Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-26
'NOTES OF INTEREST.

stains from the hands.
Canada has over 800 lobster can
neries in operation.
SO voracious is the cod that it will
swallow anything it sees in motion.
Fowls are supposed to have been
first domesticated in China 400 b. c.
American brewers have already in
vested $4,000,000 III and about Havana.
The crusade against the billboard
nuisance is making Roadway i'll Buffalo,
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churia and Mongolia is of a sedimentary
formation.
The yolk of an egg beaten into a
glass of milk is good for the nerves in
the morning.
Baltimore. Md, disposes Of its gar
bage by selling it to farmers as fertilizer
and feed for hogs.
One of the favOrite drinks in St.
Pierre was rum mixed with eOcoanut
milk in the shell.
The winters are very cold in Man
churia the ground being frozen to the
depth of several feet.
There are by careful computation
about 300, 0O0, 900 cocoanut palms in the
world in full bearing.
IF you can't raise 10 cents raise
whiskers" is a sign in a barber shop in
certain Indiana town.
Mexican servants are said to be al
most worthless, judged by the American
standard of good service.
What was probably the first public
library in the United States was started
in Charleston, n. c., in 1749.
The largest loaves of bread in the
world are those baked in France and
Italy. They are often as much as six
feet long.
Seventy thousand cochineal insects
20 to a single pound of dried cochineal.
The worlds crop of cOchine2l is from
300 to 500 tons.
Wordsworth would write one or two
sonnets every day. When engaged on
The Excursion" he produced from $50
to 200 lines a day.
-Macauley. from the inception of the
plan 10 the time when his work was cut
short, spent eight or nine years on his
History of England.
In memory of their royal mistress
600 servants Of the late Queen VictOria's
household have endowed bed in Clever
Convalescent hospital.
The codlng moth. the chief raVager
of the apple and pear crops, destroys
every year in this country fruit valued at
$30,000000 to $40000,000.
--Crematories for the destruction of
animals which have died from infectious
and contagious diseases have been
erected in several parts of Silesia.
MIR. Chamberlain has informed II cor
respondent that Canada contributed 1900
men and Australia and New Zealand %
600 men for service in South Africa.
The tuatawa, a nine-ineh lizard of
New Zealand. is said to he the most
sluggish animal in the world, staying in
the same spot for months mt a time.
The London court of appeals is all
upset over a trial i'll which a mummy,
supposed To be the remains of prin-
cess of Peru, plays the principal role
dusseldorf, Germany, owns its own
electric street railway, water gas, light,
heat and power plants. The city also
controls the harbor and runs a theater.
'Maiuba" was the name given to
new sulphurouS yellow colored rose re-
Gently exhibited in Paris Another black
red variety was called "BOer Courage"
A Roman bowl of Samian make, said
10 bc 1000 years old, has been brought
MP from the sea bottom of BeaChy
Head by Brightlingsea oyster dredger.
A ~, Jet for an electric line from
Cornwall to Toronto is being rapidly
pushed by American and Canadian pro-
motors, who have capital of 5000
600.
1t is said that the flint which forms
the SuhStratum Of l.oAdon is nothing but
petrl!ed sponGcs. An examination of the
fossil sponge, or flint, shows its strlc-
turc.
The French government has decided
to install in the Pantheon, Paris. the
famous pendulum by which Foucauld, in
1891. demonstrated the rotation of tho
earth.
The first stamped envelopes were is
sued in 1893 of the two denominations of
) and cents, and il was not until two
years later that the 10-cpnt envelope was
added.
The claim is made that the best
governed towns in Great Britain and
the towns that have the least taxes nre
those where municipal socialism pre-
walls.
Several hundred silver coins. dating
from the beginning of the nineteenth
century, We're unearthed during recent
excavations in Brides alley, Dublin.
Ireland.
Enough coal was produced in the
nlted States last year To give three and
half tons to every one of the 10000
GOO men. women and children in the
country
The common council of London
England. has gwen il as its opinion thai
water should be supplied by meter Mt \
price not 10 exceed l. cents per 1000
gallons,
All that remain Of bank notes In the
value Of $40 which had been devourod
10y goat have been presented to the
National Bank of Belgium and duly
Cashed.
The city of New Orleans is now car.
rylng ont n scheme Of drainage and
sewerage which, when complete. Will
give the district embraced a most com.
prchenSiye system.
The vibration of the Diaphragm of n
telephone receiver is not easily meas
ured, but the best calculation is said IN
show q movement Of about one twenty
milliouth of an inch
The Rocky mountain locust or grass
hopper. in 1874 destroyed 500 900 600
of crops of Kansas. Missouri, Nebraska
and Iowa, and the indirect loss was
probably US much more.
-Dr. Metu Of the Iasteur Institute nj
Saigon Is reported Il have discovered the
microhe 81 dySentery and ~ have pro-
dnced serum which is a sure cure and
preventive of the disease
Fowls are supposed to have been
FIRST domesnCatcd in China l40u r. {.
TINS is probably about the same period
when, according to Lamb, the Chinese