Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-12-20
- Curious Condensations. -

carried by pOstoffice cyclists IN Berlin.
Jamaica exported 100000 cocoa
nuts between April and August this year.
Two thousand Irish donkeys have
been advertised for by a dealer i'll Cork.
Public gambling is likely to be
abolished in Switzerland at an early
date.
Among the birds shot recently near
Colchester, England was a stormy pc
trel
Over 1000 children attending Not
tngham board schools have learned 20
swim.
-One-half of the imports into this
country are of materials for manufac-
turers.
There are two varieties of goats in
Malta--the long-haired and the short
haired.
Mixed bathing will be permitted next
year at the majority of German seaside
resorts.
Khaki uniforms are now worn by all
the foreign troops in China except the
Russians.
-UIbanium is a metal used in the
glass and pottery business and costs $50
a pound.
Avoid whisky and water; it is a dilu-
ton and a snare.-Philedalphi Evening
Bulletin.
600, relies wholly for its milk supply on
the goat.
Upwards of 1000 British postofIice
employees served in the South African
campaign.
An Englishman has invented brick
laying machine which lays and mortars
the bricks.
Taxes on foreign visitors and resi-
dents are proposed in the Vaud canton,
Switzerland.
"A calf with two tongues is now in
the possession of IA farmer at Rossert,
North Wales.
Darwin asserted that there is insani-
~ among animals just as there is among
human beings.
Sea gulls have ousted the penguins
from their rocks in the st. James park
lake, London.
badness atfiicts almost any young
man who spends any length of time in !
the Philippines.
A pearl fisher of Western Australia
has found a pearl whose value is esti- |
mated at $4,000.
For 3s Cd Kruger half crown. form |
and shilling have Just changed hands AZ |
Ainwick, England.
beds of rock salt have just been dis |
covered 1000 feet below the surface at
Campine, Belgium.
frightening their intellect" is n |
Birmingham England euphemism for
assaults on the police.
Three manuscript poems in the hand |
writing of Charles Lamb were sold for
$3.50 recently in London.
Palladium is metal used for the |
mounting of astronomical instruments
aud costs $3.50 a pound.
-Berlins statue of Wagner is to be
fpnT tsRfl. pF AZ
weighing thirty-eght tons.
The name of Kiku or Kikuno-
"Chrysanthemum" as common in
Japan as Mary is in America.
Wire screens are now placed in the
tramway cars at New Orleans to separate
negroes from white passengers.
The coast of Newfoundland is indent-
ed by deep and shallow bays, back of
which rise steep and rugged hills.
--Calne, Wiltshire, England, has select
ed It's new mayor ut the annual cake and
VINE party held for the purpose
The. use of II bicycle is offered by
lady who advertised for n kitchenmaid
in Surrey (EnglanD newspaper.
-Pudsey yorkshire, England) Me-
chanics' Institute has purchased a mill
III which to hold technical classes.
-llenSe clouds of smoke and showers
OF red-hot stones are now being thrown
up by the Mexican volcano Colima.
-PassengersswA he able shortly 10
travel from Paris to Pekin in fourteen
days by the trans-Siberian railway.
--Rotherham, England, has a Moon.
takers Gang. whose special object. il
Is alleged. Is to create disturbances
The Jerusalem artichoke has no con.
nection Whatever with the holy city or
the Jews. lt is a species Of sunllower.
Sixteen thousand emlgrants have LEFT
Norway this year, chiefly for North
America. Last years total was II 900.
AT Quinson. in France, father has
just had to pay 9S Cd death duties ON his
daughters estate, which amounted to Is
1t is alleged that there is only one
doctor available for population of H.
600 in the West Indian island of Nevis
In Southern China the mir is so hum
i'll IN summer that, despite the intense
heat, clothes cannot be dried in the open
air.
Nine eyes and three mouths were pos
sessed by II collie puppy born recently
at Henley, Eng 1t only lived four
hours
Specimens of four five, six. seven,
eight and nine-leaved clovers have been
presented to Queen Alexandra by Il
Welsh lady.
One hundred thousand repicas of a
special medal struck to commemorate
Mr.. Chamberlain'S tour have been or
dered for the Cape.
AT plmitz, near Dresden. is the larg-
est camellia i'll Europe, II is lG0 years
old. about ~ feet high and has $4,000
blossoms each season.
Posted ON December 81. 1896 to an
address Mt Gibraltar, letter has only
just been returned 70 the sender in Eng.
land through the dead letter office
For utteriug strong expression OF
disapproyal while quarrchng with CON
stable at Vienna, nobleman has been
fined lGsSd for insulting the police
Among the 5000 tSamway ear drivers
and conductors in Vienna there are
stated To be 400 knights. fifty barous
and four counts besides other noblemen
Nelson's old ship. the Victory. is still
10 he accessible To the British public, al
though she is shortly To he Superseded
as the admiral's flagship at Portsmouth
Missouri is now credited with the
greatest corn yield, estimated this year al
315,00O.O0O bushels. Iowa is a close sec
ond, with 300.000,000 bushels, and Kan.
sas and Nebraska follow.