Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-30
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Strawberries are excellent in the
treatment of rheumatism and govt.
The amount of blood in the human
body is one-thiTeentn Of the body
weight.
About 20 per cent Of the population
of the Klondike is from the United
States.
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Walsh Of Brook
Ign has given nearly $SO0O0o TO Catholic
charities.
The worlds record for steamships is
- 0miles q day, and for sailing vessels
30 miles.
"A beetle one-third the size Of horse
would he able 10 pull against more than
a dozen horses
Lord Roberts has approved of one
soldier i'm each battalion acting as chIrop-
odist to the rest.
The state of New Jersey is about to
huild a sanitarum for INDECENT sufferers
from consumption.
One Of the public grounds il
Kansas City is TO be fitted with show
or bath for children.
Sound moves 1142 feet per second,
light 192. 0C0 miles a second and electnel-
IL 2SS. 600 miles a second.
Paper coal is form Of liSnatc. found
near Bonn. in Germany. II sphts natur-
ally in films as thin as paper
The University of California an
uounces the addition of two courses III
sugar technology to its curriculum.
Seventy pounds profit was made on
toe first weeks working of the Var
mouth municipal electric tramways.
The biggest average farm in the
world is in SoHth Australia, where the
average scuatter holds $4,000 acres.
There are only few stretc railways
IN Japan, some Of winch are electric
fines. the o.hers employ horse cars
One OF the fire department horses in
Baltimore is extremely fond of limburgcr
cheese. and eats il with evident relish.
More than $4,000 pounds Of opium
were received nj San Francisco in
single shipment from China last week.
--C;rcat destruction is being done hy
sharks and dOghsh TO the nets of the
mackercl fishers on the west coast Of
ireland.
Connecticut pays bounty of 81 for
each fox killed within its borders. Last
year the payments on this account
amounted to $l2I2.
In Switzerland 1871 hotels, having
an aggregate of 92,333 beds, have been
got ready this season for the accom-
mediation of tourists.
The T ron de Hirsch school fund in
Galacia maintains fifty schools. The
number Of teachers amounts to III, and
there are 3,634 pupils.
When the milIiouth visitor passed
through the turustile AT the dusseldorf
exhibition he was presented with a
valuable gold watch and chain.
To orr parents, says an expert. We
are indebted to half of our mental traits;
to oar grandparents. one-fourth; to our
great grandparents, onC-fourth. and so on.
The biggest balloon ever made was
by German named Ganswcndt, about
twenty years ago. Its capacity was
10000 cubic yards 1t weighed 211b
tons, and would raise By tons into the
Dir.
Thirty thousand dollars was paid
recently for Il bronze statuette Of
Hercules at the concluding sale of the
Bardini collection IN London. The total
amount realized by the entire collection
was $22S,G40
The native clcmatis can scarcely be
valued too highly \ fairly hardy per-
ennial. it will thrive and bloom generous
ly under much more trying conditions
than those usually considered necessary
for IFS success.
DR. Oliver L. Hay Of the Museum OF
Natural History of New York has an
nouuccd the discovery of the humcus OF
the great aux, a monster bird long ex-
tinct. 1t was found IN fossil bed on
the southern coast OF Florida.
Few people realize the immensely OF
Siberia, which extends through t2p dc.
sreeS Of longitude and possesses one
ninth ot all the land surface of the globe.
The United States. Great Britain and
all Europe except Russia. could be put
INTO Siberia, with land 30 spare.