Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-15
Curious Combinations.

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In Bohemia sixty-thrce mobiles own
the bulk of the country. None Of their
estates are less than 10000 acres.
Chess is taught in all the Australian
schools. 1t is thought TO be a useful
thing in discplining the youthful mind.
Australians are trying hard to obtain
Il market in London for the passion fruit,
which is so popular IN the AntipOdes.
A twentieth of Scotland's area is for
est land, seven-tenths IS mountain, heath
and lake. and only one-quarter cultivated
land.
1t is said that the Great Salt lake Of
Utah is but remnant of a vastly greater
sheet Of fresh water which once sent a
river to the Pacific.
An experienced chemist says that
fresh meat in room filed with smoke Of
tobacco absorbS nicotine readily, and may
become badly tainted.
During the siege of Pekin the mem
bers of the diplomatic corps and the mis-
siOnarieS who were shut up in the British
embassy ate eighty mules.
The Nile is noted for the variety Of
its fish. An expedition sent by the Brit
ish museum brought home 2200 spcci-
mems.
Up to 1880 France had only private
high schools for girls. Now there are
and twenty-eight by cities.
-Ohio's cities and towns gained $780,
02l in population during the last 10
years, or 1872 more than the increase in
the rest of the entire state.
The city of Moscow will expend 49,
100000 rOubles, or about S24 600 900, on
new waterwOrks. The city has now Il
population of over 100000.
The natural gas wells around lola.
"a cd "a, h.. f,ll 81
The Rockefeller and Standard Oil people,
il is said. will be heavy losers.
Melbourne, Australia, reports that 4
system of ''electrics" are to be built, sup
plementing the cable railways, to act as
feeders from the suburban districts.
Two little Indian girls have been ad-
mitted as pupils to public school in
Manhattan. they are the first of their
race TO ever attend a New York public
school.
"A Christmas tree for dogs will be one
of the features of Chicago mans cele-
bration of that holiday. The man has
eight dogs, all fond of candy. He has no
children.
Seoul Corea, has successfully inau-
gurated an electric tramway. This city
boasts of the largest electric plant in the
Far East, with the exception of that of
Toxic. Japan.
greatest whisky market in the world
The wholesale trade there announces that
the year will be the heaviest the city
has ever had.
Nearly 1900 prisoners were liber-
ated on the occasion of the King of
ltaly's birthday on Sunday. Forty thou
sand Others were granted reductions in
their sentences.
American excelsior is exported to
Central America, to the West Indies, to
England and other foreign countries.
where several thousand tons of the fiber
are shipped yearly.
The Venezuela government believes
that in time of peace is the time to
prepare for war. 1t has given orders to
Germany for 10000 Mauser rifles and
100000 cartridges.
Mayors of the different towns i'm
Porto Rico at present have exclusive iu-
Flsdction in police court eases, whether or
not they know word of law, and from
their decisions there is no appeal.
The apartment which the late King
Humbert Of Italy used to occupy at the
Quirinal has been shut. Nothing will
he changed i'll it, and none but members
of the royal family will be allowed to
visit il.
There are pitts young men in the
medical colleges of the United States;
less than half as many-~11 ,S74-in the
law schools, and only about one-third as
many-S26l-in the theological semi
naries.
italian macaroni is no longer made
by hand but by machinery. According
10 the British consul at Naples, about
10000 eases of macaroni are annually
exported to England and 100000 TO the
United States.
The lake regions seem to be attrac-
tive to people. In Ohio during the last
ten years the largest rate of increase in
population was in the lake cities and
counties. The same conditions are true
of the states of Michigan and Wisconsin,
-Phologists are already noting that
the English language is to be enriched by
three new words as direct result of the
South African war, namely Khaki"
'kopje' and Commander, to each of
which future photographers will give a
distinctive meaning.
DR.. Charles f. H. WilgohS of Ak
ron, O., has been celebrating his ninety
seventh birthday. The venerable phySi-
elan still attends to his patients, even
visiting them at night when called uD0n
to do 50. He was born near Kill Ger
many, and came to this country in 1880.
London has new dance called the
{. l. '. The couples are arranged as in
other Quadrillcs, but the music rattles
right through the dance without pause,
embracing the most popular movements
used in ordinary quadrilles and some new
ones.
y landlord recently walked into a
Salem lMass.( store and ordered his ten
ant 10 vacate. The tenant meekly lis
tened to the command. and then exhibit
ing a conStahle's badge, ordered the land
lord to vacatc the premises under the
threat of arrest for trespass upon the
tenants store. The astonished landlord
got ont.
Fine Piece OF Cloth.
Near Cape Ruy about 1890" says
the Newfoundland Magazine IAN old
man, a young giri and boy of - saved