Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-19
y Curious CONVERSATIONS. \

very large meal It's skin in places IS so
stretched that the scales are quite sep
arated one from another.
The Kafirs in the Orange River
colony have petifioned the British gov
ernment for representation in any par
lament that may be formed there
"A country laborer Of Brescia while
cleaning an eel discovered IN its stomach
large black pearl, which has been pur-
chased by a Milan jeweler for $500.
In one of the streets of Pekin some
Chinese recently threw q stone at Baron
ess Romani-Ayezzana wife of the seere-
tary of the Italian legation. The Dow
ager Empress has now issued az edict
sternly admonishing her subjects against
insulting foreigners.
Orders have been issued at Colehes-
ter, England, that the Third battalion,
Suffolk regiment, is 10 proceed to Dub
lin instead of 10 South Africa, as pre-
viously announced. Ii is stated that the
reason for this step is the extreme youth
of many of the rank and nile.
The wild bees OF Southwestern Tex
as find natural hives in the dark re-
cesses formed by shelving rock, and they
are used year after year by the insects
Bee hunters make good incomes by
searching for these hives, which II many
instances are filed with honey.
A New Yorker, who carried matches
which ignite s'only when struck on the
box" added some chlorate of potash loz-
enges to his match pocket contents The
fire resulting from the union Of the chic
rate with the phosphorus on the box
ruined his clothing and emptied the street
car in which he was riding.
A remarkable cure of a wound of
the heart was related by DIR. Fontan of
Toulon before the Academy of Medicine.
A young soldier received knife stab
l. tnf%
heart. The wound was stitched up, and
after a few days pleurisy and phiebitis
of the right leg superyened, but this con-
dition passed away and the man is now
cured.
1T is reported that a novel and in
genious apparatus for rendering first aid
to the injured in street accidents is be-
ing tested in Paris. 1t resembles pillar
letter box, and contains a small medicine
chest, a folding stretcher and telephone
communicating with the nearest ambu-
lance station. Access TO these can be
obtained by breaking a glass panel 1t
is apparently an adaptation of the pen
ny-in-the-slot principle.
Many years ago an old fisherman
settled on small island in the Missouri
river opposite the Armour plant in Kan
sas City, and in 1894 the river changed
its course, making the island, which had
been valueless, a part of the mainland.
Sluce that time the question of the OWN
ership of the land. now worth 500, 700,
has been in the courts, which have just
decided that the property belongs to the
fisherman by settlers rights.
AT the st. Louis exposition there will
be over 100000 square feet in the main
buildings alone, while another large
building, 2000x225 feet--the largest of
them all-is projected for agriculture.
This represents fully as much space as
was in similar buildings at the Chicago
Worlds FAIR in 1888 None of the 9th
er expositions in this country, however,
since Chicago. have exceeded 600.000
square feet In main exhibit building
space.
The ChemiIer Zeitung describes
some experiments in the making Of ar
titicial diamonds. Carbon was heated
in an atmosphere of inert gas in an
iron flask raised TO q high temperature
by the electric arc. Bits the size of a
pea were obtained having the hardness
and crystalline form of y diamond. The
crystals have q gray tint that makes
them worthless for jewelry, but their
use in drills seems to be promising. A
French chemist has made minute dia
monds by heating pure carbon under
pressure.
China is making arms at q great
rate, all the 1angtse arsenals being at
workmen are employed in making field
guns, Mauser rifles and all kinds of am
munition. including smOkcless powder,
ard at Shanghai an e1ual number are
employed in turning out q like product.
As treaty stipulations prohibit the inn
portation of foreign arms into China, its
home production, particularly in view OF
the recent experiences, is stimulated to
a degree of activity not often witnessed
in any of its industries.
Japan, like the United States, is suf-
fering from a shortage of naval oEicers,
and has resolved upon the novel expert
ment of transferring considerable nuni-
Der of army officers to the naval service.
These are to be selected officers from
the japanese army. They will be Volun-
teers and must be specially recommended
by their commanding officers. They are
TO be appointed 10 the navy on proba-
ton for two years, at the expiration of
which they will be required 10 pass an
examination in nautical and naval sub
jects, when, il successful, they will be
permanently transferred TO the navy.
There has recently been mounted in
the Admiralty building in London a Brit
ish gun which has an interesting history.
The gun, which is bronze 12-p0under,
was found last year in Pekin by the Ger
mans, and on it being ascertained that
it was a British piece of ordnance was
handed over to Admiral Seymour, who
discovered that it was the gun which he
himself had lost from the gunboat on
the Canton river in the China war Of
1852. The Chinese had dredged it
from the river and taken it to PekiD.
The coal discovered 10 the Birthday
shaft of the Sydney Harbor colIieries
has proved to be of excellent quality, SD
that in addition to the facilities afforded
by a splendid harbor Sydney now pos
sesses good coal. The arrangements are
such that the coal can be delivered d-
| rect from the screens into the hold of the
vessels waiting TO receive it, and the
work will be accomplished by powerful
machinery with the greatest expedition.
| As there is a depth of % feet alongside
the wharf at low water and a length
of $50 feet it would appear that very
large vessels can coal there with great
/ dispatch and convenience
Monuments to Martyrs.
| No city in the world has so manv stat