Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-01
N0TES OF INTEREST.

the WORTH 10 lF-I NTHt- dAI III AhAN A<i'r7 A'34'
language.
Between 400 ana 1900 British
owned steam trawers are now engaged
in fishing.
Florida produced last year but 600
tons Of phosphate, against nearly 1000
900 in 1880.
Rome is to be electrically lighted with
power from the Marmore falls, seventy
miles distant,
There are now about 1870 monkeys %
the rock Of Gibraltar-the only wild mon
keys in Europe.
The East received 30O,000000 feet Of
lumber during the last year by rail from
the Pacific coast.
Russia vii Throw open the peninsula
extending into the Siberian sea to pros
pect for gold in April.
--Japan's foreign trade has in thirty
years increased from less than 81 TO
nearly 81 per capita per annum.
"A Kansas man has celebrated two
silver weddings, having lived twenty-five
years with each of his two wives.
Baltimore has now fewer than 10000
folOred inhabitants and Louisville fewer
than 10000. st. Louis has $4,000.
BY the use of Il process invented at
Bridgeport, Conn, wooden doors are be-
ing electroplated with copper or brass.
The Emperor Of China and the Vice
roy of India, between them, govern more
than half the population of the world.
Women are now admitted to the two
universities in Baden, but they have not
been able TO secure permission to study
dentistry.
Russia may adopt the metric system.
\ decree making its use obligatory in the
country is now being considered by the
imperial council.
-Riveting of boilers and the like is
now done almost entirely ly Il COM
pressed air hammer, which strikes 1900
times Il minute.
The governor of Finland has ordered
the prosecution Of the Lutheran pastors
army regulations in their churches.
New Jersey is one Of the states which
retains the custom of making their treas
llrer an appointive instead cf an elective
officer.
Twenty years ago n few foreigners
had ventured the risk of life incident to
n landing in Corca, but today its capital
has an American street railway plant
Prizes amounting to 5000, it is
said, will he offered in the grand interna-
tional aliShip race which the Paris Aero
club is organizing for next summer.
Because of neglect, it is said. tho
trees Of Boston common are in n woeful
state of ''degcneracy." There are nine
ty-four of them, large aud small, in the
common that are past salvation.
Since the middle of November last
Paris has Russian high school, at which
most Of the university branches are
taught, some Of them by eminent Rus
sian fugitiyes or residents.
One of the most curious plants in the
world is the toothbrush plant, a species
1f which sp II. -
cutting a piece of the stem and fraying
the ends the natives make toothbrush
There are in the leper home In Louis
iana thrty-siX inmates-nineteen males
and seventeen females. Five sisters of
charity nurse these unfortunatcs. The
lepcr colony is state institution.
Those to whom the m0rgue counts a,
one of the attractions OF Paris will be in.
tercstcd to learn that at the last meet
ing of the general council that body de
cidcd to spend $3.50 in lighting the dis
NAL institution with electricity.
Carrier pigeons are TO be bred an,
trained by the German military authori
tics in a large four-Storied culumnar,
which has just been erected at Spandau
Great use will be made OF the birds il
future military maneuvers,
There is a very strict law in Italy
against the export of works of art, an,
member Of the royal family even coui
net sell or give away n picture or Stalu
ornamental piece or pillar from Il palac,
without the consent Of the authorities.
DR. III. &. Wood Of the University o
Pennsylvania has demonstrated that tin
blood vessels of the lungs are supple.
with nerves which control their size Tin
use of drugs which affect these nerve
will modify Inflammation.
DR.. David Paulson. a Chicago merry,
specialist, declares thai much drunken
ness, especially In young men. is cause,
ny h'shly-spiccd food, ana the use h!
cooks Of pepper mustard and similar rel
ishcs, OF this also the doctor attribute
the cigarette habit
DR.. JAY w. Seayer of Yale find
that because the members of the fresh
men class of that institution are unuSu
ally light smokers they have more lun
power and can accordingly make mor
vocal racket in giving the college yr
than any of their rivals.
1t seems 10 be about settled that III
two largest islands in the world arc not
IN the Arctic ocean. Greenland is ur
questionahly the largcst-if Australia
counted as n continem-aud recent cN
ploratlonS of Railin Land show that il
second enlS 10 Greenland in extent.
Charles Bcllamy, a Burlington rail
road fireman. in eleven years Of faithful
service has travelled G06.S4O miles an,
Sh0velcd - sol tons of coal ON the WAY
lie never lost Il trip or received Scratcl
through accident. Railroad men say tina
II Is a ease Of physical endurance ncvc
cqualcd.
Debtors in Siam. when three month
in arrears, can he seized by the cr2dito
and compelled to work cut their iudrht
cdnesS. Should dehter run away hi
father, his wife or his children may Il
held in slavery until the debt is car
c,lcd
The annual appropriation for the d.,
peuSeS of the Presidents office. iucmdu
the Presidents salary. compensation ra
his clerks aud secretaries. the furnishing
of the white house and the maiutcuanC
Of the grounds, is less than 100000
year.
In no locality has modern steam
farming machinery been applied VIII
such effectiveness as upon the =gau
ranches in Southern California. On ON
ranch the engine used to draw the ms
chlnery is of fifty horsepower, and In
drive Whcc.s eight feet high. 1t consume
twelve barrels of oil every day. and =.
operation requires the services of SIEVE,
men. In blowing iifty-hvc burrows nv
turned Of forty feet
How FrtnChmen Raise Funds