Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-06
BITS OF SCIENCE.

ing was broken Wnen 40 teet OF the
Los Angeies-Owens river aqueduct, 9x11
feet. was bored through solid rock in
March.
A fish, found for the first time recently
in Bahama waters, passes much of its
life within the shell of a large molluse
without apparently disturbing the lat
ter.
A German scientist claims to have dis
covered the germ of trachoma in the eyes
of apes and to have demonstrated that
| the disease is contagious only in its first
stages,
A Canadian government expert has
estimated that there are over 10000, Co.,
600 tons of marketable fuel in the
Crows Nest Pass coal field of Alberta
and British Columbia.
For the storage of torpe0oes the
French government has constructed and
sunk in the Mediterranean near Toulon
an artificial island of concrete and steel.
The first cttempt to ship Swedish iron
ore to the United States for smelling was
made recently when a ship loaded with
5000 tons called for Philadelphia.
German scientists expect to get 600
horsepower-hours of work from each
| ton of peat which will be taken from
| immense boys in that country and CON
verified into gas, together with much am
| monia as a by-product.
About 100000 tons of tin plate scrap,
| rope each year, and about 10000 tons
/ in the United States, for the recovery OF
| the tin and iron.
The Adelskiold gold medal, awarded
but once every ten years, has been Civ
en- by the Swedish Royal academy to
Thomas A. Edison for his inventions in
connection with the photograph and cleo
| trio light
The East Indian government has sent
| a representative of its fisheries depart
ment to the United States to study the
American methods of Matching fish.
/ Over 100000 has been spent in I'M
successful efforts to stop a mine fire
| that has been burning for over fifty
years in eastern Pennsylvania, and now
concrete wall win be quilt to try to
save adjoining workings that are threat
ened.
Vine growers in southeastern France
| claim to have prevented enormous losses
| to their vineyards by hail storms by
| firing into the clouds explosive rockets
| to prevent the formation of icy particles.
japanese waterproof paper is made
from bamboo and eucalyptus, mixed with
| fibers of the gampi and other shrubs and
treated with solution containing cam
phor, caoutchouc and resin.
The diamonds produced by the re-
Gently discovered field in German South
west Africa are of the first quality, bat
aging one-third of carat each.
1t is proposed to erect a monument
by public subscription in honor of Marcy,
the Frenchman, who is termed 'the
father of the moving picture" because
| of his inventions along that line.
A government physician at Manila has
succeeded in cultivating the leprosy
| bacillus and will experiment further
with a view to establishing a specific
trea tment for the disease.
Sixteen million dollars worth of con-
densed milk has been exported from the
United States in the last ten years.
The manufacture OF Wire glass origi-
mated in ST. Louis, which still has the
largest factory for its production.
An incandescent lamp fixture which
reels up the wire within a drum by
ratchet and spring mechanism similar to
that Of a shade roller, recently was
patented.
The fixed" stars are changing their
positions at an appreciate rate, accord
ing to astronomers, who say that even
the most familiar consultations have
changed their forms since the time of
the ancients who named them.
A peculiar poison, the use of which is
attributed to English gypsies, has been
identified as barium carbonate, know2 to
mineralogists as witherite. Although it
kills domestic animals, it does not rem.
der their flesh unsafe to eat.
German railroads are experimenting
with an automatic ticket printing ma
chine, which does away with the neces-
sity for carrying large stock of tickets
at each station, the tickets being issued
only when required, at a possible speed
of 500 an hour.
A fire extinguishing liquid in which
the chief ingredient is said to be carbon
tetrachloride is nonconductor of eec-
tricity and its use is said to save firemen
from the danger of severe shocks some
times received by them when streams of
water touch highly-charged wires
Salt is mined in nearly every portion
of the German empire in such quantities
that only about per cent. of the salt
consumed is imported.
\ machine that automatically weighs
or measures a medicine and fills eight
capsules at the same time taken to ill
one by hand is a recent invention.
The rebuilding of New York city's
Catskill water system will require So
100000 cubic yards of excavation, %
100000 more than the Panama canal
The lowest point of dry land in the
United States is in Death Valley, Cal,
us feet below sea level; the highest, Mt.
Whitney. Cal, 1851 feet.
Inks in which iron is an ingredient
keep better if kept in earthen jugs than
in glass bottles as the exposure to light
hastens their decomposition.
For the German army's new gun, de-
signed for use against airships, there has
been developed shell that will burst
inside balloon and ignite the gas.
Naturalists have identified 1T species
Of frogs, some of which are found native
in every part of the world except New
Zealand and the southern portion of
South America.
OF Pennsylvania 100000 acres Of
timber, about one-half are in mature
trees, one-fourth in second growth, and
the remainder in stripped or bush land.
Because of the position of the Isle of
Wight, the English port of Southamp- |
ton has the advantage of four high tides |
each twenty-four hours, which gives it |
extraordinary facilities for vessels enter, |
ing its docks.
To enable feminine wearer of hair
net to keep it in place three Londoners |
have invented and patented a net in |
which tiny hairpins are woven into the |
borders.
An emergency rope tire that can no /
packed in small compass has been in. I
vented to replace a damaged rubber one \
for an automobile that has met with n |
miShap.