Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-30
BITS OF SCIENCE

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Slate valued at $6O19.22O was omar
ried and sold in the United States in
1907. an increase over 1906, output Of
$350,S75.
A Boston man has patented q NET %
catch letters dropped through the slot
in an office door to keep them off the
floor
There We're only thirty-iwo miles If
RAILROAD in operation in the United States
in 1882. and in the seventy-fve yearq
to 1907 there were constructed 22S19,
miles of operated railroad,
Veins of both gold and silver have booo
found among the bones in the catacombs
of Guanajuato Mexico, and Aneric9n
mining men are prospecting.
BY a new adaptation of the yac1pm
cleaning machine horse can be cleared
III less than one-tourth the time that the
ordinary curry comb and brush take.
Recent biologists have confirmed tbn
statement of Louis Agassiz that tba
whole of New England was once covered
with an ice cap mile thick.
The tobacco leaf normally contains
considerable quantities of citric and
malic acid, the former the acid of tha
lemon, the latter the acid of the annie
A company of 100 picked soldiers from
the German army recently, in forty min
utes, built a bridge of steel boats and
plates los feet long by 10 wide
In certain Russian provinces the SIM
flower is raised for the oil obtained from
the seeds, which is used for cooking and
in soap, while from the ashes of the
stems and leaves potash is obtained.
The ocean appears blue because deem
water reflects only the blue rays of light.
Shallow water looks green because the
blue letters are mixed with the yellow
reflected from the sand on the bottom
Onefourth of the material taken from
the bottom of the harbor of San Padre.
Cal, by government dredging operations
consists of fossil shells, which are ground
and mixed with chicken feed to supply
lime.
A Ferris wheel in an amusement park
at Waterloo, Ia, large enough to carry
twenty passengers, is driven by fall
ing water on the old principle Of the
overshot millwheel. The water is pumped
to the top by an electric motor.
The best peet root yields about T. per
cent. of sugar.
Children brought up on goats milk
are said to be immune from tuberculosis.
A force that will move ton along a
highway will pull 32-ton canal boat
No receptacle has ever been made
strong enough to resist the freezing pow
er of water.
At the present rate of increase the
population of the United States in 1919
will be 100,000,000.
At a cost of 100000 a fog horn has
been erected on precipitous Bass rock,
in the Firth of Forth.
The highest telephone station in the
world soon will be in opera ton, 1911
feet nm nm Mount ROSa i'm Italy
The deepest hole in the world. in 81
lesia. has reached depth of 1900 feet,
penetrating eightythree strata of coal.
Nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia
and cottonseed meal are the three fer
tiliZers most rich in nitrogen.
Cotton mitrens, much used by women
when handling plants, can be water
PROCEED by dipping them in melted peraI-
fine.
Stockholm. Christiana, Berlin and Lon
don, in the order named, have the low
est death rates among the European
cities.
The average cost for fuel for a rail-
road train is 10 cents a mile and the
average fireman burns $4,000 worth
year.
The Argentine ant which has wrought
havoc with the Louisiana sugar plah,
uons. has now appeared on the I8c'D'
coast
A pint of crude carbolic acid, mixed
with a gallon of kerosene, makes a cbeap
and excellent spray for poultry houses.
In round numbers, 2,500.O00 ounces
of gold and 60,000,000 ounces OF SILVER
are produced in the United States each
year.
A Pittsburg man has invented a h%
chine by which he claims from !up3
pounds TO a ton of coal can be Hane'
and loaded into a car in a minute. r
A monument will be erected near ~
tusville, Pa, in honor of the man "no
drilled the first oil well there fifty years
ago next August.
Germany's first electric ferry boat Re.
Gently was launched at Dulsbur@. It
has a capacity for GO passengers os
sides horses and vehicles
British inventors have succeeded l'
hardening tantalum by an oxygen Ph@
ess which adds to its strength Wiii""'
adding TO it's brittleness.