The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-09-09
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The city of Paris has this year
opened a scientific informa ton bureau
at the Sorbonne and the inquiries al
ready reach as many as twenty In SIN
gle days While special consideration
Is given to scientific matters In Paris
and France, foreign subjects of French
interest receive attention.
The recent excitement in the cotton
market has served to attract atten-
ton to the possibilities of cotton rails
ing in various places where that indus
try has not yet been developed. From
Bogota, for instance, comes the in
formation that in some parts of Colon
bia cotton can be seen growing wild
on land that has never been TILED, and
the newspapers of that country are
trying to create a sentiment in favor
of the cultivation of cotton there.
A remarkable instance of apparent
mimicry in Ceylon has been brought
to notice by DR.. A. Wiley. A fish.
commonly known as the sea-bat, strik-
ingly resembles a decayed leaf, and
recent observer reports pursuing one
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the creature suddenly disappeared, and
the pursuer saw only yellow jak leaf
gently and inertly sinking to the bot
tom. AS he turned away, the sup
posed leaf righted itself and darted
off.
The appearance of solidity in photo
graphs-the stereoscopic effects usu-
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a slightly different viewpoint DR..
Gradenwitz describes a new single
lens that shows a far-distant image of
a photograph, free from distortion,
and, under the same conditions of APP
parent size, distinctness, perspective.
light and shade as those under which
the objects themselves would be seen
. with a short Photographic objective.
This conveys to the eye a very natural
effect, suggesting unconsciously a cor
rect perception of relief and dis
tances.
} The steam-heating and electric
= lighting combination now being tested
by Dresden promises to open new
: era in municipal economy. A huge
ment contains ten generators, produc-
ing over $4,000 pounds of steam per
Z hour, and this is distributed through
; street mains to the Royal Opera
/, House, the Picture Gallery, the Twin
/ ger Museum, the Royal Palace and
other buildings. After the morning
heating. little steam is needed to keep
up the temperature, so that most OF
d the supply can be used for general
l. ing electricity, for lighting and Other
), purposes during the latter part of the
/ day.
In Germany, the home of technolog
ical instruction, there are seven spe
. cial schools devoted to the sole purpose
D of training locksmiths and black
D. smiths. They are in the cities o
Burgstadt Grossenhain, Frankenberg
=, Nielsen, Glauchau, Rosswein and Zit
70 tau. Only graduates of public school,
are admitted. The course of instruc
% ton in three of the schools lasts thre
years in three OF the others 1t l
10 shorter. To the school at Rossw eli
Il are admitted such students only a
have completed a course in one of tn
other six schools, and the curriculum
is highly advanced, covering physics
is chemistry and electricity, with pal
st ticular reference to practical construC
ct ton of machinery. The schools ar
10 supported by the blacksmith and loci
o. smith gilds, aided by subventions fror
1g the government Of Saxony and privat
I'd beneficence.