Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-09-07
NOTES OF INTEREST.

The Elder-Dempster line, Liverpool
has just insured their shipping fleets for
$4,000. OOO-a record.
Edward Ill. was feet inches in
height. and had "A ,ough, shaggy beard
that reached TO his grdle
Plans are under way for an unbroken
electric railway across the state of New
York
~ new and odd cut-glass pattern in a
circular spiral effect is called the
Orchid
In 1853 there were about $3.50 engi-
PEERS IN the British navy. There are
now 22.500
The envoy of the Sultan Of Morocco
spent Sl0,oOO,OoO on trip Ia London
and Berlin.
Eastern oil rehners are rushing to
California OIL The oil is now burned as
fuel as 1t comes from the ground
1t is said that Nova Scotia will have
as many apples as last year, and that
they will be Of very superior quality.
Honolulu Is keeping up with the mod
ern trade procession. 1t has in prospect
$2,0O0,0O0 packing house establishment.
The FIST regular road in the north
ern half of ScOtland-that is, the p0r-
ton north of the Firth OF Forth--was in
1T4J.
III New 4 YIN = EtO III bIbnA park
tue hying cage for birds is as high as an
office building and covers an acre of
ground.
For many centuries the Chinese have
dated all their public acts. documents
and chronology from the accessions of the
empcrorS.
England spends 100000 year on
her paupers, Scotland 100000, ireland
Il 100000; France spends less than
FL 100000.
The word mile" comes from the
Latin "millc," a thousand. A thousand
PAGES of a marching soldier made the
Roman mile
A method has been invented to sink
shafts in the salt islands Of Louisiana
and they may become an important salt
mining center.
American travel to Europe is stated
in London to have been greater in vol
ume this year than even during the Paris
1900 exposition.
Japan is the country where the Gre
nation of corpses is practiced on the
largest scale. The custom dates back
about 1900 years.
~Belgian newspapers are discussing
the que >tion whether a woman has a
right u smoke in u railway carriage re-
served fer women.
The entire edition of the Callao
Mo Herald recently was rejected by
tn" pu~tai authorities because the press
man had the smallpox.
An electrical generating plant almost
rs large as the great Niagara Falls
plant VIII soon he in operation nj the
Falls Of Glomen, Norway.
Wy thin the last twelve years the
number Of resident foreigners in Switzer-
lQid has increased by 10000 the tota.
number now being $500
Some Of the more expert railroad
men IN tho country believe that the llmll
OF sustained speed with the existing style
Of locomotive has been reached.
Tive cars, seycnty-onc feet long, with
four motors, will soon be running on the
elevated road between Berlin and /osseh
a It speed 81 l2J miles an hour.
-- american machine tools are so far
ahead Of German tools that competition
is declared by American tool exporters to
be out of the question in Germany.
New Orleans insurance experts warn
the poole that the city may be- burned
down any time if the present careless
methods Of handling oil are tolerated.
The oldest inhabited house in Enc.
land is on the river Yer, close to st. Al
bans abbey. 1t is octIg0nal in shape,
end supposed to be eleven centuries Old.
A new and wonderful brake for elec-
tric cars is being introduced, which IN
the case OF accidents drops to the rails
and wheels and creates maximum fric-
ton.
"Muscadinc" is Il disease to which
silkworms are liable. 1t consists Of a
fungus growth in the body. which breaks
through the skin and speedily kills the
insect.
The term royal yacht" hitherto ap-
piled to vessels belonging to King Ed
ward VII. will be abandoned henceforth
and the appellation will be his majesty's
yacht"
"A late suggestion to progressive rail-
road managers is to build freight roads
ten feet gauge with 200-ton engines and
cars holding 200 tons which will make
express speed.
George Sands of Tekonsha has been
blind for twenty years, but he drives q
team around the country buying and sell
ing rubber and rags. He makes COM
Portable living.
The jarrOw wood, which grows in
Australia, Is almost the only kind known
TO The lumbermen which effectively re-
sisis the depredations Of insects. Not an
insecf Will touch IT,
When d topper IN Denmark Is SO
drunk as to require medical attention the
doctors bin must be paid By the pro-
urietOr of the tavern where the iuebrlate
secured his last drink,
Dave Crockett's gambling house at