Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-21
NOTES OF INTEREST,

Greenland is one of the very f.,-
countries where infectious diseases ar.
unknown.
The prairie dog in some parts Of m.
West is a great nuisance as the rabIf+
in Australia.
AT Salta, in Argentina, list Of bow,
and girls who have failed to attend ,chaa
is published in the newspapers.
Out of $4,000 houses or Aats II,
Glasgow 10000 were found to have bl.
one room and 10000 but two room,
Silk is the strongest of all vegetall..
or animal threads. 1T is three times u.
strong as a faxen thread of the sarnc
size.
Explorers nave approached within
23S miles OF the North pole. bur the
nearest approach to the South pole ha,
been 712 miles.
As early AT 1884 an English ccnyoc,-
ton decreed that the higher clergy dur
ing the solemn ceremonials of the churrf,
should wear silken gowns.
For one of his repasts hat does M.
eat less than thirteen caterpillars. anpi in
twenty-four hours the smallest specim,g
will easily eat eighty flies or more.
The side Sits in the pen are generally
made by a hand-lever machine, which
Sits the steel at the proper place. ana
thus insures greater ileXibility in the
pens.
An indelible ink very commonly used
in the middle ages was made with ba
sis of tCrchloride of gold applied to a
cloth dampened with Il solution Of
chloride of tin.
Chicago outclasses all other largo
cities in the number of deaths from rail
road accidents. Its total for the cpnsu,
year is $50. while the combined total for
nine other big cities is only 4S6.
,-air, Of t4,ruf oas, no
struck by a company boring for oil AZ
Ontario in eastern Oregon, and the town
is making arrangements for laying pipe,
and utilizing il for Lighting the place.
The first American flag raised over
Santiago after its capture has been pre-
scented to the state OF Alabama by Gen
Joseph Wheeler. 1t will float from a
mast of the Amirante Oquendo, also
presented by Gen. Wheeler and soon to
planted on t.lo capitol grounds.
A bronze statue of woman carrying
parasol is rather unusual among works
of art, but such has recently been I'M
yelled to the late Empress of Austria
1t is situated in small national park
in Hungary, ia which the late Empress
was fond of hunting and riding.
-Cognac brandy from Malaga, Spain.
made from the Malaga grape, is said to
be competing with the original C0gnac
products of France. This is explained
as having been brought about by the de
ter;oratiOn of the original article caused
by the use of adulterants, such as grain
alcohol!
The proposed new constitution OF
Alabama makes the governor of the state.
ineligible to reelection to the office, and
forbids his accepting any elective or APP
po!ntiye office in the state, and even thr
United States SenatOrship. for at least
one year after his term of Office Is gov
ernor ends.
Pending the general institution of
wireless telegraph systems Il pigeon post
is doing great service between Los An
geles Cal. and Avalon, on Santa Gaia
lima island in the Pacific, fifty miles
away, distance that the pigeons cover
in an hour. Messages by the bird route,
however, cost from so to 70 cents each,
Rice forms a larger part of human
food than the product of any other one
plant, being the diet of India, China and
the Malayan islands and occupying Il
place on the tables of so per cent. of
the inhabitants of the civilized world.
One may safely venture the assertion
that S00,000,000 people eat rice every day
in the year.
In Germany there are 100000 plaats
for the production OF acetylene gas, aad
81 cities light tLeir streets with this gas.
The production of calcium carbide j.
eAoNI AlE CoilllhhttifSs tire diilOuHl Ildl4N
featured last year being 10000 metric
tons. 1t has been found that acetylenr
gives at least four times the amount Of
lamp-black as oil gas, is free from tar
compounds and is we'll adapted for print
ing.
Nearly half Il century ago the expert
ment of putting horsemeat on the mar
ke+ was made for the first time in Ans
| tria. A government decree of April 20,
1854, gave legal permission to cut up ami
sci! hOrsemeat as an article of food.
| During the rest of that year and in 1879
| 943 horses were slaughtered for food
in Vienna. The number rose in 1899
the last year for which statistics are OBJ
tainable-to 25.640 head.
AT the recent meeting of the German
| and Austrian Alpine clubs, held at Ner
an, DIR. Klotzberg, president of the Aus
| trian Tourist club, delivered an address
| in which he strongly condemned the
growing practice of climbing obscure,
| dangerous peaks, which has led 10 the
needless sacrifice of many lives. such
| climbing" he declared, ''is no longer
| 'tOuristik;' it is acrobatics. it is suicide.
| He called upon the mrmbers to di>con-
| tinue it, and was warmly applauded.