Scientific American Volume 76 Numéro 13 (mars 1897) . de lampes électriques portatives à feu et d'autres appareils coupe-feu. Le consul a transmis le plus à la direction de l'État de Washington, avec la suggestion que l'on donne un avis officiel aux fabricants d'appareils américains de protection de la vie des pompiers. Le consul promet de faire rapport des résultats de ces testsd'appareils américains qui pourraient être faits à Zurich. Tous les pompiers de Suisse appartiennent à l'Union des pompiers suisses, écrit le Col.Germain, et quels que soient les nouveaux appareils incendie auxquels un appartement devrait conclure

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Scientific American Volume 76 Number 13 (March 1897) . of firemens portable electric lamps and other firemenselectrical appliances. The consul has transmitted therequest to the State Department at Washington, withthe suggestion that official notice be given to Americanmanufacturers of firemens life protecting inventions.The consul promises to report the results of such testsof American appliances as may be made in Zurich. All the fire departments of Switzerland belong tothe Union of Swiss Fire Departments, writes Col.Germain, and whatever new fire appliances one de-partment should conclude to supply themselves withwill be followed, if proved satisfactory, with ordersfrom the other Swiss fire departments. I may addthat no steam or chemical engines are in use in Switzer-land, and that the old hand engines are still beingused. With proper efforts, perhaps this also opens anew ground to prospect. SIMPLE HANDLE FOR FLOWER POTS, DISHES, ETC.To facilitate the handling of flower pots in green-houses and other places, and also to serve as a handle. Education in Russia. Through the rapid growth of Russian power inEurope and in the far East we have presented a greatcollision of moral forces embodied in the civilizationsrespectively of the empire of the Czar and of GreatBritain, says the Independent. This spectacle impartsa special interest to everything by which the tenden-cies of Russian influence may be gaged. Is it a powermaking for darkness or for light ? The educationaltest is not an unfair one, and certainly in the twodepartments of technical and of diplomatic trainingRussia may give lessons to the world. But what doesher supremacy promise for popular enlightenment ?The answer is suggested by her illiterate population, seventy per cent of the total. More impressive yet isthe dark cloud that settles down upon provinces thathave been or are in the process of being Russianized. A few decades since the Baltic provinces had excel-lent schools, and in Courland especially instru

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