Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-08
Curious CONVERSATIONS.

Derry crops III CallIOFnld Is almost Ell
tirely i'll the hands Of the Chinese.
Sir Conrad Reeves of Barbados,
who was the first negro to receive a
knighthood, has just died, aged 20.
Southern California has evolved a
tomato tree of which the fruit is practi-
cally the same as that of the plant.
Bolton (England) corporation has
been petitioned by the blind of the town
to form a public library for the sight
less.
! "A committee of the London county
/ council recommend that law be passed
prohibiting the sale of racing tips in the
streets.
A b:ll regulating the opening and
closing of Ice-cream shops in London was
recently introduced in the House of
/ Commons.
Lake Superior is the deepest of the
great lakes. Its greatest depth is 1908
| feet and the lake is Col feet above the
! level of the sea.
| The first American college was Har-
| ward, which was opened to receive stu.
dents in 1858, at Newton, Mass, now
called Cambridge.
Water thrown upon ice in the Arc
tie regions will shiver it just as boiling
water breaks glass. This is because the
ice Is so much colder than the water.
The greatest bay in the world is
/
line from the two inclosing peniusulas
its extent is about 100000 square miles.
living to a strike of gas workers at
Turin the principal streets of the town
are now Illuminated by oil lamps. The
supply OF gas to private houses has been
suspended.
1t is semi-offcialy announced in Lis
bon that the King of Portugal will be
represented at the coronation by the
Crown Prince Louis Philippe, who is
only ID years of age.
-Halfdeveloped oysters and bivalves
which are in poor flesh, as stockman
would say, are now kept in regular pens
and fattened for the market as if thew
were pigs or other livestock.
-Ping-pong has taken Berlin by storm.
one band of players has already opened
a luxuriously appointed clubroom fitted
with twelve tables, and a Berlin ping
pong championship tournament is being
arranged.
The government of the Malay PENN
large scale, and it will not be necessary
to cut them down, as gutta percha can
now be extracted from the leaves and
- EFithout injury to the trees.
THE District of Columbia commits
sioners are considering the prohibition of
buildings over q certain height in the
residence sections. The claim is made
of air and shut off light.
The following advertisement APP
peared the other day in London paper:
An American gentleman visiting Lon
don, whose tastes tend to theaters and
frivolitieS rather than to archaeology.
botany, etc. desires entree to cougenial
bohemian society; liberal terms
An inventor of Chicago last month
got 4 patent ON an apparatus to convert,
transmit and use the power of the wind
1t IS claimed a plant will soon be built
to furnish this compressed air TO tie in
dustries of the Windy city.
In consequence of the severe wealth
er in France droves of wild boars have
begun raVaglng the fields around Tarbes,
and the Inhabitants are organizing boar
hunts in sef-defense. Up to the present
nearly fifty of the animals have been
killed
.-Ex soldiers will in future be en-
ployed as clerks in all departments of the
British war Office. Preference will be
tificates of education, or have been I'M
valided from active service by wounds or
sickness.
Admiral Montojo is dead 1t was he
who sailed out with his worthless old
vessels to meet Admiral Dewey's fleet in
Manila bay, with the result that every
one knows. The admiral. who was re-
nowned for his ''courtly Spanish grace"
was 10 years old.
The Ficeroy of India has announced
q detailed scheme for utilizing the quar-
ter of million sterling subscribed III In
dia for the Queen Victoria memorial in
building a great hall of classical archi-
lecture of white Pentelicon marble to be
brought from Greece.
The peach growers on the Delaware
peninsula have voted. in convention as
sembled. that the old-style peach baskets
are good enough for them for shipping
purposes, however much the railroad
companies may complain of having to
shelve the ears to carry the fruit with
out injury.
"A former chief of the United States
signal service, eX-professor of mathemat-
les at the University of pekin. China,
and but recently president of the Uni
rersity of Washington, now has the posi-
ton of Il roller of logs at Port Blakely,
Wash. at $l.o0 day. Politics and sick
ness are said to be responsible for his
fall from high position.
The Western of France Railway
| company is at present carrying out eX-
perimentS at the station Mt Dol in con-
nectlon with a system of public lighting
! by alcohol. The company intends to con-
tinue these experiments in several other
| stations on its line, with Il view to as
SlStlnE agriculturlStS and to put an end
TO its reliance ON foreign petroleum.
/ The latest thing in strikes is a strike
| of barristers. The harristers of Allen
con, France, have objected to Il regula-
| ton by which their vacation was 10 be
! curtailed, They struck not for more
| money, but for more holidays. They said
the proposal to open the courts early in
the season was Il bad one. rs the roads
were excellent, and they wished to do
more cycling. For this remarkable rea-
son the business OF the courts was de-
layed until the roads became bad
/ Immediately on the issue of King
| Edward wills stamps an American
dealer posted 10000 letters to himself
with Queen Victoria's stamp and King
Edwards stamp under one postmark.
dated January /, 1902. These treasures
he is retailing ut 81 each, and the trade
name is Double Joes." name that was
formerly given TO gold coins of Ferdinand
and Isabella, with the heads of both SOW
ereigns on the face. Double Joes" can
: still be manufactured, out they can NJ
, longer be given the historic postmark of
january /, 1902.