Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-05
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handkerchiefs, etc.
SO small is a working model of a
steamship made by a mechanic Of Frank
fort-on-Maine that it will 90 into
matchbox.
in Switzerland the people have en-
tered on effective plans to cheat the ava
lanche Of its prey by breaking 1.-THE
avalanche. not its prey
Alaskan Indians a1lege that up the
Porcupine river, 1900 miles from Port
Yukon. there are two petrifed ships "
ing stranded in the mountains.
Residents of Buffalo. \. V. use more
water than any other city in the world
The town where the people use the least
is said to be somewhere in Kentucky.
Herr Stor. n wealthy resident Of
Barringeu. Bohemia, has just had his
thirty-seventh child baptized. This
would not be remarkable in Utah years
ago.
There are three states which have no
debt-lowa, Nebraska and Illinois.
There ere three other states which have
alpcst none-CalifOrnia, Montana and
Nevada.
Thirty years ago in Japan the Scrip
hires were printed secretly and copies
sent out only after dark. Last year
there were circulated in Japan over 1885,
600 comics.
The rose is the emblem Of secrecy
in Greece and was formerly hung over
the table where guests were entertained
II token that nothing heard there was to
be repeated.
-Searchers have found hoard of
$1,000 in the dwelling Of a supposed pau
per who has died at Pontesbury, Shrop-
shire. England; $400 was discovered in
an old glove.
The worlds steel output for year
would make a column 100 feet through
and mile and a third high, or build
steel wall ) feet thick, 90 feet high and
100 miles long.
1t is reported on authority that a
chimpanZee was tried and sentenced
three months to prison on a charge of
larceny and assault on the west coast
of Africa recently.
The atmospheric pressure on the
body of an average man is 32,400 pounds.
The ordinary rise and fall Of the bar
omcter increases or decreases this pres
sure $500 pounds.
A merchant of Essex. England, re-
Gently declared in the bankruptcy court
that he had been ruined by rats. which
had entered his warehouse and ate and
destroyed his wares.
Thomas A. Edison has assured San
tos-Dumont that he 10 on the right track.
smaller and smaller as he progresses
with his experiments.
Eighteen knots an hour was the speed
attained recently during the trial trip of
the new Anchor liner Columbia, the larg-
est vessel ever built for the Glasgow
aud New York service.
Smyrna. headquarters of the wool
and rug and carpet trade, is the smartest
town in Turkey from q mercantile point
of view. | the name OF the prophet.
theresre also figs there.
by the use OF the electric current
a passenger train on the Chicago. Burl-
ington IL Quincy road was recently made
to take its own photograph while going
at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
In the Black forest industrious me
Chanics are turning ont paper knives,
cigarette cases, etc, labeled Made of
wood grown near the Matoppos, where
Cecil Rhodes is buried"
Making paper from wood n method
discovered by DIR. Hill of Augusta, Me,
has in II few years become one of the
most important industries i'll the country.
Tie got his idea from a hornet.
Every Russian going to a theater or
other public entertainment is required
10 do something toward the support of
an institution established by the govern
ment for the benefit of the poor.
1t is generally accepted in the scien-
tihc world that frog spawn may be car
ried TO the clouds and then Matched out
but it has not yet been shown why they
fall as frogs instead of tadpoles.
Jonathan IIutchinson's allegation
years ago that the prolonged use Of ar
Senic gave rise to callosities on the palms
and soles which in certain cases turned
10 cancer are said TO have been con.
tirmed.
a witch doll. used by girls to recover
or punish hayward lovers, has been dis
covered in Hungary by Franz Won Cab
ney, the noted cthnologist. and ny him
presented to the National Museum OF
that country.
Eight hundred pounds has been ex-
pended in beautifyiug the gardens nj
Holyrood palace. Edinburgh, by the lay
ing out OF new Hover beds. extending
the lawns and planting new trees ana
Towering shrubs.
"A shoot of ivy has forced its way
through the front wall Of the Manse
Brackley, Not1hamptonshire. England
into the dining room, where il is spreading
well-'eaved tendril in the direction OF
the bay window.
Prof. W. J. Niece of the govern.
ment geological survey declares the Great
Salt lake may disappear entirely in the
near future because contributing
streams are being used for irrigatiug the
lands around the lake
S. NJ. Nauclain. superintendent of the
baldwin Locomotive Works, declares
that the majority of mechanical training
schools are woefully behind the times in
all that pertains To the various trades
as practiced in America.
A cinematograph for the blind has
been invented by nr. pusaud. Il French
physician. The successive stages of the
picture are embossed on sheets of tin and
made to rcyolve rapidly between the fin.
gers Of the blind person.
The real carrier pigeons. as diStin-
guiShed from the common homins piyeou.
Is the originator of the mask and goggles
worn by chauffeurs. The birds hil has
on it large tieshy carhuucle and small
Ter one around each eye.
Statistics prove that there were 10
600 Beers In the Roer army at the be-
ginning Of the war, and that more than
that number have been killed or cap
tured Since figures never lie Kitchener
must now be fighting SpookS.
There is one United States matt car
rier who is paid $4,000 Il year by Uncle
Sam. He carries mail between Eagle
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