Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-07-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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The French crown jewels were once
famed for their beauty and value, but
they have been mostly dispersed and are
now owned by collectors and million
aires.
One CT the biggest women in the
world lives in Greece, at a little village
near Corinth. Her name is Vassiliki
Calliaudji, she is % years old, and her
height is 8 feet ~ inches.
The universal verdict of visitors to
the Paris exposition is that the United
States art section is the finest and most
interesting of all the foreign art sections
IN the grand palace of fine arts.
A project recently set on foot in
Hungary to supply electric power in
small quantities to home workshops in
the vicinity of Budapest has received the
sanction of the Hungarian Diet.
The Supreme court of Alabama, in
recent decision, says the Street Rail
way Review, upholds the rulings of
lower court that whites and negroes
should occupy separate portions of street
cars.
Chinese consulates pay, with two ex-
ceptions, $500 with fees. Shanghai is a
$1,000 place, while Che Foo pays only
5000. Hong Kong pays $1,000. The no.
tarlal fees are, as rule, only few hun
dred dollars.
In New York city in the fall private
automobile stable will be built. In addi-
ton to the carriage house there will be
room for charging the batteries and
quarters for the men who will take care
of the vehicles.
1t is said that the human hand if per-
fectly clean may be placed in boiling lead
and not suffer injury. The Prince of
Wales is said to have performed this feat
at one time after his hand had been ther-
oughly cleansed with ammonia
All cots being in use at Il Philadel-
phia hotel, an Idaho delegate to the Re
publican convention was permitted to
sleep on billiard table. His bill was
rendered in this form: Use of billiard
table, seven hours, 40 cents per hour,
s.. So
The new way of shaking hands in
Paris is to raise the elbow as high as the
ear, and then take the hand of your
friend in yours, very lightly increasing
the pressure as the hand descends to its
original position. Even hand-kissing is
being revived among a certain set.
Toast as an article of food is rapidly
disappearing. 1t is now almost impossi-
BILE to get it in New York wherever one
may order it. Fried bread is now ac-
cepted everywhere as the substitute for
toast in spite of the difference in its taste,
appearance and every other quality.
Collars are protected from soiling or
willing by using a new shield, which is
made of celluoid or other waterproof
material, fitting between the neck and
the collar and overlapping the upper edge
of the latter, with a series of flexible
points to be bent under the lower edge.
In Utica, \. Y, block of new
apartment houses has just been furnished
with complete installation of electric
cooking utensils in each fiat. The cleo
trical kitchen furniture consists of three
round platters or Stoves an oven and
Il broiler.
Women will appreciate a new hat
fastener, which holds the hat solldly on
the head and divides the strain on the
hair, two long-tOothed combs being at
tached to a wire ring and mounted III
the hat, which means for fitting the
combs to insert the rows of teeth in the
hair.
a short time ago the rector of OK
ford university received from Il man the
following: How much would l have
to pay for the education of my son in
your university? Let me know if | shall
have to pay more in case my son, be-
sides rowing, should wish to learn to
read and write"
The Chinese do not drink much in
toXicating liquor. The native drink Is
sort of arrack, of which rice IS the ba-
sis. Ii is only once distilled and is of
low proof. but when stronger spirits are
required this is redistilcd. and in that
state it is known as samshu, which
means thrice fired.
A popularity OF the attendance in
the public schools of Manila is the great
excess of boys over girls this being
true of the high schools as we'll as Of
those of lower grade. 1t is manifesto.
ton Of the local belief that while eduCa-
ton may be desirable for boys it is of
little use for the girls.
One of the few industries Mt present
carried on in the islands of Corsica is the
extraction % fannie acid from chestnut
wood. The seat OF this business is ut
Bastia the commercial center OF Corsica
and there are two factories which export
annually about 1000 tons of the extract
IN Il concentrated form.
The sparrow is Il wise bird up at the
fantest streak of dawn he is on the 20
until the shades Ct night are fully devcl-
opcd. Astronomers watching the eclipse
noted that the SparrowS were the last to
Succumb a. the darkness and the first to
resume their predatory activity on the
faint dawn Il renewed light.
The people of Northampton, Mass.
have made atOuemcnt for wrong they
/ did $50 years ago in Diminishing the Rev.
Jonathan Edwards from the pastorate
Of the First Church of Christ. They
seating DR. Edwards addressing his nco-
( pie. Il is two-Ihirds life size
There are few bearded men in C;iua
Men who have grandchildren may wear q
muStache. and many take advantage Of
/ the privilege and are called "old hair
mca.' The foreigners with muStarheS
I when they came 10 China. excited much
curiosity. and the unusual sight justified