Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-05-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

about 100000 are wholly or party Of ne
gro descent.
The Scotch Presbyterian church
which has been IN existence for IL
Years, admitted 10 membership last yea
1876 persons.
In the Philippines there are 81 $50 reg
u,arS Of which number 96S are officers
and - .205 volunteers. Of which numhei
1885 are officers.
The South African war has deprive,
many English hospitals Of the services o
mae doctors, aud the lady mcdicos arr
now rcaping their reward.
Police fudge Bu -klcy Of Louisville
has decided that women have a RICH
under the law 10 smoke cigarettes on the
streets lie is sorry, though that thcr,
i no legal provision against 1t.
London is twelve miles broad on,
way and seventeen the ether and every
year scos about twenty miles of new
streets added TO it.
The Ilindoc system is remarkably
complex. Every act of life is Il religion,
act, controlled lay the laws Of Hinlooism
Their very lives depend upon keeping M
the system, and they will fight 10 the
death to do il
Although the prussian government
authorizes many lotteries every year. Il
poor llhofcr was fined in 'rankfort-un-
AN tLf bi uiI nav ibi IhHlGHE u It "
articles at a country inn.
Al IA recent conference Of the Nor
mou church George q. Cannon com
planned that there never was in the his
Tory Of the church such an absence of re-
apect for ITS authority as now.
SiNty-thrce years have passed since
the Queen. shortly after her accession,
first tool NJ her residence at Buclng
ham palace, mansion which was built
in 1870 nj a cost of over million.
All the soap in Paraguay is made
from Cocoon ell. Cows eat the pulp from
tho nuts. leaving the hull enclosing the
kernel clran and smooth cow will
clean forty or fifty nuts per night
Bank note and general litho2rapl.ng
work has reached high degree OF per
fcction in intricacy of design in late
years, and while C0unterfeitng has not
been stopped, the d tIiculties have been
greatly increased.
Running nj right angles with the
Orange river CSouth Africa are mighty
downs of red sand, which extend for
miles into the vast desert of the kala-
hari. There are few wells and some
produce horse sickness.
The phylloxcra destroyed 10000
acres of vineyards in Spain IN 1899. Vines
in Spain or France are not worth culti-
waiting unless they are grated with the
AlltIltuH Nluts NuNu EtIlutlS tlltfl
proof aga INST the insect.
Japan last year had ffty-cight rail
way companies, with combined capital
of S11S.909.910 aud mileage of 1881
miles. They carried 99.061 $50 passen-
gers and o.alG,12G tons of freight The
aggregate profits were S5,939.57G.
The married and unmarried women Of
;he United States of Colombia, South
America, are designated by the manner
in which they wear flowers in their hair,
the senoras wearing them on the right
de and the senortas on the left.
On account Of the great hear Of the
middle Of the day IN Egypt caE van
jourheys In the early morning and IN the
evenirg. During the heat Of the noon
hours the tents are pitched and men and
beasts get through !. MS best they can.
The latest to,' in London is called
The Dying Beer IL Is a little rubber
pig which is blown out and placed on
the ground where. as the air escapes, il
gradually collalses. II has had big
sale in the business sections of the city.
Among the reports from South At.
ilca is one tc the effect that Mauscr bur
lets are ineffective in checking n charge
Of cavalry. Horses shot through the
lungs aud even through the breast were
able To galop 400 yards before they fell.
ne lhldt ltINlEu commerce. or me
United States in the year Just ended has
for the first time crossed the So coo, 900.
30 lire, aud the total exports of the
manufacturers OF iron aud Steel have for
the first time crossed the Sl0Oo 900
line.
Long before the Chritan era the Chi
ncse were making porcelain, aud had in
Vulnerable styles ot decoration. This was
hard paste. or natural uorcCluu; soft
49,, 1 L.,
ARGUS subs .anecs and is also truuslu-
cent.
Los Angeles is simply iayer of
earth on top Of a8 ocean at OIL says j.
y, NalmSlcy Of that city. The oll de
rcsitS are remarkably rich ana show no
signs al giving ont, although there are
thousands OF deuichS hard at work al
the time.
BY the laws of 1855 ana of 1898 for.
,igncrS living in Paris are obliged to
make declaration of residence. Since
this law went into effect 3Sl, 163 foreign
crS have been registered OF whom ILL.,
sac were men. llS,IM women and -,
500 children.
In opcaing n Cuban orphans fair in
New Nork recently the procession was
headed hy eighty Japanese Including Il
woman and two girls in iinrikishaS.
The sudden increase in the Japanese
DNpWiHtNH 81 lHlN country is q nOtANlc
circumstance.
From Manila TO Australia is like
sting down a river, for one is out of
sight of land only two days" The
voyage lasts twcnty-onc days. hut the
course is through the South sea Islands.
which accounts for its resemblance tn
river navigation.
-Gucsses On the population If the
OuitCd States returned by the Twelfth
census range all the way from 10000.
900 10 lOOWmuuu The treasury de-
partmenC figures the pvrcapita cirnilA,
ton If money on the estimate ut - goo,
Wo of population.
\ man named powdermuker and his
associates have applied 10 Congress for
authority 10 dig mp the streets Of Wash
lngtuu ana lay an underground system
# pipes and conduits for the purpose vi
distributing cecil air among the houses
AMI otticeS of the city.
a church bell cracked in ringing nj
the village of S,h'oithem. near SchaG
h1uSCn, Germany, q few DAYS ago.
When taken down il WAS found Ia hc of
the year l4J2. Accordingly it is Older
than the Scha1hausru tc,l which iu-
>pired Schillcr's poem
As soon as a franchise is secured
frtfn tho lsrttish ff,tt,p,{,s., I..ts