Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-06-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

IL consists OF dried fish and butter.
The surplus of births over deaths in
Switzerland amounted last year 10 &C.,
go.
Military engineers are agreed that no
material for Notifications Is superior to
earth.
Russian railway express trains have
sleeping cars even for third-class passen-
gers.
Munster, Germany. he's high
school which has been in existence 100
years
Russia in Europe has a forest area
Of about 500. 000.000 acres One-third of
the country is forest.
Nevada has population ell told Of
~, T6i about one-fourth Of the average
congressional district.
-Reccntly train carried ffty-ninc
carloads of oranges from California east.
There were in all 21.112 boxes.
The German commercial traveller al
ways speaks the language of the country
in which he attempts to sell goods
Sheets. blankets, pillows and cover
lets or counterpancS were frequent sub
jects Of bequest III the Middle ages.
The thirty-three largest towns of
England and Wales have total popula-
ton of nearly 12,O0O0O0.
Twelve dollars and thirty cents is
the annual allowance of 1851 pensioners
of the state Of South Carolina.
In Paris last year among the articles
left in cabs were 5000 umbrellas. 500
corsets and about 100 funeral wreaths.
The city of Cleveland is the first to
create department whose sole object is
the abatement of the smoke nuisance.
Bombay receives its water from three
large lakes. which receive their supply
from a region that is intensely malariOus.
London now has two electric sub
ways--the City and Waterloo railway
and the City and South London railway.
For several years past American
driving and saddle horses have been inn
ported in large numbers into Switzer-
land.
Experiments show that frog de-
prived of his brains will live and eat and
pursue existence in sort of automatic
manner.
Cigarettes are smoked almost ex-
Cusively in Germany. Austria, Russia
and Greece and generally throughout
Europe.
Since pigs were introduced into the
New Hebrides, the natives, it is said,
have come to regard human food as sec
0nd best
Boston has an ordinance restricting
the height of buildings. which has recent.
" been put 10 the test and sustained by
the courts.
The finding of pearls of value in the
currence, though the reports of such finds
are frequent.
Electric trains will be running under
ground in London before New York has
much more than made a beginning on
her proposed rapid-transit tunnel.
The Supreme court of North Caro-
Lima in February term, 1900, affirmed the
right of county and municipal authorities
to enforce compulsory vaccination.
The expenses of New York last year
for local purposes. exclusive of bond is-
sues, amounted to S19.56 per capita OF
an estimated population of 100000.
a dock capable of accommodating
steamers 30 per cent. longer and broader
than the Oceanic Is to be built at Liver
pool. 1t will cost nearly $2000,0O0.
Such well-known English garden
plants as the phloX and the verbena have
run wild over hundreds of acres of sandy
Texan plains, as well as in Australia.
The government stopped coming the
old style of silver doilarS and coined the
first Bland dollars in 1878. The old style
dollars are not available for public use
The catch of salmon in Canadian wa
tiers last year was valued at So 159,3O6,
a decrease Of s., 320. SGS when compared
with the returns of the previous year
Passports are not required in Eu-
rope. That IS to say. a passport is nCt
needed to secure admission to any of
the countries except Russia and Turkey.
Next July the Scottish Border socie-
ties viii celebrate the biccntenary of the
birth of James Thomson, the author of
Rule Britannia and If The Seasons"
In St. Helena there ore descendants
Of colored men who were brought to the
island $50 years ago. They are as black
rs their distant cousins on the coast of
Guinea
II. H.. I l.
pieces of old furniture to find. They re
ceived harder use than other pieces If
furniture. and consequently wore out
quicker.
Good chairs are the most difficult
pieces. Of old furniture to find. They re-
ce!ve harder use than other pieces of fur
niture. and consequently wear out
quicker.
Southern Russia promises log har-
vest of all sorts of grain during the pres
cnt season. The reports from that sec
ton of the Cars domain are unusually
favorable.
The average silk hat. size 7lS. weighs
. ounces; the average stiff derby hat q
the same size weighs ~ ounces the av-
crage straw hat of the same size weighs
"a ounces.
There is a voting woman in Washing
Ton society who sells her wardrobe as
soon as sh" finishes with it. and gives al!
lite charity.
Over 1000 banks will have to be sup
Piled with new currency plates, under the
currency act of March IL II will be
Tour to six months before all can get
these plates
II here are in the Presbyterian church
'5l2 ministers. 1857 churches and nearly
million communicates. Tie contribn-
!loJss for church work last year amounted
To Sl3,TI1T17.
In southern France successful eff
t1fts nave been made 10 arrest forest
nfes by growing the juicy cactus plants
~ open spaces. separating the sections
Of tho forests
Fishing for catfish is not without its
hangers. girl at Marion, Kas.. r..
entity received fatal wound. made by
the fnny tribe.
The state superintendent Of schools