Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-15


United States district attorney.
A chief gunner, with a salary of
$500 a YEAR is the best paid non-com-
missioned officer in the navy.
Realty sales in the city Of London
during 1901 were Is 1913, 09S. comparing
with E4,934, 769 in 1900 and t6,2903l4 in
1899.
Booksellers who supply English
schools report that there has been in re-
cent years very great increase in the
demand for German school hooks.
A machine has just been installed in
the pension office at Washington, which
will lick" and seal $4,000 official en-
velopes Il day Previously the work
WAS done by hand.
For using the Polish word ''zobe"
instead of the German word "hier, an
officer in the Austrian army has just
been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment on bread and water.
Three local papers have been perma-
nently suspended by the Russian authori-
ties in Finland. while the publication of
seven other Journals has been stopped for
periods varying from three to five months.
The Vienna municipality has agreed
TO purchase the Metropolitan TramWay
company for, it is said, S20,000OO0.
The tramway lines thus to be municipal
lied are nearly 104 kilometers in extent.
Tonawanda, near Buffalo, is the great
lumber receiving port on the Great Lakes.
As many as 100000 feet of lumber
have arrived there in twenty-four hours.
From here large amounts are shipped
throughout New York.
The first year of the new century was
an all-around record breaker for the
farmers Of the United States. THE entire
years surplus of the products Of field
and farm sold abroad amounted to no
less than 5000, 100000.
The highest medical fee ever paid be-
came the property of blind physician,
DR.. Gale Of Bristol, who cured a wealthy
patient of a diseased knee by electric
treatment. and in return found his bank
ing account richer by 100000.
-"Uncle" Jarvis Il. Bardwel of Shell
burn Falls, Mass, who was 100 years
old on New Years day. celebrated his
birthday anniversary by planting cy-
press the seeds of which were brought
from Germany for this occasion.
The German admiralty has placed or
derS with several French Shipyards for
small gunboats These vessels, which
are to be used for service exclusively in
Chinese rivers, will he armed with mi
trialleuSes and quick firing guns
king Leopold of Belgium has been
consulted as to the construction Of road
from Ostend to the French frontier 10 he
reserved exclusively for motOT-car racing.
Efforts are to be made in France to
have the road continued to Paris.
The Bengal chamber Of commerce is
protesting against the proposed Austria
liam prohibition of colOred labor on mail
steamers. on the ground that the inter
ests of the Indian companies and of 40.
900 Indian seamen and firemcn are there
by gravely imperied.
For many years. German emigration
has found its chief destination in the
United States. About six million people
have come from Germany to this coun-
try; and they. with their descendants,
TOW constitute a very large element OF
our total populations. -
The results Of tbs eensus.-shasr. IN
M north oqly sight percentage Of PEG
NE cannot read or write bnt M me ne soud IN
and in the lalhitferate The reSident - non M
hfittlon or home amounted ON February
10, 1901. to 424,943. but now. including
visitors, the number is 462, 1888.
The manager of Berlin cafe recent
~ engaged some fourteen or fifteen wait
ers ON the condition that they shaved off
their muStaches. On being paid off, how
ever, the walters in a body demanded
some equivalent for their sacrificed hir-
suite adornments, and after Il long dis
cusSlon the manager consented to allow
couple of dollars for each claimant.
America leads in the matter of WON
en- practicing medicine The first was
Elizabeth Blackwell, who graduated as
physician in 1910. Three years later
there were six in Philadelphia. In 1902
there were 5000 women doctors i'm the
United States: III 1896 there were 4555,
ana now there are probably 5000. some
OF whom have a very lucrative practice.
The biggest induction coil known has
Just been completed in Paris by an elec-
trleal engineer for the Russian govern
meit Whereas very powerful coils only
give Il spark from ~ To III ccntimctcrS
long, the apparatus in question produces
one ~ centlmtter~ in length. II is near
ly one meter long and consists of 20 l,ilo-
meters Of wire. This gigantic coil is to
he used tor wireless telegraphy
The word guerrilla is Spanish. and
hrSt came into common use in this conn
Try during the time of the peninsular
war But Spain throughout her long his.
tory has always been recognized rs the
country most ideally suited for guerrilla
tacueS. There is no region in Europn in
winch II Is more difficult TO wage sue
eesStul war If the army of invasion is
small il is defeated; if il is large. it
StarveS"
The new library to be built in Grand
kapldS, Mich. rs gift to his native
'itH from Martin y. tEprSOn of Chicago.
besides having a shelf capacity of200 600
volumes. will contain two large assem-
hiN halls and several study rooms. II
VIII cost about $4,000. and il is cxpecte l
that the contract will be awarded in time
10 begin work early in the Spring. 50
rs 20 have the building ready FOR occu-
pancy by the beginning of next winter.
Il resident of Avondalc. n suburb Of
Cincinnati whose name is withheld. re-
Gently offered a costly statue Of Ahra.
ham Lincoln to the city of Cincinnati
the only proviSo being that it should be
placed IN Government square The ohl-
Gals refused TO agree to this condition.
tearing that the statue would divert the
attention from a handsome fountain al
ready in the square. and the work has
now been offered To Avondale. Ii will
be accepted.
Since 1877 the aldermen Of London
nave annually presented to the high Of
hcorS of the state. such MS lord chaucrl-
Tor, the lord chief justice, the home see
rotary aud the foreign secretary. as we'll
as certain officials of the city. pieces of
cloth, which. in the case of the town
clerk, reaches the maximum of twelve
yardS. This custom of guilds and cor
porationS clothing their members led. il
Is sad. 10 the origin of the liverieS of the
var Gus COmnanip