Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

buffalo.
There are ordinarily from thirty to
forty yarioti of fish in the Honolulu
I market. large percentage of the na-
/ tlres make their living by fishing
After suffering for long time from
the migratory rats the inhabitants of
] Copenhagen organized war against them
ana III two weeks 100000 were killed
In various parts OF Ireland are
branches Of cooperative creamerieS
where capable women, as manageresses.
are paid as high as Dos Il week.
/ -Iwcnty-seven japanese and seven
/ teen Chinese officers are attached to the
/ German army for instruction, besides
1 rep esen'atives OF other foreign armies
/ The Angora goat is so Lightly valued
| IN South Africa that the government Of
! Cape Colony has levied an export duty
Of $500 per head on each goat exported.
AT the Paris exposition Ontario rs a
province captured 2G3 awards, including
| five grand prizes for education Ontario
| received the only first medal for educa-
| ton.
Goshen, a small city in Indiana. has
lower water rate than any ether city in
the United States The plant is owned
by the municipality, as is also the cleo
trio light plant.
smallest in the world. ranging from ID
to sd. but this can be accounted for by
the fact that anyone can practice as
doctor or physician.
One OF the new things in the iewclry
lin" this season Is the introduction OF
delicately- carved ivory into the bits of
fligree work with which women delight
to adorn their costumes.
There are now On the reservations in
New York state 1880 Indians. and a
missionary says at least fivc-eighths of
| them adhere to the old pagan religion
rights and superstitious.
Tho British naval authorities are re-
ported to be making experiments with II
new submarine boat, which. it is stated.
will be able successfully to encounter the
| largest battleship afloat
The first swarm from a beehive is al
ways led by an old queen. the second by
the Oldest princess. who is obliged TO go
in hurry, owing to her younger heirs
emerging from their cells
The largest painting in the world.
exclusive of the panorama and cyclor-
anna, Is IN the grand salon Of the DogeS
palace at Venice. This painting is s;
feet wide by 81 feet high.
A cargo Of fresh meat from the Riy-
lIatte preserved on the passage by a
new process, has been landed at Liver,
pool 1t is believed that the eXperiment
has been entirely successful.
Tie Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows, at its recent session in Rich
mohd, Va, rejected proposition for the
ADMISSION of indians having one-eighth
or less of red blood in their veins.
-Whaleboncs, which are one of the
expensive items on dressmakers' bills.
can be used many times over Those
that are bent the worst will Straightcn
AFTER Il few hours of soaking in cold wa
ter.
A Frenchman is the inventor of a
method of raising sunkCn vessels by the
use of acetylene. Bags covered with
network of rope are fastened to the boz
tom OF the boat and then filed with the
gas.
The fish commissioner of Washington
is almost prepared to say that Eastern
oysters can be successfully propagated
in the waters OF Puget sound. Ills ey
periments have yielded very encouraging
results.
-Nail-biting among French school
children of both sexes has been made the
subject of study by Prof. Berillon His
statistics show that the boys are in tho
majority. The girls prefer to nibble
their penholders.
With the beginning of the present
school term the teaching of stenography,
book keeping, typewriting and other
branches usually taught in business
schools has been introduced in the public
schools III many cities.
Warsaw makes textiles. sugar. ce-
ment, iron, leather. The manufacture Of
sugar for export is increasing rapidly.
There are now, altogether, forty-SiX
sugar factories in the kingdom of Poland,
| twenty of which are in Warsaw.
Emily Forrest, an old negro woman
of Macon, Ga. has a queer hallucina;ion.
She tn nks hat Il rooster is following
her all the time and constantly Growing.
She has killed and devoured the fowl ey-
cry day for months. but the next day
he would again appear on her doorstep
and crow at her.
AS the result of twenty years Of eX-
perimcnts ut Rothamsted it is shown
that III the winter months more than half
of the amount of rain that falls pene-
trateS into the soil and becomes avail
able for the supply of springs while in
summer only one-quartcr of the rainfall
is absorbed by the soil.
In his annual report the British act
ing consul at Zanzibar mentions the sale
of pair of elephant tuskS iOia feet from
base to tip and weighing 239 and 224
| pounds respectively. He describes them
| as probably larger than any others hith
erto found in any part Of the world. The
purchaser gave $4,000 for the pair.
Tho Workingmen's Education socie-
ty, representing about 100 unions. has
made the first payment of $14.2I5 for
building site for 4 labor temple un the
ground occupied by three houses ON East
Eighty-foUrth street. New York. The
cost of the site, including the buildings
which will be torn down, viii be 1000.
The present coinage of Spain is I'M
der the reform law Of 1868, which took
effect the 31st of December. 1870 The
law of 1865 created the monetary unit of
l pcseta tlg3 cents in place of the old
unit of n real tabout = centSl. and made
weights and fncness of gold and silver
to conform with those of the Latin union.
Boys ;.Avcrience at West Point.
An amusing anecdote is told in the