Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-24
NOTES OF INTEREST.


Insurance companies regard phila
Gelphia property as the worst risk.
Less than / per cent of the land 0
Norway is in use for grain fields.
The cost If firing Il single shot from
1G-inch gun would pay private soldIe
for five years.
Among the articles made in Philip
pine prisons are tables inlaid with pear
and oyster shells.
The original Ramona" Of Heller
Hunt Jackson's story is said to be Twin:
near Temecula. Cal
The crocodile. the chicken and TIL
ostrich takes pebbles with their foo
10 aid in grinding il.
If the earth were equally divided
among its inhabitants each person would
get about 1919 acres.
1t is figured that the cost of electric
motive power per mile Travelled by car
is between 3 and cents.
There are physicians in Germany
who charge only cents for a consulta-
ton and cents for visit.
Mexico City has over fifty miles Of
electric street railroad. and is one Of the
beSt-lighted cities in the world.
The Amir has forbidden all cock ard
quail fighting in Afghanistan, and the
Instead of an engagement ring the
japanese lover gives his sweetheart a
piece of beautiful silk for her sash.
If great cold turned our atmosphere
to LIQUID air il would make a sea 80 feet
deep over the surface of the whole globe.
Some of the hair of King George ",
taken from his tomb in st. George
Chapel, Windsor, was sold IN London for
S725.
A Mexican carpenter considers hang
ing one door a big days work. An Amer
lean carpenter will easily hang ten doors
a day.
-Glasgow's municipal tramway sys-
tenn is now operated entirely by electric
ity. The last horse car was withdrawn
recently.
-Omcial statistics show that there arc
100000 children in Russia between
the ages of 6 and II receiving absolutely
no education.
Nebraska was one of the first states
to recognize the importance ct keeping
reliable records Of the EoW oi it,
atreamS.
An English writer calculates that
Americans ara investing an annual sum
Of S45n,oo000o in Europe, mostly in
English securities.
DR., Font8u, n surgeon of ToGlou. re-
ports that he has recently preserved
the life of a soldier who WIS stabbed
through the heart.
The smallest newspaper in tine wogd
is III Telesrama of Gg11a!&-ara, in
Mexico II Is four inches square and
contains four pages.
The Carthusiau Fathers nave decid-
ell that in future visitors cannot he lp-
ceived for the night at the monastery Of
La Grande Ch0rtreuse.
--FEba Ia ruast pyetpr 4ypr found nv,
British shores was drcdged up off Christ
church head. 1t weighed So pounds and
measured inches across.
The town of Loanhcad, in Midlothi-
an, Scotland, has refused to adopt the
libraries act, and consequently loses Mr..
Carnegie's gift of $4,000
Arkansas is to furnish smoking
room for both the blue and the gray
at the st. Louis fair. Conversation
ought not to lag in that room.
Pennsylvania has 632S lawyers or
judges. They are distributed in about
2S4 places, nearly half of them being
in Philadelphia and Pittshurg.
AT Malta 81 per cent. of the parents
have chosen English as the language Of
instruction for their children as against
IS per cent. in favor of Italian.
The wholesale price of pair os
shoes represents about - per cent. IN
wages, 10 per cent. material and IL pc.
cent. minor expenses and profits.
-Four railway lines now connect Mex
leo with the United States. IN 1850
there was only one railway in Mexico
leading from the capital 10 Vera Cruz.
The bridal veil of Japanese Young
lady is subsequently used rs her shrnud.
Directly after the marriage it is carefully
put away and reserved until death makes
its use again necessary,
One of the most important industries
attaching to the cheap power now pro
duced by Niagara is the electrical tear
ing apart of the molecule OF common salt
resulting in the formation Of caustic soda
and bleaching powder.
In China probably more wood is Uset
for cotlius than for any other purpose
The collins are made of lumber from
four to ten inches thick. 1t is not ,
high estimate to say that from 5000,
oGO.0U0 to 1O,00o,O0 feet OF lumber
are annually thus utilized,