p. 21 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 17, 1914

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— A very interesting list of names representing overlapping lives has been given in the Strand Magazine to show that only forty generations were required to connect us with the Pharaoh who oppressed the children of Israel in Egypt. The list suggests that the march of history has been more rapid than it usually seems to the student of history, and runs as follows:—

Moses Plotinus Joshua Hermanric Eli Attila Samuel Llewarch Hen David Theodore of Tarsus Solomon The Venerable Bede Jehoiada Alcuin Shalmaneser Piastus Jeroboam Alfred the Great Romulus Abdurrahman III Epimenides Firdausi Sakya-Muni Don Roderigo Sophocles Dias de Bivar Hippocrates Nicolas Breakspear Philemon Canon of Lucerne Archimedes Sir Ralph Vernon Marcus Cato John Trussinghan Gaius Marius Henry Jenkins Hillel Edward Hail Apollonius Robert Taylor Galen

— After eight years' work, surveyors have completed marking the boundary line between the United States and Canada, where the two countries join along the Alaskan border. This work consisted, first, in tracing the line of the one hundred and forty-first meridian. As Russia, when it owned the country, had marked no line, it was necessary, first of all, by means of telegraphic signals from Seattle and Vancouver, to check the local time. Thus, by comparison, the parallel was fixed to a certainty. The great problem, however, was to run the line directly north toward the geographical pole, avoiding being deceived by the magnetic pole. Every three miles or so monuments were erected. The larger ones, placed at the principal points, were of aluminum bronze, five feet high, set in heavy bases of concrete. Altogether, it is reported to have been one of the most difficult works of surveying ever undertaken, as the line had to be exactly right, whether a lofty mountain, like St. Elias,—16,500 feet, which it took the Duke of the Abruzzi, with his expedition, six months to climb,—or a ghastly ravine was encountered. Following the work of the surveyors, topographers took up their task of making a map of the entire region.