Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-03
NOTES OF INTEREST.

coronation day.
The natives of Guam are intensely
musical. Scarcely house is without
some musical instrument, the well-to-do
having pianos.
Since 1879 France has spent S12O,-
100000 on canals, and there are new
schemes involving an expenditure of
$100000.00 more.
In connection with the Irish agrari-
an movement in County Roscommon,
over 400 families are at present liable
to immediate eviction.
-Dueling among the students Mt Jena
has bee forbidden by the vice chancellor
Of the university, who has also broken up
the college fencing club.
during a recent week there were no
fewer than twenty-seven suicides com
mitted in Madrid Love and financial
troubles claim most of the victims.
Il storm of indignation has been
aroused in Naples by the publication of ii
guide book in which the British consul
reflects on certain characteristics of the
people.
Two of three great British battle
ships to be laid down this year are to be
named Commonwealth and Dominion, in
compliment to Australia and Canada re-
spectively.
The natives of Palestine have n ket-
tle-drum, the body being made of pot
terry and the head covered with parch-
ment 1t is provided with a cord and is
borne in festal professions.
Much stir and disappointment has
been caused in New Zealand labor circles
by the refusal of the colony's arbitration
court to grant preference to trade union
lists in its last two awards.
An experiment in marketing Jersey
sweet potatoes in London is made by
New Jersey grower who has shipped
three lots, one in sawdust, one in fancy
wrappers and one loose in the barrels
Students take no unimportant part
in French life, especially i'll Paris. Sta
tistics published by the ministry of public
instruction show that the total number of
students in French universities is 30,370.
The Carrara marble exporters have
formed trust which will affect the price
Of the more than three-quarters of n mill
lion dollars worth of monument marble
the United States buys at that Italian
town.
John Dunfee of Syracuse, n. Y, has
been awarded the contract 10 build and
equip Il railroad among the fords and
hills of Northern Norway. He will be
the first American contractor to construct
a railway in Norway.
But eight states do not now require
examinations by a state board of those
who wish TO practice medicine. They
are Arkansas, Colorado. Kentucky.
Michigan. Nebraska, Nevada, South
Dakota and Tennessee
Foreign comic papers are being sub
lected TO n strict censorship in Germany
Just now. \ special lookout is being
Kept for those published in America
which contain pictures considered disre-
spectful To the Kaiser.
"a Polish wedding purity Of 100 guests
consumed the following victuals: One
COW. calves, 6 pigs. GO turkeys, 100
chickens and 800 pounds OF black bread
80 barrels of beer. 10 of brandy, 30 bot
ties of yodki and 135 bottles of red wine
At Newcastle England assizes JUS
tice Ridley imposed fine of $50 on the
court attendant for failure to have the
court room sufficiently lighted. \ threat
Of the same kind by Justice Lawrence
at Leeds assizes led 10 prompt illumina
ton.
"A mother of eighteen children told
Hull tEnglandl jury that She had no
idea that roast beef and potatoes, on
which she fed her 6-monthS'-old baby.
would do it any harm. She had fed all
her children that way. Eleven were
dead.
American ginseng is wS&th. whole
sale, "a to So pound in Hong Kong.
Sang is considered a necessity by the
well-to-do Chinese. who Use il for
stimulant, and attribute TO it many med
zeal virtues. Curea sells TO China about
S350,00O worth of it each year
The value of the coal mined in Japan
is almost equal to that of all other min
erals combined 1t varies from the hard
est anthracite 10 peat, but the quality is
usually inferior to that Of American coal
Modern machinery and methods have
been introduced in the operation of many
mines.
The latest London novelty is the
"somersault cure for fat women. \
west end surgeons house has been fitted
up as a luxurious gymnasium, where
aIistocratic patients turn somersaults, on
Swedish principles, in the hope of reduc-
ns their obesity. The cure is said TO
he most etEicacious.
The tunnel for the New York sub
way, which is n Disagreement and in
convenience to the city ut the present
time. is half cut. Only thirteen months
more win he required for the excavation.
The cost so far has been Si3. I50.0 900.
More than S2,2I0,000 has been spent in
removing and changing sewers.
The Royal Geological Society Of Ire
land has recognized Lord Roberts serv-
ices To the empire by erecting and calling
10y his name Il Carnivora house, which is
acknowledged to be the finest building of
lis kind in Europe. Lord Roberts inau-
gurated the new building by transferring
lion from the old house To the new.
Many OF the FRUITS and vegetables
now eaten in England were almost un-
known to orr furcfathers. Not until
Henry VIII. $ time were either raSpber-
ries or strawberries or cherries grown in
England, and we do not read OF tulip.
caulitlower and ounce being cultivated
before the Sixteenth century, OF the car
rot before the Seventeenth century.
Ping pong has arrived in Paris. and
society men cannot so anywhere without
being laSSoed into Il game OF ping pong.
so they have formed an auti-ping pong
league. The members wear "A distinctive
button, so that the ladies cannot feel of
Tended when members refuse to play.
since they have sworn never to partici-
pate. in this foolish, unmanly English
paStime."
The first definite statement aS 10 the
character Of the buildings of The pro.
posed worlds fair at ST. Louis has been
given out by a Chicago trades paper. IL
has been decided not To use steel in the
construction. as was done at Chicago.
There is fear that the immense truSses.
such as Were used in the liberal arts
building and machinery hall of the Co
!!ttt44 l4iaR -ex noSi1inp-~-slghL net in the
present crowded StalS of the steel trade