Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A movement is on 1oOt ~ London Ia
erect statue to George Washington in
that city.
Greenland is one of the very few
countries where infectious diseases are
unknown.
The Prussian government has built
Mt Spandau a central station for the
breeding of carrier pigeons.
Germany has imported as much as
S10,O0O.OOO worth of apples in one year
and $2,500.O00 worth of pears.
Among the Monmouthshire' antigua
rian attractions are twelve lorliy ruined
castles and two ruined abbeys.
Maryland once grew the finest fiss
in the world. 1t is proposed to renew Fix
growing under the auspices OF the de-
partment of agriculture.
The japanese have an instrument
called the biwa, a sort of mandolin, with
very short handle. 1t is played with
plectrum and has four strings.
OF the thirty-eight Sul:ans who have
ruled tho Ottoman empire since the con
quest of Constantinople by the Turks
thirty-fOur have died violent deaths.
Greek and Roman wines were per
TUNED, generally by sleeping the leaves
of roses or violets in the liquor until it
had acquired the odor of the flowers
AS consequence of artificial propa-
cation the yield of cod in the coastal
waters between Maine and New Jersey
has Ill ten years increased so per cent.
The flesh fly produces about 10000
young in season. The larvae are
Matched almost instantly from the egg
and at once begin their work OF destruc-
ton.
Communication tickets between Phla-
dclphia and Wilmington, Del, according
TO a late order of the railway company,
must have photographs of the holders af.
fixed.
The Senecas of western New York
are splendid musicians. They have their
fine bands and are much in demand with
show folks, and they travel far and
wide.
Prof. w. J. MCGEE of the bureau of
ethnology has coined the term Amerind
TO designate the American Indian. and
it has been officially adopted by the bu-
reau
-Berlin's Black Book, the criminal
record kept by the police, now consists
of thirty-seven volumes, containing II
600 photographs of criminals Of all
classes.
The colonial furniture of this coun-
try has been absorbed by buyers and
dealers in antique are now compelled to
import their wares from England and
the continent.
Ivory carving in India formerly an
decayed, owing to the preference Of The
native for cheap English chandeliers and
Brummagem products.
1t is related of Samuel Alvin Sper-
ry, who has just died in Reno county,
Kas., that he was one of family OF
fourteen children, all of whom lived ~
be more than 70 years old,
Hitherto blackwater fever the terri
BILE scourge of Central Africa, has been
NTH
covered. in a native decoction made from
the roots of the cassia tree.
The White Garrard feud, which has
ragged in Kentucky for sixty years. "lI--
mating in n dispute over the salt INDUS
try, is likely to be revived by the tH2l
of one of the feudists for murder thiS
month.
The Philadelphia Times notes rs one
of the queer things that law officers
are at work in that city looking for chill
dren to go to school under the compuiNoE
education act, when there is mt room
enough for the children who tr7 to yet
into the schools of their own Fohti9n.
jacob Spawr, who built the hfSt
house in Lexington. H., has Just cce-
brated his one hundredth birthday anu
versary. He frequently had as MS
guest Lincoln and Douglass, ana mas \H'
ed for every President since JoAn gun
cy Adams.
The making of highways in England
and Wales steadfastly increased from
1876. when Charles |. began the mahlh-
of roads, to the introduction Of raiiFoadN
in the first quarter of this century ait'i
which it declined.
Few people realize the immensity "I
Siberia, which extends through 10 de-
grees of longitude and possesses one
ninth of all the land surface OF the Siop";
The United States. Great Britain ana
all Europe, except Russia, could be put
into Siberia. with land to spare.
E. L. Stephens, a prominent hoIil,,
culturst of Nebraska. has distributed
free to farmers of his state 5000 apple
trees on condition that they will be GU
tivated according to his direction. NJ
Stephens will receive one-half OF tue
yield for 4 certain number of years.
The largest railroad tunnel in th'
United States will be built through m
Sierra Nevada mountains of Ca!ifolllla.
The project. which viii involve m ott."f
of $4,000 TO $4,000 900, contemplate
the boring of a hole 27,000 feet in length
through the heart of the Sierras.
Tho Drug Clerks association Of Oh.-
cago asks to have a city ordinance pass,-
prohibiting the clerks sleeping ID cru
stores TO answer night calls. The clerks
say it would not be Objectionable II the!
could have proper sleeping quarters ana
comfortable beds. but that now common
iy they have neither. They also want
shorter hours of labor and more pay.
A Prohibition journal claims thar
fully 30000,000 of the inhabitants Of tn
United States, or more than one-thiru "L
the entire population. are now living u
der prohibition, either by state law q.
by local option. Forty-one states oil tis
fOrty-hve are included in the enumef"-
ton. either in whole or IL part. Even
Kentucky, in spite of its undeserved No.
toriety. has go out OF its 1i9 counties nv
der prohibitions sway. The four fN-
cepted states are Idaho, Ncvada, ttaA
and Wyoming.