At the conservatoire des arts et metiers are models of manufacturing - agricultural and mining machinery, distributed in the extensive galleries of the ancient Abby St. Martin. Among the steam machinery and models of iron forges are many of English invention. To another part of the building followed a crowd of young men to the amphitheaters of scientific lectures.

In one large room, a professor of chemistry was experimenting on acids to an attentive audience. In another, the lecture was illustrative of railroads. There were several ladies with pencil in hand taking notes. For french women have talent for the useful and scientific as well as the ornamental. Today is Sunday -