The District School from Aurora, Kansas • 1

NO. 6. CONCORDIA, KANSAS, MAY, 1895. VOL. 2, Some Recent Inventions and Discoveries.

the marvels in the line of recent inventions in the coming decade and imagine the change for change there will be perhaps not so many striking ones yet the change will be as great. M. County Graduates. still be crossing the ocean in pigmy barks instead of passing through the waters at a rate that is admirable and in a construction that is as safe and comfortable as though we were upon the solid earth, or we might still be traversing the prairies with nothing but the wagon for our conveyance, in fact we would be living in the slow way of our fore-fathers but for this discovery. In the present decade when thousands of miles can be passed over in a few days, when it is possible to converse with persons at the great distance of hundreds of miles, when it is feasible for one person to know the thoughts of another though many waters may separate From the time the invention of the round mass was sent whirling into space and from the period when man first opened his eyes and discovered all the beauties of life around him the two branches have been moving along together and neither have made any more progress than the.

other, for every invention has been prompted by some discovery and no discovery has ever been made without the aid of an invention. And there have been but few ages since the beginning of time that have not made more wonderful inventions and that have not gone deeper into the unknown channels that make up life and In the examination for the eom mon school diploma the following persons were successful in Kugene Ball, Raymond Law-ry, Clarence Edwin Boudro, Olive Everley, Alice E. Gregg, Jessie E. Shay, George Bardrick, Bennie Bar is a union of the telephone and phonograph. The object of the invention is to transmit copies of photographs to any distance and reproduce the same at the other end of the wire in line engravings ready for press printing.

I Edison is going to combine his phonograph and kinetoscope, an Instrument which shows life-size pictures, and he proposes to have hovels read or operas" sung to the phonograph and reproduce the same; and by the assistance of this new instrument, the people will have the same illustrated and what a treat it will be to sit down and have a book read to you and illustrated by what seems to be living objects and scenery or the lectures of a Yale or. Harvard professor or an autopsy of a corpse of a noted person viewed the world over. With this new instrument imagination wil be done away with and we will see the real thing. In an educational way it will broaden the field of a teacher. The world renowned professor will not only talk to a of nprhnns fhirtv nnnils but his ber, Merton Fish, Bert Harnett, Carrie Hoefer, Ren a KocKer, Claude R.

Bardrick, Lillian Burnett, Leta C. Day, Melvin McCoy, Ada Honey, G. Lady, Fred M. Horn, Frances Hollan, Charles E. them, when through the aid of the telescope it is possible for the astronomers to ascertain not only Hibbs, J.

T. Harnett, Kichard Brock, Gilbert Nelson, A. V. Is bell, Lewis Elliott, Rosa Swartz, May R. of what the moon consists but also its weight, velocity and com Walton, Oliver Pratt, Mattie Hill-house, Mabel E.

Mc Bride, Cynthia Hughes, Ora Righter, Mary Olm- position, when through the help of the same instrument we have been able to climb to the planet Mars, to stead, Minnie Cooper, Olive Garder, Walter Parcell. As will be noticed travel across that body, to admire there were twenty boys and eigh- itscanals, to pass by the side of its' I'll i 'i T- sun waters, 10 me piauet signaling those passing was: Boys seventeen and eleven-twentieths; girls seven teen and seven-eigthteenths. When we take into consideration the fact that all persons do not give their discovered something new, until we stand at the opening of the present decade and it would be impossible to attempt to even name one part of the inventions and discoveries. Even our most common-place, things were but a short time ago either an invention or discovery and that the busy world stopped for "one brief second -Htr-raxvgnize its use and perfectness arid then adapt it as thouglr it had been waiting for it, to place in one corner or spread over the vast universe as might be the need of it. And so have all been received and the wonderful inventions that we are admiring will soon take their places with the others and we will impatiently wait for the next.

Every age has brought with it more marvelous inventions and discoveries than the previous one and those things that have seemed to us to be most perfect when introduced to our attention have been improved upon until there is very little resembling the original. Printing was invented ages ago in ancient China and for so long carried on in the old way, that of taiKsauu uiusirauuiis go uuwu uie corridors of time, instructing. Students will look back and look upon Edison as a mvth. They will think of this combined instrument as a thing of use since the world began to write history and the credit of this man will be like that of thousands of others who in their day brought forth devices that were the wonder of mankind under the head of common place things. ages just exactly correct, it is very likely that the boys are tlie young est.

The average grade of the boys to the world as though desirous of becoming acquainted, to see so plainly that it seems slrange that we are not able to discover the inhabitants engaged in their labors, when in view of these facts, nothing seems impossible. Among the most recent discoveries are those concerning the moon, Mars, the Arctic and Antarctic regions and those of the power that electricity still possesses. When this science was in its infancy it was noticed how the spark of a battery resembled thunder and lightning, and the idea soon be- Another invention interesting to Kansas particularly is that of Prof. Blake of the Kansas State Univer sity, which is a means of telephon ing or telegraphing ships at sea. I came generally al thou gh som wh a The principle is also one of the latest discoveries in the electrical world.

The United States govern ment has been aiding him and only a few weeks ago announced that it was a Prof. BlaWs assistant is Eugene Caldwell of this was eighty-one and one eightieth per cent and the girls seventy-nine, and one-thirtysixth per cent; the boys making about two per cent more on the average than the girls, thus deserving congratulations. It is hot of ten that the boys are ahead in both numbers and grades and when they are it is right that it should be mentioned. But this is not all. The three making: the highest average grades, were boys.

They were Eugene Ball of District No. 12, eighty-eight and five-eighths per cent; Raymond La wry of District No. 12, eighty-eight and one-half per cent; and Clarence Edwin Boudro of Clyde, eighty-seven and three-eights per cent. There were six from Ottawa county that took the "ex." All that passed were from Cloud connty. In looking over the lists of books read by the applicants we find that nearly all have had; access to the best reading.

One good boy, and. one that "passed," too, showed appreciation of what he had read by naming the District School in his list of books. v. city. They have been working for the past three years on the inven And so on down the long line of vaguely accepted that a flash of lightning was only a form of an electrical spark, while itwas left for Franklin, who had long suspected that a thunder cloud was charged with electricity, to establish by experiment a complete parallelism between lightning and electricity.

When the telephone and phonograph were introduced to the attention of the world there were some dreamy visions of anothertombina-tion of natural forces by which even sight might' be obtained of distant things through the inanimate wires. N. S. Amstutz, a mechanical and electrical engineer of Cleveland, Ohio, has brought out of the elements an invention by which this is accomplished. It inventions we might go on enumer i stamping the paper with blocks of wood, although the present method of type printing was not inVented until 1420 and while its progress was slow until in the year 1818 since which time it has beeu broadened in many ways and with the help of the steam presses of to-3 day it stands as the most important invention of the modern ages.

Yet its wonderful force might never havej been "known had it not been for the discovery of the power that steam possesses in 1701; by James Watt, who in 1703-04 invented the first steam engine. ating until time was gone and not get to the end, for while we were praising and stopping to admire some new object of wonder, some improvement would be made upon the original and we would have to continue. Think for one moment of the im But for this discovery we might provements that will be made upon.