Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-16

bridge-building feslts in the world tie
total length Is about 1900 IT.. the rail-
| road tracks are $50 IT. above the nor.
| NAL level of the river, and the central
| span Is iG5 r. long. Popular Mecban-
| les for March contains two pictures of
the bridge. one showing the methos NJ
construction and the other, its annear-
ance as completed.
! The variation of Napoleon's sigma
! ture according to mis- methods is inter-
estinSly portrayed by a number of fac-
SMILES in the March number of pom.
( ular Mechanics The different between
the orderly signature written after the
| victory at AusterlitZ and the blotted
( scrawl after the defeat of Leipzic is
very striking. All of his signatures
| made at times of failure or depression
have downward slant, while that af-
ter the victory of Austerlitz sIapts
upward.
Leaves would be considered a very
poor material for the making of roads
| in most parts of the world, but in GER
| tain districts of Florida such a ma
terial is used with great success There
| impossible by reason of the deem sand
| were It not for the leaves of the long
| leaved pine These leaves, which are
very much like straw in appearance are
raked over the sandy roadbed once q
year. the task usually being performed
| in October. Popular Mechanics for
March contains a picture of section
of road so constructed
| A lock that has no key. yet can be
| OF ened in the dark as easily as a lock
| possessing a key, has been placed on
| the market by a Chicago concern. 1t
| is provided with a combination similar
| to that used on safes, but the mech
Ianism is small and simple. there being
| but few parts. all of which are solidly
Inverted in. no pins. holes, or mechan-
| ism of any kind being exposed From
the March Popular Mechanics
The fact is Americans make q point
| of allowing each side to have it's inn
| ing in turn and without opposition
| from its opponents. The habit holds
especially good at political meetings.
II is the first of all rules at such gath
erings in America that the speaker
should be listened to simply because
he is the speaker and without refer
enCe to the quality of his speech. The
man on the platform may be an orator
or he may be, though few Americans
are, unable TO string two sentences to-
gether-it does not matter. No distinc-
ton is made. What Mr.. Hawells in Il
deathless adjective described as the
10 Of mi ,c'.
embraces equally a bore and a Glad
stone. Each is followed with undis-
eliminating courtesy.
Such is the custom of the country,
and its effect on the conduct of politi-
eel meetings is everything that is or
derlv, rasnectable-and dull. With us
in England things are far otherwise.
If an English audience does not care
for speaker or his speech. it tells
him so at once. That saves a lot of
time and teaches a public man to re-
spect his listeners. The curse of po-
litical meetings IN England. and not in
England only, is the chairman, usual
~ some local magnate. who will try
and stand for half an hour between
the audience and the speaker of the
evening. The audience tolerates it for
ten minutes and then tells him to
"shut up!' If he declines to, the au-
dience grows humorously critical and
the speech proceeds under a running
fire of chaff and commentary. In ca
ses of peculiar obstnacy the audience
rises en- masse and yells the speaker
down. The chairman may feel trie
indignant, but he has learned a useful
lesson and next time he will do better.
Sydney Brooks, in Harper's Weekly.
"The realization of the process of
transmitting vision by electricity as
one of the useful arts is but a matter
of continued development" declares
the March Popular Mechanics Maya
zine in an interesting illustrated arti-
Gle, which explains the process in de-
tail. 1t states further:
"A few attempts have already been
made at sending photographs over the
wire. and while the result has not been
all that could he wished. has served to
demonstrate the practicahility of the
process. A vista of wonderful posi-
bilties is opened by the advances made
in television and autobiography.
And it must be kept in mind that there
is a radical difference between the
two systems. While television aims to
transmit either photographs or living
images the other is meant to send
photographs only.
I'm Europe new international fig
ure springs into fame in day. Stimuli
taneously with the appearance of the
news in the daily papers of the United
States his photograph is published
The cable which bears the dispatch
telling the story may be used to trans
nit the mans image. Or it may yet
come by wireless.
"A crime has been committed. Quick
action on the part of the police of the
entire country is necessary to appre-
bend the perpetrator. Within a few
hours his photograph is in the hands
of the police of San Francisco as. we'll
as New York. and his chances of es-
cape are small. Just as the great press
associations now distribute the news of
the world they may furnish the daily
papers with photographs
IAN Army Mule" a new serial story
by Charles Miner Thompson, begins in
the February 10Th issue of the Youths
Companion of Boston The title of 1t Is