Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-16
Curious CONVERSATIONS.


pire.
Professiona! cyclists made over
SlOo,o0O ia prize money during the pas,
year.
Coal for cents bucket is sold to
needy persons in Boston by the Saliva
ton army
= oreemeat is n corruption of farce
meat, from the French Trace, stufiing, J.
e., meat for stutling.
There are several large factories in
Ihe tinted States devoted 10 the manu-
lacture OF roScWater.
The first automobile IN the Phillip
pines Is an electric machine imported tor
the use Of the signal corps.
Last year the farmers of the United
States received $751;, 900, 600 more for
their products than III 1899.
Deaths Of children under ; years of
age in Boston last year were 80 Ii per
cent. of the total mortality.
In some Swiss hotels n fixed charge
81 500 Is made IN case of the death of
guest
1t is estimated that the wheat crop
OF Australia will be about 14,000,OO0
bushels.
An animal heretofore unknown. re-
SSehhlnS both the horse and the zebra
mas been discovered in the Congo for
estS.
In Germany only 413 out Of 1000
males reach the age of 80 while more
than 800 out of 1000 females reach that
age
Missouri claims to have the best
PRISON library of any state in the Union.
IRc library consists of 5000 weIl-select-
ed books.
charlotte is corruption of the old
English word Char,yt, which means a
al1S nd 4 .l,c, .i.,.t, =
Russian charlotte
Ohio had the largest number of
smallpox eases lase year-1666. Ten
nessee coming next with 1893, and Min
neSota with SO.
Nearly IA per cent. of the total num-
Der of wage-earners in Minnesota are
women, according to the report of the
state labor department,
The difference between the tallest
anu shortest races in the world is one
foot and one-half inches and the average
height Is five feet FIVE inches
-iymnasiums for adults and children
10 the number of twenty-four are pro-
vided and maintained at the public ex-
pense in the parks in London.
-Macaroni is taken from Greek
derivation, which means the blessed
dead, III alluSion to the ancient custom
of eating it at feasts for the dead.
There are places on the Bowery in
New York where man can get a shave
for ) cents For , cents more he can
have his face washed with bay rum.
Some German soldiers who have re-
turned 10 kief from China brought with
them POS tiny Chinese guns of ancient
make. also number of temple inscrip-
tons.
In 1900 there were in all the world
less than 30 shipbuildng yards Today
there are more than 700 Shipbuiding
yards, turning out total of 1000 vessels
yearly.
The Pacific ocean has greater vol
ume of water rhan its stormy sister sea.
There are 12,U00.OUO cubic miles Of water
in the Atlantic and 141. 100000 in the
Pacific
Some seventy different varieties Of
olives are now grown in California.
There is no specific variety known as thc
queen" olive, but any large variety may
be thus designated.
- Japan, with a revenue of f22,017 900,
spent tJ,016,294 on her navy in d year,
while her mercantile tonnage was 64S,-
324, her sea imports f34, AS, 900 and her
exports f27 $4,000.
Municipal ownership of electric
plants is on the increase in Canada
Woodstock and Kingston. Ont, are the
latest to acquire the electric plants as
munlclpal property.
-Seyenty-one new banking institutions
have been authorized to do business in
Missouri in the last two years. and II
large number of banks have increased
their capitalization.
"A new cotton-ginning machine ena-
bles two men to gin 1000 pounds daily
and under the old system they could turn
out less than a hundredth part in the
same amount Of time.
"A tunnel twenty-five miles long
reaching depth of 1900 feet below sea
level, is planned between Naqueros Bay,
Spain, and Tangier, in Africa. 1t would
be the deepest i'll the world.
Cotton has ranged in price from
Sl.90 a pound during the war to less
than cents pound in 1898 In the
last two years and a half it has risen
from > cents to II - cents.
Mrs. Marie Burroughs of Urbana.
o., is 105 years old and is still hale and
hearty. She remembers dancing with
the father of Grant. The eldest Of her
children is now Is years old
Information from Skien. Norway,
says that Scotch syndicate Of mining en-
gineers are negotiating for the purchase
of the Hamdals mines. and that the deal
will be completed in few days
Many convicts in Great Britain were
sentenced to prison during her majesty
pleasure, and now that Victoria is dead
the question is being asked whether they
can be held in durancc any longer.
The snakes of North America viii
have an exhaustive treatise written
about them by the superintendent Of the
Philadelphia Geological garden In all
there are more than 100 varieties.
There is still in existence an unre-
pealed law in Switzerland which forbids
the wearing Of hats more than eighteen
inches in diameter artificial flowers and
foreign feathers under a heavy penalty.
The climate Of New York is abating
The Central park meteorological observa-
tory has records covering a period Of
thirty-two years aud these give strong
evidence that the winters are growing
milder
California visitors to the Buffalo OK
position next summer will register in the |
largest book ever bound. It has just |
been completed in Los Angeles The |
book is 20 inches long, IS inches wide |
and Is inches thick. is Of 1000 pages |
and weighs 400 pounds.
The first royal speech transmitted by |
telegraph was that delivered by the late |
Queen Victoria when she opened Par |
lament on November -. 1897. The |