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'THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14TH, 1915.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
SELF-TENDING LIGHTING APPARATUS.
An automatio electric-lighting outfit de- signed by a Gloucestershire manufactur- ing firm for private house use is mounted OTI two cross girders for convenient portability, and comprises an oil engine, dyliame, automatic starting switch, and 1180 water-tank. The small battery. supplied has a capacity much below that of the charging plant. The apparatus is so designed that while the battery is charged and not at work, the engine is at resh, and it continues at rest while the Iamps turned on are being fed sufficiently by the stored current. But when the ค certain battery voltage falls below point, the automatic switch sets the The starting- machinery in motion. current-quickly cut off by a time-limit circuit-breaker-turns the dynamo, and this starts the engine, which rane as long as needed. When the lessoned use of current permits the battery to become Bufficiently charged, the switch stops the engine
SAYE GASOLINE-STORAGE.
A new hydraulic method of storing petrol or gasoline is credited with im- The unused space portant advantages. in the storage tank is kept always filled with water, and. a simple pumping nechanism causes the water to force the oil out as required. In refilling the tank the water is drained away. liquids do not mix, the light oil always flating on fop; there is no loss from evaporation, as there is no gas to escape or refilling; and the oil is preserved an- changed for any length of time.
A HUMMING-FIAD MUSEUM.
The two
The remarkable collection of humming- the British birds just presented to Museum by K. J. Hulston contains 3,315 specimens, including 2,674 skins and 199 with eggs, nests, some of the latter
These represent 162 genera and 480 species - greater number of both genera and species than critical authorities within recent years would admit to be in ex- istence. This is the second great collec tion of humming-birds acquired by the sare Museum. making a total probably unequalled.
AN OIL FURNACE FOR THE FOUNDRY.
A new kind of oil furnace for metallur- gical work has been under trial at a German foundry, and seems to be specia!- ly adapted for use in making experi inental castings. It gives meltings of iron, steel, copper or bronzes wilbout introducing the impurities of coke
The
furnace has the form of cylindrical drun of sheet-iron, with a fire-proof
POWDER &ining, and is mounted horizontally on
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trunnions a hand-wheel or tilting lever being attached to one trunnion, and the oil-nozzle entering through the ther. The fame, striking the opposite - wall, passes out through a top-opening. The furnace is charged through the top, and the molten metal is poured through the same opening by turning the cylinder. The capacity may be 500 to 3,000 pounds of metal, a convenient size having a cylinder about five feet long and two and In trials re- a half feet in diameter. ported by H. Haedicke, 950 pounds of gray iron required 13 hours for melting, at a cost for oil of about 16 cents per 100 pounds; and a charge of 450 pounds of steel was fused in 24 hours, with about 70 cents of oil per hour.
LIGHTNING BY WIRELESS.
Or
The message sent by a distant thunder- storm, it is pointed out, is detected by n kind of wireless-telegraph receiver, the electric waves sent through the atmosphere' being caught by a small aerial wire, and
coberer, passed along through a detector, to the ground. As the detector responds, it closes a delicate electric circuit, acting on a needle that is tracing a line on a cylinder rotated by clockwork The needle is momentarily moved to one side, and each discharge is thus recorded as a V in the needle's line. For measur- ing the strength of the discharge as it is
A
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ONE-ROOMED OFFICE.
169
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147
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with 3 ROOMS. Kitchen, Bathroom, and Servants Quarters. Quiet Locality.
· HOMESTEAD," No. 45, PEAK.
Apply to
TSANG KIT-FAN,
Compradore Department,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, lat May, 1913.
TO LET.
HONGKONG & SHANGHAT BANKING OFFICES in Hotel Mansions,
CORPORATION.
Hongkong, 29th April, 1913.
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HENRY HUMPHREYS, Alexandra Buildinge. Hongkong, 9th April, 1913.
NO.2.WEST END TERRACE, Shamees.
From May, 1913. 153, PRAYA EAST, GODOWN,
FOR SALE or TO LET. Unfurnished, a HOUSE at The Peak Apply-
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REEZY VILLA," No. 2, Park Road.
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London has a pair of strange im- They belong to the species migrants. Proochidna, a very large and very rare form of porcupine anteaters and with the other echidnas and the platypus, or duckbill, they represent the only egg- Jaying mammals now existing. Though they feed on the mother's milk after hatching, like all mammals, they resemble were brought from New Guinea, and reptiles in structural peculiarities. They little is known of them in their wild state. Load.
THE POPE.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 1st May, 1913.
A HACIENDA
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removing a portion of the husks. For electric current for lighting stations and degreasing the bitterness, which in the shops. tests made was masked with molasses or molasses feed,, the nuts may be crushed, and Leu soaked and boiled in water previous to drying. It is thought that the meal, with the bitter principles extracted, may be prepared as an article of com merce. A calf was fed on horse chestnut An important general law of atros meal three munths, the ration varying pheric circulation announced by Wup to five pounds daily, and improved in Peppler is that vertical movement of the condition, with a good gain in weight, air is ent up. between a slow-moving A sheep was led on the nuts for the samo Two pigs also horizontal current and a faster stratum. time with no ill effects. This was proven at the Lindenberg were given the nuts, but, even when mixed
Since his accession the Pope has. Observatory, Bavaria, by comparing the with condimental food and an extra accustomed himself to indulge in very average rate of ascent of pilot and sound-amount of molasses, the diet was unsatus-little sleep. The hour for his Mass is e ing halloons for 500 meters with the factory and was soon refused by the ani..., and he has been in the habit f average for the whole ascent, An increase mals. The horse chestnut meat is a fairly rising a good hour before then, in order to have time for his private devotions, in horizontal movement gave an increase concentrated food, one
pound being When in good health he always shaves and RTO 21, 8HELLEY STREET. vertical movement.
calculated from its starch equivalent to dresses himself without any assistance.
In spite of this early rising, his Holi Farnished. equal one pound four ounces of oats, or
neys does not believe in retiring "CRAIG RYRIE," No. 4, The Peak, To two pounds five ounces of good meadow
early. According to
his one of Let, 8 ROOMS; Teanis and Croquet Lawns; biographers, Thay.
the Abbé Cigala, it Fine Situation.
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EDIBILITY OF HORSE-CHESTNUTS. The fruit of the horse-chestout. Esculus. hippocastanum, has been commonly re
is often 11 p.m., sometimes midnight, From 1st February, 1913, MERION, No. 10, garded as poisonous, but S. J. M. AR The latest fource of producer gas is the when Pius X. begins to think of taking & PEAK, Farnished or Unfurnished. 6 ROOMS an English Professor of Agricultural ander deposit of locomotive smoke boxes. little rest. All bis attendants are already
To Let or For Sale. "GLENEHIEL" No. Chemistry, reports that his late experi. The cinders have considerable heating in bed, The Pope, to make waiting on 124, Barker Road. Peak, 5 ROOMS, from le ments prove it to be quite harmless as a value, but attempts to utilize them are said him easier, has chosen for his bedroom & Murch, 1913
to have been unsuccessful until the recent little room in an entresol which com-
For S. "HARTING and WOCATE food for cattle, sheep and pigs. From development of a special form of producer municates by a winding staircase with his analysis and feeding trials, it was found by the firm of J. Pinisch, of Berlin. apartments. It is a regular monk's coll, to be fairly nutritious. The nuts were This apparatus has been already put to with nothing in it but a camp bedstead. On Gale at the DAILY PASS" Office or best prepared as meal after drying and use on the Prussian State Railways, where All the Vatican has retired to rest long
the gas furnishes power for generating before Pius X. thinks of sleep,
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T, F. CLAXTON, Director. Hongkong, Observatory, 13th April, 1913.--
1 BAROMETEA, reduced to 34 degroos Fahreubet, the level of the sea in inches, tenths a undredth
"EMPERATURE, in the shido, izi degro
fahrerheit.
3 HUMIDITY, in percentage of saturation, tà midity of air saturated with moisture boing it,
4 DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points,
Fouca O WIND, according to Beaufort Scule.
'S STATE OF WRATHEN, b bluo sky, a detechi dood, d drisaling rain, f fog, a gloomy, ha
ting, wereast, p passing mowers, 4 equal raio, a near, t thurider, visibility, w dew (we
7
inches, tenths and hundredths
SHIPPING REPORT.
The British str. Yuensang reports: Light to moderate S.W, winds and fpe weather,
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