Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-12
SOMETHING FOR EVER


Germany has three millioH
soldiers.
The torpedo leaves the gun
of forty knots an hour.
Steel ties are being place
tracks of the Pittsburg tract
Each railroad tie treated
process takes up about three
oil.
The portion of the city str
is subjected to the greatest
that Immediately beside the G I
There were 470 boiler explk
this country during 1908.
one greater record. The
numbered 2S1.
Dry goods manufacturers
tail firms of England are proI
central commission house in
1t is to be a trust, with the
turers controlling prices. FRI
Germany are to be allowed
representatives on the board.
The new tariff bill introduce
people the word quebracho. TIL
used in tanning hides. In
and Argentina this is a lars
try, there being thousands o
miles of the quebracho tree. S
is valued at from $4,000 {
league upward. Quebracho
also used for railway ties.
With the assist" -ee OF Ma
d'Osmont an tpillard, NJ
a French pl 80 2her. has 1
in obtaining fior photogl
the colors of nature by the use
nesium light. The exposures
course, instantaneous, and the
of the experiments is based |
employment of a special pow
posed of magnesium and pho
which burns with great rapiC
specially colored screens. tt
graphs of moving objects are
be surprisingly perfect in all
ors. The operation is perform
ordinary photography with ma
light. That is to say, the
the room are not burning 7
exposure is made.
A writer in the Elektrote
Anzeiger cites many incidents
that electricity was not unk
the ancients and that Georg
suggestion in a novel that tn
ians made use OF lightning CO
was well founded. InstrumeI
like the modern heliograph '
used, the writer says, by pri'
means of communicating bet
temples. There can be no
says, as to the temple havi
protected by lightning rods.
lical description shows that
was provided with metallic pc
aloft by columns and that thei
ending in chains, terminated
water tanks. He adds: All
is vouched for In the first
Kings and the second book {
icles."
Certain minerals exhibit tn
optical property known as
That is to say, they show a
ed figure when light is reflec
them, or transmitted throus
This is seen, for example, in
stone, a sort of sapphire, an
star ruby. A note in Know
scribes and figures the asst
mica. The photograph of a la
taken through a plate Of NIT
a beautiful six-rayed star,
fainter radiations between.
ly star mica resembles the
form and shows the same ph
under colored light. When {
under the microscope, how,
star mica is found to cont
needles of another mineral, a
are regularly arranged at d
120 degrees. To these needles
seen by transmitted light is
Actors are proverbially imp
except Francis Wilson, Wi
Crane and a few others. But
any idea that circus perforI
the thriftiest class Of all pub
| tainers? They do not sit a
| public places telling what &
formers they are, and return
terry with expensive ccnviviali
ly one of them draws more
| quarter of his wages. The cirt
urer is his banker, and at ii
the season Mr.. Clown CT M
back Rider draws down a fa
bills. Then the vacation is
how? Not in high living.
are of the most frugal classes
a group Of performers repa
boarding house somewhere
country, kept by a superannu
| of the circus. There they er
vate ring, where the spare
spent in perfecting an act for
| caacor1 --NeU Ynrk prags