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

spends more than SlO,0OOOOO year III
maintaining the Indians.
Five hundred motor carriages per
year is the average output of Parls
firm for the last five years.
Health authorities estimates that 10
per cent. of the men who go to Cape
Nome never come back alive.
st. Petersburg's churches are the
most splendid of any modern churches in
the world.
Seventeen per cent. of the population
of Michigan is enrolled in the Sunday
schools. The average for the states ard
territories of the Union is only ~ per
cent
The water OF the larger Norwegian
fjords or rock bays, though i'll direct
communication with the sea, are so salt
less as to be drinkable.
The biggest match factory in the
world is the Vulcan match factory, at
Tidahalm. Sweden. 1t employs over 1900
men, and manufactures daily 100000
boxes of matches.
Prisoners in Morocco are compelled
to pay the officers for their trouble in ar
resting and escorting them to Jail. This
plan makes the police watchful and al
ways alert for business
There is a great demand for hands
by the planters in Hawaii. No less than
10000 men are needed there in the cult
walton Of sugar, and efforts are making
TO secure them in this country.
1t is believed by many that the dry
climate of southern Oklahoma and the
southern district of the Indian territory
is going to make all that section the
nome for the finest grades of cotton.
A hotel landlord in st. Louis has es-
tablished curfew regulations in his house.
Promptly at 10 O'clock at night the cur
few rings, and guests at that time are
expected to turn out the lights and go to
bed.
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. Six
~ bushels Of them yield a barrel of
starch.
Why the turkey is called a turkey
has been much discussed without reach
ing any definite conclusion. One theory
is that turkey named himself by his pc
culiar ''cluck,' which sounds like turk"
turk" turk"
The Marquis of Lansdowne in 1866
succeeded to the marquisate and estates,
which extend over nine counties. include
close upon 10000 acres, and bring in
Il rent roll of between 100000 and fG0,-
900 per annum.
1t is surprising that North Carolina
should not have had until now a State
Historical society, but such seems to be
the fact. An organization having in view
the establishment of one was formed a
few days ago in Raleigh.
1t is said that owing TO the mystic
rious disappearance of relics at the naval
museum, Boston, Mass, Rear-A dmral
Sampson has ordered the place closed UNI
til suitable arrangements can he made to
protect the property on exhibition.
Owing to ii French law compelling
the French mercantile marine to man
only with Frenchmen, the foreign sea
men cannot be introduced to displace and
defeat the French shipping unions. As
u result they are uniformly successful in
their strikes.
The Peruvian Legislature has passed
a law granting absolute amnesty to all
persons who may have been concerned in
any political transgressi0n or offenses,
with the right to fill public offices. All
political prisoners confined at Lima have
been set at liberty.
Corn is SO plentiful in the vicinity of
Chelsea, |. r.. that the farmers are let
ting it rot in the fields Twenty cents a
hushcl is all they can get for it, and they
do not think that price pays for harvest
ing.
Miss Clara Barton, head of the Red
Cross society. has placed with a firm in
Kittrcl. y. c.. an order for 1,0O0,0O0
strawberry plants. These plants will be
distributed among the fruir-growers of
Texas who suffered so severely from the
great September storm.
The Paris National library. which
has today over 100000 volumes, was
opened in 1915 with 1900 volumes. 1t
includes today, among other things, about
100000 volumes relating to French his
tory and GIL 900 volumes relating to the
history of other countries.
Ice racing ON the Hudson is to re-
ceive unusual attention during the COM
ing season One craft that has been
turned out will be Il marvel in its way.
1t will carry 613 square feet of canvas
and will Yet he So light that TOUR men
can easily lift and handle it.
The rnyied of all at an old folks
concert in Wabash, Ind, was Mrs.
James Woodruff. who on the occasion
wore a gown which was once the prop
erty OF Queen Victoria The garment
was given to an aunt of Mrs. Woodruff
by one of the Queens maids OF honor.
-Russia'S production Of pig iron has
increased steadily since 1896, from l.
563.217 long tons, the output of that
year, to 2,G23, 1870 tons in 1899. an in
crease of 6S per cent. Curtaiment of
railway orders, however. has now caused
closing of many furnaces in southern dis
tricts.
Chickens are never in their prime
says veteran market man, until after
cold weather sets in, for they run about
too much in the warm days to get fat.
When the brisker autumn v---1'er comes
they sit more aud gain avoirdupois The
same IS true Of turkeys and all domestic
fowls.
Heavy cars. each holding sixty pas
Sengers, travelled easily thirty seven miles
in one hour over the Albany Il Hudson
Electric railway, at the formal opening
recently. The road is interesting in thar
1t is the longest "third-rail" road in the
world, and, although an experiment, j;
seems to be a perfect success,
A large English constructor has re-
Gently furnished to the British govern.
ment an armored automobile train con.
Sistng Of Il number of cars towed by a
road locomotive. This is the first Of a
series which is to be constructed upou
the same principle. 1t will. no doubt
be of great service TO the army.
In the organization of the police de
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