The Yale expositor., 1914-12-31

ated considerable excitement In London.
1t is the invention of Paul Schilowsky.
An innovation known as twilight sleep"
is announced to have worked such a
change In obstetrical methods that child
birth has been robbed almost entirely OF
It's terrors The new system developed at
the Woman's hospital OF Freiburg, Ger
many. is described as a slight slumber
induced by an injection of combination
of two drugs scopolamin and morphium.
On January 2S the first wireless mes
sage without relaying. transmitted be-
tween Hanover, Germany, and Tuckerton.
on the lower New Jersey coast, came In
one leap distance of 4,062 miles On
February II the expedition led by Capt.
j. Campbell BNsley returned to New York
after six months exploration In hither-
to unknown Andean region. The party
discovered a lost Inca city and brought
back a valuable collection. Later In the
same month the antarctic expedition led
by DR.. Douglas Mewson arrived at AIDE
laide, Australia, after two years spent In
scientific exploration. On April 10, DR..
Alexis Carrel, Nobel prize winner and
eminent for his contributions to exact sci
ence, announced that he had operated
successfully on the heart of an animal by
suspending the circulation of blood sew
eral minutes. On May 10, ex-President
Roosevelt returned home after an eXplor-
Ing tTlD OF elRnt InOnlllS tlTOuSli the ORA
lillian wilderness. He announced the dis
covery of a river, which was christened
Rio Roosevelt, and afterward rechristened
Rio Teodoro. On November 4. at the Brit
ish embassy in Rome. Prof. Domenico
Argentieri, an Italian priest of the Abruz-
ri, made good his claim to have devised
a small portable wireless biography APP
paratus capable of receiving messages
from high-power stations at a distance Of
~, To- ut
Ohio, Orville Wright gave public de-
monstration of the automatic stabilizer,
his new aeronautical invention. On Feb
ruary 7, the German aviator Insold made
n record of more than a thousand miles,
remaining aloft sixteen and half hours
thus breaking all previous records. In
April a new aeroplane height record was
made by Linnekogel. at Johannisthal He
reached an altitude of 1854 feet. In Nav
a Zeppelin dirigible flew for thirty-six
hours without stop over Germany, at an
average of about fifty-two miles an hour
On July II. a German aviator at Berlin
assembled in a monoplane to a height Of
&C. 900 feet, and thus broke the record. The
flight from Norway to Scotland was made
by Gran, July 30, in four hours and ten
minutes.
The use of aircraft in the war has not
been greatly sensational. but 1t has been
sufficient to modify warfare to an appre-
ciable extent. Most of the aeroplanes of
the belligerent nations are not fighting
craft, but the dlrigibles of the Zeppelin
type belonging to the German war equip
ment are regarded as battleships of the
air. and terrible results have been eX-
pected when this formidable sky squadron
should get into action Thus far. most of
these military adjuncts have been used for
scouting purposes, and as such they have
proved to be especially effective. The
rapid advance of the German forces into
France at the beginning of hostlitcs was
made possible by these air scouts, which
served to point out the way with infalli-
BILE accuracy. In the attack on Louvain
and other Belgian cities German aircraft
rendered effective service by directing ar
tillery fire by means of searchlghts and
burning material dropped among the Bel
gian troops. That the Zeppelin airships
are capable Of doing great damage was
made evident at the siege of Antwerp.
Casualties on Land and Sea.
Early in January the second phenom-
email storm of the season added largely to
the destruction of property along the
ocean front Of New Jersey and Long Is
| land. On January II, a Japanese vol
| cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly in
| to activity and destroyed three towns and
killed more than n thousand persons. Dur
| ing a performance at a moving picture
| theater at Surabaya, Java, 15 women and
children We're burned to death. The
steamer Monroe. from Norfolk to New
York city, was rammed by the Nantucket
during a night fog off Cape Charles, JAN
| uary 30, and Al persons were lost. On
March IA more than a thousand persons
| lost their lives during a storm which
| flooded several towns in Southern Russia,
and about the same time many persons
We're killed by an earthquake at Akita,
| Japan.
On March 81 the sealing steamer
| Newfoundland stranded on an ice foe
in the Strait of Belle Isle and II OF
| her crew were frozen to death. The
| same day the steamer Southern Cross
and her crew disappeared. On April
| 2S an explosion in a mine shaft al
| Eccles. w. Va. caused the death of 1SO
miners. Early in May Sicily was Wis
tied by a series of shocks which did
great damage along the eastern coast
| The steamship Empress of Ireland was
struck by the Norwegian collier Stor-
| stad in the st. Lawrence river, May 30
| and sank almost Immediately, more
| than thousand passengers losing their
! lives. May 80. Capt Robert A. Bartlett OF
| the Stefansson arctic expedition returned
| to ST. Michael, Alaska, with the news that
the Karluk sank, January II, after having
| Deen CruSneu Dy ice, anu tildt neT crew
| was marooned on Wrangel Island. Or
September Z, eight members of this crew
| were found by rescuing party Or
| June 10 more than two hundred miners
| were lost by an explosion In a coal mine
| near Alberta, Canada. A fire at Salem
| Mass, June rs. destroyed half of the city
| Including several thousand homes and
| many large industrial establishments. Ir
| this month, also, American consuls in va.
| rious Chinese cities reported that floods ir
| southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 100000 persons homeless. Or
| September IS the Francis ii. Leggett
| collided with an unknown vessel of
the Oregon coast and ~ of her passen.
| gers and crew were lost. In october
an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
more than 5000 persons in few min
| utes.
Edisons great electrical plant al
Orange, N. j.. was destroyed by fire or
| December g.
Notable Events.
Early in January the firm Of J. p
| Morgan & Co. announced the with.
| drawal of It's members from director
| ships in q large corporations, thus
| complying with the governments new
| regulation condemning interlocking di.
| rectorates On January Harvard uni
| versity and the Massachusetts Institute
| of Technology arranged to combine