Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-09
Curious Combinations.

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French engineers are working on
plans to transform the lower Rhone into
a gigantic hydraulic stairway.
AT Salta, in Argentina, list Of boys
and girls who have failed to attend school
is published in the newspapers.
The cellars of Portugal hold 132,O00,-
600 gallons of wine and there is no more
storage room for the new crop.
-Foresters tell us that the best timber
is that which grows from dark soil inter
termiXed with gravel.
The membership of fraternai organi.
cations in the United States and Canada
according to a compilation of last re-
ports, is 5.722.016
The assassination of President Nc
Kinley caused such heavy drop in the
price of silk on japanese exchanges that
trading ceased temporarily.
The coalfelds Of the South cover co.
600 square miles, seven times as large
as those Of Great Britain, France, Ger
many and Belgium combined.
In Austrian theaters no one is per-
mItted to appear on the stage in a uni
form bearing any resemblance to those
used in the army of that country.
1t has been decided by the Kansas
Supreme court that opening a window
screen constitutes a "burglarious break
ing within the meaning of the law"
The oldest public house in England
is Ye Olde Seven Stars, standing in the
heart of Manchester. which has been
licensed for nearly $50 years.
Georgia farmers and planters are APP
pealing TO negroes to help them with
their turpentine getting. Builders of
new cotton mills are greatly concerned
as TO where they will get hands to run
their mills.
Horses, mules and donkeys go loaded
to market in Turkey, but the road is
strewn with grain leaking from the old
sacks and thousands Of turkeys, which
may be bought at II cents apiece, feed
on the dropping grain.
The cOlOred people of Cuba have n
kind of rattle made of Castillo cane with
hard seeds, about the size of marbles
placed inside to produce the effect de-
sired. 1t is used in dances as an accom-
paniment for a guitar.
1t is estimated that the value of hand
along rural delivery rOntesl has increased
from 81 to 50 an acre, Then, too, there
is an educational value in the rural free
delivery, in that thousands more mag
aZnes and periodicals are finding then
way to peoples homes.
An arrangement has just been made
whereby the Berlin gas lamps in the
street will he lighted automatically and
simultaneously by means of an electric
attachment. The current will be
switched on from the central station. and
Il spark will ignite the gas, which will
be turned ON 10y a special apparatus.
1T is stated by an authority that the
weight of Il mans brain has nothing to
do with his mental power. 1t is ques-
ton of climate, not of intellect The
colder the climate, the greater the size of
the brain. The largest heads OF all are
~ ha ~ iNrn
far north, and next come the heads OF
the Lapps.
Paris is only just beginning 10 realize
the priceless treasures which it has Sc
cured by the late Baron Adolph Roth
schild's bequest of medieval gold and
silversmiths work to the Louvre 1t will
all go into one room, which is now being
prepared for it; but ii will represent a
value of 100000. Most of the objects
are connected with religion.
Tho lonelest missionary in all the
world is said to be Rev. J. O. Springer
whose station is ON Herschel island, near
the mouth of the Mackenzie river, wei
within the Arctic circle. The latest re
ceived letter from this most solitary mar
is dated October %, 1900 No ship has
been at Herschel island for two winters
and the missionary's white neighhors ar,
at Peel river, 300 miles away.
The Cowthorpe oak Is the largest il
England Ii is reputed to be over 1C0t
years old, and it's branches cover hall
an acre. At the close of the Seventeenth
century, according to Evelyn's sylvia
it was Is feet in circumference at Tho
base of the trunk. Since then IL guam
tity of earth has been placed round it n.
Il support. 1t is estimated to contain ~
the present time seyenty-three tons 81
timber
Chemistry holds many secrets, som,
of which, when they are discovered, will
not he found out for the first time
Among these is the substance which
formed such a terribly effective weapon
against fleets hostile to the Greeks. an,
which was known as Greek fire. Moth
ing known at the present time will Il,
what this substance was reported to do
namely, To set fire To ships when brough
into contact with water.
An mills in Japan run day and nigh
and change hands at noon and midnight
The vast majority of millworkers ar,
children, who work eleven hours at low
wages. In one mill at Osaka, 2Go0 work
ers are under 10 years of age and oper
ate only 3I0O spindles In this countr,
300 persons operate the same number
Take a Lowell mill of 4061 looms anf
122,000 spindles. which are operated BY
200 males and 1900 females. In Japai
II Nuulu tame l~,NVO persons 10 do TINS
work.
In England Mt the time of the great
plague il was reported that no one Twin.
IN Il tohacconist'S house fell sick of tn,
disease. This caused great demand fol
tobacco. Hearne says in his diary: 81
remember that | heard formerly Ton
Rogers. who was yeoman beadle, say
that when he was q schoolboy at EtoI
that year when the plague ragged all tn,
boys Of that school were obliged 70 smoI,
every morning, and that he was never
whipped so much in his life ms he wa,
enc morning for not smoking
Liverpool has the biggest warehouS,
in the world. 1t is built beside the dock,
and is intended to house the imports OF
tobacco which form so important a par
of LiyerpO0rS trade. The warehouse i
I25la feet in length, 161 wide and l2I
feet 10 inches high The ground area i,
1890 square yards aud the area of the
several floors 174,09S square yards
There are AT present in bond in Liver
pool some SO 600 hogSheads of tobacco
weighing 10000 tons. which is equal
roughly estimated. to Il customs duty Of
f1S.000,000
The growth of persimmon frees in