Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-28
NOTES OF INTEREST.

-Ine largest Wrought AIUH HiltdI - a.
Delhi, India. 1t is sixty feet high and
weighs seventeen tons.
Sugar exists not only in the cane,
beet root and maple, but in the sap Of
1877 other plants and trees.
The biggest casting ever ordered is a
steamship strut TO weigh 1000 pounds,
10 be made at Chester, Pa.
Electric cab service in Paris has
proved very Improbable. 1t is said that
the loss 50 far represents 100000.
The latest society fad among tine
fashionable women in England is that
of beng photographed as moving pic
ture.
Georgia has only twenty counties in
which saloons are permitted and ia
counties in which the sale of liquor is
prohibited.
A steam pillow weighing 10000 pounds
and owned in San Bernardino county,
Cal, is supposed to be the largest pow
in the world.
Australia. with n population of but
+ ,5O0.W0 has n greater external trade
than Russia and double that of China.
with her 400.00O,000.
1t is planned TO gather all the good
portraits and photographs obtainable of
Wendell Phillips and place them in an
album at the Boston public library.
The drink habits of Canadians are
gradually changing, resulting in an in
creased consumption of beer and de-
creased drinking of wine and liquors.
Last year Missouri produced more
manufactured tobacco than any other
state in the Union. over 100000
pounds passing through its factories.
Investigations conducted recently at
Baku by the Russian government lead
20 the belief that the naphtha beds at
that point extend far out under the sea.
Germany owns twenty-four of the
SiXty-One palatiaI ocean racers afloat and
the value of shares in them is steadily
falling in spite of Il large government
subsidy.
Experienced lumbermen say that in.
the process Of seasoning wood il should
be occasionally replied, and decayed or
defective pieces removed, lest they infect
the others.
During the past decade the Roman
Catholics have increased more rapidly
in Prussia than the Protestants, while
the increase in the number Of Hebrews
was insignificant.
I'm the Isle of Man roads are main
tanned by the revenue from two sources
IA small tax upon every wheel and
Shod h00f and a levy upon every male
inhabitant, who must give a days work
WI hhN AOAu VI It's equiv AA|lll III IdSA
An ideal yachting life is that lived
by Russell Gardner, wealthy Mississip-
plan. He stays on his uXuriously fitted
boat. the Alice Mary, almost all the
year. In summer he goes North. In
The winter he cruises on the Gulf of
Mexico.
The department Of agriculture is
anxious to encourage the growing Of
flowers for perfume making in this coun-
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that conditions in the Southern states,
and particularly in southern California,
are exceptionally favorable for industries
Of this kind.
Lavender gives a net profit of 500
an acre. Pure lard saturated with this
scent of flowers (pomade) is worth from
So TO $50 a pound. Cologne of the
finest quality obtained by soaking the
saturated lard in alcohol brings as mucl
as ST. a pint
A deaf mute is suing a street rail-
road company in New York for the loss
of two of his fingers, loss which he
alleges impairs his conversational powers.
The defendant replies that under the
modern system of talking for mutes one
hand is enough.
A square foot Of the best Persian
rug is worth about SO, and it takes a
single weaver twenty-three days to com
plete II. Inns aHOWS the weaver ABOUT III
cents 4 day for her wool and her labor
but threefourths of this amount goes to
pay for the wool. Only II cents n dag
is left for the weaver.
"A wild cranberry called "tranbar" in
Swedish, for which no use ever has beer
found in the Scandinavian countries, has
now found Il market in Germany, 2234
quarts having been shipped recently Il
one firm in ChemnitZ. The Germans con
var h1 haE riA INT q aaYf thaf dc F,t,
to rival English preserves.
The total popular vote of the Unit
ed States in 1900 was within SINAI
fraction OF 14,000.000. and the total pop
ulatlon OF the country. including terrific
ries which have no vote ON the preSi
dency, was 76,000,000, Practically
therefore, there was one vote east fol
each five and n half inhabitants.
A Newark N. j. woman has col
lection Of 1900 pitchers, no TWO of which
are alike. They are Of every shape ant
color under the sun. and have heel
picked up in all the odd hooks and cor
ners Of the world. One of them wa!
obtained at the little store that Dicken,
immortalized as the old curiosity shop
What is said 10 he one of the EARL
est known maps of America has beer
discovered IL the library of Wolfegg cas-
tie. which belong to Prince won Wald
mrg-Nolfegg The map was drawn il
1907 by Martin Waldsee Muller h,
whom America is said to have brci
named after the explorer Amerigo YES
pucci.
AS an illustration of how closely CIV
ervthiug Is watched in Russia. take thei,
system of registering firearms When ,
weapon of any kind is purcha Sed a Der
NIT must be secured from the local au
thoritieS. The name of the man VII,
makes the purchase. with the number o,
the weapon, is recorded. If the pur
chaser ever wants 10 dispose of the weap
on he must notify the authorities anf
cause the transfer 10 be recorded on The
books Of the firm which sold it.
The Japanese smoke in a very ne
cluar manner. The pipes have YER,
small metal bowls. with bamboo stem,
and metal mou,hpieceS. and only hol,
enough tobacco for three ar -four whifrS
They use a tobacco which is cut extreme
~ fine. and looks more like a light blonde
hair than anything else. Ii is Of a very
good quality however. The JapS take. a
Whit Of smoke and inhale il. letting il
pass out through the noStriiS. They rare
" smoke more than one pipeful az a
time.
Uniform German Postage.
Stamp collectors will be interested in
learning thar oOn Of the German s.otos