Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-02-09
Curious Condensations.

Dneut OF Europe, DQt Sne mas increased
her population by 100000.
The rivers Of the Emerald isle hava
generally a dark color owing to the fact
that most of them. at some point in their
course, flow through peat marshes or
beds, which impart dark hue to the
water.
There was such superabun-
dance of fruit in Switzerland last au-
tumn that in Bern, one day in November.
10000 school children received each a
baslletul of apples presented by neigh
boring farmers.
The school children of Mississippi
have voted in favor Of the magnolia as
the states flower The Legislature is
expected to accept their choice as de-
cisiye and formally to make the magnolia
the states floral emblem.
By means of large kites with cross
wires Il New Jersey man has measured
ter many observations he has fixed the
average height ut 1900 feet, and the
speed at HE miles an hour.
In Germany ii is considered ncces-
sary that a child should go up before
it goes down in the world; so it is carried
upstairs as soon as it is born. In case
there are no stairs the nurse mounts a
table or Il chair with the infant.
The ten largest German cities arc TO-
UdN DtTuH, ssDtp IuIldbitd HlS. llditl-
burg. 500; Munich 100000; Icipsic.
40. 100; Breslau, 422,415; Dresden, 800,
349; Cologne, 3T0,6S5: Frankfort. 2S7,
Sl3; Nuremberg, 26O, 143; Hanover, 234,
9S6.
Astronomers are discussing the the
DRY that the moon is in its glacial epoch
One telescope expert calls the "craters
ice cups. and the streams along their
sides glacial weather. Another insists
hOF h1 sim Of y n a.
mistakable.
The distribution of congressional gar
den seeds this year will be the largest
ever made, it is said, the appropriation
for this purpose having increased from
100000 to $4,000 which will add
1000 packages of seeds to each congress-
mans quota.
In 1881 the total length of the New
York Central & Hudson River railroad,
the first of the New York Central lines
to be constructed. was seventeen miles
On January !, 1900, the mileage of the
New York Central lines aggregated TO-,
439 miles of railway.
The town of Beebc Plain is on the
border line between Vermont and the
Canadian province of Quebec, the line
running through the middle of the prin-
cipal street. The postOfiice for both cOun-
tries is in the same building, which was
built some seventy-fiye years ago.
In Philadelphia a charitable society
that has been in operation eighty-three
years has given away every day for four
teen weeks during each cold season sew
enty-five gallons of soup and 300 loaves
Of bread. The superintendent has been
connected with the work sixty-four
years.
A Congcr eel nearly 8 feet long. ,
feet and 4 inches in girth, and weighing
Il "a
beach at Snettisham. near Huntstanton,
England. The tisherman's attention was
attracted to 1t by some seagulls lowering
over shallow water, where the eel was
captured after long struggle.
Back taxes Il, IA considerable amount
have been co".rd N various parts of
Iowa through I've employment of tax
ferrets." In FOLK county alone 5000
was dragged from deimquents in the
month Of December last. and twice that
amount is expected to be realized this
month.
Nearly all articles formerly in leather
are now made % paper-such as suit
cases. travelling bags, etc, and so sue
cessful is the imitation that a man who
had himself been in the paper business
for nine years bought an article of this
kind in London recently under the full
conviction that it was leather he was pur-
chasing.
Cows in Belgium wear earrings.
This is in accordance with the law, which
DEGREES that every animal of the bovine
species when it has attained the age of
> months must have in its ear n ring, to
which is attached metal tag bearing
number The object is TO preserve the
exact record of the number Of animals
raised each year.
The navy of Spain is now made mp
of one battlcShip. two coast-dcfeDsc YES
sells, four cruisers of the first class, FIVE Of
the second and four Of the third, with
nm auxiliary feet of sixty gunboats and
twenty-seYen torpcdobOats. Eight ships
are under construction-two second-class
and one third-class cruisers. one gunboat
and four tOrpcd0bOats of the highest
type.
The cottage where Peter the Great
dwelt when he was learning the trade of
shpbuilding in Xaarndam. Holland. still
exists. though somewhat dilapidated. 1t
contains rude furniture which the great
Peter uscd--a bedstead, table and two
chairs 1t is cncascd in a building erect
ed for the purpose and over the mantel is
tablet erected by Alexander Of Russia
in 1911
No living Representative Of the ami
NAL kingdom has more than five toes,
digits or claws to each foot hand or
limb. The horse is the type Of the one
toed creation. the camel Of the two-toed.
the rhinoccros If the three-toed and the
hippopotamus Of the f0ur-tOed animal
life. The elephant and hundreds Of 9TH
or animals of different orders belong to
the great fiye-tOed tribe.
John W. Rough. an engineer on the
Monon road, has patented device to
avert train hold-ups The plan is operat-
ed by secret nutton. in easy touch Of
the engineer and 80 located that be can
without being observed and under cover
Of a train robbers revolver. touch the
button. which will start several whistles
blowing. turn off all the lights and fire
off any number of guns from the baggage
car.
In the state archives at Rome it has
been found that he Mays may success
fully exhibit the writing en- manuscripts