Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-08

IA tie medical corps OF either the array
or the navy.
Norwegian whaiers caught 429
whales during the past season off tEc
coast OF Iceland.
-Ihe German Agricultural society o.
Berlin offers prizes of 500, $40 and $50
for plans of model pigsties.
clerks and the clergy are the most
numerous patrons of the bicycle. Teach
ers are also great patrons of the wheel.
The apple crop in Baden, Germany.
was so abundant that the assistance Of
soldiers had TO be asked for its harvest
-Football must be getting less hazard
GUS insurance companies will now
take risks for limited amounts on play
efs.
The coin that is most extensively
counterfeted nowadays is not the silver
and nickel piece, but the copper 1-cent
piece.
"A Niennese seamstress gets only L.
cents for hcmstftching ten dozen handker-
chiefs, paying for her own thread and
light.
Italian psychologists are now making
use of Roentgen rays to aid in reading
obscure impressions and in discovering
fOrgeries.
The frowsy chrysanthemum is 4 ma
tive of Japan. but before ii found Il new
home in America the world had no idea
of its beauty.
Switzerland complains that the cheese
trade Is a tritie dull, and vet during 1880
that country exported SS,0O0,OOO worth
of cheese.
An Austrian named Anton Peterman-
del, who recently died at Steyr, had
made a collection of about 5000 knives of
all times.
Vital statistics published recently in
Norway show that about 1000 inhabi-
tants of that country die annually from
consumption.
Artifcialiy produced indigo is now
better in quality, cheaper i'll price and
consequently much more popular than the
natural article.
The cheapest postal service in the
world is that of Japan, where for sell
about / 20 cents-letters are conveyed ali
over the empire.
IF expectations are realized the ont
| put of copper for 1900 will reach 81, 600
/ JU0- pounds valued at S42,250,O00, the
largest on record
German silver is not silver at all, but
an alloy of various of the baser metals,
which was invented in China, and used
there for centuries.
The salmon output in the Northwest
exceeds that of all former years. Not
wanting any more" was the only limit to
the catch this season.
-Anticosti island, in the Gulf Of ST.
Lawrence, though owned by "A French
man, is under the British flag, and sub
ject to the Canadian laws.
A wild deer passed by and near to
the city of Springfield, O., the other day.
Where ii came from or where il went is II
mystery to the old settlers.
Rhode Island has concluded not 10 re-
main odd any longer, and hereafter viii
hold her elections in November, as ii ma
jorlty of the other states do.
A Missouri weather prophet who
reads the future in the leaves of trees
says this will be one of the mildest win
ters ever known on the continent.
The potato, hitherto grown as tubes
underground. is now being produced like
fruit from the stem of the plant. The
flavor of these potatoes is excellent.
The biggest cigar business in the his
tory of the city. the state or any one
place in the Union making clear Havana
cigars is now being transacted at Tampa.
-Michigan's law against betting on
elections makes the oifense punishable by
a fine equal to the amount of the bet pro
yided it be not more than $4,000 or less
than 50.
English women are not supposed 10
read the daily newspapers. They take to
the weeklies, and that is why London
has great number Of that class of Il
high order
Electric fountains have become very
popular, especially as attractions for
amusement parks In England. especial
ly. they have lately been installed in
large numbers.
Il report from Monterey. Mex. de-
clares that the miners in Mexico sub
stantiate the claim that the Chinese dis
covered this continent long before the
days of Columbus,
The roads are good and level in Kan
sas, and as result every farmhouse has
its bicycle. a farmer in that state
would as soon be without his team as
without his wheel
The Russian government intends
sending an agent to the United States to
study homestead Legislation, with the
view Of its partial application 10 the
peasant communities.
Careful inquiries made in Polynesian
islands in New Guinea and West Africa
indicate that typhoid fever does not occur
in those regions. but seems to be- by
product of civilization.
-Raphael's Almanac, 8 widely known
astronomical publication in Europe, now
IN its eighty-iirst year. says that this is
10 be hard Ole year for kings, prcSi-
dents and other rulers.
The Norman church Of St Mary at
TurYilie has been rcopened. During the
Restoration the workmen found a Thir-
teenth century stone coffin under the
foundations OF the pulpit.
French society has decreed that the
century ends with the last evening Of
this year Paris will celebrate The event
with many gorgeous festivities and is al
ready preparing for them.
Islington G4ondoni is the most dense
ly-populated parish in the United King
dom. One hundred and twelve persons
live on each acre. Bolton ranks mex:
with sixty-eight TO the acre.
DR.. James Barr expresses hi> opin-
ion in the Lancet that antipyrin. phciac.
etin. and acetauilid do a great deal of
mischief in typhoid fever and are wholly
unnecessary for any other disease
The outlook is not 50 favorable 10
man ieing the ascendant animal. \