Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-12-27


old.
Packs Of hungry mountain wolves
have appeared on the outskirts or Buda-
pest.
Agricultural machines and nipple.
ments are admitted into Turkey free or
duty.
A cricnltnral machines and imple-
mcnts are admitted into Turkey free OF
duty.
Some French fishing boats have land
ed catch of 100000 behring's at Bou'
logne.
Among the birds shot recently near
Colchester, England, was s-ormy
petrol.
Arrangements are being made TO
erect Shakespeare memorial IN Ger
many.
x company is being formed in Cleve-
land for the erection there Of $1,000
600 hotel.
1t is estimated that half a million
persons are employed III 1900 factories
in London.
Badly cured fish eaten without being
sufficiently cooked is suspected as the
cause of leprosy.
Agricultural laborers are earning Is
shillings week in the Chard district,
Somerset. England.
AT st. Augustine, Fla, is the only
mill in the world that gets its power d.
rect from an artesian well.
The largest armor plate ever rolled
1O6 tons-was made by Krupp in Dus-
scldorf, Germany. last year.
In Italy the manufacture of playing
cards is a state monopoly yielding an
annual revenue of S4,0O0,000.
Since the close of the Boer war 2l,-
500 recruits have joined the British regu-
lar army and 1928 the militia.
-Cromer has seven men and seven
women whose united ages total 1899, an
average of a little under Sc each.
Only two of the officers saved from
the wreck of the British troopship BIZ
kcnhead in 1852 are now living.
Ninety thousand pounds of snails
reach Paris daily. They come from Bur
gundy and Provence principally.
OF POO boys attending one school al
Dover England, 100 learned to swim
last winter at the corporation baths.
Five thousand soldiers have been
raised by the chiefs of the Clan Fraser
for their sOyereigns' service since 1857.
Much of the paper used in Canada
for the manufacture of fine writing sta
tionery is of United States manufacture.
Victoria crosses were won in South
Africa by two old pupils of the United
Services College, Westward Ho, Devon
shire.
Every brewer has horror of drunk
enness, declares George Jackson. mayor
of Lancaster, England, who is himself a
brewer ...t
Five pounds has just been paid for Il
mahogany easy chair which formerly be-
longed to the mother of Jane Austen, the
novelist.
Birkcnhead and Chester, England,
are fifteen miles apart, and power is to
be sought to connect them by electric
tramway.
Rev. Govanus Myers, for seventeen
years Baptist minister at Canton, O.,
has resigned his charge to become al
auctioneer.
The Danish Folkething has passed a
bill abOhshing oaths in legal procedure
and substituting declarations ION faith
and honor"
a Brown University student once
had the audacity to ask Prof. Caswel
whether his name would not be as well
without the G.
-George Gray, who was probably the
last of the old Aherdeeushire hand-loon
weavers, has just died at CumineStoun
Scotland, aged So.
"A handsome monument, Commemo
rating the valor and service of the Bote
tourt ARTILLERY during the Civil war. WA
unveiled ut Buchanan, Va.
After leaving Calcutta practically a
the same time five large vessels carryin,
close on 10000 bales of jute recent
arrived together at Dundee.
For every finch they kill the mem
hers of newly formed sparrow club a
Narnham. Sussex. England, are to b
hned four sparrows' heads.
According to the United States cor
sui general in Montreal Germany make
the hest lead pencils, but the Unite
States the best rubber eraSerS.
When the last fragments of tn
ruined campanile in Venice were +,
moved thirty bottles Of wine were foun
unhroken in the eustodiau's room.
Swiss postal officials are to lie en-
ployed to assist in the reorganization
the Japanese poStotiiCe. The Swiss no
tai system is to be taken as model.
Sydney. Cape Breton island. has in.
received the first cargo of Swedish ire
ore ever shipped to America. Canada
coal will he the return cargo to Sweden
Since three men have hanged then
selves III Gihbet lane Halcsowc,
Worcestershire, England. it has been d
cided To change the name OF the tho
oughfare.
On the initiative of the toymaker
organization fortnghtly fair on II
model of those held nj l.eipSic aud Mi
Novgorod will he held in the spring
Paris. No retail trade will be done.
One of the village churches in Nal
was struck by lightning recently OWN
it is believed locally, to the bells not b
ing rung during the storm as an act
prayer for safety from the elements.
Mrs. Anna NJ EiSter. market won
an OF Lexington. Ky. has died leayil
Il fortune valued ut St0O.000, all acc
mulatcd by the sale of "a rdeu truck. 81
was ponderous in size, weighing 3.
pounds.
According to statistics compiled
:he New Jersey bureau of labor upi,
bricklaycrS in that state average 50. 50
day and 5lia hours week. while no
union men receive an average of s. Il
day and work ga hours
Many persons who fled from $
Pierre, Martinique. during the erupti,
of Mount Pelee have obtained permisSi,
To eNcayate and search their form
dwellings for the yauables they had
abandon when they escaped
The number of daily newspapers IN
liShed in Germany has reached i42o du
ing the present wear pruSSia lands ,s,,i