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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH;

FINEST EEL STÓRY.

OLD CUSTOM GOING.

DAIRY FARM NEWS

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TO-DAY'S

MISCELLANY.

system

Told at British Association Decline of Afternoon Tea.

Although, with modern me- Meeting.

The holiday season and thethods, trains on the cube railways When the British Association heat waves between them have are made to follow each other. thrown into high relief a change in quick succession, there are inovitable delays at the stations met at Liverpool this month there which is taking place in our where stops must be made to set was to be a larger gathering of dietitic habits, writes a* con- down and pick up passengers. scientists than has ever met intributor to a Homa paper. one place.

For some unknown reason, that The use of moving platforms has often been discussed as means Chomists, physicist, anthr} peculiarly English meal, after-

of dealing with crowds. A opologists, zoologists, botanists,noon tea, is falling into disuse. mathematicians, astronomers, People no longer give tea development of this idea is re and geologists were to various parts of the city to discuss the most cherished hour of the which has been offered to the meet in parties. Tea-time is no longer presented by the Adkins-Lewis

Never-Stop Transit" the latest advances in their whole day. Even tea, itself, as city of Paris as suitable for in- spective sciences: and for the

a beverage, is no longer esteemed

stallation in subways under the general public an attractive series at its old, high value. of afternoon lectures in the Pic-

And yet tea is the best of all hot-boulevards from the Place de ton Hall was arranged.

weather drinks, just as it is the 'Opera to the Place de la Republi best of all cold-weather drinks,que. For demonstration purposes Pussibly the vast popularity of piece of line has been laid in the American scdo fountain has the grounds of the Kursaal at something to do with the change. Southend. On this system there is a constant succession of cars. If so, the change is a bad one for each seating eight passengers, these strange concoctions of fruit with roum for four standing. Zoulogists have for years vain and ice and serated water While passing through stations ly sought to discover where the from a doctor's point of view of

the cars slow down to a speed of j newly-hatched eels begin their very doubtful worth. They may three miles an hour, so that lives before they find their way in-seem cool; in fact, they are heat travellers can enter or leave them to fresh-water rivers streams and producers. Moreover, by upset with very little inconvenience. ponds. All that was known wasting the digestion they tend to

Between stations they will! that the breeding places were not make hot weather more rather travel at as much as twenty-four

but somewhere than less difficult to endure.

miles an hour. There are twenty- Tea.

The contrary. H

four ears, and even if the maxi- courages perspiration, and

mum -peed is only, sixteen miles Dr. Schmidt. by patient inreduces blood-heat in must j un hour the line is able to deal

manner. Cold vestigations over thousands of efective

miles +f the Serth throughout the East, is the main with something like ten or twelve thousand seated passengers an hour. The up and down lines are connected at each end

One of the most interesting of these was that of Dr. J. Schmidt, the Danish zoologist, on the life history of the eel, on which is the leading authority.

SCIENCE BAFFLED.

in fresh waters. in the open seas, most probably in the Atlantic.

square

J

teu,

Atlantic. bas brilliantly solved Stay of those exposed to high this secret of the eel. Before he temperatures.

began his task no vel larvae was But it is the social aspect of known smaller than about 1in..this beverage which constitutesy loops of only Sft. radius, round which the cars are traversed by much too big to be looked on as its chief claim to our affection. newly hatched; and these were Tea-time, for generations, hasarm worked from the driving shafts. The motive is supplied well out in the Atlantic. Offeur been

greatest civilising

by two 40 hp, electric motors. coasts the cel larva were more agency in our land. than twice as long, and the elvers: (threeyear-old eel) in our rivers were about in.

the

It has spelt leisure and comfort and charin. It has brought to gether choice wits and charting

minds.

are robbing 1.

A serious attempt is at last being made all over the country to suppress the motorist who TRAVEL AS THEY GROW. So Dr. Schmidt passed slowly

Such a beneit will never he drives recklessly and without ro- the across the Atlantic, from theonferred by any modern soft rd to anything except

"speed" says ✰ areas where

over in. drink." however cunningly con-attaining of eels

Home paper. In some districts abounded towards the Americantrived.

The rush and bustle of modern the day of the fine is over; in- coast, carefully charting the places where progressively small-life: the motorcar, and that the Prisonment is the portion of the er farve were found, until he motor-car now stands for hurried offender. A police witness giving ultimately came to the long-visits, hasty discharge of alevidence in a case at Mary lebone Police Court -id

the sought spawning grounds, in the duties these

Commissioner .if Atlantic, are 3,000 miles south-ittle by little. of the gracious that

Police had directed that all west of the British Isles.

motorists travelling at a rate over. forty miles an hour should be summoned for driving at a speed dangerous to the public. Mr.. d'Eyncourt. the magistrate. thought forty miles an hour inany London thorough-fate was done gerous. The number of accidents fit London suggests that twenty

mile- an hour i

--peed dangerous to the public."

ve

Įthings of existence.

But even these, until yesterday Here only were newly-hatched] larvae found. about Tein, long had not prevailed against the tea As they grow they begin to travel hour, with its delicious sense of toward Europe. but it takes three comfort. its purring kettles, and year for the larvae to reach our its dainty foodstuffs. What our Shores and make their appear ance in our rivers as elvers.

They remain in fresh water about four years and then leave. It is too much to hope that the them for good, moving back present eclipse is across the Atlantiesto the spawn-temporary characters ing grounds to reproduce their:

species.

DEATH AT 106.

French friends call Bebek" seemed to be part and parent of our very lives.

aly

WAGE PLAN FOR

DOCKYARDS.

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The Chancellor of the Exche quer a few weeks ago announced the receipt of $1,500 as a contribu tion towards the reduction of the National Dels from a gentlemaATI who wishes to remain anony-j mous. Mr. Baldwin expressed | Jon behalf of his Majesty's Glove

ernment hi grateful appreciation) Payment by results in the of this gift to the nation. The Mrs. Emily Mary Ann Garrett. Royal dockyards has been sug-last previous contribution of this

Refused Life Policy When a Girl!

Admiralty Proposal for Payment by Results.

gusted by the Admiralty in

of Oakgrove. Anerley, died re- cently in her 107th year a great-letter addressed in the workers

great-great-grandmother and 3 widow for nearly 70 years.

Born in the Borough in 1817.

section of the Shipbuilding Trades Joint Council.

The Admiralty view is that such two years before Queen Victoria.system instead of payment by

kimi was £100 from "One who too old to fight." Two years ago

gift of £1,000

WAL- made. Other contributions annoncer have been £2.500 Five per Cent. War Bran Stark, "F.ST.

she reached the age of 106 Jule time. would be beneficial to render of 2 percent, of his estate trouverned, and it is pointed out her enthat some such system tas ta here generalin private shipyartis,

6. For the past two years sight and hearing have both failing, but he retained all faculties until the last.

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of about £580 notified in a letter to The Times in June, 1919, and individual amounts of £130.- A ballot of the members of the £150, £15,015, £12,000K),

£25.00 Amalguauted Engineering Unive Until a few weeks ago -he came "downstairs every day. Her signis to be taken, and when the ature was accepted by the bank result is known officials of the

BURGLAR'S * NERVEL".

union. in volsjunction withi A burglar nerve" has come up to the last, and he insisted

official- the other unions to light at Selby, following the that no difference -bould be made in her foul. Yotas giraffected, willineet representatives ransacking of a Primitive Methe

dist minister's house during his she had been considered delicate.of the Admiralty.

An official of one of the union-holiday. The polien have di and an insurance company re-affected said to Home Press covered that after the robbery the fused her a life policy.

burglar, posing as a pedlar, went! Her early days were spent in representative:

Where a system of payment into an inn within 100 yards of the Borough, and she hah an excellent memory of events of by results can be operated, it the minister's house and put up

will be adopted provided an the proceeds to auction. nearly a century ago She re- membered the Old Kent-road agreement can be arrived at.” when it was a rural fame lined TRADE UNION REPORT. with farmhouses.

"A joint committee appointed HORRORS OF THE MARSHALSEA. by the Engineering and National She had been o great social Employers Federation, the Ship- worker among the poor, and was building Employers' Federation. one of Canon Cadman's chief and the Unions Negotiating Com- added the helpers at St. George the Martyr mittee recently, As she was never afraid to go official. "issued a report on the among the rough people of the question of working hours. neighbourhood. they Came to In this report the Committee respect her..

Tinted out that between 1913 and Sometimes she visited the 1919 there bad been a number of Marshalsea Prison, and she had cases of change from time work to terrible memories of the way in piecework and the result had been which the prisoners were treated. an increase in earnings and

In 1849 there was an outbreak output.

of cholera in the Borough and une The Committes gave as 3 of Mrs, Garrett's employees fell instance riveters employed on a il with it, and was left for dead, warship whose record on time As the coffin was being borne was 176 rivets per squad in a along the street, & sound was week, and on payment by results: heard from inside it. The lid was 722 rivets per squad per week. removed, and the man was found "Of two standard vessels longer to be alive,

to complete than the one built on payment by results. Other com- parisons showed that in the case.

He lived for years afterwards, and to show his gratitude to Mrs.

Garrett, he made her a doll's of shipwrights laying decks, on

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