Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

t4I6 to dealer in scrap iron.
China has canal POO miles lou4
This is in excess of any inland waterway
of similar usefulness in the world
| -Four of the city of Dublin steam
packet boats travel at DBL, knots an hour
the same pace as the Deutschland
-london'S new water reservoirs near
/ StaIneS viii cover eleven square miles
One alone will be as big as Hyde Park
The relief fund of the bread tax ana
taxation of the Weather classes are the
chief features in the new Italian policy
During the last fourteen wears
| France has grabbed 2,OO0W0 square
miles against Great Britain's 2,GO0.OOO.
Tho Newfoundland seal fishery this
year will be one of the most successful
in years
The largest enclosure for deer is said
! TO- be the Royal park i'll Copenhagen,
! 1900 acres.
The Columbia icefeld in the Cana.
dian Rocky mountains covers an AREA of
| at least no square miles.
a rubber tree four feet in diameter
| yields twenty gallons of sap, making for
! ~ pounds of dried rubber
Italians call locusts little horses"
and the German term for these pests is
hay horses
-Australia's first measured wool clip
was 10000 tons in 1921. This has now
risen to 100000.
Inside the city limits of Helena AM
in the best residence district Il system
of copper veins has been uncovered
! The Dutch spoken by the Beers OF
! South Africa does not differ greatly from
| the same language spoken POO years age.
The Hungarian government has for
! hidden the practice of hypnotism, except
| by medical men and under special per-
mission.
In 1896 the free distribution of seeds
! by the government amounted to 10000
GOO packets, and now it has reached "a
| 1000 packets.
One of the most destructive earth
quakcs in the worlds history was that
which occurred in Yeddo in the wear
1903. when 100000 people were killed
Among the figures returned for cities
from the Italian census taken on FeDru-
AIRY . are Rome, J02 900; Florence, 19O.-
600; Venice, l51,Oo0, and Bologna 49,
| 900.
The City Of Mexico is now in the
hands of the contractors who are putting
III the new system of sewers. which pre-
codes the paving of the streets with as
phah.
BY the year 1910 the cultivation or
the mulberry and the raising of silk
worms had spread over the most Of Italy
and extended into the south of France
and Spain
The project for constructing a canal
between Paris and the Nord and Pas de
Calais coalhelds to serve in the convey
ance Of coal to the French metropolis has
been decided upon.
-L Last year 1000 tons Of American
agricultural machinery were landed in
southern Russia Three vessels arrived
there recently with 10000 tons III all
valued nj $t,25o000.
The Mohammedans want a better
way 10 Mecca They desire to go there
by railway. and for that purpose have
given the Sultan $lOS,000 to be used in
constructing a railroad
The American Red Kafir always
| ruh~ his teeth after a meal with cold
voodash from the fireplace. which ac.
counts for the absence Of tartar, and the
fine color of his teeth.
Milkman- Milk. meo" Little girl to
| guyerncSs- What does he say 'mpn'
| forT" Guvcrncss (rcadilyI-"Oh. that's
French, dear. Mic Is short for 'demie
! 'Mic-cau' means half water. - Punch
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themselves for '', "V,1mi,,tioni i, Iri.b in
Iish national board schools last year.
and ~eyenty-fonr taarhrr-' rrrtitiCatrs
were iS.ued
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i Naui'i un' n'"' 'i!e wv nun SUI
i'ast ApTh "'Itilah huh'tF "h"t on,
thal Il -, - li Nv, "nd "t'En|u
nrarly '"' p'uh'S' me natives a'e '''
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! ArchheoIoEl'al circles IN Rom" are
dlNt.F"'d at thp report INA thG Temp"
OF 'aSt"r anI f"iluN IN lhe f"rnm -
cfuIhblnE. 10 u certain extent inns IN
| tru'' ana instructions nave b'Fh gwen 10
strengthen Inc foundations.
| a different point of view; Willie (cry-
! ingi--" Mamma boo-hoo. Joe hit me-
with Il great big brick. Boo-hoo.'
| Mamma what did You do to hun,
| dear! NlllIc-"I MT nun gently With
| that same little brick he threw NJ me. -~
| IN.
| The census of Bombay city just taxi
! en- shows population of 10000. or
| decrease Of over 10000 ms compared with
| the census taken ten years ago. The re