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Southland Times, Issue 668, 10 May 1867, Page 3

TJSEBtrii Disooveey. —The "Maritime Eegister " says: —" Sir David BreWster,~in his opening address at the Eoyal Socifijjrof Scotland,-de-scribed a new method of lighting dark houses; He spoke ;: of'•houses' situated -itf narrow' streets, and said if we remove our window, and substitute another in which all the panes of" glass are roughly ground on the outside^ and flush the outer wall, the, light from the whole.of the-visible, sky, and frVm the remotest piarts of the b^pbslfb' wall, will be introduced into the apartment, reflected from,the mnumerable faces or facets which the rough' grinding" < 'of the glass has produced. The whole-window-will appear-as-if the-sky-werel-beyond it, and from every, point of this luminous surface light will radiate into all parts of the room. : In aid_of-this^method of distribntingh'ght, the opposite Bide of.the street or lane should 1 lie kept •whitewashed with Hme, and for the same jreason the, ceUings and walls, of the apartment should be as white as.possible, and.; all the furniirare 1 of the lightest colbrsl"Should' this invention answer Sir David's- description,'-he' will haVe conferred a benefit on the community far exceeding that derived fronv his> other; diaIcbveryf—the stereoscope." A copy of the London,^.Times": of .Oct., 3, A 798, has been printed by some enterprising in-^ .dividuali'and is being-sold literally'by the thousand in all;parts. dfjthe;^mettt>pofis,;at-ap3#nyf being one-sixth of the original price. The jjfgacess of. the speculation will no doubt tempt some of the'numerous class who are ab*as»3«&the look out for. hints to "raise the wg^.''^jr^;s )j;