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Leather Falmer &&

The Bling Merchany of the

NAPIER JOHNSTONES'

“SQUARE BOTTLE”

WHISKY.

UNVARIED FOR OVER

150 YEARS.

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN

1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

BOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.,

and from Axx. WIND MERCHANTÉ,

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MARTIN'S

APIOL & STEEL

BETEMPILLS

-stepmala Pametrlar alfleredualaṛfilan,

TURN FALSE ADO CURTURE, AO MANDE the trai MES 26 MALE Keensulathy of Mon byýem A

show, be

mem scia, ill than like and Flossepeli (bea Megashank the Wald, my sons from BS MON GO SUL BÖREKARELOR, Sha

MARTIN'S

A PIOLASTER!

花鸣水汽力過士

and

HOME-MADE

MINERAL WATERS

-BETTER THAN

FACTORY-MADE.

Why continue purchasing factory-made Mineral Watora P Make

your own Mineral Waters at bome at a cost of 90 cents DOZEN SYPHONS.

CHITS.

In the true Anglo-Indian sense of the word, the chit which one inscribes with one's name "for value received" is not o chit at all. Chitthi in Hindustani nieans a letter of any sort whatever, from "the voluminous report of a Commissioner Sahib to the p.p.c. visiting card in ita miniature envelope. Most usually tho, chit is that document on a scrap of waste paper that one sends by the hand of one's servant to the next compound. It begins Dear Smith" or "My dear Mr. Smith," or Darling Sue" as the case or the sex may be; and it deals with such matters of state as an invitation to pot luck, or a transaction about a dog, or the fix- ing up of a game of golf for this after- noon or a snipe shoot for next Sunday.

This sort of chit one indites from one's private residence, but even in office chits play an important part in the economy of nature or human nature. One wants, Bay, the file of a ease from downstairs, or the invoice of a purchase from the krani's department, one must write on a piece of paper one's wishes, one must shout lustily for some menial, and one has time to light a fresh cigarette before the desired document arrivca.

Then there are the chite which out- going servants come and crave on their departure from your hospitable roof. Those being addressed to the servant's next masters- wholly problematical personage give some scopo for witticisms, and are never satisfactory unless they are couched in mildly ironical terras, damning the holdor with faint praise and adverting pityingly to his foibles. Chits of this nature are a marketable commodity, and such a brisk business is done in them that they come almost under the category of negotiable bills of exchange.

Thus Hussein bin Abdullah the syce, having in the course of a long and dis honourable career acquired an assort- ment of chits

assortment from an

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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

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Though bacteria of many kinds live in most animals, a French experimenter has disproved the theory that they are casen tial to life. It was claimed that a chicken lived absolutely free from micro- organisms, and growth and development went on as usual,

A SELF-TENDING FOG. HORN,

CORPORATIONS, COMPANIES RUOKAIK

AND WELL-ESTABLISHED

PRIVATE ENTERPRISES

REQUIRING CAPITAL.

THE INVESTMENT REGISTRY, LTD, 2. Waterloo Place, London, England (established 1880-invested funde, £30,000,000) prepared to purchase for cash existing, or to

is

be created, issues of Bonds or Debentures weli

secured on sound zevenine-producing properties, both as to capital and income.

No speculative propositions entertained. Smallest transactions considered, £41,000; largost, £400,000, ·Only principals or their representatives corresponded with; Agents ignored. Hooklet explaining how willin pounds sterling have already been in rested;

A pure loud investigation by Dr. Carlo Formenti, of Milan, has dealt with poisonous metals in food supplies. Most metal salts are poisonous, and are liable to occur in acid foods and drinks from chemical action on containing vessels, Lemonades and other acid drinks lighted buoy or beacon. The light con-advantages offered to borrowers and particulars.

An automatic acetylene fog-horn is being worked out by Gustav Dalen, the Swedish inventor of the automatically

dovice sun-valve, by which

of culinary poisoning his own character popular in America, and even carbonated trought of day shuts off the acetylene required, will be sent culy to príncipals cr their |

of masters, is prepared to lend to Ahmat bin Suleb (who is his brother- in-law's nephew and a good Ind who Reeks to follow in his relative's foot- stepa) a few exemplars of the testi- monials he keeps stowed away

in an old sarong. And Fazurally the cock is on occasion not averse from transferr ing for a valuable consideration to the pupil and erstwhile assistant in the art in several different handwritings. If the chits be ancient, these transactions have to be accomplished with some care. The slightest slip may be fatal. As a boy of mine learnt when he turned up with a chit which I myself had given to another hoy some time previously. My memory | for faces being my one strong point, the applicant in this instance was unable to persuade me that he and he only was the person mentioned in the said testimonial, and not the one-eyed scoundrel to whom it had originally been given..

The best writers of chits are women. Women excel at any kind of correspon dence, because they always have the last Word and know how to write exactly as But of all my they would speak. acquaintances, and most can hold their and own at this form of shirt-sleeves letter

Then you KNOW the contains ne disease gezmis,

Water

is

With the

FRANA

pure.

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Price of

SYPHON $2 each. BULBS 90 ets, par box.

+

WHOLERALE PRICE-

$16.00 F.O.B. SYPHON Der đen. BULBS per doz. boxes... 48.00 F.O.B. KWONG SANG Hoxo, LTD.,

WHOLESALE Agents,

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OF

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FOR

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THERAPIONE CURE

BUDED TÕEDOM, KIDNEY, BLADDER, URINARY PISELDUS. IHSARANG KA VRÁRNHUS, PILES, BENU STANÝ ADDRESS BOOKERY TO DR. LA CLERG

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KIT,GOVI,KANIYARPIKED TO ALL GE HVINE FACKETS,

writing, my wife is ensily the best. I do not say this because I am prejudiced in her favour, but because I know what I am talking about.

She generally begins in the morning by sending the boy to my dressing room with & polite note to say that I have exactly seven minutes in which to shave, dress and breakfast, ie, of course, if I want to get to my offer at a reasonable hour before noon. Once I am gone, she casts about a little and then remembers that she in- tended to ask Mrs. Robinson at the club the previous evening, where she (Mrs. Robinson) bought that lovely tulle thing she was wearing the other day. So Mrs. Robinson gets her chits. And that reminds her she really must write and tell Miss- Hardbacke not to forgot they are playing Miss Hard tennis at the club to-day. backe has such a shocking memory, you know, and last time they arranged to play did not turn up at all.

Then the boy arrives to say that they want a new broom or kettle, and she has to write a chit to the shop for the article requested, and en passant she might as well send a note to Messrs. Strong and Company for a few things she meant to get yesterday but was so busy, she never had-time

This done there is a pause for reflec tion, a sort of "reculer poor mieux sauter interval. The boy who knows the ways of inems and particularly of this particular mem, asks whether he

not

the

waters, often contain lead. This comes

from the burner and the appearance of representatives, en application in English. only from metal atensils used in pre-

darkness turns it on and relights it. A Frenok, Germa or Spanish, to the buoy equipped with this valve has been

gaa;

paring the drinks, but also as impurities in tartaric acid and in carbon dioxide and even in minute quantity taken often may be a real danger, as lead teads to accumulate in the tissues of the body until it causes illness or even death, Copper was found in nearly all canned green vegetables, its use for tinting such products being emphatically condemned. The finding of much manganese in certain vinegars was a surprise, but special inquiry showed that potassium permanga-

ate is used to correct the taste of

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regularly lighted for more than a year Parolase Department, INVESTMENT REGISTRY LTD., 2, Waterloo Place, London, SW,

without attention or renewal of its supply of calcium carbide. An acetylene fog-horn already patented by the inventor in Canada consists of a rotating disc, carry- ing on its periphery small pockets con- taining gas, and a horn in front of which au electric spark explodes the gas. Each pocket passes an acetylene jet before

vinegars made from, refuse and heaping the spark, the acetylene taus

the

rotting

fruit. Though not harmful, hogar ran such materials should be prohibited. Arsenie in winos sometimes cones from insecticides used on vines, and the use of arsenical in secticides was lately forbidden in France.

the investigator recommends aluminum cooking and containing vessels as quite

harmless.

EARTHQUARES AND THE EARTH'S WOBBLING.

From about 700 earthquakes of known source, two Scottish inquirers have obtain ed evidence that earthquake frequency is connected with the shifting of the earth's axis. When the North Fole is moving toward Greenwich, for example, earth quake frequency will be about the average near longitude Orleg. and 180leg, but above the normal near deg, east longi tude and below it near nudeg, west longi- tude.

A MEASURE OF REFRIGERATION.

The frigory, a low temperature unit proposed in France, is the cold necessary, to lower the temperature of 1 kilograu of water by 1deg. Cent. The exlory, now in common use, is the heat necessary to warm 1 kilogram of water from Oleg to

deg. Cent.

CANAL ZONE VELCANOLOGY.

The most serious volcanic" pheno mona in the Panama Canal, as reported

up forming an explosive mixture the air. By changing the rate of the e's rotation, the rapidity-of-the-ex- losions can be varied foury on the up to 500 or more per second, and the tone produced by the horn as a result of the explosions can be adjusted as desired by Το a suitable regulation of the speed. cause the born to operate when needed, and only then, has been the serious prob lem. One plan is to have it set in action by a tuning fork responding to the vibrations of # steamer's whistle, and with this arrangement an approaching whistle, get

the fog-horn signal indicating steamer in a fog would; on sounding its the locality.

A NEW LIJE BAVER. The Syncron apparatus, stated to have saved a number of lives at the Royal is & Swedish Hospital at Stockholm, physician's attempt to apply artificial ros- piration in a simple and effective way, It has a board on which the asphyxiate:1 person is placed, and hinged to this, metal frame to which the patient's wrists are strapped. A broad leather pad across the lower part of the chest is held by small wire cables running through pulleys to the frame. Holding the tongue with one hand and swinging the frame up and down with the other, compressing the chest on the down stroke, one operator does the work of three without the simple device.

HULPHUR AS A FERTILIZER. The beneficial effects of sulphur as a plant food have been shown by A. Demo- lon, a French experimenter, on such

by Commission Geologist MacDonald, plants. as cabbage, turnip, and radish. It

has occurred near Culebra Station, and chlorophyll, retarding the yellowing of Keeme to favour the development of affents a strip about 500 feet by 20

long feet wide, in which the ground has become plants in drouth. hot to an apparent depth of 15 or 20 feet. Blue smoke, with much sulphur

dioxide, bas issued from sunal vonts, the NOTHING BETTER FOR THE

shall call a man now to take the pile of chits awaiting delivery. She thinks thore

heat being sufficient to char fragments of is nothing else, and so rends off the in-

wood. Culebra Cut is in soft, thin- stalment. But no sooner has the messen- ger gone than she remembers heaps of hedded shales, and some of the layers are things she meant to write about; for largely volcanic ash loosely cemented with instance, to tell her little dressmaker girl lime, but others have much carbonaceous matter, with local partinga of lignite to hurry up with that new blouse and not

from an inch to a foot thick. Un expos to forget that she wants three rows of what-ho's down the back of her white ing to the air, certain small areas have dress. At this stage a new pen has to be warmed up in a few days, turning from to gray or dull red. The sulphuric found to replace the read with all the acid given off was at fires puzzling, but getting frightfully depressed more careful investigation.

Several underlining it has had to do.

в large propor- other urgent matters occur to her in the Presence in the rock of

tion of course of the morning, and she positively Tha secret of the volcano" was

pyrite in very minute crystals. then must sand a tiny chit to dear Mary revealed. The pyrite particles are aak her for the loan of a few of those nice small that they oxidize rapidly in the kind of hairpins which you can't get in Singapore

black

moist atmosphere. the heat from is increased by such chemical action as the combination of sulphuric acid and lime, and the effects are intensified by the burning of hydrocarbons and other carbonaceous material. As the oxidizable substances are consumed the temperature dies down.

is in vain, that I point out that I have, at some considerable expense, in stalled a nice telephone in the house, and that I go to office in rickaha in order to leave the motor entirely at her disposal for shopping and miscellaneous excur- sions. She has the cacocthes chitthi far too strong aver to avail herself of more expeditious means of conveying her be- hests to their destination than a half sheet The idea that some of the artificial lakes now being made may have an effect upon local climate is brought out by a German

of notepaper. And the result is that when

I come home for tiffin and ask the hoy

CLAIMATE CHANGED BY ENGINELTING WORKS.

to have a chit of mine about a fourth at meteorologist. At Remscheid, in Rhenish

$

Prussia, the water in the Eschback valley dam in 1893, and com- was raised by

bridge for Saturday conveyed across the

find that every available servant parison of the temperature records sitco road in the house has been despatched to!

1887 with those of other German cities various places all over the town with

shows a lessening of the monthly varia- innumerable trivial feminine messages.

tion at this place of about 0.6deg. Fogs and cloudiness seem to have increased greater rainfall-one station of the Rhine near dammed waters-presumably with dams now having 88 foggy days a year

It is too bad. But I have my revenge, for if anyone ever says to me he wonders what women can find to do during the day in Singanore, I just wink sardonically at my wife-Dorrick Dirk, in Singapore instead of its former 57. Free Press.

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of infection, remember that washing with

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is a healthy habit, for either personal use or household purposes-and it is not expensive.

Local Dealers sell it, Makers-F. C. CALVERT & CO., Manchester, England.

"LOOK ALIVE!"

to any of the many exsand every day infeactions wherein lurks much unnoticed. “ wladim. The ma who tooke silve laatways and everywhere successful. I business to in the * ́tive' man who gets to the top: in society it is the active, graciam, agréemble person who le most run afters in the domestic circle it is the cbooṛful member who most completely wins and holde sur affection. There fore look alive? If you are suffering from anything which robs you of your healthy mortnews attend to the trouble at once and dont rest until a cure is et« fected. U you inspect that dyapapsteorany disordered state of the stomach, liver, de bowals, is supping your vitality, it is curtain that without delay, you should

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