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SCIENTIFIC

MISCELLANY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20ịn, 1919.

OUR STRATIFIED ATMOSPHERE, The idea at the earth's atmosphere is distributed in layers, with nearly puro hydrogen at the top, has been growing in faveur in the last few years, and is now expanded by the assumption that a

NAPIER JOHNSTONES' still lighter gas rests on the hydrogen.

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150 YEARS,

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN

1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

SOLE AGENTS IN HOVOKONG

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and from ALL WINE MERURANTS.

As a Rule you find that the longer people have used it, the less inclined they are to go without it.

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Calvert's

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They know they can tell from their teeth--how well the denti frice does what they want, that food particles are never allowed -to accumulate round teeth which are kept so beautifully clean. Then i contains the autheptic properties nceded, and à polishes without scratching the enamel, and is distinctly pleasant to use.

Your local Chemin or Store

is enre to stock and sell it.

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IN CAPSOLER, IN WINE, AND IN SYRUP

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This hypothetical-gas is called "geocero- nium," as it is at least similar to the coronium forming the sun's atmosphere beyond the hydrogen. Presenting some of the evidence, Alfred Wegener, Ger- man physicist, slates that twilight rays seem to be reflected from a height of about 48 miles, but that after twilight. See has absorved a bluish reflection from a height of about 133 miles. This elevat- ed surface is believed to be the bound- áry line between the hydrogen and the sudden brightening of large meteors at a certain point may be caused by reach-i ing a denser air layar. Other observa- tions confirm the theory of an atmos phore of fairly defined layers. It is cal- culated that at sen-level the air contains 78.1 per cent. of nitrogen, 20.9 of oxygen, 0.939 of argon, 0.0033 of hydrogen, 0.0005

of helium, and only 0.00058 of geo- coronium; at 25 miles, 88 per cent. of nitrogen and 10 of oxygen; at 62 miles, 67 per cent. of hydrogen, 20 of geo coronium, and 4 of helium; and at 300 miles, 03 per cent. of geocoronium and 7 of hydragon,

ore,

A NOVEL INSTOTICIDE.

An unlooked-for remedy for plant lico on sugar beets has been discovered in Germany in the phosphorus slag of iron This is a useful fortilizer, supply- ing both phosphorus and lime, and J. P. Wagner reports that when 1,400 pounds per acre was spread on lico-infested beet fields the insects disappeared within a few duys.

INTERFERENCE BY SUNLIGHT. Wireless telegraph messages, as is well- known, can be sent better at night than by day, and in tests at two Danish stations during the recent solar eclipse, a like strengthening of the signals fol- lowed the cutting off of the sun's rays in daytime.

SEEING DY BAR.

As

A kind of crude vision by the cars- real and useful, though vary imperfect, --ie given the totally blind by the new "Optophone" of Fournier d'Albo. shown at the British Optical Convention, the instrument includes a pair of high- resistance telephones, such as are used in wireless telegraphy, and a long box-18 by 4 x 6 inches in size--containing a selenium cell or bridge, a battery, two wire resistances, two adjustable carbon resistances, and a clock-work interrupter As a continuous current gives no sound in the telephone, the interrupter is used to produen · an intermittent current, With the telephones fastened to the cars and the box held in the hand, there is no sound when the wire and carbon resistances just balance, but a change in the light striking the selenium bridge apsets the balance and cansen a ticking or rasping to be heard in the telephones. By means of the adjustable or aliding resistances, the apparatus can be set at silence with any desired degree of illu- mination. It is convenient, for instance, to make the strongest light the zero, and then the passage of the hand or any sha- dow is signalled with an intensity vary ing with the degree of shade. Such sounds might be a guide to the blind in walking about. With darkness as zero, all kinds of light would be heard, moon- light having an audible voice, and full sunshine speaking with a roaring shout.

&

·BADIOACTIVITY IN A STAR ERUPTION.

The discovery of such unstable elementa aa uranium and radium in a new star

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to a thickness of about three and a half inches with concrete containing about 675 pounds of cement and 25 gallons of water per cubic yard; and this was lined with a half-inch layer of cement mortar pre pared with fine river sand

and mixed of common potash soap for each cubic with water supplying about nine pounds yard of concrete. When a sudden inunda tion came the wall resisted leakage, while the water penetrated readily into a neighbouring structure not protected by the waterproofed cement.

1636

194-1

cent., on junk-borne trade); 3435,623 (11.5 per cent.) on exports (£188,056, or 5.5 per cent on steamer-borne and £287,768 or 60.5 per cent, on junk-borne trade); making in all an increase of £1,233,486, or 14.1 per cent. on the net total.

ARGE

TO LET

TO LET,

SUBSTANTIALLY BUILT GODOWN, stated on Water Front East Point.

For further portionlar apply Property Office. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD Hongkong, 15th August, 1912. 1995

TO LET,

HOP with GODOWN attached, Nathan

Road, Kowloor.

KOWLOON MARINE LOT No. 43 with WHARF,

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCI

Co, LTD. Alexandra Buildings.

·Hongkong, 16th August, 1912.

TO LET.

1869

ON 2ND FLOOR, No. 2. PRoDan Frank

ONE-ROOMED OFFICE.

Apply Property Office,

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD [733

Hongkong, 23rd May, 1912.

TO LET.

.

EW First Class SIX ROOM HOUSES

1st of Ostobar next. Moderate rent

Apply to---

SPANISH DOMINICAN

2, Baymour Road.

(1018

NM Cameron Road, Kowloon, from the

FROCURATION, Hongkong, 27th August, 1912.

TO LET,

No. 19. SHELLEY STREET. "THE CASTLE," Castle Bend, 9 Rooms. from 1st September, 1912, thoroughly repaired, painted and colearwashed.

LARGE ROOMS, Central Position, Cheap Bent.

imports and in junk trado, both inward The relatively large increases in native and outward, may be regarded as a natural reaction from the somewhat de 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE

*0, pressed conditions of these branches in

First Floor. 1910, but it is plain that so general and,

No. 13, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE First Floor. on the whole, so evenly distributed an FOOD AND EUGS.. Different broods of ducks were fed-re-

advance represents a real extension of spectively with fish, meat and plant genuine business of this port, parti- products in the experiments reported by cularly gratifying in a year when there Magnam to the French Academy of were so many adverse circumstances to Bciences, The fish-eaters laid earliest, contend against. the

meat-eaters eight days later, and the vegetarians two and a half month later, at the age of ten months. Between December 17th and May 14th the first brood laid 64 eggs, the second 45, and the third 19. The eggs of the meat-eat- ing ducks were heaviest, however, and those of the vegetarians were next, the fish-eaters laying the smallest.

THE TRADE OF NEWCHWANG FOR 1911.

Mr. W. J. Cleanell, H.B.M.'s Consul at Newchwang, in his annual report

anys:--

"HARD TIMES."

REMARKABLE DESCRIPTION OF CORDITIONS IN TOKYO.

In a recent issue of the Japan Times, the following remarkable article appears, describing the conditions among the poor in Tokyo:-

1 SMALL GODOWN in Daddell Streef (Godown D).

"BOGATE" Austin Road, Kowloon, from 1st April.

For Sale. "HARTING and ROGATE": on part of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1154.

Apply to LINSTFAÐ & DAVIS,

3rd Floor, Alexandra Budolne Hongkong. 17th Angust, 1912.

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TO LET.

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MENT AND AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 1st August, 1912 [121

TO BE LET.

HOPS AND

ALEXANDRA

Apply-

OFFICES, IN BUILDINGS.

A. 8. WATSON & Co., LTD.,

Alexandra Buildings.

Hongkong, 22nd May, 1912,

"The cost of living keeps going up; and no one seems to be able to reach out OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING. his handa to bring the steadily ascending INSECTS IN ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT

balloon down to the ground. People Insects are often very susceptible to

helplessly watch the course and merely outraviolet light as experiments by L.

gasp. At the same time, poverty, bound Raybaud have recently shown, this fact In spite of dislocation and alarm due to the earth, walks about in the city at perhaps explaining the aversion of some to plague in all the surrounding districts, large, and the miseries of life increase. specics to strong sunlight. In the rays in the spring, widespread floods in the Above all the heads of families of the tures as snails. houseflies and tadpoles ing in many centree into famine as thi from a mereury-vapour lamp, such crea-summer and consequent distress, deepen labouring class seem to have the worst allotment of mersics [miseries 7] and Boon became torpid, and in the course of

Of your drew to a close, and in spite of the tortures, Many of them are daily desert- a few hours were quite dead. Young reaction on the local money market of the labouring men cannot support grasshoppers perished in about two days the revolutionary movements throughout

their wives and children. Adult grasshoppers showed no apparent China in the autumn, the trade of New- their families with the scanty wages they injury after a week's exposure, and chwang for 1911 may fairly claim to have get. The little store-keepere had [find 11 beetles were unaffected

been the largest on record.

it impossible to balance the ledger with 74,271,489 or £9,999,574 net value) falls versatly discouraged by dull business. It is true that the total (Hk. Tls. the credit ahead of debt, and are uni-

But, apart from the fact that £10,082,300 their children ery short of the £10,092,320, assigned to 1905. At home their wives need money and in hunger. The at 38. 0 1-10d., the average rate for, 1905, many hard-pressed and miserable bus- is only Hk Tls. 73,127,189, it has been bands go out in the morning to their repeatedly shown in these reports that the business or in search of work, just as trade for 1005 was unnaturally inflated usual, but they never return home. by canses directly attributable to the Thus a number of deserted wives and Russo-Japanese war. Mr. Consul Tebbitt, | fatherless children come daily to the Some of the vegetation of peat bugs in his report for 1906, mentions the charity lodging-houses for a night's proves to be characteristic of dry soils "great demand for commodities created shelter, and next day drift away, some instead of marshes. Such plants have by the huge contending armies in Man- of them to return there again in hunger. been observed by E. Coquide in the bogs churia," and Mr. Consul Fulford, in that It is said that at the clarity lodging of northern France, and have the ap- for 1905, states that the country had been house in Wakamiya-cho, Honjo, about pearance of growing on dry sand or denuded of its stock of foreign goods sixty of such women and children are chalk, although the soil is really damp during the stagnation caused by the war daily taken in. Moreover, most of them The conclusion is that the bog is made in 1904. That stock had to be made good, are so sick that they ought to be in bed. virtually dry for these plants by the

and in the process speculation swelled the The manager of the house sends the worst greater power of absorption of the peat. purchases of importers far more than the of them to the Mitsui Charity Hospital, Like the plants the peat attracts water real requirements of the market justified, a long distance away, as the hospital of by great evaporative power, and retains

may have unrealized significence. Prof- Kustner, of the Observatory at Bona, has reported these substane in the spectrum of the new star in Gemini, the uranium seeming to be in the metallic form, and the radium in the form of Niton, the gaseous emanation,

DRY-SOIL PLANTA IN DAMP BOGS,

the

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TO LET.

YOMFORTABLE FLATS in Kowloon, Furnished or Unfurnished, Electris Light and Water, Keats from $25 to $40.00 for unfurnished.

Apply

H. RUTTONJEE, Care of ROYAL GEORGE HOTEL Hongkong, 17th Angust, 1912,

TO LET. ON SHAREEN, BRITISH CONCESSION,

EX ROOMS and LARGE OFFICES, Best business situation.

mcently in escupation of Standard Oil

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(1000

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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

FROM

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

8.9. KOREA," SAN FRANCISCO VIA · JAPAN-

PORTS AND MANILA

Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified THE above-mentioned Vessel having arrived to send in their Billa-of-Lading for counter- signature and take delivery of Cargo from alongside.

Impeding discharge will be landed immediately at Consigures risk and expense. 28.

remsining on boa dafier WEDNESDAY, inat.. at Noor, will be lauded at Consignees risk and expense and delivery must then be taken from the Company's Godown. Cargo remaining undelivered MONDAY, 2nd Sept., of Noos, will be subject to storage and landing charges,

No Fire Lasurance whatever will be affected, All obated and otherwise damaged Cargo will be ermined at the above Company's Godown SATURDAY, 31st inst,, at 10 am.

Clains mast le fed on or before 25th Sept., otherwise they will not he recognised.

FRED. J. HALTON,

Agent: Hongkong, 26th August 1912.

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