Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-12
- Miscellaneous Items. =

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of the population of Switzerland
71.3 per cent speak German, PA
French. sc Italian.
In Paris the cab driver is prohibited
by the authorities from smoking when
driving through the streets.
-Dunkar1s in considerable number
are preparing to move from Illinois to
the Platte valley in Colorado.
No person in Russia is allowed to
marry more than five times, and no per
son over so is permitted to marry.
The pale blue silk vest worn by
Charles l. on the scaffold changed HANDS
for 200 guineas at q London auction.
AT a public meeting at Nice it has
been decided 10 erect n cottage hospital
in memory of the late Queen Victoria.
The hardest wood in the world is not
ebony. but cocus. which is much used
for making flutes and other similar IN
strEmeLts.
Oil fuel is now successfully used on
four steamers of the Hamburg Company
run in the eastern trade, and specially
built for this fuel.
Camel teams are now being used for
the carriage and distribution of mining
machinery on the North Coolgardie gold
fields, Western Australia.
L
Chamber has adopted a motion extend
ing the period for which deputies are
elected from four to six years
Paris. according to the latest census
returns, has population Of 2.610,O00
persons, Of whom over 100000 are
either foreigners or proTincials.
-Blocton, Ala. is able some months to
pay all the town expenses from the
profits of the local liquor disDensary,
which it shares with the county.
AT a sale of curios in Vienna the pen
with which the Holy Alliance was signed
m 1915 by Francis L.. Alexander |. and
Frederick William III. brought tG4.
A number of Vienncse ladies have
started dress reform league with the
object of SugpresSing the corset and in
Producing new kind of divided skirt
French gray has practically been dc
clded upon as the most serviceable and
most invisible color for the war paint to
be used OH vessels in the English navy
An tickets for the first cycle of the
Niebelungcn Ring at Baireuth from July
% TO July % have been sold and only a
Few remain for the second cycle in Au-
gust.
Lord Kitchener reports that most OF
the trouble with remounts in South
Africa is due to the newly-enistcd sol.
dlers knowing nothing of the care of
horses.
During riots at Atlone, Ireland. the
nolice were compelled to escort soldiers
OF the garrison TO their barracks to save
them from the attacks of the towns
people.
Pewter making. one of England's inn
portant industries seventy years ago, has
almost been abandoned. Cheap glass
ware and tinwarc have driven pewter
from the market.
Brewery firms are discountiDg the |
use of coke as fuel, states the mayor of |
Halifax, because it has been found to
contain arsenic, which is carried by the |
fumes into the beer.
In 1900 France imported 3S5.375 tons
of iron and steel and exported 197,17S; |
net imports, 1SS, 197 tons. In 1901 it inn
ported 234 800 tons and exported 225,-
49,; net import, only 1898 tons.
The stringent law against tie use of /
reservations in meat products In Ger
many, which was intended to shut oft
nearly S6,000,00O year of American ex-
ports, is found to imperil the home pro-
duced frankfurter.
The worlds zinc production in 1901
increased 2S,237 tons over 1900. or -,
per cent. The largest increase was in
the Rhine district of Europe, 1865
tons; the next largest in the United
States. 1892 tons.
Emigration from Ireland has de-
creased. Last year there were 39,ST0
Irish emigrants, decrease of 1927 MS
compared with 1900. OF the total u. 527 |
were females, and over 50 per cent. went
to the United States.
The Harvard observatory has re-
ceived an anonymous gift of $4,000 |
half of which will be applied to the en-
largement of the present building in or
der 10 provide for proper arrangement |
of the 100000 photographs of the heav- |
ems now owned by the institution.
When NJ. Loubet goes to Russia all |
the vessels will be lighted by most |
elaborate arrangement of ncandesccnt |
lamps during the Russian fetes in the |
Cronstadt Roads. -Four rows of tricolor
lamps will surround the ships, and they |
will be connected with electric garlandS |
Of all colors. The marine engineers are
studying how best to carry out the idea. |
A French doctor publishes as the re-
suit of fifteen years study in hospitals |
and prisons his conclusion that % per
cent of the hospital patients inherited |
vltlated constitutions from alcoholic |
parents and that to per cent. of the |
criminals received the germ of their
criminal instinct before birth. He also |
says that no hahitual drunkard can have /
sound children, and that out of several |
thousand drunkards' children examined |
not one exception was found,
The Egyptian pyramids are soon TO |
come out of the darkness of 1000 years, |
and will be accessible TO all tourists |
General Director Maspero of the society |
which has in charge the preservation Of |
the antiquities of the country has decid- |
ed to light with electricity the inner |
passages and cAtacombs of the great |
pyramids. This will provide Egyptian |
tourists with new attractions, and they /
Will lac able To penetrate to the inner |
most recesseS of the pyramids.
Had its Disadvantages.
W lille standing at n street crossing in |
the shopping district, waiting for n l,ro- |