Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-19
Curious Combinations.

The expected increase in the worlds
visible coffee supply this autumn is esti-
mated at 100000 bags
Last year England imported nearly
3,OOO,0O0 tons of wheat of the 100000
tons that were consumed.
The total transactions of the clearing
houses of the country last year We're
more than $S4,000,O000
The principal wheat growing states
OF Australia are Victoria, South Aus
tralia and New South Wales.
The fifty miles between Milan and
Varese Italy. are covered in fifty min
utes by the third-rail system.
Any child over Z can be prosecuted
as a criminal in England, but in Ger
many II Is the limit of responsibility.
Berlin, Germany, is to be equipped
with Chicago telephone system, which
has been under test for fifteen months.
In every 1000 British men there are
thirty-fye widowers; in 1000 British
women there are seventy-eight widows.
Pens of hardened gutta percha have
been repeatedly tried in this country and
England, but have not met with success.
The Coreans as a people are better
developed physically than the japanese.
They are taller and mentally are liberal
ly endowed.
Before his departure from Divonne
the khedlve bought number of Swiss
cattle. lie also purchased two ST.
Bernard dogs.
With the early penmakers the prob
lem of point was the most serious, and
long time elapsed before it was def
initely solved.
An oil tank holding 100000 gallons
has been built in San Francisco for stor-
ing oil fuel for the use of the street
railway companies.
In all chronology the day is recog-
nlzed the most obvious division of time:
next to it being the interval between one
new moon and its successor.
This is the first time in the history
of Kansas that the oldest timers can re-
call that a bushel of potatoes was worth
more than bushel of peaches or apples.
United States Judge Estee has decid-
ed that all Chinese born in the Ha-
waiian islands are American citizens, no
matter under what government they
were born.
There are, twelve large automobile
fact0rleS III France with a capital of
S19,300,000, employing $1,000 workmen
Belgium has sixteen factories, Italy ,,
l at Milan, / at Rome
If one of New YOrk's big modern no
tells could be whiSked TO the country and
spread out IN village formation the result
would be a model proprietary town of
BY offering King Menelik 8 per cent.
of the proceeds. Italian capitalists have
succeeded in securing the exclusive privi-
lege Of working the gold mines of western
Ethiopia for fifty years.
Statistics collected in Germany
showed that more than 80 per cent. of the
cases Of consumption could be traced
10 the hahitual breathing of dust tainted
with nJurdous substances.
H.
has figured out that the total wine pro-
Guction of the world last year was 163,-
OUO,0O hectoliterS, of which Europe
supplied all but 100000.
The first Bessemer steel rails made
in the United States were rolled in May
of this year ut the Chicago rolling mill,
in Chicago. from blooms made by Viii
iams L. Dnrfee at Wyandotte.
$. w. Matthews, chief of the Maine
bureau of industrial and labor statistics.
says that to supply the pulp and lumber
mills of the state requires about 600,-
100000 feet of spruce lumber yearly.
With the exception of the British
Parliament the Swedish Riksdag is the
oldest legislative body in the world. The
kingdom of Sweden has maintained its
integrity for not less than 1000 years.
"A new civilization is taking root in
central Asia and shows itself especially
in cotton manufacturing from home
grown cotton. Russia expects 10 OBTAIN
the bulk of her cotton from that region.
The area of the gold fields in Man
churia extends more than 1127 miles
along the shores of the Argun and Amur
rivers from the bed of the Hailar to the
mouth of the River Sungaria, go miles
inland.
The Buddhist priests of both China
and Japan have a musical instrument
called mokougy, or wooden fish. a kind
Of ,irt,rn Ii il uSpd nv tho nriNS+S x,-b,,,
rcciting their prayers, one tap being Civ
en- to every syllable
Before the coming OF the whites 70
America the Mississippi river was known
by a different name every few miles of
il scourse Each tribe that dwelt aloug
it's banks gave it a name, and more than
thirty of these local designations are pre-