Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-05-25
Curious CONVERSATIONS.

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"A single leaf of the orange tree, care
fully planted, will often take root and
grow.
highlands average winter tempera-
ture is eight degrees above freezing
point.
London covers $4,000 acres, Leeds
is next with 21,000 and Sheffield third
with $3.50.
An egg train of twelve refrigerator
cars left Newton, Kas., the other day for
California.
ireland has 40S able-bodied persons
to 1000 inhabitants, Scotland 424 and
England 432.
A blaze from gasoline torch has
! been mentioned as possible eXtermi-
natOr Of park weeds.
Kansas has state school fund of
| So, 100000 invested i'll such way that
it brings in interest and reduces taxa
ton.
The latest Swiss mountain railway
| project is to connect the Engadine with
the Italian lakes by road over the Ber-
nina range
That rare element. hclion. has been
discovered in gases from the hot springs
at Bath, Eng. 1t costs 600 per cubic
foot to collect.
--Forty-four years ago the Kansas
Kaw river was navigated from its mouth
up as far as Lawrence. Now railroads
do the business.
The Vicksburg National park will
! soon be complete as far as the acquisi-
tion of land is concerned. 1t will COM
prise III all 1921 acres.
in Georgia it is estimated that 10000
negroes have been graduated, at a cost
of 100000. 900 in colleges that are sup
ported by Northern money.
London. with 100000 people. spends
about $12,O00O00 a year on popular edu
cation. New York, with 3,000,000,
spends about $15,000,000.
Paris still preserves the medieval Gus
tom of having an annual ham market at
the end of March. More than 2000 deal
ers take part in the exhibition.
The Fanfulla of Rome says that Ital-
| ian emigration to America Is continually
| increasing. Forty thousand cmigrantS
| are booked to leave this month.
Italy and Spain have fewer houses in
proportion to their poulation than any
other country in the world; the Argentine
Republic and Uruguay have most.
Consumption of ice in Brazil is con-
stantly increasing. This is due princi-
pally to the demand for ice in restaur-
ants, hotels and other public places.
One of the most destructive earth
quakes in the worlds history was that
which occurred in Ycddo, in the year
1903, when 100, 900 people were killed.
The United States government gives
! its sailors only 30 cents day each to
live on, but the American navy is better
fed than any other navy in the world.
One hundred thousand bales of cot
ton lasted the Lancashire mills for year
in 1900; now the same amount would
feed their spindles for day and a quar-
ter.
1t has been calculated that the hair
of the beard grows at the rate of one
and oHc-half lines a week. This will give
a length OF 6l2 inches in the course of
year.
An ordinance is pending in Cincinnati
for the establishment of three floating
public lighthouses along the river. The
houses are to be built and maintained by
! the city.
The production of tobacco in the
| United States is now about 125.000,000
pounds, of which about onc-half is con-
Sumed by our own people and onc-half
exported.
The Berlin City mission, headed by
\. Stocker, issues each week 10S.000 ser
mons for those who cannot attend
| church, 10000 of which are distributed
in the city.
Prominent labor leaders claim that
the eight-hOur day has effected Il reform
among the incorporate class. and that A
change in the desire for strong drink has
been brought about.
George Cadbury. the English choco-
late manufactures, has presented to the
city of birmingham an estate of 416
acres, valued at 100000, upon which to
build houses for working people.
1t is said that the princlpaI fraternal
organizations of the United States and
Canada have a membership of D 723,016.
The Odd Fellows have 1,025.013 mem
bers, and there are about S96,S30 Ma
sons.
"A large chestnut factory at Lyons,
France. employs go women and girls.
The chestnuts are peeled and boiled, and
placed for three days i'll vanilla syrup;
then they are drained, coated nicely with
vanilla and prepared for shipment.
A Minneapolis man bought from a
| Russian in Halifax five years ago a curl
GUS rough stone of reddish hue. Act
ing on a recent hint he sent the stone to
| Kansas City. and cutters developed ten
fine Siberian rubies worth $T5 a karat
Some remarkable relics of the early
civilization in Egypt have recently been
unearthed and deposited in the British
museum. Among them is q beautiful
impression of royal seal which repre-
Sents the king wrestling with a hippo
potamus and Spearng crocodile.
There is nothing odd or peculiar
about the sleep of the lions and tigers.
| In captivity they show the same indiffer-
ence to danger that they manifest in the
! jungle. and by day or night will slumher
| through an unusual tumult. unmindful
or unconscious of the noise. Their sleep
| is commonly heavy and peaceful.
/ The microscope is a sighting device
/ for rifles and cannon. Ii consists Of
metal tube about a foot long and an
| inch square. with a small reflector. in.
/ clined at an angle Of 10 degrees at each
| end The soldier, instead Of aiming by
/ the rifle sights looks into the lower mir
ror Of the iLlruscope. which reproduces
! the reflection Of the upper mirror ana
shows also the sight line of the rife.
To overcome the difficulty caused BY
the loss Of time and the reluctance OF
pcstoffice clerks to weigh letters. the