Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


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cial college in Chicago where tuition will
be free.
A race track is to be built south of
Kenosha in the spring by capitalists of
that city.
H. NJ. King of Hopkinsvile. Ky. has
in his possession twist of well-preSCryed
tobacco raised in Virginia in 1868.
During the last ten years there were
1924 requests for citizenship in SwitZer-
land, of which 1888 were granted.
"A writer on modern waterways says
that in the near future electric traction
will be universally employed on canals
Some time ago German postofiiees
were established in the cities of Smyrna,
Beyroot and Jerusalem, in Asiatic Tur-
key.
The wornout uniforms of the British
army, when sold, bring back into the
war office treasury close upon $15OOO0 a
year.
-Forty-two corporations, or cities. as
they would be called in the United States,
form Greater London, with its 100000
inhabitants.
Chicago and Toledo were incorpOrat-
ed in the same year-1S31. The former
has a population of 1,69S,5I5 and the
latter 131,S22.
The oldest active official in the Ger,
man empire is man named Mueller. ut
Wittlich. AT the age Of 102 he is still
prison warden.
The daily circulation of newspapers
in the United Kingdom rose from 10000
copies in 1901 to 100000 in 1850 and
now reaches 100000.
-Hamburg'S naval observatory will be
removed to the village of Bergersdorf, as
the smoke and jarring of the city inter
fere with the observations.
The Japanese, although a clearly
people are not fastidious on journey.
More than 80 per cent of their passen-
gers go on third-class rates.
Deaf mutes are on the increase i'll
Germany. There are no fewer than g.
IS persons in institutions where deaf
mutes are specially instructed.
The Hartford Comm Times enumer-
ates ffty-ive kinds of wild birds that
can be found during February within a
radius of fifteen miles of Hartford.
-''"lc people of Arizona are returning
| thanks FOR the heaviest rainfall there
| for twenty years. Rains are not an ey-
eiy-day occurrence in that territory.
On a recent municipal election day
! in Wurtemberg only one persona po-
| lice sergeant-toOk the trouble to vote,
| and he elected the whole municipal coun-
| ell.
-Clearchus the Spartan, laid dowa as
| one Of the maXims of war the statement
| that a soldier ought to fear mis- own gen
| eral more than he did the whole hostile
| army.
In the Fourteenth century the
| slaughter of women and children after 2
! town or castle had been taken by storm
was one of the most common occurrences
| of war.
The biggest and most costly hotel
! in Boston is to 60 up this season on the
site of the Brunswick. 1t is TO be in ele-
| gance a rival of New 1ork's Waldorf
| Astoria.
The first great fire in an American
| city occurred at Boston. August ). 1879.
! By this confagration 80 buildings were
| destroyed, the loss amounting to over
! 100000.
! Near Burkville. H.. less than TWEEN
! ty-five miles from st. Louis. Is cavern
/ which has been explored fourteen miles
/ in one direction and six miles in the OPP
! p0site course.
The water boundaries Of France are
as follows: Mediterranean sea coast 39J
| miles North sea, Straits of Dover and
English channel ST. miles, Atlantic
ocean 5S4 miles.
A unique law recently enacted b.
the Montana Legislature provides that
! in the trial of criminal eases the Judge 5
charge to the jury shall precede the argu.
| ment of counsel.
There was not an inch Of railway
| line in Britain when the late Queen was
| born, today there are 21,00O miles and
a thousand million passengers travel over
them every year.
The German papers allege that most
| of the purple drapefy used in London al
the Queens funeral came from Germany.
| whence large orders were executed al
the shortest notice.
One Of the dogs brought back from
the Arctic regions by the Duke Of Ahruz-
ri has died. The duke has sent the