The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-16
A REMARKABLE INSTITUTION.
The Reichsanstalt, n German Insti.
tuition Where Finest Machinery
Is Tested.

An interesting article appears in
Pearson's on the Reichsanstalt, the
Imperial Physical and Technical In.
stitute of Germany. Here are set
up the most perfect instruments in
the world for measuring heat and
cold, for finding the pressure of the
atmosphere, for determining the
strength of electric currents, for
measuring light and for a score Of
other purposes in which the utmost
exactness is required. Here are kept
the purest gold, silver, platinum, irid'
ium, rhodium and other metals in the
| world-the standards of purity. Here
is the purest water in the world and
the finest glass, and the most perfect
weighing machines. Here can be pro-
| duced and measured every tempera-
| ture, from that of liquid air to that
of the electric arc light. And here is
apparatus for generating electric cur
rents of any potential from one volt
up to 1000 volts, and, what is more,
of measuring them with almost abso-
lutte exactness.
Does the famous German thermom-
eter-maker wish to know if his Their
mometers or his barometers are ao'
solutely correct? He sends them to
the Reichsanstalt for testing.
When Krupp, the gunbuilder OF
Essen, devises a new kind OF nlckei
steel he sends it to the Reichsanstalt
to ascertain exactly its coefiicient OF
expansion in varying degrees OF heat
it's electrical conductivity and It's
tensile strength.
When our own government wlshes
to be certain that the incandescent
electric lights which it is purchasing
are marked with the proper candle
power it must needs send them 10
this distant German institution Tor
testing. There is perhaps no other
place in the world where it can DC
done with such accuracy.
The pitch of the music which you
hear at the opera has ~undouptediy
been regulated by the tuning 1oihs
bearing the peculiar blue marking
of the Reichsanstalt; the thermome-
ter with which your physician taxes
your temperature when you are in'
If it be of the best make, weS lS
to the same source.
PcopIe Who Wear the hiit'
The wearing of the kilt is a custom
religiously observed in the smarless
society in Scotland. Many peers anu
some wealthy commoners VINO a0
chiefs of clans take special Pr.ue .,
the national costume. The duke 0.
Sutherland and his sons, the duhe =
Argyle, and his brother, Lord Alcnf
bald Campbell, Lord Kinnouil' anu :,
titled chieftains, such as Cameron y,
Lochiel or the Mackintosh-an . h
and many more-wear the high
dress when in Scotland. A gentleman
of high degree dons a kilt OF a PAM,
tartan for morning wear ana ".
shooting, and in the evening WEI FL,
dresses for dinner, he puts on ms ~.
dress tartan, with sporran ana f
ieweled dirk.-London M. A. T.
M chance for a Substitute:
A middle-aged prosperous-looa0re
man entered a Chicago furniture sso ;.
, the other day and said ne "an
, look at some feather beds u.ho
Good gracious" said the clern, any
was waiting on him, I'VE hasen uses
, feather beds in stock. NooU,y rou a
, them any more. Can't sell S0'
--o++raceob
"Nope. Got to have a lea during
Ny wife wants it to SIT on " heen
thunderstorms. The one snes Rec.
!, using is all worn o~ut."-Cni''s
ord.Herald.