Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-26
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Boston, after having tried many
KINDS of paving, is now increasing her
wood-paved area.
The first Sunday paper in this cOun-
try was the Sunday Courier, begun ar
New York in 1925.
A watermelon on exhibition recently
at Camden. Ark. weighed seyenty-six
and one-half pounds.
In 1871 Germany had only eight
cities with over 100000 inhabitants. Now
there are thirty-three.
Germany imports every year about
10000 dozens of hog livers for the prep
aration of liver sausages.
-Tamerlane. the Tartar conqueror, had
club foot. His real name was Timour
Lenk, or TimOur the Lame.
The Servian. Roumanian and Bulga-
rian railroads are owned exclusively by
the respective governments.
The longest state is California (TI0
miles,; the widest, Texas (160). The neXt
in breadth is Montana (5SO).
Silver in Britain is legal tender up
to 40 shillings, pennies up to a shilling
and farthings only up to siXpence.
The import of American boots into
Britain has during the past year in
creased in value by about 100000.
an apparatus which photographs bank
checks at the rate of 10000 an hour.
The creation of the Nicaragua canal
will cut off 10000 miles from the voy-
age from New FORK to San Francisco.
Holland acquired all the remaining
private railroads in 1890; they are, how
ever, operated by two private companies.
December %, 1902, will complete 200
years since Peter the Great sanctioned
the appearance of the first Russian news
paper.
Canadians, with 80 per cent of the
cattle entries at the Buffalo Pan-Ameri-
can exposition, win GO per cent. of the
prizes.
In the bakeries of La Rochefou-
cauld, in France, it is said that women
enter the ovens when they are 301 de-
grees.
England has had beer tax ever
SINCE the, Twelfth century. Last year it
yielded the government the sum of $751;
100000
The census statistics for 1910. pub
llshed in 1914, gave the production of
castiron in the census year as 53,90S
long tons.
Two hundred carloads of steel have
just been sent TO supplant the wooden
bridges in the Sacramento canyon.
California.
For an army of 10000 men and TO-
900 horse for three months it is estimat-
ed that 1000 tons Of food and forage
are necessary.
The Belgian government gives an an
nual prize of 5000 francs for the best
work in the. province of medical re-
search offered.
The Italian government purchased all
private main railroads of Italy in 1885
and leased them for twenty years to pri
vate corporations.
AT Eucla, in Australia, a subterra-
mean lake has been found at Il depth of
300 feet with a mparatively ineXhaus-
tible supply of water.
Sidney, o.. boasts the largest poultry
plant for raising brolers in the world
One man raises 100000 year that fetch
from 81 to $1.25 a pair.
German experts have ascertained
that railway rails deteriorate sooner in
tunnels than elsewhere because of the
effect of injurious gases.
mean lake has been found at depth of
300 feet, with a comparatively mex
haustble supply of water.
The new library at Athens is COM
pleted. 1t was begun fourteen years ago
by Prof. FILLER of Dresden. 1t has
room for 100000 volumes.
The building with the largest stones
IN the world is not in Egypt, but at Baal-
bee, in Syria. The stones are sixty feet
long and twenty feet square
The lowest tide IN any large sea is in
the Mediterrancan. At Toulon there is
about four inches which is the average
for the whole Mediterranean.
For his services the chef of a big ho-
tel may receive $4,000 a year, a big sal
AIRY for cooking, but by no means out Of
proportion to his value to the hotel.
The retail price of musk at the pres
eut Is about $50 an ounce, $500 n pound
apothecary, or two and one-half times
the value Of pure gold. 24 karats fine.
The machine-made horseshoe was
patented by Henry Burden of Troy, y.
Y, in 1885 Other horseshoe patents
were issued to him in 1913, 1857 and
1862.
The building material of the near fu-
ture, NJ. Jules HenrivauX predicts will
be glass. The foundations and walls Of
the houses will be of the lately-invented
''stone glass.
-Florida's orange crop for the ap-
preaching season is conservatively esri-
at wide variance with the crop of s.
900. 600 in 1884.
With only one exception, the glaciers
Of Switzerland are diminishing steadily.
Since 1876 the Rhone glacier has de-
creased in length al the rate Of over thir-
ty-one yards year.
A German engineer has devised a
plan for cooling the air in railway ours
chemically. utilizing the apparatus now
used in German cars for heating pur-
poses.
Belgium are constantly on the increase.