Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-06-14

having greatest cost in proportion to its
/ food value is the oyster.
In France the oxen that work in the
fields are regularly sung to as an encour-
| agement to eXertion, and no peasant has
the slightest doubt that the animals
/ listen to him with pleasure.
-Noman's work in Germany is near
ly always paid 0ne-third to onc-half low
er than mans work. Its quality is sell
/ dom equal to that of the men, owing to
insufficient training of the women.
/ The fist chimney-pOt hat WAS made
and worn III London by n halter named
John Hetherington in 1877. His appear
auce with it iii the streets created such a
disturbance that he was lined heavily.
The village church at Upleatham.
North Yorkshire, is claimed to be the
smallest in England. The church dates
/ back 800 years Some of the tomb
stones in She graveyard are dated 1850.
Philadelphia has a club of Cubans,
who assemble nightly to have the Eng
| fish papers read and translated to them
: The professional reader is an institution
IN the cigar factories Of Tampa and Key
! West.
A Butler county Kansasl candidate
! for office recently. in making a canvass
among the farmers, took an eXuert plow-
man along with him, and while the farm
er talked politics the plOWman did the
| work.
The Philadelphia Record prints the
| stratlng intelligence that many jersey
| farmers recently spent all night in the
| fields set ing out sweet potato plants. and
that most of them became chilled and
| may die
When a burglar wants to break into
q Peruvian house he takes a sponge and
bucket of water and moistens the
walls, which are covered with only thin
coating of mud, and easily dissolve upon
the application Of moisture.
In Texas and Louisiana there are
now more than 100 canals and pumping
| stations, each capable of flooding 1000
acres of rice. These are owned by irri-
CATION companies, which supply the wa
| ter as needed to the rice farmers.
The "Humanitarians' were Il small
sect in London, founded by Mr.. kaspaIy,
| 4 German Hebrew. Their principles ser
for i'll '"The Fifteen Doctrines of the Re
| ligion of God written in 1866, include
| pantheism and transmigrGtion OF souls.
-Cocoanut trees grow in large planta-
tons close to the shore all over the Phil
! ippine islands. Within the last twelve
! years the trade has increased tremen-
| dOusly. The product is periodically af-
fected by heavy typhoons, but requires
only a few years to pick up again.
| According to Golfers Weekly the
! best shot fired in the Philippines was
| !.rcd accidentally by a Philippine cOrpO-
! RAJ. who put n lighted cigarette in Il
/ siX-inch shell to discover If it was load
| ed. He never was able TO tell. for he
| was one OF the twenty or thirty men
| killed.
| Duties on articles imported into
/ GuadalOupe are collected under several
| categories: First, customs duty, this be-
! ing the regular French tariff second,
! octroi duties: third, quay duties. and
t;s.fi. ,11,t1
! is styled tax for the benefit Of the
communes.'
! Palestine is Il small country, not
| more than $50 miles in length from Dan
/ to Beershceba, and an average breadth
| of not more than fifty miles. The area
! Of ail Syria. including Phalestine, is Off
/ cially calculated at 10000 square miles.
and the population is between 100000
and 100000.
4 Joint debate between girls repre-
Sentng the Bridgeport and the Derby
! (Conul high schools took place the other
night. and the accounts state that the
/ young women argued with great skill
bridgeport. which championed the mega
/ tive end of the resotion. that ambition
! had done more harm than good won the
! debate.
Prof Thomas Gargue MaSaryk of
/ the University of Prague said during a
recent visit to Baltimore that he looked
I upon IoIttSH iluiAA-IdtibH as Il peru TO
/ the American republic: that half = mil
| lion immigrants meant five million chill,
dren in i've years. and that the only
/ remedy was to organize a movement to
| take care of the children.
Tender feet are often made so by the
use of much-larned stockings Wear
/ light wooden stockings and let them be
of the cheap kind. that you will NOT
mind describing directly they become
worn. To harden the skin it is a good
/ plan to rub the SoleS Of the feet with
m2thy,ated spirits every day, or TO wash
them over with salt water.
4 London medical journal SAYS thai
/ American apples are cured. sliced and
! dried. sent 10 France, and there convert
| ed into cider. With the addition of car
/ bouic acid gas and yeast and n little
! tlavorng powder the cider becomes
/ champagne. and much of il goes TO Eng
/ land and is drunk under the delusieu
/ that ii j. of the best brand.
| Tennessee now has lib names on
/ its state pension roll Of old soldiers
| and the total amount paid to them in
| the last year was S149220. No more
names can be added unless the Legisia-
| ture increases the appropriation. The
| pensioners are divided into three classes
| fine first receive $500 a year each the
| second 5000 and the third 800.
Experiments have convinced Prof
Trowbridge that lightning never strikes
the surface Of the ocean, and from this
! draws the interesting conclusion that
lightning discharges can hardly he sup
pnscd to pass through regions Of the air
! where there Is at the time heavy fall