Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-19
- Miscellaneous Items. -

quired to lull the Shan 10 sleep for his
afternoon nap.
The Brazilian coast city of Bahia
has about 100000 inhabitants, who live
in 1900 houses.
Almost the whole Of the crypt of
st. Pauls Cathedral, London, is being
used for workshops.
Japanese coal costs about S. n ton at
Vladivostok. while Cardiff coal costs
more than 800 a ton.
A hen in Bromley, England 10 al
legged to have laid an egg which weighs
a quarter of pound.
President Diaz of Mexico works
from $50 Il. III. to ! 30 p. III. and from
4 80 to II p. III.
A child is born every three minutes
and il death is recorded every five riln-
utes in London, England.
-Four blast furnaces are to be erected
in Cardiff, Wales. and four in Middios-
borough by a Philadelphia firm.
"A portrait of Martha Washington
will adorn the Scent postage stamp
which will be issued next fall.
The physical effects Of violent emo
ton are shown 10y hystera and various
forms of insanity la animals as we'll as
IN man.
The island of Cuba was known by
that name by the Lucanyan Indians,
who We're with Columbus when he dis
covered il.
Wisconsin led other states in lumber
production in 1899. with 3.400. 100000
feet Of sawed lumber, valued at SAL
100000
One Of the greatest drawbacks in
Mexico is the scarcity of fuel. Hopes
are placed in the probable discovery OF
oil in paying quantities.
Insane be- ~S;se white woman had
refused to marry him Evans Brady.
fnll-blooded Indian, died in Bellevue
Hospital. New York. recently.
An apparatus which, when attached
10 any kind al firearm, does away with
all noise, flash or smoke on its discharge
has been Invented 10y n French officer.
There are now hut twelve survivors
OF the Maryland Society of the Cali
fornia Pioneers. In 1887, when the So
cietv was organized. it had 33 members
A Sioux City woman refused the de-
mand Of her husband that she cut off
her hair. don mans apparel and beat
her way to Seattle with him in a box
car.
Samuel Hinkle OF Springfield ILL.,.
owns the old leather hat box carried by
Abraham Lincoln to Washington on the
occasion OF his first Inauguration as
President.
-Buenos Ayres has issued its criminal
statistics for 1901. They include 90
murders, pa attempted murders, 27IOl
assaults and over 5000 thefts, burglaries
and swindles.
The Indian vina is bar Of hollow
bamboo, to which are fastened two
empty gourds. 1t is strung with eight
wires, five of which are provided with
movable frets.
w nlle their pupils are holiday max
ing from May l to September / many of
the Swiss Cantonal school masters round
Zermatt take situations in the hotels
as walters or porters.
Military spectators present at the re.
view of the Argentine army are reported
TO have said that the evoutions and ap-
pearance of the troops were worthy Of
the best organized armies of Europe.
Granite is the lowest rock in the
earth's crust--it is the bed rock of the
world, and shows no evidence of animal
or vegetable life; it is the parent rock
from which all the rocks have been
either directly or indirectly derived
--GoSnold, the smallest town in Mas
sachusetts, comprises those little specks
of land which, beginning mt Woods HolI.
at the shoulder of Cape Gods right
arm. extend seaward till they terminate
in that fatal reef of the Sow and Pigs
A Kansas City woman who made
some shirts for her husband n few DAVIS
ago made n discovery that was cmion>
to her. In a woman'S waist the right
half of the front buttons over the left
half. In mans shirt, open in front the
LETT hair buttons over the right half
Japan has an avenue Of trees fifty
miles in length. The trees are the cryp-
tomera, and every one is perfect speci-
men, quite straight. from 1870 feet 10
loo feet in height and II to 10 feet in
circumference. The avenue extends
from the town of Namanda to Mike.
Chicago inventors have made protest
TO Germany because of alleged unfair
methods of the German patent office. II
Is claimed that many Of the most i'm
portant American inventors are denied
admission To patent in Germany aud are
thereafter appropriated by the German
manufacturers,
One of ConnectjrutS largest fruit
growers says that the peach crop of thar
state this year will probably reach l.
u0l,O0O bushels. which would break IN,
record Their are 100000 peach trees
~ Connecticut, and many al til or
chardS will come iuto bearing for a.,
first time this season.
The exhibition of cincmatograph bic.
lures showing he operation recently per
formed on the Hiudo0 twins, Radica ana
Ioodlca. has awakened a storm of dis
gust in Vienna. The pictures show nh
the horrors of the diSSecting room. ana
the dreadful c0ntortions of the limbs
when under the knife.
The proposed erection Of twenty
story office building ON the American
plan in London has aroused vigorous on
position. The streets of the British cant
tai are SO narrow and dark under ordi
nary circumstances that to line them
with SkyScrapers would practically con
vert them into tunnels
In 1901 there were completed III To-
kio, Japan. buildings costing 5000 to
he used as Il university exclusively CoY
women. The university NOW has $50
pupils aud forty-SiN professors and iu-
structorS Departments of Japanese and
English literature and domestic science
are included in the curriculum
The Lancet the well-kuowu English
medical weekly, has been iuQuirHg into
the question of the transmission OF
genius from father go son, and has found
that the sons of great poets are generally
dull dogs Poetic feryor is evidently
spiritual flame that burns itself out in
the genratiou wherein il is kiu3led
Intoxicating Beans,
Amour the uposonts of Sputhar,, Tt,lv