Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-29
NOTES OF INTEREST.

France is asking for and receiving
more st. Louis exposition literature than
any other foreign country.
Automobiles which have fiange out
side pneumatic tire are being used fol-
scouting on the Transvaal railways.
The Liverpool town hall clock was
stopped during the recent storm in Eng
land. owing to its works having frozen.
-Russia's Death rate is 81 per 1000,
and is increasing, according to the i'm
perial registrar generals latest annual
report.
An electric motor car recently dou-
bled the length of Great Britain, trav-
cling HOO miles at an expense of . cents
a mile.
The conviction is gaining ground
among writers on hygiene that children
should not be sent to school before they
are s or 8 years old.
While in Europe only 10 in each 1000
people are living out of their country, l..
America 137 out of every 1000 were not
born on this continent.
Automobiles across the Caucasus for
carrying the Russian mail are to sup
plant the present transport post horses,
with changes every ten miles.
There is no wild breed of fowl to
which the Brahma or Cochin can be
traced. The gamecock seems to be de-
scended from the Cingalese jungle fowl.
The railway from Nyngan to Bourke
in New South Wales runs over plain
which is IS level as a billiard table for
l2G miles in mathematical straight
line.
Mosquitoes are fond of ANYTHING
blue. That is a scientific discovery that
is furnishing an argument for changing
the color of the United States army
shirt.
Gong Gee. a Chinaman, who is a
prac tical electrician. graduated from the
Portland (Or.) Technical school, is writ
ing book ON electricity in the Chinese
language.
HEMP is by far the most valuable
product of the Philippine archipelago, the
province of Albay being the greatest
producer of it, with an output valued at
nearly $0,0U0000 Il year.
The new bell which has just been
hOisted in the south tower of Beverly
minister is the third largest in Great
Britain. 1t has a diameter of I feet ,
inches and weighs over tons.
king Edward has put typewriting
machines in the office of his private sec
rotary. This is quite an innovation, for
the letters of royalty have always, here
tofore, been executed by hand.
The mountain at Gouffol, near
Mines, France, which some time ago at
tracted much attention by having shifted
its position, has now blocked up the only
road which connected with Trescol.
The average duration of marriages
in England is twenty-eight years. Rus
STA, with thirty years, is the only coun-
try to beat her. In France and Germany
twenty-six years is the average duration
In the Gulf of Mexico there is an
island where the beaches change color
twice daily with the tides. When UNI
covered the sands are purple, but the
iniiowing tide speedily transforms them
to gold.
A revolving platform such as that
used at the Worlds fair in Chicago, but
having four instead of two speeds-the
fastest being thirteen miles an hour. is
proposed as an underground method Of
conveyance in Paris.
A Partisan lampGghter makes his
rounds on a bicycle, with a long torch
carried over his right shoulder. He
guides the wheel with the left hand. and
is so expert that he lights the lamps
without dismounting.
-GermanY's new tariff on sewing ma
chimes, which varies from So to SO, will
probably reduce the value of our export
of machines to that country about ST.
100000 year. Last year we sold Ger
many 81. 125,000 worth!
The vegetarian novelties in hats and
bonnets in London include the substitu-
ton of the rosy red tomato and the flow
er of the French bean for the wing and
other animal decorations now commonly
used on ladies' headgear.
More than twenty varieties of rice
are known in the Philippines; but,
though this cereal is so important to the
natives, not enough of it is produced to
supply their needs, and large quantities
have to be imported annually.
in laying the water pipes to supply
Jerusalem from Solomon's pool the old
aQueduct passes through a tunnel under
4 mountain. and in this tunnel was dis
covered perfectly constructed arch
built before the time of the Romans.
in 1913 guttapercha trees were
abundant on Singapore island and on the
Malay peninsula, but they have been 50
thoroughly cleaned out that the botan-
ical gardens at Singapore cannot obtain
plants. The destruction of gutta. trees
in Sumatra and B0rneo has been wide
spread.
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