Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS Ill NlOs
The fare on the Kongo railroad for
$50 miles is 500, or 40 cents a mile.
Free admissions are not allowed at
the Charleston fair, according to tho
latest reports.
A Danish military commission has
arrived in London 10 study the organiZa-
ton work of British military bands.
The English soldiers pay is $3.50 a
month. The soldier of no other country
except the Uuited States gets so much.
OF the bodies of people who died in
New York last year more than 10 per
cent. found their way to the morgue.
OF all money transactions in Eng
land 81 per cent. are transacted by
checks, only , per cent, by notes and
gold.
Mount Rewenzori, in equatorial At
RIGA, is about 10000 feet high, has TWEEN
ty miles of glaciers and is nearly always
clOud-Coyered.
The Polyncsian islands are scattered
over 100000 square miles of sea, but
comprise altogether only 10000 square
miles of land.
The Commercial club Of Louisville
uses advertising space in street cars and
on billboards to enjoin readers to patron
iZe bone industries.
a French farmer has made ex-
periments which show that catPrpllars
avoid black objects, but are attracted
in numbers by white.
Cuban tobacco has invaded the Vir-
ginia stronghold at Petersburg az many
as six carloads arriving at time for the
manufacture of cigars.
The report is current in Germany
that there is a great scarcity of plows in
England. because most of them have
been beaten into swords.
The United States marine hospital
service and the Texas state board of
health have raised permanently the quar-
antine against Mexican gulf ports.
Since the commencement of the war
in South Africa Scotland has sent to the
front 1880 noncommissioned officers and
men and $50 oflicers--total, 1880.
Tho average depth of the Texas
spouting oil wells is Il few feet more
than Il thousand and the height to which
the oil is elected so to POO feet
Some Chinese medicine consisting of
monkeys toes boiled down and hardened
by being buried underground for num-
Der of years figured in a police court
case at Shanghai recently
Greece uses more than 5000 tors of
copper Sulphate per annum for killing in
ScctS. especially those that feed upon the
currant bush. The United States fur
nishes but per cent. of it.
M De Wute the Russian minister
of finance, has drawn up n decree max
ing the metric system obligatory in Rus
STA. The decree is now under considera-
ton of the imperial council.
Two new submarines are now under
construction in the Russian government
dock yards. one of these vessels is con-
siderably larger than those of the same
type in other navies.
According to the figures of the regis
trar general, Ireland is still losing in pop
ulation, the decline for the last year be-
ing figured at 81, 435. This is entirely
accounted for by emigration.
An engine of the Great Northern rail-
way in England, which was built in 1870,
completed in August an aggregate of d.,
100000 miles, breaking the English rec
ord in this respect.
In Russia the average acre of land,
because Of bad cultivation, produced but
one-fifth the amount produced by an acre
in America. This is the official state
mcnt of her minister of finance.
An official 81 1tement from the Brit
ish Cycle and Motor Trades association
puts the average profit on n bicycle at
S2.16 and the number of persons en-
ployed in the cycle trade at 100000,
DR. Ware. head master of Elton,
proposes TO build classic ship. probably
on the model of n Roman or Grecian tri-
rene, and 10 moor it il the Thames OPP
positc the Houses of Parliament during
coronation week.
The Mexican national board If
health reports in its last bulletin that
since 1SSS when the PaSteur treatment
of hydrOphOhia was introduced there.
1000 persons had been treated, with a to-
tai mortality of only , per 1000.
A French minister of justice pro-
poses to reform the obscure legal phrase
ology which is even worse in France than
in England, and substitute plain, straight
forward sentences which even the most
uncultured people will be able to under
stand
Under the direction of the scientific
committee OF the Aero club, Paris. Spe-
cial balloon ears will he equipped as OPP
Grating rooms and important surgical eN-
perimeutS will be made mt various levels
to show the effect of altitude on the
circulation of animals.
The joint capital of the six largest
manufacturers of coal tar colors in Ger
many amounts to ST., 900 900. They en-
ploy together about 500 chemists, 800
engineers and other technoogists. 1860
business managers, clerks, travellers, etc,
and more than 1900 work people.
A great deal of interest ccntrrS in
the cargo of blue gum timber which has
arrived at Dover. England, from Austria
lin fer the national harhor works. Most
Of the hauiks, or sticks as they are
termed, weigh as much as ten tons each.
aud range between 100 feet and 300 feet
long, This kind of timber has been
chosen for piling work, owing to the fact
that it will not float, SO that, in the
event OF the piles being washed away
III heavy gales they - to the bottom,
and there - no danger Of their ramming
ship like ordinary baulkS of timber.