[DeepL Translation - needs review] Essays by Torahiko Terada, a physicist, essayist, and haiku poet active from the Meiji era to the early Showa era. First published in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun [1924]. Included in "The Complete Works of Torahiko Terada, Vol. 7" [Iwanami Shoten, 1997]. The well-known propagation of combustion and the propagation of quips are similar in one respect. He calmly discusses the propagation of a rumor that poison was used in wells at the time of a major earthquake an...
