Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-18
BITS OF SCIENCE.


| full at Cambridge, Mimi.
| Seventy thousand persons are EN-
| ployed in the linen industry in Ireland
| Concrete barges, built for the Italian
| government. have proven so successful
| that many more We're ordered recently.
A test has proven that a diver can re
main conscious for three and Il half
minutes after his air supply has been cut
off.
The Belgian ministry of railways is
considering The question of ,.JollShing all
railroad grade crossings in that coun-
| try.
Japan has succeeded in reducing the
number of drug fiends materially by re-
curing individual licenses for the use
of opium.
An artesian well recently was driven
to depth of 1858 feet at Cliffe, Eng
| land. before a sufficient supply of water
was found.
A new implement of warfare is
shrapnel grenade, weighing over pound.
which may be fired from the muzzle of
an ordinary rifle.
/ In 1907 the Roumanian government
received 81, 35T,967 from its state monop-
oily on salt, which is extensively mined
| in that country.
| The British navy has succeeded in
propelling 700-ton gunboat economical
! ly with gas engines. No high speed was
made. however.
Telephones in divers helmets have
| been found unsatisfactory, as the mois-
ture from the wearers' breathing soon
short-circuits them.
The nut trees of the world are eapa-
bic of supplying food all the year
around to all its inhabitants, according
to the vegetarians.
By an European invention flour can
lie compressed into blocks for preserva-
| ton. The method kills laval life and
| prevents insect ravageS.
Antwerp plans to get a larger share of
the trade with Germany by the cOnstruc-
ton of ship canal to give direct access
to the Rhine.
Solid glass toys for babies are a recent
Invention. 1t Is cIaimed that they are
more sanitary than the older forms, and
are unbreakabe.
San Francisco is contemplating a new
municipal water plant that will, if con
structed. drain the Sierra mountains. ut
a cost of about So, 100000.
In new Alpine hotel, advertised as
n rest cure, all the table ware is made
Of papier mache SO that the guests will
not be annoyed by the clatter
! BY tagging birds in eastern Prussia.
the migration of lake fowl has been
traced to "unis. while Il tagged stork
was shot near Fort Jameson, Rhodesia.
There are five of the Chilean nitrate
fields, all within a north and south
distance of 500. Iodine is an important
nN-lfbuUCI OF tue uelibSlIS.
Trains on the new railroad between
Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador, run only
III daylight, requiring passengers to spend
two days making IA 97-mile journey.
To economic space, an Indiana wom-
an has patented garment hanger which
grips several skirts or pairs of trousers
with a single pair of toothed jaws.
A machine has been designed to show
the actual working time of any or all
machines i'll shops so as to give au ac-
| curate record of the cost of production.
Tears give relief from sorrow. accord
ing to Il French physician. because they
decrease the blood pressure on the brain.
benumbing it for the time being.
\ wind guage has been erected at
one end of a high railroad viaduct i'm
England TO signal trains to stop when
the wind blows so strongly as to be
! dangerous.
An automobile weighing a ton and run
ming sixty miles an hour is said 10 have
% per cent. more striking force than
l2-pound shot fired from q gun at a
muzzle velocity of 1000 feet per second.
Rats, which attack the coverings of the
electric cables i'll London suhways, are
! being fought by inocculating them with
the virus of disease which causes them
TO seek the open air for relief.
As an evidence OF good workmanship,
but two parts of the engine of the liner
Etruria, built in 1885, have been re-
placed, though the big vessel has heeu
in constant service nearly quarter of
! ii century.
Tests have shown that the Mexican
cotton tree can be raised protitably in
| Texas. 1t resembles Il pear tree in
shape and size, bears in the second year
and Yields an excellent quality of staple
/ prolihcally.
Singular rosy CLOVIS in the sky. wit
messed several hours after sunset in the
vicinity of Bordeaux, France. are sup
posed 10 be caused by the reflection Of
the sun on clouds too thin to be seen
in ordinary light.
The Russian government has contrib
uted large sum to forward the expert
mentS OF IN inventor vino claims 10
have discovered the secret of aerial navi-
CATION. The details of his invention have
been withheld from the public.
The federal forest service is making
an exhaustive series of microscopic ex-
| aminationS of different kinds of wood
/ after they are broken in testing ma
! chine, to figure out their strength elias
| ITCHY and other physical properties.
y recent expedition. headed by the
Austrian scientist. discovered in central
| Mesopotamia an immense heap of ruins,
including the remains of a magnificent
! palace, believed To have been built soon
after the downfall Of the Bahylonan
| kingdom
Dropping out of sight mysteriously ten
! years ago, Mark w. Harrington. AT that
time chief of the United States weather
bureau, was recently found, mental
wreck, in New Jersey Santarium
! which had admitted him as an unknown
| patient over a year ago.
Nearly third of SiciIy's great
lemon crop each year is consumed
in the manufacture of Citrate Of
lime, while the peel of the same
fruit Yields almost the whole If
the worlds supply of essential oil or es-
sense of lemon, and then is exported to
be candied.