ear. The perception varies for was the young Ito, and it was to this incident were well known, thongh other causes, ANEMIA, NERVOUSNESS the different sounds, and a record is made in or DISPEPSIA Samples on Application ive livisions showing the sensitiveness of the

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