Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-15
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The national forest reserves of the
United States now cover an area of near
~ fort! seven million acres.
SO ancient is the city of Damascus,
in Syria, that there is no record of its
origin in any written histories.
The mortality from cancer among
sailors is very Nights per 100000,
while that Of miners is only l2.2
"A small grass seed which had germ
mated while in 4 patients eye has just
been removed by a japanese oculist.
France cOntemplates establishing
wireless biography between Algiers and
Timbuctoo across the Sahara desert.
Several German firms have received
large orders from England for iron wire
for the blockhouses in South Africa.
Copper money in France is 10 be
gradually replaced this year by aluminium
bronze pennies Of pale yellow color.
Five gold beds nave been discovered
in the Western states of America by
means of an electrical 'divinins rod.
In the last thirty-three years $40
OOO,0O0 has been spent III this country
upon an Indian population of lSOtOO.
In 1861 only 1890 acres of land
were under cultivation in Australia. In
1899 there were over 10,0O0,0OO acres.
Grizzly cubs born in captivity are
three born at Cincinnati only one lived.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is importing Mora wood ties from Brit
ish Guiana. They are said to last fifty
years. The life Of a white oak tie IS ten
years
American furnitur is being intro
dHced in Constantinople. being better and
cheaper than that from Italy and France,
but it does not meet the taste OF the
Turks.
Since the establishment of the gam
ing tables land on the Riviera fifty miles
from Monaco, which was formerly only
worth 50 an acre. has been sold for
E2000 an acre.
An order of the Prussian minister Of
commerce authorizes the establishment
from April l next of chamber of COM
merce with thirty-siX members, for the
city of Berlin and suburbs.
The regular deficit in the Turkish
finances appears to be from Sl0,O00,000
to S12 100000 every year, and ut the
beginning Of last year it represented an
accumulated deficit of 100000 900.
-QuaiEs are becoming so scarce in Eu-
rope that France and Germany have
joined in prohibiting the killing of the
birds and even the transport Of dead
quaiis across their respective territories. |
M. Hamard the French sculptor, has |
just completed, at Paris. Che model OF |
u statue of Marshal Rochambeau, to be |
presented TO the city of Washington Gs |
a companion to the statue of Lafayette |
1t will be ready 10 send 20 the United |
States next April.
During the two weeks following |
Christmas there is more gold coin in
circulation in New York city than mt any
other time of the year. Many of the |
gold pieces handed over the counters
in the stores have been Christmas gifts |
All thn transportation in Venice is
done by gondolas, big and little. The
freighting and delivery service is carried
on by means of hargcs built on the same
lihcs as the gondolas, and merchants
either send the goods to their customers
home that way or in panniers upon the
backs of men.
A writer in the New York Sun offers
this sartorial information: \ sailors
trousers are cut wide at the bottom so
that in holystoning and washing the deck,
also in wading ashore from n small boat,
he can pull them up to the knee, the full
part fitting the thigh, and a small cloth
strap buttons 70 the waistband, holding
them up They just fold back, or up.
-Penny-in-the-slot gas meters at Leeds
caused q curious dilemma last Christmas
tradesmen in the city being handicapped
by the dearth of copper in circulation.
Leeds has 1862 penny-in-the-slot gas
f1S,00O a year is collected. and at times
nearly $4,000 in coppers is locked up in
them.
There are 1000 halls and corridors in
the Vatican and II 900 rooms, counting
everything, the quarters for the Swiss
guards, the stables for the horses the
storehouses for gardeners tools, the mo-
sale factory and other workshops and
it is said that an average of 1900 people
are employed under the roof. most Of
them being lodged there. This includes
the Swiss guard
The distribution Of bread and milk
among children up to years of age has
been inauguratcd in Budapest. The dis
tribution takes place morning and even
ing in a by street. The milk is first
boiled in four large boilers, whence it
runs into cooling apparatus. Fifty
children are allowed to enter at time.
either with their mothers or alone, while
fhe others wait for their turn in neigh
boring .Warmestube, another charitable
institution.