The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-06-17

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Ane picture telegraph of DIR. Korn
VI tns University OF Munich has haen
10 perfected that in ten IN twentv
minutes photograph All inches IN
si1s can be sent through a resistance
corresponding to one thousand miles
Inc portrait or design to be transmits.
teo Is on transparent Aim. which IA
wound around a glass cylinder. and
upon which lens focuses a point of
light that passes through the aim TO a
seienium cell in the cylinder. The
bright and dark portions Of the picture
cause the ray of light to vary the re-
sistance OF the selenium cell 70 an
electric current passing through n
ana this variation produces a CORE
spending instantaneous Frightening or
darkening Of the glow in a Tesla va
CUM tube at the receiving end of the
wire. Except a pin point aperture
this vacuum tube is covered with wax
or rubber. The light ray from the
aperture falls upon a sensitive film
wound upon a cylinder, and as this
cylinder and that OF the transmitter
are moved in unison, the light and
shade OF the original picture are re-
produced In proper place on the second
MIN, giving a new photograph accu-
rate In minute detail.
The dimensions of the immense dia-
mond found in the new premier
mine" In the Transvaal last January
are given by Nature &c follows. Meas
ured size. ~ by IN inches; weight,
S.O32 carats, equals 676h grams, cr
nearly IL pounds avoirdupois. The
largest diamond previously discovered
Is the Excelsior" found in the ia
gersfontein mine, Orange River Colo
ny. In 1893. which weighed 971%
carats, was as large as a hens egg,
and was valued at 100000. 1t was
cut into nine large brilliants. The IA
nous Kohinoor and Great Mogul dia-
monds sink into insignlhcance when
compared with the latest find, which
} ID said to be Of excellent quality, and
will probably be cut up to make a con-
siderable number of smaller gems
Jacques Faure, the French aeronaut
has demonstrated that, given favor.
able winds and other favoring circum.
stances, II is possible to ride through
/, the air across the English Channel
and over the intervening land on each
side. from the British capital to the
metropolis Of France. On Feb. IL hs
left London with one companion II
his balloon, and six hours later landed
safely at St. Denis in the suburbs Of
' Paris. Upon reaching the shore o.
> the Channel, near Hastings, they de
scended until the guide-rope touchet
the water. Rising again on approach
ing the French shore, they passed owe
Dieppe at an elevation Of $500 feet
Great things are expected from tn
submarine telephone by officers Of tn
A United States navy. The principle
n underlying 1t are very different from
those Of wireless telgeraphy. In tn
v latter the telegraphic impulses ar
. transmitted through the air or ethe
by electricity. In the submarine tele
phone sound waves travel through wa
- ter unaided by any electrical force
= Water, being denser than air, acts as
= better sound conductor. 1t transmit
sound four and 8 half times as fast a
air LOO feet a second being the rat
= in the atmosphere, while in the waite
II In x,712 feet, or almost a mile
"a second.
An outbreak Of twelve cases
u smallpox at Newcastle, England, la
4 year has mystified the doctors. No o
b binary source Of infection could be di
"A covered, but It has been found that
d. the days when eleven OF the pauen
=. probably contracted the disease d
wind was blowing from one or Il
other OF two smallpox hospitals-ol
about a mile away. the other aoo
two miles. II is pointed out that ME
pest OF hospitals. may be carri
Ions distances by the wind
The moon is usually supposed
have solidified from the center to u
periphery. but lunar photographs ma
convinced two leading French astron
mers that the surface hardened MI
This view modines various theories
N.turslists have discovered wa
that uses G pebble to pound down I
earth over her nest 1t Is peneV'
that this is the only one OF the low
animals that makes use or mecna'
4 cal instrument