Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-08-22
y Miscellaneous Items. =

The andlnaVlauS nave HOW an en-
ormous fleet of big steel traTp ships III
serious rivalry with the British.
A count of the unoccupied houses in
London shows 400G9. That is one
louise in fifteen of the whole city.
Our exports TO China and HonSkonG
for the fiscal year 1908 were about So
100000. against SS,0O0,000 in 1883.
The government mint report puts the
gold production of the world since the dis
covery Of America at $9.Sl 100000.
-Three-seyenths of the total colonial
territory of the world, Egypt and the Sou
dan included, belongs to Great Britain.
A bacterioogiSt in the marine hos
pital Sc. vice has discovered a parasite
which is the natural enemy Of the mos
quito
The annual payment TO pensioners
of the war with Spain now approximate
S2.7O0.0o0, and $4,000 applications arc
pending.
Kilkenny castle is one Of the Oldest
inhabited houses in the world. many Of
the rooms being much as they were 500
years ago.
Northern Nigeria is to have u new
police force 1000 strong, recruited in the
territory and on the lines of the Royal
Irish const abulary.
Peter Prren. the guide who took the
first party of tourists Up the Matterhoru
is still alive. He has made the ascent
forty-one times since.
England has nine submarine war YES
sells built or building and France has ff-
~. Their presence is expected To make
blockades impossible.
Flower growers in the south Of
France and other favored chimes find il
profitable to send the products of their
skill to British markets.
Persistent insomnia. unwonted irrita-
bility and dread Of graphing with bust
ness problems are danger signals of gen
eral nervous breakdown.
Argon. the recently discovered clc-
ment of air. is. AZ was expected from It's
existence in the chromospherc, very light
and apparently monatomic
No chronological heresy is wider
spread among the English speaking than
that the S0.O00.0O or 50 citizens of the
United States are Anglo SaXons
An automobile speedway 40 feet wide
and paralleied by wire fences and hedges
is projected from Blackwells Island
bridge to Montauk Point, Long Island.
A single railroad company, the New
York Central, received $4,000 in fares
during three summer months OF 1902 on
account Of its Niagara business alone
Women exhibitors work will be
placed side by side with that of men NJ
the St Louis exhibition. II will also be
judged by the same standards by the
same iuries.
A Gettysburg co. baby has more than
its shares of grandmothers. II recently
had its picture taken with its two grand
mothers and its four great grandmothers,
which must be record.
e 'harles Stevens, secretary Of the
Auif-A "a nj finn lon ,ytta # IL
died from smallpox. He had frequently
denounced vaccination as inetticacious
and barbarous practice.
A naval gun when fired Sustains n
pressure of II 10 II tons to the square
inch II has previously stood charge
giving n force of 20 tons 10 the square
inch at the proving grounds.
The English postollicc gives ~ per
cent better speed in delivering parcels
than the private carriers, and at "a cost
OF q cents for ] pound. : cents for =
pounds and n cents for II pounds.
The ice in Greenland is melting more
rapidly than 1t il formed. Comparison OF
The descriptions Of the IaCohShaven gla-
,iei shows that its edge has receded eight
miles since 1850. and il has lost 20 10 80
feet in depth.
With the object of diverting the
stream of cmigrauts that now travels to
America via Germany the Hungarian
government proposes 10 establish a line
of steamers running between Flume and
The United States.
1t is said that the profitable hen eats
sixteen times her weight in year Tier
eggs are six times her own weight and
worth six times the cost of her food
Feed plenty of wheat, oats, gritS, clover
and bone and less corn.
The jew nose. with hook. was found
in but q per cent. of 1000 Hebrews Oh
served by Dr. FiShberg, medical exam
liner for the United Hebrew societies.
Straight noses constituted Is per cent.
broad noses II per cent and retrousse
noses Ii per cent.
1t is said that 1870 persons at
tended the games in this years cumpcti-
tion for the Football association cur.
There were thirty-seyen of these. making
an average attendance of 2o0n. At the
last game At Crystal palace G,i, l02 per.
sons paid admissions.
The strongest evidence favoring the
metcoric formation of diamonds is the
fact that they have a different law of
crystaliization from carbon of terrestrial
origin. This proves them of mctcoric
origin inst as the mcteuric form of iron
tells of its celestial birth.
The latest fad in the way Of cure
for dyspepsia is bread made Of sea water
Instead of fresh water \ philadrlphia
baker makes a speciality ur this bread.
and the dySpepticS who use in declare
shat il aids them The baker gets his
SEA water from Atanti, City.
The government, in lis laboratory NJ
Washington. Is testing free all seeds sent
Tor mat purpose by farmers. Ii is no,
unusual TO find that half the seeds in \
sample will not terminate. In Il pound
NJ clover seed 2I1OO weed seeds were
found. mostly green foxtaN and plautain
Few of the French colonies are self
supporting, The burden OF admiuiSror-
Ing their affairs has been constantly in.
crcasing The cost Of the colonies has
grown from SJ,tn0,UOU in 1876 10 S.,f
100000 in 1908. The greater part ~
this expenditure S14 .O00,OtU-w fn.
military.
According TO puu'S Index the y,,u,
of articles used 10y an average person IN
the nit'd States during IN. last wear.
II bought ut wholesale. was SaS. 81. The
years before il was Sl01.9i. These 6-
ureS correspond closely 10 those of 1855
and 1889. Two wears ago the amoun,
was sol 80,
IL is asserted in the Department ~
agriculture that cassava will make the
southern states a wrp1t ~tn.E .,t.;,,..