Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A Nevada paper says Colorado cap
italists have purchased the Bellmare
group Of copper mines in Churchill cOun-
~ for 100000.
A rattlesnake was recently killed in
store at San Jose. Cal. L; was in the
act OF springng at a clerk when discov-
cred.
The French grape harvest is reported
70 be one If the finest known for long
time, and there is every prospect of wine
h. ing cheap this year.
An old gentleman Of over SO visited
GoldSmith'S grave in the Temple il Err.
land recently and declaimed the whole
Of The Deserted Village.
Cannon are known 10 have been used
. thousand years before Crccy. y 800
year-old magazine rifle has recently been
unearthCd al Nuremberg.
Between tattie bowkers and harvest
trs il is said that there have been 30,Gc0
workers from Ireland employed in Scot
land during the past month.
The Hebrew population Of London
has mere than doubled during the last
twenty years. 1t is now estimated at
tetweCn 100000 and 100000,
Slips Of tarred pasteboard are used
for shngling roofs in Japan. They are
said to be as satisfactory rs wooden
shingles, and are much chsaptr.
In spite Of their unsanitary habits.
the Chinese often escape disease because
their houses are well ventilated and the
children receive a daily sUnbath.
The military stores Of Paris are
iouud.ess. In day she could clothe and
arm $4,000 fighting men. with 10000
600 rounds of melinite cartridges.
The British museum authors cata-
iogue is now completed. after twenty
.-..ar1' fIhpr and hos Gsbnn l.
consists Of 400 volumes and seventy sup
plemcnts.
The high price OF coal has 50 raised
the price Of paper that me printers and
editors of Prussia assembled IN Congress
have resolved to increase the prices Of
}heir newspapers.
One of the new things in the iewel.y
line his season is the introduction Of
delicately -carvcd ivory into bits Of fill
gree work with which women delight to
Hdorn their costumes.
Vegetables are usually sold IN piles IN
Bucnos Ayrcs, SO that you have to meas
IRE quantity as well rs quality by the
eye; and butchers sell their meat hy The
chunk rather than by weight.
An Australian volunteer is carrying
n bullet in his brain, embedded too deep
~ to allow Of extraction, and he declares
that but for the knowledge of the iacl
he never felt better in his fe.
The Chicago Historical society has
q fine new building that cost SlS0.00o,
aud library Of over 26.0O0 bound VOC
umes and 10000 unbound volumes. be-
SIDES many busts, paintings, etc.
The population of the Berlin suburb
Charlottenourg is in a curiously PUNISHABLE
condition Last year 44,1lS OF the pop
nation OF l74,350 left the city and 3D.,
TAI from elsewhere took their places.
Prof lloyd Morgan, in a recent adj
dress, stated he had found that young
chickens, taken straight from the incu-
hator, could swim very well, the power
Of swimming being fperfectlg instructive
Only about 100000 of the 100000
coo inhabitants of China have concluded
to live in this country, and the majority
az these win desire 10 be buried beyond
the Pacific. China is for the Chinamau.
In the United States there Is one
church for every 337 people. Boston has
one fer every 1000, Minneapolis one for
every 1854. TWenty-four millions people
attend church in the United States ever%
Sunday.
In England during the past few
years. il is claimed, 140,320 farm labor
ers have been displaced by machinery,
while the making of the latter il Is ass
serted. required only the labor Of 4GuN
men for one year
~ new ~ restored NttITHtiiltN tIEt~
"rnacle at Newington-hutts, in South
London tSpurgcou'sl. has been opened
free of debt. The old tabernacle cost
Ri 30 Is l0d; the new one, with It's
corner hail. t44.5TG.
While the French population is sta
uoaary. there is 4 steady progress IN
prosperity, which is indicated hy the in
crossing consumption Of meat and the
decreasing consumption Of bread
Henry Graham gives the following
dates regarding the Introduction of trees
INTO Scotland: The lime iGG4: the silver
fir, 1GS2; the maple and walnut. 1880;
thr lahuInm, i104; the larch. 1927.
Victoria, Australia. has bnjlt savca
local railways On the cooperative VIju-
ciple. The railways were estimated for
ny contract at t547,9oS hut 10y working
The cooperative principle they were cCu.-
I!et2d for t23l,2ll.
1t IS said that there are about soy
'pty towns in England with population
Of 10000 and upward, in which PrcShy-
terlanlsln is entirely urrcpreSeutc0. FIT
teen Gf these towns contain each popu-
laticn exceeding 10000.
In China criminals and political pris-
unerS are hchoaded. Some Of the eve
cutloncrS are SO expert that they can ar
range and hchead a man in eighteen sec.
UudS, which is about The shortest cut q
Httu can take INTO tHe hereafter.
The large downtown hotels and res
jauran's i'll Chicago are to attempt tu
achieve economy by hulkinc their forces
and their efforts in the establishment ol
a big cooperative laundry. No outside
bundle work will be accepted
Just aS the United States get
through counting votes ON November Is
Canada will begin to vote. Thus within
farty-eight hours all Of the English
speaking people Of the North America
continent viii have exercised the right Il
suffrage
Comfort powders are beautiful little
StanZaS or verses II courage and good
cheer. written on small papers and rolled
up like powdered medicines. One is 70
ae nnrollcd, read and enjoyed each morn
1a- Each one is a mystery until its
turn comes. And the surprise is part
Of the pleasure.
Queer Superstitious.
S,la@ar stories ~ queer superstition,
aud odd Wejudicc> sill survive even
among tho educated lower classes A
lady the Other day discovered that her