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JOHNSTONE'S

“SQUARE BOTTLE"

WHISKY. UNVARIED FOR OVER 150 YEARS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21ST, 1912.

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

RADIOACTIVITY FOR USE.

Various methods of using radium are being devised. Versein of glass or alumi- num cut off much of the active rays, and M. Lieber, u French inventor, prepares a so-called "active screen", by covering n celluloid disc, plate or red with a paint of some radium compound in a suitable adlieront material. This may be coated with collodion, a varnish giving protec tion without matorially lessening the radiation. Radium gelatine" is a solution of sterilized gelatine containing a little radium salt, and is found by medical men to be convenient for internal use or for external application on absor bent cotton. A class of radioactive pre- parations for subcutaneous injections has been patented by A. D. Szendeffy of

similar substances combined with iodine or bromide or their compounds, with the addition of a fat or glycerine and a radium compound; an example being menthol dissolved in olive-oil and covered with a solution of iodine in potassium iodide, with the addition of radium bromide. The fat sointion takes up the jedine and becomes radionetive.

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN Budapest. They consist of terpenes or

1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

BOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,

and from ALL WINE MERCHANTO.

The Dalli

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Durbar

Crowned with success

in all countries.

The best, most simple and most comfortable way of ironing. Independent of stove and gas, it can be used anywhere. Non. inflammable fuel without noxious fumes. No risk from fire: healthier and safer than any other iron.

Oral Sterek TL

Stocked by The Sincer Co., ltd., Den Vors Rd., and C's RL, Cenim. itong King. A CON Beware if workiest iniluškoms,

MARTIN'S

SAPIOLASTREL FEMPILLS

§. dewasa Damely for allerndsinrition SHANNALTA, LAGINE ALWAYS AND 6, bas of Marsa Pill is the hoone, in bảon the Est mom of any krewendriky, of das Byziom a Manly Sins may be samutiama, Tringa who The Lamandommanà tham,hapes thaitanor. MAMAJONlt cibelen azi Blores saļ thems

'MARTIN'S

APIOLASTEEL

Rowland's Macassar Oil

FOR THE HAIR.

Preserves, Beautifies, Reatores it. Cicely resembles the natural oll in the hair, which nature provides for its preservation. No other article possesses this property. Without it the hair becomes dry, thin, and withered. Poor air mats the effect of a beautiful face. Good mir adds charm and interest to a plain ons; every Toilet Tablo abouid pomen this all

LADIES should always une it for their own Hair and for their Children's Hair is it lays the foundation of a luxusfant trowth, Golden Colour for, fair bair Of Stores, Chemists, and ROWLAND'S. $7, Hatton Garden, London. Avoid cheap worthlem insitutions buy only Rowland's

Stomalix

An absolutely safe and harmless Restorer of Healthy Digestion

Recommended by the medical profession

physician, prepared by Salt de Carlos, surgeon and pharmaceutist of the highest standing in Europe.

Stomalix is not a mere stingunt or tem- porary will, waking the patient the victim of a drug babit, but it is gradual and benign in its restoring the exhausted, over taxed or diseased digestive functions to pericet bealib and capacity to perim their work nnanted.

Physicians who have used no other medicins thau Storafix where their patients have suffers, from chronic gastritis, dyspepsia, gastralgia, anemis, sicer of the stomach, dysentery, and other stomach troubles, repou that thes diseases have yielded to the remedy,

Pases of thirty years' standing,

tomalix is the best and 1est treatment 10% care of diseases of the stomach and ft is invaluable to brain workers,

the youthful and the aged, it

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correct the ailments of children, sed is alsolately hartless.

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OIL-LAMPS AS SIGNALS.

In tests of oil-lamps as weather signals at night, reported by G. Ishida from the Japanese meteorological station at Hana- de, it has been found that the light of flat wicks is much brighter at a distance than that of round wicks, and that the range of red lights is about double that of green. The latter became practically invisible at two miles, while rod lights were still bright at three miles.

NITROGEN FOR POWER.

The nitrogen for driving machinery supplied by the Nitrogen Company of Berlin is compressed to 200 atmospheres, and is mid to cost about seven cents per thousand fest. A by-product of the pre- paration of compressed nitrogen is liquid Carbonic acid.

A DOUBLE MICROSCOPE.

A novel optical instrument, in the shape of a comparison or double-field micros- cope, was described in a paper prepared by Dr. W. Thorner for the late meeting of the Institute of Metala. It consists of two microscope tubes mounted on a single stand and having a single eyepiece, but each tube has its own coarse adjustment, objective,, stage, substage and mirror.. A prism-box, surmounted by the crepiece, connects the tubes at the top. Two prisms in each side of the box-project into the eyepiece the light rays from the corres- ponding tube by giving them two turna at right angles. The two priams in the centre of the box are mounted on a slide, and when they are in the central position the circle of vision in the eyepiece is made up of a semi-circular area from each microscope, but moving to right or left causes the slide to shift the field of view to either microscope alone. This double instrument is expected to be useful for

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A METAL-VAPOUR LAMP GIVING WHITÈ LIGHT.

A new German metal-vapour lamp is designed to give a white light instead of the objectionable greenish light of the mercury-vapour lamp. The new lamp has one or both electrodes of cadmium mixed with a small proportion of mercury, and the white glow of the vapour of these metals as the electric current passes is claimed to yield a light equal in economy to that of the mercury vapour clone. The cadmium-mercury alloy solidifies on the inside of the quartz tube as the lamp cools, quickly turning into vapour again with the switching on of the current.

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY.

No matter how much or how little you want to for Christmas gift, pay a you won't get anything that will give so much pleasure as a Victor or a Victor-Victrola.

There's one of these instruments at a price to and suit every purse, we'll arrange easy terms if desired.

Stop in any time and we'll gladly play any Victor music you want to hear.

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ADMINISTERING DRUGS BY ELECTRICITY. A Chair of Human Geography, with New evidence of the practicability of Jean Brunbes as permanent lecturer, has the plan of administering drugs through been established in the College of France. the skin by electric action was lately Its purpose is the study of the earth's brought before the British Medical surface as related to man, and it will Association by Dr. Andrew Sloan. An deal especially with the unproductive experiment with the stomach of a newly-occupation of the soil, as by the houses killed ox showed beyond question that and streets of towns, with the adaptation a salt of copper could be conveyed of plants and animals to human use, as by through mucous, membrane- and tissue to and with economic destruction, the niuscle cells.

fisheries and mines which take away wealth that cannot be restored.

TREES THAT LIGHTNING STRIKES. The relation of trees to lightning, as shown by F. G. Plummer in a recent bulletin of the United States Forest Ser- vice, does not wholly accord with popular baliefs. It is found that trees are the objects most often struck because they are the most numerous of all prominent objects, they offer a short course to the ground, and their spreading branches in the air and roots in the soil present an ideal conductor to the ground. Any kind of tree may be chosen by the lightning, the greatest number in any locality being found among the dominant species. The likelihood of any tree being struck is in- creased if it is taller than surrounding trees, is isolated, is on high land, is deeply rooted, and if its condition-as when wet-makes it the best electrical conductor of the vicinity at the time of the flash Lightning may set a forest on fire by igniting the tres or--what is much more likely to be the case-the humus about the base.

PINEAPPLE POISONING.

Some perplexing cases of poisoning from eating pineapple have been reported from Hanoi, Indo-China. The nervous system seems to be specially affected, and the symptoms-which may be severe and even falal-begin suddenly, with itching at first, followed by acid eructations, then torpor, heart failure,

face swelling, patches of purple rash on the skin, and perhaps unconsciousness and collapse. The cause is a mystery, a suggestion of the natives being that the fruit has been Hot in- bitten by venomous reptiles. fusion of pino-apple bark is an antidote prescribed, but whether this is effective. or not, it appears that recovery quickly follows the elimination of the poison.

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GUARANTEED as times stranger than Chalic Acid vs Typhus. Siable kit water. H.M. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS:

INDIA OFFICE—August 2, 1912, WAR OFFICE-1958-1909, and 1910-1911, 13,000 Gallons. Eight former Contracts including 1911-1912 for 5,000 gallone a week.

Works: London.

THE STANDARDISED DISINFECTANTS Co. Ltd., Biter Building London, England. 1440

IF YOU SUFFER

from

INDIGESTION

BILIOUSNESS

CONSTIPATION

take

MOTHER

any ailments arising from Indigestion you may depend on Mother Seigel's Syrup 1st, to relieve you quickly; 2nd, to cure you; 3rd, to prevent the trouble out for the fature. The common ailments growing of Indigestion are: headaches, dizziness, constipation, pains in billousness, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, the stomach after eating, windy pressure, palpitation.

vousness. When food in your stomach is not nervousness. being digested it certainly doing you harm; because it is ferrenting and producing poisonous acids that taint your blood, attack and inflame your nerves, and stagnate your whole system. Mother Seigel's Syrup is made from the curative extracts of certain roots. barke, and leaves, which speedily tone up and strengthen all the digestive organs, the stomach, fiver, and bowels, and so aid them to do their work. properly. That it does all this you can prove for yourself by trying it!

SEIGELS SYRUP

Also in Table! Form, 2/9,

Fit

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TO LET

FFICE in ALEXANDRA BUIT DINGS,

Apply-

A. 8. WATEQN A Co., LTD., ·

Alexandra Buildings Hongkong. 16th October 1912. [1222

TO LET.

LARGE SUBSTANTIALLY BUILA

GODOWN, situated on Water Front East Point,

For farther particulars apply Property Offles JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD

1995 Hongkong, 15th August, 1912.

TO LET.

ro. 21, SHELLEY STREET.

No.

No. 6, DES VŒUX VILLAS, 59, THE PEAK, from 1st March. 1913 Premises will be thoroughly repaired, painted and colourwashed.

68, MOUNT KELLET, Partly Furnished, immediate possession to 31st May, 1913.

From 1st February, 1913, MERTON, No. 10. PEAE, Farnished or Unfurnished, 6 ROOMS. To Let or For Sale, "GLENSHIEL," No. 124, Barker Road, Peak, 5 ROOMS, from let March, 1913.

For Sale. "HARTING and ROGATE** on part of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1154, Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, 16th December, 1912. 122

TO LET.

ROM 1st March, 1913, for 8 or 9 months or 8 may be arranged, Farnished Bangalow, "DUNEDIN," Barkér Roal, 115 The Park.

Apply→→

A. MACKENZIE,

Care of ARTHUR & Co

74, Queen's Road.

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Hongkong, 18th December, 1912.

TO LET.

TO. 5, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD Colourwashed. 8 ROOMS. Possession from 1st January, 1913.

Apply to

No Thoroughly into and

ME. BIEN TING, Dentist, 14, D'Aguilar Street.

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Hongkong, 18th December, 1912.

TO LET.

ON 2ND FLOOR, No. 2, PEDDER STREET,

ONE-ROOMED OFFICE.

Apply Property Office,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD, Boughong, 23rd May, 1912.

TO LET.

From 1st February, 1913.

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SURNISHED or Unfurnished, 6, Mountain

RELIABLE CONNECTION

WANTED FOE ORNAMENTAL FEATHERS

AND

BIRD SKINS.

Write to

Z., 7203, Care of GOULD's Advertising Agency, 54, New Oxford St., LONDON, W.C., ENGLANT

SAVARESSES SANTAL CAPSULES

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View, Peak, containing BIX ROOMS. Apply

W. E. LOXLEY & Co.,

York Buildings, Chater Road, †1425 Hongkong, 17th December, 1912.

TO LET.

HOP in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Apply-

A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD,

Alexandra Buildinga.

1354 Hongkong. 27th November, 1912.

TO LET.

YODOWN, No. 94x, Praya East, Wanchai

from 1st January, 913,

Apply to

KONG BANG HỌNG, Lrs

248, Des Voeux Road Central Hongkong, 6th December, 1912.

TO LET.

(1390

TO. 4, OBMSBY VILLAS, Kowloon

from the 18th January.

Apply to

SPANISH DOMINICAN

PROCURATION, Hongkong, 14th December. 1912.

TO LET.

OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING.

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PHYSICIANS RECOMMEND THEM - MADE IN LONDON - OF ALL CHEMISTS

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A GODOWN, 162,. Fraya East.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT AND AGENCY Co. LTD. Hongkeng, 4th December, 1912. [121