Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-04
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The Ottoman government has ceih-l
pahy of IA French engineers surveying q
railroad which Is. to connect Sana VIII
Hedeiah, on the Red sea.
Between the whole press of Copenhagen
and all the theatrical managers contest
has started because the managers want
to compel the critics to write only favora-
bic notices. The contest began when the
board of theatrical managers forbade the
admission of one critic representing
special theatrical paper.
Soldiers have been used to provide arti-
fetal majorities in English elections. In
1884, 80 of the guards were sent to vote
as householders against Fox in the west
Minister election. Upon that occasion the
device failed, but it succeeded in an irish
election The patron of a large irish
borough. finding that there was some I'M
certainty as to the return of his nominee.
marched in regiment of soldiers from
their quarters at Loughrea and had them
all elected freemen. Their vote put the
victory of his candidate beyond doubt.
Apropos of w. H. s. Jones' application
of his theories of malaria and decadence
to Rome, r. r. Hewlett, an Englishman,
suggests that malaria has played part
in the distribution of population in Eng
land Parts of Norfolk he says. were
once much more populous than at pres
ent. The same is true of the region In
Kent about Romney marsh Both OF
these regions are infested with anopheles
and were at one time extremely malari-
GUS Has malaria been one of the fac
tors causing the depopulation of these
localities?" asks Mr. Hewlett
At least two observers, L. E. Looms
and j. A. Harris, have, within the last
two years, noted the curious fact that
the prairie dog and burrowng owl some
times initiate, in a most realistic way, the
rattle of the rattlesnake, among whose
dens the" are often found. When the
owls are disturbed they utter this warn
ing sound in such a manner that even eX-
perienced horses are startled and de-
ceived by it. Mr.. Harris suggests that
this trick is intended as a measure Of
self-protection. Even young birds. he
says, make the same sound, when taken
from the nests.-Nature.
The 5Oth anniversary of the birth Of DR..
Ludwig Zamenhof was the occasion of
llldnN meetings DIT WHICH lllc pIOSIcSS VI
Esperanto was the chief topic. One
speaker before a large audience in Lon
don. quoted Prof Oswald, who declared
in 1906 in a lecture delivered al BreSlau
that there were at that time more than
100000 people who employed the language
Many Improvements have been suggested,
but they have not impressed the Esper-
anto students favorably. and. according
to DR.. Forester. tended simply to confuse
people and ito injure the foundation
which has been firmly laid" The Inter-
nacia Scienca Revuo. which has been
published for six years, gives the names
of number of large business concerns
of Germany whose annual catalogs are
now Issued in the new language.
Copenhagen is a city of 100000 inhabi
tants. During weeks stay | have seen
no seller of matches or bootlaces. no
gutter merchant. no lind or other at
fiicted persons about the streets asking
for alms-not one single sign of distress
due to poverty. | have explored the arti-
sans quarters by day and late at night
of Copenhagen that could be compared
even remotely to the slums of our large
towns. There are no unemployed hang
ing about the street corners, no unkempt
women standing idly at the doors, no
ragged and dirty children playing in the
gutter. There are no dirty houses, with
dirty or broken windows, mended with
bits of paper, and ragged apron or a
torn bed cloth doing duty for curtain
London Express.