Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-04
NOTES OF INTEREST.

of sulphate of copper each year for use
in killing the phylloxera.
Russia yield Of petroleum is 6S,00o,-
900 barrels year. and that of the Unit
ed States 5S.000,000 barrels.
Western Europe will soon have as
complete a iong-distance telephone serY-
ice as the United States now has.
In London during the autumn there
were S64 cases of smallpox, 0ne-sixth of
them fatal. There are now 262 cases.
The annual "take" Of salmon in the
Columbia river is about one million fish:
G0000,N0 young ones from the hatch
cries were recently put in.
The parliamentary committee having
the matter in charge will sanction fifty
miles additional underground railway
within the limits of London.
Such has been the increase of popu-
latiOn in civilized countries that the
space occupied by one person a century
ago must now contain three.
In San Francisco $40 Cinnamon arc
employed in factories, making underwear
for women aud children. Girls are to-
tally unable 20 compete with them.
The Philadelphia mint reports that
the demand for pennies is so great that
the output last week went ahead of all
previous records, amounting to 1900, 900.
The German law fOrbds teachers in
the school 70 pull the ears of their pu-
pills. Many cases of deafness have been
shown TO have resulted from such pun
ishment.
"A movement Is proceeding among GER
tain officers in the French army for the
adoption by the minister of war of the
leather jacket, popularized by motor car
pr0prietors.
The Toxic Tramway company. which
pays a dividend of from 80 to 40 per
cent, pays its laborers s. to Sc month
and works them from fourteen to seven
teen hours day.
ihr longest span of submarine cable
iii existence will be that between VAN
couver and Tanning island, 5000 miles
apart. The task of laying ii will COM
mence in January.
The vessels built or authorized by
Congress since the Spanish war more
than equal in tonnage the regular naval
vessels we then had The effectiveness
Of guns has also doubled
Italian statistics show that the emf
grafton to America has reached the fig
ure of 100000 annually. About half of
these return eventually to Italy, the rest
remain in the United States
Automobiles have become very scarce
in the city proper Of London in consc-
quence of the application Of an old or
dinance forbidding sef-propelled vehicles
from going faster than three miles an
hour.
In 1880 the area Of the national do
main occupied by the Indians aggregated
main occupied by the Indians aggregated
So,oOO,00O acres, which is about as much |
land as we have in the states of Ohio, !
Indiana and Illinois.
The mileage of street railways in
New York city has increased from 1872 |
in 1864 to 1142 miles in 1901. The total
OF passengers in the former year was
only o0,S30. 113, against the enormous to-
tai of 1,124,432, ego for last year
The biggest hole ever dug in solid
rock is the second wheel pit Of the Niaga-
ra Falls company. which is 4G3 feet s
inches long, l1Sla inches deep and 49,
feet wide. The rock changes in charac-
ter four times from top to bottom.
During the last fifty years the sui
cidal tendency in England has grown into
formidable disease. The growth, too,
has been continuous. Suicide has steadi- i
~ increased 200 per cent Unhappily,
too, the growth has been most rapid in
recent years.
In the original part OF the town of
Irvington a suburb of indianapolis there
are provisions i'll the titles to realty UNI
der which the land would revert for sa-
loon purposes. indianapolis wants to an
next the town, but the suburbanites OBJ
jeCt.
In the Alaskan fur market London
quotations govern. These are fixed twice
year--in March and August~-by
board of principal dealers in that city,
and prices are gagged according to that
scale in all parts of the world excent
Russia.
There appears to be nothing obicc-
tionable in the method of raising check
adopted by n Washington lady. who.
upon receiving a check for $40 from
President Roosevelt for the bazaar of
ehn nd
$50 ST ''"'"'o the document ana sold 1t Tor
DR. Ferdinand Kornfeld of Vienna
lecturing ON the prevention of tuhrrcu-
loss, recommended the universal use of
asbestos on furniture, railway and
steamship compartments, etc He de.
cared that asbestos is absolutely Ell
cneious in preventing the dissemination
of bacilli
That English agriculture as food
producing agency is now almost a thing
Of the past appears evident from the fact
that Of the 32000.000 quarters of wheat
consumed annually in the British isles
no less than 24,0O0.0O0 quarters came
from abroad, for which nearly 100000
600 is paid.
Tho French Academic de Medicine
has been much excited over a new dental
apparatus which combines the admins
tration OF gas with photographic musical
NNANtAiNANs " hiit YOU are luuailIg iuR
one you are likewise drinking in the otb
err and the result is said to be n mos.
agreeable sensation"
Employees of the Michigan Central
railroad have voted down a proposal for
service pensions, the fund TO he largely
created from their own wages \ similar
plan presented TO the employees of the
Chicago, Milwaukee x St. Paul railroad
by the management recently was also
voted down by the men.
The first winter schedule of the
White Pass 4 Yukon railway has been
received by the Canadian Pacific rail.
way Tive stages a week run each way.
leaving White Horse on Wednesdays and
Saturdays The distance is $50 miles
which is Travelled in about five days.
There are seventeen post houses. where
relays Of horses are obtained aud where
meals are served.
i; is reported that 10000 acres of
land have been purchased in Oklahoma.
upon which n German colony of 1000
families will soon he settled Colorado
papers ask for the same kind of settlers
for their state, which may bc taken as
a compliment for the Germans already
SpfflRd in that mart nf the gOuutrv