Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

- Inc l-iNerpOOl SfHoOi OF LTopLcd
Medicine has organized n Second eXpedi
tion to West Africa for the study OF ma
lara.
Omaha Neb. is the third Stccr-kilIira
place in the United States. Chicago anG
Kansas City are greater killers thar
Omaha.
The board of education Of Chicago
has voted in favor Of Fairgrounds foI
children in all future plans for new
school buildings
Good cavalry horses are easily bring
ing from $50 To $125. according To size
and condition. and artillery horses com
mand higher prices
Sixty years ago when England was
AT lOggerhcads with China. she made n
profit Of $4,000, 900 rs the result of near
iy three years fighting.
The total vote in the electoral college
will be the same this year a. il was III
1896. when Mckinley received 2Tl cleo
tcral votes and Bryan 1IG.
Gov. Wells Of Titan is an ardent stu
dent Of experimental chemistry and
spends much Of his leisure time in his
laboratory.
In the Canadian Northwest provinces
there are probably more colonies of diff
fer"nt nations than are to be found on
any equal area elsewhere In the world.
According to the Street Railway Re
view, the Toxic Tram company of Toxic,
Japan. has declared dividend of over 30
per cent, on its business for the last year.
France exports about 30, 900 900
oysters annually. The European oyster
Is valued according To the greenness Of
its color and the brassincss Of its flavor.
Exports Of cotton from this country
IN March, as officially reported by the
government. increased over last year 100
per cent. in quantity and 1872 per cent. in
value.
The government owns many thou
sands of acres of land in New Mexico
that have never been taken up. 1t is
the hnest country in the world for stock
raising.
An Ohio man has patented an electric
bicycle lamp which. instead of having Il
storage battery. is supplied with electrici-
~ generated by meteor attached to The
bicycle.
1t has been decided to open per
manent international motor car pxhibi-
ton III Berlin. where complete vehicles
and all their parts and accessories viii
be shown
There has been set up at Sumter. s.
g., factory for making golf sticks of
perslmmon timber, 1t is claimed that
perslmmon makes the best golf stick in
the world
Moscow has the largest hospital in
Europe with 1000 beds There are
ninety-siX physicians and 800 nurses, and
about l1,ooo patients are taken care of
every year.
There were 1867, 1913 acres seeded to
sugar beets in Germany last year The
Weld is about eleven and quarter tons
per acre Of bcets, containing 127 Per
cent. OF sugar.
The newest slang phrase is blight.
err. IL is Synonymous with ''stunner,"
and IS looked upon as better than kill
ing. The new word originated in Wash
ngton.
American lard sells in Singapore Mt
~ cents Il pound in tcn-pound cans
American canned fruits, vegetables aud
meats. as we'll as American huggies are
also sold there.
a scientific statistical work Just pub
lShed fixes the population Of Europe mt
Isl ,uU0OOO, an Increase Of 10000, 900
since $50, az an annual increase OF
about 3.OOO0OD
After ages of neglect the traditional
resting place of the remains of Ireland
patron saint in the cathedral graveyard
at bownpatrick has been covered with 4
memorial stone.
Polish women in Pennsylvania celc-
bratc tho close Of the l4cntCn period by
switching their husbands aud deluging
them with water. 1t is a custom import
ed from Poland
South Carolina is now manufacture
ing all the cotton she produces. North
Carolina, Georgia and other states are
also turning ont large part Of their cot
ten in finished goods
American labor is paid treble the
wages paid German labor in the same
calling, aud the cost Of food is FROM 10
10 30 per cent. cheaper in the United
States than in Germany.
4 "bnllopn hnOS,,'' X IN a., Ip;lt this
spring 10y ;he government ut Fort Mvpr.
near Washington. As soon as the build
ing is ready for use balloon experiments
for war purposes will begin.
The German peasant of century
ago-t the period Of the NapoIeouic wars
ate little except hlaok bread aud potatoes.
and IN many eases he had barely Suffi-
ciont of them to sustain life.
Verified figures show that city Of
100000 inhabitants could be built from
the annual output of stone. clay, lime
aud gravel found within a dozen miles
If the city hall in Philadelphia.
1t is curious 20 note that the French
color manufacturers are not credited with
enc new produce this year. while the
Dutch. Swiss and Germans are fully rep.
resented with generous quota.
Statistics of the Massachusetts hos
ptals for the Insane Tor twenty years
show that permanent rccovcrlcS cannot
hc expected in more than Is per cent
Of those committed for the first time
A dummy clock has been placed on
Independence hall. in Philadelphia, az tn,
point where a real clock marked the TIM,
in other days. Its hands point to III,
hour when the Declaration was signed
"lncircumScrptihlene meaning in
capable Of limitation. has been admitted
INTO DR.. MurrayS new English diction
AIRY. en- the strength of its use by n GOV
cuanting by field of the Seventeenth cen,
fury.
4 table prepared by the Indiana bu
rtau If statistics shows that the aver
age annual earnings of iourneymen IL
that state in 1880 were $57T.T2 a dali,
average, ON Il basis Of 3l2 working days
of S1.SG.
There are plenty Of snakes in Sa
tnoa, but they are all harmless. In Ger
tain districts it is custom Of the ma
tive girls To wind live reptiles aroun,
their necks and arms as ornaments fol
their dances
The Ferris wheel was eomposed ot
200 tons of iron and steel. and con
tanned thousands of separate pieceS
While on the midway il carried $50
thhi UtGpiC and made ab9uf NSa5 nD,