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


MIEW $3.50
A new torpedo boat destroyer built in
Great Britain for the government of
Brazil has achieved a speed of 27A
knots an hour. 1t is now in order for
the sensational reporter to circulate the
story that this fast and efficient ''scor-
pion" is to be sold to the Japanese gov
eminent.
A London dispatch states that an
American inventor who has been working
ing in Coventry for some time has pro-
duced an automobile engine which does
it's work without noise or vibration. If
this be true the Improvement will be
generally adopted, and then inventors
will have before them the harder task
of making engines odorless.
Wireless telephony has been tried with
complete success between the Brooklyn
navy ward and a station on the roof
of the Waldorf Astoria hotel New York.
This is evidence that the wireless method
of transmitting human speech may event
ually have commercial value in a re-
stricted way 1t is now valuable at sea,
where ships of various natives commune
cate freely over comparatively long dis
distances.
According to the opinion of the at
torney general, that milliners in Wis
consin can offer for sale the plumage of
l. ~, ol I,,I L.
of Wisconsin, will give the plumage-
hunter of other states a market for the
plumage of certain birds. This shows
the need of uniformity in game laws,
and laws for the protection of birds
whose plumage is sought by millinery
supply hunter.
The slide into the river at New Orleans
of railroad land 300x200 feet bearing
four lines of tracks occupied by seven
loaded freight cars, is evidence of the
manner in which the Mississippi river
will trouble those who imagine that it
can easily be kept within bounds for the
maintenance of deeper channels. The
river was boring its way under the prop
erty while railroad operations We're in
progress on the surface.
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The dismasting of the old cup-defender
Mayfower during a hurricane off the
south Atlantic coast reveals the charac-
ter of the yachts which formerly did the
racing for the Americas cup. Racing
machines like the Defender or the Re
lance could never be taken to sea on
expeditions such as that upon which
the Mayhower was bent when she was
struck by the hurricane which wrecked
many stanch merchantmen.
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A report of the Geological Survey
shows that since 1899 the United States
has held first place in coal mining, and
is now producing 1913 per cent. Of the
worlds annual output. Supremacy in
this regard is due to the fact that in
dustries are multiplying and demanding
increased supplies of coal, and miners
have been striving SO effectually to meet
that demand that the United States has
bad coal to export in large quantities.
Nayies are expensive war adiuncts in
directions other than their maintenance
Statistics of the French navy show that
since August, 1900 twenty-one wrecks
explosions and other catastrophes have
caused the death of 2SS officers and men
and the destruction of property valued at
$1I000,00o. The United States navy
has had heavy losses of this kind, but
the French navy seems to have been cs-
peeiaily afflicted during the past eight
years.
Paris has discovered that she is badly in
need of a cleanup If she is to make Il
successful fight against a visitation of
the cholera. She is also short of funds,
and will therefore experience difficulty in
providing for the necessary sanitary
work. The municipalities of the Old
World seem to have difficulties similar
to those which are experienced by cities
in the United States which are laying
their troubles largely to politics and mis-
management.
The corn crop has thriven gloriously.
1t is now out of danger, and is officially
estimated at 2,61400o,00o bushels. This
is 100000 bushels more than the ac-
tual yield of last year and has been ex-
ceeded only twice in the history of the
country-in 1905. when the total crop
was 2,T0S000,000 bushels, and In 1906,
when it was 1927, 100000. The bounty
OF the harvest will help to hasten the
return of prosperity-if the election re-
suits in the defeat of Bryan and his
'isms.
The report of the superintendent of
Chicago's department of compulsory edu'
cation relative to the number of starv.
ing and underfed children recalls similar
report from New York city which recent
ly caused much commotion among philan
thropists and elected deuials from those
whose duty it was to look after the needs
of children. Chicago is a large city ant
it would not be surprising under tn,
existing business conditions TO fine
homes in which breakfasts and othel
meals are too light for the average grow