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Arrived in Peking Mr. W. F. Sherfeses, until recent- ly Director of Forestry in the Philippine Jalanda, strived în Peking on January 21. to take up his duties as Advisor in Forestry to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.""
Catting his Teeth.
New Castle, Pa., December 16, -William Walker, drayman, of this city, is cutting a new sekof teeth at the age of 30. The new teeth are appearing, both appar and lower, just behind the morm- al set. As the old, as well as the Lew ones, are în excellent con- dition, Walker will have a don- ble equipment of "masticating apparatus.
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One of Germany's Newest Dread- noughts Reported Sunk, A cablegram from Rotterdam to the Nw York World states that one of Germany's zeret Dreadnoughts last week struck a miza in the Baltic and went to the bottom all the crew except thirty-three being saved. A later despatch from Copenhagen statem that the Dreadnought was the Markgraf, a modern battleship completed in 1914.
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Hongkong. on Saturday, the 19th day of February, 1916, at noon, sibilities of physical science in The Governor of Nyasaland for the purpose of receiving the his time as a romantic factor in further telegraphs to the effect Report of the Court of Directors melodramatic fiction, and will be that, althoug the leader of the re-together with a statement of Ac-' forever immortalizad for his forebellion is still uncaptured, be is counts for the year ending the cast of the submarine, in the being closely pursued. His fol- 31st December, 1915. famous "Nautilus" of **Cantain lowers have been broken up, and The Register of Shares of the Nemo set cat in "Twenty Thou- captures of other ringleaders con- Corporation will be closed, from sand Leagues Under the Sea" tinue to be made.
MONDAY, the 7th February, to The rising SATURDAY, the 19th February. This was a craft lit and controlled, may be regarded as suppressed. 1916 (both days inclusive), during by electricity at a time when the current was scarcely more than a Airships appeared off the south Iaboratory plaything and 30 years east coast to-night and the forts: before its general use for light or opened fire and drove them Bordes power. HG Wells, also, follow the Channel. The authorities in ing Verne, has used the greater London and elsewhere. marvela of science of to-day, in an most prompt in taking precsn- age when electricity is a house-tions to obscure lights and protect hold necessity, to build up the important points. All was done wonders of a sort of anticipatory with splendid orderlines, and THE HONGKONG & WHAM- Thirtieth Century fiction. But calm. There was gun-firing by the even a Wells finds it difficult to coast batteries and searchlights keep up with the actualities of were baxy, but no hostile aircraft the mechanical sciences, and the appeared. Ramours were ride in tratha of applied magneto-electric sobievementa outrun the imagina tion of the most active of romane ing navelista.
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