Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-09-06

in honor OF individual discoveries thershf
The last two terms are for Professor " -.
OF Eng and Professor Joseph HeS,, !,
Of our Smithsonian institution. Profes ar,
George Forbes, chief electrical engineepus a
the great work now going on at Mag
Falls, enlivened the occasion wonderfu
by an address which any body could und
stand. He told US all about the wond
ful tunnel which is being put throaght
rock alongside the falls; how the wal.
Will produce SO many million units =
force and how 1t can be transmitted
miles with ease and certainty. as he
already done that in India, and how il
revoiutionize the carrying trade and
the cheapest force In the world I KIN
they had "meha.mas' and "diakkas, a
all the other Blayatskyisms in India, 1
| sides knowing all about such things AZ Il
soul and eternity and the pre-existence
the essential psyehical essence, but ney,
imagined they were ahead Of US In applii
electricity.
The proceedings of the Labor coppres
which ended it's sessions on Labor day. ii II
18th. were much more easily understoo<se
md were conducted with what I migfir
all reckless liberality. Among the Will
men were Miss Grace H. Dodge. Mrot
Helen Campbell and Lady Emilia Dixie
London, and Of men the list ranged frons,
Felix Adler and Carroll ID. Wright to Dr-e-
McGlynn and Henry George and from
samuel Gompers to Jerry Simpson. The.
PAPER by Samuel Gompers entitled "whaf
Does Labor Wantf" is taken as a clear
statement by authority. Mr. Percy r.
Neggy, secretary Of the New South Wales
Labor commission, gave an interesting
summary OF what had been learned from
the somewhat radical experiment in thatp-
countrr. The paper Of Senator PETER vase
N "Th, Use Of Armed Forces in Labor II
disputes" and those Of Jerry Simpson. y
Henry George and DIR. Zacher of Berlin, on te
their Unknown views Every paper was
interes ing. Of course, because they DE
'ented he carefully stated views of men .
who have thought long and earnestly, but >
| shall have to read them all over in
quiete4 time before can tell whether the
world - any wiser for them, or whether
any Practicable plan Of reform has been
presel ed.
In the Antbropological congress last
week c ne Of the most distinguished per-
sons as lady. Mrs. Xenia NuttalI, who
had e'.tned quite reputation In Europe |
wen before her last crowning achieve
nent, the discovery Of the principle Of the
amoy Aztec calendar. Mrs. Nuttall pre-
ented her exposition Of the calendar at |,
ne q ngress OF Americanists held last Oc-
ODER e Eue!Ta. Spain, and was awarded |
goio medal therefor by the Spanish gov
rnme Mt. Very complete and easily un-
'erstco ID tables illustrating the Aztec cal
ndaF were prepared according to her ex-
'ositl9n and are now in the eanthropoiogical
epal tTnent Of the fair. She claims that
his calendar must have been the result Of
900 years Of observations, because the
l!nuie variations were corrected in it. To |
tate this IN common language, every body
no~s that the trne solar year does not
ontntn an exact number of month";,
'eeks, days, hours or minutes and prob
bly, not OF seconds; so all the ancient cal
ndaEs soon got out Of gear, and at one |
me the Romans were so far behind that !
he battle Of Cannae was set down as hav- J
~ occurred in June though 1t certainly
as fought in the dog-lays.
Now Mrs. Nuttall claims that ol,serva-
ons must have extended over 400 years "
, correct all the little variations and
AXE out a trse year, ard the most con-
who have examined her
stem say that at least go years Of con-
nuous observations were necessary. she .
so says ltIat could not understand the =
'oof OF it, that besides the sun and moon
e annual motions Of Venus. Mars and G
Ipiter were correctly laid down in the
ztec calendar, that the system Is radi-
ily different from any other tre----
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