Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-08
Curious COMBINATIONS.


worth of opium annually.
Tea consumed in England is subject
to Il duty of II cents per pound.
Infections diseases, il is said, are
practically unknown in Greenland.
One hundred thousand letters are
posted in the wrong Pillar boxes in Lon
don every day.
The planetoids. of which there are
over 800 known, have all been discovered
since January 1, 1901.
The electrical power transmitted 200
miles from the Guba. California, has
proved perfectly reliable.
OF the steel pens imported in Ger
many 81 per cent. come from England
and only 1.6 DER cent. from France.
Iceland still ciings TO the old barter
system. Little trade is done III the ISL
and with cash, says British consular
report
The Sandwich islands resemble Ire
land in their freedom from snakes. One
species only is known, and that is not
common.
The largest order of merit in the
world is the French Legion of Honor,
which now has reached half n million
members.
In London there are six Paradise
streets, ten New streets, seven Duke
streets, twelve Church streets and TWEEN
tY-thrCe ltlgh streets.
The city of Baltimore, Md, will soon
return to various taxpayers the sum of
$500, $50. So paid in error during 1900 on
the sOcalled annex property. There are
between 5000 and 10000 claims to the
refund.
1t is proposed to introduce the cleo
tric light ut0 the town Of DngWall,
Scotland, the latest scheme contemplate
ing the use of the tidal flow Of the Ding
wall canal and the Puifrey river for the
motive power.
Three handculfed native convicts
jumped off mail train in Bengal while
it was going at forty miles an hour.
Two Sikh warders jumped after them.
Two Of the cunyicts were killed and one
of the Wardcrs injured.
Rev. Il. y. Mueller of Detroit has
made Il careful study of wireless tclee-
raphy and has mastered IL sufficiently 70
Ee able to experiment successfully be
tween his residence and the Polish semi
nary some distance away.
~ native of Basel, Switzerland. has
donated to the local university 100000
francs For the founding of chairs Of criti-
cal theology. philosophy and biology,
which ale 10 he free from all ntcrfer-
cnce by church or state.
Many persons in London stayed MP
nil night Now Years eve and many 9th
ers got up unusually early next morning
in order to lie at the pOstofice in time to
secure the now postage stamps bearing
4 portrait of King Edward.
The prison of Saint Lazarc, so long
used for the detention of women, is about
to be demolished, and with it the cell in
which the renowned philanthrop.st st.
Vincent dc Paul died in 1860 The prison
was formerly LaZari3t convent.
In 1909 there were in the United
States 3I3 boiler explosions, by which
2OS persons were killed and go wound
ed. In Great Britain during the same
period only twenty-four persons were
killed aud siXty-fve wounded by boiler
explosions
1t is calculated that about 10000
skins of the trmine will be used to make
the peers and princesscs' robes for the
coronation, and that as the price of this
fur has much increased in view of the
demand. about E27000 worth will be
needed in the ceremonial.
"A. Il. Schaeffer of Edgar county.
H., last year harvested the largest crop
of popcorn ever gathered in the world
From his l02 acres he had 1S00 hush
els Weld of n little over II bushels 10
the acre. II cost him SIT an acre to
raise. sort, Shell and Ray ground rent
An old convict ship from Australia
Is on exhibition at the Waterloo pier,
London. 1t is the Success. owned b. a
Melbourne firm, and kept solely for ex-
hhitiou purposes, and it remains praC-
tcally with the same fittings it had
when it was used for transporting Goa
victS from England to Botany Bay.
All employment OF natives in the
Philippines is on the padrone system.
No American can walk ont and hire n
dozen Filipinos TO go to work for him;
he must Instead arrange with "hoSS''
aud on n commission for so much Labor
This is the Philippines substitute fol
trade unionism.
With several other small requests thu
late Frederick Wlcomb Of Ipswich.
Mass, hcgucathed $50 to the Methodist
Episcopal church of that town. the in
come to be expended in purchasing tur,
keys for the Thanksgiving and Christmas
dinners Of the pastor of the church
In the Lyons tobacco factory 1SS
women and girls. from IL 10 % wears OF
age, work ten hours a day in the cigar
department.. and only one of them earn,
rs high as 81 per day. Their situation,
are very desirable, and there is now i
list Of applications for places containing
over 800 names
a correspondent says that MS the 70
suit of experiments he has made under
careful timing he finds that the grey
hound is the fastest Of NIL four-footet
AutihthS Nhen gong mt full gallon il
can cover twenty yards second. OF
about one mile in q minute and twenty.
eight Sec0n1s--a speed that comes very
near that of It carrier pigeon.
The British war Office is sending
tons az old-fashioned fints 10 the :raonS
in South Africa to supply smokers with a
practical substitute fer matches, which.
ii Is said. soon become worthless hcraHse
OF The damn. One result of this resort
to ancient methods of kiudlng fire is 4
revival of the old industry OF "tlintk KNAPP
ping" in Norfolk.
The nativct Of Guben. in the Bran
deuburg district Of Prussia. are passion
atclv fond Of eating dogs flesh and it
has now been deemed necessary to bring
the matter withm the scope of municipal
supervision At recent council meeting
il was decided that from the first day OF
the new year dogs destined for hannah
consumption must be slaughtered in the
public ubatsoiy.
Prince Lucjen Ronaparte's library,
which has been acquired by The Newbcry
library at Chicago ut an average price OF
81 volume for its 1900 volumes should
be very good purchase. The Ncwhery
however. started with n capital of s..
100000 some fifteen years ago. and such