Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-04-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

- No FEWER man ftttB tbIElNiE ulIAAt1
in the Land Of the Fharaohs between
the list of November and 20th Of Feb
ruary.
Every animal kept by man, excepting
the eat. is taxed in Austria, and now
there is a proposal 10 tax pussy In that
country.
There are more than 100000 Free
Masons in good and regular standing IN
the jurisdiction Of the grand lodge of
New York.
The marriage rate of Queensland,
Australia, has been steadily declining
from 14.5 pr 1000 in 1863 to G.3 per
1000 in 1893.
The River Mississippi each year
washes away an alarming amount Of
shore, equal tn ten square miles of ter
ritCry So feet deep.
A Nuremberg merchant has invented
new kind OF boot, with an apparatus
in the heel by means of which the whole
boot can he warmed.
In the remote parish Of Markby, in
Lincolnshire, Eng, stanGs a Iitle
matched church, probably the only one
existing in Great Britain.
There are two schools of vcgctarians.
One favors vegetable food which grows
below the earth's surface and the other
favOrs that which grows above.
The United States government has to
pay a royalty for the use of most Of the
telescope sights now employed on the
scacoast and field artillery guns.
New Xealand's flax industry has re-
yiycd and fi0urishpd exceedingly, owing
Ia the war in the Philippines having
shortened the output of Manila fiber.
The Beers have during the war con
sumcd large quantity of diluted vine
gar in order to overcome the lasSitude
caused by the nOXiouS yapor of lydditc.
rOad-hcaded horses are the clever
est. In the British Household cavalry
the horses with broad f0rcheads learn
their drill more quickly than the others.
AS a rule. the consul who saves
money-0utside such prize places as Lon
don, Liverpool. Paris. Hamburg or Bre-
mems viewed with suspicion by his col
leagues.
A pack of playing cards has been
patented in the West in which the faces
on the face cards are portraits Of Dewey,
Miles aud other navy and army officers.
The Queens are Columbus.
There are compcnsatons for being an
absolute monarch The Kaiscr's play,
Der Eisenzahn," though an utter failure
in Berlin, is 81 performed at the Royal
theater by all highest command"
Divers in the British navy, before
being passed as proficient in their craft.
omS O: water for an hour. and twenty
fathoms for quarter Of an hour
Names state flower is the pine cone,
Vermont's the red clover and Rhode Is
lands the violet. The mayliower is pro-
posed for Massachusetts, but it Is on the
coinage and the flag sof Nova Scotia. with
the motto 1--WE Bloom Amid the Shows"
Burrowing animals are driven out Of
their holes or suifocated by Califor
MANS compound. which Is formed of sui
phur, tar and petroleum, applied by
ibrous. infammahe material. being ig-
nitod and inserted in the burrow by
pair of slender tongs
Irish is being generally studied as it
never was before. Its process OF rapid
disappearance aS spoken language has
been arrested. Next years census will
probably show an extension of its do
main, not rs one only spoken, but as
spoken besides English.
Artificial silks are made Of wood
fiber reduced 10 cclluI0SC by the action of
acids. This is dissolved ta a glueljlie
consistency, forced through holes in
glass, and drawn out into lhr ads, which
dry and harden in the air, just Is those
of the Silkworm or spider DO.
The smart men and ladies of Paris
society have discovered new craze. II
j. the formation Of dancing classes
among friends and CotericS where they
learn minucts. and all kinds Of od-fash-
toned dances Each lesson ends with
Waiting and practicing cotillon figures.
In China Il rich man gets rs many
servants as he wants and set he pays
them no wages. while the common people
have 10 pay them we'll Even then they
are hard to get, for the reason that the
,mpoyr Of the rich man can make more
than triple the ordinary wages in PER
uuisittS.
1t is stated that asbestos is to be
used in lining the Russian battleships
now building at the Cramp shipyards.
and that the officers of the United States
navy are considering the advisahiity of
using the same precautions in the YES
Scls that are being built for the American
service.
-Ccylon is the home Of the largest Spe-
cicS Of spider that has yet been made
the subject If chronological mvcStiga-
tion. This wCh-spinning monster lives
IN the most mountainous districts Of that
rugged island and places his trap not "A
gosSamcr snare of airy hghtueSS. but Il
huge net 81 yellow silk from ; to 10 feet
IN diameter across the ChaSm> and lis
SurcS in rocks.
Next fall Il new commercial course
viii Ice instituted at Michigan universe
~. Instruction will hc given which will
Sular duties, for newspaper work. for
higher commercial pursuits. for pastoral
and philanthropic work, such as social
stttlCm,ntS, aud for public adminiStra
ticn. There viii III courses in commcr
eial geography and statistics.
Especially in old Japan the uses :,
which paper is put are innumcrahlv
Though all the papers are made the sam,
way they have different names. depend
ing on the uses to which they are nut
Partitions between ruoms aud window
lights are Of paper. The partitions ar
paper on sliding frames something ON tn
principle e folding or sliding doors Lam
terms and umbrella coverings ere mad
~ il.
The water supply of Porto Rico. be
cause of its abundance aud FRESHNESS
from tn" mountain streams. ought tu D.
pure and good for use. But il is far en-
rrwiSc. \ thick bed of rank vcrct itin
is ever decaying beneath the new growt
rising above il, and the water hltcrin
through the rotten mass becomes no
ouly STEPPED with the I've of dccavin
roots. leaves and grass. hut is fun OF IN
Sccts and worms.
Heaven Only Knows.
Il was 2 Wet, dirty. melancholy dn,