Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-26
NOTES OF INTEREST.

nearly four years III the preparation ol
the first two cantOs of "Childe Harold
The silk worm is three inches Ions
and is well provided with legs, having
no less than sixteen Of these valuable
members.
-PhonograDhs are to be placed in tht
Vienna railway station to call out the
places at which the trains about to star
will stop.
In the high schools for girls in Ba
vara the number of weekly hours OF
study has been reduced by three for ny.
gienic reasons.
The common measure Of road dis
lance in Greece is the pike. three-quar'
tiers of an English yard, 1000 pixies being
about $50 yards.
The biggest meteorite ever known Ia
have fallen has been discovered at POntG
Allegro, Brazil 1t is % feet in diameter
and 50 feet long.
The cable between Dover and Calais
opened in 1850, was the first submarine
cable. The next, laid in 1852, was from
Holyhead to Dublin.
BY the advice OF eminent oculists
the authorities Of Munich have decided
no longer to use gas or petroleum for
lighting schoOlroOms.
An Oregon farmer reports a yield of
596 bushels Of oats on four acres of land,
or 149 bushels per acre. The grain is a
new variety of white oats.
Irrigation has converted the South
American desert valleys near the city Of
Mendoza into some of the most produc-
tive vineyards in the world.
A seven-story building in Chicago has
just been raised with jacks twenty-One
and one-half feet without cracking a
pane Of glass or injuring a wall.
France has a soldier to every 30 in
habitantS, Germany one TO every 50, It
ally one to every 1876, Russia one to every
l34, Great Britain one to every 100.
French economists declare Europe
can become independent of United States
cotton if it will only encourage the ma
tives in Persia and Africa to grow it.
The Persians have an era of their
swn, the Era of Yezdegird," which be-
gan June 16, A. ID. 632, and commemor-
ates his accession 10 the throne of Persia.
-Bunyan took the otherwise unem-
pIoyed. hours of three years to finish
Pilgrims Progress" which was written
almost entirely in BEDFORD Jail. The
Holy War required but one year.
The Saxons, whose original settle.
ment is determined by the little king
dom Of SaXony, derived their name from
the SeaX, or short, crooked knife with
which they armed themselves.
The strongest known wood is said to
be lancewood; its tensile strength per
square inch is $4,000 pounds-that is to
say, that weight is required to tear asun-
der piece of it one inch square.
-kummel, swecfened spirit imported
from Russia and Germany. derives its IT,
tie from the German name Of the herb
cumin, with which it is favored, though
caraway seeds are also used for the same
purpose.
"A turbine engine is being shown in
London which is to reduce the Atlantic
passage TO three days: and it is stated
that company with n capital of e.
100000 is being formed 10 exploit the in
vention.
Electrical industries have bounded
forward at the rate of 53 per cent. ad-
vance annually for fifty-four years, until
today $1,000 persons in this country earn
living in the various lines of electrical
business.
A Toledo judge has issued an in
junction 10 restrain flock of some forty
ducks owned by Louis Gould from quack-
ing at night, so that they will not dis
turh the slumbers of Harry c. Teal, a
neighbor.
The telephone business dates from
the inventions of Bell and Gray in 1877
The Bell telephone lines today are valued
at FIVN'pbtsNpN. nave IsrFNO,uNN
subscribers. The earnings are $4,000,
600 annually.
-Crucible steel of the best quality was
first made in the United States in 1882 in
commercial quantities at Cincinnati by
DR.. William Garrard and his brother
John IL. Garrard, entirely from Amer
can materials.
-Oherammergau used to be deserted
by tourists, except in the years of tn,
Passion performances. 1t is now hec0m
Ing a regular summer resort, about 5O(
persons having spent the hot month,
there this year.
The Danes, as nation, may be sale
never TO have been conquered. unless
perhaps, by the prussians in 1864, hu
their offshoots in Sweden and Norwa,
have both conquered and been conquered
by the original race.
A boat carrying six persons has bee
towed on the Mosele by a Malay kit
six and one-half feet long. Headwa
was made against a somewhat rapid cur
rent and the traction could have been in
creased by adding more kites,
1t is an extraordinary fact that time
buried in an avalanche of snow hea
distinctly every word uttered by thos
who are seeking for them, while the,
most strenuous shouts fail to pcnetrst
even a few feet of the snow.
The Argentine republic has bee
obliged to put the telegraph line hetwee
Rosario and Buenos Ayres under ground
because on wet days the electric curren
was dissipated through the numerous sp
der webs attached TO the wires.
OF the 10000 American soldiers VIII
participated in the Mexican war onl
about 5000 are living. At reunion he'll
in independence, Mo-, recently there wer
present forty-seven of these vetemn,
whose average age was 80 years.
In the higher regions of the Cordi
leras refuge huts have been erected f.
the postmen who have to make the
rounds till late in the winter Even thu
some of these men perish every white
If overtaken by a storm lasting sever;
days.
The following named states and To-
ritOrieS in 1900 do not contain any cit
with n population OF $4,000 or NOR,
Arizona, Idaho. Indian Territory, Mi
sissippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Mort
Carolina. North Dakota, Okiahom,
South Dakota, Vermont ana Wyomin,
The island of Java. which is onl
6T3 miles long and about 125 miles wild,
and located only3 degrees off the equatO
has the distinguishing position of supply
ing practically all the cinchona bar
from which the worlds supply OF QUINN
is made. There are about $4,000 q IRE