Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-12
BITS OF SCIENCE

| patent on an electric light attacbT's,'t
! for a clock which switches on tTn -
| rent by pressing a button under r6s ri
low. TO save the user getting oar ~
/ bed. VI
| A virgin territory, rich in gold. silver
| copper, iron and mahogany, will La
| tapped by a railroad from Truv-iuo pe
| Tegucigaipa, Honduras, for which com
cession has been granted to an American
| company. al
| A Colorado man claims to have invent.
| ed an improved method of musical nora.
ton by replacing the notes of a sonc
with words or syllables, over each e
| which is a numeral to designate tho
length of tone.
| After series of experiments the natu-
ralists at the Geological park, Washing
| ton. ID. G., decided that most of the rem.
! tiles, including the serpents, have av.
tremely short ranges of vision and hear
! ing.
Tie nations production of fine plati-
mum decreased from 1439 ounces, valued
| at S45.1S9. in 1906, to 357 ounces val.
| ued at S10.5S9, in 1907. OF this 200
ounces came from California and ffry.
seven from Oregon.
Much of Sweden's wealth lies in her
wonderful deposits of iron, which enable
| her to produce every form of iron and
| finished steel. In one section alone She
has more than 500,O00,0O0 tons of ora
above ground.
| There are more than 600 women study.
| ing medicine at French universities At
present Paris has over 100 members of
! the fair sex who are physicians many
! of them holding important posts in con
nection with schools.
A California man has been granted
patent on a reversible chair. Ordinarily
| 1t stands on four feet, but by turning #
over, the arms serve as rockers, the back
being made to slide into whichever posi-
ton it is needed.
A new theory of the cause of the
| bright rays emanating from some of tbp
lunar craters, advanced by member at
a recent meeting of the Royal Astronom-
zeal Society in London, was that thew
are caused by salt efiiorescence.
The reason that the driving wheels of
the swiftest locomotives are made large
is that they revolve so rapidly that if
made smaller the piston would have ia
move faster than the steam could escape
from the cylinders.
The states of Vermont New H2mD
shire, New Jersey, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee produced gold worth $3.50.
902 and silver worth $56536 in 1907
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zinc.
To be admitted into Canada after
| April l all patent medicines containing
| any of a long list of deadly drugs will
have to be approved by experts of the
| Department of Internal Revenue or bear
printed statement on the outside of the
package that there is such drug in the
preparation, and it's name.
Figures gathered by the government
show that the average American con
| sumes half his weight, or SIG pounds
of sugar a year.
The navy department maintains two
schools for the instruction of its enlisted
| electricians, at the navy yards IT Mare
Island Cal, and Brooklyn, n. Y.
Ten Thousand gross of steel pens may
be made from a ton of the metal.
\ works at Hyogo has just completed
the first modern locomotive ever built
IN Japan.
An electric light socket that locks with
key has been devised to prevent theft
of bulbs.
The chief ingredient in a new secret
preparation for filing life preserves is
said to be common SCOT.
A new musical instrument, known as
! the dolcette, is a harp played by key
board similar to that of a piano.
Santos Dumont's newest flying ma
chine is so light and compact that he
carries it about with him in his auto
mobile.
Although much gold, copper and lead
| is produced in the Philippines, there IS
but one notable deposit of silver.
| An experiment station to investigate
the resources of Guam viii be eStab-
lished there by the department of agri-
culture.
The latest Partisan novelty in watches
! is one set in a ring to be worn on the
ring finger of the left hand over the
glove.
An electric attachment for rural free
delivery boxes rings a bell in the own
er's house when mail is deposited in the
| box.
Experts in the federal bureau of En-
tomology have stated that more than -
per cent. of the flies of a city are bred
! in stables.
The Dutch will celebrate the centeu-
nary of the re-establishment of national
! independence by a worlds fair at the
| Hague in 1913.
A savings bank with a clock attached,
which cannot be wound unless a coin
| be dropped in the slot in the bank, has
appeared in the stores.
Detroits medicine factories last wear
| produced enough pills to girdle the
earth three times, if placed together IN
. single line
Over 100000 pounds of peppermint OH
are prepared annually from the product
of the peppermint farms in the vicinity
| OF kalamazoo, Mich.
! A German gunsmith has patented an
| expanding bullet adapted to the destruc-
| ton of dirigible balloons, which may De
| fired from an ordinary rife.
Though apples in storage remain SOUND
and firm, they lose more than } per
cent. of weight each six months ny
respiration of carbon dioxide.
A gold mine has been discovered m
the old Chilean gold field from when
has been taken ore containing more imam
200 ounces of pure gold to the ton
The 1900 square miles of phosphate
| lands in Utah, Idaho and Nyomins-
recently withdrawn from entry by the
Presidents order, are said to constitute
| the greatest known deposit OF ph"s-
plate rock in the world.
A Paris physician successfully pro.
duces artificial sleep by an intermittent
electric current of low voltage. the CIR
cult being interrupted 100 times eae"
second.
\ license has been given for the use
of the Kaiser's private pottery for me
exDerimentS of n German potter WI"