Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-12
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The number Of Russians who emf
grated TO Siberia in 1901 is officially re
turned rs 12S.131.
Slate is got ont of the ground by
means of blasting, holes being bored into
it with steam drills.
All the vacancies in the naval med
zeal service are now filled for the first
time since the Civil War.
a chinese official in Shanghai recent
l. entertained number of foreign oil
Gals to dinner of 126 courses.
The largest bird of prey in the Old
World is the lammergier, which has
wing expdnSe Of from TO 10 feet.
More that 100000 people have as
cended the Washington monument since
it was opened fourteen years ago.
Germany still imports - per cent.
of her steel pens from England, but the
American invasion may alter all that.
Admiral Won Diedrichs has resigned
his position as chief of the staff of the
German navy for reasons of i'll health.
Nebraska WAS one Of the first states
to recognize the Importance of keeping
reliable records of the flow of its
streams.
Efforts are being made to establish
Y university ut Jerusalem for the jew
lsh students expelled from European
Universities
Penny X-ray instruments, by the aid
of which the curious may see their own
finger bones, are being sold in the streets
of London.
During Il recent cyclone at karachi,
British India, trains were stopped by the
force Of the wind, which blew at the rate
of 100 miles an hour
Should the Pope live till 1903 he will
celebrate his diamond jubilee as a Dish
nm inI
his silver jubilee as a Pope
Eighteen cents quart has been fixed
by the military authorities as the price
of milk in Johannesburg. Customers
have been warned against paying more.
Meat once meant any kind of food.
In one old English edition Of the Lords
Prayer the well-known petition is rem
dered, Give us this day orr daily meat"
Signal towers 2l5 feet high have
been erected at the Marconi wireless tel |
egraph station at Tablehaad. Cape Bre-
ton, which is now ready for the pro-
posed transatlantic experiments.
r. J .Eeddon, who is premier of New |
Zealand. is a mechanical engineer by |
profession. He emigrated from England |
rs a gold seeker in 1861. Besides being |
premier he is general utility man.
Newspaper editing has its difficulties |
Il
reduced to accepting casual and amateur
assistance 10y the fact that all its pro- |
fcssional editors are immuncd in fort |
icsses for lese majestic.
Colorado is a great honey producing |
state. One Colorado apiariSt keeps his |
bees busy collecting honey all the year
around by turning them loose in his al |
falfa fields in the summer and in winter
shipping them to plantation in Florida.
There is a salmon trust. The idea |
is to save the by-products, which hther-
to have been wasted. The canned prod |
net will be. rs usual, Il portion Of fish !
chucked into q tin of grease From the |
scales and bones will be manufactured |
guano and glue.
A petition Of Berlin land and house |
owners against the new elevated electric |
railway, on the ground that its catter
deprecated their property 10y driving |
away tenants, has found no favor with |
the president of police. lie says that |
Bcrliners will get accustomed to the in |
noyaton.
Since 1895 earthquakes in Austria |
have been recorded by instruments in |
stalled under the direction of Il govern |
ment commission. In 1898 POO shocks, |
mostly small, were noted; in 1899, 100 |
and in 1900, 1863 Reports are regularly |
received from a large number of volun- |
teer observers, and several complete sis |
mological observatories are maintained.
1t has been discovered that the cor |
porations controlled by j. pierpont Nor
gan and his associates pay in corporation
taxes the entire running expenses of the !
state of New Jersey The total SUM is !
$3.50. 73S, of which the United States !
Steel Company contributes sol $50 The |
remainder is made up by seven other |
companies organized under the laws of
New Jersey.
"A necklace made of black ants is m
article of ad0rnment of New Guinea |
The Anglican Mission there gives partic- !
ulars of one which measured over II feet |
long and was composed of as many rs
1900 bodies Of ants Three little pieces |
of shell and a dozen English beads were
incorporated into it. and there was ma |
tive string holding it together. yet its
weight only reached drains, Scruples.
Is grains, These large black ants make
big nests in the native gardens. and the
native women aud girls catch them. pull
off their heads, bite off and swallow the
other end and thread the "thoraN."