Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-29
BITS OF SCIENCE.

The volcano of Kilauea, on the island
of Hawaii, is more active than it has
been before in eighty years.
The Chinese claim music was in
vented by the Emperor Fushi some 5000
years before the Christian era.
"Aeroscaphe" has been coined as the
word that signifies the aeropiane with
phililogical correctness.
The tower of the Metropolitan Life
building in New York, which is 700
feet high, weighs about $500 tons,
Automatic egg boilers in the galleys
of the liners Lusitania and Mauretania
have a capacity of POO eggs at a time.
France has mere than 211 miles of
pneumatic tubes for conveying the mail,
divided between Paris, Lyons and
Marsellles.
There are about twelve generations of
flies year, the sexes being about equal
ly divided, each female laying about
1000 eggs.
PENNSYLVANIA. New York and Ohio, in
the order named, have led in the coun-
try's sandstone industry for the past
three years
An English ornithologist has success
fully bred the black swan, one OF the
rareSt of birds in every country except
Australia,
Cuba's first textile factory, for the
manufacture of hosiery 1T first and
cloths later on, is soon to be started at
NIatanZas.
The government made a profit of $40
J41 $40 on its coinage Of silver, nickel
and bronze coins during the fiscal year
ending last June.
\ new textile plant has been discovered
in Colombia with a fiber adapted to the
manufacture of curtains and other ar
ticles of household adornment.
The line of perpetual frost at the
equator is at an altitude of 10000 feet;
IL, e,+o +nc, Of pf1.yr .1i
an altitude of about 1000 feet
Kitchen soap is the most reliable tenn
porary repair for Illuminating gas leaks,
but should not be depended upon to hold
for more than few days at a time.
Some American students recently dis
covered rich deposits of coal in Shenshi
province China, and have sought per-
them.
Tests of small arms by the Swedish
government have shown that three
inches of pasteboard will stop bullet
that easily penetrates hve-inch wooden
planks.
During the thirty-seven years that the
German federal government has been in
existence, 2,7O7.676 natives have emf
grated, nearly five-sixths of them to the
United States.
The Russian ministry of trade and in
dustry will organize a floating exhibition
of manufactures and industries to visit
the ports of other European countries.
The French navy is experimenting
with shells containing in their bases a
chemical combination which ignites and
leaves luminous trail to mark their
fight
A recent invention of Canadian is
brick laying machine, which is claimed
to do the work of six or seven skilled
brick layers when operated by two men
and boy.
Fortifications have been photographed
by an automatic camera, the invention
of a German, so light that it may be
suspended from the neck of carrier
pigeon.
A Texas congressman has introduced
a bill appropriating $4,000 for the use
of the department of agriculture in eX-
perimenting in the manufacture of pa
per from cornStalks.
The geological survey has formally
denied the statement going the rounds
that its experts had decided that one
fourth of Alaska was a coal field. The
latest official estimate is that there are
about 24.OOO square miles of coal areas
in that country.