Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

"A four-foOt suntiOwer rrou.;,'[-
Dusty on tree limb twenty fee. t-., als2'-
ground Is one of the curiositias a.. ~ On he
AS late as 1870 the iorrn.- oSSo.
Liverpool to London was dgri.S.s. IFom
account OF the bad conditj19 o oe IN
roads. Of the
One of the Buenos Ayres na,v.o..
mas d consultation room in MI; t"PeIs
poor can daily get medical or i,..n, iae
vice free. ''soi al
The oldest inhabited bop.o
land is on the River Yer. r}l.aA Fig
Adams abbey. 1t is octagon9J !, 10 n.
ana supposed to be eleven centu-iasN ale
Within twenty miles of Citr ~ I'u,
PARK, New York city. there ars nan
than 4,OOO,OOO people, or more tba, "oft
twentieth of the cOuntrys entire 'I I.l,, g4t-
ton. '''V PopQia-
The packing of sweet corn +, NJ.
has grown rapidly in the last fa,y , ,o',l
untll now only New York and Tirira$,
UP. Last, year about 22,0OO005 . pat
were produced. cans
AT the birth of a Japanese b,l-
tree is planted that must rera G;nOJ
touched until the marriage of the cbS SI-
When the nuptial hour arrives tbo tn
is cut down and the wood is trauSfor, ,'rg
into furniture. 'i-ed
New York is a CITY Of toron,-.
houses. Since July /, the date for fi M,
returns of the tenements bv the np. ,,,iIs
$1,000 have been registered Their sro
IN M the greater city, in the neighborhood of
100000 tenement houses. u
Organized labor has been succo..e.,
thus far in keeping out of the ooy@ 3ru'
ment printing office typesetting m9rbnan
and other contrivances that compete WIN
hand labor, except steam printing DraSsna
and few machines used in the binde,,.'
The burning mountain" of Moptot
in Ayeyron, France, which is oftnn n,is
taken for an active volcano hecansa .
pillar of cloud rises from it by d9y and
a pEla1 OF hre by night, is in reality
coal mine which has been burning for
several years. '''
Formerly most opais came from,
Hungary, and more recently from NJ
CO. In 1889 an Australian hunter
while pursuing wounded kangaroo
came across an opal. Since thar Tina
Australia has yielded nearly $2.O00060
worth of Opals.
One horse power, as established
among englne-makers, is the capacity 70
raise $4,000 pounds one foot per minute
As this estimate was based upon tba
ability of the huge draught horses NJ
London, it is about twice the average
power of horse.
A good sympathetic ink is made with
tho chloride of copper. Writing or draw
ing on paper with this ink is invisible at
ordinary temperatures. but when the pa-
per or parchment is heated the writing
or drawing at once appears Of a beaut
full yellowish color.
The value of pepper was known Of
old. We read that when Rome had to be
ransOmed from its barbarian conQueror
in the year 400 Alaric demanded 5000
pounds of pepper among the payments
and that HlppocrateS used it in medicine
applying it to the skin.
During very severe haiStorm re-
cent? which was destroying the vine
yards at Hovgen, in the canton of Zu-
rich, Switzerland, battery of artillery
fred twenty rounds. with the result that
the hail ceased, and consequently the
vines were saved from destruction.
In cold weather all japanese travel
ers carry rugs, for the cars are heated
merely by long steel cylinders filled with
hot water and laid on the floor Spread
ing his rug ON the seat--a japanese never
sits on anything not perfectly clean-the
passenger shakes off his geta, or wooden
clogs. and curls his feet beneath him.
Dime here and you will never dine
anywhere else is the startling though
doubtless meant to be alluring, statement
avenue, Camden. Hung underneath the
above is notice written on piece Of
legal cap paper. 1t reads: "Wanted-A
boy, who can open oysters with refer
ence."
1t has been calculated that the hair
of the beard grows at the rate of one
and one-half lines a week, This VIII
give a length of six and one-half inches
in the course of year. For man
M n loss than twenty
seven feet of beard must Lave fallen be
fore the edge of the razor.
The river Euphrates flowed through
the city of Babylon and on each side Of
its bauks the walls OF the city were ear
ried up to a height as great as at any
other point. so that even during siege
the city was as formidably defended On
the river as on the land side.
II. c. Martin, an authority upon me
subject finds that 100000 people aTe
employed in telegraphy, 26,0OO by bri
Telephone companies, 100000 in eIecJfiIe
lighting plants. 100000 on stree. T ME-
ways operated by electricity, and l0t"P"
in electrical factories.
A freak lobster was recently taken
near the mouth of the Saco river, II
Maine. by o. +. Hutchinson. II = eL
the usual length, but instead Of be'a-
green it is blue. This, the fishermen say.
- the III ~ VI lIc hllu tiLts INV
seer.
A Naples laboratory reports 7a-
gular case Of reversal of habit III q Ger
tain aquatic plant. When the leaves u.
this plant were buried in the sand VIA
its roots upperm0St, the roots changed ~
stems and leaves and the buried oi~'"N
developed roots.
The order Of negro disfrauch,,rwe.4'
in the Southern states has been ~ per
| lows; Mississippi, 1890: South Caio.Aa
1895; Louisiana. 1898; North CaLoA....
| 1900; Alabama and Virginia 1871! i.
Texas, Tennessee and West Virginia .ar
franchise is open; in Georgia there IS
| poll tax, and in Maryland, KentueAF #na
| Florida there are discriminating e.e.-'"
laws.
People die faster in cities than III i .II
| country, yet in every part Of The Won
people are focking to the cities more ''..
| more every year. In New 4orN ,a9.
| are. on the general average i'9i e.,
| persons in each dwelling house, 49,
| the proportion of population 7"
! square mile for the united States is '"''
/ about twenty-five.
The handkerchief, it is said. a,.... =,
/ very inConspiCuous part IN tht '5''
| dress impedimenta until the Emif''>
sephine whose teeth Were pr"H'". ..
/ used it as a modifying influence u. -,'.t,
/ ing. Alexander the Great had Il