Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-04-25
vessels will be named Mississippi and the

vessels will be named Mississippi and the
Idaho.
OF the $1,000 cmigrants from Ire
land last year a very large number spoke
the ancient Irish language
--ShoemakCrS were among the first Ia
organize in this country the Boot and
shoe Workers Journal declares The
first shoe workers union was organized
in Philadelphia in 1902, and there was "
strike IN all shops in that city in l79G
The most delicate scale il made by
fixing one end uf a fine thread of glass
The atom To he weighed is placed ut the
free end and the degree of the bending
Of the thread under il noted. This hHx
been done under II glass which magnihcs
100 times.
1t is not generally known that the
iackul is a greater destroyer of humanity
in India than the tiger Statistics pub
lishcd Ivy the government of India show
that while 92S persons were killed by
tigers more than 1000 children were ear
licd away by jackas
Tho commission of United StatcE
senators in Hawaii accepted an invita-
ton to u native banquet. The principal
dish was cooked dog which the Hawaii
ans have long considered one OF the
greatest delicacics The senators thought
they were eating roast pig.
In the course of lecture in I4undaN
Sir Harry Johnston reproduced, by
means of the phonograph. records ec
many of the native songs of Uganda utlf-
lzed IN their war dances festivals and
orgies MS well ms many of the dialects Of
the various tribes.
An examination of the records of the
classes of Yale alumni shows Yale il 0n
the same footing as Harvard with u,-
gard to the birth aud marriage statistics
Of which President Elliot complained in
his annual report. Graduates of Yale
average two children TO family.
1t is claimed for the mercury vapor
lamp, which Eliminates by the incandcs-
cencc eff mercury converted into vap0r ia
Il vacuum tube by electricity, that it wills
take but one~hird the energy required
for the are light and but one-cighth the
energy used by the incandescCnt iilamcDt
The newest cure for nnaemia IL 10
take the sufferer mp in captive balloon
aud let him stay at n certain altitude for
two hours. Ha9f dozen asccnts OF this
KIND during as many weeks will effect "A
marvellous cure, and are equal to threr
months sojourn at a health resort
One person In every ten in Chicago,
according to health department estimates
is sick with the grippe. II is OF milder
type than ragged n few years ago, but il
leaves its mark of heavy eyes, torpid
brain and leaden limbs no less certainly
upon the victim.
"A twenty-five story building il 10 he
erected in New York. 100 feet square,
aud on land worth 500 square foot,
or 81 100000 for 100 square feet The
building, 32J feet high. will cost only 81,
100000, only 40 per cent. more than the,
land, Offices are expected 10 rem, for s.
Il square foot $500 for Il room 20 feet
square.
In the frozen nortlland almost With
in the Arctic circle, w. r. Lopp is look
ing after his publication, the Eskimo
Bulletin, probably n unique paper. II is
published ut Cape Prince of Wales, and
the Bulletin is issued hut once every
twelve months Indeed, under a head or
the paper il the announcement: The
only yearly paper IN the world