Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-25
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london consumes eleven tons of salt
a day.
The paper currency of Spain now
stands at 43 per cent. loss ON the gold
standard.
/ Two hundred and fifty Trappist-
monks are now working at twenty-five
stations in South Africa
/ -Of the 119 counties in Kentucky 81
receive more money from the state than
they pay into the treasury.
Never before has there been such de-
voti0n to Mohammedanism as in India
at this time under British rule.
Frozen turkeys. geese, ducks and
fowls are being sent in increasing guam
titles to London from Victoria.
Electric cab service in Paris has
! proved very Improbable. 1t is said that
the loss so far represents 100000.
-Switzerland enjoys the unenriable
distinction Of having larger percentage
of lunatics than any other country.
! Bishop G.. G.. McCaba has sailed for
South America. to be gone six months.
during which time he will visit the many
4 Methodist missions in Brazil. Ecuador
and other South American countries.
a memorial meeting IN memory of
/ Prof. Herbert +. Adams viii be held at
the Johns Hopkins university Oh = bru-
III Ipi. ltALu L" AAla VI AAit I tt4At-
yersity Of Wisconsin viii deliver the ad-
| dress.
Nine. de Maupassant, mother of the
| french author. Guy de Maupassant, lives
| in Nice in Il tall house with closed shut
| tiers. She seldom sees strangers, yet any
/ admirer of her son is always assured of
4 warm welcome.
-Rodolfus Bingham of Merchantville.
1 y. j., supports life ut the age of Is on
! food that costs "a cents a day. lie re-
! ports that he is healthy, happy and spry,
and has helped to bury acquaintance
who ridiculed his diet.
| Chicago has lost a street. Ii was worth
| about S1,O00,00O, and the city would
| like to find it again. Gradual encroach-
! was completely covered and the city vii.
! institute eviction proceedings.
| Nine Oatman Olivia, a Buddhis.
| priestess of Calcutta, India, is visiting in
| Cincinnati She recently finished a revis-
! ion of simplifcation Of the Buddhist BIZ
| bic, and has put it iato such shape that
| it is readily compreheaded by the gener-'
al reader.
Robert S. Chiffon, Jr.. who has re-
| signed as chief of the consular bureau of
the department of state to so into pri-
vate business, was connected with the
| department for twenty-five years. Mr.
| Chiffon was Yice-President Morton's pri
Yate secretary Tor some Tune.
Information comes from Idaho
Springs, Col, that Miss Helen Gould is
about to establish there Il sanitarium for
the sick children of New York. Miss
Could has purchased large plot in the
picturesque neighbOrhood of Idaho
Springs and will begin the erection Of
the sanitarium in the spring.
-Paderewski keeps valet whose prin-
cipal occupation is to rub the great plan
iSf'a f1uWgFS q stated finpS To EnpNH
the palms of his hands and TO crack his
knucklcs. Before stepping ON Il platform
to play a solo he plunges his hands into
hot water and keeps them there as long
as the pain will let him.
The sewage system of the city of
New Orleans, which is being placed on
the basis of 20,000,00O cost, viii re-
move the serious objection to residence
there and place her among the more
healthful seaportS. The sewage gathered
by the pipes win be pumped up into the
river, the level of whose waters is above
that of the city.
Thomas Wilson of Washington has
presented to the Library of Congress Il
wonderful manuscript book on archac
oiogy. The author of the book was
S. H. Binkley, an old Western farmer.
who died in 1900. at the age of 81 years.
The hook describes and illustrates the
common utensils of the aboriginal inhab-
itants of this country.
Miss Alhertine T.. Ridley. one of the
first American girls to go 10 the Philip
pines as an army nurse, has returned TO
California. She says American ruie has
Infinitely bettered sanitary and other
conditions in Manila and that the ma
tives IN that city are very courteous and
considerable to the American girls who
are administering 10 the sick and
wounded soldiers
The patents recently Registered in
london include some notions of novel
character. Germany. for instance. pa5-
ents q machine for digging potatoes and
separating them from the soil. There is
a hat provided with Il sponge saturated
with water ether or other substance for
keeping the head cool. Another inyen-
ton is an umbrella with 4 handle that
bends ut two joints.
One of the most expert chaGeurs in
Washington is Representative Ioseph
Sihley If Pennsylvania. He has an au-
tomobiI,. and each morning when Con
greSs is in session takes it up the avenue
10 the east front of the capitol and then
turns it over to an attendant. Mr.. Sib
ley is SO expert that he can cut figure
eights and do other fancy stunts in steer
ing the machine.