Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-22

The Bank of England has usually |
about t23,OD0.N0 TO $50 0e0, 900 of its
notes in circulation.
"A California paper says that the men
who i've on the ranges are notable for
their remarkable retentive memories.
"A body of rich silver ore has just
been encountered in the Greenhorn dis
trict, Oregon. Ii averages 500 to the
ton.
An estimate of the ore in sight in
the Sunset mine, Index district, Wash
ington, has been made, and il is placed
at S225,0o0
There are now thirty-eight forest reser-
vatiops in this country, embracing an
area Of 46,I72, 129 acres, in thirteen dit
ferent states and territories.
Houses which are damp because of
proximity to undrained land may he rem
dered more hahitable by planting the lau-
rel and the suntiower near them
The owners of the tramway in
Greece connecting Athens and Pire, have
been given three years III which to con
vert the line into an electric system.
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. is to
build an electric tranway TO be owned
and operated by the municipality. Eight
wheeled, double-decked cars are to be
tried
When a coal fire is in use for heating
and the electric light for lighting an in
habited room the air is purer than ny
any Of the other plans tried for heating
and lighting.
The hackney coach proprietors and
cabdriyers of Naples have formed them
selves into a company for the purpose of
Transforming the hackney coaches and
carroyellas into automobiles.
"A Spanish club has recently been
formed at Harvard university. 1t is to
be run along the same lines as the Cercle
Francois and is intended to develop and
encourage the study of Spanish.
"A special imperial commission has
left st. Petersburg for Moakden in order
to carefully pack the manuscripts OF the
Eleventh and Twelfth centuries which
were looted from the palace in that city.
The West is not doing the exclusive
livestock business of the country. Tween
ty-three carloads of cattle lave just been
shipped East over the Big Four from
London, o., all to be exported to Liver
pool.
Nearly 100000 women in Spain
work in the field as day laborers; $4,000
women are registered as day servants
that is, they work for their food and
lodging. There is no such class anywhere
else
The town of Eatonville, Fla. has
LOO inhabitants, with not a single white
among them. 1t has its full quota of
public officials, a bank and other business
establishments requisite in town of its
size.
-Maj-Gen. Baden Powell has cabled
to a cycle firm at Coventry instructing
them TO make preparations for the dis
pafchefSfs 400 bicycles, with military fit
tings, for the use of the South African
police.
-Horseshoes weighing an ounce each
and just tritie larger than a silver dol
lar were turned ont in California shop
recently. They were made for a Shet-
land pony months old and small for
its age
A Russian engineer Prince 4. T.
DshayachoM, has invented an electrical
apparatus manipulated from the stage of
theater, by which, at one touch, all
doors and exits are opened toward the
outside.
The Vermont Legislature has rejected
the local option bill, which has been un-
der consideration in both houses The
vote in the Senate was II against TO II
for, and liz the House ii was 40 against
to ~ for.
Much indignation is expressed in
Munich papers because the state did not
interfere with the sale to lumberman
of the largest linden tree in Bavaria. II
measured S.42 meters i'll circumference,
with a diameter Of 2.40 meters
-Property-owners Of the Fox lake re-
glon, IN Wisconsin. have banded together
to rid the waters Of Fox, Grass and 9th
er lakes in the vicinity of the German
carp, in order to keep the game fish which
makes those lakes famous from being
driven out.
The number OF wholesale dealers in
beer and other malt liquors in this c0un-
try increased from GJ77 in 1898 and 1851
II 1893 to 1870 in 1900, and the number
of retail dealers from 12,07l in 1893 and
12,327 in 1899 to 12,7lG during the same
derod.
The normal rainfall Of Los Angeles
IS 1873 inches per year. For the last
seven years the average was only 80 per
cent. Of this amount Hundreds OF ar
tesian wells ceased to flow, and at San
Diego water was pumped from wells 300
feet deep. The recent heavy rains have
restored the balance Of things.
Oranges and bananas reach de-
licious perfection in Porto Rico, ana
frosts are unknown. The cultivation Of
various crops has increased enormously
since 1896, averaging fully 30 per cent.
all around. The cultivation of cane has
increased - per cent; of coffee, - per
cent, and Of tobacco, 800 per cent.
The hattering ram Of the Roman,
was like the bill Of a huge wOodpeckor,
the walls of the enemy being the tree
trunk. The battcring ram was 50 called
because at the end Of the beam, from 60
90 lOU feet long, was fastened n hrunz"
rams head. The beam was hung on
rope. IN a shed and worked by from 30
to 100 men.
The opening Of q new cigarette fac
tory seems To be an event Of great i'm
portancc in the City Of Mexico. prcsi-
dent DlaZ attended such an affair lHst
month. and addressed q great throHg Of
Distinguished guests Of tine proprieiors Of