Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-09
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hydraulic machinery, an Ars..@
genius has constructed yacht q, IA
material thus obtained. 1t is 81.
ieet long, and every part, incIudi2n ,'. 20
nasts and sails, is paper. ~
By means of ergograph maasn
nents. NJ. Charles Ferre has fonna =,
one-tenth more work can be done CO., ,11'
ns than sitting, but that the O..
Intensity of effoft during a long No.,
ii the standing position is folIowod
The end by more rapid fatigue
Fog dissipation by electric djscpo,,
has proven more effective who, :,
log contains dust or smoke than r.t-
1t is water only, the solid parta,-.
seeming to become charged ana 70 :
then repealed, precipltating nartt,,'
Of vapor with which they collide W.
bundle of spikes as radiator -
of some yards can be cleared in tor
seconds.
About ten species of "yaga+o.,
sponges" are now cultivated IN ~
warmer parts of Africa and Asia osne
cially in Algeria. The fruit is ade,.
before maturity, but on ripepina ~.
pulp separates from the fibrops mo-
rial, which then becomes an exoaIr.r.
substitute for real sponge for the toIIo.
oath room and many other pnrno,,,
The Algerian sponges are in larro d
mand in Paris.
The snail, 1.-The poor mans ovs,.,a
Of France and Spain. is pronounced
very pleasing food when selected f,,n
clean feeding grounds and Drona,l,
cooked. Its nutritive value is 1o0 no,
cent greater than that of the ovst.,
analysis showing that TIE solids ar
brace nearly so per cent of tissue bua
ing proteid matter besides which A..
5 per cent of fat and per cent of min.
eral substance including phosphates
Talking before the Institution o
Electrical Engineers at Glasgow. On
the unknown energy contained in tn
chemical elements and the prospect Of
making it available, f. Soddy said that
the forces at our disposal comparl
with those exhibited when an atom
suffers change are of a different and
lower order of magnitude Suppose
he said, that way could be found in
which uranium, which disintegrates to
the extent of a thousand millionth par
could be made to disintegrae
completely in the course of q year;
then from one gram of uranium 1000.
100000 caloric could be evolved. which
converted into electric energy. would
suffice to keep 81 candle-power lamp
burning continuously through the year
By the expenditure of about one toa
Of uranium, costing less than S5,000 I
more energy would be derived than i \
supplied by all the electric supply-st2
tons of London put together.
Much has been said of late IN fayr
Of the extensive cultivation Of the bla&
locust, and one railroad company Is
reported to have planted nearly 100
300 trees of this species, with the yieF
IT utilizing their extraordinarily iu-
rable wood. But Charles A, White o.
the Smithsonian Institution points out
in the Popular Science Monthly, that
the black locust possesses a mortal en-
envy in longicorn beetle, which b0fs
the wood through and through. LISA
native Of the same regions in which
the tree tiourishes, and depends upon
the tree for it's own existence. Wien
population flowed to Illinois and IoE2
the black locust was taken along. L
aourished luxurlantly for some yean
until its insect foe followed 1t, and nov
says Mr.. White, nothing remains Of ths
great groves of black locust in the
Middle West except blasted remnanH
The tree, native east of the AlIeghen.A
from New York to the Gulf, was also
to Europe, whittier Is
enemy has not followed it