Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

able tor lumber are close enough to-
gether for profitable work.
Tradition asserts, according to a
writer in the Scientific American that
the first to sacrifice himself to the prob
lem of flying was Wang tn. a Chinese
mandarin Of about the year 2000 H. &.
Miss Constantine Elizabeth Maxwell
is the first woman to become member
of the teaching staff Of Trinity college.
Dublin, She has just been elected an
assistant to the professor of modern his
tory.
Miss Clara ". Howard has been APP
pointed to the international fellowship
| founded by the Society of American
Women in London. She is instructor in
rhetoric and composition at Wellesley
college.
| Experiments and investigations
made both in Europe and in America
indicate that fully oHe-half of the deaths
/ from consumption occur among people
who are compelled TO breathe dust in its
various forms.
Out of 1883 begging letters received
in London by charitable association,
81 per cent. We're found TO have come
! from swindlers. and of rhe remaining Is
per cent. only 5 per cent. were found to
be really destitute.
In the seven years, 1901 to 1908.
! China's postal service expanded remark
ably. The postal routes now cover S.
GOO miles and the postottices number
3493, as against 116 in 1901, an increase
of S3lI in the seven years.
Fear has arisen in the breast Of a
New Iealander in England caused by
the announcement that the Dreadnought
which his native country is to give to
the empire will be the thirteenth ship
! presented TO the British navy,
Edward b. Sterling of Trenton, n.
T., has discovered in the outskirts of the
| IN epngiy,,nt. Nf
on record. The mushroom weighs Is
pounds is IL inches in height and meas
| tires 100 inches in circumference.
The production of mica In this coun-
try for the last year was valued at
little more than n quarter of a million
! dollars. Nearly all of this is used in
the electrical industry, rs mica is one of
the best insulating materials known.
The yolcai &c islands known as the
Bogeslof islands of the A'eGtian archi-
pelago, Alaska. have been ordered set
| apart and reserved for the use of the
department of agriculture as a preserve
and breeding ground for native birds.
Sing Sing prison is to be moved
across the Hudson river fifteen or TWEEN
~ miles northward, Just eight miles
south of West Point, where a large tract
of land has been purchased and q gang
Of several hundred convicts has been
working for two years.
Ida Falbe-Hansen, general super
visor of public schools Of Denmark, cele-
hrated her siXtieth birthday the other
! day. She is said to be the best beloved
as woll as one Of the most brili;ar. Of
the women of her country.
The term electricity" was derived
from the Greek word meaning amber.
Electricity itself is earliest described by
TheophraStus C}21 b. O. and Pliny (TO
a. ID, who mention the power Of amber
TO attract straw and dry leaves.
The largest grapevine in the world
is 120 years old and is at San Gabriel,
Cal, planted by Franciscan friars. The
stalk is Ia feet in diameter s feet high,
and the branches and foliage cover an
area of 5000 square feet Its average
crop of grapes is 20 tons yearly.
According to Messrs, Henriet aud
Bonyssy ozone is produced by the ultra
violet rays of the sun in the upper at
mosphere and the amount contained iii
the air near the ground increases when
air currents descend from the upper re-
gions.
The duties of military attache are
20 make himself thoroughly acquainted
| with every change that takes place IN
military affairs and TO report from time
70 time on the mobilization. armament
and equipment OF the power TO which he
Is accredited.
A Bohemian tailor at Prague has in
xented bullet proof shield for use of
the skirmisher while lying ON the ground.
This shield which only weighs > pounds,
is made Of composition Of wax aud felt
in which the striking bullets are said 10
stick without piercing.
During excavations conducted near
Wilendorf. on the Danube. by the pre-
historical section of the Austrian Natu-
raj History museum q chalk fgurine.
II ccntimeters high, has been discovered
IN a stratum containing Instruments and
weapons characteristic Of the stone age.
One Of the great transcontinental
railroads is planning to plant it's right
of-Way from the Missouri river to the
Pncihc with alfalfa At each edge Of
the rght-of-way also will he planted a
row of pine trees alternating with clms,
there being tree at intervals Of every
two rods.
Paris surgeons are using, In some
cases, nails for the cure Of simple frac-
ture. For fracture Of the shin bone or
of the thigh bone nail Of nickel. alum
mum or preferably alumni
um-is used, and is driven i'm to hold the
two pieces Of bone together, much like
two pieces Of wood.
-Four years only have elapsed since
the first indefinite news Of the design of
the DreadnOught became known, and
now seventy ships. representing in vary
ing degree the adoption or the all-big-
gun bIlHtti5lts hft ciillFF DNlt, DuiIulUX,
or about Immediately to be authorized
for the worlds navies
Houston. Tex, has had the commits
sion form of government for four years.
In that time the commission has paid
100000 floating debt. invested nearly
100000 in public service improvements
out Of current revenue, and has created
sinking fund for the bonded debt and
placed therein 100000.
Miami university, Ohio. has gradnat-
ed / President of the United States. Z
governors Of states, , cabinet officers, Z
United States senators, ambassadors,
"a congressman, l speaker of the House,
81 state senators. Is army officers. GO
federal and state Judges and 30 college
presidents, though her total graduatio
list is less than 20OO.
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