Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

the United States combined.
The Paris Notifications are TO he
RACED and boulevard constructed. at
a cost Of f2,000,0O0.
The largest cast bronze statue in the
world is that of Peter the Great at st.
Petersburg. II weighs 100 tons.
Nearly every known perfume is now
successfully initiated by the synthetic
process of the chemical laboratory.
Enormous quantities of agricultural
implements are going to South America.
where farming is expanding rapidly.
In spite Of It's capacity for hard work
the elephant seldom, if ever, sleeps more
than four or occasionally five hours.
The American electrical and machin-
cry plants in England are being made
models Of completeness and efficiency.
The glazing Of pens, in some varieties
considered an important operation, Is
done with shellac dissolved in naphtha.
The most ductile metal is platinum.
Wires have been made of it very little
thicker than the threads Of a spider web.
The longest recorded hair growing on
the female head was eight feet. The
longest recorded beard was twelve feet.
A sevcn-foot cougar was killed the
other day not fifty yards from the Noun
tain Top schoOhousc III Benton county,
Or.
The most extensive system Of canals
in the world is m the Great plains OF
China, which is fairly scanned with ca
mails.
The United States manufactures OK
tensively perfumes from wintergreen,
sassafras and several other woods and
herbs.
The Notre Dame church in Paris.
which has heretofore been lighted by
20 TO he til Il =.
lights at a cost of $4,000
Cardinal Mezzofanti spoke III Ian
guages and dialects, fifty of them with
such ease aud aIency that he was some
times mistaken for Il native of the lands
where they were used.
-Germany supplies Mozambique with
cutlery. The natives care less for its APP
paarancc than for durability, and Eng
land is not able 10 furnish as durable
goods az the same prices.
In the Japanese Parliament there are
over 100 farmers, % barristers, % me-
chanics, 6 editors. 3 doctors, u officials
and 16 members without fixed profess
Sioms.
The Detroit river is the outlet Of the
greatest bodies Of fresh water in the
world, aggregating $1,000 square miles
of lake surface. which in turn drain 12J,-
900 square miles of land
-~ ne Wofu lHHHtnG AT nfSj Hau an as
troogical meaning. 1t referred To the
subtle energy supposed to emanate from
the sun, moon aud stars, and to exert
some mystic power even the human race.
-Centervile the famous village near
the Bull Run battleields has gained hat
two new houses i'll forty years. The ho-
tel where Gen. Mcdowell had his head
quarters is deserted and tumbling down.
Fans originated in the Western coun-
tries and were first universally made of
peacock, ostrich or parrot feathers. Three
hundred years age, we are told, the men
used fans aud were not considered etfcm-
mate.
French women wrap in red cloth chill
dren vino have measles. Now a scientist
named Cnatinicr proves by experiment
that red paper pasted on the windows OF
patients having measles has a good in
iiuence.
Colorado City capitalists are arrang-
ing to construct an electric line Ia the
top Of Pixies peak from point ON the
new Short Line near Clyde. 1t will be
from eleven to fifteen miles long and Of
easy grade.
Prom 1883 to 1898 the temperature
III Manila ranged from - in January
and December and IS in February 10 S3
In April and May. The rainfall in July.
August and September averaged about
fourteen inches.
Probably the oldest timber in the
world which has been subjected to the
use Of man is that found in an ancient
Egyptian temple, in connection with
stone work, which is known 10 be at
least 1000 years old.
We net only consume moro paper
than any other country. hut we are
reaching out for the markets of the
weird. and with our output furnish rail.
ways and steamships with about 1900.
GOO tons Of freight Il wear.
The bride of William A. Clark. Jr.
the son OF Senator w. \. Clark. the con-
per king, has a dress in her trousscau
maize of hairlike copper wire THAT was
created in Paris especially for her. The
effect is said t. he unique.
The umbrella and parasol were used
hy the Eastern nations many years be-
fore the Christian era. The oldest china.
ware shows pictures of ladies and man
darinS shaded by parasols Of patterns
similar 10 those now in use.
For every man. woman ana child in
this country there is an average Of two
farm animals. There are about 10000
o'N each of SAecp and swine, a bo&t 40
100000 cows and other cattle and about
l6o00,000 horses and mules.
a farmer living far from Portland
tells n funny request that Two women
luaGc or hlm nOt long ago. lie SarS that
they called at his house and asked iiia
10 remove his cows from the pasture so
that they could pick bluchcrrics.
A fly is almost nvinchle. 1t will
survive long immersion in water. win
sustain the odorS OF sulphur ana o:her
diSlnfectantS without apparent injury.
Only turpentine, Cholorotorm and am
monia can get the better of a fly
1T is stated that 30, SD persons par-
;shed at the hands Of homciGes in the
United States during the five years end.
ing with 1900. The figures OF punish
mcnt for the crime are not made up, bur
are known 10 be startingy small
or LILO, 100 negro heads of families
throughout the United States. 264.2SS
own their homes and farms ANA f.tIG.-
4Sl ave tenants, In Georgia alone the
negroes in a generation have gained pos.
session Of over 100000 acres of land.
1t has been computed by geographerS
that if the SCI, were emptied OF its water
and all the rivers of the earth were %
pour their present floods into the vacant
space. allowing nothing for tyapo. atioa
10000 years would be required 10 bring
the water of the ocean UP 10 lis prcSen:
level
Cuban Steel Ore.