Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-09

other four to the high Alps. where they
will live among perpetual snow.
Somewhat of the going to and fro of
the people may be guessed at when it is
known that 2,000,0 100000 passengers
and 950.000,000 tons of goods are carried
in year on the worlds railways.
Sardinia is celebrated for the tombs
which prove that PROFESSIONALLY it was
inhabited by great giants. Recently four
new tombs have been found which con-
tain skeletons over nine feet long.
The United States seems disposed to
take the lead among the silk producers
of the world. During the last three years
the consumption of raw silk in the Unit
ed States has exceeded that of France.
There are now in operation in Italy
in the cotton industry over 10000 looms
and more than 100000 spindles. Itals
ian-made cotton goods are now largely
exported. especially to South America.
The door by which the President of
the republic, the King of Sweden. the
Shah and other distinguished visitors
We're in the habit of entering the Paris
exhibition has been sold for II guineas.
The habits of wasps were closely
studied by Reaumur, who placed the in
sects under glass hives and so domesti-
Gated them as to be able to observe all
the operations carried on within their
nests.
cotton. The ordinary annual crop of silk
in China is estimated at about p 600
600 pounds of which over 60 per cent. is
consumed in the country where it is pro-
duced
In the years 1898 and 1899 Germany
held second place in shipbuilding, but.
for various reasons, the shipbuildine in
1900 has received such an impetus in the
United States that it has placed Ger
many third.
London owns, at the present time
completed dwellings, containing over one
thousand five hundred tenements, erect
ed solely for the benefit of the working
classes. One housing scheme, the larg-
est ever attempted in London or else
where. involved the expenditure of
S2S2, 2G3.
The scheme of the men forming large
game preserves in the East is to sur
round them with a wire fence and have
it charged with electricity. The pOach-
ers who run up against it will at least
be surprised
AT a eucher party for the benefit Of
the Army and Navy society of New York
a thousand players sat at the tables. One
of the prizes was three maltese kittens
with long pedigrees. Another was
grand piano.
The first paper money used in this
country was issued by Pennsylvania IL
1928 In the early part of that year
t13O00 were issued on the credit Of the
colony. and a few months later t3O.OOO
more followed.
A Vilvorde peasant has just come
into a fortune of e., 100000. left to him
by cousin who died in Russia. When
the dead mans father was in misery the
peasants father was the only brother
who would help him.
The common aud familiar thread
spun by Nine. Spider is SO fine that %
600 miles of it, enough to go around the
earth. would weigh only eight ounces.
And yet, fine as it is, the thread con-
siSts of a thousand filamcnts.
"A piano manufacturing company in
Toronto Ontario. claims to have in its
shop Il par made by the company's
founder sixty years ago, while he was
in the business in Buffalo, and sold by
him TO Gen. Grants mother.
The jury in a recent trial in Wales
comprised one man named Hughes and
bore the Christian name of John. The
prisoners name was the same as that or
| the seven jurors--John Jones.
C. NJ. Garwood, an attorney in Dem
yer. Col, is the pOssessor OF a meer-
sch2am pipe that is more than two hun
dred years old. 1t was brought to the
| United States by Mr.. Garwoods great
eat-grandfather in HAT.
Lubbock is about to exercise its right
as free city 10 issue a coinage of its
own. The city arms will take the place
Of the Kaiser's head on one face OF the
German coins. The last Lubbock coins
were struck 100 years ago. in 1901.
During the year 1899 the imports Of
| silk into England decreased 10 per cent.
The falling off in the purchase Of French
silk was 100000 francs Isl Oh. 900.
Notwithstanding this England remains
the great international silk market.
The Greek inspector general of an.
tiqnities states that the bronze Hatue Of
youth recently discovered at tierigo. hi
| the Ionian Islands. dases form tie period
Of Phidias, and is the yncst p1ffect and