Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-04-22
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The city of Paris has this year
opened a scientific information 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 Colom-
bia cotton can be seen growing wild
on land that has never been titled, 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 az the sea-bat, strik-
ingly resembles a decayed leaf, and
recent observer reports pursuing one
of these fishes with small net when
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-
ally given by two pictures taken from
a slightly different viewpoint. Dr.
do dacarihac now SinOla
lens that shows u far-distant image of
a photograph, free from distortion,
and, under the same conditions of ap
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 a new
era in municipal economy. A huge
central station of the Saxon govern
; ment contains ten generators, produc-
ing over $4,000 pounds of steam per
hour, anu ILLS - ulSIlDulCO bulOuS IL
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
> the supply can be used for general
: ing electricity, for lighting and other
= purposes during the latter part Of the
= day.
+ In Germany, the home of technolos-
y ical instruction, there are seven spe-
q cial schools devoted to the sole purpose
=. of training locksmiths and black
n smiths. They are in the cities OF
4 Burgstadt, Grossenhain, Frankenberg
r Nielsen, Glauchau, Rosswein and Zit
v tau. Only graduates of public schools
+ are admitted. The course of insUuc
4 ton in three of the schools lasts three
10 years; in three of the others it is
~ shorter. To the school at RossweiI
y are admitted such students only a:
:. have completed a course in one of the
70 other six schools, and the curriculum
,r is highly advanced, covering physics
h, chemistry and electricity, with par
c ticular reference to practical construc
o ton of machinery. The schools arr
supported by the blacksmith and lock
SC smith gilds, aided by subventions frou
,, the government of Saxony and private
n. beneficence.
II An Unhistoric Landmark.