Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-11
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pence.
london newshoys are now prohibited
from yelling forth the contents OF their
wares.
Five hundred trading vessels leave
the Thames daily for all parts of the
world.
The Mexico dog has no hair. The
hot climate makes such Il covering super
fluOus.
The national library of Paris has l.
100000 bound books aud 9O0,Uoo pam
phlCts.
The only European country which
has lower death rate than England l.
Norway.
The longest unnavigable river is the
Dakota, the length of which il about
600 miles.
Child labor in North Carolina mills
has decreased 30 per cent. in the past
three years.
Over 2OOO cars Of freight to and from
the Orient pass annually through St.
Paul. MINI.
a German doctor finds that only in
one ease out of fifteen are both eyes in
good condition.
-Gcrmany is putting a tax on import
ed beer to help iii covering the cost of
the new warships.
ilt 1tltutSt btEdn W NiHt ObbhS W
fore they migrated from the region south
of the Caspian sea.
In the private schools of China Il
teacher is paid about one halfpenny a
day for each pupil.
In three years the expense of run
ming an Atlantic steamer exceeds the
cost of construction.
The corn crop of the United States
this year covers 100000 acres more
than it did last year.
The entire collection Of coins and
medals in the British museum consists of
nearly 100000 specimens.
neutrality-suspicious." meaning in
capable Of limitation, has been admitted
into the newest dictionary.
1t takes something like f3J year to
keep a railway carriage in proper work
ing order in the British Isles.
The Chinese are essentially cotton
consumers. the majority Of the people
dressing i'll clothes of that fabric.
One million eight hundred and fifty
thousand square yards of looking glass is
manufactured in Europe annually.
On one of the japanese railways
terra Gotta slecpers are used. They are
far more durable than those of wood.
1t is estimated that the Kafiirs in the
diamond mines at Kimberley, South Az
rica, steal t250,00 worth of diamonds
year,
Dutch coins in British Guiana are 10
be dcmonetized. Ample time will be Civ
en- for holders to get them exchanged Mt
the treasury.
Two of the greatest literary produc-
tons of the Chinese are a dictionary in
5000 volumes and an encyclopedia in D.
937 volumes
Last year the graduates of profes.
sional schools numbered lG44S, OF whom
5091 were doctors, 3065 lawyers and
1913 clergymen.
A New York druggist said recently
that according to his experience men use
hair dyes 10 . EltftAlaa -sreatt1 -pxFEmt than
women.
The first Protestant missionary in
China was Rev. DIR. Robert Morrison,
who was sent out by the London Mis-.
sonary society i'll 1907.
A by-product of the alfalfa fields in
the West is honey. Nearly all the farm
crs' wives keep hives of bees. which feed
upon its purple blossoms.
The Salvation army England re
ports. show that it has Il life assurance
premium income of nearly EI0,0OO per
annum and $500 policies.
BY the enlargement of a ship canal
nineteen miles long Brussels becomes a
port for ships of 1000 tons. The old linn
~ was NtSSNiN VI ONp lbHS.
A newspaper or sheet of paper tied
on window or balcony of dwelling
house in Mexico indicates that there are
rooms to let in the house.
There are between 250,000 and 800.
900 pounds of garlic annually consumed
by Italians, French and other foreign
residents of the United States
A Cleveland judge has decided that
ANY woman is justified in scolding her
husband if he comes home drunk and
illtreats her and the children"
An odd cycling freak is to trim II
pece of brown paper to tit the lens of
the lamp. and in it cut the eyes, nose and
mouth. The effect is startling.
1t is reckoned that the household and
personal refuse of all kinds and street
sweepngs of town amount to about
half ton annually per head of the pop
ulation, or in London 10000 tons per
week.
Although Queen Victoria does not
permit smoking in her immediate neigh
hOrhood, yet she keeps on hand stock
of the most superb Havana cigars for
her guests, and the consumption thereof
is about 5000 a year.
The difference between n fort and a
fortress lies i'll the fact that the former
is designed to contain solely the garr-
son and their munitions, while the latter
is often city containing a large number
Of noncombatants.
One of the oldest wOmen'S clubs in
London has closed its doors owing TO the
little interest its members feel in lis con
tinuanCe. Funds for its support are not
forthcoming in sufficient quantity 10 pay
the clubs expenses.
A pair of Louis XIV. SevreS porce-
lain table candlestickS from the art treas
urVs Of Sir Charles Wclhy sold in Lon.
don recently for $12.0T5. The ST James
Budget says il is probably the highest
price ever paid for articles of the kind
The people of the southern Appala
chan mountains number about 2.O0O0O0,
their descent being from the Scotch
irish. French liuguenotS, English and
Eermans. They have been in these
mountains since lons before the Reyolu.
ton. They love their homes and mingIc
hut little with the outside world.
he southern entrance of the Red
sea is commanded by the fortress Of
Alden and the fort on the little island Of
rerim, III the Straits Of Babel Mandeb.
me guns of the latter completely cover.
ing the narrow channel, ana the fortress
dominating the entrance to the sea.
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