Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-11-04
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NhatAcs NOSE, resident OF SaraWak,
India, has been investigating berlberl
/ and has come TO the conclusion that
the immediate cause of that disease is
to be found in race which has under
gone certain changes connected with
the development upon it of a mold or
fungus. His experiments on fowls and
monkeys confirm this conclusion.
Grayitation is explained by the new
theory of w. A. Nippoldt as due to the
motion of matter having the tenuity
usually assigned to the ether. All mat
ter is in motion, and the smaller the
aggregation the greater is the maxi
mum velocity. Open space contains
/ very minute particles in rapid motion
/ in all directions. The PARTICLES are
| small enough to pass between the
molecules of ordinary bodies. and they
are stopped or reflected in proportion
| to the mass of the body hombarded.
! Two bodies in space shield each other
on one side, being thus apparently at
tracted
An engineer who viewed the recent
! eclipse of the sun from his station i'm
| Malta thus describes the effect of the
| darkness on the inhabitants of that isl
! and: The Maltese nearly went mad
with fright thinking the world was
coming to an end. All the people in
the village where | am living ran into
| the church. while some rang the church
| bells and some even fired off large
squibs something of the tirework tribe.
| mean but it was all over in about
quarter of an hour and then the NAL
tese left the church and made their
way back to their houses still looking
very much scared"
| Experiments aimed at developing the
resistance of brass to the action of sea
! water, with view to its employment
| for constructing submarines III France.
have shown some remarkable results
| from the addition of aluminium. The
| internal structure of the alloy is strik-
| ingly changed by very small percent
! age Of aluminium, and the color chang
es are surprising From half of per
! cent up to ) per cent of aluminium
| gives the brass a deep golden color
| If the quantity of aluminium is in
creased beyond , per cent a superb
rose-color' results, which reaches its
| maximum when the aluminium
amounts to : per cent With 10 per
cent of aluminium the color turns TO a
| Silvery white.
Acror1ipo to ,,forn,o t;o,, ..,,,4 60 a.,
department of Commerce and Labor.
the sWarmng population of China has
| failed to appreciate one of the greatest
sources of wealth Of that country.
namely, its vast areas of hillside and
mountain land suitable for grazing cat
tie, sheep and horses They use the
| trees for lumber and the brushwood
for fuel. apparently without thinking
| of the immense pasturages which the
! luXuriant growth of grass would sup
/ ply. 1t is thought that this may be
/ due in part to the prohibition of meat
eating by Buddha, but at present a.
most all classes of Chinese eat meat
whenever they can get it. On the 9th
er hand, fisheries of all kinds have
been carefully developed in China.
The surface of the dry land sinks to
Il level below that of the ocean in six
| places, viz: The SaIton Basin in san
Diego County and Death Valley in
| Inyo County, Cal: the Valley of the
! Jordan in Palestine, where the Dead
! Sea is nearly thirteen hundred feet
| below sen level: two small areas in fhp
! Sahara Desert of Northern Africa: and
larger than all others togethcr-the
! Valley of the Caspian Sea i'll Western
Asia. which is eighty-siX feet lower
/ than the Black Sea The Salton Basin,
once connected directly with the Cuff
of California, has been gradually
/ closed in by silt from the Colorado
| River. A complete barrier was form
/ ed at last shutting off the basin from
/ both gulf and river, and separating a
lake that soon disappeared through
/ evaporation. IN times of heavy rains
| the silt is sometimes cut through.
/ though only at long intervals. The
| last flooding in this way was in 1891
81, but in the spring of this year the
opening of an irrigation canal left a
breach. through which the summer
| food has poured a lake of many square
miles With the foothold gained this
new body of water may remain a long
| time before sitting and evaporation
| again leave dry basin.
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