Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-22
NOTES OF INTEREST.

- motor-car race in which tne cars
| are TO run backward is being organized
| in Belgium
In captivity. the fad Of the famous
! Apache CHIEF, Geronimo, is the culture
of watermelops.
The material used in tie great wall
Of China would build 100 such structures
as the pyramid Of Cheops.
When Tammany vacated, four mon
aud foreman were discovered assigned
to the care of one horse.
! Japan now possesses the heaviest
and finest battleship ailoat. the Mikasa,
| of 1o,ZOO tons displacement.
| Some Of the caterpillars found in the
vicinity Of the Darling river. Australia,
are over six inches in length.
About 100000 pounds of maca-
roni, valued at 100000. is annually sent
from Italy TO the United States.
The Chicago drainage trustees have
been CIV the right to increase their
| bonded Indebtedness TO 20,G00,0 900
| Los tngeles claims TO nave more
comple5e street railroad system than any
other city of its size in the country.
OF every three persons in Berliu. one
! has savings bank account, or, more ac-
curately, ten of every twenty-seyeu.
There are pa counties in Texas
New York has 81. Pennsylvania 81 and
Massachusetts la total of ZAP only.
The Emperor Of China ana the Vice
! roy OF India between them govern more
| than half the population OF the world.
Five yards in four years is the rate
at which the water pouring over the falls
Of Niagara wears away the rock beneath
Cur wheat crop in 1901 was nearly
40o.DUO.0CO bushels IL e cess of the crop
| of Russia, which is orr nearest competi-
| tor.
Silk is the strongest OF nil vegetable
or animal threads. 1t is three times rs
| strong as faXen thread of the same
size.
1t is said that never before has there
been such devotion to Aiohammedanism
as in India at this time under British
rule.
| The Prussian prayer book enjoins
| that the whole of the service, Including
the sermon. shall not last above one
hour
russian experts believe that opium
might be produced successfully in the
Caucasus and many regions of southern
! Russia.
The canopy of Mohammed's tomb at
Mecca is made of the heaviest variety of
black silk manufactured especially for
this purpose.
The Grand Opera house in Paris
holds record for any one building in the
way of locks and keys Its total is now
GT42 OF each.
1t is estimated that by taking one
foot, depth from Niagara Falls, power
might be obtained to the value Of ST.
100000 a day.
The roster of the naval officers has
lost during the year forty-fOur by re&ig-
nation, forty-seYen by retirement ana
forty-eight by death
An Illinois inventor is urging the sub
stltution of printed slides for the brake
mans voice in the announcement of sta
tons III moving trains.
The ancient Mexcans had a species
of whistle " imch produced at least three
tones. 1t had two finger holes ana a
mouthpicce on the side.
The Texas penitentiary board has
decided to buy 25,000-acre plantation
and place all of the state c0nvicts at
work raising sugar beets.
By the census of 1900 only two
states had more foreign-born than ma
tive-born male residents OF voting age
Minnesota and South Dakota.
London is still obliged 70 import
polyglot clerks for her mercantile houses.
as the English too seldom take the trou-
SSie to learn foreign languages.
Paris consumed 1,T50,000 pounds of
snails last winter. The best came from
the Burgundy vineyards and were sold
for from to francs thousand.
In some parts of Siberia a large part
or the crops in good years rot in the
field, because there are no means OF
transport or facilities for storage.
I'm 1877 there we're high schools for
3626 German pupils in Hungary. To-
DAY all these schools have ceased to eX-
list.
Chicago. Is recently reaistricted. is
made up OF thirty-iiye wards. phladel-
PIMA has forty-one. New York has sixty
six.
The Greeks. after exercising, al
ways aBointed their bodies with per
TUNED Oil, sometimes performing this
amounting three or four times day.
.-Smokeless powder when blown into
tissue at close quarters causes less pain
ana suppuration than black powder and
the grains are more easily removed
"A shoe firm in Toledo, O., has traced
to the deDreaations of mice losses in
greenbacks and other paper money which
have amounted to $1,000 in four years.
Freight cars 40 feet long and capable
of carrying 30 tons, the load OF three
ordinary freight trucks, will soon be run
ming on the Lancashire Il Yorkshire rail
way.
Husbands in Luneburg. Prussia.
must be home 1T II O'Clock at night or
pay fine of about 81. 80. half Of which
goes to the complainant, who is usually
the wife.
Brine springs flow under the town of
Norwich, England. They have been
there for centuries and were used for the
production OF salt long before the Chris
tian era.
Cinnamon are the merchant seamen
of the future, says a consular report from
Shanghai. Over 1900 British vessels on
tered the port last year manned by Chi
neSe crews.
There is one physician in the present
Senate and four physicians in the present
House of Representatives. There is one
clergyman in the present House Of Rep
resentatives.
What is said to be the first live musk
OK ever brought into the United States
reached Chicago from east of the Mac
kenzie river. far within the Arctic cir
Gle, last week
An Austrian scientist has discovered
that cold in the head is due to the
presence in the membrane of a special
bacillus, which he has called the mico-
eoccus catarrhaliS.
One of the London West End clubs