Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10
Curious COMBINATIONS.

of : 12O 600.
Chicago NOW contains a greater pop
nlaiion than all the cities Of The ! uted
States contained in 1910. and New York
now has a greater population than all
the cities together had in 1890,
One of the greatest difficulties en-
eountered by medical missionaries in
Ihlna Is that patients, after receiving
grailS bottle Of medicine. are apt to
sell It To someone else for Il tride,
Nearly 10000 tons Of potato starch
are turned out annually in this country.
The potatoes used for starch are the small
and injured ones of the crop Sixty bush
els Of them yield a barrel Of starch
The law in New York allows tenc-
ment houses a height of 81 fect-Sevcn
stories and haSemeut--W when the first
Two floors are freproof, and 100 feet-
L stories-when ireproOf throughout.
Last year the trade in China was the
greatest the country has ever known.
It was double that of 1890 and it was
20 per cent. greater than that of the year
before, rising to 60,533,2SS Haikwan
taels.
The sea ctcumber-One of the curious
jellylllle bodies that inhabit the ocean
can practically efface itself wheu in
danger by squeezing the water out nj its
body and forcing itself into any mar 'ow
crack.
The Los Angeles Herald's story of a
remarkable strike Of quartz carrying
from $4,000 to $4,000 per ton, made in
Shasta county by the OSccola Gold Nm
ing company, composed of Los INCHES
men, finds ample veritication.
California wines are shipped to
France, French labels placed on the bot
ties and the goods brought back to the
United States and sold at prices to pay
all expenses and a good profit for the
trouble.
The production of aluminium for com
mercial uses began in 1889 with a total
reached 100000 pounds, and ut present
the rate of production is over 100000
pounds year.
arrangements have been made for
the settlement of $50 Russian families
near the new town of Ladysmith. Chip
pewa county, Wis. The immigrants will
come from the vicinity of Odessa, in
southern Russia.
In Germany it is considered neces-
sary that child should go up" before
it goes down in the world, so it is carried
upstairs as soon as born. In case there
are no stairs the nurse mounts Il table or
chair with the infant.
-IIawick, Roxburgh county, Scotland,
the recipient of Andrew Carnegic'S latest
gift of a library, already has some liter
airy eminence, for the vicinity includes
most of the scenery described in the
LAY of the Last Minstrel
Official figures show that in a force
of 1880 officers and Sc. 500 men en-
gagged in the Franco-German war, the
battle losses were 1850 officers and %
627 men, while IA officers and 1892
men met their deaths from disease.
Army estimates for the coming year
are on the basis of a force of 100000
men, and include appropriations for
bringing home the volunteers i'll the Phil
ippines. The navy department also es-
Inmates for an increased fore" of enlist
ed men.
For several years past n store in Cor
nish, Me-. has been burglarized regularly
in the spring and fall, complete outfit
of clothing, shoes and hat being taken
on each occasion. The semi-annual visi-
tation has just taken place, with the
usual result.
The daily population of the Equitable
~1allding in New York is 300, and the
mail averages about $4,000 pieces a day.
Every forty-hve minutes mail wagons
run over from the postoffice and carry
back with them seventy-tive pounds Of
outgoing mail.
In China the silver tael is the none
tary unit, but its value varies in the diff
ferent cities. For instance. at Chefoc, on
July /, 1900, it was worth G1.S cents,
while at Haikwan ii was worth 72.1.
The Haikwan tacl is that used in the Of
fetal statistics.
The highest inhabited hut in the
Swiss Alps is at an altitude OF 2G6J
meters, ON the Alpe de Iona in Wallis.
Grain grows up to an altitude Of 207J
meters. In the Himalayas and in Thibet
there are habitations at attitudes up to al
most 5000 meters.
Rubber stamps were used by the
Moors a thousand years before Christ;
and about the time Rome was founded
the same ingenious race invented the self
registering turnstile. such as is used to-
day TO check the admissions to places OF
public entertainment.
A civil engineer in Hoboken has built
q two-horse bedroom on wheels, with IA
tarpaulin extension for a Kitchen and
proposes to drive to Mexico by easy
stages. On the wagon is painted tn"
motto; AS we journey through life lot
us linger on the way
Probably at no time since the Civil
var have there been 50 few regular sol
ders stationed in the United States as
there are today. or the 100000 officers
and men constituting our present army
all but about 1900 are serving abroad,
mostly in the Philippines.
The dea Ia of Levi Mclaughlin, citi-
zen of Wichita, kaS., brings out story
Of his remarkable fcndnrSs for children.
He had twelve of his own. Of whom elcy-
en- are now living, bGt az different times
he adopted a round dozen more, including
five orphans in one family.
The town of Palma, near Mt We
suvious, Italy, has just Witnessed the
trial of $40 criminals belonging 70 an as.
ISOLATION for theft and assassination
As 400 witnesses had to be- called, the
court adjourned for ;Le sake Of room
to the municipal theater.
A patent was taken cut on a pas
senger elevator siXty-siX years ago But
the first patent for a complete aud prac-
teal elevator was given 10 T.. q. Otis of
Yonkers. \. Y, in January, 1861; 50 that
while the idea is much older the elevator
is only thirty nine years Old.
In ii cavalry charge the list Of casual
ties among horses is naturally greater
than among men. At Talayera 300
horses were killed and $40 men. while at
the famous charge Of the Light Brigade
at Balaciava the losses among horses
were 800 and among men $50.
One Of the Vatican organs suggests
hat the Pope should migrate from Rome
to Jerusalem, and out 81 the $4GO0.00O