Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-06-27

Kingdom last year was SO gallons. while
the money spent would clear off the 7a-
tional debt in ls years. besides alloviD.
a pension Of shilling per week 10 evprr
person over 60 years of age
The Austrian navy IS being used FL.
an all 20 commerce. One of the vessel
is visiting the ports OF Africa and SOM
America. in order 10 study their trad
conditions Reports will he made :.
the government, with the object Of i,.
creasing Austrian experiments
The pay of the army is $3T. O000Ga
Il year: the quarterma ster's depaf1men.
uses So, 100000; guns cost ST. 0G0. O.0.
the expenditures on rivers. harbors ami
forts. S1G.0C0.000; the pay of the nav
is S1J.o00.0O0; the cost of new vessels
-, 100000.
A torpedo machine which can h.
steercd and exploded by wires from n
warshiD has been invented in Pittsburc
for destroying submarine craft. The suh
marine leaves a trail of bubbles on the
surface, which will indicate its location
to those operating the explosive CHASER"
Many English doctors are now con
WINGED that the eating of pigs flesh in
different forms is greatly responsible for
the increase of cancer. They point our
that it is most common among the poor
whose chief meat is that of pigs. wlil.
the disease is extremely rare among the
Jews.
The best-designed flying machines
were the pterodactyls, the huge flying
reptiles of the Cretace0us period. which
had wings , 40 meters long, but small.
narrow bodies and bones much lighter
than those of the birds of today. Their
fight must have been as easy as that of
the butterfly.
4 United States ~ sxmAz>snt en-
gineer. who has SAhS inspecfIFg We iron n
and steel wqMMg plants of Germay,
says rcn and 49, had visited the first $50
reported tlMt | found but two establish
! ments where English was not spoken by
the director.
Mrs. Lorraine J. Pitkin, vice presi-
dent of the auxiliary board of lady man
ayers. of the Worlds Fair Fraternal
Building association, has been elected de-
Partment %mmander of the Women's
Relief corps of the Illinois division of the
q: a. X. MIS-. SPitkin has been identified
with fraternal movements for the last
twenty-five years.
The fundamental proposition on
which the construction of flying machines
must be based is known as Langley's
law, from the name of its dscoverer
Prot. Langley of the Smithsonian inSti-
tuition. This law is somewhat paradox
lcaI, for it maintains that the faster Won
| move through the air the less energy is
needed to keep you going.
The proportion of university students
Is going mp in Holland and the United
states at the rate of per cent. per an
mum; in Germany and Belgium by 6 per
cent; in Switzerland by more than { per
cent, while in France. Italy, Austria
and Russia the annual Increase does not
fall behind these figures. but in Great
bHtaln, taking several years together.
there has been a falling off.
= The north pole will be approached
during the coming open season by the
scientific adventures Of five nations.
Baron Tolls expedition is refitting at the
mouth of the Lena river in Siberia. The
Norwegian party under Capt. Amundsou.
which viii also attempt to locate the
magnetic pole. will sail from ChriStiania.
\ Danish expedition now studying Green
land will attempt to reach the pole in
May. The American venture. financed
by Ziegler, under Fala instead of Bald
win, is the best equipped both in outfit
and experience. The French party sent
for scientific research by DR.. Chariot will
also make strenuous effort to indicate the
''farthest north by the tricolor''