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CHINESE OPTICAL CO.

Refracting

and

Manufacturing

Crookes Glasses.

1

Kryptok (Invisible)

неначение

Bifocals.

Toric Lenses.

Sun Glasses.

67, Queen's Road, Central.

#

METALS

at all kinda especially for ahip-building and engineer-

18g work. Complete stock. Best, Terms. Iminediata delivery.

SINGON & CO.,

"[ESTABLISHED A.D. 1880]

HING LUNG ST.

Phone

Central 516

The Empress Store

58. Nathan Road, Kowloon.

"Under English Management

Orders for Wines, Liquors.

ano

Provisions Fresh

Fruit

Vegetables, ato.

Promptly executed at

coth-

petitive prices.

AUCTIONEERING & BROKERING CO., LTD

Proprietora.

MRS. SEKAI

MASSSAGE

Tel. No. C.4433, 2nd floor

No.2, Duddell Street, Hongkong

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ARROW

COLLARS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926.

RAILWAY ROMANCE

T SAR'S JEWELS.

6: 70 MILES AN HOUR IN

THE FORTIES.

The great spoed attained by certain trains as far back as the forties compares very favourably with that of modern trains, as is shown in "Brunel and After litho romance of the Great Western Railway), just published by the company.

ON VIEW IN MOSCOW"

By a dramatic goature the Boviet Government has disposed of all the innumerable stories and rumours circulated for yours as to the fate and whereabouts of the Russian Crown jewels.

They have simply placed them on public exhibition-the price less crowns, scoptros and other regalia that are variously alloged | to have boen smuggled over

SAUSAGE SECRETS.

THE ONLY SAFE WAY.

Mr. Cutolife Hyno'a letter on the " Decay of the Sausage" in a recent copy of the Daily Mail has revived discussion on a baffling subject.

Many times since the Ministry of Food attempted, during the war, to classify the sausage, analysts, to wham this edible has revealed strange sacrots, have urged that a Government standard

It is stated that in February 1847, on the now Exetor-Newton frontiers, or lost, or sald to for it should be fixed. But the

Abhat section, ". a speed of 70 milca an hour was attained with light trains. In 1844 a special train took Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley from Paddington to Slough on their way to Windsor AFTER all thereCastle in 18 minutes, while

second covered the distance in half a minuto less,

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is nothing more comfortable. than the cool, clean feel of the Arrow Starched" Collar

These are made in .quarter sizes to in- sure perfect fit

SOLD AT THE BEST SHOPS

SALE!

Gent's

Felt Hats

Fine Quality

and

Latest Style

$2.95 & $3.50

GENT'S

RAIN COATS

A. NEW SITE'MENT

JUST ARRIVED EXTRA GOOD VALUE at $8.75

LATEST

VIEWS

OF

HONGKONG

JUST

SILK

PUBLISHED.

Now on sale by MEE CHEUNG

Ice House Street

and

Beaconsfield Areude,

Price $3.00 Only

MASSAGE HALL MRS. S. UZUNOYE Expert Masseuse 37, Queen's Road, Central. 2nd floor.

MRS. MOTONO

Hand and Electric MASSAGE

No. 33, 2nd Floor Wyrd) am Hongkong.

MASSAGE HALL' 23 WYNDHAM STREET "MRS. H. MORITA.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO, LTD.

FORTLAND CEMENT

In Cask of 375 lbs. net.

In Bags of 250 lbs, net.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong

Wide End

TIES

At Prices

You will like

50 Cents each

OVERCOATS

We have a

number of

OVERCOATS

to be clearod

at $0.75 euch

EXTRA SPECIAL

Prices on

LADIES' AND

CHILDREN'S

GOODS

See them at the MONEY-SAVING STORE

YEE

SANG

FAT

The Great Western,"

one nf the first locomotives built, at Swindon. is credited with "reach- ing at times the neighbourhood of 80 miles an hour."

*THE NARROW GAUGE.” -

The comparative lightness of the trains, averaging 67 tons, as compared with the 300-400 tons of the crack expresses of to-day is given us one reason for these high speeds.

American millionaires, or broken sausago still holds its secrets, up in order that the diamonds and no one definition can be and rubios, brillianta and pours found to cover the whole variable might be disposed of individually.category.

The fabulous treasure is pow displayed in the headquarters of for three grades of sausage-con- The Food, Ministry fixed prices Soviet Trade Unions intaining more than 67 per cent., the Moscow. The most imposing more than 50, and under 50 per

exhibit is tho Imperial crown. cent. of meat. "Made by command of Catherino

Trouble arose owing to the the Grout, it is of solid gold, und weighs five pounds. It is orna-evaporation of the moisture that mented with 5,000 brilliants,75 every sausage contains, and the pearls, and a ruby weighing 400 question at issue was: "Doos the carats the largest ruby in the meat or the bread evaporato world.

most?"

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Noxt in value is the so-called

Dershawa "the symbol of the unlimited authority of the "Tsar of all the Russias." A golden all encircled by brilliants is surmounted by a

cross of

precious stonga resting Socket composed of a single sapphire weighing 1,200 carats..

Public Analysts was invoked. It The help of the Society of was desired to fix a standard for the sausago and to, proscribo a certain degree of moisture.

But no real solution was renched. Two learned papers were rend to and discussed by the Analysts' Society. One dealt with analysis of the sausage and brought out the fact that:

Berhaps the best story in the ok concerns the conversion of the track from broad to Barrow gauge, and is quoted from the

Gentleman's Magazine"---

The other day an ancient guard on the line was knocked down and run over, by an engine; and though good enough medical attendarice was at hand, the dying man wished to see the century by certain Cocni sample sausage mentioned company's doctor. "I am glad Orloff, who presented it to you came to see me, dostor s Catherine the Great. I hope by the up train," said the Golden chains 500 with pour man.

diamonds and other gems of

The housewife's mothod is to fabulous worth are also in the collection, which is now the proof the sausages, he sells. Many usk her butcher for a guarantee perty of the Bolshevik Republic. hitchers, as well as proprietary

It is announced that the Soviet Government has no intention of makers of sausages, do "this

without being asked for it.. disposing of the jowols abroad.

THE ORLOFF DIAMOND. Then there is the scoptro-a goblen staff on whose top rosts

While the meat may be derived the famous diamond known as the "Orloff." This stone, weigh-from any part of the animal, it is ing 195 carats, is the third largest in most cases impossible to deter-1 diamond in the world, and was mine either the animal or, tho

muggled out of India in the 18th part used.'

"I know it is all ever with me But there. I'm glad it was not af, them narrow-gauge ongines that did it.".

How the telegraph was first employed on the railway for crime detection is vividly described. In response to a message, thieves were arrested and various suspects cautioned

CHINA'S UNITY.

CULTURE AFFECTS HER POLITICAL FUTURE:

Professor P. Rusby, of the! University of Liverpool, lecturing recently at the Geographical As sociation Conference at the London School of Economics on The concept of natural regions in the teaching of geography, with special illustrations from {China," said that practically thi: whole of China, however great the differences might be between different parts of the vast country, was, from many points of view, a single culture area, perhaps the largest single culture area in the world."

In spite of all the separative¦ endencies of the various pro-] vinces, there was an underlying] unity of culture which must soon- er or later be reflected in the political sphere, and which would

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contained 23.7 per cont, excess of water, and was found to consist largely of tripe.

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ACCIDENT DEPARTMENT

GOERZ

St. Georges Building, Hongkong.

oppose any tendency to divide HALL, LAW & Co., Ltd.

that. country into separate political units, whether auto- nomons or political units con- trolled by exlornal Powers,,

At the same time there were] profound far reaching regional differences in China, and not- withstanding the frequent conflict introduced by personal or group) combinations such, as they saw in the Chinoso political world at the prosent time, those regional differences tended to be reflected in the political sphere and they formed a permanent element in the Chinese problem. The ex- Listence of those regional

differences was not a matter of i regret to those who saw geb. graphically the wonderful drama being worked out of a growing, inter-relationship of different typos within one large co. ordinated whole. It was guarantee of a variety of culture if only the process of federation jand co-ordination could be

achieved successfully.

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Notwithstanding the political turmeil, there was going on in China a steady and rapid growth of public opinion und real constructive movement on the part of the mercantile and educated, classes for unity. The development of a harmonious United States of Chinu, however, could hardly be expected to be moro, rapid than the progress of Europe towards a United States of Europe.

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Prices Moderate.

THE INTERNATIONAL DRY-CLEANING AND DYEING COMPANY.

10. Wyndham Street, HONGKONG.

Ono of themost treasured possessions of friends far away is

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Oficial Photographers to the "H. K. Telegraph"

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AND

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