Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-10

In Cambodia and other parts of In
do China where the spread Of the wa
ter hyacinth has seriously interfered
with navigation of the rivers, an effort
has been made to solve the problem by
endea Voring to find some use for the
plant, and with this end in view chem
lists and students have been encouraged
to investigate the problem. French
professor named Perrot has extracted
the fiber from the plant, and finds that
after drying. preferably by a gradual
process. it can be made into a service
able rope and Irvine, as we'll as coarse
thread suitable for mating and sail
cloth.
Reports indicate it sometimes takes
d lot to kill modern soldier. Ser
geant Fougere, of France, received
eight bullet wounds, broken arm
and other injuries, and, although shot
in the calf, thigh and ankle. escaped
being captured by Germans, and Iimped
10 miles to his regiment. Another
French soldier received six bullet and
three bayonet wounds. and is recov-
ering. The French war office estimates
only two men are killed out of every
100 hit. The penetration is so clean
| one soldier did not know he had been
hit for three hours, and another bullet
went through two soldiers and lodged
in a cavalryman's saddle.
Victor Hugo was born in Besancon,
France. in 1902. He was the son Of a
colonel in the French army, and re-
ceivcd classical education. After the
revolution Of 1880 his plays of Marion
de Lorme" and THE King Amuses
Himself" were performed at the Thea
ter Francois. He was created by Louis
Philippe peer of France. with The til
tie of viscount, but he arose above this
honor in being the author Of Lies
Miserables." He opposed Napoleon III
and was banished from France, but he
returned on the fall of the empire. He
| died in Paris in 1885 and was buried in
| the Pantheon. Ks
During the last few months the nero
plane has made its appearance in many
| strange places. not the least among
| these being the ancient city Of Jerusa-
lem. 1t was during his flight from
| Constantinople to Cairo that M. Bon
| nier, the French airman, passed over
| the Holy City in his monoplape. de-
scerding on the historic plain Of Eph-
| RAIN, a short distance south of Jeru-
salem. 1t was on this plain that King
David met and defeated the Philist,nes
i Never. in modern times, was tie CITY
so excited. It poured out en- masse to
see the airman and his machine
Christians. Jews and Moslems.
Hip! Hip! Hurrah!" our modern
| yell, of delight, is said to have an an
| cient origin. The word hip" is SUD-
posed to be composed Of the initial let
ters OF the Latin phrase, "Hierosolyma
est perdita," meaning Jerusalem is
destroyed the so in hip" being sub
stituted for the e. in est When the
German knights were prosecuting Jews
in the middle ages they are said to
have run shouting Hip, hip" as much
as to say Jerusalem is destroyed. Hur-
rah is said to be from the Slayonic
"hu-raJ," meaning to paradise. Hence
hip. hip. hIrrah" would mean "Jeru-
salem is lost, we are on the wav 10
| paradise"
| The Chinese were the first n.oo,.
TO issue oank notes. They started in
TINS business about % centuries before
Christ One Of these bank notes ma v
sun be seen in the Asiatic museum
Petrograd. 1t is printed in blue IN
Wnlte paper made, from mulberry tree
nore. Round the margin is . motto
which rather indicates thai tba 49,
chinese banker was of Scotch origin
aos: however much you NAV
possess. strive to be thrifty"
". !oyen. the French surgeon. IL
generally considered to be the we.ithS
'est medical man in the world. He is