The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-10-28
BITS OF SCIENCE.

For short distances the salmon is the
swiftcSt swimming fish.
Mercury ranks next to silver and cop
per in couductivity of electricity.
Photograph records made by eminent
actors are used in some of the Vienna
schools TO teach defamation.
There are over 100000 automobiles in
use in the United States, more than dou-
bic the number in all Europe.
The Canary islands are to be given
wireless communication with Europe,
Africa and America in the near future.
London's new water reservoir, recently
completed at cost of 81, 10000, is said
to be the largest in the world.
The German cavalry has been equipped
with a powerful carbine, fitted with a
saber bayonet, to replace the sabcr.
The University of Leipsic will cee-
brate its IoOth anniversary and its
lOuOth session next month.
\ high British court has followed the
example of one in France in ruling that
bleaching is not decterious to flour.
At the beginning of this year Japan had
33OS telegraph offices with J3St miles
Of lines, totalinG 92,22T miles of wire.
During the past year the Pasteur insti-
tute at tOoner. India, has treated $40
cases, of which but two have resulted
unfayorably.
An attempt is being made in California
to acclimatc the Korean fig, which grows
on hardy vine and is a delicious fruit.
The United States annually exports
more wheat flour than all other coun-
tries combined, about thrcc-tifths of the
total amount.
The Northeastern Railway of Eng
land has put in service an electrically
driven car for the express purpose of
transporting fish.
4 little lime spriuklcd in a watering
trough used by horses or livestock win
keep the water sweet and prevent the
formation of scum.
The archaeological museum of Sydney.
Australia has Il model of the famous
Strasburg clock, which has been run
ming accurately twenty years.
Paying for electric current for dim
light is the height of extravaganza; one
new light often gives double the light
of two old ones.
Maps showing 50000,OoO stars, all ac-
curately located, have been completed by
astronomers Of many nations working to-
gethcr in the common cause.
The only ostrich farm in Europe. mt
Nice, uses Il big incubator To hatch the
eggs, the sun of that latitude not being
hot enough to do the work.
The quarter of a million electric lights
at the Seattle exposition are supplied
Falls, fifty miles distant
1t is estimated that the known supply
of fertilizer in the shape of natural
nitrates will be exhausted by the worlds
demands in less than twenty years.
At the close of last year there were
approximately 100000 miles of railroad
in the United States compared with
1886 miles at the close of 1898.
\ st. Louis druggist prevents Gus
toners from monopolzins his free tele-
phone by switch in the wire, operated
from behind his prescription counter.
\ new pump for filling beer or wine
bottles directly from the barrel is said
TO prevent waste and the escape of gas,
heretofore regarded as impossible.
\ dishpan divided into two compart-
ments, one for the hot water, the other
for cold, is a new space-saving utensil
for the housewife who has to wash her
own dishes.
A motor which may be driven by any
ordinary incandeScent light current, has
been devised TO run a cash register the
pressure OF any key switching on the
power.
In a new form of electric lamp the
usual carbons are replaced by carbon
discs, which are constantly rotated, the
ares forming between the peripherieS
After TEN years Of work a New York
banker claims to have perfected a ma
chine which will compute the interest
of any sum for any number of days,
months or years.
The 10 and 12-nch guns with which
the new British battleShps win be
equipped will he capable of developing
greater muzzle energy than any wea-
pous of similar size ever built.
An effective fly poison, harmless to
human life. can be made by disSolving
dram of bicromate of potash in two
ounces of water aud sweetening il with
little sugar.
California produced over 10000 tons
of coal in 1900; last year but 1898.
Several metallic oxides and sulphi5es
have the remarkable property of con
Quoting electrical currents better in one
direction than another, especially at low
voltage.
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