Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

their keep by $4,000.
To commend anarchist crime in
public place is a punishable offense ae-
cording TO French law.
Tobacco cultivation and manufactur-
ing in the Atlantic states is greatly ham
pered for want Of workers.
Vast forests of rich yellow and sug&.
pine are being opened up in eastern
Washington.
The duty on bicycles which was in
troduced in France in 1894 yielded an in
come last year of nearly 100000 francs.
The largest insect known is the ele-
phant beetle of Venezuela. One has
been found that weighed seven ounces.
About 20.53334S tons of coke were
produced in the United States last year,
as compared with 3,S17,2J5 tons in 1896.
The largest artesian well in the
world is ii inches in diameter and GAS
feet deep. 1t is at Cerritos, in Califor-
MIA.
An edict of the Emperor Tiberius
forbade Roman citizens to wear any
garments made in whole or in part of
silk
From their beginning to the close of
the fiscal year of 1900 the gold coinage of
the United States was more than $4,000
100000.
In 1881 the paupers Of the United
Kingdom numbered 96 in every 1000.
In ten years the number dropped to 70
per 1000.
AT a cost of about S1,O0O.OOO the
government of Saxony has completed Il
map of the whole country. giving minute
details regarding fertility. wines, etc.
1t is said that the trustee of the
New York public library will be asked to
devote an annex TO Anglo-SaxOn litcra-
urn in nj IL iutr A lfrpfl fhe.
1t has been observed that alternating
Enclosed are lamps have the peculiar prop
erty of causing mahogany furniture TO
appear to be covered with blush white
dust.
Supreme court justices in New York
city receive $500 a year more than JUS
tees of the Supreme court of the United
States.
One Of the streets in Canton, China,
is occupied entirely by druggists and den
lists. The name of this thor0ughfare is
quite ppropriate-Physic street.
In recent trial of the French sub
marine boat Marvel it went $50 miles UNI
der water, but the close confinement and
want of fresh air completely unnerved the
men,
Norway, Ireland and Spain have more
blind people in proportion to population
than any other European countries. Spain
has PIG per 1000; Norway, POS and Ire
land. Ill.
Among the accidents" reported in
Austria recently was the case Of a work
man who walked along the road smoking
a pipe with 50-pound bag of gunpowder
on his back!
Brazilian carbon, which is worth
about Sl5 per karat, or about four times
the value of ordinary diamonds, is used
in drilling some of the gold mines of
South Africa.
I'm most European railways the prin-
cipal difference between second class and
first class lies in the color of the seat
cushions, first class being usually red,
second class gray.
California; state flower Is the golden
poppy, and one of the professors at Stan
ford university has published book de-
voted exclusively to the flower and its
legendary history.
Bicycles are generally considered very
modern invention, but some of the Egyp-
tan obelisks, it is said, bear figures
mounted on twO-wheel vehicles resem-
bling the old yel0cipedes.
The three greatest shipping ports in
the world are New York. Liverpool and
Hamburg. Over $4,000 vessels arrive
and depart each year ut Hamburg and
over Al 900 at Liverpool.
Portugal is the most illiterate country
in Europe; 81 per cent. of its population
cannot write. In Italy the proportion of
illiterates is % per cent; in Russia, SO
i'll Spain, 8; in Britain, 3la.
Among the persons who lost their
lives the past summer in the Austrian
Alps was a girl of IS, who was let down
n precipice to gather edelweiss by her ia
Their. when the rope broke.
1t is said that Canada is soon 10 have
her own mint and that the gold coins will
he called beavers" In value the "beav-
err will correspond To our eagle, $40:
double beaver" $40, and half "beavcr,' -
Corn is very extensively used by the
5000 brewers and dstillers of Belgium.
high as 20 per cent. of cornmeal is used
with the malt in making beer.
Some people live long in Goderich,
Ont -Four deaths occurred there in Au-
gust and September, and one of the de-
ceased had reached % years and another
-Hessen claims larger proportion Of
students among its population than any
other German State-S1 to every 100000
inhabitants, while Saxony had Is. Baden
90, Bavaria ~, Wurtemburg 90, Prussia
56.
Whether Paisley should he written
"cNAtA - sum uERutlIE tue SCOItlSti
experts. One reScarchst has made the
unfortunate discovery that Paisley, being
Interpreted, means the place of exccu-
ton"
AS late as sixty years ago the King
q Bavaria issued a proclamation forbid
dlng the wearing of muStacheS on any
pretense and inStructiug the police to
arrest offending parties and have them
shaved.
Leeds. England. has teetotal work.
mouse. The cost of intoxicants in the in
stitutton is under farthing per head per
annum, brandy being the only stimulant
used and that solely for the infrmary
patients.
The New Hampshire Historical So
eiety has the original patent on a process
for the use Of steam in propelling hoats
II was issued to Samuel Morley, March
70 l!91, and was signed by Georg,
One Of the strangest botanical curi
ositles in the world is the Wonder Won
der flower found in the Malay pcnin
Sula. II is simply a blossom. withau,
leaves, vine or stem, and grows MS .
parasite ON dccayed wood
The skin Of the musk-ox. which is .
dcnizen of the Barren Grounds" an.
the Arctic region of Canada. has take,
the place of the extinct huffnlo for s,pivi