Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
BITS OF SCIENCE,

per cent. OF the cannibalS ear 49, ~
to honor them, 19 per cent emf , ,,al
warriors to obtain their courage oo men 'eh
human flesh to punish their enemies 49, cay
only y per cent. because they onin,. una i.1
flavor. "J'S lis
Chinese incense includes the foIIo,r;.
ingredients: Elm bark, cloves. oIiinmn,uS
putchuck, sandalwood dust. garoo LlI-S'
aniseed. muck, orange peel, galauao ' SGn'
ger, sapanwood, rhubarb, myrrh f.,2 en-
and camphor. Sid
The number of bricks used in tho ca.
ern tunnel is computed to be II OOo0 01
Apparatus for the inhalation al ,,
gen will play an important part in Il.
equipment OF the aeronaut whom ,I
Aero club of France plans to send in
balloon to height OF more than six
miles. ''N
Thirty-hye men are kept constantly an,
ployed cleaning and painting the ura1,
Forth bridge in Scotland. which praSa,r
twenty-five acres of surface to the ~,
ton of the elements. Two hundred aTJ
fifty tons of paint are required To cover .
it.
A German army physician. who ha.
been experimenting with balloons. denies
the often repeated statement that germs
do not exist in the upper atmosphere aud
claims that he has found thriving hacl
terra at elevations of more than l3UO0
feet
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Gently returned from q trip through Tho
Orient. found in one of the SGIomon
islands a tribe of hitherto unknown ma.
tlveS. so unciviliZed that they wear M,
clothing and live in hollow tree trunt.
and holes in the ground.
The Bavarian government has dis.np-
tinued the construction of self-contaueA
motor cars on its state railroads and
is building instead light but powerful
four-wheeled locomotives to haul single
cars to obviate the difficulty of the en-
tire car being idle when its motor needs
repairs.
Wilbur Bowsea, living near Pittsburg
has constructed a frame house built in
sections, which he has moved in a freight
car to Wyoming. where he has acquired
a large section of land.
Prof. Schiaparelli, the head of the Ital-
ian expedition in Egypt, is making head
way in his Investigations of the necrop-
oils of Azini. Some 200 Egyptians are
at work there, and many funeral objects
and inscriptions which throw light On
early Egyptian history have been
brought to light.
\ single electric lamp containing fifty
pairs of carbons, will be used on top of
railroad terminal at Jersey City. y. ].
A machine that cleans old bricks Of
their mortar automatically is a recent
invention in the line of labor saving
devices
The pressure of water is well illus
trated by the fact that so light an ar
ticle as cork will not rise if submerged
20 feet.
The river Elbe is being tunncled at
Hamburg at cost of $2,000,0OO to ia
cilitate travel between the two sections
of the city.
The largest pulley block in the world
recently was completed at Belfast Me
1t is a four-shive affair, weighing $40
pounds.
Brazil has granted a concession to
German company for Il telegraph cable
to Europe and South Africa by way of
Teneriffe island.
There are at least three species of dogs
which do not bark-the Egyptian sheep
dogs the Australian dog and the lion
headed" dog of Thibet,
A peculiar kind of stone found in Fin
land is a natural barometer 1t is white
in clear weather, but darkens on the APP
proach of q storm.
An arsenic smelter at Everett. Wash,
makes enough of the poison each week
to kill every man, woman and child in
the western hemisphere
An entomologist has figured out that.
to make a pound of clover honey. bee
must make 3,750,000 trips between the
blossoms and the hive.
An extensive deposit of coal ON the
island of Spitzbergen, which lies within
the Arctic circle, is being developed with
American capital.
Aluminium is now being rolled thinner
than tinfoil, which it is expected to re
place by reason of its being both lighter
and cheaper to manufacture.
Milk may be kept fresh for a month
by adding to it at a temperature Of III
f., 1.3 per cent. of volume of , per
cent solution of hydrogen peroxide.
To construct an egg, q hen gathers and
combines approximately $50 grains of
water 100 of fat, 1913 of lime. 80 Of al
bumen, 26 of sugar and 10 of ash.
The former homestead of Alexander
Graham Bell, at Brantford. Ontario, will
be acquired as a public park. in which
will be erected S25 900 memorial NOM
ment.
Louisiana is estimated to waste 10
100000 cubic feet of natural gas daily,
more than one-twentieth of thar CON
sumed in the United States, and the sec
rotary of the interior has withdrawn
from entry $500 acres of natural gas
fields.
A new stop watch has been brought
out for the use of physicians and nurses
in counting pulse beats. The pressure OF
button starts it and another pressure
stops it and marks the time when n CIV
en- number of beats have been counted.
The largest single filtration plant IN
the world is said to be the one recently
completed for Plttsburg. The Sedlmeh-
tation basins have a capacity of l2.Ooo.-
900 gallons, and the filtered water res
ervoir room for 100000 gallons.
According to DR.. Koch. the famous
German savant, the crocodile viii have
to be exterminated from Africa before
the sleeping sickness can be conquered.
as the disease is spread by a species OF
the tsetse fly. which is a parasite of the
saurian.
Leather may be dyed brown with So
luton of ) ounces of fustic, / of hyper
mic. and - an ounce of logwOOd. all
extracts. to Il gallons of water, with a
mordant composed of ounces of white
tartar and of alum in 10 gallons of
water.
To avoid the troubles besetting com
passes on steel ships. the metal of which
defects the needle. a German inventor
has devised a needleless one. in the form
of Il gyroscope, the axis of which Al
ways adjusts itself parallel to the earth
axis.
Corsets made of steel rings. weighing
8 pounds, and which are said TO be but
let proof, are being tested by the Ger
man army. They are the invention OF