Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-23
BITS OF SCIENCE

BITS OF SCIENCE.
The first attempt To steer hail
was made in Paris in 1874. ''oh
On July 6 the earth is further frar,
sun than at any other time in fhe - me
There are over 1900 different lar,.-...'
or dialects in use by the - races rs
world. 4e
When using an acetylene heodiiot.
night it is best TO tie a white LoT- ii d
chief over the front, both to SEE MA
be seen. anu
The consumption of gasoline IN r..
land grew from 10000 tons in 1901 =
100000 tons in 1907 and is expa,t.s 70
reach 100000 tons this year. 90
Lava found near extinct vnicar....
California is SO soft that it is emf IN. IN
slabs with common handsaws far M, ,-.'
ties and other purposes.
Chinook salmon, introduced To "
Zealand waters from the United St5t.""
grow about five times the size tha1 ~
tain in their native haunts. "'-
The secret of making the finest u,ro,
liam, known as Dresden china. was az;
covered just 200 years ago by an aIo,Ee-
cary's apprentice who was irwin ~
change silver into gold.
By wireless telephony two Frar.h
naval officers have succeeded in hor,u-
ordinary conversation. songs and ~,
whistling heard perfectly at a distan.n
of 80 miles.
In connection with the exterminot;,,
of rats from Honolulu, an official Of .Ln
marine hospital service is prepariuo IN
develop breed of cats Of high rat-rafcb.
ing ability.
Lava from the volcanoes of Soysii IN
the Samoan islands. which has been in
constant eruption for over three yalrs
has formed a river eight miles wide
flowing into the ocean.
An aluminium alcohol lamp. with cun
for heating water or boiling an egg. Tia
whole to be carried by a handle like
candle stick is something new for kjrcb.
en- or sick room.
Under the name of ''lithoderm"
Scotch chemist has invented a wa=h for
stone that he claims will preserve its
surface from the effects of moisture for
an indefinite length of time.
The United States in 1901 produced
1880 short tons of tale and soapstone
worth 1881 ,047, an increase over the
preceding year of 15.9 per cent. in ouap-
THY and Z per cent. in value
The largest static electric machine
ever built is owned by New York phy-
stefan. Twenty 40-inch glass discs re,
volve against twenty others to produce
sparks 30 inches long by n inch in diam
eter.
The mammoth which a Russian gov
eminent expedition recently found en-
caSed in Siberian ice and removed 10 St
Petersburg IS the finest and most COM
plete specimen ever recovered. even the
trunk being intact. Only two teeth are
missing.
The addition of a small portion Of
nitric acid to melted glue will prevent it
from geletinizing.
Brazil derived revenue of $1,21S3S4
last year from the manufacture Of -02,-
OH, 400 boxes of matches.
Experts say Pennsylvania anthracite
coal will last 100 years more; her BIZ
luminous four times as long.
Experiments are under way in Boston
with nickel-in-the-slot turnstiles in eleyat-
ed railroad and subway stations. The
idea is to save the expense of ticket sell
ers.
An aeroplane on the principles of those
which have proved successful in very
recent times was invented in England
in 1913, but failed for lack of a suitable
motor
To cure its office boys of loafing firm
at Beloit, Wis. has equipped the push
cart they use with devices for registering
the distance covered in trips and the
speed made.
What it believed to be the largest
specimen of petrification in the world
is tree 80 feet long, with branch stubs
still intact, spanaing 40-foot canyon in
Arizona.
A telephone system will be completed
in the near future in the French African
colonies which will permit of cOmmuni-
cation with the most dlstaut posts in
the interior of the Dark continent.
BY sending up thermometer on a
kite to a height of 1890 feet. weather
bureau officials near Washington, u, c..
registered a temperature of 20. while at
the surface of the earth it was 20.
A prediction of Hudson Maxim, the in
ventor is that the future will see the air
filled with flying machines driven by
power obtained from wireless electrical
currents, leading from center to center
of population.
When a 2S-foot python in a Chicago
amusement park became chilled while
Matching forty eggs the lives Of the
mother and her young were saved by the
use of electric heating pads and an cleo
trio radiator.