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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1901.

indicated on the apparatus. They are read gerous to all bodies akke, both light, and from left to right as in Europe."

heavy, For the very existence of the alleged unpunctuality is rendered donbiful if we can suggest with any plausibility that the effects of the attractions of nil the known bodies of cha system have been not quite accurately eva- luated. And there is here, it must be con- fessed, a loophole by which it may be possible some day to find the way out. A comet is but

might be quite certain that of those full se count bad been taken, were it not for the fact that there are still some small outstanding irre gufarites in the movements of the planets them selves which continue to 'dely elucidation." So long as this is the case it is impossible to feel convinced thi theory is perfect. It may be that the anomalous motion of Encke's comet, presenting itself so frequently to our scrutiny, may supply the key to the enigma which is still unsolved,

The ordinary operations of arithmetic, we are told, can all be performed on this frame, some casily, others with more inculty. To add 843 and 546, for instance, the former núm ber is first indicated on the frame, and the digits of $46 are successively added by pushing up additional halls. What Cie operator has to kointiler is time the balls on each wire have-a-frail-body, pulled violently-this-way and that values ten times as great as those on the wire by the attractive power of the heavier bodies: to the right, of that wini,we call “curry- near which it may chance to wander. Wa ing" to the next colugin naturaly follows if asy mum requires mig. ball than are to the found on the wire. Subtraction is the inverse of this, and is quite as simple. Multiplication requires, as with is, the memorizing mul tiplication table. The pultiplièand is "set up on the frame, and the multiplier at its right leaving an interval. "The partial producis are all set up in full and added as they stand, Divi- sion is a very complex pricess. In the first place, a special division-cable, called in Japan ese "kukibo," mast be ineinorized. In this! table both quotient and remainder are given, and the results are used in the operation a véry | interesting way which is too long to be desi cribed here. Suffice it to say that our method is not at all applicable to the abacus, so that it "has been necessary to devise ne which to us seems very roundabout, but which is well fitted for its purpose. M Frochet concludes his notice as follows:

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FISITORS to Swatow will find comfortable and well furnished accommodation. Shooting. parties will find every lacility, House Boat, &c.,.everything to secure comfort as well as sport. Cuisine Exce lent, Prompt Attention, Billiards, Muric Saloon. Terms moderate,

F. HYDE, Proprietor. 1222]

A cable to the Tribune from London says: The English press bristles with paragraphs about the tobacco war between the American and British trusts, but a far more important movement which has been in progress since "My informant tellsing that there have been spring escapes observation. This is the pro very learned men who could extract. squatejected amalgamation of the lar, est iron and roots on the swanpain, Int as he was not so learned as this, he was completely ignorant of the incihod. This is why I am unable to describe the process, which was perhaps a ¦ very original one."-Translation made for Terican organizer. This combination will Literary Digest.

control the manufacture of rails in the United Kingdom, and will have cash.capital of £20,namo, without a drop of water, and when another group of large manufacturers of iron and steel, with whom negotiations are now in progress, is drawn in, the capital-will be in- creased to £40,000,000 ($200,000,000,):

stéel manufacturers in the United Kingdom. " The combination is being arranged by a group of the largest iron and steel manufacturers of the north and south, with the help of an Ame-

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The American organizer is John R. Bartlett,' who effected no long ago a combination" in the oil-manufacturing trade, and won the con-

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Prompt attention given to all Letters and Telegrams. A Representative attends the arrival of all steainets. 1076c]

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GEM MINING IN CEYLON.

The districts in Ceylon in which most of the precious stones are found are in Ratnapura and Rakwana, both in the south-western portion of the island, and within abriut thitty miles distance of each other, the former place being about sixty-five inites from Colombo, the chief port and gem inarket of Ceylon

It is a very curious feature in mining ifidence of a large group of English capitalists Ceylon; that withale exception of the diamond, by his skill and practical intelligence in con- ducting financial operations He visited during emerald, turquoise, and opid, almost every pre- cious, and semi-precious stone is found there, the spring nearly all the important iron and

steel works of the United Kingdom, and, after- and frequently a great variety of them are dug looking, over the ground and meeting the Are now showing out of the same pit. Rakwana is especially famed

masters of this enormous industry, he sub for sapphires, and if a native dealer wants to

initted to them a plan for effecting a combina. thoroughly impress you with the quality of his goods, no matter where they may come from,on of their business interests. While the he will assure you most solemnly that they are true Rakwana sapphire. A most all the dealers! in gems are Mohammedans, the native Cingalese having very little to do with the business except the manual labour of digging for them.

The mines, or, more correctly diggings are located in a rather mountainous country and with the exception of the Everton mine which has a death of several hundred feet, and which . is considered to have been the most success. ful on the island, are really only shallow pits, Fusually measuring 6 to 1oft, and rarely exceed.

ing to ft. in depth

There are certain well-defined features in the geological formation of the country to be looked for in seeking for the gem-bearing ground, and when the spot is decided upon digging can. proceed, provided one is possessed of the license granted by the proper authorities.

THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH.

organizer is an American, the projected enter- prise is exclusively English, and is not con- nected in any way with the United States Steel. Corporation. It is not organized in hostility to the American. combination, in the same in- dustry, but as a necessary measure of mutual protection and self-defense for the immense masses of English capital invested in the iron and steel manufacture.

THE UNEASY ROCKS.

Earthquakes are the care of much destruction, but what is the cause of earthquaken? The seicatife follows say the heat inside the earth, and the big rock trying to get into maro comfortable positions, That being so we can't care earthquakes; the cause is too deep and too bilu,

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"Rheumatic fever lait the foundation of all

my trouble many years ago Miss Jane Williams. Yes, but what lab the foundation of the rheumatic farer? The man who can answer that, with a somad of mures in the talk of him, will do more good than the long-tended statesman who captures a fresh foreign

eign market ar ruta off the heads of a million Chinese Boxes

Whatever way turn out to be the cause of rheumatic fever Miss Williams (with Jole of other Afflicted persona) la uo doubts about the effects of it. "Ths early attacks," the lady tells us, left me very weak ant low. They took away from me pretty nearly all digest quickly and thoroughly) the mamela I did eat." my.rolish for food, and the power to digest (I mean to

Does the reader think Misa Williams has put the cause and effect in the trua order bere? She thinks 10, to be sure. But wo will not be Easty to conclude. She wants a lost to hear the rest of her story.

"After meals he goes on to say, "my stomach became filled with wind and I was tortured with palar, in nearly every part of my body. They were stomach. I was often billets, too, and had violent sick headachet.

The detection of Encke's comet, on its twenty-fifth return since the year 1818, was recently announced. It is so domesticated comet that astronomers are able to deduce many portentous things from its movements. The symptom of the gravest character that supervened was that it portended the decay and ultimate destruction of our whole s-stem, a slow but sure and inevitable, falling together. of its component parts until all wore engulfed and consumed by the san. All this was, to ba deduced from the simple fact, completely estab-wome, however, in my chest, and at the pit of my fished, that the comel came back to perihelion at each return two hours and a half too soon. Its period was shortening; it must consequent- Ay be drawing nearer and nearer to the sun, an affect to be explained-though the oxplanation is not quite obvious, and we must take it for granted here only by the supposition that the space in which the comet moved was not quito vold of something tangible that might rotard its motion. Here was to be seca cause of peril to everything that moved round the sun. What was visibly happening to the

(Thus far she speake, you porecive, of indigestion or, as it is sometimes called, ents dyspepsia. Ho is the same bungry beast, though whether we put a Latin or a Greek collar na his nook.).

"No matter what I did," continues Min Williams, my strongth would not come back and small wonder, for I could neither cat nor sleep properly. Instead of getting stronger as the months passed by I grow more feebla and depressol,"

We can wall credit that. If all at ones the wind.. - rullia, the water-mills and the seam-mlils should stop grinding grain for a year what should we do for bread and cake!

My f," says this paliest woman, dreary and monotonous round of suffering and weak-

wax one

tonuous comet, so little able to resist the slight. I always weary and exhausted, although I est opposition, must far more slowly, but just as jį did no work to make ma so. All the strength went

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inevitably happen to the heavy planets. The out of my back and at last it got to be so painful and HOPS, STEAKS, etc., etc., at any time, COMPOSITION RED HAND Cargo and Specie will be registered for Log Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS.

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permanence of the system is proof against all || most of my time on the couch, unable to get about the manifold d sturbances which arise within it by the mutual attraction of planet upon planet; if there were in space some permanent resistance; over so slight, to its motion it would

bo doomed.

At its blackest the case was no immediate or aven remote menace to the future of the human race, Long enough before it became of serious importance the earth would in all probability be cold and dead as the moon. But there is a pathetic interest in the prospect of destruction for the beautiful system of planets of whose permanence we were bofore so well assured. It comes as a relief to learn that the grave symptoms in the case of Encke's comes have

At longth, and a tirosome length it was, as the doctor's medicines remed to be doing me no good, I was in some way led to try Mother Beigel's Arrop, After taking it a few weeks the improvement began, At first it was not much to notice, but it kept up, and little by little my strength retumed.

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The Syrap. gare me an appetite, a real appetite, and I began to enjoy my meals as I had not done during all the years I have spoken of, I had no longer any pain after eating and oh, what's rellet it was to it and not be puulated for it. I need only add that in the end Sogale Syrap restored me to health and strength, such as I had not been blessed with far lime almost out of mind.

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in the last forty years become notably diminishefal to others you may print it sa you think, fit,” ed. Since 1865 the comet has come round more (Blgasd) Jane Williams, Chapel House, Llantog,

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