Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-05-12

from $20.000000 70 So. 600. coo. or about
double that Of year ago, which large in
crease is chiefly due TO improved methods
Of working the mines.
Recently the Russian agricultural de-
paTtment has discovered in kirghiz
steppe on the eastern shore of the Cas-
plan sea immense naphtha springs of
quality which is said to be equal to the
best American naphtha.
An American who has recently re-
turned from Cairo says that most Of the
Egyptian women nowadays dress in Eu-
rcpean clothes with great magnificence.
and wear he most wonderful diamonds
and other precious stones.
4 flower known as the laughing
plant. which grows in Arabia, is so called
because its seeds produce effects like
these produced by. laughing gas. The
flowers are Of bright yellow. while the
seeds resemble small black beans.
Statistics have been published To
show that brainworkers are l0nS-liyed
Five hundred and thirty eminent men
and women of the present century were
taken. and their duration Of life gives
an average of SO years and = months
The Woodworking lab0rers and
coolies seen everywhere in Japan wear
only narrow lOin scarf and straw san
dais. la cold and rainy weather they
wear q macintosh of loose straw over
their shoulders and mammoth rude hat.
The recenIly-pubIished statistics Of
European countries regarding emigration
and immigration during the latter part
Of 1899 show that the United States still
offers the strongest attractions for Euro
pcars who wish TO leave their native
lands
The little city Of Orea, in Sweden.
owns and operates a nursery that brings
1t an annual income of SfJ00 a sum
that pays all the expenses of the munici-
pality, including free schools for the chill
dIcn and a free telephone system for the
people.
To give an idea how Industrious the
color chemists were and in just what
lines of work they are most interested,
there were produced last year eighty di-
rect or substantive cOlors. twenty-five
mordant COlOrs. fort y-hve acid culorS and
six basic cOlors.
In a recent case of pneumonia II,
Brooklyn $500 gallons of oxygen gas was
used. the sick man was packed in ice an
alcohol bath was given every twenty-five
minutes, and four quarts Of milk with
three quarts of whisky were admins
tered daily. The patient recovered
"A Southerner has patented venti-
lating apparatus which will draw cur
rents Of air from the top of a building
to the rooms below, having vertical
pipe. provided with haring~mouthed
hood, pivotcd at the top, The hood swing
ing toward the wind and receiving the
air for the pipes below.
A New Yorker has designed a street
cleaning machine To be operated by one
man, having a rotary brush geared to
large wheel to be rapidly turned and
sweep the dirt into an endless chain Of
buckets, which empty into bag suspend
ed from the machine as the latter is pro
PEELED along the pavement
On u tombstone i'm an old New Eng
land churchyard there is an cpitaph
which never fails to bring smile tn
the face of the reader: go the memory
Of Ann Sophia and Julia Hattie. his two
wives, this stone is erected by their
grateful widower, James Il. Rollins.
They made home pleasant"
The English people think that the
proposed new nincpenny coin will enable
them to get the better Of the French,
who, it is assumed, will accept the coin
as the equivalent of franc At present
when John Bull visits Paris he frequent
~ has to surrender Il shilling in ex-
change for an article the value of which
is "A franc
The board Of health Of Independence,
Kas., recently purchased patent fumi-
eating apparatus, and the thing was
tried for the first time recently IN Il
house which had been occupied by a.
smallpox patient. 1t exploded and blew
hole through the roof. but the health
officers are satisfied that the disease
germs were killed by the shock
The output of native coal in Rus
STA has enormously increased Of late
years; M the same time the import of
the foreign article has steadily risen and
this in spite Of duties, till at the pres
eut moment the import Of foreign coal
has become Of such urgent necessity that
the duties have had to be- temporarily re,
duCed or RENTED altogether