Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
BITS OF SCIENCE.

Iesslonai accounts between physicians
and patients.
The swiftest of the smaller birds is
the Virginia rainpiper, which has ac-
complished measured flights of 1900
yards in a minure.
Japan has completed and published
geological survey of Korea, together
with a detailed account of its mines and
mineral resources.
A calorie is a metric unit of heat.
equivalent to the heat necessary to raise
the temperature of gramme of water
degree, centigrade.
Turpentine will restore to their rig
inal whiteness piano keys that have
TURNED yellow, while hot vinegar will
remove paint stains from glass.
The largest electrical cooking device
in the world is an oven at Marseilles,
France, which is heated by currents
passing through resistance coils.
The Arostook Falls in Maine have
been harnessed to produce electricity to
operate a railroad and furnish power
for knitting mills in the vicinity.
A Boston woman has patented an in
dlvidual car strap which may be car
ried in shopping bag and attached by
hook to the rod in the car or to another
strap.
The Philadelphia Aeronautical Recre-
alton society has ordered the largest bal
loon ever built in this country and ex-
poets to make trial trip in April.
Test borings for oil are being made
in the mountains of North Carolina and
eastern Tennessee as the result of dis
covery of indications of natural gas.
Christian remains, probably dating
from the Eighth or Seventh century,
have been unearthed at Wad-elHadad,
along the Blue Nile, further south than
ever before found
A magnifying glass with a clip attach
ment to fasten it to pencils or other
drawing instruments to facilitate fine
work. is a recent invention for the bene-
fit of draughtsmen.
Surgeons of the Pasteur institute at
Paris have discovered that chimpanzees
have previously unsupported resem-
blance to man in their susceptibility to
appendicitis.
The British Royal Meteorological So
ciety has awarded the Symons gold
medal for 1908 to l.. Teisserenc de Bort
of Paris, in recognition Of his research
work in that science
American interests largely predomi-
nate in the mining industry in Korea,
one American company having already
taken out bullion worth nearly S1O,OO0,-
600.
Two electric interurban sleeping cars
have been operated for eighteen months
such success that more cars have been
added. The cars are without motor or
air pumps and are run as trailers to ordi-
nary interurban electrics.
To give st. Petersburg a supply of
pure water, experts are considering tap
ping Lake Ladoga, nine miles from the
city.
The Canadian Pacific railroad is equip
ping its bridges with automatic devices
which will set danger signals in case
the bridges are burned or washed away.
A 150foot steel tower with 15-foot
well under it will be constructed at the
Carnegie observatory on Mount Wilson,
Cal, with which to use spectroscope.
The highest concrete stack in the
world. at Great Falls, Mont, towers SOC
feet into the air and weighs 1900 TONS
1t rests on a concrete base % feet deep
by 103 feet in diameter.
A simple test for purity of sugar is to
burn it. Pure sugar will be completely
burned while an adulterant will leave
an ash.
Brass may be gwen a color resembling
old pewter by boiling ii in a solution of
cream of tartar containing a small a.
mount of chloride of tin.
The discovery Of coal beneath the
chalk cliffs of Dover has given rise to
the hope that it may be found in work
able quantities elsewhere in the south of
England.
Within a circle of sixty miles in diam
eter. with its center in New York, there
are more telephones than in all Great
Britain.
1t is estimated that the number of
failures in electrically welded rail joints
is not more than per cent.
Over 100000,000 tons of coal are used
by the railroads of the United States
each year.
In Montezuma, Ga, cotton gin Is
operated by the power obtained from
two artesian wells.
BY soaking corks used in glue or mu-
cilage bottles in vaseline their sticking
will be prevented.
The long quiet volcano of Colima, in
Mexico. again has become active, emit
ting smoke and sparks in alarming guam
titles.
Experiments with ostrich farming in
Australia, the eggs being Matched by
artificial incubation, are proving success
full.
During the past ten years the Rus
sian government has spent S944,510,0 600
on improving old railroads and building
new ones.
A pound of copperas and eight ounces
of carbolic acid to a gallon of water
vii. make a cheap and effective disin-
fectant.
Probably the worlds swiftest battle
ship is the British Bellerophon, which
Recently hldue @oT4 hllOtS III du oluCidI
trial
Electric power is used on 1886 miles
of street railways in Great Britain to
14S miles operated by other means.
1t takes 1882 cubic feet of air to
weigh a pound.
The total pig iron production of the
United States last year was 15,9360lS
long tons as against 25,7S1, 1861 tons in
1907.
Recent additions to the French army's
field equipment were several automobile
refrigerators for the transportation OF
fresh meat.
a new instrument for use when strop-
ping razors includes a guide which pre-
vents the blade slipping and injuring it
self or the strop.
Up to a certain point exposure to ra-
dunn rays stimulates the termination of
seeds. but if that point be passed the
growth is stopped.
Ivory which has become yellow may
be bleached by dipping it ia soapy wa
ter several times and exposing it to sun
light after each dipping.
A match bOy containing a pipor puffar