Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-09
Other Lands Than Ours.

sensible proposal mas been made, and
heartily seconded, by the way, that the
event shall be mark al by the raising OF
a memorial fund of $500 to be ad
ministered for the benefit of British
sailors. The project has been taken up
by the British and Foreign Sailors
i society. which proposes to utilize the
| fund--tO be raised by 100000 shillings
SubSCriptions--fOr tn" endowment of
beds in Jacks Palace" scholarships in
/ the Nautical school reading rooms in
| various ports and other measures for
the welfare of the seamen. The
! Admiralty has given TO the society the
old materials from the ship Victory.
upon which Nelson died, and the copper
from Nelson's flagship Foudroyant. in
order to stimulate interest and patri-
otism among the youth Of Great
| Britain. these will be turned into
Nelson souvenirs and distributed as a
! means of swelling the memorial fund.
Presentation of the subscriptions will
| be made simultaneously at the Royal
Albert hall and at other suitable GEN.
| terS in India the colonies and in the
British Isles on the anniversary of
Nelson's death. There are some ele-
ments of clap-trap about the enter
prise. but the cause is good one, and
| it is hoped it will succeed
France has been making quite noise
about the yellow peril since the out
| break of the war in the far east and the
sneers at the island empire which have
appeared in the French press evidently
got on the nerves of Prof. Miwa of the
University of kioto. if one can judge
from his recent article in La Revue
He claims the French are really a trife
wrong when they call the japanese
barbarians. and SAYS that the Japanese
students have done quite a bit for the
| world in the last few years. He tells
Of the multiplication of the elliptical
functions by Prof Full in the mathe-
| NAUTICAL line and Of Prof Nagaoka'S
study Of the relations between
magentiZation and tOrsiOn. and of Prof
Sekiya's Instruments to give ocular
demonstrations Of seismic disturbances
| in physical science. Then there is Prof.
fnshida and his va:nish to keep the
| bottoms Of ships free from barnacles
and Muabara, who has made the
| tubular boilers in use in the Japanese
| navy. Prof. ShimOse and his new ex-
plosive are already we'll known to the
| world. In the line of commercial ad-
vancement. Prof. ShimOyana's expert
| ments have made it possible to export
| carlphOr from FormOsa and Prof
| Nagai's work has made Japan able to
| export indigo. These are only a few
| Of the things the savants Of Japan have
| done. but they are enough to make the
world think.
1t is reported that the Russian mill
tary transport authorities estimate the
] through carrying capacity of the
| Siberian railway for the next six
months at about $1,000 men and the
| necessary stores every four weeks.
| The estimate given by them in the
early summer varied from $4,000 to
?1.O00 and the former rate seems to
| have been maintained. Thanks to
various improvement and to the COM
| pIetion of the Circum- Baikal line. an
| increase of 40 per cent is now looked
for. On that calculation Russia will be
1 able by April next to detrain in Man.
! rhura the last contingentS of 10000
| men from European Russia. or of 300.
900 men if the transport Of general sup
plies could be temporarily reduced
Nothing short of duplication Of the
main line from Samara to Hardin is
| expected to do much toward solving
| Russia's transport difficulties. as the
| number of trains dispatched westward
| with sick and wounded and with empty
tracks keeps on increasing as the cam
paign grows older. In the meantime
the railway system in southern Russia
has been most seriously disOrganized
by the war. The bulk of the available
locomotive. vans and trucks have been
| diverted for war traffic. and the daily
deliveries of grain at Odessa have been
| small and irregular at time when the
export trade ought to be at its height
| Occasionally a story gets out OF
Russia which shows that not every
| one in that down trOdden country is
| afraid of the car and the grand dukes.
! The largest labor employer and one
| of the richest men in the empire is
M"rozoff of Moscow. Recently Grand
Duke Serge sent for him and told him
that mis- contribution to the war fund
| had not been large enough. MOrOzOff
said that he thought it had been. as
! he had given 100000 worth of cloth
| from which to make uniforms for the
| army. He said that he would not
| give more unless it could be assured
| that none of the officials or grand
| dukes would steel it. Serge iInmedia-
| tely demanded an explanation for
| such lese majestic. and got it. MOrO-
Zoff said that he had seen his gift Of
! cloth for sale in a Moscow cloth
dealers shop. The grand duke de-
manded retractiOn or said that Moro
zoff could have his passports to leave
| Russia. never to return. He asked for
them at once and telegraphed to his
| managers to close all his factories.
thus throwing 10000 people out Of
work. This brought the grand duke
to his senses and the czar made him
apologize to MOrozoff.
How many newspaper readers who
ma daily reference in the news
| dispatches to "I.loyds" have any clear
| idea AS to the exact nature of that
famous British institution? Perhaps
. the most of them have vague inn