Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

An Indiana syndicate has purchased
2I4 claims in the Gold Hill district,
KlOndke, for $750,O00
-Hayti, situated in nearly the same
latitude as Cuba, will soon rival il in
it's production of fine grades of tobacco.
Tobacco and sugar valued at $12,-
100000 is being held in Cuba awaiting
the settlement of the question of annex
alton or independence.
The state of Washington has 444 lum-
Der mills. saving over 4.W0OOO feet per
day. turning out 100000 shingles and
employing $4,000 men.
The Rothschilds have just purchased
the greatest copper mine in Mexico for
100000. They now employ $1,000
men in their various copper mines.
Over 100000 Pan-American expo
sition postage stamps have been sold.
Cuban railroads are compelled by
their charters to carry mails free.
1t is stated that during the last
year 420 tons of cigarettes were ex-
ported from Algeria, and there prom
ises to be a largely-increasing trade
&C. Il. Hudson, who has been painting
the fishes OF Hawaiian waters, says that
nearly all bottom sea fish have the power
of changing color at will, like chame-
Icons.
The Russian government has an
n0unced that persons found playing cards
in a railway carriage in any part of the
Russian empire will be subject to heavy
penalties.
1t has been ascertained by expert
ment that turkeys that get charcoal
mixed with their food get heavier than
others, and their meat is more tender and
better favored.
The camel path which for centuries
has formed the only connection between
Jerusalem and Nabms (Sychem) has a.
last been made into a carriage road
nearly twenty feet wide.
The great bridge in the course of
construction across the valley of Petruffe,
in Luxembourg, when finished will sur
pass Cabin John bridge, now the longest
single span of masonry in the world
A large number of cuttlefish have re-
Gently been caught off the north coast of
Germany. As they have never before
been met with in these waters it is diff
ticuft to account for their presence.
In some parts of the north of Scot
land fisher folk turn back il hare or
pig crosses their path; and at sea they
never pronounce the name of the hare,
the pig, the salmon, the trout or the
dog.
Carol d. Wright. the United States
commissioner Of statistics. computes that
fer the twenty years ending December
81. 1900, there was n total loss by strikes
and lockouts of not less than S46S, 96S,-
5S1.
Colombia, with only 100000 inhah-
itants, is twice the size of Germany. 1t
has only Cos lSilometers Of railway, and
apart from the rivers, all communication
with the interior is carried on with
mules.
Prof. A. Koch of Heidelberg sug
gests that the question of employment
for the blind should be solved in accord
ance with the precedence of Japan,
where they are much in demand as ex-
perts in massage
"A strike yielding phenomenal values
in gold and silver is reported in the
property of the Park Gold Mining com
pany, situated in Piute county, Utah.
Assays show 2606 ounces of silver and
Sl32 in gold to the ton.
An acre of land will give 1900 pounds
of rose petals. from which five ounces Of
the altar may be distilled, and this guam
tity has Il market value of from $40 to
$50. The roSewater byproduct
amounts to 300 gallons the acre, worth
from IS cents to 81 gallon.