GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 85, 31 March 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

THE EARTH'S CORE.

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New York, March 2d

'Scientists at the University of Chicago, after a series of lengthy experiments designed to discover the nature of the earth's core, announce that the' earth is more rigid than steel. It cannot explode or be destroyed by fire wiflkin itself. Professor Michelson, head of the Department of Physics, states that the inside of the earth is not a fiery mass, but that it resists the idle force of the moon as if it were made of solid steel. Despite this fact, the earth behaves as an elastic body and is still oubiect to the same influences as the oceans which form a part thereof. The earth's solid surfaces are subject to. the same ebb and flow as the tides of the ocean, but to a lesser extent. It has been scientific;! !!y demonstrated that tides averaging twelve inches are moving on the earth's surface regularly.

A BLACKMAILING JOURNALIST.

Home, March 30

Innocent Cicala, editor of the Taranto newspaper, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for blackmailing Dorothy Macvad, an American prima donna. Cicala, needing funds for his Socialist candidature for Parliament, s'ho.ved her the proofs of an article which he declared was about to appear in Rome, accusing her of espionage in the interests of France. He pretended to defend her, and 1 asked for £SOO to enable him to suppress the article. He obtained all her ready money and jewe*ery, and called next day for the balance, when he was arrested in the presence of representatives of other journals confer led behind a screen.

AN OCEAN GREYHOUND.

Sydney, March 30

The Sonoma lowered the Ventura's record, doing the trip from San Francisco to Svdney in 18 days 10 hours.

WONDERS OF WIRELESS.

Paris, March 29

A tenor Kinging at Brussels was heard at the Eiffel Tower by means of wireless telephony.

THE KASSER'S LATEST.

Berlin, March 29

Tiie Kaiser lias directed that official dinners shall not last longer-than forty-five minntes. He hap also decreed that it is had form for women to leave, the room and allow the men to smoke and tell stories.

* THE CHILDREN'S TEETH.

London, March 29

Tlie London County Council has ascertained that there is a bigger proportion of bad teeth among the children of the well-to-do than among the poorest, because the poor eat coarse food and fewer' sweets, generally of boiled sugar only and no caramels or chocolates which cling to •Aha teeth. The Council urges the use oi brown bread and fruit, for an apple "eaten at the" conclusion of a meal leaves the mouth practically clean. .