Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12
NOTES OF INTEREST.

this c)uAtry now yield more than Il third
| of our domestic sugar product.
South Carolina stands next to Massa-
| chusetts as n cotton goods manufacture
| ing state. Georgia stands third
Another sugar beet factory-capital
$6,000,000 capacity 5000 tons sugar per
year-is being built in California.
| In river which changes its channel
every point gains ground and every bend
! tends to become still more crooked.
Nearly 10000 tons of corks are need
Ell for the bottled beer and aerated wa
ters consumed annually In Britain.
| Norway, Servia, Greece and Bulgaria
are the only European nations which
have but one house of parliament.
The Egyptian Soudan has twelve
| provinces, with an area of 100000
| square miles and 10,250O00 people.
An ounce of gold was worth fifteen
ounces of silver in the year 1850. Ii
w6ald buy twenty-one ounces in 1900.
The mosquito eggs are, it is said.
| Matched in from four 10 seven days, ac-
cording To the warmth of the weather.
The letter ~ in the Chinese lam
guage has l45 ways of being pronounced,
and each pronunciation has a different
| meaning.
The orange tree is very fruitful; n
| single tree will produce 10000 oranges
| fit for use. A good lemon tree will pro
duce 5000 lemons
From the time of Solomon the chro-
nology of the Jews may be connected with
that of Egypt, Assyria and Babylon, and
comparative views presented.
| A mixture of sawdust and phosphate
of lime with n binder has been used as a
material for taking casts of sculptures,
and has been called "SimilibOis"
The city authorities of Dover Eng,
| have received authority from Parliament
lNsnp f1 M
| the famous chalk cliffs of that coast.
AT Focant in the Belgian Ardenncs.
| there is a grove of trees so thoroughly
| devastated by the silk worms that not
| q single leaf has been left on the trees.
| Western Australia has only small
acreage under crops and grass. In 1888
80 the total of cereal crops-wheat, bar
! ley. oats and maize-waS 90i ,123 bushels.
Rosewood is so called not because
| ii is red but because when freshly cut
| it emits the fragrance of roses. 1t Is
| Of only moderate weight, a cubic foot
weighing 45.5 pounds.
The National Photographic Record
association of Great Britain is making
an attempt to secure photographs OF all
historic structures before they are de-
str0yed by the advance of progress.
In some countries of Europe the fear
of being buried alive has resulted in the
| building of mortuary houses, where the
apparently dead body is subjected to GER
tain tests to make sure life is extinct.
Wire fences were in limited use in
| the neighborhood OF Philadelphia as far
| back as 1916. The wire used was manu-
featured by White x Hazel at their
wire works at the Falls of Schuylkill.
The Chicago stockyards are the big
| geSt in the world. They can hold 10000
cattle daily, besides 10000 sheep and
| 10000 pigs. They contain twenty miles
of streets and fifty miles Of feeding
| troughs.
according to news from Cape Town
emigration to South Africa is increasing
| daily, in spite Of the war. The majority
of the emigrants are Jews coming from
! the east Of Europe, Russia and the
| Balkan states.
According to new Berlin police or
| der costcrmongers are to be almost an
| tirely banished from the streets. Up 10
the present they have been allowed for
few hours in the mornings in a few
| side streets only
A specialy-tralned sanitary troop
lsStely drilling near Berlin has trans
formed cars of different kinds into hos
ptal ears with herths for sick and
wounded, in from three and onehalf to
five minutes per car.
IN the chief room Of every japanese
house there is "A slightly raised dais,
which is arranged so that il can be shut
off from the rest Of The room. This is
the place for the Emperor to sit should
he ever visit that home.
The Nebraska state game warden
has forbidden the farmers 10 fight the
grasshoppers with poison, saying that
the loss Of birds and game is too costly
price to pay for the destruction or
comparatively few insects.
A competitor in the recent Paris
Berlin motor race, while making seventy
ia g Il
an arched curve in the road with his
ear. which lcaped high in the air and
bounded back like a rubber ball
President McKmley's death occurred
on the anniversary Of the death of the
Duke of Wellington, who died Scptcm-
her II. 1882, and also on the anniyer-
~ary of the death Of Cen Montcalm.
who was killed September II, 1859, at
Quebec.
A regular system Of incapacitating
men from serving in the Russian army,
by causing them to 20 temporarily deaf.
has been discovered at Odessa. The
proprrtOrs, Me>srs. Schapira aud Essg-
mann, who did a great trade. have been
arrested
In 1900 were made the first brooms
IN this country from the brooincOrn
grown on American soil. The broOmS
were made in Philadelphia aud the event
was spoken Of at the time as an Illus.
tration Of the development of the coun-
try.
Several Walla Waiia, Wash, men
are renewing the search for "A fortune in
gold and silver coin left buried in the
hills along the Touchct river by James
Dwyer. who died in hospital at WalIa
Walla about ten years ago. Dwycr lived
the life Of a hermit miser.
How great are the possibilities of
Hawaii as a fruit and vegetable growing
country viii be understood when it be-
comes known that four crops Of pota-
toes have been produced in twelve
months. Radishes become edible in ten
days after sowing. Strawberry vines
bear fruit ali the year
The Last Dollar mine, near Victor.
Col, comes forward with the most sen
sat.Onal strike ever made in the district.
At depth of 1000 feet, in the drift oa
the vein north from the shaft. a streal,
Of ore has been opened which ASSAYS
5000 ounces gold to the ton. or nearly
| SGO.0OO a ton in value
The Yellow river is styled the "Sor-
row Of China" During the last cen
Jury it has changed its source twenty