Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-16
NOTES OF INTEREST.

price of ice in ROuen, France, IN one year
from 300 francs Il ton to 30 francs.
A farmer near Lenox, S. d., shot
pelican that measured = feet and 1
inches from tip to tip of its wings.
The census Of 1900 shows that there
are IL, 1871 negroes to every 100000
whites, compared with 1850 in 1880.
Later census returns from remote dis
tricts will increase the population of the
Dominion Of Canada TO about 5,J00000.
Orange county, California, has 300
acres in peanuts. The output this sea-
son is estimated at 100000 pounds, worth
$4,000.
Some Of the Southern states give pen
SiOns To Confederate soldiers. Since 1870
Georgia, for instance, has thus paid out
$500 Do.
The percentage of water is so in
plums and grapes, 81 in apples, 81 in
pears. So in oranges, 80 in lemons and 95
In watermelons.
ness and saddles than any other city in
America, and perhaps more than any 9TH
or place in the world.
A process has just been patented for
making artificial woods out of pulp, so
az to initiate such costly kinds as ma
h0gany and rosewood.
The state entomologist of New Ier-
sey predicts that the state will be over
run with locusts next wear and that they
will eat everything in sight.
The official entomologists Of Georgia
predict that within few years the EN-
pre state Of the South will contain more
than 1O0,O00OOO fruit trees.
Quebec believes that. with the COM
ing development of the Canadian North
wt,t, it is destined to become the great
wheat exporting ut of the world.
-Canada's forests are found to be-
equal to supplying the world with pulp
wood alone for $40 years, on the basis of
1.50o,O0O tons Of manufactured pulp
year.
BY using compressed air in the blow
ing Of glass a Dresden inventor has dis
covered a method Of manufacturing glass
vessels OF unusually large size, such as
bathtubs and kettles.
Ants have been burrowing under the
brick pavements of Council Bluffs. Ia, |
and removing the sand One street, FOR
a distance Of several blocks, has thus |
been rendered unfit for travel.
In village in the Cotswolds, Eng
land. it il the custom to place a small |
mirror on the front door under the
knocker in which the visitor may exam
inc his appearance before entering.
The consumption of sugar in the
United States in 1899 was 1904 $40 tons. |
Nearly two million of these We're inn
ported. California yielded 72944 tons
of beet sugar and Louisiana most Of the
rest.
Discoveries of extensive deposits of
coking coal have been made along Ska
git river, Wash, the seams of pure coal
being 10 feet in width and traceahle
for miles, and all within mile of a
complete railroad.
The skin of the muskox, which is
denizen of the Barren Grounds and the
Arctic region of Canada, has taken the
place of that of the extinct buffalo for
sleigh robes. 1t varies in price from
$50 to as low as SIS for poor article.
Nearly 1000 men and women are en-
ployed to conduct summer vacation
schools aud Fairgrounds in the boroughs
of Manhattan and the Bronx. Last sum
mcr more than 100000 boys and girls
were in more or less constant attendance.
An immense geyser has just been dis
cover in Rotomahona, New Zealand. II
covers an area an acre i'll extent and
constantly throws columns Of water TO
vast heights, some of them ascending
300 feet, with clouds of steam which
20 much higher,
Fargo. Grand Forks and Minneapo-
lis capitalists have formed big corpo
ration for the development of Ignite
coal properties in the western part Of
North Dakota. The entire capitalization
is $1,000,000 and a large percentage of
the capital will be paid in.
A worn or soiled Bank Of England
note is seldom seen. This is because No
note of this bank is ever reissued by the
establishment. When cashed il Is kept
and put aside for destruction. The aver
age term during which a note remains in
circulation is about Il month.
There is a small English village of
the name of AlleSlcy where the church
bell is run at = o'clock every morning in
summer and at o'clock in winter. in
order to arouse sleeping lieabedS and en-
able them TO start work in good time.
The curfew bell is also tollcd at s o'clock
each evening.
Recent investigations made by the
department Of agriculture show that
mushrooms are about equal to potatoes
in the element of nutrition that goes to
make flesh and blood. but that, on the
other hand. they do not hold much of the
fueI-stuif required 10 keep the body ma
chine running.
The fruit of the umganu tree of South
Africa yields strong intoxicating drink
for the natives. Elephants are fond of
1t, becoming quite tipsy, staggering
about, playing antics. screaming so as
TO be- heard for miles and having ire
mendCus fights. When in this state the
natives leave them alone,
The silk industry was introduced into
France from Italy at the beginning of
the Fourteenth century. when discontent-
ed Italian wcavers established themselves
at Lyons. In the Sixteenth century the
industry was introduced on an extended
scale, and in 1850 France surpassed 1t
ally, and has since kept the position of
leader.
The strongest animals exist entirely
on vegetable food 1t is the ferocity Of
the lion rather than his strength that
makes him formidable. An elephant is
n match for several lions and is vege-
tartan. The animals with most speed
and endurance--the horse. the reindeer
the antelope and otherS-arc also Yege-
tarians.
1t is said that the worlds almond
crop, exclusive of California and Arizona
will amount this year to about fortV-onc
thousand tons. They come from Italy.
Sicily. Majorca, Spain, France Portugal
Morocco and AlgierS The highy-prized
Jordan almonds come from Malaga,
Spain, and not from the Jordan river, as
many people suppose.
Sections of old water pipes Of cypress
that had been underground and in use.
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