Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-06-14
- Curious CONVERSATIONS. II

Kansas permits the sale Of spirits for
mechanical purposes, and one applicant
writes that he needs -four gallons me-
chanically-goin' to have a barn raisin'.
The hoptoad, III the opinion of the
Philadelphia Record. is a past master
in the gentle art of ''far niente, which
naturally endears him to Philadelphians.
OF FIVE Schipperke puppies Uttered
last week at Southport one has no front
legs. The animal. which is otherwise
well developed, is as healthy and lively
as the other four.
Madagascar is believed to be civil
lied enough by the French to have an
academy of letters and sciences of its
own. 1t contains rs members at pres
ent, 10 Europeans and 3 Hovas.
The new battleship Mikasa, built for
Japan at Portsmouth,, England, is ready
for her trial trip. She is 1920 tons
burden and is spoken of by experts as
the finest fighting machine atioat.
AT Reikjavik, Iceland, the temper
ance women who are known as white
ribbOTers" have taken TO standing at the
doors If public houses from / p III. until
closing hours, urging men not TO enter.
rhree Victoria crosses, ten distin-
guished service medals, two promotions
to commissioned rank and four mentions
in dispatches have fallen to the lot of re-
Lord Leigh.
Capt. Andre, Chicago lfe-saying
official, has devised a steel rocket which
when used to throw life lines to wrecked
vessels, leaves Il trail of light behind it
and enables life-savers to locate the dis
tressed ship.
For target during big gun practice
recently the French Northern fleet used
the old transport Sureonf. The range
was over three and half miles, and the
vessel sank in less than ten minutes after
the first gun was fired.
The Navy League has been officially
informed that the safety of the Nelson
column will have TO he absolutely as
sured before the King is advised to give
his assent to any bill providing for a
tube railway under Trafalgar square.
The raising Of the instrument shelter
of the weather bureau in New York
from an elevation Of 100 feet above the
street TO an elevation of 300 feet has
caused an apparent lowering of the
mean annual temperature Of ~ degrees.
In the experimenting with the mag
netc extraction of metal from iowgrade
ore, Thomas Edison has spent $1,000
600 within q few years, only to find at
last that his plant is worthless for the
work aud that ne will have to build
another
The month in which King Edward
will be crowned bids fair to establish a
record for weddings. One firm alone has
this year sold 5000 engagement rings, the
engaged couples intending dis
ease or accident prevents-to tie the knot
in June.
For hundred years Portland. Me,
has been the American port most init
mate with Martinique. Many of the
sawmills within fifty miles of Portland
have been kept busy with lumber and
cooperage orders from st. Pierre and
Fort dc France.
With practically S530,000, 600 of gold
in its treasury, as shown by recent
statement the United States ranks as
the strongest gold nation of the world NJ
this time, France having only $f91 900
600 of gold. Russia S361. 100000 and
England $172,000,O00 on hand.
There are now being constructed in
front of New York theaters automobile
cab calls, numbers in electric lights be-
ing shown. A similar device has been
designed to show the names of stations
on railroad trains.
--Londou's National Gallery was visit
ed by 47S,346 persons last year. On 80
Sunday afternoons the attendance was
35,7U4. The visitors to the National Gal
lery of British Art during the year were
1S5l34, but the Sunday attendance was
420l5.
Practical measures are now in prog
ress with view 10 exploiting the vari-
Gus coal fields existing in Egypt and else
where ON the direct Eastern route The
Egyptian government has granted con
ceSsonS for this purpose TO Edward
Nichols, an Englishmnn.
Thanks to the prospect of higher
pay for the private soldier, the last four
weeks have shown almost a record
months recruiting for the British army,
The boom is felt chiefly in London In
Ireland euliStmcnts are hanging fire IN
consequence of the strong feeling against
England and the army.