Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-08-31

More than S5O,ODO,O worth of tim
Der was destroyed by forest fires last
year.
Herman Elegan Of St. Louis has CON
structed a Turkish bath house TO be run
as a trolley car.
Three thousand troops were recently
sent to aelp the inhabitants subdue 4
forest fire in Sweden.
Never before, it is said. have so
many straw hats been worn in London
as have appeared this season.
Fire loss in the United States and
Canada fell from SOB 100000 the first
halt of last year to $S9,000000 first half
Of this year.
A French company of Alpine rifle
men; with full war equipment, recently
climbed to the top Of Mont Blanc from
Chamounix.
About 100000 geese are annually
brought from Russia to Saxony. y car
load consists of 1900. and they have no
food or drink during the journey.
Denmark is an agricultural country
About three fourths Of the population are
engaged in the cultivation of the soil. Co.
penhaSen IS the only city of any size.
When Queen Victoria was in Ire
land Dublin photographer secured a
picture of her with a sprig of shamrock
in her bonnet. This is said to be the
best photograph ever made of her.
The Sax0ns. whose original settle
ment is determined by the little kingdom
of Saxony, derived their name from the
seaX, or short, crooked knife with which
they armed themselves.
Sweden is a modern term made up
of the Latin Suedia, signifying the land
of the Suevi, 4 warlike tribe of the
Cloths. and the Anglo-Saxon den, testi-
flying to its occupation by the Danes.
AT rough estimate the total amount
of income taxes which Americans III
England are compelled to pay for John
Bulls support is S5,000,000 a year. All
whose incomes are below $500 a year
escape free.
OF large islands. Niphon. the main
island of Japan, has, for its size far
the heaviest population. On $4,000
square miles, about half the area of
Great Britain, there are 21,00000O peo-
pie.
-Manchuria, of which we get flashes
Of news, is a level, well-watered dense
ly-crowded region in the highest stage Of
cultivation, with scarcely an acre not
planted and hand-cultiyated
Experts figure there is 81 400 0OO.-
QUO worth of gold in the mining area of
the Rand within reach of modern min
ing appliances. A similar calculation
shows 6O,000,000, 900 tons of coal.
Great distress prevails on the Canary
islands because of the failure of the crops
on account of the prolonged drought the
first within the memory Of the living.
Water costs Is francs Il barrel.
,-German insurance statistics show
that on the average workman is seven
times as liable to injurious accidents as
a WorHlngWoman, owing chiefly to the
dlherehce III employments. but partly TO
tAe greater recklessness of the men,
The Old worlds most calamitous fire
was that which took place in London in
l6G6, which destroyed 1900 buildings.
iald 40O streets waste and rendered poo
ooo persons homeless. the loss of life be-
i ing 10Oo and that Of property destroyed
$40 100000
Scotland bore the name of Caledonia.
literally the billy country of the Calls.
or Gaels. The word Gael, or Gael. is
| corruption of Gadhel. signifying in the
native tongue "A hidden rover" while
Sect, derived from the native Scuite.
means a wanderer.
britain was known to the Phenicians
as Rar2t-auac' or the land of TIM" as
TAR back as the year 1887 Il. C. some
9'D years afterward the island was al
luded to by the Romans under the name
OF britannia, which subsequently, became
shortened to Britain.
New Jersey has been called the Car
den state, from the fact that a large
iLoPottloh or the farming land in its
l
Philadelphia anu
-One Of Prof Osborn's parties the
one operating IN Texas, reports thar tbc;r
very, hfSt discovery was a deposit of
skulls OF the three-t0ed horse. pr0tobip-
t'uS' asSi2}clated with limb bones. L win
pe recalled that this expedition is sna
cla!lN charged TO search for horse re-
mains.
.-Demetrios Poliorketes. the 'besiecer
OF cites, King of Macedon son of Al
eNander'S General Antigonos. has ins,
3eeh dug out Of his tomb in the TheSsa
nan valley of NeleStino by the Amprira,,
school of Athens m.the tomb Mi tbn
ed with gold. P'''',
livery man. woman and child in the
Chiteu states last year consumed four
ana thrGe-quarterS bushels Of wheat ana
wheat hour and siXty-hve pounds Of cnf
lee ana pound OF tea The ne, ronita
consumption of liquors was: Distiliei
spirits 1T gallons; malt liquors. lGJp
gallons, and wines, 40 gallon.
In CHINA there is no regular standard
OF distance. Standards vary in the al
iefent provinces of the empire. the chin
" uhIt or length, varying from zine ~
sixteen inches in different provinces
ChlneNe mile may be from a quarter Of
an English mile 10 a mile and tbrpe-ouar.
tiers, according to the province
The report of the government of In
lLa for lS'@ shows that during that wear
25,5S7 human lives fell prev IN Viii
animals. BY far the largest nuu1br-N
-, 21-were killed by snakes TiScrs
We're responsible for 500 deaths. vrn7vay
for 33S leopards 325 ana 400 wer~
killed by elephants. hyenas. jackaIS ami
crocodi!es together. The deaths dun IA
serpents were much more numerous shan
during preceding years.
The two most caiamitou> fires ever
known in the world occurred in tba
United States within thirteen months ~
each other. In the first of these. In rf,:.
ca=o. on October 50. 1871. the property
loss was S2u0.ooo,uun and in the second
in Boston, November 9. 1872. $50 ono
ono ut property Was consumed. IN Chi
cage 100000 persons We're ieft vithou,
homes and -Vo were killed. Chicago
heads the list Of the worlds destructive
combinations.
France was known 10 th5 Greeks rs
Ga,,a5ia and to -Ae Romans rs Ga,la.
af.ervard modified iu;o Gaul. because
Il was the territory ~ the Ce'ti9p. os