Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-09
- Miscellaneous Items. -
New Orleans has $500 unionists.

winding Zl3 miles III Il uistaHcc VI W.
Nc interviews with Count Leo Toll
stoi or Maxim Cork may now appear
in the Russian press.
-Vladivostok possesses the only Gre
matorium that has been erected in the
whole Russian empire.
The SUMS flames spring at times to
distance of 100000 miles from its sur
face.
The Manchurian railway administra-
ton is constructing at Charbin a hotel
which will cost over 2000,00 rubles
The Italian peasantry have horn
called the ,serpentine. which is made Of
wood and leather and six finger holes.
Wisconsin led other states in lumber
production in 1899, with 3.4O0,000. 900
feet of sawed timber, valued at S4l 900,
600
Mosquitoes have appeared at Hack
ney and ClaptOn, London. and many chill
dren and adults have received painful
stings.
Within the last five years 43 la
panese officers were sent by their gov
eminent to England to study military
methods.
Antwerp town council has opened a
labor exchange to assist workmen and
servants of both sexes to obtain employ
ment.
So many matched roofs in the Trans
yaal were burned during the war that
boom in American galvanized iron is
expected.
By sowing nitrate of soda in small
quantities in showery weather under
trees most beautiful verdure will be
obtained.
Alaska has paid it's cost twenty
times. 1t was bought for $7.200,000.
and has supplied $150,000,000 in furs,
fish and gold.
The sanitation of the city Of Anime
dabad, India, is so bad that the mortal
ity is 10 per 1000, with no epidemic to
account for it.
An electrical apparatus for the heat
ing of curling t0ngs has been placed in
every cabin on the new Hamburg Amer
lean line Butcher.
There will be "A delay of seven or
eight months in the opening Of the Sim
plon tunnel, which was originally fixed
for May II, 1904.
On the west side of Mount Etna
there are several villages in the midst
of former lava streams and with all the
houses built Of lava.
There is no word in the Chinese Ian
guage that conveys an intimation of
what we term public spirit, nor is there
Il synonym for patriotism.
A bowling green provided for by the
profits of Gothenberg system public
house (salQon) at Kelly, Fifeshire, Scot
land, was recently opened.
Rice is the emblem of fertility, and
the custom of throwing it after a bridal
couple arose from wish that they
might have a large family.
The Columbia, which sailed from
Boston in September, 1887, was the first
ship that carried the Stars and Stripes
completely round the world.
In the year 70 the crater of Vesuyius
was to a great extent covered with
vines and Spartacus and his gladiators
used ii as camping place,
-Geraniums bloom most satisfactory
when grown in comparatively small pots
and soil which is termed rich, but is not
rank with excessive manure.
Ceres games, instituted in 1914 to
celebrate the return of the Ceres men
from Bannockburn, were celebrated re-
Gently in Fifeshire, Scotland.
American canned lobster is wanted
everywhere in Germany, but there seems
10 be no efficient connection between
dealers and American producers.
Sleeping after eating is condemned
10y German physician who has shown
eXperimentally that stomach movements
are lessened and acidity is induced
or all the silks used in the United
States $26000.O0O worth is imported and
Sl01,OO0,00o worth home made. The do
meStic silk industry employs 24,0O0 men.
10000 women and 5000 children i'm 4S3
mills. with SSl ,000.O 900 capital.
Within the last 80 years 16I. $50
persons have cmigrated from County
Mayo, lreland-nearly as many as in
habit the county at the present time.
Fresh air contains about three parts
of carbonic acid in 10000, reSpircd air
about Al parts, and about = parts will
cause the air of room TO become
CLOSE
Deuteronomy 10 from two Greek
words meaning second and law. The
fifth book Of Moses is SO called from its
being mainly a repetition of laws pre-
viously enumerated.
An ostrich can see all around him
without moving his head. y person
standing behind an ostrich can see the
pupil of the fowls eye, aud, OF course.
he is seen by the fowl
1t is claimed that a sure cure for hic-
coughs is to inhale as much air rs the
lungs will hold aud retain il as long as
possible IL one inhalation is not suf-
icient repeat the process.
Georgia Is the peach state of the
Union, having 100000 peach-bearing
trees. Next is Maryland, with t.0l5.000.
tutt new btlNNN WIN fNtNNNs anu
Delaware, with 100000.
Common yellow soap, moiStened
slightly and spread quickly over fresh
mosquito bite, will. it is said, quickly re-
lieye the singing pain. The same appli.
cation is good for bites OF other insects.
A new material for table pads has
recently been placed upon the market.
II is made of asbestos cloth, woven SO
soft that it cannot iujurc the most high
ly polished table; it is absolutely heat
proof.
-Crystallized nitrogen is one of the
greatest chemical curioSities. by cooling
nitrogen gas down to 3G1 degrees below
the freezing point. and then allowing il
To expand, solid snowlike crystals are
formed.
A reduction by Al, 600 Of the total
number Of cattle in Great Britain is not
on the total herd of nearly I,0OO.0fN. of
much statistical importance. hut il gives
the first check to the progress year 10y
year since 1924.
At Honolulu the newspapers on
June - published coDiouS accounts OF
the coronation ceremony NJ Westminster
Abbey aud of the rejoicing in London
and throughout the world, There is No
cable Ia Honolulu.