Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-11-08
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The chance of two finger prints beng
alike is not one in sixtyfOur billions.
Great Britain has / 1851 600 domestic
servants. earning Els, 900 per amium
Ohio has a trolley line which has in
troduced sleeping ears on its long runs
of the 1900 breeders of Hereford
cattle in the United States, Kansas has
80.
A chimney of 115 feet height will,
without danger, sway 10 inches in a
wind.
-Third-class railway fares in India
are less than a farthing (half a cent? Il
mile.
In London each day 400 children are
born and $50 enter school for the first
time.
One thousand tons Of SCOT settle
monthly within the rs square miles Of
London,
Thousands of caribou, or North 4 mer-
lean reindeer, are to be found in New
foundland.
The Mexican dog has no hair. The
hot climate makes such a covering SUI
perfuous.
The ants of South America have been
known to construct a tunnel three miles
i'll length.
1t is estimated that already 5000 Boer
families have settled on the farms in the
Transvaal.
-Twenty-six different kinds of insects
have been enumerated which attack the
sugar cane
Tigers killed 357 persons and pam
theirs 200 last year in the Indian Cen
trail provinces.
The panorama of London, painted in
1929 by Mr. Horner, covered over an
acre of canvas.
The roar of n waterfall is produced
almost entirely by the bursting of mil
lions of air bubbles.
To model, dress and keep in repair
some Of Madame Tussaud's wax figures
costs over $1,000 each.
In California alfalfa sends its roots
20 feet into the soil and produces three
crops Of hay Il season.
A cows hide produces thrty-fve
pounds of leather and that of a horse
about eighteen pounds.
-Torchon lace of any pattern can now
be made by one machine. owing to a re
cent invention in Vienna.
The horses that are best able to stand
hard drains are those which work steadi-
ly every day in the week.
The median age of the white popula-
llbn III tie ldHl ttiSuS year WAS @~1.f ana
of the cOlored 1917 years.
The most familiar examples of mi
grant birds are swallows, swifts, white
ears, plOveTs and curlews
Over n thOunsand lunches of grapes
have appeared on a vine now growing
near Boren, in the Tyrol.
AT the end of tifty-four year only
5000 of the 1000 American soldiers in
the Mexican war are alive.
Prisoners when arrested in Morocco
are required TO pay the policeman for his
trouble in taking them TO Jail.
kites are 10 be substituted for the
balloons now used on board Russian war
vessels for observation purposes.
Bread has been cheaper in Yorkshire
and Lincolnshire, England, since the tax
was imposed ON imported cereals.
Mushrooms generally consist of 90
per cent. water, but the remaining 10 per
cent is more nutritious than bread.
Over 100000 acres of pasture land
are in the south of Scotland, which is
more than half the country's total.
A cattieman says that all cows lie
down on their left side, and never on
their right, unless the left is injured
There are about $4,000 conyicts in
the prisons of England, whose mainte-
y
The coast of Newfoundland is in
dented by deep and narrow bays, back
of which rise steep and rugged hills.
Eight vipers. one of which had two
perfectly formed heads, have been killed
near Hartland. Deyonshire. England.
Each year about $4,000 is expended
in sprinkling the streets of London with
sand, 10 prevent horses from slipping.
Warm feet have much to do with
white hands When feet arc hahitually
cold the hands are always red or blue.
Post cards bearing the portrait of the
late Prof NirChow are being sold il
enormous quantities all over Germany.
-Revolvers which fire seven shots in
five seconds and can Kill mt 600 yards
have been served out TO the Berlin police
PEOPLE who 80 barefootcd and thos,
who wear sandals instead of shoes rarell
have colds III the head or any form of in
iluenZa.
Some large ants have built ncst
twenty-one feet in circumference ant
three feet in height at Bracknell, Berks
England.
Tho oldest licensed village ale hous,
in England is said to he the George inn
in North st. Philip. The license date
from 1907.
In the early morning Leeds eng
laudl workingmen can travel five mile
for penny by the municipal electri,
tramway cars.
The 1902 cranberry crop of tn
United States is estimated ut I3J,uOl
bushels, against 100000 bushels II
1901.
One hundred tons of dressed turkey
ordered in New Zealand are To be sen
Ia London in time fer the Christina
martet.
Three rivers as big as the Rhine
would just equal in volume the Ganges
three GangeSes the Mississi"pi and wv,
MlssISsippiS the Amazon.
Immense Raft of Lumber.
The largest lumber raft that ever float
ed down the Mississippi river recent,
reached ST. Louis. 1t was twice as larg
as the largest raft that ever navigatet
the river, containing 100000 feet o
lumber and measuring 11l5 feet long an,
23T wide. 1t had depth of ; feet. Il
telling the story of this gigantic craft
writer says the lumber in il would hav
made trainload more than ten mile
long. that it weighed in the water ~, ON
tons and that the lumber was wurtl
500 600 The rafting crew uun,bpre,