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GENERAL NEWS.
Postal Changes.
TEETOTALISM AND
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1913.
by grippe. Where the population APPENDICITIS, are large meat-eaters, appendi- citis makes great ravages; where they are vegetarian, the cour ance is rare, In villages in France; where the butcher has made his appearance, so bas ap.: pendiotis,
Paris Excited over Medical
Theory.
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The N. Daily News under- stands that no important change has been maile by the Ministry of Are teetotalare more subject to Communications in the ranks and append enis than other people? titles of the Chinese Post Office A recent declansion to that effect,
MEIRION, Nos 9 & 10, Peak, "O BE LET-From 1st Jan- unfurnished, 6 RoomsTo uary, 1914, Nos. 1 to 5. The old rank of Postal Commis-by an authority, caused a sense sioner is in be restored in place of tion, writes the Pariseorrespond. the title of Pistinaster which has ent of the Pall Mall Gazetto: In practically non-existent in the Cheap Rental, from 1st December "AIMAI VILLAS," adjoining been used for the past two years, a madical revine be wrote: "Penitentiaries and other establish newly painted and colourwashed. "OLDESLOE." Kimberley Road,
Ents
At an epoch where the peasants soarcely ate any meat, they did develop this trouble. It is
ments where the diatury is "low." For the moment, then, the pri Buner at the bar ia ment, not Water.' Elo has been judge
and at the same time "acount dont believe that only those who become "Resistants" ar labatsin froun fermented beverages "formerly, Simultaneously there are liable to appendicitis, but I "is to be a rerorganization of dis say that they are more subject and
trict. The whole tendency of the than the others." changes will be to merones the admicistrative scope and powers of Postal Commissioners, with to the proportionate benefit Bervice.
condemned.
STAMP BARGAINS.
British Issue of Last Year
Worth Five Pounds.
This is the thesia that has ex› cited controversy, lay and medical. In that light spirit of mockery for which Pa is is famous, it is o'aimed that here i l'ono for Filipino May Succeed
drinking. The comic pipers have Mr Carpenter. That the vacancy cute when reized up the doctor's analo Executive Secretary Frank Wions to build up a case aga net Oarpenter is appoints Governor the water-drinker, who is pre- of the More provinco will be verbially" mechaut "in Frauca. filled by the appointment of a A humor us draughtsman, re- Filipiun seems very likely, says presents a uppler retorning to the ablanews Ameriran, and it is abide to encounter the I have blamed their ancestors' is understood from reliable sources pronches of his wife
upidity in not hoarding "Post that the person who will all the inebriety. "What! Would you Office, Mauritius" and triangular vacancy will be the present at have me run the risk of appendi-Cape stamps are now wishing torney general. Iguroig Villamon.itis?" he asks, in aggrieved they had watched some of His position will also be filled by ones.
the appointment of a Filipino.
Governor General Harrison
when communicated with throngh
on his
Mussulman Immunity.
In a dealers's price list jast published, a half-penny British Atamp issuer in October, 1912, is priced at 55. Stamp collectors
our recent British issues a little
To
more carefully. Of course this The door' ssumption, basad (particular hall-penoy stamp is his aide de camp refused to make on his professional experience not the ordinary variety. adefinite statement on the subject, that the wine drinkor is less 1 ke-give it its full description, it hut merely said that up the ly to come in the openingssesses a watermark "GvR" present no stope ind been taken table for this fashionable mally, reputed, invertail, aud reversed. a thar, in fact, wine in species
The average layman might well In the matter.
Attorney General Volamor ing of disinfectant against intestinal say that anyone capable of cam- that description been connected with the govern- troubles, 1 mol force out by in-prehending
the five ment for several years. He was quiries amongst bis medical by-Chorongals deserves
There is doubt of the pounds. This phrasa is, how- judge of the court of Gretheen. instance prior to his appointment umstantiality of his argument.ever, the philatelist as simple The challenge is taken up by A.B.C. It means that the to his present position and bas been attorney general for about Dr. Cabanes in one of the popular watermark when looked at from three years.
laily papers. and he adduces the hack of the stamp appearA some interesting facts. Appendi-lie right way round, but is up- Woman Radium Expert.
Repented" merely Misa Ellen Gleditsch, a Nor-citis, is rare in the Musulman-ide down. weigan science student, thirty-two mutries, where water, often imeals with the grouping of the years of age, has just won are, is the stapledrisk loquiries wator-marks on the paper. fellowship given by the American have establish, however, that`
This is by no moins the only Scandinavian Foundation endów-se milk in Tirgely consumed,
he post office with the last ed by the late Nel Puulsin, of wed" this useful in dearoring amp which has been sold at Brooklyn, and is proceeding to iglestind forments; at the same
-ear or two for a h 1f-jenny or s Yale University, where she will dine, inany are the Turks and work with Professor Bertram rahe mud other followers of terny und which is now wonb Bolswood. Miss Gleditsch began Malomes who drink only watery more polinds than is cost her career an pharmacist, but and add themselves none the soon found her greater interest «urse.
1:
"Perhaps the rarest of
all the recent Humps is a variety of the halfpenny which w was in chemistry, and she kept The 1 test writer on the shined in June, 1011," said a ou doing special work until she holds as harmless wine nember of the firm of Means. got very interested in radian.ixel with mineral or sterilized Stanley Gibbon (Limited), the Then she wrote to Ms. Curie, water; but he is not persuaded cell-known stamp denters, to s in Paris, for permission to work that paro water is harmful. Standard representative. "Its in her laboratory. She remained otwithstanding the themes arent attraction is that it is per- with Mme. Curie for five years, vanced: "For me" he says, faruted. 14. It is an error, you during which time she took her appendicitis has olhor causes," -ee, for the other stamps were perforated 15 on two sides and degrees at the Sorbonne. She and be procade to state them. thed returned to Christiania,
14, on the other two. There is not much difference; but it i- where she lectured at the univ-
Frequency in America,
aity and conducted advanced English and Americans are that little error which means laboratory research in radio more subject to app dicitis then everything to the philatelist. large volume: astivity Miss Gleditsch's special other peoples. It is said that, in we have two work up to the present has been certain towas in be United States,mong cur reference collection in testing the radio-activity of nine-tenths of the population have levoted entirely to King Edward metals and perfecting the pro-sen operated upon. Appoaand King George English
atampa. cesses of extracting radium and licitis had become a sport!
In a little book we making it cheaper.
This frequency is explained by publish there are about 150. Knitting as a Cure For Nerves.
Knitting for bush boys and the defec. in the alimentary varieties of English stamps noted girls when inclined to be excit-regime of the Anglo-Saxons. Ex that have been issued between able was recommend. by Dr. F.C.tremely coupied in business, January, 1003, sad. October,
on the more" they 1012. Spensley, of Darenth Industrialad always Colony, at a conference of these not the time to attend to They ent the their digestions." National Association for Feeble-Minded, beld at the Gnid-quickly because they are in a
"Speculatore have been very netiva during this period. Form- ball. The occupation of knitting, hurry, and they masticate badly erle bargain hunters would com- they have bad teeth. plain that they missed foreign or
he said, had a soothing effect,
because
had been proved by the Oxford The United States is the paradise
If dentists.
ROGATE, Austin Road, Kow- loon; unfurnished.
No. 68, Peak, Mount Kellett, Church ission Society Bunga- tow) from lat October, 1913, till 30th May, 1914, partly furnished, Cheap rent
1 CAMERON VILLAS No. 60 Poak, to let furnished for 1 year from 1st May,
FOR SALE or TO LET. (From 1st November, 1913.) No.1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Peak. Bungalow containing drawing: dining and smoking rooms and five bedrooms. With ground for Tennis-Court
FOR SALE. HARTING and ROGATE, on: part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154
Apply to
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Hongkong, 2nd Oct, 1913
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1hrough nct being on the spot But lately the nearest post office and Cambridge boatrace teams
French people alon, says this has been their happy hunting when the time of the race was ap-
oat fon ground and scarcer varieties have proaching," Mrs. Burgwin medical informam,
They expedite" boen issued not at rare intervals, (superintendent of the L. C. .quickly. Special Schools) read a paper air food, instead of giving it at day by day. Fortune favoured with reference to occupations for proper preparation in the mouth, the early bird at the post flice, the feeble-windel in day schools, and meat figures too largely on for rare varieties soon got sold. In a school she inspected the means. The diet iry is 100. To avoid "missing" any ahe said, the bore in a exclusively formed of flash thing, some people bought
is the worst enemy,supply of everything that was junior class were all eager to that
Some amusing stories know what an airship was. The It would be extremely advan-er. teacher gave them a single lesson, tgeous, he says, to abstain from are told of people who bougat up and in the afternoon all the class eating flesh during a certain large quantities of new varieties Bat eagerly making an airship in period. It is possible that this only to discover that what they paper. She suggested that the practice, like that of fasting and thought we an error was really obild over 14 should have a other religious observances, had the new standard stamp. chance to choose its own specialite origin in bygienic precautions
"At the present prices the labour. Giving details of the against the abuses of a too rich.
tamps of the period I mentioned. are a sound investment, as their occupations in the special schools, diet. she said they were very proud of
In the Seventeenth Century. number is very limited and the one boy who was earning 128. 8 week and his food, "He is the The doctor appears to believe demand kreps growing. Most second kitchen boy at the House that appendicitis is not new, and of the varieties arose through the of Commons," she said, amid that it existed in the seventeenth prioters being changed, and loud laughter, "and is doing century. It was probably the through the rush to produce the very well; I don't know whether cause of the death of Henriette of new King George stamps at about they knew what school he came England. Oar, ancestra rarely the same time. from when he went there." In practised autopaisa. It is not. the course of a long discussion extraordinary, therefore, if ap- several speakers urged the es perdiditis was unknown. 10 tablishment of special schools But if it existed, it was infinitely for the treatment of defective and less common than to day. epileptio, children, contending Mest diet is
them.
•
you have lost your appetite one of the big Variety of the
cause, and not, fainty dishes at the ALEXAN that no child so afflicted shopll as some have supposed, that the DRA CAFE 1 Siro to tempt
intestinal trapt has been infested You, be kept in a workhouse,
h
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Now
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and Felucca
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Und you have a poked then you read y hoyn not real salthw perfection to which the manufacture of Rasotas Figur Fa çin ba brought. Their makery Memos. Maspon 1 phas Lave now meranged for their nipity by all bleu-efana te acto
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UN Toothache!
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