Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-19

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Soon. the thermometer will again be
a subject of daily interest, with eyes
focused near the top of the tube.
The sweet girl graduates are busy
with their essays, and the sound of the
baccalaureate will soon be heard in the
land.
A donor who withholds his name has
made gift of 100000 to the st. Louis
Skin and Cancer Hospital. 1t is a noble
benefcence and is worthy of imitation.
Valparaiso is about to undertake
harbor improvements which it is esti-
mated win cost $20,000,000. This is
large amount, but seaports which would
keep pace with the worlds commerce
must deepen channels and improve docks
regardless of expense.
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Humanitarians will welcome the news
that a Topeka judge has upheld the
constitutionality of the law which pro-
vides that cattle in transit shall not be
confined in ears for periods longer than
twenty-eight hours, but must be taken
from the cars for rest, food and water.
The death of Gen. Sir Redvers Butler
recalls some of the disappointments for
Britons during the late war with the
Beers. Some of England's best generals
were troubled by Boer methods of fight
ing, but nobody could criticise their
courage and pertinacity in the face of
a tenacious foe.
That physician who addressed his med
lcal brethren at the great convention in
Chicago on the subject of sanitary pre-
cautions in schools sounded keynote.
The chief triumphs of medical science in
modern times have been won in the field
OF sanitation. An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.
Both houses of Congress having
passed the bill providing for sanitary
amount of air space in the steerage of
ocean steamers, the steamship compan-
les will be compelled to make altera-
tons where steerage room is now made
quate. The new law will insure better
health for newcomers when the pressure
of travel is so heavy that every bunk
is filed.
The Wright brothers have frankly adj
mitted that they flew at the rate of
forty miles during the recent test of
their flying machine at Kill Devil,
North Carolina. But this will probably
not convince Mr. Farman of Deutsch
prize fame and other doubling French
aeronauts. What they have accom-
plished with so much eclat is like thirty
cents in comparison.
The use of wooden paving blocks treat
ed with ereosote has led to novel dam
age suit at Bristol, England, where a
nurseryman sought to recover for injury
TO his plants by the fumes. The jury
gave him verdict for E40, and upon APP
peal to the higher courts the judgment
was sustained. This adds a new argu-
ment to the many which may be urged
against wood pavements.
DIR. Nansen seems to be tired of poll
ties and longing for indulgence in scientific
study. His resignation of the Office of
Norwegian minister to Great Britain hay.
ing been accepted on the LIST of May, he
is now back in his old position as pro-
fessor of oceanography in the University
of Norway. Nansen is man who wants
to do things" and representatives of
governments often have small latitude in
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Summer resorters on the banks of
Lake Champlain are loud in their com
plants regarding the dumping of paper
mill refuse into the lake and the re-
sultant destruction of fish. The author
tiles of every state in the Union will
ultimately be compelled to make stand
against the deflement of public waters
in any way. Poisonous refuse that kills
fish is inimical to the health of those
who frequent lakes for bathing and fish
ing.
Great Britain's new armored cruiser
Indomitable takes her place at the head
of the speedy ships of the fighting fleets
with a record of twenty-eight knots an
hour on a measured course. As this is
going at the rate Of about thirty-one
statute miles an hour, it viii be seen that
the turbine engine is accomplishing
things in the direction of speed Ameri-
cas- fastest turbine cruiser has thus far
gone only twenty-six and quarter knots
at her best.
If any doubt has been lingering as to
the practically of the submarine boat.
it has been disspated by the perform
ance of the Octopus, which under official
test, steamed beneath the surface of the
sea for six continuous hours, at a speed
of eight knots for two hours, and five
knots for the remainder of the time. A
living boat that can disappear and re-
main under water for "A run of thrty-six
miles is menace that sea fighters can
not afford to ignore.