Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-26
Il Miscellaneous Items. =

ana S[..tUU.bVO WORTH Oh pears
Hard times in Germany are said to
have caused a large diminution in the
consumption of wine and spirituous liq-
Hors.
An earthworm % feet long was
drawn up with an old pile by the water
side at Weymouth, England. 1t had the
coior and thickness of an ordinary worm.
One of the highest shot towers in
the world is 10 be found at Villach in
COrinthia, where there is a fall of 249
feet.
The largest egg is that of the ostrich
1t weighs three pounds and IS considered
equal in amount TO twenty-four hens
eggs.
The extension Of railways into the
Scotch Highlands Is graveiy declared to
have been the cause of the depopulation
of the district.
In recent duel between shore artii-
lery apd floating guns at Gibraltar the
result was decidedly in favor of the coast
batteries.
Berlin is getting tired of its flatness
and the residents are thinking OF build
ing hills i'll suitable sites with the city's
dust and ashes.
The famous Lowther Arcade. in the
Strand, Iondon's great toy market, is
20 be abandoned TO make room for a
new bank building.
1t is no unusual thing for vessel
plying between Japan and London TO
carry 100000 fans of all kinds as IA
single item of its cargo.
The British navy has decided to
build a new class of warships, a little
stronger than the destroyer type, to be
used for scouting purposes.
Statistics prove that nearly two
thirds of the letters carried by the worlds
postal services are written, sent to and
read by English-speak.ng people.
The largest Parliament in point of
numbers is the Hungarian House of
Magnates. which has 751 members
England comes second with GO.
The largest dome in the world 10 that
Of the Lutheran Church at Warsaw. Its
interior diameter is POO feet, That of
the British museum library is 100 feet.
The proposed pensions for the aged
bin has been postponed by the House of
Commons because the government has no
money for the project owing to the Boer
Wa.
"A plumber who was arrested in
Rome for stealing jewelry confessed that
he swallowed diamonds and other stones
valued at $4,000 and sold the mount.
ings.
Cinnamon are the merchant seamen
Of the future, says q consular report
from Shanghai Over 1900 British yes
sells entered the portNias year manned
by Chinese crews.
The eye of a fly is so constructed MS
To bring the entire horizon within his
circle Of observation fact which ex-
plains the extreme alertness of these in
yects N escaping attack.
The owls wise lool IS the result of a
physiological oddity, his eyes being fixed
immoyaby in their sockets; so wherever
he passes his eyes from one object to an
other he must move his head
The village of Waveriy, w. VA,
uses an empty lD-foot oil tank as q lock-
up for the, occasional drunk and fiis0l.A
DERBY person. One was hustled into ID
q day or two ago, and then the tank was
rolled about by crowd OF villagers,
while others beat violently upon ii with
clubs. Two hours later the unhappy
prisoner was released, much bruised and
quite sober
Many people suppose that all gold is
alike when refined, but this is not so
An experienced man can tell at a glance
from what part of the world a gold piece
comes, and in some cases from what par
ticular gold district the metal has been
obtained Australian gold, for Instance,
is distinctly redder than that from Cali
fornia. The Ural gold is the reddest
found anywhere.
The captain Of n recruiting vessel re
Gently adopted novel method Of getting
natives 10 enter into contracts with him
on the island of Malaysia. lie secured
photograph, and before leaving
Queensland had a native already en-
gagged on a plantation talk into il, telling
of the good time he was having. This
was taken 10 the native villages and
turned loose. The natives ioeked to the
recruiting ship.
I'm book which has just been pub
lished on that neyerfailing topic, the
vagaries of the English language. the
strange meaning of the word pocket
handkerchief is described 4 "kprchief''
(coQvreehefl means Il small piece of CLOTH
made TO put ON the head, SO that a
pocket handkerchief" means literally a
small piece of cloth TO cover the head TO
be held in the hand to be put in the
pocket
The old chapelof-ease at Tmbridge
Wells. England, stands partly in Kent
and partly IN SUSSEX: but. more than
that. il also stands in three parishes
Whe@ the clergyman leaves the vestry
he comes out of the parish OF Fraut. IL
Sussex and il he Is going to oiiiciate al
the altar he walks into the parish Of
runbridge in Kent. If. on the Other
hand, lie is gong to preach the sermon.
he walks from Frant into the PARISH OF
S9eldhurSt
~ Enou many lanes nave become
Mormons in recent years. and Denmark,
Is now regarded as most promising
held for mission work on behalf of the
sect. "A newspaper organ and a publish
ing house for the dissemination Of tracts
aud books have been established in
Copenhagen, and it is proposed also to
found n temple there, like the parent
tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Money for
this purpose is being collected in the
United States.
Practical steps have now been taken
to insure the efficient ventilation OF tha
two penny tube tunnels in London. \
powerful fan has been placed nj the
base Of the left shaft AT Bond street sta.
ton. which viii remove the vitiatcl All.
mosphere from the permanent ways.
fresh air taking its place at the various
hating places under cr,liuary pressure
The fan, which is IS ncheS In diameter
and electrically driven. displaccs 10000
cubic feet Of air Il minute,
Turns Silver yellow.
\ sailor in the custom house The q. her
day took ont OF his pocket some silver
coins that had a strange yellow hue. and
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